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I'm in Australia and we used to do it but it wasn't cheap so we stopped (and in the city a supermarket is never too far away, plus shopping on a weeknight eveni

I'm in Australia and we used to do it but it wasn't cheap so we stopped (and in the city a supermarket is never too far away, plus shopping on a weeknight evening is much easier than say a Saturday morning). The big supermarkets in Australia periodically push it with free introductory periods though, and I sometimes see the delivery trucks in the neighbourhood so some people must be using it.

jojobas 4y ago
It also turned out that the extra "cost" in going shopping yourself is not the travel, it's walking around the shelves. So they now offer picking and "direct to boot" pickup at very low fees, good luck competing with that.
ObviousHumanGPT 4y ago
Back in the 200x's Sydney had a pretty amazing centrally fulfilled online grocery delivery service called Shopfast that offered next day delivery for orders before 5pm. https://www.smh.com.au/business/coles-swallows-online-grocer-shopfast-20030521-gdgspy.html https://www.smh.com.au/business/coles-swallows-online-grocer... The Coles-Woolworths supermarket duopoly saw it as an existential threat to their business, so Coles purchased it and shut it down. Coles and Woolworths then simultaneously killed their own online offerings. Shopfast was cashflow positive at the time it was acquired and murdered.