I have a small Kitchenette with fridge, stove,microwave and no reason to cook or store large amounts of groceries, fresh or otherwise. Today I ordered my two week wine supply & four bananas. My Assisted living has fresh fruit available at breakfast but not always bananas. Four bananas will last me four days. Assisted living also has a white or red wine available for the evening meal but I will take my own from time to time or have it in my apartment. My daughter who lives 15 minutes away orders all of her groceries online and will pick them up at the stores drive up window. She likes the freshness of the produce that she selects.
I have never ordered groceries online for pickup or for delivery (not that anyone deliveries to my part of the county.) I'm funny about my produce. I eat a lot of fresh fruits & veggies, and I like to pick them out myself. The same thing goes for meats. Not only am I picky, I kind of enjoy the process. It's the closest I'll get to hunting or gathering. I have commented before that I will go to the Pickup function of grocery stores' websites to see if they have a particular item in stock. That website feature really saves me a lot of time and hassle in this rural area where finding specialty items is hit & miss, and the stores are not clustered together. Online insight into in-store inventory was never possible before.
But you are really depending on them to keep their system up to date. During the toilet paper shortfall I went on my regular shopping and found non. I checked everything local with same result. So I turned to the www and found a Target store 45 miles away that had a decent inventory. So I made the drive and found NONE.
I agree with that. Lots of moving parts to inventory systems (I did that work for a living), especially in the retail environment. Until customers have checked out, products are being pushed around in carts but they still show as On Hand. I've helped my local Walmart folks fix inventory count problems for several products. They've been very good at following through. I recently helped them get Blue Cheese wedges back on the shelf after they temporarily suspended selling it during their special Christmas cheese displays. They overlooked that item when reverting back to their "rest of the year" offering. The Department Manager went in the back, printed the shelf-front label to mark the space as I stood there, and had product back in stock within a couple of days. I grew up in retail as a kid (my dad's line of work) and went into inventory management as an adult...I just can't get rid of the impulse to fix things.
I haven't been inside a grocery store in 2 years or more, so yes... I do like to have my groceries delivered. I have seldom had a problem with any unacceptable fresh foods, and I'm very picky. The store I order from (HEB) guarantees their products so if I am unhappy, I can call and they will give me my money back for the item. Since the Covid crap, they do not offer any alcoholic beverages by delivery because that requires showing an ID, and they have no-contact service. They unload stuff on my front porch and ring the bell.
Hell no. As much as it pains me, literally, to shower, get dressed, and drive my truck because of musculoskeletal issues with the upper extremities, I don't want anyone but me picking out my apples, pears, mushrooms, and tomatoes, and, when in season, peaches and nectarines. Sweet peppers, red seedless grapes, and head cabbage no big deal but the others above are my domain.
Never done it and do not plan to long as I still can, my friend is beyond very very very picky on everything delivery would not be in my best interests..
Not available out here in the boonies, but we can place an order online and pick it up at the store in town. We have never done it as we like to pick out our own produce, but my youngest son and his wife do it a lot in part because they have a young child and it makes things easier.
I got my weekly order today, and instead of two "baby" bok choy the picker gave me two gigantic heads of regular bok choy. I'm on bok choy overload, people. (Must scope out recipe possibilities ASAP.) So I called the store and told them; they credited me $8.19 (calculated on $2.55 a lb for baby bok choy) and offered to bring me the correct product. I really don't think I need any more bok choy but I appreciated the offer. The young woman who delivered the order texted me ahead of time to let me know that she is deaf, so if I needed to tell her something to please text back.
Started getting groceries on Line last Nov when the Corvid infection rate in my area hit the roof and I started to self isolate. Will have my second corvid jab next week so will start going out again TG
No way, ever! I really enjoy going to the grocery store, and I go to several specialty grocers to get certain items I need. The thought of letting others select my fresh produce, using their own standards, simply doesn't compute, for me.
Stay away from those crows/corvids! They might jab you, again, if you get too close! I was unaware that crows were capable of infecting people!
So now that you have experienced ordering groceries this way, do you think it's something you'll continue to do, Tom? It seems that some people fall into the "I love not having to waste my time doing this," while others (like me) enjoy the experience of grocery shopping. And there's the minimizing of human contact some find to be of value.