People will deliver your groceries now

[Tommi]

In my grandparents village they don’t shop in bulk. It’s common to shop daily or every few days, especially since they have much smaller fridges.

Suppose it does depend which part you're from. I live directly between Edinburgh and Glasgow main link, plus have a massive shopping area (Livingston) not too far away which has everything.

[Travis B]

That's nothing, I just heard about this newfangled thing called the Internets. Apparently it's a series of tubes that allow people to communicate with each other using computers.

[Darsithis]

That's nothing, I just heard about this newfangled thing called the Internets. Apparently it's a series of tubes that allow people to communicate with each other using computers.

Magic talking screens, more like it. Tubes with magic talking screens.

[TheRealDavidTwo]

Eh? The store chain I work at has had delivery service for at least 10 years now :P

[Independent voter]

You can buy from walmart.com, rice is like half the cost of rice in regular stores. If you order online they charge like a $1 over for everything so going to a physical store is lots cheaper.

I bet most deliveries charge some kind of premium.

[Socialhealer]

OP using



confirmed lul.

[schwarzkopf]

I wrote an online ordering system for groceries in 1997 ... yeah - that's how long it has been a thing

[Aitch]

That service has been available for years here. I don’t use it cause I don’t want the most beaten up veggies, oldest breads, and milk that’s a day away from expiration.

[yetgdhfgh]

Don't know where this has been my entire life, but i'm never going to a grocery store again. don't need to.

This is the first step to the downfall of capitalism!

[Daedius]

This has been around for decades...

[Deleted]

OP just entered the 21st century.

I get my groceries delivered twice a week and it's hardly any more expensive then driving there myself.

[Gestopft]

OK, but how am I supposed to have my daddy/daughter Monday dates? We go for lunch and then get groceries for the week. She can push a little cart around, and learn about all sorts of food. And I get to pick my own produce/meats, too.

[Rotted]

All our large supermarkets here offer a online service to pick what you want and get it delivered / some you go shopping yourself and they deliver it.

Tbh I hate the first option, they fob you off with products which have a day left on their sell by date, I love buying reduced food and freezing it, but when I do a big shop I don't want half the items on their last day. I've had it happen multiple times from milk to bacon to bread. When I was still living with the folks the supermarkets were a hour away from us so it really wasn't on.

Outside of that, I prefer to go myself to lidls and aldis the quality is far superior and for far better prices, not to mention all the seasonal cultural stuff they have in every few weeks,

[Blackmist]

Let me know when they bring you the stuff with the good sell by dates from the back of the shelves.

Nothing like having to eat a 6-pack of desserts in one sitting because they've got today's date on them...

[callipygoustp]

Don't know where this has been my entire life, but i'm never going to a grocery store again. don't need to.

Where do you live that this is "new" to you?

[Azadina]

I prefer to do my own shopping, so I'd never have a need for service like this.

[Lochton]

Don't know where this has been my entire life, but i'm never going to a grocery store again. don't need to.

Not really a new thing but I do like getting out sometimes to do the things I need to do.

[Deleted]

I prefer to do my own shopping, so I'd never have a need for service like this.

Just because you prefer to do it one way, doesn't mean that you will never have a need for a delivery service.

I have kids and I work full-time. Being able to shop online is a Godsend as it means I don't have to drag Kids around a shop when they would rather be doing literally ANYTHING else.

But i'm confused, in the UK Tesco and Asda have been doing home delivery for years, and the likes of Sainsbury's and Morrisons have joined the fray more recently. It's convenient, It's easier. and quite a lot of the time it's far cheaper, because you don't get tempted by things that you don't need.

[Azadina]

Just because you prefer to do it one way, doesn't mean that you will never have a need for a delivery service.

Most likely does in my case. My partner aspires to be a writer, and writers aren't known for running to office all day everyday. My career choices don't have the same freedom in time, but means that atleast one of us will always have time for shopping at stores

[Super Kami Dende]

Don't know where this has been my entire life, but i'm never going to a grocery store again. don't need to.

This is new where you are? I've been having my Groceries delivered for going on 5 years now.

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I prefer to do my own shopping, so I'd never have a need for service like this.

But you do still do your own shopping? They just bring it to you.