I’ve never understood that kind of service, getting others to shop for you sounds like way more of a hassle than just doing it yourself, is this some kind of american thing because their closest grocery store is three hours away by car or something?
I live in a place that had almost zero public transportation 8 years ago. 8 years ago I developed epilepsy and temporarily lost my driver’s license due to this condition. The closest grocery store is 7 miles away and I live far from family and friends so grocery shopping was nearly impossible at times. Grocery delivery was one of my only ways to get food. It can be useful in more scenarios than you can imagine.
I’m working 8-5, 6-10 for the next 6 weeks. Sometimes it’s helpful to have basic groceries at your door.
They did used to offer similar services between the 1950s and 1990s - just low-tech. You’d tell the milkman and the grocer what you wanted and it’d be on your doorstep at 7am in the morning.
a friend of mine thoroughly appreciates that he can order groceries for pickup and save the time wandering the store finding things and checking out. I understand that
If you don’t own a car, or can’t drive (at the moment) for some other reason, in a lot of suburbs in the US you literally don’t have a choice.
Where I live in Germany there’s also a lot of supermarket delivery, but they’re generally picked and delivered by people working directly for the supermarket, not random gig economy dudes of the street, so since they have access to the stores inventory system they will automatically know what is available (and since the order app also has that access, you can’t even order anything the supermarket already doesn’t have in inventory at the time of ordering), and either automatically cancel, automatically substitute or send you a notification to pick an option if something is out.
I’ve never understood that kind of service, getting others to shop for you sounds like way more of a hassle than just doing it yourself, is this some kind of american thing because their closest grocery store is three hours away by car or something?
I live in a place that had almost zero public transportation 8 years ago. 8 years ago I developed epilepsy and temporarily lost my driver’s license due to this condition. The closest grocery store is 7 miles away and I live far from family and friends so grocery shopping was nearly impossible at times. Grocery delivery was one of my only ways to get food. It can be useful in more scenarios than you can imagine.
I’m working 8-5, 6-10 for the next 6 weeks. Sometimes it’s helpful to have basic groceries at your door.
They did used to offer similar services between the 1950s and 1990s - just low-tech. You’d tell the milkman and the grocer what you wanted and it’d be on your doorstep at 7am in the morning.
a friend of mine thoroughly appreciates that he can order groceries for pickup and save the time wandering the store finding things and checking out. I understand that
Covid made it a huge thing, now it’s more convenient than necessary. Or sometimes you’re not sober 🤷
If you don’t own a car, or can’t drive (at the moment) for some other reason, in a lot of suburbs in the US you literally don’t have a choice.
Where I live in Germany there’s also a lot of supermarket delivery, but they’re generally picked and delivered by people working directly for the supermarket, not random gig economy dudes of the street, so since they have access to the stores inventory system they will automatically know what is available (and since the order app also has that access, you can’t even order anything the supermarket already doesn’t have in inventory at the time of ordering), and either automatically cancel, automatically substitute or send you a notification to pick an option if something is out.