My answer is no, but Amazon launches same-day grocery delivery in 1,000 cities.
Amazon Competes with Walmart
The Wall Street Journal reports Amazon Launches Same-Day Fresh Grocery Delivery in 1,000 U.S. Cities
The tech giant launched same-day grocery-delivery service in 1,000 cities, including Phoenix, Orlando, Fla., and Kansas City, Mo., and plans to more than double it to 2,300 U.S. locations by the end of the year. The company has also made the service free for Prime members, a move intended to drive orders and increase market share.
Shares of grocery companies fell on the news of Amazon’s expansion, with Instacart-owner Maplebear sinking 11%, DoorDash down 4% and Kroger sliding 4.1%. Walmart was down 1.7%.
Amazon Chief Executive Andy Jassy told employees two years ago that the U.S. grocery market was worth $800 billion—and he wanted a bigger bite of it. In 2024, the American grocery sector was worth nearly $875 billion, according to market-research firm IBISWorld.
Amazon has sought to expand its fresh-food business, experimenting with stocking produce and other perishable items at its delivery hubs. In July, the company said that three-quarters of the people who shopped for such items on Amazon this year were doing so for the first time.
To broaden its grocery offerings, the company has been attempting to expand its same-day and next-day delivery capability to a wider geographic area. Amazon said in June that it would offer same-day and next-day delivery to more than 4,000 smaller cities, towns and rural areas by the end of the year and would invest $4 billion in tripling the size of its delivery network by 2026.
No Random Clerk for Me
Count me in the extreme minority but I like grocery shopping. I will sort through 20 packages of bacon to pick the best three.
If bacon is not on sale, I don’t buy it even if I like how it looks.
The same applies to steaks.
I hate running out of stuff, so if toothpaste is on sale, I may buy eight tubes when I get low.
Albertsons (Kroger) has 10 percent off for seniors the first Wednesday of every month and that is on top of any sales.
So guess what. I do a lot of shopping on the first Wednesday of every month.
If you don’t have a freezer, get one. Buy meat, cheese, bacon on sale and learn how to wrap it so it will last for months.
And if you do weeks worth of shopping at once, it’s more of a fun game to see how much you can save than it is a chore.
Finally, I wonder if Amazon’s “free” prime delivery of fresh food is at the expense of higher prices.
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Occasionally at the grocery store, an employee (not Amazon) will be putting together a delivery order. They all have been young, and stare quizzically from their smart phone order to the shelves. They don’t inspire confidence, likely this is their first year of grocery shopping for themselves.
Credit to Mish for going to Albertsons, and shopping with an eye for frugality. Mish sees for himself the sectors that are changing in price. Unlike Fed members or BLS statisticians, that get information from printed data, and never leave their cloistered bubble.
Catherine Austin Fitts said, purchasing in bulk is like a bank CD. The money saved is the interest over the time a product is consumed.
Unfortunately awareness of actual consumer costs reduces Mish’s chances for Fed Chairman. Insensitivity to actual inflation appears to be a requirement. Janet Yellen was questioned if she had been to a grocery store. She answered yes, “shoppers had carts full of groceries, the economy was fine”. Yellen obviously went to Costco, were mentality and economic status of shoppers is unique to the store. San Francisco Fed President, Mary Daly (was responsible for the oversight of failed SV Bank, and subsequently promoted to a voting Fed member) said, “she has enough, and many Americans have enough – to no longer feel the pain of inflation”. Maybe if Mish made half a million dollars a year, as Mary Daly, he would have enough to not shop on Wednesdays.
All of the Corporates are well represented in the comments. Start there.
America would be healthier if every market was like this
https://x.com/washghost1/status/1954671662152171768
Thing is, you’ve already had food selected for you by many different store employees. Around here, there’s often times a wide difference between two different stores of the same chain, especially when it comes to produce. The one City Market that’s a little out of the way for me has excellent produce, but the one that’s more convenient is lousy. That’s all about the produce manager and store traffic.
Every time I go shopping I overhear another shopper say something funny. Once at Walmart a guy told his girlfriend, “The same thing at Home Cheapo costs 3 cents more.”
Grocery store?
I get it fresh from my yard, gifts, greenhouse or the freezer full of choice beef from neighbors.
All year the deer hang out in a buckwheat field and in fall I take what I want from the nuisance herd that would otherwise plague the nearby small towns residents.
All good!
The problem is pricing you lose the ability to know what stores are charging in stores. If you don’t care what you get charged you deserve Amazon. Plenty of customers deserve to pay more and have some stupid delivery truck going up and down your street 3 times a day.
When my wife was dying I had groceries delivered weekly from Whole Foods, but now, as a 71 year old widower I may go to the store two or three times a week. I can determine what I want. The problem is as I sit on my deck watching the neighbors get their dinner delivered every single night, this just feeds into the narrative that the younger generation is lazy and can barely fend for themselves. I don’t blame Amazon for wanting a bigger share, and they’ll get it. Big time win. I don’t see the smaller regional chains surviving in the long term. Convenience is king now.
I have no problem with this. Not for fresh produce, but for everything else. How is toothpaste or or a packet of rice different to anything else you buy online.
And a tip: don’t buy fresh produce at the supermarket. You’ll get better and cheaper stuff at the fresh food market. In Australia anyway. Maybe Americans don’t have such things?
Supermarket fresh food is irradiated in Australia.
Last house I sold, the house setter told me to buy a bunch of bright red apples from the supermarket, put them in a flat bowl and place them in a preferred aesthetically pleasing location. The house was on display for six weeks. The apples didn’t deteriorate – looked the same as the day I bought them. Kept them for another 6 weeks – still looked exactly the same. I tried to eat one – tasted like cardboard. Threw them in the compost bin. Six months later they hadn’t broken down – looked the same as the day I bought them. People eat these?
Part of the digital slave system is limiting your shopping experiences and options. So Amazon.is going for the kill shot on Grocery Stores like Safeway. People like Mish are a creeping demographic on the way out(people who can take agency on their own lives) but the newer generations addicted to laziness, screen time and do not know how to do anything personally. They cannot garden cook or fix stuff. So they will just become Amazon slaves so they can see one more YouTube episode of some blogger. US culture in a death spiral
One additional benefit of shopping yourself is getting the best expiration dates. I don’t want anyone picking out my food. I had to teach my husband how to grocery shop when he retired. I still don’t trust him to do all the shopping on his own. I buy groceries on sale and then plan dinners around that. We do splurge on some meat as we buy from the Amish – grass fed but save money by sharing 1 steak, pork chop.
Many here seem to state that you buy fruit & veggies at supermarkets or warehouse stores. Doesn’t anyone have a small greengrocer or two in their neighborhoods? That is where I buy much of my produce. The quality is far superior to the big stores.
We don’t have small grocers in Metro Phoenix.
That’s sad.
Well, I guess shopping for others could be a future career path for Uber/Lyft/etc. drivers when autonomous cars steal their jobs of ferrying people around.
I do wonder how/if this delivery trend might affect Costco’s business model, which depends on people wandering around and buying things they didn’t plan on buying?
This is why Costco constantly moves products around (which has to be labor intensive), so they are never in the same place for more than 2-3 weeks.
I agree. I have plenty of free time and enjoy picking the top quality. I also might find something that looks attractive an dpick that up. But this applies only to food items. For regular shopping, I am happy to order most stuff online (primarily Amazon).
$98 per year for Walmart+ which provides delivery with a 10% tip. Started earlier this year and we’re pretty happy with the service.
I almost signed up & used the delivery service last night, just could not do it. Said I’ll pick it up on my way back home this afternoon. Of course I forgot to pick it up.
Your not saving any money you just haven’t figured it out yet. Don’t give me that convenience bullshit.
Sometimes I use Instacart to shop for me at Publix… because I like paying $250 for $165 worth of food.
I agree with Mike, but for another reason.
The supermarket is where I pick up chicks. Ok, more like Hens.But hey at my age I take what I can get.
We shop mostly at Sprouts. The store is 3 blocks from our house. I like grocery shopping there. Don’t really care about prices.
Also shop at Safeway. It is OK.
Also shop at Walmart which I don’t like (no Apple Pay) but sometimes the prices are unbeatable (e.g., Swanson chicken stock is $1.50 cheaper than Safeway and when you buy 100/year that adds up.)
Would not consider delivery unless we have another uncontrolled pandemic.
this has been going on for many years already. gristedes in nyc decades ago, and wholefoods past half decade. rich world problems that anyone who loses a wink of sleep over either way is just a moron. go ahead bite the big apple, to paraphrase the rolling stones.
My wife and I go to Hy-Vee every Saturday Morning and just about every time she has to go to the Courtesy counter to get a refund because the advertised price is different the what on the cash register slip. beginning to think this maybe the Business model.
My old college roommate and I like to think we ended Kroger’s “Triple the Difference’s promotion. Kroger’s advertised that if you could find an advertised product at a lower price at another store, Kroger would refund you ‘triple the difference”. Apparently, they weren’t expecting many to go to the trouble… Ice cream and certain cereals and often ground beef would yield great results. I remember rolling a full grocery cart out of the store for $11. ( They credited you at the register…)
I wonder how far they will deliver? I know a lot of people, especially poorer ones are starting to find themselves in ‘food deserts’ where there are no grocery stores nearby.
If the delivery service will deliver into those food deserts that will be a godsend to people living there.
they deliver into food deserts for sure. been there, done that.
Amazon is starting to use drones for delivery. If they expand it to Whole Foods then that would solve the food desert problem.
Hell no! I don’t want a sack of raggedy produce. I’ve got my grocery trips down to a science… every 10 days, I go to the store right when it opens, and am in and out of there in under 20 minutes, including being extra charming to the cute cashier.
If I had to go any other time, I might consider delivery. People are obnoxious, and doubly so when they have their hellspawn with them.
There’s nothing a cashier likes more than an aged customer being “charming” to them.
There’s charming, and there’s pervy. Know the difference.
Charming : cashier
Pervy : cute cashier
Might want to back off from “charming” to cordial.
Hellspawn are spawned by hellspawners and oftentimes the spawners are worse than the spawned.
I personally find the least crowded time to go food shopping is in the evening (around 8). True of Costco as well and there aren’t any lines for Costco gas after 8 pm.
Yeah, squeeze them margins! This is some Boomer nonsense right here and big part of the reason why we have a shit food supply, especially for meat and dairy.
My local Wal-mart offers free pickup if you order $35 or more and it’s a tremendous time saver instead of having to hunt down every little thing because it’s such a huge store. I’ll never let someone else pick my produce though.
Even if you buy on sale or stock up (and I do that myself) you still don’t avoid inflation because the sale prices have gone up like everything else.
Correction on Albertson’s: it’s owned by Safeway, not Kroger.
I used Kroger’s grocery pickup service during COVID. With a very few exceptions, I found it entirely acceptable.
Amazon can get strange. The other day I needed a thing for the garage. It was just a little thing and I looked for it on Amazon and found one on sale for 74 centimes. The regular price was 1.50 Euro. I have Amazon Prime and it said that item would be delivered free of charge to my house the next day so I bought it and it came the next day and the delivery man knocked on my door to give it to me. I don’t see how Amazon can make money on this. I had a tube of wood glue that cost 5.45 Euro delivered the same way a few days before. I can’t see how they can make money on these small items.
The answer is always volume.
my experience with grocery delivery is that gresham’s law is alive and well.
I can imagine my Obese Neighbor, who eats like a pig and is over 375 pounds but still hauls her fat ass to the store would find this appealing. She soaks Salt and Vinegar Potato Chips in Lite Beer and shapes and bakes that concoction it into an apple shape. She Eats them as her every-day meal.
People like her are why I effing hate the grocery store.
You can smell ’em from the other end of the aisle.
LMFAO…….Doesn’t Walmart Pharmacy sell Ozempic?
Discrimination!! I am a Random Mike and I would be an accurate grocery picker.
Mish, I shop, almost exclusively, at Aldi’s. It’s been the best place to go for the money and has relatively good pricing for gluten free food for my Celiac daughter. Speaking of, her job while getting educated in the welding trade is at Walmart collecting the assorted items that are online purchases. She hates it and considers it excellent motivation to get into the welding business asap, lol. Anyhow, she will often come home telling us how there is chronically way more orders than can be fulfilled as there is typically only 2 or 3 people doing this on Fri to Sun. This is at a small-medium sized town, not an urban city! Can only imagine the chaos behind the scenes for such a job in places like St. Louis or Nashville, not to mention the verbal abuse these people experience trying to do the job. From her own experiences and what she’s seen of others around her, she won’t use the online order to parking lot pickup either. The only time I’ve used such a thing is on Menards website, and even then they’ve gotten my orders wrong. But food? Never food.
Same situation here at Walmart in a town of ca 9K. My neighbors are personal shoppers & they report to work at 4:30a, there are 5 other p.s. besides themselves. They say this team runs behind in filling orders to either be delivered or for pickup. But this is a retirement/bedroom community so we have a lot of consumers who don’t have the time or ability to shop themselves.
Just speaking for myself, I would consider myself kind of on the lazy / couch potato side if I have my groceries delivered. But I realize some do need this type of service.
So, I’m a big fat NO!
off topic but related…PPI came in red hot.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/14/ppi-inflation-report-july-2025-.html
Excluding food and energy prices, the core PPI rose 0.9% against the forecast for 0.3%. Excluding food, energy and trade services, the index was up 0.6%, the biggest gain since March 2022.
Yesterday, I listened to some wag on TV authoritatively sounding, who claimed Sept cut was locked in and there would likely be two more cuts by years end! [lol]
I hope Powell does the right thing and doesn’t cut at all.
Mish, if you are shopping at the grocery store you are almost certainly overpaying. Maybe on the 1st Wednesday of the month you are breaking even.
The wholesale places (Costco, Sams, BJs etc) beat out the grocery stores on more than 90% of the items at least here in Florida. The only grocery store that comes close is Aldi because their can goods are so cheap if you only need 1-2 of something. The only time Grocery stores match those wholesale places (or even Walmart) is when they have BOGO items.
We’ve been ordering online and getting delivery for a while at Walmart who’s prices also are much better than grocery stores. Anything not fresh (ie meats/veggies) can easily be picked by a store clerk (cereal, milk, coffee, toiletries, cleaning products, water/wine/beer, cheese, pasta, frozen goods and so on). I go to BJ’s Wholesale in person to pick my meats/veggies because like you, I want what I think is freshest or looks best.
As a Prime Member I’ll definitely be giving Amazon a trial run on a bunch of items to see if their cost matches or beats Walmart and if it does I will switch.
“…The wholesale places (Costco, Sams, BJs etc) beat out the grocery stores on more than 90% of the items at least here in Florida…”
I strongly disagree with this. I’ve priced out many items (by unit price) between bulk stores, regular grocery stores, and places like Walmart, and I’ve found that many items including meat are more expensive at the bulk stores. If you have a coupon from bulk store mailers then you are getting a deal.
Couple of examples, 90/10 ground beef at my local Bjs is $5.49 a pound. Wegmans (northeast grocery store chain) sells it for $4.99 a pound and I can often find sales at other grocery stores even cheaper. Flour by the pound is cheaper at Walmart than at the bulk stores. A gallon of milk is the same price at Bjs as it is at Wegmans @ $2.99 for 2%.
Dang, not 30 minutes ago I paid $4.99 for a gallon of Publix milk in FL. The price was $4.79 last week and $3.86 2 years ago.
We rarely buy milk because the kids are grownup but we do buy cream and butter and they have gone up a bit but only a bit. Wine on the other hand has not gone up at all but beer has especially the triple fermented Belgium ones which are my favorite.
You should qualify that you are speaking of France, yes?
You can find 90/10 ground beef for 4.99 a lb? That’s incredible and you are very lucky and should stock up.
No store in South Florida (and I’ve checked Aldi, Publix, Winn-Dixie the 3 we have plus the wholesalers BJs/Sams/Costco/Walmart) has it at that price. The BJ’s price you see is the best we can get.
I agree Walmart (which is also Sams) is very competitive with the wholesalers on a lot of things. Hence why I get delivery from there on a lot of stuff.
$4.99 for 90/10 is the “everyday price” at my local Wegman’s for the “family pack” which is roughly 6 lbs-7 lbs. Bag it and freeze.
A 1 lb package will run you $6.69 a lb.
I bought some beef the other day at my local Grocery Outlet store to test out beef taste because NZ venison is getting expensive at $8.99/lb and Costco no longer carries bison.
This was 93/7 grass fed ground beef, all natural, no additives from a unit called Thomas Farms. The meat was nice and dense, not filled with water. The price was $4.99/lb.
But it really was quite tasteless compared to venison and bison, so I may just have to pay up in the future.
I am not that impressed with Costco.
Meat sales at Albersons are way better. Not even close.
Costco packaging generally too large on most items
I agree with this. Even though our Home is a Marathon 45-foot bus, we have no room for THREE HUGE CONTAINERS of anything. We do buy (Cherry pick) Walnuts and Avocados and other really great items at Costco when we go inland from our Coastal Home.
What – you don’t need a pallet of mayo, three dozen mason jars and a tricycle?
Costco is a cult. Once people have paid their fee to join, they have to convince themselves that it was smart to join. People who think Costco is cheap generally don’t know what things cost elsewhere. Plus the process sucks. You stand in line to pay and then you stand in line again to get out while some goon checks your cart and your receipt.
I don’t like Costco either. I found BJ’s to be a much better experience. It’s the same business model (wholesaler) but their stores here in South Florida are WAY less crowded so you are in/out in far less time.
But the prices on bulk stuff that doesn’t spoil (ie I’m happy to buy 6 months or a years worth of toilet paper or paper towels or laundry stuff etc at a time) is worth it.
It is also miserable to shop at Costco. Our local one is jammed with humanity at all times that it is open; there is barely any parking and the lines are very long and slow. I haven’t been there in years, but I get reports from a friend who still do shop there.
The question is what about the rest of your grocery cart? Are those prices comparable for toiletries, pet stuff, cleaning stuff, and goods that don’t really spoil (coffee, sugar, canned goods and so on) vs wholesalers or Walmart?
Correct about costco and sams but you are buying some bulk there and that may not work out for all. Mish does shop at costco he has stated beforte I think . Sams is the best for me, member there and Costco . Grocery stores have some great speciales in my area just got Babyback ribs 2.49 and chicken wings 1.99 but you have to shop the sales and know your stores you are correct about Aldi .
I use Carrefour for delivery of non perishables in France. Amazon has same or next day delivery for food also but I haven’t used it because Carrefour has a good fidelity discount that I am attached to. Fish and meat I buy fresh at the butcher’s and the fish market. Prices are higher but they really can’t be beat with freshness and quality.
“Do You Want a Random Store Clerk Picking Your Groceries for You?”
Hell no!!!! Mostly for the same reasons Mish listed.
Secondarily, I love people watching. Grocery shopping is often entertaining.
This is a ripoff. Its like giving someone else your credit card and allowing them to buy what they think is best for you.
That’s not how it works. You shop online, pay and the clerk gets the items off the shelf.
I use Amazon/wholefoods now as they have been offering prime delivery in our market for a while. I hate going to the grocery store. It is full of rude a-holes and old people with nothing but time. You have to check out your groceries yourself if you don’t want to wait for some clown union checker that drags their feet.
I will have to agree on steaks and meat, we go to the store and pick that out.
“It is full of rude a-holes and old people with nothing but time.”
You hit the nail on the head with that statement and the comments on the blog confirm your statement.
You were just a rude a-hole who pointed out that another rude a-hole enjoys being a rude a-hole and likely you both would be rude to one another. Cheers to rudeness. Like would be boring with you rude a-holes. I like to think that I bring rude a-hole-ism to another plane.
The stores need to push the free vaxxes and boosters on the old goats as they walk in.
You’re behind Mish, Safeway has been doing this for years now.
No, I don’t use it. For one thing the employees won’t put the half-off (because it’s about the hit the time limit) meat in the box. I stock up my freezer that way.
The produce issue is the other reason I do my own shopping.
I always hit the bent and dent section at local Safeway. There’s often great deals.
I’ve been shocked walking into a Walmart supercenter with employees pushing around blue carts filling them up with groceries. There’s slew of cars in numbered stalls waiting for their groceries to be brought out. I can’t believe that so many people use this service, but it’s happening.
On a side note, when walking my dog a while back, I see a sedan pull up to a house and a guy pops out with a large styrofoam cup and delivers it to the front door and takes a photo. As the driver is hopping back into his car, I ask if he can tell me what he just delivered? “A cup of Starbuck’s coffee”. I just walked away shaking my head.
Bacon Mish? Hasn’t your doc told you to stop eating that stuff? Especially now with your situation? come on, we need you to keep Mishtalk going till at least 2030!
I get everything delivered including groceries except fresh meat and veggies, I prefer to pick my cuts. I use the time I save not going to the grocery store or other places to focus on my investment portfolio and other hobbies. I came down with COVID this week (first time in my life) and I think it happened during a visit to the grocery store on Sunday, it was packed with people.
I’d avoid going to the grocery stores during flu, covid and other infectious seasons as you get older and use the delivery services. You only live once.
School starting is a bonanza for family practice docs. A buddy is a doc in an urgent care in Southern California. He rakes it in during September and October.
I’m very sorry about the covid. My elderly mom in New England just caught it for the third time; she likes to eat out most days. There is clearly a surge in cases right now.
I use Kroger delivery once a week for everything but fresh produce and meat. Their app has all the sales, BOGOs, etc… and we happily take advantage of them. I get bread and produce from Aldi’s. Our meat (mostly fish, shrimp and chicken) come from a specialty store in town. We don’t eat a lot of red meat, but what we do comes from Sam’s Club.
I am fortunate I do not need to budget shop but I enjoy it. I look at it as being responsible not wasting ect. If I can save 50 dollars that is equal to a pair of shoes ect. There is a certain satisfaction of doing things yourself taking care of your property working on your car being responsible You feel a bit more connected to the life your living . Yes you can sit back and have someone do everythig for you but does that make you happy . As the old saying goes anything worth having is worth taking care of . There is not many things more important than the food you eat. I like to mostly cook for ourselves and pick and choose the food and places we do get food out on occasion .You can eat on a budget nicely if you plan your meals and know the places that have specials on certain days and so on .
Good, sane thoughts for food shopping Mish. But all the kids want immediate everything without having to interact with anybody. I want the drone delivery. Order a chicken, get a flamethrower on Amazon, when its hovering light it up, by the time it hits the ground the chicken is cooked.
For seniors with mobility issues, you MUST rely on this if you get delivery. Best advice, is to put notes about produce quality, for example, on your order. Even better to meet the shopper in person.
In ’20, I thanked everyone at my store by buying cookie assortments for them. They already knew I was appreciative, but I get treated like a Queen when I go into the store. Sadly, that’s now a rarity. Pass this tip along to the elders in your family.
Everyone likes to be thanked for doing their job – and that is what they do for YOU. It’s hard work.
As long as Saudi Arabia which expects the US military to save them from the 98% of the Saudi population who is hugely poor when they finally have had enough and start a revolution, Saudi will pump oil at high rates and keep the gas prices low … tho when the oil supply in Saudi starts to get hinky, I dont see how any of these delivery services afford to continue. Van repairs, fuel repairs, wages above starvation .. it cant last.
It is far more efficient for 1 truck to deliver groceries to 10 residents, than for 10 residents to drive their trucks to the grocery store. It’s just that most people never calculate the cost of their vehicle into their decisions.
I used to do a lot of off-shore fishing (Florida). The cost of fuel could easily be $200 to run out to the Gulf Stream from Port Canaveral and fish for the day. The two nice fish we’d catch would be the most expensive fish you could eat. But, hey, they were free!
The Uber, Lyft and Instacart model does the same delivery function, but none of these operations provide vehicles, fuel and maintenance .. and thats cause they know delivery of all kinds consumes fuel and results in 40k miles a year per vehicle .. and all the costs that go with that wear and tear. There is a reason companies like Uber dump the delivery costs on the drivers. At scale those costs are high.
I have a friend who has owns his own plane (small 4 seater). Every so often he flies a couple hours with his wife, lands, has lunch and flies home. He calls it having a $200 hamburger lunch 🙂
Maybe. I’ve seen amazon drivers in private vehicles pull up to the same house(s) and make a delivery AT THE SAME TIME, let alone make multiple stops during the day. Same with UPS etc., they make multiple runs through this ‘hood all during the day. The Kroger trucks are just as bad, though not as often.
exactly correct. had many boats as a kid. lived in cities without autos for decades too. no auto costs and then food is a rounding error in quality and delivering.
For me personally, absolutely not. I would never use this service. You are like me Mish, I go to the store and whatever is on sale, I guess that’s what I’m eating tonight. I hate perusing the ads, I just walk in the store and if chicken is on sale, I’m buying 100 lbs of it and sticking what I can’t eat in the next week in the freezer.
Of course, my grocery bill for a family of 5 is half that of a normal family but that’s because I’m not picky and I only eat what’s on sale.
Younger generations rarely understand this.
They don’t understand scarcity.
When I was young, many foods were only available at certain times of year.
This will return as Trump’s tariffs make worldwide shipping of products from a variety of countries too expensive.
Believe it or not, most of my friends love services like this.
Older generations won’t because they know the value of a dollar and that it’s important to pick out, for example, the largest head of lettuce, the freshest looking celery, etc.
But younger generations just want everything delivered to their door. Yes indeed, people love this sort of service.
There is a segment of society for whom this is very beneficial: Elderly or disabled people who cannot go out but want autonomy. For them, this sort of service is a godsend to them, because they can order their own food and don’t have to bother friends and family.
So….yes, people want it.
Sure but what about canned goods or toiletries or cleaning products etc. There is no ‘freshesh paper towels’ or ‘largest can of beans’. So why waste your time getting all those items?
You just need to make a short trip for meat/veggies and everything else can be delivered.
Last paragraph is my mother. You got that on right!