A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are getting groceries. Blue is looking at Green, as Green scratches his chin with his tail, deep in thought. A little further away, a purple fox looks at them, seeming amused. Blue: Was it spring rolls? I think you mentioned spring rolls. Green: …Maybe? Purple: Heh. Blue and Green turn to look at the purple fox as he addresses them. Purple: Same thing every time, eh? Wife sends you to buy one thing, and you completely forget it! Purple raises his tail in embarrassed surprise as Green responds to him. Green: Actually, we’re gay. Purple: Oh! Purple relaxes as Green continues with a joke. Green: And that’s why we’re both at the store, forgetting what we came here for! Purple: Oh, I see!
Not fighting the crowds and lines is enough to make pickup amazing, but it’s really understated how much easier getting everything you need is when you’re still at home and just adding stuff online.
With free pickup I haven’t set foot in a grocery store since Covid. Saves like an hour of frustration a week.
Around here, that stuff tacks on a huge convenience fee for pick and pack, making it actively not worth doing. Last I looked, it was some $18 fee no matter how many items, and I’d still have to drive 20 min to pick it up, so might as well just… do my own shopping. (For reference, I live alone in a semi-rural area, so each trip is like $100)
Now if I could get it delivered (same fee, but nobody has a service area that overlaps my address), that’d be a different story.
Yeah, I’m in a city with free pickup and even free delivery most time while they’re trying to get people to use it.
Costs the exact same as going in, just save a lot of time and hassle.
I guess you don’t buy fresh produce, meat, or sale items.
We’ve invented these handy things called “lists” … and also, how are you spending a whole hour in the grocery store?
I guess you don’t buy fresh produce, meat, or sale items
I do, like everything else in the grocery store, you can pick it up…
how are you spending a whole hour in the grocery store?
I think the issue is you live in a rural area and not a city.
Checkout was always like 15 minutes, then time walking they and having to navigate a shopping cart thru a crowd of idiots with shopping carts.
Average time was probably closer to 45 minutes than an hour. But yeah, a busy grocery store takes a while from the time you get out of a car to getting back in. Unless you’re rural and there’s just nobody else there.
Compared to a five minute wait for them to load your car.
I’ve found that they consistently select poor produce and meat; it’s not a task I am willing to leave up to others. That’s not even touching on the problem of when they simply pick the wrong item.
Also, I live in a major city.
I don’t know what to tell you then, my store is on point, sorry yours sucks.
But in a major city, you might want to just try a different store.
