Going into the grocery store to shop becoming a class signal?

[Anonymous]

I'm a SAHM and do my own shopping. I'll pick up every once in a while

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At least for older millennial and gen X families*

My last few visits to grocery stores it looks like all retirees shopping, plus a handful of singles using the salad and hot bars. The aisles are filled with solo workers collecting orders. It seems like parents my age, whether they're actually wealthy and super busy ( ) or merely want to give that impression, exclusively do home delivery or drive-up pickup. Even the upper middle income SAHMs I know who have plenty of free time during the day do at-home delivery or drive-up pickup for groceries. Is grocery shopping in-person becoming lower class and/or elderly retirees thing?

It's almost like status-conscious people don't want to be seen grocery shopping because of the perception it gives that they're not wealthy or have too much free time. At least that's kind of what it feels like after Covid.

OP, when are you going to the store? I work part-time and if I go on my way home from work in the early afternoon, then I see more elderly shoppers. If I go on the weekend, I see all ages.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People have no street smarts and think the delivery workers will bring them the same quality produce as if they were choosing it themselves.

I've never seen the term "street smarts" used in that way before.

I have a chronic illness, I will take my chances with grocery delivery versus going to to a crowded store and taking my chances with all the coughing kids.

[Anonymous]

We all make choices on his we spend our time and money. This is just one of them. Do what works for you. No one (except OP I guess ) is judging you fur entering the grocery store.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We all make choices on his we spend our time and money. This is just one of them. Do what works for you. No one (except OP I guess ) is judging you fur entering the grocery store.

Delivery is far cheaper for us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We all make choices on his we spend our time and money. This is just one of them. Do what works for you. No one (except OP I guess ) is judging you fur entering the grocery store.

Delivery is far cheaper for us.

Because you buy extraneous food that dies not get eaten if you go? Or you do not have a car and need an Uber?

[Anonymous]

Drive up pick up is a free service. Why would I ever go into the store? My time is more valuable than that - and I paid $100 a year for years before the pandemic to have Harris Teeter shop for me.

[Anonymous]

It’s just a convenience thing, the way other services like Door Dash have become about convenience, not class. I don’t like doing pickup so I don’t, I imagine others do because they don’t like grocery shopping. Not everything is about social class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Drive up pick up is a free service. Why would I ever go into the store? My time is more valuable than that - and I paid $100 a year for years before the pandemic to have Harris Teeter shop for me.

I go into the store because honestly it’s hit or miss if your order is full and correct with online ordering. I’d rather just make my own substitutions or pick the pack of chicken myself or take 3 seconds to look for something before declaring its out of stock.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I can afford to order whatever I want, but I actually like grocery shopping!

I will say I do order sometimes and it’s only like…$10 more than just buying it in the store.

If you add up the door to door time, grocery shopping isn't a quick thing. Every once in a while I need a random item and I'll dash to the store for it. Other than that it's honestly well worth the fees and tip for all of our normal weekly items.

I live 15 minutes from the store and it takes less than an hour door to door to get groceries and get back. 45 min, once a week. Do you not have your act together in the store or what?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At least for older millennial and gen X families*

My last few visits to grocery stores it looks like all retirees shopping, plus a handful of singles using the salad and hot bars. The aisles are filled with solo workers collecting orders. It seems like parents my age, whether they're actually wealthy and super busy ( ) or merely want to give that impression, exclusively do home delivery or drive-up pickup. Even the upper middle income SAHMs I know who have plenty of free time during the day do at-home delivery or drive-up pickup for groceries. Is grocery shopping in-person becoming lower class and/or elderly retirees thing?

It's almost like status-conscious people don't want to be seen grocery shopping because of the perception it gives that they're not wealthy or have too much free time. At least that's kind of what it feels like after Covid.

Umm, no. I don't want anyone else picking my produce or meat. Get over yourself just because you're too lazy to go to the store.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can afford to order whatever I want, but I actually like grocery shopping!

I will say I do order sometimes and it’s only like…$10 more than just buying it in the store.

If you add up the door to door time, grocery shopping isn't a quick thing. Every once in a while I need a random item and I'll dash to the store for it. Other than that it's honestly well worth the fees and tip for all of our normal weekly items.

I live 15 minutes from the store and it takes less than an hour door to door to get groceries and get back. 45 min, once a week. Do you not have your act together in the store or what?

I don't believe you that it's less than 60 minutes door to door for your weekly groceries. But even if it's true, you realize you're wasting two days of life every single year to pick up grocery items? It's pointless. You probably get the mostly the same stuff every week, which means those items would be saved in your order history and you have make one tap on your phone to have everything sent to you instead. There, I just unlocked two days of life for you every single year. Life is short!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can afford to order whatever I want, but I actually like grocery shopping!

I will say I do order sometimes and it’s only like…$10 more than just buying it in the store.

If you add up the door to door time, grocery shopping isn't a quick thing. Every once in a while I need a random item and I'll dash to the store for it. Other than that it's honestly well worth the fees and tip for all of our normal weekly items.

I live 15 minutes from the store and it takes less than an hour door to door to get groceries and get back. 45 min, once a week. Do you not have your act together in the store or what?

I don't believe you that it's less than 60 minutes door to door for your weekly groceries. But even if it's true, you realize you're wasting two days of life every single year to pick up grocery items? It's pointless. You probably get the mostly the same stuff every week, which means those items would be saved in your order history and you have make one tap on your phone to have everything sent to you instead. There, I just unlocked two days of life for you every single year. Life is short!

So you know some people enjoy grocery shopping?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can afford to order whatever I want, but I actually like grocery shopping!

I will say I do order sometimes and it’s only like…$10 more than just buying it in the store.

If you add up the door to door time, grocery shopping isn't a quick thing. Every once in a while I need a random item and I'll dash to the store for it. Other than that it's honestly well worth the fees and tip for all of our normal weekly items.

I live 15 minutes from the store and it takes less than an hour door to door to get groceries and get back. 45 min, once a week. Do you not have your act together in the store or what?

I don't believe you that it's less than 60 minutes door to door for your weekly groceries. But even if it's true, you realize you're wasting two days of life every single year to pick up grocery items? It's pointless. You probably get the mostly the same stuff every week, which means those items would be saved in your order history and you have make one tap on your phone to have everything sent to you instead. There, I just unlocked two days of life for you every single year. Life is short!

So you know some people enjoy grocery shopping?

This. I don’t want someone picking my fruit or meat. They won’t know how to pick good marbling. Also this is how my DH and I decompress on the weekend.

[Anonymous]

I don't think it's a conscious status thing to avoid being seen at the grocery store. I think generally speaking, people who have achieved some level of personal status probably have busy careers and family lives and have continued to take advantage of the relatively new luxury of grocery delivery since the pandemic. In other words, you might get groceries delivered because you already have an elevated SES, not as a means to enhance it.

I am probably as status-conscious as some of the most neurotic souls on this god damn website and I don't feel embarrassed or poor or whatever going to the grocery store when it makes sense for me. We usually have "staples" delivered once a week and will stop by a Whole Foods or somewhere similar maybe twice a month for things that I think are worth paying more for, like meat and wine.