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

[Anonymous]

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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]

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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.

[Anonymous]

I shop in store because I enjoy it and I don't trust anyone else to pick my produce or check the expiration dates to get the freshest perishables. If you hate grocery shopping then by all means carry on with your deliveries.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I shop in store because I enjoy it and I don't trust anyone else to pick my produce or check the expiration dates to get the freshest perishables. If you hate grocery shopping then by all means carry on with your deliveries.

+1, I don’t over think it. I just do my shopping and go.

[Anonymous]

It totally is and insecure strivers on here are in denial if they can't admit it. The upper middle class and wealthy are insulating themselves in bubbles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

These same sort of obnoxious people get off on constantly exaggerating and bragging about how busy they are. If your whole identity is projecting what a social climbing hustling striver you are, of course you're the type to brag you pay a pleb $20 to shop for you and deliver groceries to your doorstep. It's on-brand. Being seen "wasting" time in a grocery store becomes a prole tell, in their eyes.

[Anonymous]

I've been doing grocery ordering online since before covid -- Harris Teeter in Foxchase was one of the first local stores that had it. I don't typically do delivery unless I do Costco through Instacart -- it eliminates the impulse purchases that send my bill sky high.

For Harris Teeter, the prices are the same through the app and in-store. I let them know when I'm arriving, and someone loads it into the trunk for me. So much easier. I click the "don't allow substitutions" so sometimes I don't get everything, but that's better than dealing with substitutions that don't work for my family.