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

[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.

It's just because they are old and weak and can't navigate the aisles or drive safely

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a SAHM, and eff you for thinking I have nothing better to do with my alleged oodles of free time than walk the aisles of the grocery store. It's not about being status conscious, it's about using my time well, and grocery shopping is a boring, time-consuming chore that I can now outsource for free with a pickup order. Occam's Razor, OP.

You sound lazy.

You sound stupid as well as lazy.

Guess I hit a nerve, lazy bones. Get off the internet and do something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I really enjoy grocery shopping.

You enjoy buying the same specific fruits, veggies, milk, proteins, etc. every week? Sounds like you live a real decadent and thrilling life.

[Anonymous]

I’m solidly middle class. I am busy and have two little kids so I mainly get delivery. I also go to local farms or farm stands. I’d love to take the time to actually shop myself but I just don’t have the energy most weeks.

[Anonymous]

I like grocery shopping too 😂 but I’m a snob and particular about the produce and brands I select. I also like to pick my own protein. I go to multiple markets, including the farmers market.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I really enjoy grocery shopping.

You enjoy buying the same specific fruits, veggies, milk, proteins, etc. every week? Sounds like you live a real decadent and thrilling life.

Yes, people do. Get a life.

[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.

It’s called optimized productivity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I really enjoy grocery shopping.

You enjoy buying the same specific fruits, veggies, milk, proteins, etc. every week? Sounds like you live a real decadent and thrilling life.

Not everyone eats the same boring things every week. Some people actually enjoy cooking and trying new things.

[Anonymous]

No, it's not a class signal. It's just people who do or don't like shopping in person (whether because they don't like to cook or have a medical issue or whatever). And, people who want to save time. Most of the people I know who get groceries delivered have a pretty set grocery list from week to week and so don't care as much about picking their own food.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I really enjoy grocery shopping.

You enjoy buying the same specific fruits, veggies, milk, proteins, etc. every week? Sounds like you live a real decadent and thrilling life.

DP, and you sound like a spoiled, jaded ass. Do you have any idea what a privilege, a luxury, it is to be able to have "the same" fruits, veggies, milk, proteins, etc every week, so regularly that you don't even think of it as a privilege, it's just a chore?

You probably think you're rich because you can do "decadent and thrilling" things, like waste money and time, but you're probably hollow, and shallow af.

Being able to enjoy the simple things is real luxury. You don't have it.

[Anonymous]

Seriously you have too much time on your hands

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

That's insanely high!

But I guess...
Even though they are incredibly annoying with their cart full of brown bags and their phone out, if a shopper is doing two orders at once and they don't check out in front of me, and then they deliver to two different addresses, I guess that is more efficient than two of the lazy dummies coming in themselves.

And I read that they online ordering people get the prices listed there. Even if discounts ring up at the register.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I really enjoy grocery shopping.

You enjoy buying the same specific fruits, veggies, milk, proteins, etc. every week? Sounds like you live a real decadent and thrilling life.

DP. I also enjoy it. I am a lawyer and it a lot more fun than that.

[Anonymous]

I have everything delievered. I take no joy in going to an American supermarket or most "farmers" markets in this area. All the same bland overpriced produce.

Lucky for us, we have acerage and a wonderful garden and greenhouse that provides for us most of the year, and our assistant and personal chef do the grocery ordering for what we cannot supply.