Grocery Store Pick-up. New service (research)

[Anonymous]

My Dear Moms,

I’m doing a market research for a New Service that will significantly reduce your time spent on grocery shopping. Imagine being able to order your shopping list right from your phone, and pick up your groceries at the store within an hour later. No more standing in lines, wasting your time in the store. Pay right from your phone at the time of your pick up and get your groceries loaded for you without you leaving a car.

I would greatly appreciate your feedback and answers to the following questions:

1. Would you be interested in this service? If yes, how often would you use it? How much would you be willing to pay for it?

2. Have you ever tried any grocery delivering services currently available on the market? What was your experience? If the proposed service will provide a better shopping experience and will cost less, would you consider “driving” to the store over convenience of home delivery?

3. Have you used any shopping/grocery mobile/web apps? Which one would you recommend and which one you would love to be integrated with the proposed service.



Thanks for your time!

[Anonymous]

giant already does this

[Anonymous]

its called peapod.

[Anonymous]

So does Harris Teeter.

[Anonymous]

Like PP said, a lot of grocery stores offer delivery. Pay online and then they bring it to your house. I'd much rather do that than shop online and have to drive to the store and wait for my stuff to be loaded.

And if I did want to do that, I would only use it if it was directly tied to the store, not some 3rd party type of thing.

Sorry, I don't think it is a good idea.

[Anonymous]

Peapod does this.

They also deliver, which is much more convenient.

If you could do a one-hour turnaround on delivery, I might be interested.

[Anonymous]

If you are performing this research for Wegmans, by the love of all that's holy YES YES YES! I would pay twice what Peapod charges for pick-up and use it twice a week. You could use an app created by a middle school programming club and I would still use the service.

[Anonymous]

If you are an individual, there is no way you could possibly make money on this plan as the grocery store fees for doing this are way too low already.

Giant and Safeway will bring things right to your door for $10.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are performing this research for Wegmans, by the love of all that's holy YES YES YES! I would pay twice what Peapod charges for pick-up and use it twice a week. You could use an app created by a middle school programming club and I would still use the service.

Same!!

I'm very very very picky about my produce and no way in hell would I use peapod. Harris Teeter is too expensive and often does not carry the produce i get at Wegmans.

[Anonymous]

I rarely use it but when I do, I use safeway.

[Anonymous]

Relay Foods is similar and has expanded the DC area. This is not new or groundbreaking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Relay Foods is similar and has expanded the DC area. This is not new or groundbreaking.

So? and neither is dog walking, but new and successful dog walkers are still popping up.

I want someone to go to Wegmans, buy me my usual $200 worth of groceries, and deliver them to my garage fridge while I'm at work.

[Anonymous]

I like Harris Teeter's pickup option - they are less than a mile from my house and the $4.95 fee pays for itself because I don't impulse buy. I can see everything I've bought in the last few months, with sale prices indicated. I prefer to pick up because in my few experiences with Peapod (quite a while ago) I ended up with tons of bins and coolers to store until next time. With H-T, you set a window that's convenient to you (and it's not a problem if you're late to pick up, by minutes or hours). If you're going to charge more than $5, I wouldn't do it.