How often do you do grocery delivery?

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SAHMs can’t outsource everything their husbands might want then to work

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Anonymous wrote:I have noticed my really affluent 35-55 year old social circle don’t grocery shop anymore. It’s almost like a prole signal if you do your own grocery shopping. I think even if they’re not super busy, the rich (and strivers who try to emulate the rich) like to make it seem like they are too busy and ‘above’ wasting time in a grocery store.

Grocery store shoppers APPEAR to be less affluent and older these days. Just something I’ve noticed when looking around.

That's your assumption based on your personal observations on your particular shopping trips. Most people I know shop at more than one store weekly for groceries.

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Anonymous wrote:SAHMs can’t outsource everything their husbands might want then to work

Don't hijack the thread with your mommy-baiting tactics.

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Anonymous wrote:I stopped tired of tipping, only when we go on Vacation and wants groceries waiting for us

I see you also stopped proofreading your posts.

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I do not do it often. If I am really put together I would do on returning home from a trip but I basically have forgotten to do that for every trip I went on, in the past 1-2 years

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Anonymous wrote:These responses are funny! who pays for this? Its free with most orders AND you can turn off substitutions.

Right? Or people who think the stuff costs more, what are you talking about? Safeway prices are Safeway prices. I pay a yearly subscription but it's not that much.

Same. Where I live and at the store we shop at (big, not specialty grocery store) prices are the same as in store.

Instacart definitely increases the base prices in addition to the added on fees. Wegman’s has a pick-up service but I checked and the online prices are 12% higher than in-store (they don’t make this obvious).

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Anonymous wrote:We have done it a few times but the higher prices and substitutions killed it for me.

Maybe it’s where I live and shop but prices aren’t higher on Instacart and I choose or reject substitutions. Even when I haven’t selected specific subs but have the shopper do it they choose reasonable substitutes or refund if there isn’t one.

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Anonymous wrote:These responses are funny! who pays for this? Its free with most orders AND you can turn off substitutions.

Right? Or people who think the stuff costs more, what are you talking about? Safeway prices are Safeway prices. I pay a yearly subscription but it's not that much.

Same. Where I live and at the store we shop at (big, not specialty grocery store) prices are the same as in store.

Instacart definitely increases the base prices in addition to the added on fees. Wegman’s has a pick-up service but I checked and the online prices are 12% higher than in-store (they don’t make this obvious).

If it doesn’t say “in store prices” for the store you are shopping there is an increase. Lots of stores do have in store prices though

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I really enjoy grocery shopping most of the time and I don't mind stopping at the store on the way home. But I also like to cook a lot, which most of my affluent 35-50-ish circle of friends doesn't, and I have a flexible job so "on the way home" is often 3pm or earlier if I am working from home that day. Which is a different kind of privilege than ordering groceries online, I realize.

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Anonymous wrote:Never.

Unless you are sick or infirm, there’s no reason to have groceries delivered.

Similarly: you should mow your own lawn and clean your own house.

No thanks!

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I’ve never done Instacart or any of the regular grocery store delivery services. I tried Whole Foods delivery a few times back when it was still free but never after that.

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Anonymous wrote:Question for the posters who opt to pay for delivery rather than grocery shop with kids:

Why not send your partner to shop?

Or shop when the kids are at school/in care?

Or teach your kids how to behave while you shop?

I have a handful of kids, fwiw. I get it.

It's not about behaving, my three kids four and under definitely behave in the store. But do you know how long it takes to get three young kids out of their car seats, into their coats, into a cart, then all again in reverse? Plus the time it takes to shop? I would rather get that hour back.

Are you a single parent?

Why not leave the kids at home while the other parent shops?

Because we would both rather be spending time with our kids?
I'm not saying we don't grocery shop in store, we do 75% of the time. But if spouse is at work (they have a 10 hour day with commute) and I need milk, I'm not hauling all three kids on an hour long trip to the grocery store. This is the benefit of being me in 2024 and not my grandmother in 1954.

Sure.

But it also takes 5 mins for your spouse to hop into 7/11 or the grocery store for milk on the way home. Weird to Instacart.

Weird only to you.

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Anonymous wrote:Question for the posters who opt to pay for delivery rather than grocery shop with kids:

Why not send your partner to shop?

Or shop when the kids are at school/in care?

Or teach your kids how to behave while you shop?

I have a handful of kids, fwiw. I get it.

Because I don’t want to waste my time at the grocery store.

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I use to use grocery delivery all the time. But I'm on a budget now, so I am doing drive-up pick-up instead.

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Anonymous wrote:SAHMs can’t outsource everything their husbands might want then to work

Why, you outsource everything including parenting your kids? Nothing wrong with grocery delivery.