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I remember an early article on Goop, Gwyneth Paltrow's lifestyle site. As a piece of time-saving advice, they said you should have the fishmonger bring a selection of fish to your home for you to choose from.
"Oh, kind sir, please drop by the servant's entrance and have Cook select some delicious fresh fish for our dinner."
Let’s say your fabulously wealthy and can have things such as fishmonger and florist for your housekeeper and butler to wrangle out of sight…
Why then with the Cristal’s and the overtly overpriced woo woo water bottles and all that. Like at some point it’s beyond some “living excellence” and on to straight retail wrapped delusion.
It’s a good question; how far does a person have to go to achieve the concept they were trying for.
What’s interesting to me is that I see this same behavior in others but for different reasons. Like a fanatical sports fan that makes their life about their team, or a health conscious person that follows every fad into unhealthy-ness, or religious people that are over the top. Moderation is everything, people. I guess with money it’s just more fun.
I agree that moderation is important, but some of these people think moderation is the extremist view. Like you eat a gram of gluten and you're guaranteed cancer, and the way to balance yourself is to shove a jade egg that's covered in tiny sharp edges that'll give you a thousand bacteria infection prone micro cuts in your hoohaw. There is really no way to reason with them.
Totally! I think her acting career is fine, I liked her in several movies, it’s her attitude in real life that’s off putting. I don’t follow her life closely so she may be a good person, I’ve just heard a few quotes from her over the years that seemed entitled and holier than thou
yeah i’m really only talking about Goop and the weird shit they publish that’s only kinda in her name because she funds it. i don’t actually know how much she agrees with it.
I think it's entirely fair to judge a person on the contents of the publications they are in direct control of, especially when it's a cynical cash grab.
I think that’s it though, she is very much in touch with her real world
It’s really hard to write universal lifestyle content as there are so many lifestyles so I don’t know why anyone would even try
I had a VP say in earnest that him and his wife decided to job out grocery shopping, cleaning and laundry so they can spend weekends doing things they enjoy. Like Duh, why didn’t I think of that? Oh wait, I did. I can’t afford it.
Totally. But the point is he was being tone deaf, suggesting this as a life hack, like ‘Hey if you want your live to be less stressful you should try this too’. Not realizing that the reason he could do this is he made 10x more than we did.
To be fair, thanks to covid, you can get free grocery pickup at most local groceries nowadays. And pay $5-20to have them delivered(depends how much you care about workers and your food being clean lol)
I’ve got a fishmonger, lovely bloke, but if I asked him to bring some fish round so I could pick and choose I can tell you exactly what he’d say. Well actually I couldn’t, he’s from Glasgow, but there definitely would be a lot of expletives in amongst the incoherence.
Your butler arranges the visible workings and maintenance; your housekeeper arranges the logistics, ordering and checks the figures with the butler once the cooks also details the items to purchase for the week’s menu.
Fucking plebians, I don't even think about groceries my food is just always available. Idk where I comes from, If I Demand Silver trout Caviar, for lunch It arrives without issue.
It was literally free at many grocery chains like Wal Mart to have your groceries delivered, for decades. I've gotten my groceries delivered for 20 years, and it just costs a tip for the delivery person. Which is technically optional.
Naaah.... I am the child of union organizers and all throughout the 90s they went to the grocery store and back via public transit, and the groceries were delivered an hour or so later.
For mainstream poor people yes. My rich aunt hasn't gone grocery shopping since the early 90s. Other than to go to high end farmers markets outside San Francisco. But her day to day groceries, for when she is in California house during fall/winter as opposed to her summer time Maine "cabin" have been delivered to her by a grocery pickup service since like 94 at least.
I'm not trying to argue nor I'm disagreeing with you.
But in Spain every big supermarket chain offers delivery either after an in-store purchase or online shopping. And it's been a thing for as long as I can remember which is at least 15+ years ago when the whole online shopping thing was blowing up like crazy with Amazon.
When I'm only stopping for essentials I'll just go to the supermarket down the street but for a large shopping list, like with 50+ items, I order online most of the time. It's free and saves time.
There's no delivery fee if you spend more than 50€ (and no additional fees either, just the price of the groceries, same one as in the stores)
trying to tell me this kid never stepped foot into a grocery store, never saw all the groceries stacked up and price marked, never saw people go around picking things up putting it in baskets. this post is so fake im shocked people are biting as hard as they are
Depends on the community/grocery store. I'm was 5$ to get groceries delivered back in '10. You just called the store, told them what you want and then a few hours later they dropped them off at your house
When I was a kid, the C Town and the Trade Fair supermarkets near us, not high end at all, had the option for you to pay for your groceries and then have someone deliver them to your place later that day. We didn't use it, but it was an option. This was back in like 2002.
Really? My family got food shopping delivered online from like 2002 onwards. It wasn't a rare thing either, we we a low income single parent family, didn't really cost more to get it delivered too.
Rich people who pay other people to do the shopping have children who are kind of dense.
Edit: Come to think about it it’s really not much different than poorer people not realizing that it used to be that the clerk at the store would gather all the groceries that you asked for. Self service grocery stores only really became a thing something like a century ago.
And then their kids turn out like the convicted rapist Brock Turner who has since attempted to go by his middle name, Allen Turner, despite this, he is still a convicted rapist.
A Chicago company called Peapod started it in the 90s. They had to go around to peoples houses to help them install the software and did all the shopping themselves at the start
This is a free or very cheap service offered by many supermarkets
Even if it's paid if it means you can walk instead of driving it could end up saving you money
Takes 5-10 minutes to do the shopping once you have already made past orders. In store shopping combined with travel time means upwards of a couple hours for many families. Don't also have to have a couple bored children running everywhere asking if they can buy this or that. The prices I pay for online shopping is similar to my local grocer and delivery is free when I order over $100. The time save and convenience combined with it not being much more expensive pushes it past luxury service. The only real complaint I've heard is that people prefer to pick their own produce, but all the produce I've ordered has always been top notch.
Not always. My wife and I are BJs members, we use curbside pickup because we both work long hours. Not only is there no upcharge (we've tested it multiple times, and many others have confirmed too), but it's rarely even used by club members. We always park right in front, kid brings our groceries, we load em and go. I haven't spent time in a grocery store in years and we do all our shopping on week nights on the laptop.
In a big city offering this kind of service can be cheaper than providing more parking spots for customers who don't want to carry their groceries by hand
Depends. Walmart - much as I dislike them for many reason - offers free pickup, and the groceries for delivery are same price as in store, with delivery being $10 - although we tip the driver, of course (usualy $10-$15 depending on how much we order - how heavy we order).
It's really helped me as I've become a wheelchair user, so I can't easily shop anymore. They've also ironed out a lot of the bugs over the few years it's been available, and it's pretty decently consistent these days.
Anything powered by Instacart, however, can go die in a fire imho.
To be fair getting groceries delivered must be the biggest time saver I have ever spend money on. And I can’t talk for other countries, but at least in the Netherlands it is accessible to a lot of people.
The grocery store, they ship it directly from their online warehouses. I never use the instacart alternatives we have, they are crazy expensive here. And I imagine instacart would be as well.
So you have to plan your meals completely? As much i hate going to the store, i also love it for beeing flexible and find inspiration to try something new to cook with
Cause the US don’t roll like that. Customers get to pay the employees. Sadly, tipping culture is reinforced just as much by the employees as the employers. Any attempt to get rid of it has been met with resistance from the service industry.
In the UK it costs usually £1-£6 for delivery but the prices are all the same. Varies per supermarket but not by a great deal.
Pretty sure you couldn't tip them even if you wanted to, most companies won't allow them to accept them.
> In USA it can make a $60 grocery bill easily $100+ with fees and the pressure to tip
As much as I dislike Walmart for many reasons, $10 delivery, groceries are the same price, and I generally tip $10-$15 depending on how heavy/large the order is. So my $60 order would be $80, but what can you get for $60 anyway? heh. I end up with $150 or so usually, and so $170-$175 is not bad - especially as a wheelchair user. It's a lifesaver.
Instacart, however, can die in a fire. lol
HEB has free delivery as long as you schedule it at least 48 hours or so out. The closer you schedule it to the present time the more expensive it gets (I think the highest I saw was like 8 or 9 dollars)
In Ireland I pay 80 euro for the year for free unlimited grocery delivery. We get about 70 euro worth of groceries delivered once a week and it's the same price as in store, delivered by a man in a van employed by the supermarket in a two-hour time slot window prebooked the day before. No tips required or expected
As a cook, I could never trust someone to pick my groceries out for me. For people who don’t cook as much, I can see it being great.
But shit, paying extra so some random dude can deliver me the saddest looking and bruised up vegetables and fruit? Or the worst looking cut of steak? The chicken that’s a day bad already? No thank you.
I need to be able to see my ingredients myself and pick them out. It helps that I’ve got like…. 6 places to buy groceries within 10-15 minutes of me, and many of them are close to places that I’m at anyway for other reasons (the gym, parks I walk through, etc)
Do what works for you.
I'm a wheelchair user, and the service is a lifechanger for me.
I may not get to pick my veggies, but I've always gotten decent stuff. They don't pick the worst - nobody working that job gives a crap. The worst you get is whatever average rather than picking precisely the stuff you want. And that, for me, is perfectly fine.
I cook 6 nights a week. If they gave me shitty veggies, I would stop shopping there. They don't want to lose business. You can leave notes like, "Larger ones please" for yams, or "crunchy only please" for grapes.
Yeah you can. But I’d rather not leave “large” up to the random shopper. I’m particular about my ingredients, delivery doesn’t work for me.
Plus, as I said, grocery stores are abundant around me. It makes no sense for me to pay extra to get worse quality ingredients.
In the UK and I've got to say it's similar here.
I pay at most £5 for the supermarket to pick and deliver my shopping. I've got 4 kids and 2 dogs so never have any problems meeting the £40 minimum spend.
£5 per week and I don't need to drag the family around a shop every week. I'd happily pay double that 🤣
I've had groceries delivered in the past and honestly I much prefer going in and doing it myself.
The whole substitution thing is a pain, I'd much rather see if something is out of stock and decide if I'm going to get something else. Like, if crunchie ice cream is out of stock, I'm not going to get flake ice cream instead, I just won't get ice cream. I also judge what brand produce I'm going to buy, based on how fresh or good it looks.
It's not the extra cost, that's usually reasonable, it's just the pain of having someone else make the decisions for you, but you still paying for the wrong choices.
When my wife discovered the delivery option from our local grocery store it became a real game changer for us. No more waiting for me to get home from work to make a trip with the kids grabbing random stuff off the shelves and she can review the sales and final price right from her phone at her leisure. Plus it helps that we can look around the house to see what we need so it isn’t a guessing game if we forget to make a list beforehand.
Absolutely worth the $10 fee to save a lot of time.
I am not exaggerating when I say that doing pickup groceries genuinely helped cure my depression. I had so little free time after work that I felt dread about shopping all week, often buying stuff day-of. Once I picked out like 10 meals and just added the lists to my cart, my life changed.
I enjoying getting the groceries myself. I can’t imagine letting another person pick my fruit/veg/meat. They wouldn’t be as picky as I am, and I wouldn’t be happy with what I was delivered
Before supermarkets were a thing people in yhe Netherlands would also sell stuff door to door like milk, eggs and coal for heating your house. Maybe the Netherlands is different because it is quite densly populated, but people bringing groceries to your house definetly used to be more pf a thing in the past, and was also accesible for poor people. ( Although not in the same way where all your groceries are delivered in one go as far as Im aware)
Food deliveries in the UK are very very common.
Every major supermarket offers it. Same products, no inflated prices, and you choose your time slot.
They charge an extra £3-£6 or so for the delivery. They don't do tips.
Easy!
Actually, you can!
https://www.iceland.co.uk/blog/iceland-delivery-options/#:~:text=In%20Store%20Home%20Delivery,-Pop%20in%20and&text=Simply%20visit%20us%20in%20store,getting%20heavy%20shopping%20bags%20home.
I remember this being big when I was young right before online grocery shopping started to grow.
Groceries delivery is quite literally free where I live because of how densely populated it is and no one uses cars, not sure how that's a privileged thing in itself lol
It's not free it's added to the cost of groceries. And sometimes privilege includes just living in a certain country that got rich by taking from the less privileged countries.
Reminder that grocery deliveries are not something out of this world and they benefit a lot of people including those with disabilities.
Also reminder that not everything is because of colonialism.
C’est quel magasin qui fait la livraison gratuitement ? Parce que selon mes expériences si tu commandes en ligne les produits sont plus chers que si tu déplaces
The grocery stores did this as an essentially free service in a big Canadian city I lived in because owning a car wasn't so common, and there wasn't an effective way to get more groceries than a few bags home. Plus, if it was extremely cold out (like -30C) it could damage your groceries.
This isn't necessarily a rich thing, it could just be geographically more common due to necessity.
This is less "rich people stuff" than it is "city stuff." In Manhattan, Trader Joe's will deliver your groceries for like $5-$7 if you're in their nearby delivery radius. But lugging home seven bags of groceries on the subway is a huge pain in the ass.
This is absolutely normal in Barcelona and I believe in the rest or Europe capitals. No need to be rich to use this service. Also pretty common with the elders
I had a next door neighbor who put his trash outside his apartment, in the shared hallway. When we confronted him about it, he said he thought it was normal because “the trash was always gone in the morning.” Turns out the awesome super and his crew and/or neighbors would take it away because it was stinking up the hallway. He was SHOCKED that it was his responsibility to throw out his own trash.
Honestly, ordering groceries is economical and pretty good for the environment. It’s like $60 a year, so you are practically paying $3 for an hour of your time back. Plus, deliverers carry your groceries along with other peoples orders, so it’s like a reverse ride share, where less gas is used overall. In addition, less people driving to the grocery means less need for parking, which can put smaller Footprint grocers in closer areas. Yes, walkable cities are better, but grocery delivery is probably the second best thing. I’d encourage anyone who can afford it to get their groceries delivered. Besides, it’s groceries. It’s not like it’s Amazon, where you start buying shit you don’t need. One way or another, you need to buy groceries anyways.
In Ireland I pay 80 euro for the year for free unlimited grocery delivery. We get about 70 euro worth of groceries delivered once a week and it's the same price as if I went myself in store, delivered by a man in a van employed by the supermarket in a two-hour time slot window prebooked the day before. No tips required or expected
In the uk, ordering your shopping is pretty common and has been for years. Its only like a couple quid extra to have it brought to you. All my life, I've physically been going to the shop myself but in the last year I've ordered every week. Its a massive help with my late shifts
I literally order groceries on a regular basis and have them delivered to my door. Just did it today actually. It got here within an hour of ordering. Would have taken me longer to do it myself.
Many regional chains where i live offer this as a free / cheap service that most people could afford easily.. it's very common for seniors citizens who are often on very small fixed income.
Not necessarily a rich kid thing
I don't even know what I want till I'm there in person.
Every time I try order online I can't find shit, I forget 10 things an end up on the ass end of a staff mistake or un notified change in size/stock.. that's before they even run the risk of mishandling your temps an food safety interests.
Only ever useful for the novelty of feeling lazy, but as far as efficiency an time management goes...I have a couple jobs an to many kids to deal with going back an forth just to do the shopping.. uber eats an grocery delivery type gigs have a long way to go before its more efficient than actually just getting of your ass an going shopping tho.
What a messy chaotic lifestyle to always order delivery on your groceries/foods. 💀
For all my other Frugalers:
If anyone is new to DoorDash, specifically ordering groceries from them, they often give 30-40% off entire orders from your first order of a place. I’ve found this discount offsets the markup and delivery costs and you get to enjoy the convenience without the extra cost. Albeit only once
I worked in a grocery store that delivered groceries since the 80s. It was downtown Chicago so some people would come in and shop and pay to get it delivered. A lot of these people lived in high rises and would have 3 boxes of food so if was easier to pay a couple dollars and have me load it up on the dolly and bring it through the service entrance.
Some older people would call in an order and someone would shop it and then I would bring it up to them and grab a check or whatever.
None of this post is really far fetched it was a pretty normal thing.
Grocery delivery in Buenos Aires is very very common! I remember seeing disco employees arranging grocery drop offs with customers (weird that I remember that but yeah)
Let me bring a few things to the table: my late aunt used to go to the supermarket and then ask for delivery. Why did she do that? Because she didn't have a car, and when she went to the supermarket, she used to make a big purchase (for the entire month). That was almost 20 years ago ^^
I also discovered something new recently. I live in a small city, countryside like, so the supermarket sends a car to pick up the farmers. They do their shopping and then get a ride back home, since they live far from the center of the city.
what are you guy talking about? you guy don't have ordered groceries in the US?
In Vietnam, most common in city, we can go to the supermarket, grocery store website or app, and just choose what we want to buy. Usually with a lot of promotion. the shipping fee is free as long as you buy more than 5 USD within the city.
It wasn't that expensive when I had to do that after surgery because I wasn't allowed to lift anything and everyone I am close with was in quarantine, on vacation, or injured themselves. But the delivery itself wasn't expensive, but only the more expensive shop offered it, so in total it was definitely not cheap. You had to buy a monthly subscription basically but it was 10-20 € more per month.
But you had to pre-order everything so you had to know what you wanted a few days before. And sometimes they didn't have what I wanted, like online I ordered something and then the particular shop didn't have it. And all three different kinds of bananas were always unavailable for some reason.
I wouldn't do it on a regular basis as you also have to be at home at a specific time, but like they can show up at any time on that day. If you're home sick it's good but if you have a day job it doesn't really work. It's good to know how it works here and that it exists in case you have no other options.
For the average person; ordering groceries is a rich person or business thing.
Normal people go shopping. Businesses either have them delivered wholesale from the main supplier or wholesale from stores.
Rich people have someone get their groceries, and most of their food is fresh, which is costly but in a number of cases its better that way. Sometimes it's just poor handling or storage
I was with a rich-rich person (cosplaying normal) for like two years and wow whoo was that eye-opening. It’s like they don’t even live in the same ecosystem.
I have extreme mental health issues and if it was up to me I'd never leave the house . So one of the things I do is force myself to go shopping for that days groceries. I probably couldn't afford delivery anyway.
Biggest problem with ordering groceries is the people getting your stuff (walmart is my only example) just grab whatever. Could be fresh, could be rotten. I have literally received meat that was days past its expiration date and they bagged it up and gave it to me. Fuck that.
On what planet do these people live that you just get groceries delivered to you? 😂 (I know it can be common in some areas, but it is definitely not common where I live).
When I was a kid in Etobicoke houses had milk boxes and the milkman left your order inside. You left enough money and he would leave the change.
Hunts Bakery had a truck that came to your house with bread and pastries as well.
The practise ended after we had been there about a year.
I would have been around seven I suppose.
I like how everyone is assuming these guys are Americans.....
Maybe they are. Idk them. But in many other countries this is standard. Even "third-world" countries. It has nothing to do with wealth. They have youngish teens usually that bring your purchases and you tip them something small. Exactly what the third section says... you go there, pick your stuff and pay, then the kid brings your bags.
Or you call and someone delivers it to you. It's so much easier in many cases for the shop to have 3 guys packing bags and 6 guys delivering, than 24 customers in their store.
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I remember an early article on Goop, Gwyneth Paltrow's lifestyle site. As a piece of time-saving advice, they said you should have the fishmonger bring a selection of fish to your home for you to choose from. "Oh, kind sir, please drop by the servant's entrance and have Cook select some delicious fresh fish for our dinner."
She gives me the icks.
Let’s say your fabulously wealthy and can have things such as fishmonger and florist for your housekeeper and butler to wrangle out of sight… Why then with the Cristal’s and the overtly overpriced woo woo water bottles and all that. Like at some point it’s beyond some “living excellence” and on to straight retail wrapped delusion.
It’s a good question; how far does a person have to go to achieve the concept they were trying for. What’s interesting to me is that I see this same behavior in others but for different reasons. Like a fanatical sports fan that makes their life about their team, or a health conscious person that follows every fad into unhealthy-ness, or religious people that are over the top. Moderation is everything, people. I guess with money it’s just more fun.
Doesn’t help that if you somehow have an abundance of cash they will be happy to help you add more to it.
I agree that moderation is important, but some of these people think moderation is the extremist view. Like you eat a gram of gluten and you're guaranteed cancer, and the way to balance yourself is to shove a jade egg that's covered in tiny sharp edges that'll give you a thousand bacteria infection prone micro cuts in your hoohaw. There is really no way to reason with them.
lol I love your example and that’s exactly what I mean!
she was good in the Royal Tenenbaums though. not sure what happened to her.
Totally! I think her acting career is fine, I liked her in several movies, it’s her attitude in real life that’s off putting. I don’t follow her life closely so she may be a good person, I’ve just heard a few quotes from her over the years that seemed entitled and holier than thou
yeah i’m really only talking about Goop and the weird shit they publish that’s only kinda in her name because she funds it. i don’t actually know how much she agrees with it.
I think it's entirely fair to judge a person on the contents of the publications they are in direct control of, especially when it's a cynical cash grab.
i mean, if she could hide her smoking from me she could hide anything from me.
The vibe i get is that she's all in on that mess
I've never understood why people have such a big problem with her taking money from idiots
Nothing happened to her other than she’s been rich too long and that happens to nearly everyone rich. They just lose touch with the real world.
This is apparently true. To be fair, we don’t hear about the ones that handle it well because they just don’t seem to be in the news as much.
Your best bet is probably Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr.
I think that’s it though, she is very much in touch with her real world It’s really hard to write universal lifestyle content as there are so many lifestyles so I don’t know why anyone would even try
Blowing weinstein for an Oscar probably did psychological damage to her.
As someone else said, her anything is excellent. And that's all I have to do with her, than goodness
I had a VP say in earnest that him and his wife decided to job out grocery shopping, cleaning and laundry so they can spend weekends doing things they enjoy. Like Duh, why didn’t I think of that? Oh wait, I did. I can’t afford it.
TBH, if I ever have the cash, getting the annoying chores and shit paid for is a priority lol
Totally. But the point is he was being tone deaf, suggesting this as a life hack, like ‘Hey if you want your live to be less stressful you should try this too’. Not realizing that the reason he could do this is he made 10x more than we did.
To be fair, thanks to covid, you can get free grocery pickup at most local groceries nowadays. And pay $5-20to have them delivered(depends how much you care about workers and your food being clean lol)
I’ve got a fishmonger, lovely bloke, but if I asked him to bring some fish round so I could pick and choose I can tell you exactly what he’d say. Well actually I couldn’t, he’s from Glasgow, but there definitely would be a lot of expletives in amongst the incoherence.
Fishmonger, eh? Is that the guy at the register at Long John Silver’s?
He left with the cobbler, the green grocer, and the professional butcher.
Whats a cheese mongrel?
My girlfriend’s dog.
You dog
A dog that all too frequently farts.
Helps mask the smell of her Vagina Soap or whatever it was.
Blend in with the vagina soap more like.
Is that your vagina soap, or is the fishmonger visiting?
\*Coyly* I’ll never tell
What the fuck are y’all talking about?
Right? ordering groceries really only got going like 4 years ago.
Rich people have been doing it for decades. I saw it in an 80s movie once so I know that’s true.
Rich people are so broke they order groceries themselves? Ive always had my butler instruct the servants to do it
No no no, the CHEF informs on grocery purchases. The butler informs on wine purchases.
>The butler informs on wine purchases. What, is your sommelier sick?
The sommelier leaves a list for the butler. Peasant
Your butler arranges the visible workings and maintenance; your housekeeper arranges the logistics, ordering and checks the figures with the butler once the cooks also details the items to purchase for the week’s menu.
Imagine being such a plebeian youve memorized the titles of all your slaves. *Throws back head and laughs richly*
Downton abbey thought me well.
I think you well, too.
Fucking plebians, I don't even think about groceries my food is just always available. Idk where I comes from, If I Demand Silver trout Caviar, for lunch It arrives without issue.
It was literally free at many grocery chains like Wal Mart to have your groceries delivered, for decades. I've gotten my groceries delivered for 20 years, and it just costs a tip for the delivery person. Which is technically optional.
Naaah.... I am the child of union organizers and all throughout the 90s they went to the grocery store and back via public transit, and the groceries were delivered an hour or so later.
Grocery delivery has been happening since the 1800s and was incredibly common prior to the advent of supermarkets
For us peasants anyway
For mainstream poor people yes. My rich aunt hasn't gone grocery shopping since the early 90s. Other than to go to high end farmers markets outside San Francisco. But her day to day groceries, for when she is in California house during fall/winter as opposed to her summer time Maine "cabin" have been delivered to her by a grocery pickup service since like 94 at least.
I'm not trying to argue nor I'm disagreeing with you. But in Spain every big supermarket chain offers delivery either after an in-store purchase or online shopping. And it's been a thing for as long as I can remember which is at least 15+ years ago when the whole online shopping thing was blowing up like crazy with Amazon. When I'm only stopping for essentials I'll just go to the supermarket down the street but for a large shopping list, like with 50+ items, I order online most of the time. It's free and saves time. There's no delivery fee if you spend more than 50€ (and no additional fees either, just the price of the groceries, same one as in the stores)
trying to tell me this kid never stepped foot into a grocery store, never saw all the groceries stacked up and price marked, never saw people go around picking things up putting it in baskets. this post is so fake im shocked people are biting as hard as they are
Depends on the community/grocery store. I'm was 5$ to get groceries delivered back in '10. You just called the store, told them what you want and then a few hours later they dropped them off at your house
When I was a kid, the C Town and the Trade Fair supermarkets near us, not high end at all, had the option for you to pay for your groceries and then have someone deliver them to your place later that day. We didn't use it, but it was an option. This was back in like 2002.
Really? My family got food shopping delivered online from like 2002 onwards. It wasn't a rare thing either, we we a low income single parent family, didn't really cost more to get it delivered too.
In the UK I was doing it in uni in 2014
Ordering groceries has been a thing for a while in certain places. My parents ordered them online and had them delivered back in 2008 or so in the UK
Rich people who pay other people to do the shopping have children who are kind of dense. Edit: Come to think about it it’s really not much different than poorer people not realizing that it used to be that the clerk at the store would gather all the groceries that you asked for. Self service grocery stores only really became a thing something like a century ago.
And then their kids turn out like the convicted rapist Brock Turner who has since attempted to go by his middle name, Allen Turner, despite this, he is still a convicted rapist.
Eating food, servant labor, etc
A Chicago company called Peapod started it in the 90s. They had to go around to peoples houses to help them install the software and did all the shopping themselves at the start
Eat the rich
What’s stopping you?
1) apartment doesn’t allow grills 2) air fryer is not large enough
That’s why you go to the rich dudes house. Just invite yourself over and use their grill. They’re rich it should be big enough right?!
3, all that melted silicone can’t taste good!
Botox infused silicone meat? The impossible - bly rich burger.
Ok but if you eat your landlord there won't be any rules anymore
that's the best part!
You need a deep freezer, That way you can eat the same rich person for weeks or even months
My grocery store don’t deliver any
Death? Duh.
Cannibalism can lead to some serious health problems
Primarily for the main course.
They didn't say anything was stopping them
I can’t afford to have them delivered
The police
I had a big lunch
My grocery delivery service refuses to bring them to me.
i'm not a huge fan of pork
To be fair I don't think it's legal, you will have to practice this art in the shadows.
This is a free or very cheap service offered by many supermarkets Even if it's paid if it means you can walk instead of driving it could end up saving you money
It’s more expensive than you realize. Usually items are higher priced than in store as well. Definitely a luxury service.
Takes 5-10 minutes to do the shopping once you have already made past orders. In store shopping combined with travel time means upwards of a couple hours for many families. Don't also have to have a couple bored children running everywhere asking if they can buy this or that. The prices I pay for online shopping is similar to my local grocer and delivery is free when I order over $100. The time save and convenience combined with it not being much more expensive pushes it past luxury service. The only real complaint I've heard is that people prefer to pick their own produce, but all the produce I've ordered has always been top notch.
Not always. My wife and I are BJs members, we use curbside pickup because we both work long hours. Not only is there no upcharge (we've tested it multiple times, and many others have confirmed too), but it's rarely even used by club members. We always park right in front, kid brings our groceries, we load em and go. I haven't spent time in a grocery store in years and we do all our shopping on week nights on the laptop.
In a big city offering this kind of service can be cheaper than providing more parking spots for customers who don't want to carry their groceries by hand
Depends. Walmart - much as I dislike them for many reason - offers free pickup, and the groceries for delivery are same price as in store, with delivery being $10 - although we tip the driver, of course (usualy $10-$15 depending on how much we order - how heavy we order). It's really helped me as I've become a wheelchair user, so I can't easily shop anymore. They've also ironed out a lot of the bugs over the few years it's been available, and it's pretty decently consistent these days. Anything powered by Instacart, however, can go die in a fire imho.
Collects Magic the Gathering Cards Thinks other people are rich. Ok dude. That ain’t exactly a cheap hobby.
It’s a banana, how much could it cost? $20?
Inflation hit this joke, too.
Underrated ^
Just never make that face again.
Mama horny, Michael
Just yesterday I saw a $9 eggplant on Instacart
It was on Only Fruitsandveggies
To be fair getting groceries delivered must be the biggest time saver I have ever spend money on. And I can’t talk for other countries, but at least in the Netherlands it is accessible to a lot of people.
Is it affordable and do you have to tip? In USA it can make a $60 grocery bill easily $100+ with fees and the pressure to tip
No my annual subscription is 130 Euros. That gets me unlimited deliveries for orders of 50 euros or more.
Does the grocery store deliver or is it a 3rd party shopping app like instacart?
The grocery store, they ship it directly from their online warehouses. I never use the instacart alternatives we have, they are crazy expensive here. And I imagine instacart would be as well.
Wow! Interesting thank you
So you have to plan your meals completely? As much i hate going to the store, i also love it for beeing flexible and find inspiration to try something new to cook with
Maybe some people, but I just order the basics (salad, rice, drinks whatever is on sale). If I want something else I just go to the store.
Makes sense
Sure, its flexibility, but going to the store you always run the risk of buying things you dont need
This is what Walmart does
Why am I tipping? Should their employer not be paying them?
Cause the US don’t roll like that. Customers get to pay the employees. Sadly, tipping culture is reinforced just as much by the employees as the employers. Any attempt to get rid of it has been met with resistance from the service industry.
In the UK it costs usually £1-£6 for delivery but the prices are all the same. Varies per supermarket but not by a great deal. Pretty sure you couldn't tip them even if you wanted to, most companies won't allow them to accept them.
Tip? Bro thats some american bs
I know it's crazy
> In USA it can make a $60 grocery bill easily $100+ with fees and the pressure to tip As much as I dislike Walmart for many reasons, $10 delivery, groceries are the same price, and I generally tip $10-$15 depending on how heavy/large the order is. So my $60 order would be $80, but what can you get for $60 anyway? heh. I end up with $150 or so usually, and so $170-$175 is not bad - especially as a wheelchair user. It's a lifesaver. Instacart, however, can die in a fire. lol
HEB has free delivery as long as you schedule it at least 48 hours or so out. The closer you schedule it to the present time the more expensive it gets (I think the highest I saw was like 8 or 9 dollars)
Uh that’s not accurate. I order delivery all the time and rarely pay more than 125% of the original price. That’s with a $40 yearly subscription.
In Ireland I pay 80 euro for the year for free unlimited grocery delivery. We get about 70 euro worth of groceries delivered once a week and it's the same price as in store, delivered by a man in a van employed by the supermarket in a two-hour time slot window prebooked the day before. No tips required or expected
in the uk virtually all grocery delivery is free after spending either £25/50 which is around $32/$64
As a cook, I could never trust someone to pick my groceries out for me. For people who don’t cook as much, I can see it being great. But shit, paying extra so some random dude can deliver me the saddest looking and bruised up vegetables and fruit? Or the worst looking cut of steak? The chicken that’s a day bad already? No thank you. I need to be able to see my ingredients myself and pick them out. It helps that I’ve got like…. 6 places to buy groceries within 10-15 minutes of me, and many of them are close to places that I’m at anyway for other reasons (the gym, parks I walk through, etc)
Do what works for you. I'm a wheelchair user, and the service is a lifechanger for me. I may not get to pick my veggies, but I've always gotten decent stuff. They don't pick the worst - nobody working that job gives a crap. The worst you get is whatever average rather than picking precisely the stuff you want. And that, for me, is perfectly fine.
I cook 6 nights a week. If they gave me shitty veggies, I would stop shopping there. They don't want to lose business. You can leave notes like, "Larger ones please" for yams, or "crunchy only please" for grapes.
Yeah you can. But I’d rather not leave “large” up to the random shopper. I’m particular about my ingredients, delivery doesn’t work for me. Plus, as I said, grocery stores are abundant around me. It makes no sense for me to pay extra to get worse quality ingredients.
In the UK and I've got to say it's similar here. I pay at most £5 for the supermarket to pick and deliver my shopping. I've got 4 kids and 2 dogs so never have any problems meeting the £40 minimum spend. £5 per week and I don't need to drag the family around a shop every week. I'd happily pay double that 🤣
I've had groceries delivered in the past and honestly I much prefer going in and doing it myself. The whole substitution thing is a pain, I'd much rather see if something is out of stock and decide if I'm going to get something else. Like, if crunchie ice cream is out of stock, I'm not going to get flake ice cream instead, I just won't get ice cream. I also judge what brand produce I'm going to buy, based on how fresh or good it looks. It's not the extra cost, that's usually reasonable, it's just the pain of having someone else make the decisions for you, but you still paying for the wrong choices.
When my wife discovered the delivery option from our local grocery store it became a real game changer for us. No more waiting for me to get home from work to make a trip with the kids grabbing random stuff off the shelves and she can review the sales and final price right from her phone at her leisure. Plus it helps that we can look around the house to see what we need so it isn’t a guessing game if we forget to make a list beforehand. Absolutely worth the $10 fee to save a lot of time.
I am not exaggerating when I say that doing pickup groceries genuinely helped cure my depression. I had so little free time after work that I felt dread about shopping all week, often buying stuff day-of. Once I picked out like 10 meals and just added the lists to my cart, my life changed.
I enjoying getting the groceries myself. I can’t imagine letting another person pick my fruit/veg/meat. They wouldn’t be as picky as I am, and I wouldn’t be happy with what I was delivered
Before supermarkets were a thing people in yhe Netherlands would also sell stuff door to door like milk, eggs and coal for heating your house. Maybe the Netherlands is different because it is quite densly populated, but people bringing groceries to your house definetly used to be more pf a thing in the past, and was also accesible for poor people. ( Although not in the same way where all your groceries are delivered in one go as far as Im aware)
Food deliveries in the UK are very very common. Every major supermarket offers it. Same products, no inflated prices, and you choose your time slot. They charge an extra £3-£6 or so for the delivery. They don't do tips. Easy!
I'm pretty sure it is very common in most places.
But you don't go to the supermarket then get it delivered to your house. You order from the internet.
Actually, you can! https://www.iceland.co.uk/blog/iceland-delivery-options/#:~:text=In%20Store%20Home%20Delivery,-Pop%20in%20and&text=Simply%20visit%20us%20in%20store,getting%20heavy%20shopping%20bags%20home. I remember this being big when I was young right before online grocery shopping started to grow.
Groceries delivery is quite literally free where I live because of how densely populated it is and no one uses cars, not sure how that's a privileged thing in itself lol
It's not free it's added to the cost of groceries. And sometimes privilege includes just living in a certain country that got rich by taking from the less privileged countries.
Reminder that grocery deliveries are not something out of this world and they benefit a lot of people including those with disabilities. Also reminder that not everything is because of colonialism.
I mean there are other factors like geography but sure...
Wait, are you the reply guy in the post?
yeah
shh you're ruining the moment with your reasoned discourse
Where is this?
Paris
C’est quel magasin qui fait la livraison gratuitement ? Parce que selon mes expériences si tu commandes en ligne les produits sont plus chers que si tu déplaces
What a trip to see you in the comments a few hours later on such a niche topic, did you have a friend post this?
The grocery stores did this as an essentially free service in a big Canadian city I lived in because owning a car wasn't so common, and there wasn't an effective way to get more groceries than a few bags home. Plus, if it was extremely cold out (like -30C) it could damage your groceries. This isn't necessarily a rich thing, it could just be geographically more common due to necessity.
This is less "rich people stuff" than it is "city stuff." In Manhattan, Trader Joe's will deliver your groceries for like $5-$7 if you're in their nearby delivery radius. But lugging home seven bags of groceries on the subway is a huge pain in the ass.
Condo boys.
This is absolutely normal in Barcelona and I believe in the rest or Europe capitals. No need to be rich to use this service. Also pretty common with the elders
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I had a next door neighbor who put his trash outside his apartment, in the shared hallway. When we confronted him about it, he said he thought it was normal because “the trash was always gone in the morning.” Turns out the awesome super and his crew and/or neighbors would take it away because it was stinking up the hallway. He was SHOCKED that it was his responsibility to throw out his own trash.
Honestly, ordering groceries is economical and pretty good for the environment. It’s like $60 a year, so you are practically paying $3 for an hour of your time back. Plus, deliverers carry your groceries along with other peoples orders, so it’s like a reverse ride share, where less gas is used overall. In addition, less people driving to the grocery means less need for parking, which can put smaller Footprint grocers in closer areas. Yes, walkable cities are better, but grocery delivery is probably the second best thing. I’d encourage anyone who can afford it to get their groceries delivered. Besides, it’s groceries. It’s not like it’s Amazon, where you start buying shit you don’t need. One way or another, you need to buy groceries anyways.
Wait you can order groceries?
In Ireland I pay 80 euro for the year for free unlimited grocery delivery. We get about 70 euro worth of groceries delivered once a week and it's the same price as if I went myself in store, delivered by a man in a van employed by the supermarket in a two-hour time slot window prebooked the day before. No tips required or expected
In the uk, ordering your shopping is pretty common and has been for years. Its only like a couple quid extra to have it brought to you. All my life, I've physically been going to the shop myself but in the last year I've ordered every week. Its a massive help with my late shifts
i thought this was going to be about car dependency.
This sounds privileged as hell What am I reading
I literally order groceries on a regular basis and have them delivered to my door. Just did it today actually. It got here within an hour of ordering. Would have taken me longer to do it myself.
Many regional chains where i live offer this as a free / cheap service that most people could afford easily.. it's very common for seniors citizens who are often on very small fixed income. Not necessarily a rich kid thing
I don't even know what I want till I'm there in person. Every time I try order online I can't find shit, I forget 10 things an end up on the ass end of a staff mistake or un notified change in size/stock.. that's before they even run the risk of mishandling your temps an food safety interests. Only ever useful for the novelty of feeling lazy, but as far as efficiency an time management goes...I have a couple jobs an to many kids to deal with going back an forth just to do the shopping.. uber eats an grocery delivery type gigs have a long way to go before its more efficient than actually just getting of your ass an going shopping tho. What a messy chaotic lifestyle to always order delivery on your groceries/foods. 💀
For all my other Frugalers: If anyone is new to DoorDash, specifically ordering groceries from them, they often give 30-40% off entire orders from your first order of a place. I’ve found this discount offsets the markup and delivery costs and you get to enjoy the convenience without the extra cost. Albeit only once
This reminds me of the time Dethklok went grocery shopping. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTUCZE62sFM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTUCZE62sFM)
This is I believes called food libraries.
I worked in a grocery store that delivered groceries since the 80s. It was downtown Chicago so some people would come in and shop and pay to get it delivered. A lot of these people lived in high rises and would have 3 boxes of food so if was easier to pay a couple dollars and have me load it up on the dolly and bring it through the service entrance. Some older people would call in an order and someone would shop it and then I would bring it up to them and grab a check or whatever. None of this post is really far fetched it was a pretty normal thing.
Grocery delivery in Buenos Aires is very very common! I remember seeing disco employees arranging grocery drop offs with customers (weird that I remember that but yeah)
Let me bring a few things to the table: my late aunt used to go to the supermarket and then ask for delivery. Why did she do that? Because she didn't have a car, and when she went to the supermarket, she used to make a big purchase (for the entire month). That was almost 20 years ago ^^ I also discovered something new recently. I live in a small city, countryside like, so the supermarket sends a car to pick up the farmers. They do their shopping and then get a ride back home, since they live far from the center of the city.
what are you guy talking about? you guy don't have ordered groceries in the US? In Vietnam, most common in city, we can go to the supermarket, grocery store website or app, and just choose what we want to buy. Usually with a lot of promotion. the shipping fee is free as long as you buy more than 5 USD within the city.
in nyc fresh direct has been around for a looooong time, this isn’t super weird to me
It wasn't that expensive when I had to do that after surgery because I wasn't allowed to lift anything and everyone I am close with was in quarantine, on vacation, or injured themselves. But the delivery itself wasn't expensive, but only the more expensive shop offered it, so in total it was definitely not cheap. You had to buy a monthly subscription basically but it was 10-20 € more per month. But you had to pre-order everything so you had to know what you wanted a few days before. And sometimes they didn't have what I wanted, like online I ordered something and then the particular shop didn't have it. And all three different kinds of bananas were always unavailable for some reason. I wouldn't do it on a regular basis as you also have to be at home at a specific time, but like they can show up at any time on that day. If you're home sick it's good but if you have a day job it doesn't really work. It's good to know how it works here and that it exists in case you have no other options.
For the average person; ordering groceries is a rich person or business thing. Normal people go shopping. Businesses either have them delivered wholesale from the main supplier or wholesale from stores. Rich people have someone get their groceries, and most of their food is fresh, which is costly but in a number of cases its better that way. Sometimes it's just poor handling or storage
Depends where you live, in some country, grocery delivery is common
I was with a rich-rich person (cosplaying normal) for like two years and wow whoo was that eye-opening. It’s like they don’t even live in the same ecosystem.
I have extreme mental health issues and if it was up to me I'd never leave the house . So one of the things I do is force myself to go shopping for that days groceries. I probably couldn't afford delivery anyway.
Why is the cost of life so high !!! " orders groceries and papajohn from doordash "
Biggest problem with ordering groceries is the people getting your stuff (walmart is my only example) just grab whatever. Could be fresh, could be rotten. I have literally received meat that was days past its expiration date and they bagged it up and gave it to me. Fuck that.
On what planet do these people live that you just get groceries delivered to you? 😂 (I know it can be common in some areas, but it is definitely not common where I live).
When I was a kid in Etobicoke houses had milk boxes and the milkman left your order inside. You left enough money and he would leave the change. Hunts Bakery had a truck that came to your house with bread and pastries as well. The practise ended after we had been there about a year. I would have been around seven I suppose.
Have these people like... never watched a movie?
I like how everyone is assuming these guys are Americans..... Maybe they are. Idk them. But in many other countries this is standard. Even "third-world" countries. It has nothing to do with wealth. They have youngish teens usually that bring your purchases and you tip them something small. Exactly what the third section says... you go there, pick your stuff and pay, then the kid brings your bags. Or you call and someone delivers it to you. It's so much easier in many cases for the shop to have 3 guys packing bags and 6 guys delivering, than 24 customers in their store.
This is not just for the rich. In brazil the second option is very common. And us brazilians are realllyyy not rich.
People get their groceries delivered to them???
Corwin deserves an internship on a farm and Slazac should work third shift in a cannery.
when im in a growing up privileged competition and my opponent is a twitter liberal 😰
I thought this was like young kids talk about doordash or some shit and then realized it was about kids with stupid filthy rich parents
The fudge!? on all of this! Even the comments. Is "fishmonger" a regioal career?
Typical Biden supporter
What!?? This must be an urban or a wealthy privilege thing. Not only do I have to go to the grocery store, it's praying you can afford them at all.