Americans, it turns out, would rather visit a store than buy food online
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Re: Americans, it turns out, would rather visit a store than buy food online
#2It's not that I want to visit the store it's that I can't trust the store people to properly pick out fresh produce or good meat.
When the stock person just takes a bucket of apples and dumps them in without care so most of them are bruised, why would I want that same person selecting which apples to send me? Often times to find 3 apples I have to examine 10+. Most of the produce selection is this way.
Meat selection is not much different. Selecting chicken without careful examination you'll get broken legs or wings.
Now you have to consider the automatic substitution of equivalent items when something is out of stock. My dibetic friend was telling yesterday that they substituted regular mt dew for his order of mt dew zero sugar.
Until the store starts employing people who care about product selection as much as I do, then I'll continue to make time to go to the store and pick it myself.
Re: Americans, it turns out, would rather visit a store than buy food online
#3I like going to the grocery store.
Re: Americans, it turns out, would rather visit a store than buy food online
#4Once Amazon sucks all the margins out of grocery, what are people to do when 3rd world countries are drop shipping food to American Customers in 10 years? How do you return food to a paper shell company based in Montana?
yea no thanks. My trust in these companies is diminishing.
Re: Americans, it turns out, would rather visit a store than buy food online
#5I know it's pandemic-anathema, irresponsible, whatever... but I find myself going to the grocery store more often than I did before the lockdown, just because I'm so bored (mostly subconscious at the time I do it, but clear in retrospect).
If going out to the grocery store is my only non-family human contact during the day, I find myself finding pettier and pettier reasons to go out and buy things. "Oh, I guess I'm running low on milk. Oh, I'm running low on cheese. Hm, maybe I'll just get a sandwich..."
Re: Americans, it turns out, would rather visit a store than buy food online
#6For the same reason I don't like ordering from Uber eats, I just can't justify pissing away all that money on something I can go do in the same amount of time.
Online grocery shopping works great if you have a lot of disposable income, but I just can't justify my grocery bill going up so much to cover the tech salaries at Amazon and Instacart for a delivery service.
Re: Americans, it turns out, would rather visit a store than buy food online
#7Uh tried to order stuff from a "service". Nothing was ever able to be scheduled two months ago. Would rather kinda goes out the window if you can't even get delivery service.
Re: Americans, it turns out, would rather visit a store than buy food online
#8It's not that I want to visit the store it's that I can't trust the store people to properly pick out fresh produce or good meat. When the stock person just takes a bucket of apples and dumps them in without care so most of them are bruised, why would I want that same person selecting which apples to send me? Often times to find 3 apples I have to examine 10+. Most of the produce selection is this way. Meat selection…
All those things, plus:
1) concern that prices online are higher so the delivery option's more expensive than it looks (food delivery services do this),
2) concern that some or all sale prices won't be used online—a lot of my shopping past my immediate needs consists of checking the canned and frozen sections for any actually good sales.
Re: Americans, it turns out, would rather visit a store than buy food online
#9It's not that I want to visit the store it's that I can't trust the store people to properly pick out fresh produce or good meat. When the stock person just takes a bucket of apples and dumps them in without care so most of them are bruised, why would I want that same person selecting which apples to send me? Often times to find 3 apples I have to examine 10+. Most of the produce selection is this way. Meat selection…
> Now you have to consider the automatic substitution of equivalent items when something is out of stock. My dibetic friend was telling yesterday that they substituted regular mt dew for his order of mt dew zero sugar.
Typically you have the option to indicate that you do not want any substitutions.
Re: Americans, it turns out, would rather visit a store than buy food online
#10It's not that I want to visit the store it's that I can't trust the store people to properly pick out fresh produce or good meat. When the stock person just takes a bucket of apples and dumps them in without care so most of them are bruised, why would I want that same person selecting which apples to send me? Often times to find 3 apples I have to examine 10+. Most of the produce selection is this way. Meat selection…
i think you're right. It's certainly my opinion that I don't want a USA store clerk picking my produce. On the other hand here in Japan most produce is much more cared for, probably to the detriment of the environment but still, far less bruised or bad produce.
And yet, AFAIK, it's the same in Japan. People don't seem to want to order their groceries.
Which makes me wonder if there aren't other reasons. One is that there's no good way to deliver. You have to be home to receive. They can't put your milk, butter, yogurt, ice cream some locker.
You have to be home to receive, at least for people the commute to work, means it pretty much has to come between 6pm and 10pm. How many grocery delivery services can handle that?
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On the other hand, my mom says she's driving to the grocery store and everyone is doing pickup. The groceries are already chosen and packed up, you just drive up your car and the load the bag. So if that's true then people are willing to let others choose the produce.