You May Never Go Grocery Shopping Ever Again

With the exception of holidays or just prior to when the Green Bay Packers play, I rather enjoy grocery shopping, or at least its tolerable.

Anyways, I like picking out my bananas, apples, avocados and the like... As well as coming across something I realized I needed. And no, I try not to go grocery shopping when hungry.

btw, I shop at Festival Foods, another region grocery chain.

A couple of decades ago, when I lived in Chicago, a startup created by Northwestern students set up a service called (as I recall) PeaPod. This was in the days when most people were using MS-DOS, not lovely GUIs. They were teaming up with Jewel, the big regional chain, as I recall. No idea what happened to them. So the idea isn't new, the method is.

I remember that,... PeaPod.com it was just beginning to ride the dot com tidal wave.... right before the dotcom bubble burst.

Hateful grocery shopper here. Can't explain it any better.

I already use my Amazon Echo and Dot to build and maintain my shopping lists and my smartphone or tablet to view it in the grocery store or elsewhere. It wouldn't take a big leap for me to use their delivery service if it was offered in my area.

However, I prefer to select my own fruit, veggies, meat and fish so I would probably still go for those. But at least my load would be considerably lighter.

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I don't see anybody buying perishable food items on line, unless they had the actual items scanned into the computer and you could view the stuff 3D 360° and pick out the actual items you wanted....but frozen goods and canned and others it seems doable....I had experience using a shopping service once and as I recall the problem was not getting the correct items, there are so many choices now that sometimes I pick up the wrong, but similar item, by mistake being right there....It's almost like they make them look alike to sell the less desirable type....It really pisses me off to get home and discover that I've been tricked into buying something I didn't want....

What is old is new again. When I was a child, ALL the grocery stores would deliver to your house. I lived next to a grocery store and that owner spent everyday making multiple trips with boxes of groceries stuffed in the back of his '59 Chevy wagon. Only difference was it was not eshopping - it was phone shopping. No previews of the merchandise - you trusted your grocer would not bring you crap.

Like Phys, when I was a child in suburban RI, most of our groceries came from vending trucks. There was the milk man, and bakery man, and a butcher truck for meat, and a vegetable truck with fresh produce that came by every few days. The grocery store in town was for dry goods which my mother shopped at maybe once a month.

Fast forward, now I love grocery shopping. I am the cook in the house. For many years I loved my weekly trip to the supermarket, and bringing home the bags of food for my next weeks meals which I had planned in advance.

But now I am totally spoiled, I live directly across the street from our local "mega" supermarket and I treat it like my personal pantry. What do I want for supper tonight? I walk across the street an buy it.

When I went to college, in a city of 65,000 at the time, I was talking to some friends of mine about going to a place, (that's across town) about 10 minutes to get there. Their response was "Oh, that's way over on the other side of town, no we don't want to go over there."

i thought that was hilarious, coming from a farm where town was 20 miles away.

Having lived here for 25 years, a few years ago, I caught myself saying.... "Oh, that's way over on the other side of town, no we don't want to go over there."

Unfortunately I have a 13 mile trek to the local supermarket, either going north or south. We're stuck right in the middle between 2 major towns. I greatly dislike this weekly chore. I would welcome the return of the delivery to the house.

We missed mentioning the doctor. I remember many an early AM visits by Doc Sausser. You didn't call and wait 3 days to see him - he grabbed that black leather doctor's bag and came to you when you called him. Now can you imagine that ever happening again? That ended about the early 70's back home, when the local doctors all reached retirement age about the same time, and the new batch came in to replace them.

it funny that was mentioned earlier about home Deliveries.

We lived on a farm, milked cows, We even had an Ice Cream truck stop in, we normally would get a 2 gallon tub (from the eyes of a 8 year old it looked like a 2 gallon) of vanilla and a smaller box of chocolate ice cream, maybe as a treat mom would get ice cream bars.

Our only compliant was, he'd sometimes come at 5:00 AM - 7:00 AM, and we had to stop what were doing and pick up this ice cream so we could put it in the freezer right away.

Not to mentioned we'd have fisherman stopping in occasionally (this would be in the afternoon), selling their product. We loved smoked chubbs. thinking about it, we were pretty fortunate.

I did have a salesman stop in last year, where I bought a $1,000 worth of meat, steak, and sea food. for a price of $500.00. only because I kept saying no, I didn't have no room in my freezer, he kept dropping his price until room was available in my freezer for the price.

I was one of the last stops and he wanted to call it a day and couldn't until his unloaded his product.

It was from a reputable firm that I recognized. And most were delicious, there was a steak where I didn't care about because I didn't like the marinate it had and was slightly tough. And the Tuna I didn't care for at all. My girlfriend loved the crab cakes.

If I had the room in my freezer, I would have loved to get the porterhouse and Prime Rib steaks. but, I guess I found his bottom dollar was higher than I was willing to pay.

This blog reminded me of when I was young and I would hear of the old days when the milkman, baker, butcher and grocer would all deliver. I guess what goes around comes around.

Arrgggg - you are making me feel like an antique - I didn't hear of those days - I lived in those days.

P.S. Frozen milk in the milk box on the front porch on cold winter days - a treat for kids without sugar in it.

Sounds like a plot to start controlling the diets of unsuspecting people....Calorie taxes...You won't get what you want, you'll get what's good for you...haha...wait I didn't order broccoli, sorry you must have greens with this order to meet your fiber quota...