coastal Carol wrote:
LisaTX wrote:
I have heard about them, but could never see myself doing it. I never understood the point. There is a local service that I AM interested in, though: curbside service. Walmart does it and the grocery store chain that we shop at is starting to do it, too. You order your groceries only, THEY do the shopping for you, you pull up and they load it into your car, FOR FREE! Well, at Walmart it's free, the other store charges $5, but I would gladly pay it! If they would just hop into my car and come home with me and cook it, too!
As a busy mom of 4, I could really use that service. Unfortunately, the grocery store in our town hasn't started it yet, it's just the ones in bigger cities, but I'm sitting here waiting for it, lol.
Lisa, I do this online grocery shopping and it is AWESOME! Our WM doesn't do it yet but several grocery stores do for a small fee, $4.95 here. I heard Publix does it free but you still have to go in and check out, no curb service, but one is not convenient to me. The grocery I use charges a small fee but I usually shop once a month, sometimes twice if they have free shopper deals. Dh does make occasional stops at WM for bread, milk, some produce in between trips but I greatly prefer my grocery to WM for produce. They regularly offer free personal shopper deals, and regularly send out $10 off $50 order coupons. It is so worth it to me. I detest shopping lol. It's nice to stay on budget too because you see exactly what your total is as you add items to your cart and you are not picking up extra items while in the store because you never go in! You can see the weekly sale flyer and other items not shown in the flyer have sale prices in red so you can tell easily what's on sale this week. They accept coupons and all that. I have no complaints about any of the meats or produce they have ever picked for me. If they are out of a sale item, they will call you and offer to sub a brand of equal or greater value but at the sale price and ask if you need to add anything to your order that you forgot. They have always upgraded to a better brand than the one I was asking for. I'm very frugal lol. I rave about this to everyone but most people just look at me like I have 3 heads lol. I've been doing this maybe 5 years and it is awesome! The stores here offer the personal shopper service free the first time you try it, so check out your stores and you may get to try it for free
So, this is through your grocery store? We only have two grocery stores nearby, Walmart and HEB. The Walmart here already does the curbside service, but not the HEB. I don't think they have any kind of personal shopper service, but I will check. We're loyal to HEB, so I don't shop at Walmart for groceries, unless it's something I can't get at HEB. Not even for the personal shopping and curbside service, lol. I did contact HEB awhile back and said I'm waiting for curbside service to come here, and they told me they're starting with the major cities, so who knows when it will get here.
I don't necessarily hate shopping. There's just many other things I could be doing with that time. The things I don't like, are having to go back for missed items, trying to add things up as I go along and getting distracted, fussy children who refused their naps, dealing with people, having to load everything onto the belt, the awkwardness while you just stand there as they ring everything up, bag it and load it back into your cart, while you don't know where to look because you don't want to just stare at the checker, but you don't want to look behind you and see how many people are impatiently waiting for you, and you're worrying that you're off by about $100 on your price estimation, and you worry that maybe you really only have $0 in your bank account and your card will be declined, and then the people behind you will really hate you. And then the checker starts talking to you while you're trying to pay and you have to decide if you want to pay or listen to them, because you can't do both at the same time, can't they see that? Yeah, I wouldn't miss any of those things.