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Grocery Shopping Online
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Folks are so hard to buy for. So I ordered my Mom 750 mile away some food and having it delivered tomorrow. She is giving up driving and this will work out nice.
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Did you order her some stuff you knew she would not like?
Kind of a payback, for when you ate at her table and she said you could not leave the table until you cleaned up your plate.
Mom still cooks and eats well. Just staple stuff and a trial run to see how the delivery goes. She has no internet hookup and she can call me up later on orders tell me what she wants and next day delivery. I only left the table when liver and onions was cooked. I had a jar of peanut butter/ other goodies hid away so I could eat something.
The small town I grew up in had neighborhood grocery stores. Folks could call and have their goods delivered and run a tab. Things cave come full circle, except the big stores ran the little stores out of business.
One night for supper Mom fixed cauliflower. I can't stand it and refused to eat it. I was told to sit there at the table until I ate it. By 10:00 she came to the kitchen and told me to go to bed. I WON, She never challenged my stubbornness again.
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I was doing some online grocery shopping at Walmart back in April. Placed the order and then just went and picked it up. Was working well until they stopped letting me buy my beer that way! I had to go inside to buy beer.
I have been just going shopping the old fashioned way ever since. Not at Walmart though!
Hopefully you aren't using InstaCart at Wegman's; my only experience with them was bad.
The folks who deliver food appreciate a tip, but that's usually not a requirement.
Neal
Have not tried food delivery, usually they do not have what we want, or we are too far out for them to deliver here.
We do have liquor delivery though. We tip the driver, saving us a trip to town, and the shopping experience.
Which USED to be fun, but not so much anymore. I do not have to wear a mask at home. Contactless delivery.
Hope your mom gets a good picker.
We had home delivery of milk & dairy products. There was a bakery truck that came by & a horse drawn produce wagon. Don't know where he came from as that was the only horse I saw for miles around. The driver wore some kind of religious garb. My mom got on the bus & rode downtown to do most of her grocery shopping at a huge arcade. I still remember the hot fresh 5 cent soft pretzels. The microwaved frozen ones don't come anywhere close.
The liver and onions reminds me of a funny story growing up.
I was at a friends house around dinner time and his mother asked if I wanted to stay for dinner. Of course in those days you never asked what was for dinner. I said yes I would stay for dinner.
You guessed it, the mother made liver and onions. Now I had to eat liver and onions because there was no way I could say I would not after agreeing to stay for dinner.
I swear I ate a whole loaf of white bread trying to get the serving of liver and onions I had down. Never ate liver and oinions again.
I had called her last night to tell her something was being delivered...Just got off phone today about it... The Delivery: Car shows up at 9.30 this morning and rings the doorbell. Mom answers, delivery guy has two bags in hand... Mom says .. I didn't order any groceries... Delivery guy... This is the address to deliver... Mom.. You have the wrong address... Delivery guy... No this is the address... Mom... Well you better show me or get the heck... (nice wording) out of here. Delivery guy... goes to car and gets paperwork... Mom says who sent the groceries?? Delivery guy... all it says is Gary... Mom... Well he called yesterday and said I had a delivery but didn't say it was groceries... Delivery guy... Laughing... helps deliver all the others just inside the door...
Daughter uses it I asked what if you get bad produce she said by appearances they must be very selective because she has never gotten any bad produce. Hmmm I can see if you were having health issues otherwise I kind of like picking up groceries
Mom is going to be 93 soon, and giving up her car . They way she told the delivery story was hilarious. Good thing she didn't have the .38 in hand... or did she? I never ask.
I asked the girl that brought mine out about produce, and she said she picks it out like it was for herself. Good way and deserves the tip.
Liver and onions ROCKS
I work at a large grocer that does curbside and delivery..........it has become a real money stream at my store. Seems like the new thing. The personal shoppers keep me from having my wall looking good.
Used to be if you wanted to eat - you grabbed a gun and went out and shot your dinner.
I did that. They told me I scared the hell out of 6 women, and not to bring the shotgun into Kroger any more.