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After this last weekend, shopping with all the sheeple, chasing two toddlers around the grocery store, waiting in candy-filled checkout lines for 15 minutes... I'm ready to try it, I think.
A few of my colleagues here speak very highly of the service here in Boston (partnered with Stop and Shop). For a delivery charge of $7, I'm willing to give it a shot, considering the time and energy it might save.
On one hand, it seems like just another lazy-american-gets-lazier example, but it does remind me of how my grandmother used to have a delivery guy bring groceries - and that was 35 years ago on Kimball Avenue in Chicago. It is just that the user interface was a rotary phone, and the method of payment was cash...
Anyone have any experiences with them? ( http://www.peapod.com)
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Here's what works for grocery shopping.:
Get up early, I mean early, 0600.
Leave the house at 0645.
Get to store at 0700,
Shop, I can guarantee you that there will be no "Sheeple" up at that time.
I can do a whole weeks shopping, and checkout in under 45 minutes.
Back home at 0800.
During the holidays I start an hour earlier and get the freshest stuff.
BGnR
If you are seeing "Sheeple", you are part of the herd.
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BGnR :
could you get 2 toddlers up & ready at 0600 & be in store by 7?
maybe you missed that part.
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[quote incognegro]BGnR :
could you get 2 toddlers up & ready at 0600 & be in store by 7?
maybe you missed that part.
Nope didn't miss it, how about three toddlers?
I used to take care of my brother and sisters, my Mother worked tiill 0300.
I had the saturday shopping chores.
3, 5, and 7 years old, I was 16.
What did you do with your teenage years?
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I see no problem with having groceries delivered. Not going to the grocery store hardly qualifies as some sort of character defect. Having groceries delivered used to be no big deal, why should it be now? Seems like it creates more jobs for people. If it makes life easier and more enjoyable for you, then that is a good thing.
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Grocery delivery, ages ago, used to be very common. So did having someone bag the groceries. So did having someone walk them to your car. So did having an attendant pump the gas for you.
It's not lazy, it's service. It's all stuff that stores did for you as a service so you'd frequent them and not their competitor. Until of course they realized they could charge extra for something they used to do for free.
So don't sweat it; it helps. Like dry cleaning delivery, it's one less thing to worry about. Back home, a couple of banks were even doing deposit pickups for businesses in order to win their accounts.
One less thing to do is a good thing.
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I don't blame you for wanting to avoid the grocery store. I am single and I live alone and it is enough of a chore to get me there!
That said, I don't usually buy enough at one time to justify Peapod but if I were shopping for a family, you bet I'd do it!
IMHO, the hour you would have spent battling your kids in the store can be better spent at the park, goofing around in the backyard, visiting friends and family, playing a game together at home, etc.
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[quote dmann]
IMHO, the hour you would have spent battling your kids in the store can be better spent at the park, goofing around in the backyard, visiting friends and family, playing a game together at home, etc.
DM
Taking a nap, or other pleasures that the bed brings too...
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Do you have a Safeway that offers delivery? My neighbor has been using it for about a year, since she was diagnosed with cancer and didn't have the energy to get out much. I haven't tried it yet, but she's been encouraging me. The first order is free, and, says Ms. Neighbor, after that you get many more offers from Safeway for free shipping. If you have one around, you might give it a try.
I'm kind of like BGnR, in that I like to shop early. The problem I face where I live is that many fresh food items are not yet stocked for the day, especially meat. I know why, but there's nothing I can do about it besides drive 12 or 15 miles to a bigger store, so I find myself shopping later in the day, too. I've been forced into becoming one of the dreaded sheeple. 
Hey, this new Firefox is kind of cool. It has spellcheck built in. I'm not sure I like it, so I guess I'll have to rummage through the preferences to see if there's a way to turn it off.
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[quote BigGuynRusty][quote incognegro]BGnR :
could you get 2 toddlers up & ready at 0600 & be in store by 7?
maybe you missed that part.
Nope didn't miss it, how about three toddlers?
I used to take care of my brother and sisters, my Mother worked til 0300.
I had the saturday shopping chores.
3, 5, and 7 years old, I was 16.
What did you do with your teenage years?
BGnR
i didn't do that.
glad it was you & not me. 
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