OT Shopping Online: How Many Deliveries a Week?

[wizenheimer]

How many times a week do you get package deliveries?

For us, Covid changed a lot of habits

we started shopping a lot more online and now, I'd say we get 2 or 3 deliveries a week. It's pretty tempting to go that route when you get free deliveries

we shop Amazon Prime a lot; Costco & Walgren's have free deliveries if you hit the $35 dollar mark. Home Depot and Walmart are the same IIRC. Lowe's too. Newegg has a large selection of tech with free delivery. We use them all.

Now, I know there's the component of making the big online store bigger and harming the local brick and mortar stores. That bothers me a little. At the same time, we live a little ways out in the country so, just a trip to the hardware store could be a 15-20 mile round trip. I was a construction contractor for 40 years; so I know, for a fact, that when you add up everything, there's a actual cost of approximately 35-40 cents a mile minimum for cars and trucks. So, if one of us goes to the hardware store for $30 in items, it really costs $35-$38. Free delivery looks pretty good compared to that, and I'm sorry, but the items almost always cost less online

 

[Chris Craig]

We have shopped online alot more since covid. I would say also 2-3 packages a week on average.

 

[crandc]

Groceries pretty much weekly and a lot of other stuff, starting to emerge but admit I got spoiled not having to schlep to store!

 

[wizenheimer]

Groceries pretty much weekly and a lot of other stuff, starting to emerge but admit I got spoiled not having to schlep to store!

where do you get your groceries from? Is it much more expensive?

 

[calvin natt]

I cant remember the last day we didnt get a delivery. Not exaggerating. I say we get between 10-15 deliveries a week. Target, Amazon, Walmart lead the way, with one-offs sprinkled in.

 

[Orion Bailey]

1-2.

ramped up alot last year but trying to widdle it back down for several reasons.

first i dont like supporting amazon and would prefer my money go to local companies.

But really the biggest reason is to avoid having social skills continue to deteriorate.
As we all sit behind a screen with increasingly decreased human interaction, it is a serious dilemma in my opinion.
The more we are stuck to social media and online shopping the less people get out and sharpen thier social skills.

There are some people who desperately need to get out and rekindle thier social behaviors. And those numbers are increasing as needs are increasingly met without leaving the home.

 

[crandc]

where do you get your groceries from? Is it much more expensive?

I have Amazon prime so Whole Foods. My regular shopping site is Berkeley Bowl. They have better prices but long drive there and back. I tried Instacart but they made so many mistakes.

 

[HailBlazers]

I cant remember the last day we didnt get a delivery. Not exaggerating. I say we get between 10-15 deliveries a week. Target, Amazon, Walmart lead the way, with one-offs sprinkled in.

Damn. No wonder corporate profits have soared.

 

[riverman]

Online groceries once every 3 weeks.....before covid we actually only shopped once every 6 weeks so we shopped less with the lockdown....I've actually shopped in a grocery store two days in a row recently for the first time in a couple years ...I don't do the Costco bulk shopping like our son does. When my freezers are full, they're full and now it's just the two of us here we don't go through groceries as much.If my son still lived at home I'd have to stock up every week. I have eggs, veggies, fruit and mushrooms for free...other than chicken feed and scratch. We get 3 eggs a day pretty much...one is a sliky egg and they're small eggs

 

[Lanny]

How many times a week do you get package deliveries?

For us, Covid changed a lot of habits

we started shopping a lot more online and now, I'd say we get 2 or 3 deliveries a week. It's pretty tempting to go that route when you get free deliveries

we shop Amazon Prime a lot; Costco & Walgren's have free deliveries if you hit the $35 dollar mark. Home Depot and Walmart are the same IIRC. Lowe's too. Newegg has a large selection of tech with free delivery. We use them all.

Now, I know there's the component of making the big online store bigger and harming the local brick and mortar stores. That bothers me a little. At the same time, we live a little ways out in the country so, just a trip to the hardware store could be a 15-20 mile round trip. I was a construction contractor for 40 years; so I know, for a fact, that when you add up everything, there's a actual cost of approximately 35-40 cents a mile minimum for cars and trucks. So, if one of us goes to the hardware store for $30 in items, it really costs $35-$38. Free delivery looks pretty good compared to that, and I'm sorry, but the items almost always cost less online

I get all my VA medications, and it's a shit load since I have about 3 dozen prescriptions, from UPS so I get quite a few deliveries every month even though I try to get as many deliveries at the same time as possible. This makes it easier on the VA and helps me simplify my reordering. There's always something here and there that I get from Fed Ex, usually from the Blazers.