A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are getting groceries. Blue is looking at Green, as Green scratches his chin with his tail, deep in thought. A little further away, a purple fox looks at them, seeming amused. Blue: Was it spring rolls? I think you mentioned spring rolls. Green: ...Maybe? Purple: Heh. Blue and Green turn to look at the purple fox as he addresses them. Purple: Same thing every time, eh? Wife sends you to buy one thing, and you completely forget it! Purple raises his tail in embarrassed surprise as Green responds to him. Green: Actually, we're gay. Purple: Oh! Purple relaxes as Green continues with a joke. Green: And that's why we're both at the store, forgetting what we came here for! Purple: Oh, I see!
Not fighting the crowds and lines is enough to make pickup amazing, but it's really understated how much easier getting everything you need is when you're still at home and just adding stuff online.
With free pickup I haven't set foot in a grocery store since Covid. Saves like an hour of frustration a week.
Around here, that stuff tacks on a huge convenience fee for pick and pack, making it actively not worth doing. Last I looked, it was some $18 fee no matter how many items, and I’d still have to drive 20 min to pick it up, so might as well just.. do my own shopping. (For reference, I live alone in a semi-rural area, so each trip is like $100)
Now if I could get it delivered (same fee, but nobody has a service area that overlaps my address), that’d be a different story.
I hate to mention Walmart, but if you're dealing with 18$ in fees from elsewhere it might be a better option for you lol
Their stupid W+ subscription (yea another sub I know ) does waive the pickup fee for above 30$, as long as you grocery shop 2x/month it should work out to your favor though
Afaik, the closest walmart is way further than an actual grocery store, since we shut down their plans to pave a marshy woodland to set up a super center eyesore just across the highway (walking distance from my place; that would have been a nightmare). idk, I haven’t shopped there in over 20 years. Don’t really plan to start now for the sake of convenience, since that’s how we got that mess in the first place, but I appreciate the info all the same :)
Yeah, I'm in a city with free pickup and even free delivery most time while they're trying to get people to use it.
Costs the exact same as going in, just save a lot of time and hassle.