Did you know that you can go to HEB website, pick out your groceries, pay for them, and for a small fee, someone will deliver these groceries to your door?
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THEY BROUGHT MY GROCERIES TO ME.
I didn’t have to go out, I didn’t have to wrestle with the awful San Marcos HEB parking lot, I didn’t have to fight the car traffic driving up to the store or the human traffic inside the store, and I bought exactly what I wanted without any impulse purchases such as odd-colored cheese nobody will ever eat.
I saw Asian Pears on the website and I thought, “Ooh, I would love an Asian Pear,” and I bought them and now I am eating an Asian Pear someone brought to my doorstep last night. Delivery tastes delicious.
I bought local Texas honey for Gordon – he is still sick – and mushrooms, and pork ribeye so I can make him Russian otbivnie. (Okay, so technically it’s schnitzel, but we call it by the Russian name.)
I am a domestic goddess.
I don’t know what sorcery is this, but I am so down with it.
LOVE this service (and HEB). Awesome to curb impulse shopping. Also saves me from the idiots that park in the middle of an isle so no one can get through, while they talk on their phones or to their friend they run into.
Good Flow is my favorite Texas honey. I know the family and they are awesome folks! I’m glad you guys are getting well.
You forgot the best part, you can shop in your PJs.
I KNOW right??? ????❤
When my co-opt started delivering groceries in the Stockholm areaa few years ago I could hardly believe it! I have hardly gone to a store for more than a forgotten carton of milk since they started three years ago!
And you know what they are rolling out now! WEEKEND DELIVERIES!!!!!
I’m a pretty good planner, but delieveries EVERY DAY is just, what is this, the future??? ?
Oooo, and do you guys in other countries have “dinner bags”? I don’t know how to translate it, but almost ALL big chains have them now in Sweden. It’s a bag of all the groceries and ingredients you need to make all the dinners that week for 4 people, and the recipies. It started as a subscription for ecological dinners, by a chef, but everyone copies it, and now you have for 2 people, for vegetarians, still ecological ones, low cost ones enabling you to feed four people a balanced and tasty diet kids will like but that’s healthy and really cheap, you name them and you can get them these days. I think it’s a really great idea, that someone with usefull skills, usually a chef or a dietrist or someone who knows about food, thinks up a menue for the week that is probably more nutritious than your ordinary recepies, the store assemblies everything you need, and it’s all delivered to your door!
Speaking of, I should do my weekend shop on my tablet right now, be done with it… (and get to choose the best delivery time, yay?)
We have multiple subscription boxes that are recipes and ingredients for dinners but the grocery chains haven’t bought in to it yet. I think that one chain may be trying this out.
Comparing U.S. and U.K. grocery shopping – the two things that I think the U.S. needs to pick up on are more smaller portion sales and refrigerated pre made meals vs frozen. Delivery is obviously picking up and competition should start driving down the pricing.
Just my opinion.
I love these options! I just can’t get many cuz I live in Wyoming. But can order Hello Fresh and stuff. Can only get deliveries from the local Albertson’s. Too bad produce is so bad out here cuz everything is shipped in.
Such is life when you choose to live in the lowest population state. So many things here are awesome to over come the deficiencies. ?
I think the beauty of the area must make up for not having 2 hr delivery on ur groceries… I know which one id pick! Ur so lucky!
I have Peapod and it is a LIFE SAVER. I make the grocery list, choose a two hour window, and a nice man brings the groceries. No wandering the aisles or wrangling things in and out of the car. It’s 2-3 hours of my life back. Usually I use the window I set as cleaning time so I’m not interrupted from writing or something like that. So it gets the house cleaner as well.
THE BEST.
Oh, I wish I had grocery store delivery where I live. I barely get pizza delivery. I am a wee bit envious, but I am happy for you.
I live in Western Michigan and almost all of our chain stores have adopted home delivery and/or online order and curbside pickup. What a wonderful convenience!
I think most supermarkets have delivery now, don’t they?
Not where I live. 🙁
Is this a new thing in the US? We’ve had home delivery groceries in my part of Australia for over ten years. It is great. It used to be a bit more expensive but now it is the same price as shopping in-store. I wish Costco would do it too like they do in the US.
More recent here is click and collect which works well for our family. I have a disability, so I’ll shop online in the morning and my husband will collect it on the way home from work in the evening. It means he can pop in a get a few extras while they are bringing out the order.
I’m all for technology improving our quality of life. I’m glad you could get what you needed without leaving the house.
Ilona, I’m glad you’re feeling better. Hope Gordon feels better soon. Take care.
I use Shipt. They are like Lyft and Uber for grocery shopping. They will cover a bunch of nearby stores for delivery depending on your zip code. Mine covers H-E-B, Kroger’s and Target ?. It is exceedingly mind bogglingly convenient!!! Of course there is a membership fee and a minimum order to qualify for free delivery, but the cost-benefits ratio is favorable ??
Don’t u live in Houston? Houston also has PrimeNow from Amazon. That means they’ll deliver things to your door within 2 HOURS of you ordering it. And Amazon also has a grocery. There is basically no reason to leave your house anymore. Enjoy!
I haven’t done the HEB delivery, but I do order my groceries online. I go through and pick out what I want (usually looking at my past purchase history since I tend to order the same things), then schedule my pick up day & time … and voila! I sit in my van, they bring it out and load it for me, I sign and then I drive off. It’s wonderful!
I live in Connecticut. We have had local grocery store deliveries for a few years. Last year when I had rotator cuff surgery I ordered my groceries online. When the young man arrived with my things, he took one look at the sling and offered not only to bring my groceries into the kitchen for me, he also offered to put the cold items into the fridge. He said that he had had shoulder surgery and knew how hard it was to do things one handed. I called the store to express my surprise and delight. What a great young man, and experience. That act of kindness was worth far more than the pittance the delivery cost me. 🙂
I’m glad that you have discovered a way to make your home life easier.
Wish I lived close enough to a large-ish town for grocery delivery……it sounds positively blissful.
in the UK nearly every supermarket will home deliver or you can get them to prepare and bag it and you swing by on your way home from work and they put it in the boot for you, i am really suprised this is a new thing in the US as its been a thing for many years here.
Wow! This is something I had not ever considered before! Very cool!
My local grocery store also delivers and it is free if you spend $100 and a nominal fee if under. What I really love is that they deliver out in the country… pizza places, other restaurants won’t deliver to me, but the grocery store will. Unfortunately, they can’t deliver alcohol so I still have to go into town once and a while for that. Oh, and their substitutions can be interesting, but you since I have used them for quite sometime and they know me, they usually just call me regarding any subs.