I have a friend who has Chronic Fatigue Syndrome who rarely goes to the grocery store anymore. He uses a weekly local grocery delivering service and loves it! He is convinced that the prices pretty much even out, so I thought I’d give it a try. The first step was setting up an account online and seeing which days were available to get delivery to my house.

Then the shopping began! At first it was very frustrating. It took awhile (like, the whole order) to get used to the user interface. I kept ending up searching for noodles in the fruit department and things like that. About half way through my order I realized the shopping process would’ve been much easier using a traditional mouse than my laptop keyboard. The nice thing is, the next time I place an order I can choose items from my recently purchased list. This will makes shopping A LOT easier!

When the food arrived it was left at my doorstep (as it should’ve been). The grocery delivery service says your order will be quietly left, without disturbing you. I’m a light sleeper and was up as soon as the truck parked outside my home though. The food was delivered in thermally lined reusable grocery bags and tubs. The frozen items had little bags of dry ice inside to keep them cool. The coolest part of unpacking the groceries was finding out that I was given a free small, floral bouquet to thank us for our first order!

I ordered all types of items (frozen, pantry, refrigerated) and they all came in good shape. The vegetables and fruits were fresh, everything was kept at good temperatures, the eggs weren’t broken and the cans weren’t dented. The ONLY thing I was slightly unhappy with that the bananas were more bruised than I would buy. My overall experience was positive, especially since I had an offer for 1 month free delivery (there is usually a fee) from our friend who uses the service. By ordering weekly I’d easily spend enough to get free delivery normally anyway. It did take longer than I thought to place my order (probably half as long as actually going to the grocery store), but I’ll see if that shortens as I use it more. Either way, this service would GREATLY help during a flare-up or times where it hurt to bend, push a grocery cart or drive!

The service ended up sounding even better when I added up the costs of the items I ordered online and the cost of the exact same items from a local Kroger family grocery store. Turns out I saved $9.29 ordering online and that doesn’t even take into consideration the promotion code I had for 10% off my online order! Sounds like grocery delivery is the way for me to go! I’ll do another price check later on to make sure it is still a savings.

Have you ever used a grocery delivery service?

A sample of how our order looked