How To Make The Most Out Of Grocery Delivery

By Ines Flores


Lawrenceville, GA, is located right off Interstate 85 via Highway 316 about one hour's drive northeast of the state capital of Atlanta. With a population of more than 28,000 people as of the 2010 census, more than a quarter of whom are under the age of 18, that means there are a lot of people who, at some time or another, will benefit from being able to get grocery delivery. When someone in the family has a cold or flu, when there is a new baby, or when it's just not possible to get to the store, it is an absolute blessing to have this facility.

You don't even have to be sick or suffering some kind of hardship to use this wonderful service, available more and more to a larger number of people, thanks to the Internet. It saves time, can save you money, and it is even a greener option. When the store's delivery vans are visiting multiple homes in your neighborhood, it saves fuel and pollution for each household that doesn't have to get into the car and drive to the shopping center and back.

By keeping the things you regularly use on a favorites list, you can also save time shopping while saving money just by not exposing yourself to impulse shopping pressures. This probably saves you harmful calories, too. Without the tempting smells of cinnamon buns baked on the premises, you are less inclined to cave in and order every cake on the list of items in the bakery department.

You do have to be careful. Stores have crafty ways of getting you to buy more stuff than you intended. One trick is to group items together in multiple-buy offers. Buy one for two dollars, buy two for three dollars. The system will flag up a warning when you "fail to qualify" for one of these fabulous money-off purchases. Unless it is something you can really use and would buy regularly anyway, try to resist the temptation to click on that extra item to qualify for the reward, as if you have won something instead of just spending more money than you had originally planned.

Of course, if you can spend the extra money, have room to store the extra items, you can actually save money. Just make sure you keep track of how much you are saving rather than just absorbing it into your weekly shopping tally.

When you are booking your delivery slot, it is tempting to click on the first available time. If you do this, make sure you are going to be home and available for the delivery guy. It is very easy to click mindlessly on a particular one-hour slot, forgetting that you have a dentist appointment at the exact same time.

If you link your online shopping account to your store's loyalty card, you can get extra offers tailored to the things you regularly buy. This can earn you extra savings.

Buying your groceries online saves you time and money and saves the environment. You will wonder how we ever managed without it.




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