Online Food Shopping

Amazon announced on Friday that they're buying out Whole Foods for $13.7 billion and are planning on aggressively getting into the Grocery Industry. Stocks from Grocery competitors dropped dramatically after the announcement was made and even Walmart was affected by it as well. So they may have more options in the future as to the variety of foods you can buy and store pickups as well.

Walmart's Grocery pickups I think are only available at their Supercenters. I was interested in trying out they're Grocery pickup and it wasn't available at my local Walmart. It listed other Walmart's that we're over an hour away, so it may be available only at certain locations.

A lot of the Supermarkets are also getting into the Grocery pickups as well. ShopRite actually offers home delivery and the Supermarkets probably have a better selection of foods, such as seafoods or fish, which you can't get at Walmart. I do agree that Walmart is a lot cheaper than Amazon or the Supermarkets, but Amazon and Walmart have been battling out to see who can be the cheapest, and it makes you wonder how the Supermarkets are gonna be able to compete with them. Retail Stores definitely can't, and a lot of them are closing down as a result.

 

I saw that Amazons announcement to get into online grocery shopping caused share price of competitors to drop. Likely only temporary. I'm in Kelowna BC for the week where Cosco uses online shopping. It's hugely popular

 

i just ordered a dozen boxes of luzianne tea, since i'm too far north for anyone to have heard of it, let alone carry it.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Luzianne-Specially-Blended-Iced-Tea-8-oz/13908446

just be careful when it comes to pack count. they also sell these

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Luzianne-Tea-100-CT-Pack-6/176821656

which on the surface looks like it would be a better deal but it adds up to $14.62 more for the same amount. free 2 day shipping too. i'll let you know how it turns out.

i priced it at amazon and walmart came out on top by a lot and i don't have to pay for amazon prime.

 

tea arrived yesterday, 2 day shipping as promised.
target also has free store pickup but the last time i ordered, the web site had listed the wrong item sku with the picture of the item i wanted so it went back. when they send you the email saying p/u is ready all you have to do is go to the customer service desk.

 

I have thought about ordering online but I've got to figure out where they'll send it, that's not that easy of task.

 

have you investigated amazon lockers?

i just found the best price on neilsen massey vanilla at walmart

nothing beats the price and free 2 day shipping