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Since I have to go to the super market for fresh food, adding 30 seconds to get paper towels doesn't make much of a difference.



This, I guess, outlines a domino effect. I don't go to the supermarket for fresh food. It gets delivered to me by the supermarket, and if I can't be bothered to pick for myself, they'll deliver a selection based on my usual shopping pattern, and I know roughly what they'll deliver by default so e.g last week I didn't even open the app to check what they'd added to my order.

I couldn't imagine having to go to the shops every week.


I don't really get how this can work. Like I wanted to try those udon noodles that are next to the ones I normally buy this week. How do I tell that to Amazon? Or I didn't really like the kimchi last time so I wanted to try something new but instead of cabbage kimchi I bought radish kimchi because it was next on the shelf. But I wouldn't have known to search for that. Or the big avocados look better than the small ones. I'll get two of those instead of 3 of the large ones.

Do you still have this kind of product discovery with Amazon?


"Customers also bought..."

"You might also like..."

"Customers who did not buy this bought .... instead"


>I couldn't imagine having to go to the shops every week.

Why? Is it really so arduous to go out in public? To view a selection of products? To select your own produce? I am completely unable to comprehend how running errands is such an exhausting activity. Even when I was my most depressed, the times I would even turn down activities with friends, I still made it to the various stores I needed to live my life.


Costco is a wholesale market, not a supermarket. Not really a fresh food destination.


Went shopping there yesterday. Got salad mixes, tomatoes, potatoes, apples, carrots, cherries, broccoli, oranges, Brussels sprouts, etc.

Some stuff I buy elsewhere because the quantities are too large even for 2 adults and 3 teenagers.


We clearly have different definitions of "fresh food" if you are including pre-processed bag mixes and boxed vegetables sprayed with preservatives.




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