the Price of Ordering Groceries Online for Home Delivery

The price is the cost of a months' supply of premium wet cat food in a variety of flavors and includes delivery to my home. The delivery service is a subscription-type deal with planned regular deliveries over the course of a year and is billed at every delivery.

The company will also deliver pretty much any dry or canned commercial food product (human or animal), as well as cleaning supplies and household paper products (toilet tissue and paper towels for example). Price depends on the type and quantity of goods, but the longer the "subscription" and the larger each shipment (more stuff bought), the cheaper the goods are. A single shipment of a single item is the most costly way to get stuff.

The service is alright. It delivers (always on time) the cat's favorite food, which gets mixed with a bunch of different dry foods for variety. If the cat stops liking the food, it's likely we'll stop liking the service since cat food delivery is all we use it for.

Our 1 year subscription (paid monthly since delivery is monthly) to the cat food is, overall, less costly than buying the stuff in the store (about 5% cheaper, not including time and gas saved by not buying cat food from the store). We're a couple months in and the cat hasn't turned from the food yet, so we're still happy with the service.

We might be tempted to get toilet tissue or something through them, but with the local warehouse store being about half the price of the delivery service on those items, not doing that is a no brainer.

There's nothing special about being able to order stuff online anymore. The only thing they have to compete on with truly local stores is delivery and cost. And maybe selection. Sometime we might get a craving for a childhood treat from back East that we can't get here, and we might be able to find it through the delivery service. Though that hasn't happened yet.

This kind of thing likely won't ever replace regular grocery shopping, in part because it's nice to go the grocery store, and in large part because they haven't overcome the problem of shipping small quantities of fresh produce cheaply. Don't bother unless you know you need the stuff they sell delivered regularly.