Delivering 5 grocery items or less

I wonder what the standard deviation is for items ordered at the supermarket. You see some customers with one, two, five, and less then 10 items. If I had to guess I would say consumers buy ten or more items eighty percent of the time. The remaining twenty percent is for things we need to

Before and after the grocery delivery

The pandemic has shaken the core of grocery shopping. Food supply chains were broken. Toilet paper, meat, cleaning products, and eggs became scarce and still continue to be thanks to increased demand and the pandemic spreading to meat plant facilities. There has also been an increase in their grocery delivered. Amazon, Instacart, and Shipt have

The choices delivering and receiving groceries

I am not sure how many customers will break ties with their grocery delivery service post COVD19. I could not help wonder how every person, family, business, organization, etc. determined how best to deliver and receive groceries. Was it based on necessity, — that is, for example, an elderly person did not want to risk

Grocery Delivery and over demand and over supply

This is the boom time for grocery delivery services. Thanks to technology like apps consumers have tools to order groceries with ease by ordering exactly what the supermarket needs and saving time According to an article by Science Times in October 2019 it was about the importance of time: When you think about it, the

The synergy of supermarkets and delivery services

You may have seen in the news long lines of consumers waiting to buy groceries and necessities at Costco or Walmart. In a normal world the customer would not have to wait on a line. They would grab a shopping cart, press down on the automatic mat, and walk through the sliding doors. But not,

Is grocery delivery a go or a stay home and wait?

Amazon Go is a supermarket that allows customers to grab items and ‘Go’ because the sensors in the store are scanning what you have to shop. This model is based for the bricks and mortar customers. They also will deliver to your home within a couple of hours. Will the delivery person get the products

Grocery shoppers buying time on sale

Shopping in a supermarket takes time. Takes time to travel to get there. To walk through the aisles. To pay for the items. More items take more time; less than 10 items takes less time. So what are consumers doing? They are buying time. Although they are not purchasing time they are having their groceries

With supermarkets products and location matter

Supermarkets come and go. Some are here to stay forever. So what makes supermarkets indispensable. It has to do with two things, products and location. When supermarkets like Whole Foods opened up on the corner Manhattan of 57th street and 3rd ave they seized the opportunity to have it jammed with products on two floors

Groceries delivered, what comes next

You may have signed up online to have your groceries delivered. So you place your order. How long does it take to order groceries from your computer? Doe it take less time to shop in a supermarket? Then you click to send the order and wait until a deliverer picks up your order and then

5 Predictions for the grocery industry in 2020

Grocery shopping continues to thrive. As retail stores close down, despite a strong economy, supermarkets continue to do well. As 2019 comes to a close I am going to make five predictions for supermarkets in 2020. As a blogger, writer and part-time supermarket employee you cannot help to observe things more closely among retailers and