AC How to Grocery Shop Online

Shopping in an online grocery store is simple, easy, informative, and fun. Further, when you add up what you spend in time and on gasoline getting to the real grocery stores, online groceries might just save you money.

How Online Grocery Stores Work:

Food from the online grocery stores comes to you very fresh. These stores buy from distributors by the case-lot to get you the best prices. Unlike offline grocery stores, their stock turns over very rapidly and it is not displayed on a shelf to be fondled by other shoppers, or dusted by box-people until it sells. You get a cleaner product with better dates than what the offline stores can provide. Click here to visit netgrocer.com.

What Can You Get?

I have used netgrocer.com. At this grocery store you can get almost everything that you can get at a grocery store offline except fresh meats, fresh vegetables, and dairy products. Although there are lunch meats, some cheeses, non-refrigerated milk products, and other prepackaged items available in these categories. Their categories include: Grocery, Health & Beauty, Natural & Organic, Kosher, Deli, Dairy, Frozen and others.

How Prices Work:

Online grocery stores have prices similar to offline grocery stores on their items. Just like offline stores, online grocery stores will run sales on brand name items. This allows for you to stock up on your favorite brands while they are on sale.

Another nice option at the netgrocer.com store is that they list each item with a column showing how much the item costs by ounce. If you want a box of corn flakes, you can scan all of the boxes available to see which box gives you the best price on the food inside. This option while shopping makes it very easy to save money on food. You can always buy the best deal for your money.

How You Get Your Food:

The online grocery store will ship your food to you by FedEx. The charges are based upon where you live in the United States. If you live in the East, you will be charged 5.99 to have 24.99 in food delivered. If you live in the West, you will be charged 9.99 to have 24.99 in food delivered. Your order comes wrapped like fine china; they pad and bubble-wrap your items.

To some this 5.99 or 9.99 charge to have groceries delivered is not going to make any sense. For others like me who live about an hour away from a reasonably priced grocery store, this cost is not much different than the cost of gas to drive for groceries.

For busy working parents, the 5.99 cost to have your children's school supplies, your dish soap, the special garden macaroni for dinner and everybody's favorite breakfast foods or lunch snacks sitting on the doorstep is priceless.

Sample of Products and Prices:

On the day that I wrote this article here are some products and prices for you to make a comparison with to your offline grocery store:

16oz Hot Dogs in various brand names for 2.69 - 15oz can Chef-Boyardee Pasta in Tomato Sauce 1.15 - 16oz Domino Brown Sugar 1.29 - 60oz Bisquick 5.15 - 46oz Can Tomato Juice 1.89 - 16oz Thick Slice Bacon 4.75 - 18oz Corn Flakes 1.79 - 14.7oz PopTarts 2.69 - 96oz Clorox Fresh Meadow Bleach 2.85 - 24oz Gold Medal Multi-Grain Bread 3.19

4oz Athenos Crumbled Blue Cheese 3.25 - 12oz Couscous, Natural Organic Whole Wheat 2.69 - 80oz (5lb) Rice, Extra Long Grain 5.39 - 20oz Arm Hammer Cat Litter Deodorizer 2.85 - 15oz Herr's Sourdough Pretzels 2.85 - 10 count Betty Crocker Fruit Snacks 3.85 - 16oz Nabisco Crackers 2.44 - 6.5oz MrP frozen Pizza (all flavors) 1.49 - 15oz VO5 Hair Conditioner (all scents) 1.29 - and more.

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Fun Ideas for Online Grocery Stores:

Dorm Room Care Package: You can have grocery items delivered to your child's dorm room. You need to include some favorite snacks, but after that you can fill up the box with vitamins, room air fresheners, notebooks and supplies, or anything else that strikes your fancy.

Military or Prison Delivery: Online grocery stores will ship food items to your loved ones who are restricted to specific sizes of packaging due to being in the military or incarcerated. You can sit back and shop by computer and let the store do the rest. This is a no fuss, no muss option on how to find those hard to find package sizes in a hurry.

Gift Giving: Are you stuck on what gift to get for a friend in another state? Why not take a drift through the international food category and create a box of fun food or spices for other places for them to enjoy. Another idea is to send a box of many kinds of candy, or hair products, or fun shaped healthy children's snacks. The bakery department has cakes, and in the 'general' category you can find automotive supplies or toys for the hard to buy for.

Pot Luck Dinner: If you are looking for something different to take to your next pot-luck dinner, try looking in the online grocery store. They often have regional items available that you can not find in your local area grocery.

CampMail: If your child is going to summer camp, they like to receive mail. You can treat them to some memorable fun if you order the right things to go into the box. In the 'general' area of the online grocery store you can find postage stamps, markers, children's reading material, playing cards, some extra underwear, reasonably priced children's fleece blankets, extra sunscreen, disposable cameras, and Beanie Babies.