How often do you go to the grocery store?Do you make a list? Do you have a masterlist to help you plan? Do you impulse buy?
Usually weekly with the occasional skipLike 25% essentials 75% things on sale/in season and figure out what to make afterwards
>>21637502once a week I either order groceries or go to the store. I mostly only buy exactly the things I need for what I plan on cooking and whatever I may have run out of. Generally speaking I buy very, very little that isn't fresh vegetables, fruit, dairy, meat or fish.
I mostly buy good stuff except sometimes I stroll through the snack aisle get nostalgic and crack and buy chips or something. Then I get home and eat some but it tastes like ash and I don't even finish the bag before I throw it out
>>21637603is ordering or doing pick up at the store expensive? I have never done it before
>>21637643I don't find ordering from the store that much more expensive. Service is a much bigger issue though. Some vendors are literal dogshit (instacart), some are almost as good as shopping yourself (shipt).
>>21637643also I will add that, over the long term, delivery is likely cheaper for most people because it's much harder to make impulse buys online.
>>21638196>it's much harder to make impulse buys online.Hahahahahaha. How is it harder to make impulse buys on a shiny, flashy website accessible 24/7 that you don't even need to present physical payment for? You clearly have not met the average impulsive shopper. Do you think they just don't use the internet?
>>21638203for groceries specifically, it's nothing like going to the store. at the store every aisle has displays shoving products into your face, giant sale signs, people with samples trying to get you to try something new, tons of cheap little shits at the register while you wait. that whole shopping experience is designed to put extra shit in your cart. online you have to search for what you want. at best the weekly store ad might be clickable and the landing page might have some highlighted deals, but that's really about all.
>>21637502>How often do you go to the grocery store?once or twice a month, plus one or two deliveries>Do you make a list? yeah>Do you have a masterlist to help you plan? no>Do you impulse buy?no it's too expensive anymore I got a delivery tonight, sometimes I'll find a freebie or two. ten minutes before pulling 5 taters from the oven for homefries, I see my order has a couple 2lb bags of ore ida diced hash brownslast month it was a jug of fair life milk. not sure I'll be consuming that one unless emergencyfood is two expensive and shopping sucks because of it, even online
>>21637502>everyday>yes>i have a weekly menu>yes
>>21637502weeklyyes, to remind me of what's needed this week (based on meal plans, etc)no, the lion needs no such foolishnessoccasionally, if there's a particularly nice cheese
>>21637502I go once every one to two weeks, but only because I live far from the stores I like to shop at.Normally I’ll write a list done on a post it note and stick that in my wallet, cross out stuff as I buy them, and when I get home I’ll make a new list by referencing the old one
>>21637502almost every other day, but it's because the grocery store is basically behind my house so it's a very quick trip. that way I don't have to plan very far ahead and can just buy what I'm going to cook the day of. I like being flexible like that. and this way I don't need to make a big list, but I don't get sucked into impulse buying either. I just buy a few things at a time and know what I need. if I forget something, I can run back and be home again within 15 minutes so no big deal.
2-3×/week. Helps that there are over two dozen in my area. We make lists. I don't know what a masterlist is.I don't think I impulse buy but I'm not sure if what I do counts as impulse buying. Example: went to the store yesterday for tofu, broccoli, frozen veg and pork ribs. Grabbed the brocc, tofu, pork and veg, in that order. Passed through the coffee aisle on the way to the tills. Saw one canister was slightly damaged and marked 50% off. Considering that we will soon need coffee, that this large canister is equal to three "normal" cans of coffee and that with the sale and half price sticker it was cheaper than any advertised 12oz can of coffee I've seen in years, I decided to buy it. So because I gave it some thought before nabbing, I don't think it counts as an impulse buy even if I didn't plan to get coffee that trip. But maybe because I didn't plan to buy it, it does. I don't know. What I don't do is grab things from the checkout displays and with few exceptions (like the frozen veg yesterday) I never buy things that aren't on sale.
>>21637502I use OmniFocus on my phone and watch and sort things by that store’s aislePic half related
>>21638950>I don't know what a masterlist is.It's like the pic OP posted. It's a generic list of common items to help you remember what you need, in case you forget to add something to your own list when you run out.>Do you impulse buy?Usually only at Costco because their strategy of using a small number of SKUs makes new/interesting items on the shelf jump out more. Compare a normal supermarket, you go to the canned soup aisle and they have 200 varieties of soup, it's more difficult for new/interesting items to stand out. Too much visual noise, it would take an hour in each aisle to scan the shelves.
>>21637502>Tomatoes*Why the asterisk?
1-2 times a week. I don't have a big list. I eat meat and veggies and seafood.
>>21637502Once a week.
>>21637518Stale cracker is an American treasure
>>21637502i used to have walmart deliver my groceries all the time and had fresh milk in the house perpetually for the first time in my life, but they added a minimum fee so now i don't buy milk anymore and i miss it. i can only get out to the store about once a month and delivery makes one more time in a month i can get groceries. i have to be careful and targeted
