I can not comment about Whole Foods because other than their catering area they do not deliver here. Various groceries have different fees. The HyVee's in this area are free if the order is over $100. Some area's Walmart delivers groceries. Depending on what you order Amazon will deliver free if what you order is in their Prime Pantry area. Most have a list on their website with prices. Most prices are the same as in the stores but you may not receive any sale prices.

From Whole foods:

"An evening, one-hour grocery delivery from Whole Foods on I Street NW to a friend’s apartment on Van Ness Street NW via Postmates cost me $75: $50 for the grocery items plus a $14.25 delivery fee, a 9 percent service fee and a tip for the affable courier. "

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/why-go-to-the-store-when-the-groceries-can-come-to-your-doorstep/2014/12/08/f163a368-7c0f-11e4-9a27-6fdbc612bff8_story.html

We now have a milk company that has expanded from home milk delivery to other food items. http://www.shattohomedelivery.com/home.php

I have tried deliveries from Amazon and Von's. Amazon gave me a 30 day trial of their service, and it went smoothly. Prices on most things were lower than the supermarket. Didn't continue the service because it was too expensive for me.

Von's was good, too. But their prices were high, and nothing was on sale.

I have some health issues, and am happy to be able to use these when I'm not well enough to go to the store.

Amazon has a new two-hour window that's free, so next time I will give that a try.

I have used Amazon on their 30 day free trial and loved it. But I had to cancel because their annual fee was way too expensive.

We've started ordering from Wmart on line because the store doesn't always have what we want in stock. Free shipping over 40-50$.

Update. I am no longer driving, and order on line for deliveries. Amazon was good, except that they wouldn't deliver to my apartment. I have a strange set up, and the post office said my address didn't exist. So that didn't work.

Now I'm using Von's/Safeway. When you pick out your window for delivery, when I pick a four hour delivery, it's 6.95. Shorter times cost more.

It's working fine. Some things are more expensive, and others less. They have sales online all the time. I'm pleased that this is going well.

I recently placed a Wal-Mart on-line order for "dry goods" - cereal, crackers, over the counter "drugs", soap, coffee filters, stuff like this. I was charged 6% sales tax which is less than the 12.5% I would have paid if purchasing these same items in my local store. Free shipping and a 6% savings, I'll be ordering items like this again.

I had a thought last night that this is reverting to the old days when you went to a store and everything was behind the counter. Sometimes you left an order for it to be delivered or sometimes if it was small you picked it up at a certain time.

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This link should get into 2018...

Eighty years ago there were small covered, rubber-tired wagons drawn by one horse going down most streets of many/most cities in our part of the world, and the horse knew where to go and where to stop next.

One carried bread, one carried milk and one carried ice, with the salespeople carrying a selection of the goods into the homes, and the ice man chopped a chunk of ice from the big block, carried it into the house and put it into one of two or three compartments of a wooden box in the kitchen, called an "ice box", it kept the perishable foods reasonably cool, and the housewife emptied water from the melted ice from a pan in in the bottom from time to time.

Seventy years ago they began building refrigerators.

Of the refrigerators built sixty and fifty years ago, quite a few of them lasted for forty years.

Refrigerators built today last only about ten years.

I've told this story dozens of times over recent months, and many of the listeners step into the conversation at that point, and many of them say the same three words ... "IF ... YOU'RE ... LUCKY!!!"

The decrease in average lifespan being mainly due to the engineers planning them having become so much stupider over the years, do you figure??

Could it be that if a fridge is built to last for about ten years (or, as some claim, that their new ones lasted for only a year or even less) ... the builders would sell a great many more fridges ... resulting in providing them greater profits??

It takes a great deal of precious petroleum to mine and smelt the metal, and be the source for the plastics to build our fridges.

And as millions in the third world are joining the middle class and buying fridges ...

... building them to last for only 10 years or less is a greedy luxury that, wasting our precious resources, adding to pollution and global warming as it is doing increasingly, we cannot continue doing!

Canadians: with an election coming soon - tell your political candidates to take major actions to take better care of our precious world.

ole joyful

Ten years? My, your friends and acquaintances are having bad luck, indeed. My sister's fridge is probably twenty years old, mine is fourteen or so. Mine does need a new cam to close the freezer door tight (using a strip of Velco, now). If people tire of their appliances and pitch them rather than repair them, that's on them. That's like selling your car because you have to keep getting the brakes maintained. Sometimes you get what you pay for. Buy a bottom of the line appliance, and it likely will have a short lifespan.

You certainly do have a point about the natural resources and energy needed to manufacture something new. My boss likes to think of himself as an ardent environmentalist - who eschews public transportation and buys a new 'power' car every two years. But hey, he's buying *his wife* an electric car. A range of 125 miles or so is adequate for her.

Of the refrigerators built sixty and fifty years ago, quite a few of them lasted for forty years.

Refrigerators built today last only about ten years.

So now index them for cost, because refrigerators also got cheaper. Today, a more energy efficient refrigerator with the same size and functionality as the iconic 1955 GE refrigerator costs less than $300. Which is actually less than the GE refrigerator cost in 1955! Index that 1955 cost for inflation and you get $4,100. So if you had a choice today between spending $300 on a fridge that may only last 10 years or $4,100 for the same fridge that may last up to 40 years, which one are you going to buy?