We just started using a grocery pickup service and thought I'd share our positive experience from a budgeting standpoint. Not only has it saved us time, but also money.
Pros: 1) You create your cart on the app so that you can see the final price before you checkout. Too much for your weekly budget? Super easy to remove things you don't need
2) Much easier to stick to your plan for meals - we definitely bought fewer checkout snacks, ice cream, holiday decorations, soda, etc
3) Visibility to the cost of a meal as you add ingredients. This let us know that some of our meals are pricier than we assumed
4) Saved a ton of time - just had to search on the app vs. Zig zagging through the store to grab that fajita mix you forgot. Ours loads them in the car as well. If they make substitutions, we still get the lower price.
5) You can check what you have at home - we usually buy things like butter, spices, eggs etc. for meals because we forgot if we already have them at home. This saved us on 2 unneeded purchases this week
Cons 1) Not free - ours is $5, but the first three are free. I think we save enough to make up for it
Submitted April 08, 2018 at 08:30PM by Rustychipmunk https://ift.tt/2H71QwB
