A rather large local supermarket here called Superstore appears to be rolling out its online shopping features for people to try out. It’s a little different than shopping in places like Amazon as an example as you are able to purchase fresh produce. They don’t deliver to your house though. Instead, the process involves you ordering your items online where afterwards you would go to the store and pick it up. Apparently a staff member will pick out the products for you where you won’t have to deal with the line ups. They are offering a $20 off $30 coupon too for people to try it which is enticing. The thing that surprised me was there was a fee attached to this service.
As you can see from the screenshot, you would have to pay ranging from $3 to $5 to use this service. That is kind of expensive from my point of view anyways. Because as you know I can find a ton of stuff even for one dollar. I would still come out ahead though if I was to take advantage of that twenty dollar offer expect the deal would be closer to $15 to $17 off for a $30 purchase. It made me think though, would fees like these discourage you from using an in-store pickup option for your grocery shopping?
I can see how this may be useful for people who are extremely busy with an excess amount of disposable income. But for most other people that fee can really add up to the point where I would imagine it would be better to still do the shopping yourself. In any other business like an electronic store I would find this fee extremely awkward. I will probably still end up trying he service though due to the discount and my curiously on how well the picked vegetable and produces would be.