Julie Bove wrote in rec.food.cooking:

>
> "cshenk" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Boron wrote in rec.food.cooking:
> >
> > > On Fri, 01 Sep 2017 09:27:22 -0600, U.S. Janet B. >
> > > wrote:
> > >
> >>>On Fri, 1 Sep 2017 10:57:26 -0400, Ed Pawlowski >
> wrote:
> > > >
> >>> > On 9/1/2017 10:34 AM, U.S. Janet B. wrote:
> > > > > >
> >>>>> I ordered a coffee grinder yesterday (8/31) at about 2 P.M. It
> >>will >>> be delivered today. I ordered one of those metal
> lemon/lime >>squeezers >>> about an hour after I ordered the coffee
> grinder. It >>will be here >>> tomorrow. The reason I didn't order
> anything until >>after 2 was >>> because my husband thought we should
> go out and see >>if I could get >>> what I wanted locally. Out of
> stock at one place >>and twice as costly >>> at another. Bah! Stay
> at home and shop and >>let the stuff come to >>> you.
> >>>>> Janet US
> > > > > >
> >>> >
> >>> > I like to support local businesses, but often I can't. Amazon
> >>> > has most everything at a good price and in stock. Malls are
> >>> > closing all over these days. I buy from the seller that offers
> >>> > me the best deal for me.
> >>> >
> >>> > Lemons at the Stop & Shop are 79 cents. At WaMart they are 35
> >>> > cents. Same size, same color.
> >>> >
> >>> > What kind of coffee grinder did you get?
> > > >
> >>> Krups. Nothing fancy, just a kitchen tool. The one that died
> this >>> week is a Krups and I like it. I've had it for 8-10 years.
> I could >>> have gotten it from Costco.com but the delivery is slower.
> >>> I always get my lemons from Costco as I can't duplicate size or
> >>> quality elsewhere -- > 9.26 a.m., coffee grinder just
> arrived!!!!! Hooray. Coffee this >>> morning :-)
> >>> Janet US
> > >
> > >
> > > I used to be quite torn when I ordered from Amazon or other
> > > online retailer, thinking I might be harming business at local
> > > merchants, then came to believe that by shopping at any one local
> > > merchant over other local ones could have a similar impact. I
> > > stopped fighting it.
> > >
> > > I order 90% of my non-food items online these days. It just isn't
> > > worth the effort to schlep around going from store to store
> > > looking for exactly what I want or trying to get a better price.
> >
> >
> > Now that's the one I won't do. I enjoy grocery shopping! I do take
> > the drudgery out though with some repeat items at a good price on
> > Amazon.
>
> I get some things online such as heavy cases of water and cat litter.
> And it's cheaper for me to get some shelf stable things that way,
> plus I often get Swagbucks for shopping and I redeem them for Amazon
> gift cards. I have used Prime Now for groceries a few times. Mostly
> when I didn't feel up to going out. Only problem was when they didn't
> deliver the almond milk and that was rather needed for the smoothie
> that Angela wanted. She got all the rest of the ingredients. Just not
> that.

I get dog and cat kibble (same or slightly less than the store), lipton
tea bags, trash bags, Ziploc bags, toilet paper, pill pockets for
Iowna's tramadol (4 times a day for her arthritis), a simple body wash
we like for bubble bath (2.47).

I tried the 48 can box of Cream of Mushroom but found out those are
repacks of damaged cans and fully 1 in 4 were not usable so cancelled
that order.

--