hey guy! Shawn here from shawnmhowell.com. what is the deal with home delivery
grocery services like instacart specifically and boxed? so i have some
thoughts and if you are a bit curious about home delivery services like
instacart and big box services like boxed keep watching. having just had a
baby it has been hard to get to the grocery store. my husband has been doing
an excellent job of going to the grocery store but i was curious about the home
delivery services that the grocery stores in my area have been pushing and
advertising. the Food Lion is the closest one to my house so I looked online and
they use a service called instacart. and I have done two orders with them both
with free delivery because the first one is free and I will post a link on how
you can also get free delivery on your first service with instacart in the links
down below. you go online and you pick out the groceries that you want to get
and they get delivered by a person..an actual person... from a local grocery store.
in my case my Food Lion is closest. so you could pick what grocery store you
want them to come from. the prices are are kind of weird.
the instacart sets the prices. you don't necessarily get the prices that are at
Food Lion but they do have a section of sale items and coupons that you can also
add to your cart. that's kind of where I tend to shop first is from the sale
items. but I've found that it saves me money because I don't have any of those
impulse buys. so I put together my grocery list and normally I'd take it into
the store and I find other things to just add to the card and before you know it I
bought a hundred dollars in groceries. well these days having an infant I need
to start saving money on our grocery bill. we are trying to spend fifty
dollars a week. so with instacart that really helped us. I think it's at $55 both
times but it really helped me stay focused on what I needed to get and
making choices. and the really cool, another cool thing about it, it will tell
you how long it will take for you to get your groceries delivered based on the
time of day. both times, well the first time I ordered it didn't
take but an hour to get to me. for them to deliver the second time
on the Saturday night and so I could set what time I wanted it to be delivered on
Sunday morning which was really cool. and then you have a personal shopper who
gets paid to go and shop for your groceries that you've picked out.
and they will contact you if something is not in stock when they can't find it they will
text you or text you through the instacart app and let you know they
couldn't find it. or could they substitute with something similar.
a recent example is I had there was a bag of, a box of Ritz crackers that I
had wanted and they found a box but the box was split open and the guy looked
and sure enough the bags inside of the crackers were ok. they were fine so I
said yeah I don't mind a damaged box as long as the inside is
fine. well alright so guys I am recording a video: I just got my second order
from instacart that came from Food Lion but my shopper was so awesome he found
that the Ritz cracker crackers that I ordered were damaged so he drove to
Publix and replaced them. which is pretty cool .and had this news but they keep in
constant communication with you .if you need to add something to your order you
can text them. oh I forgot you know I forgot milk or I forgot to order toilet paper or
something. you can add that to your order very easily. so I don't know how much
delivery charges are. they do charge some kind of fee or the name of the fee is
but some kind of a fee that they say pays the employees but you can
choose not to do that fee I think we said at 10% so I choose
not to do that but then they have an option for tipping your actual delivery
person and you can tip different percentages so I usually transfer that
10% and do a 10% tip for the person who's delivering my groceries because I
feel like, I don't know, I feel better about that. I like that they're very
speedy. and coming over like I said I don't know what delivery fees are and I
know there's some kind of a fee a yearly subscription you can sign up for
it. I haven't done that. so the first one I did I got free delivery. the second one
they sent me an email saying if you use
this coupon code within the next week you get a free delivery. so I ordered
that again. so if they send me another delivery, free delivery option... what's up
with us? we love free delivery and free shipping...
us Americans. then I will do that again so definitely worth it. definitely
worth looking into. definitely worth doing once to see if you like it. so I'm
going to insert some footage that I took the day that the groceries arrived so
you can kind of see what I bought. so here are the groceries that I ordered.
I only spent like fifty five dollars and I got free delivery. and I've been very
impressed because you can talk with your shopper to make sure you know that you
get the things you want. or if they don't have something in stock then you can
request a different thing. so I got some yogurt, yoplait whips. let's
say I got the chocolate and also got the key lime. and we got macaroni and cheese
over here and some lemon juice and some cheese nips. huge bottle of vinegar.
the prices you don't get to pick but they tell you the prices up front and
sometimes they'll change like to two thirds. and I got a whole bunch of
chicken and vegetarian options. we need some cream cheese. veggies. you can
get fresh vegetables too. bananas. what else? we got Oreos. but anyway I just
bought like my regular things that we needed and they were here at ordered
them a lot of times that you can order them in an hour.
but I ordered last night and then they shopped this morning and delivered them and
pretty cool instacart. so while we talk about groceries and saving money I
thought that I would also talk about boxed.com. so I've been using boxed for probably
a year ,maybe a little over a year now but I haven't been going through boxed.com.
actually didn't even put that together. I have been a user of Zulily.com
which is a discount website and occasionally probably once or twice a
month show boxed offers free shipping if you purchase $50 through the
Zulily app. and they have tons of things that are even further discounted than on
boxed.com. household goods and snack items. so I stock up on toilet paper, paper
towels, they're paper towel brands really good, they're napkin brand, they have
their own it's called Prince and spring. really good products. I purchased their
soap before but then I also have big-name products. they have Charmin
toilet paper. they have Bounty paper towels.
they have occasionally... they have razors on there.
I buy tons of snack items: granola bars, nutrigrain bars, chips,
fruit snacks, Gatorades, anything that you would buy like at a Costco or a Sams they
have those items. so I will usually spend anywhere from fifty to eighty five
dollars on Zulily app and get the two day free shipping. and so that's how
an ordering box. well I recently ordered through boxed.com, the actual website,
because again they were doing the free shipping deal and I think I ordered a
little over a hundred dollars maybe like one hundred fifteen, hundred twenty
dollars worth of stuff. and it came it was really great and everything but I
still feel like going through the Zulily app is the way to go because I feel like
they further discount stuff on the Zulily app. But if you just go through
boxed.com but it's worth going through boxed.com to get that free shipping and
to see the variety of stuff that they have if you don't already use Zulily. they're Zulily app so I will put the Zulily app down below I will also
put the boxed.com link down below and I think they also have like an affiliate
thing where I can get you free shipping and like $10 or $15 off and then I get
10 or 15 something like that. so I'll put that below. again you don't have to use
that code or you can if you want. I hope that you found this video useful when
you are thinking about using a grocery delivery service like instacart or a big
box service like boxed.com. I hope that you found my review helpful
to you in some way. if you did please give me a thumbs up, share it with your
friends, and don't forget to subscribe. and I will see you in my next video.
thanks for watching. bye!
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