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Instacart has a really smart tactic in showing you how many hours you’ve saved shopping.

Ordinarily I love grocery shopping but after having done online for several months now, I’m not sure I’ll go back. I imagine I’ll order the bulk of the items online, and visit the specialty / small grocers to pick out the odds and ends that are special.

Farm boxes are great too, for organic produce (and growing a garden!).

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Wonder how they calculate this with any accuracy. They can't see the time you spend comparison shopping on other online sites to see if you're getting a good deal. (which you usually aren't - Target and Costco, for example, often dramatically raise their online prices vs. their in-store prices)

Agree on the farm boxes - had one of those and we were overloaded with produce. Bit expensive but once you taste fresh carrots it's hard to go back to store bought.

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