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"A 12-pack of 6-ounce cups of Stonyfield Farm nonfat yogurt goes for $4.99 in Newark and $7.20 on the Upper West Side. A half-pound of rosemary ham went for $3.50 on the Upper West Side and $3 in the South Bronx and East New York, Brooklyn. And a pack of Applegate Farms chicken-and-apple sausage went for $5.99 in the Upper West Side and $5.59 in East New York and the South Bronx."
This is why I don't bother with FS or other online grocery services. Having been schooled since able to push a shopping cart by my mother and aunts I refuse to succumb to nonsense such as above.
In fact it is a good reason to avoid the whole thing all together and if possible drive to New Jersey for groceries. NYC residents especially those in Manhattan are being royally ripped off if they but only knew it when it comes to groceries.
They say their formula for the "zone pricing" is proprietary and refused to give any specific breakdowns of price differences but "A 12-pack of 6-ounce cups of Stonyfield Farm nonfat yogurt goes for $4.99 in Newark and $7.20 on the Upper West Side. That's an almost 50% difference!
That's actually pretty good in either case.
At the stores near me, the cheapest brands are generally about 3/$2, which is about $0.66 each. Stonyfield is typically about $1. Keep in mind that these are all regular chains like ShopRite, Western Beef, etc, which are reasonably priced.
I usually wait for sales to stock up on Stonyfield, and generally the sales bring it down to about $0.50 - $0.60 each. Occasionally, they have sales where they got an overshipment and they want to get rid of it before it expires, so they sell it for as little as $0.25. But generally, if I can get Stonyfield for $0.50 each, you'll see me stick a good 30 of those into the shopping cart.
A 12-pack for $5 is about $0.41 each, and a 12-pack for $7.20 is about $0.60 each, so either way, that's a good deal as far as I'm concerned. You have to buy the full pack, but I have a relatively large family, so that's not really an issue.
At the stores near me, the cheapest brands are generally about 3/$2, which is about $0.66 each. Stonyfield is typically about $1. Keep in mind that these are all regular chains like ShopRite, Western Beef, etc, which are reasonably priced.
I usually wait for sales to stock up on Stonyfield, and generally the sales bring it down to about $0.50 - $0.60 each. Occasionally, they have sales where they got an overshipment and they want to get rid of it before it expires, so they sell it for as little as $0.25. But generally, if I can get Stonyfield for $0.50 each, you'll see me stick a good 30 of those into the shopping cart.
A 12-pack for $5 is about $0.41 each, and a 12-pack for $7.20 is about $0.60 each, so either way, that's a good deal as far as I'm concerned. You have to buy the full pack, but I have a relatively large family, so that's not really an issue.
Make our own yoghurt with a "vintage" Salton thing. Cheaper, easier and much better tasting!
i love using fresh direct. my wife and i value our free time and it is priceless to us. being able not to spend 2 hours on the weekend going food shopping is fabulous.
we get deliveries early sunday morning, in fact they should be here in the next 5 minutes .
our bills are so much less since all the impulse shopping i do is eliminated as well as my love of junk food. i would say we average 30-35 bucks less a week than if we actually go to the store.
our shopping is done and put away before most folks are even up, all without leaving the house..
I laugh at people who pay a great deal to have their groceries delivered at high prices while they sit on their asses at home (Fairway charges $7.95 over 5 blocks to deliver their inflated price groceries) and then they rush off to an expensive gym to get some exercise on a Treadmill.
(I do curls while I walk my groceries home and THEN I hit the gym.)
buying groceries doesn't quite qualify as intense cardio exercise.
You don't know where to shop. Or else you bring the car.
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Or else you bring the car.
