Grocery Shopping in Downtown Seattle (taxi, living, groceries)

[jenlion]

hah! NO shipping rates! WOOO!!!! I just placed an order about an hour ago. Free delivery once your order tops a certain amount. Or, for $80/yr, join Amazon Prime, and free delivery for $30/up in grocery delivery. I have zero time to shop for food or other things that come up, Amazon Prime is perfect for me.

Edit: Note that Amazon Fresh is a next-day grocery delivery service. Yes, it's still part of Amazon.com, but it's purely groceries. So, you're getting fresh produce, meat, whatever you'd get at the grocery store, delivered next day. No wait like for boxed-up Amazon.com orders. Safeway does grocery delivery too, but I haven't tried it.

[allforcats]

Also, you can use Albertson's.com, a large northwest supermarket-grocer:
https://shop.albertsons.com/eCommerc...ction=zipCheck

To get from any place to any place else in Seattle, you can take a bus or two. The public bus transportation system is called Metro. Here is Metro's system map, showing every route. Use the Front Side of the map. With a little practice playing with the site, you can find your way from anywhere to anywhere.
Metro Transit System Map

If you're feeling wealthy, you can also call Yellow Cab or Northwest Taxi and request a taxi to pick you up. Can't hail a cab on the street; they're dispatched. But you could pick off the first in line at hotels.

[jenlion]

I see people hail cabs in Seattle??

[Cascadeguy]

I hail cabs in downtown quite frequently. If they are not on a call they will stop.

[oso_te_great]

Originally Posted by miguel_loves_jesus

seems like i got some good choices.

another great question. i wont be driving, i will be selling my car here before i move. So how would i get my groceries to my apartment? The only way i can think is pack what i can in my backpack and carry the milk gallons and OJ. what do you do?

From someone who grew up there-

The public transportation system there sucks, DO NOT sell your car

[seattlenextyear]

Originally Posted by miguel_loves_jesus

how does that workout with shipping rates?

Shipping is free if you buy $75 worth of stuff. So, for you, that might mean using it 1-2 times a month to stock up on all of your heavy stuff, and then only using the local grocery store for a few things at a time.

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[miguel_loves_jesus]

Originally Posted by oso_te_great

From someone who grew up there-

The public transportation system there sucks, DO NOT sell your car

sorry cant afford parking in downtown and keeping it somewhere also is too much...everthing else for me is within walking distance.

ive heard from many many ppl that the public transportation is awesome

[toughguy]

Originally Posted by miguel_loves_jesus

sorry cant afford parking in downtown and keeping it somewhere also is too much...everthing else for me is within walking distance.

ive heard from many many ppl that the public transportation is awesome

In general, you can get where you need to go, but if you don't live close to the major north/south east/west freeways, you have to allow a lot of extra time.

[JesseJB]

I live downtown without a car and do just fine.

For groceries, I buy food in smaller quantities but go almost daily. I tend to get things fresh that way. I guess its more of a European-style grocery shopping experience. I tend to go stop by the bakery for bread, the butcher shop in the Market for meat, etc. and walk to all these places. I'll almost always run into friends and end up getting coffee with them or something. Beats taking your car to Wal Mart and stocking up and fighting traffic all the way home by yourself and eating your Ding-Dongs and crying in your Pepsi.