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I would not find it strange if you ordered it online from a local supermarket that would just deliver it, I guess because if something is really wrong with the order then you could make a trip over there to fix it. I can see this being a solution for people who have a hard time getting around.
But from Amazon and other non-local providers... Well, yeah, I find that very strange. But strange can be good, right?
I know Safeway does this and doesn't Amazon Fresh do this as well. Not not weird at all. My mom has a cousin who gets her groceries delivered because raising her family is too much to handle to get to the grocery store. I remember in college I would see people get grocery deliveries to the dorms.
The best source for staples (non perishable items) is Walmart.com. You can buy a lot of house brands, or a huge selection of national and regional brands. You can get most every stapele you could want, from that one source fedex delivery to your door.
We buy perishable items at the local independent grocery store, and once in a while they have a sale at a great price. We find that we can often buy for less online than at the Walmarts 50 miles away. Free delivery over $50. They will deliver anywhere that FedEx delivers. Instead of driving 50 miles each way, and spending an hour or more to spend $200 plus, we spend half an hour on the internet, have a much bigger selection than at any brick and mortar store, and often costs less than even WalMart prices which are as much as 50% less than local on everything. Save 100 here, and a 100 there, and it soon ads up to real money. As even the government tells us it costs 50 cents per mile or so to operate a car total cost, it saves $50 or so on a shopping trip for car expense.
I order all my groceries from Amazon Fresh, and all my non-food items (paper products, toiletries, etc) from Amazon. Why? I LOATHE shopping of any kind. I pretty much order everything online, from clothes for my kids, to shoes, to presents. You can buy pretty much anything online.
I really, truly, loathe to shop. Even a packed grocery store full of people with shopping carts, shoving each other out of the way and standing in front of products for long stretches to read the ingredients. I find it too frustrating. I also find it very easy to prepare menus on the computer, and then just switch windows to add the ingredients to my cart.
I order everything I need from ebay, Amazon and other online stores. I haven't been to a supermarket in over a year.
Do you think this is weird?
Though I would rather use the market and know exactly what I was getting, especially when it comes to produce, I think what you do is the trend of the future. Not the near future, but eventually.
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