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I buy ethnic foods that local stores do not carry like Irish breakfast sausage, Irish Black pudding and White pudding, H&P Brown Sauce and Curry Sauce, etc. I also buy various food stuff from the Vermont Country Store like Vermont Common Crackers, bean soup, etc.
I find most online prices, by the time they add in mail cost, to be way too high. Almost doubles the price of some things. So if my local grocery doesn't have it, I just do without.
The only food-related things I've ordered online have been cookware (Found a good deal on a quality set of stainless steel cookware, and a rather heavy duty pizza stone this way!)
I've yet to order any actual food online though. Thankfully, I can find the vast majority of ingredients I use locally.
I used to live in a fairly isolated area on the U.S./Mexican border, so my options were somewhat limited. I would order various spices, vinegars (Banyuls, good balsamic), foie gras, duck fat, & similar items that I couldn't purchase locally. I used to regularly purchase wild salmon, Pacific oysters, & live spot prawns. Now I live in a suburb of the country's fourth largest city, so am pretty much able to obtain anything locally, although sometimes it's easier to order online rather than fight the horrific traffic.
I've never had a problem ordering any food items online. And I've ordered a lot.
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