Lots of things are harder in the city: meeting friends, finding the best pizza place, parking, and grocery shopping.
Now we’ve found a solution to one of those difficulties. Enter Peapod grocery delivery. Peapod works like this: you order your groceries online and Peapod delivers them to your kitchen at a pre-arranged time. That’s pretty much the jist, and it’s glorious. Glorious because grocery shopping used to be the biggest ordeal. We’d plan our whole weekend around one grocery shopping trip. We’d wake up early to avoid the traffic and the crowds. We’d get in fights when we realized there really is no such thing as avoiding the traffic and the crowds in the city, no matter where you’re going. And don’t even get me started on hauling two weeks’ worth of food from our car to the twelth floor. So the thought of having our groceries delivered by an eager Chicagoan (on a week night!) sounded too good to be true.
It isn’t.
Last week we had our first delivery. It was insanely simply and stress free, and the 10 minutes it took us to put away the groceries sure beat the three-hour ordeal every other weekend brought.
Of course, we have to make a few adjustments. The prices are slightly higher than we’re used to, and we do pay a nominal fee for the delivery, and we tipped the poor delivery guy because, well, we know his job all too well, but we’ve always said we’ll pay for convenience when we can. And this is one life’s luxuries that we’ve deemed worth it.
Another change we’ve made as a part of our carless lifestyle.
