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I saw on the news a week or two back that Amazon were really planning to ramp this up - which included dropping the delivery charge if you spend more than £40.
I've never tried online food shopping before - although I have used the Tesco app and "bought" stuff I never completed the order - delivery slots were quite hard to get so it needed too much planning in advance. However, the fact that we now have to wear masks to shop - which I don't want to do - meant something had to change.
Placed my order with Amazon Fresh yesterday evening - and could choose pretty much any 2 hour delivery slot from first thing this morning for free. I chose 7-9am and it actually arrived about 6:50am.
Delivery isn't quite up to the supermarket standard yet - rather than a purpose built lorry, it was some bloke in a car, with the shopping in paper bags. There was one cool bag with the chilled stuff inside.
They obviously partner with Morrison - a lot of the Fresh stuff is Morrison brand.
Overall though, very happy with it. Hopefully they have the infrastructure to keep the delivery slots available and I will be continuing to use it. If I only need a few bits and can't hit £40 - I'll just add a bottle of whisky
I've never tried online food shopping before - although I have used the Tesco app and "bought" stuff I never completed the order - delivery slots were quite hard to get so it needed too much planning in advance. However, the fact that we now have to wear masks to shop - which I don't want to do - meant something had to change.
Placed my order with Amazon Fresh yesterday evening - and could choose pretty much any 2 hour delivery slot from first thing this morning for free. I chose 7-9am and it actually arrived about 6:50am.
Delivery isn't quite up to the supermarket standard yet - rather than a purpose built lorry, it was some bloke in a car, with the shopping in paper bags. There was one cool bag with the chilled stuff inside.
They obviously partner with Morrison - a lot of the Fresh stuff is Morrison brand.
Overall though, very happy with it. Hopefully they have the infrastructure to keep the delivery slots available and I will be continuing to use it. If I only need a few bits and can't hit £40 - I'll just add a bottle of whisky
Allanv said:
Ours is called Amazon Prime Now..
That's different isn't it? I've had Prime Now as a separate app on my phone for ages but that's for general Amazon stuff which is available very quickly from the local warehouse. Still with minimum order and free 2 hour delivery slots - but I think that's different from the Amazon Fresh stuff (which you can order from the normal amazon shopping app).Edited by davek_964 on Thursday 6th August 11:50
davek_964 said:
Allanv said:
Ours is called Amazon Prime Now..
That's different isn't it? I've had Prime Now as a separate app on my phone for ages but that's for general Amazon stuff which is available very quickly from the local warehouse. Still with minimum order and free 2 hour delivery slots - but I think that's different from the Amazon Fresh stuff (which you can order from the normal amazon shopping app).Edited by davek_964 on Thursday 6th August 11:50
APN is basically Morrisons with a 2 hour window, I do not do the apps so not sure.
Amazon prime = Winged horse of tat and maybe a new keyboard
Amazon prime now = Morrisons
Amazon fresh is not available in that there Bristol. Probably because we have Now instead.
Edited by Allanv on Friday 7th August 11:46
davek_964 said:
Placed my order with Amazon Fresh yesterday evening - and could choose pretty much any 2 hour delivery slot from first thing this morning for free. I chose 7-9am and it actually arrived about 6:50am.
Delivery isn't quite up to the supermarket standard yet - rather than a purpose built lorry, it was some bloke in a car, with the shopping in paper bags. There was one cool bag with the chilled stuff inside.
You possibly know this but the delivery won't be supermarket styleee because it will be using Amazon Flex - private individuals with a vehicle and a mobile phone who register with their local Amazon depot and can log in to the Amazon Flex app whenever they fancy doing some work and pick "blocks" - sessions of work where x number of parcels need to be delivered in a certain time window in a certain area. No doubt when the Amazon Fresh service catches on, the delivery slots will be harder to come by for the customer as they are with the supermarkets.Delivery isn't quite up to the supermarket standard yet - rather than a purpose built lorry, it was some bloke in a car, with the shopping in paper bags. There was one cool bag with the chilled stuff inside.
Coming down with Covid unexpectedly this week, I took the plunge as a Prime member and gave Amazon Fresh a go for the first time, as an alternative to the usual online grocery suspects.
I was really impressed and made a further order today at 8am, which arrived at midday.
Good selection of produce for what I eat/cook, fresh goods are definitely fresh, shelf life decent on all fruit, veggies and meats too, plus the chicken breast quality was excellent.
I can’t actually fault it, and the swift delivery windows are a godsend for an easy life. I will probably continue to use this service even if I’m not isolating!
I was really impressed and made a further order today at 8am, which arrived at midday.
Good selection of produce for what I eat/cook, fresh goods are definitely fresh, shelf life decent on all fruit, veggies and meats too, plus the chicken breast quality was excellent.
I can’t actually fault it, and the swift delivery windows are a godsend for an easy life. I will probably continue to use this service even if I’m not isolating!
WonkeyDonkey said:
You're all sleep walking into massive future problems when everyone uses amazon for everything.
On that note I needed something (non-food). Amazon was £5.69 for a 3-day delivery but I found identical elsewhere for £2.20 & should arrive in tomorrow's post.Amazon is convenient but expensive & not necessarily quick. I don't see this getting better as they get closer to having a monopoly.
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