Any Peapod users out there?

second_spring
Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:48:13 +0000

teriwtt, I live quite close to your daughter and have been using Peapod for several years.
On occasion I use Whole Foods, but it is very expensive. The nearest Trader Joe to your daughter is inconvenient to get to by public transportation and the parking lot is a nightmare. If she and her roommate were to shop together and wanted a Trader Joe, tell them to go to drive to the one in Cambridge directly over the BU bridge. (I get produce there.) She is a few T stops from Shaw’s, a large but not particularly inexpensive supermarket. My downstairs neighbors periodically do large shoppings at Shaws and have their purchases delivered. They like that better than Peapod because they choose their own meat, produce, etc.
I like Peapod, but you have gotten some good advice about it in other comments. (I got frozen salad in my last order.) I love the convenience because I’m in a third floor walkup and the delivery people bring everything up the stairs. I have an order coming tomorrow and am thrilled to not have to deal with climbing and sliding over mounds of ice to get my groceries out of the car.
I find I save money, no impulse buying. I use newspaper coupons. Stop and Shop (the Peapod supermarket) has it’s own brand of organic food which is very reasonably priced. I buy $100 worth of goods at a time and don’t remember the last time I ended up paying delivery because of email specials I receive. I buy gallons of milk, OJ, canned goods, cleaning supplies-anything heavy. I save the most money by compiling my order on a Wednesday and submitting it for a delivery day within the next several days. I take advantage of the specials offered that week and the reduced prices are locked in. The new weekly specials are posted on Thursday and I add those to my order. You can change items in your basket until about 24 hours prior to delivery, so if I get it on Friday or a few days after, I have taken advantage of the specials for both weeks. That works very well for me.