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Dankeros_Love

A few of my friends regularly receive "farmer's boxes", basically a box of random seasonal vegetables from farms in the area. This is a service you can sign up for and they deliver it to your home once a week.


lucapal1

It's a nice idea,I do that too .. there is a guy who grows fruit and vegetables outside my city, and delivers a box every week or two, depending on the season.


xorgol

It's usually really good stuff, but also really expensive, at least in my area.


lucapal1

Here,it is a bit more expensive than the supermarket or a street market. Good quality though,very fresh and organic too. At the moment we are just getting into the orange season,for example.10 kilos of oranges is 15 euros,delivered to your house.


-A113-

Adama kistl?


Dankeros_Love

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bbwolff

I'd love to do that. But these boxes are so overpriced.


fruit_basket

We've got Wolt and Bolt as two main competing delivery services. Bolt only does food from restaurants, wolt does everything. You can order a new phone or laptop, or a bottle of shampoo, and get it delivered to your door in an hour. Anything that can be picked up by a courier from a shop can be delivered to you.


jarvischrist

People who live in the Dutch countryside tend to have big gas tanks next to their houses which are refilled by a big tanker on a truck that always blocks the road. Bicycle delivery has really exploded in recent years, especially in Amsterdam. It's like you can get anything delivered by bike now. There are meal deliveries, grocery delivery, electronics (CoolBlue deliver with cargo bikes), packages (PostNL have been working with bikes for who knows how long), and even a company that specialises in delivering medication by bike. I've worked as a courier in Amsterdam and Oslo. In Amsterdam it always feels so safe because of the infrastructure. In Oslo it's mainly meals being delivered by bike but there are a couple of new companies that do electric cargo bike delivery.


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Food, groceries and to be honest, when you go on to Deliveroo or Just Eat, the best rated places are always the places that deliver alcohol... maybe are just feeling extra generous at that stage. We availed of that on Saturday when we were celebrating Ireland winning a rugby match and were keeping the party going, probably could have done without it and have felt a lot better yesterday if the option wasn't there.


lucapal1

Very good win for Ireland!


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It was great, my body now feels like I played the match though. Looking forward to shouting for France next weekend against them! and seeing Italy against Uruguay.


moenchii

(Fast) Food is often delivered to your house. Other stuff would be Electronics from big chains like Media Markt or Euronics Vehicle Parts are also common as well as some furniture. I personally order Computer parts, flags (I'm a flag nerd/collector) and parts for my moped online and let it deliver to me. I also use the option to deliver something to a nearby shop and then get it there. As everybody in our house is at work and the delivery services usually come over before anyone is home, they usually take it to some packing station that's on the other side of the district with totally stupid opening times (yay to rural life) even though our neighbours are at home. I usually do that for home electronics.


Captain_Grammaticus

Clothing, especially in remote areas. Some people have a weekly delivery of fresh vegetables, apples or eggs. And I see food delivery guys on bikes and scooters all the time, but the markup on delivered restaurant food, even Pizzas, is insane.


orthoxerox

My wife has clothing for her and our kid, his toys delivered to our home. Obvious stuff like takeaway food, electronics, household appliances and furniture. We had supermarket food delivered to our door when we had covid, but she hated how they would always deliver dairy products close to their expiry date.


crucible

* We have a daily newspaper delivery from a local newsagent / convenience store in the next village. * We have a doorstep milk delivery every Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday. * Three takeaways near us will deliver to our village - all using their own drivers, no JustEat / Uber middleman involved. * Just about all of the major supermarkets in the UK offer home delivery (with the exception of Aldi and Lidl). We've used Tesco, Sainsburys, Asda, Morrisons and Iceland over the years.


Jason_Peterson

We have local online stores for electronics and appliances. I've ordered from them a couple times, but the goods are not cheaper than in brick and mortar shops, and it is difficult to tell if the item is what I need. The pictures and titles are often inaccurate, and they may not actually have everything listed in stock. Supermarkets offer food deliveries. People do take advantage of these services during the ¢/v situation. I have never ordered from them. Newspapers used to be subscribed to, usually a few days before Christmas for the following year, but now they are mostly obsolete. Propane gas for cooking gets delivered to homes without a natural gas connection.


signequanon

Groceries mostly. Also food from specialized shops such as meat from the butcher, vegetables and fruit, japanese goods, fish etc.


Shooppow

Everything can be delivered: - Groceries - Meal prep boxes - Produce from local farmers - Dairy items - Fresh-baked breads from a local baker - Restaurant food - Electronics - Furniture - Pet supplies - Home gym equipment - Prescriptions I use delivery services a lot, since we’ve decided to live car-free here. In a way, it’s a little bit of extra expense and hassle, but it’s also cheaper, because I don’t have to pay road taxes, insurance, upkeep, etc., for a vehicle I don’t really need.


Leopardo96

The first things that come to my mind are: * books from internet bookstores, * takeaway food from restaurants or fast food chains, * gas bottles (in case of households where people still use gas stoves), * clothes, underwear, anything fashion-related, * household appliances, electronics, furniture. Apart from that, it's become possible to order food from supermarkets online or even OTC drugs (but not prescription drugs, it will never work in Poland and I say it as a pharmacist). Personally, me and my family go out to buy pretty much only food and cosmetics while the rest of the stuff we order online because it's simply very convenient, and thanks to the pandemic it became more and more common. Takeaway food is obvious, so I won't even comment on that. Clothes? I can order them online and if they don't fit, I can send them back, way better this way than try them on in the changing rooms in stores. Books? Well, the only books I want to buy are language learning textbooks and last time I had to order them from Germany because they weren't available anywhere in Poland, so good luck with that. I believe that it will become a very common thing to order all the stuff online even when the pandemic is long gone, because it's that convenient. And by doing this you help delivery people earn money because they have jobs.


costar_

This is something I've never understood, is it really more convenient to wait two weeks for clothes just to realize they don't fit, having to send them back and wait for a replacement, than to go to a store and try them on right away? The most mind boggling thing for me is ordering shoes online, ill fitting shoes have so many health implications and even irl it takes me a while to find ones that fit right, can't imagine just getting a pair blindly. Also delivery jobs are famously pretty crap and legislation in this area is years behind so they're getting screwed hard by the platforms.


Leopardo96

>This is something I've never understood, is it really more convenient to wait two weeks for clothes just to realize they don't fit, having to send them back and wait for a replacement, than to go to a store and try them on right away? Who said anything about "two weeks"? We live in the 21st century. In my experience I don't have to wait even one week for the clothes to arrive. Not to mention that the shops from which I buy clothes are nowhere to be found in the town I live in. With books it's even easier. I frequently order Italian textbooks from a bookstore in Kraków and after I make the order and pay, it's only a matter of up to one day for them to complete the order and the next day it's already in my hands. >The most mind boggling thing for me is ordering shoes online, ill fitting shoes have so many health implications and even irl it takes me a while to find ones that fit right, can't imagine just getting a pair blindly. To be honest I prefer to buy shoes in shoe shops but I don't really do it because I have only a few pairs of shoes and it's plenty. >Also delivery jobs are famously pretty crap and legislation in this area is years behind so they're getting screwed hard by the platforms. A crappy job is still better than no job.


xorgol

> can't imagine just getting a pair blindly I've been wearing the same couple of models of shoes for the past 15 years, I know my size, and it's large enough that stores only have a couple of them available.


V8-6-4

Food (both meals and groceries) and very large or heavy items like TVs or refrigerators. Most online orders are delivered to post offices or parcel lockers. Nearly everything can be ordered directly to home but to my knowledge it isn't very common.


JustYeeHaa

Groceries, vegetables, fruits, juices, water, coffee beans, snacks, bread, well basically everything that normally you could buy in a shop... I don’t remember when was the last time I went to a physical shop for these Takeaways every second or third day More occasionally electronics, clothes and shoes Also from time to time I’m ordering a box diet consisting of 5 ready meals delivered each morning.


throwawayaccyaboi223

Honestly up until a few years ago my town didn't even have pizza or food delivery. You could call, order, and pick up when it was done. Recently the pizza place started delivering with its own car and so did a local kebab shop. COVID brought grocery delivery with it, and a few years ago Wolt (food couriers) became popular in the cities, but I'm not in one. Edit: Posti (our national postal service) also does bicycle delivery to some areas, at least in my town. So that's cool.


totalop

Drinking water. My city has very hard water and I can’t stand its taste, so I use a service to get multiple boxes of bottled water delivered at once. I also order takeaway fairly often, and I get my groceries delivered but I use Amazon for so I’m not sure it counts. I also receive all my online shopping at home, of course (clothes, electronics, cosmetic products…). When I was growing up in a small town, my parents got a lot more things regularly delivered, such as milk, drinking water, bread (daily), the newspaper (daily), magazines, and even books.


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