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Amazon Fresh... refreshing

Today we received our first Amazon Fresh order. Overall, quite satisfactory experience.

Convenience: Excellent. Their website is pretty well designed, you can easily browse and pick the items that you want. The delivery options are pretty convenient... we chose pre-dawn; before 6:00am in the morning we already had our groceries at our doorstep. Packaging was formidable and even the containers were nice looking. All the items arrived in pristine condition.

Quality: Fruit, poultry and fish were pretty good; certainly better than what I would chose by myself (I'm not good at picking stuff on the supermarket). The rest of the stuff was standard, meaning that it would be equivalent to get the stuff anywhere else (e.g. a bag of chips was a standard bag of chips as you would expect).

Prices: They are lower than Safeway's and higher than Fred Meyer. As an introductory offer, Amazon takes care of the sales tax.

Are we going to shop again on Amazon Fresh? Probably... to be honest supermarkets are less than mile from our place and we like the on-premise shopping experience he he. We were mainly curious so we decided to give Amazon a try... who knows, maybe in a bitter cold day we will order again... or maybe we become so busy (e.g. lazzy) that we end up being fervent customers.

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