Carrie G.
Yelp
Perfect for what it is. As someone who decided to try upending a three-year inexorable & crushing & bedridden depression by diving straight into a cross-continent move to start a fairly demanding PhD program, I am extremely the target audience for Yummy.com, which fills in my grocery gaps when I just can't adult at any given moment, and ensures I don't starve or run out of toilet paper or fail to feed my cat, or show up empty-handed at a mandatory academic potluck.
I've used Yummy.com as a grocery delivery service approximately once a month for the past four months. In the five times I've ordered -- and my orders are always weirdly enormous and complicated -- they've only ever failed to deliver two of the items I asked for: a baguette, which they called and told me they did not in fact have in stock, and did not charge me for, and a head of lettuce, which they did charge me for, but it was ninety-nine cents, so really, eh.
There's not much range/diversity of choice (i.e. if you want tomatoes, you click tomatoes, there aren't seventy options of heirloom cherry tomato or vegan cocktail tomato or farm-fed beefsteak tomato -- it's basically either you want big tomatoes or little tomatoes and now we're onto the next. Can you tell I have kind of a thing for tomatoes, I actually love having seventy tomato options, but that is not what I come to Yummy.com for! I come to Yummy.com to not have to make basically any decisions whatsoever).
Sorry that sentence got away from me. The point of that paragraph was, Yummy.com isn't where you want to go for your regular in-depth biggo grocery shop. It doesn't have the in-item range (it does have a great range in terms of categories of things it offers), and is pretty over-priced. But not that overpriced. It's more like, you're getting what you're getting for approximately the correct price, but if you were at a bigger store with more selection, you might choose a different thing that's a lower price.
Anyway everything I've gotten there has been great quality, produce included; one time I accidentally ordered one-ply toilet paper, but that was my bad. (That, actually, was extremely overpriced. Why does anyone make one-ply toilet paper now that we've discovered all the other plys.)
Good quality; fair prices; super reliable delivery by lovely humans who are nice to you; congratulations now you have that weird household item you need and some vitamins and tequila and broccoli and a carton of cigarettes, and it all came in exactly thirty minutes, like EXACTLY thirty minutes every time, and you only had to pretend to be wearing pants for like 45 seconds and got to keep working the whole time you would've been otherwise shlepping around and doing a whole thing about gently gripping all the avocados at the real store to see when they're going to be ripe or arguing with yourself about how many jalapenos you need.
Because Yummy.com knows. You need five. Five jalapenos.
Strong recommend for agoraphobes, depressives, procrastinators, people who will not eat if there is not food waved directly in their face, etc. Also anyone in a pinch -- folks about to come over and you forgot a couple recipe ingredients but you're mid-challah-baking and can't get out in time.
Not for: walking in, really. Although they do good deli.
Yes for: grocery delivery. Yes!