Instant grocery deliveries

[Fizbosshoes]

DD (15) mentioned, and we both noticed, when we last went on the tube, how many ads there were for instant grocery deliveries, and how many different companies there were doing it. A year or so ago I'd never really heard of the concept.
Who uses them? Do you use them in place of, or as well as, traditional supermarket deliveries?
The radio ads (to me) sound a bit contrived - one example is you've started boiling water for pasta...but realised you haven't got any pasta. But surely people aren't buying (and paying for delivery) for just one thing? There must be a minimum spend.
I thought it was possibly more of a thing in London (especially as lots of people who live rurally or even semi rurally say they don't get uber eats or deliveroo where they are) but when I lived in London it was much easier to find a nearby corner shop/tesco metro/sainsburys local etc that was open long hours, 7 days a week, than it is now living out in commuterville.
I'm probably just really behind the times!

No chance where I am. We have about two Just Eat places who will deliver, no deliveroo, and absolutely no chance of any other instant food deliveries.

I find it really hard to supprt Deliveroo, Uber Eats etc as its all part of the zero hours contracts gig economy. Something just doesn't feel right about that.

I used them for the first time when we both had COVID after Christmas. Didn’t need a lot, but some were essentials.
They arrived in 19 minutes! Courtesy of a Co-op fairly near.
Can’t remember which service it was, though.
Haven’t used them since, but def would again if for whatever reason neither of us could go out.

I don't think we've got any of these in our area (market town in a fairly rural area). Apparently Deliveroo are here but I've never seen any of them out and about like you do in larger towns. Never heard any of my friends say they've used them. But it does sound like a very useful system.

I use it about twice a month to send a few bits up to my Nanna. Usually I visit and go to the supermarket for her but if she isn't feeling up for a visit or I haven't managed for whatever reason it's a real help. She is about 40 mins away from me, so when the bread/milk runs out I can easily get her more.

@brokengoalposts

I was once in bed at 1am when I heard my 20yo ds go downstairs, I then heard the front door open and heard voices, said door then closed and ds bounded back upstairs. I texted him to see what on earth had happened. He'd had a delivery of a can of Coke, ffs!!

That’s even worse than my 1 hour plastic tub delivery!

@mrsed1987

We have the little starship robots here, no delivery charge, £1 minimum for delivery, the items are slightly more expensive but you could only fit a carrier bags worth of shopping in anyway.

Where do you live? I had to Google what these are and now I'm dying to have a starship delivery too