 Hello everyone, this is Ahmed Dan of AhmedDan.com. In the past I have taken you to several grocery stores to check what items are available and how long were the lineups. Today I'll take a different approach and try to do grocery shopping staying home online. So there are many different types of service providers. Some of these providers are actually third party service providers and they will bring groceries to your doorstep for a service fees. And these fees can run a lot or sometimes they can be expensive. And also there are grocery stores themselves who will deliver to your doorstep for a service fee of $10, $12 or $15. But the problem is that most of these grocery stores have no available time slots. And in order to find these you have to just search online and then just the way I'm showing you. And then you can see what stores or third party providers are available. Today I'll concentrate on only two grocery stores who deliver their own products via grocery getaway and Metro online store. So the first store we are going to be looking at is Longos Grocery Getaway. And then once we go to the website then you'll see that you know everything is organized here. You can see the tabs on the top and you can also click on the see all aisles and then it will give you a brief you know rundown of what the grocery stores or online grocery stores has. So today I'll just you know add some items from here and then I'll see that you know if it can be delivered to my doorstep and if any time slots are available. So I'm searching for rice here and I'll just add one rice to the cart. So you can you know add rice by going to the specific section where rice is available or you can just you know search for rice. So you have to enter your postal code to find out that you know whether they deliver to your address and then if they do then you can just you know keep grocery shop online. So I added a car rice for $9.99 and then I'm going to add some fruits and vegetables. So what I noticed about this store is that it looks like everything is organized and it's not hard to find and when you are adding things to the cart it shows you the number of items and the price which is very handy. So you know that you know how much you are spending and then here I noticed that they have the same day delivery available for $14.95 but you know this may not work right now because of the COVID-19 situation and for this specific store there's a minimum of $50 purchase and I believe there's a $10 delivery fees which will take a look shortly. So I'm adding here some beef and my cart is right now at looks like 12 actually I'm sorry 42.72 and in order to make the $50 minimum we'll just you know add some more items and I'm looking for some ice creams here. So they have a variety of ice creams and you know I'll just pick one without checking what they have to offer or all of them. So now it's my still I'm short so I'll just add another item to make it over $50. So I'll just add some you know quick already made food and we'll just add some sandwiches to see what you know what they have available. Actually I forgot that you know I'm running out of bread so I'll just add a bread so that should make it over $50. So I'll click on the home delivery option reserve now and then it's taking me to a page and then it's asking me to select a delivery window. So I have 90 minutes to select my options and then here if you are looking at the days which are available then you can see actually nothing is available so all of them are booked. So I'm just going far as much as the system offers and here I'm staying at May 8 and looks like you know they're all booked up there's nothing available so there's no way for me to have this delivered at my doorstep. So I'm just showing you the cart anyway because here you can see some more information. So for example the delivery fee is $9.99 then there's a field searcher which is $1 and my total is 63 dollars and because you know there's no delivery time slots available so I couldn't you know check out I couldn't do anything. Here you can actually save you save your listing by clicking save to shopping list and then when you do grocery again next time you can just you know reload the whole thing that's a very nice feature so if you are someone who usually buy the same things you can just like you know reload your old grocery is what you bought last time and then you can just like an add or delete some from there so this is very good feature. So here I'm just trying to like you know see if it let me allow to choose a delivery time slot after entering my email address so I'll just choose a fake address and see if you know anything changes because depending on address it might change the time slot for deliveries at that specific address. So I choose a fake address, fake phone number and everything but still I can see that you know there is nothing available. So I have a feeling that you know they are all booked for as long as their system offers due to the situation because a lot of people just you know booked this long time ago. So now I'll check another delivery store which is Metro online and they kind of recently started this is not as old as the grocery gateway and I'll see that you know how their system works and whether this is better or worse than grocery gateway. So here you have to choose your stuff from the aisles which is on top and then you can also search by specific item but what I'm noticing here that you know the things are not that organized by like grocery gateway so I'll just click on the aisle to choose some items. So here I'm going to choose beef the selections are not bad but you know I somehow I don't I don't think this is like an organized like grocery gateway and it doesn't give you like you know too many options. So here I'll just add one item to the cart and then here same thing it's asking you to give you a postal code. So I'll just enter a fake postal code a fake meaning this is not my real postal address postal code and looks like the deliver to this address so I'll just add it and now it's asking me to choose a time slot but the thing is when I'm trying to you know click on it it doesn't work so I think this is they have a system problem so it could be that they have no more time slot but unlike the grocery gateway they are not actually giving you any information it's just like you know the system stops working so now I added one item to the cart and you can see that you know it doesn't show you actually how much is the price so grocery gateway if you remember they showed how much was the total so you would know that you are not close to your minimum yet but here you have to click on the card to see how much you have added so this is not you know user friendly option or online store to do grocery shopping. So I'm going to just add another item and then you will see that you know that my card number is changed to two but same thing here it doesn't show how much is your total so you have to just like you know keep adding and you have to check each time that you know how much is your total there so definitely grocery gateway is much better or user friendly than metro online. So let's try adding some more items and we'll make it up to our minimum I believe it should be the same here 50 dollars minimum but we'll see how much is the minimum here so I'm just keeping keep adding more items here so here I'm adding broccoli looks like it's on sale and you can choose how many items you want and if I check the card then you can see that my total is now 3280 and it's not giving me any other information for example delivery or how much is the minimum actually I'm sorry I just noticed that there's minimum of 50 dollars right there so same like the other one this one has a 50 dollars minimum so I'm just going to you know get some more items from here let's check some you know prepared food or sandwiches or what other things they have to offer okay so I just added some sandwiches here and I'm staying at seven items right now and I have to click on it to see my total and it looks like my total is now 5080 so I passed the minimum so I'll try to check out now and see what if it works but it mentions here the time slots not available or selected but here once it's selected then I can see that there's one time slot available so what it looks like that someone just canceled that you know time slot because everything else is full and one is available in the middle so someone probably canceled that and that become available so I'll just take that and confirm but now it takes me to the same screen again we were before and then it doesn't do anything you know I just keep clicking on it but it doesn't work so they have like you know system issues which is not user friendly they should tell you right up front that you know this time slot is gone but instead it's just taking you back to that screen and it's not working so I'll just try it you know a few more times to see if this works but same thing no luck here and you know okay so what happened I just kept clicking on it then it took me to another time slot available so I just I'll do the same thing but then again it just keep repeating the same error so it's just like you're taking it to the same page and you cannot go to anywhere from there so I'll try to trick the system by changing the postal code and see if you know this works so let's do that again I'll take pick a fake real postal code but fake address this is not my real address postal code and see if anything works here so it took me to the screen again but I don't think it's working so I'm just going to show you like you know if I can see what's their delivery fees so I'll just check the fact section and then you can see here that they have like you know explained everything and I'll just see what is the delivery fee here so here you can see that you know 11 dollars and 99 cents delivery fee if I'm not mistaken the grocery gateway was 10 either 10 dollars or 11 dollars what we found out that you know grocery gateway looks like more user friendly and works better than metro online metro online just keep keeps taking you to the same error page again and again and it's not even telling you that you know the available time slot is gone or the system is down so the idea is the same whether you are doing online grocery at metro or any other store so basically you have to do everything online and pick a time slot and pay the card and then you know they will deliver to your specific time slot but right now looks like everything is booked so you'll not be able to do like in a grocery online as long as the situation exists probably people booked these times lots long before so thank you for watching this video forget about subscribing this channel forget about liking this video there will be more videos coming up so I'll see you shortly thank you