I walk to the store and buy groceries and then walk home. No cab, delivery service, or drone needed. Sometimes I shop at a store closer to the office and bring what I buy home on the bus [which is typically how I get to/from work].

it's difficult; you need to carry them or take a cab, and it's especially hard to buy for multiple meals and in the quantities to realize significant savings that outweigh the meal kit convenience.

as we got busier our 1-2 weekly home cooked meals dropped to once per every two weeks, and my partner loves cooking and she's very good at it, never thought she was the audience for a meal kit.

she ended up getting a job at Plated. Now we cook 2-3 times a week and end up spending more time together as a result.

the cost is not trivial (and of course we have access to employee discount) but it's certainly less expensive than almost any take out meal in NYC.

i don't know what the long term situation is like but i could see it always doing well at least in a city like new york

I'm in a city and currently don't own a car. We end up buying groceries through delivery services like instacart or peapod. If the service fails to deliver, which happens more frequently than we want, we kinda just deal with not having the food we wanted. Sometimes that means esti g a substandard meal, sometimes it means eating some frozen food we had and turning the other ingredients into a different meal the next day. It's extremely incovienent but it's better than walking to s supermarket or all the problems that come with car ownership in a city

Edit:we also ended up eating out at about an average of 2.5 nights a week every year which is much higher than when I lived in a rural area with a car

They probably use delivery services for groceries or don't cook. The point of blue apron was it was an easy way for people intimidated by cooking to start doing it.

We accept significant inconvenience. Make the 45 minute bus journey or uphill bike ride there a couple times a week and overstuff a backpack. Pick up small items at the overpriced, upscale mini-marts between work and the downtown bus/train terminals, if we remember to. Rent a Zipcar or take an Uber each way to the nearest proper supermarket that's open at the conclusion of our bus rides home, and kick ourselves for the expense.

One of the four supermarkets I walk past on the way to work every day. Or occasionally from a larger fifth one which requires a small detour.

This is in a medium-sized (~1 million people) European city; I gather your milage may vary in an American city, though I assume the ones where people tend to not have cars are mostly fairly dense.

> How do these folks get groceries from the store now?

Either via home delivery (so, not people who would use a curbside drop off), posdibly, in some areas, through Amazon Prime Fresh, or in smaller, more frequent trips walking or with a bike, or they don't regularly, and they just eat out and work with non-perishables at home.