Thursday, December 25, 2025

That was weird...

Yesterday I noticed I was running low on soda and, not feeling like dealing with the crowds at Meijer, I figured I'd get a couple twelve packs of Mountain Dew Zero and one of diet ginger ale from Amazon.

When you hit the groceries tab at Amazon, you get a drop-down menu giving you three choices, of which only two are relevant if what you want is diet soda, since the third is Whole Foods.

I normally select Amazon Fresh rather than Amazon Prime Same Day. I have no idea what the difference is, so it's just habit at this point.

Yesterday morning there were no available same-day delivery windows at Amazon Fresh. Sad face. So I emptied my cart and figured I'd have to drive over to Meijer and deal with the seething mass of aberrant humanity doing their last minute frantic shopping.

On a whim, though, I decided to check Amazon Prime Same Day. They did have delivery slots available. No idea what the difference is, but there you go.

So I got my soda and avoided the scrum. Hooray!

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