Any VON's grocery delivery experts out there?

[mommy2allyandaveri]

Hoping someone can help me. We've never order grocery's for delivery before. We will be staying at HOJO's early August. On their web-site it says free delivery on first order. Here are my questions:

I need to register for the card. Can I do that now then order about a week before we go and still get the free delivery on my first order?

We need milk, soda and water - is this our best option? We will be without a car.

 

[Sherry E]

Hoping someone can help me. We've never order grocery's for delivery before. We will be staying at HOJO's early August. On their web-site it says free delivery on first order. Here are my questions:

I need to register for the card. Can I do that now then order about a week before we go and still get the free delivery on my first order?

We need milk, soda and water - is this our best option? We will be without a car.

I am definitely an expert in Vons grocery delivery over the last several years (though I hate to say it, but more than 60% of my experiences with them have been bad, but I think it is mainly in my area of town that they are bad), BUT I do not have experience with them in terms of delivering to the hotels in and around DLR. That said, you may be able to just register for Vons Club now (they do not always send out a card for that - sometimes they will just record your info in their system and then when you go into a Vons store or order online, they recognize you as a Vons Club member) and then get the free delivery on your first order when you order - assuming there is no expiration date on the Free offer.

But, when you register for your Vons Club card/account, I assume you would be putting in your personal contact info, correct? Keep in mind that their system will recognize that information when you place your order, which may conflict with having the order delivered to a different address. It seems like I recall reading other DIS-ers' posts about having to enter in the hotel info as your contact info so the system will not get confused, but again, I don't have experience with having Vons deliver to the hotels - only to my home - so I have never had to do it that way before. Apparently, Vons is getting quite accustomed to delivering to hotels around DLR so it should be routine for them now. If you have questions about it, you can call them at: 1-877-505-4040.

I think ordering for the water alone is a good plan if you are going to be there for a few days. Depending on weekly sales, you can sometimes get a 24-pack of Arrowhead or somethng similar for just a bit more money than what you would pay for ONE OR TWO SMALL BOTTLES of water at DLR!!!! Still, you have to order at least $50 minimum of groceries for the delivery, so you have to be able to come up with enough things to meet the $50 minimum. But if you do not have a car with you, then I think ordering groceries is a good idea.

 

[BrerMama]

I ordered through them and had it delivered to HoJo about a week ago. If you're ordering online for delivery, you don't actually need a card. You automatically will get those prices. I initially registered and started building my order about a month before we left. As soon as I could book a time slot, I went ahead and finalized my order, then I did go in and edit it a few times. I used the free delivery code.

We were out of the room when the groceries arrived, and HoJo took them up and stacked them in our room. We had 8 12-packs of soda, 2 cases of water, and various assorted groceries. We got everything in our order, with one substitution. I loved the service.

 

[bumbershoot]

"If you're ordering online for delivery, you don't actually need a card. You automatically will get those prices."

Ayep!

 

[mommy2allyandaveri]

Thanks for the info guys, I really appreciate it!

 

[sdfamily]

Vons is actually a Safeway company, so if you have a Safeway in your area and already have a card, you are registered.

When we've been in SF at Safeway, I enter my phone number (registered at VONS) and get the discount.

 

[Sherry E]

Vons is actually a Safeway company, so if you have a Safeway in your area and already have a card, you are registered.

When we've been in SF at Safeway, I enter my phone number (registered at VONS) and get the discount.

You still have to actually register with Vons.com for deliveries, though. Even if you are a Vons Club (Safeway) member and getting the discounts while shopping in the stores, it is a different process to order online and you still have to create the online account for home/office delivery, although they connect the online account to the existing Vons Club store card # (if you have an existing Vons Club card or membership, that is, and if you don't have one, then they essentially create it for you when you make your online shopping account). And yes, most supermarket chains will take phone numbers to activate discounts now, because often times when people get up to the registers they have forgotten their actual cards or lost the cards or whatever, so a phone number is something that everybody has and they don't have to worry about having the card with them.

I have had soooooo many problems with Vons delivery over the years. It largely has to do with my area, and I guess the shoppers and delivery guys they use over here where I live are not that great. Also, if one store in my area closes for refurbs, they have to get my groceries from another store in the meantime, and that could either be a blessing or a curse. I have had it both ways. I have heard that the Vons delivery experiences in Anaheim are MUCH better. Albertsons had quite a few advantages over Vons in the grocery delivery realm (and I ordered from both of them for years), one of which was the fact that you didn't have to order a minimum of $50 of groceries to get a delivery. You could order one or two items if you wanted to and just pay the lofty delivery fee. Now that Albertsons stopped their delivery service and Ralphs/Kroger does not seem to be venturing into that territory at all, Vons is pretty much the only game in town unless you go with smaller delivery chains like Pink Dot or (in my area) Yummy Delivery, both of which have much more limited selections and, yet, higher prices!