For a number of reasons, I had to ditch my car before coming to San Francisco. This left me with the problem of getting groceries. I thought I would be hiking to the store and only able to carry back a few bags of food.

Enter safeway.com, where you can now order all your groceries online and have them delivered to your door.

At first I was a little sketched out about such a service, as are many people I talk to about online grocery shopping. Suffice it to say that the experience was nothing short of amazing.

First of all, I'm not a huge fan of going to the grocery store or shopping in general. It takes too much time. The time I spent shopping was cut severely. Huge plus.

While I was shopping online, I kept asking myself the same question I often ask myself in the grocery store, "Hmm... do I have any of that in my fridge?" Well, now I can walk 10 feet and get an answer. Brilliant.

One my my biggest concerns was that the produce might not be the best because I don't get to pick it out. This must have come up a lot in Safeway's focus groups on internet shopping, because the quality of the produce wasn't a problem at all. In fact, every tomato, onion, and husk of corn was seriously impeccable. I've never picked out such a good bunch of produce myself. The meat was also great. I also managed to get a $12 steak for $10 because the internet price was apparently lower than they had available. Genius.

The only catch is that you have to give a two-hour window for delivery, and delivery isn't free after your first purchase. Delivery is $10, but the price drops by $2 if you give a four-hour delivery window. It will also drop $2 if you spend over $150.

I really couldn't care less about the delivery fee. It beats the hell out of a car payment, car insurance, buying gas, and spending hours going to the store.

The only other thing was that they don't yet have some specialty items, like skewers for kabobs. But whatever. I'll live.

Anyway, I highly recommend it.