when I shop carefully, very competitive prices are real boons. LOVE, Amazon. Guiltily, perhaps, but love what it means for us anyway.
As a child when I was living with my older sister and her family, every 3 months or so we'd drive down out of the Yosemite area mountains to stock up supplies in Mariposa, itself not exactly a metropolis, me with their small children in the back of an empty pickup on the way down, surrounded by bags and boxes on the way back.
Now Costco is advertising nationwide 2-day delivery in the contiguous states for nonperishable goods, perishable 1-day in cities only. And I imagine other food sources are as well. Expect the USPS is above all what makes this possible. When the other carriers can't compete economically, they sub their own business to Ben Franklin's USPS. 
Kinda different, and as we get older I'm looking forward to seeing this develop more. But of course nothing's as good as having your own local market, so congrats again.
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