Best tips for grocery shopping remotely?

I know this isn’t a ‘Shopping Remotely’ but just an update re: our (really small) local Costco, in Scottsdale, AZ. Still have lines, but now have a chalkboard w/ what’s in stock (Bounty, Charmin, Purell, etc.) Also, 3 days per week, 8-10AM, 60+ only shopping. Makes the Social Distancing much easier. :)

In Wooster, Ohio we have a local grocery, owned by employees, who is doing a great job at helping us get the food we need. They have online ordering and a drive through pick-up lane. This has always been available, but since the corona problem it has been swamped. If you place an order it will be about a week out from being available. No problem if you aren’t really in a bind, but once you make an order you can add to it until the day of pickup. Being in the older senior group I am so grateful to have this opportunity. Also our local farm store will shop for you and do curbside pickups. No last minute inspirations for meals with a quick run into town. I ‘m glad my mom showed me how to cook during WWII, she always had a well stocked pantry for emergencies and I am finding her old recipe box a treasure of “make do”

Way out here near Yellowstone Ntl Park, we usually shopped in a larger town just once a month due to the 2 hour long drive one way to get to a big store. With this virus shut down, our all ready limited grocery items have become a shopping nightmare to find at all! we placed our order with the grocery store and set our time for curbside pickup. Ha Ha Ha! I ended up with the most bizarre substitutions EVER and a large list of items that we needed but had been cleared off the shelves by other shoppers! We took homewhat we did manage to get and all I can say is that I am grateful for the helpful articles and videos from Food52 to help give me inspiration. I also find myself remembering a LOT of advice and stories from my mother & grandmother on how they made do with limited resources during the Depression. I have made some delicious food but wow.... some real challenging times in trying to create things from some bizarre food I dont usually work with. I guess it has managed to keep my mind from worrying about things as much so that is a plus! Be safe and healthy everyone!

An update on Whole Foods: for some unfathomable reason, I decided to check them out just before lunch. Lo and behold, they had King Arthur flour, and 2 delivery slots that afternoon (and only then -- no openings listed for later times, days). Amazed to have gotten the delivery and in time (though missing some things). I texted my daughter as soon as they accepted my order. She tried an hour or so later, and couldn't get a delivery slot. I guess it's worth checking periodically, just in case.

Whole Foods deliveries have become impossible to schedule in northwest Florida, too. You can fill a cart up, but there are never any time slots for delivery available. My last order was about 1 1/2 weeks ago. The delivery came 4 hours late. The delivery guy told me that wasn't due to overwhelming demand but to some kind of glitch. In any case, Whole Foods seems to be out of commission for the moment. Publix, a local grocery chain, has really stepped up. You never know what will actually be available, but their shopping staff makes a big effort to check with you and get substitutes. It's easier many times to get fresh produce than other items. Frozen fruit and vegetables are tough to get. And flour is impossible to get at the moment. That's also true online at places like Bob's Red Mill and King Arthur. All of a sudden everyone and their Aunt Edna has become a scratch baker.
Good wishes to all of you. Be well, be safe.

Until recently I was using FreshDirect and Amazon Whole Foods, but the time slots in NY are booked so it's now impossible to get a delivery slot. Friends and my building residents have offered to do some shopping for perishables for me as we've been in mandatory quarantine (my pantry was stocked well in advance, fortunately). For Passover ingredients, I've shopped online at GrowandBehold.com for meat and OhNuts.com for almond flour, walnuts, hazelnuts and chocolate for my Passover cakes and charoset ingredients. For milk delivery in NY, I have used Mitchell's Beverage Direct for years. They also deliver newspapers, coffee from Oren's, and many other beverages.

I know people who are sending commodities through the USPS to relatives.

I work as an e commerce agent at King Soopers/Kroger. (Colorado Springs, CO)
That means people place an order online,then I go through the store & shop it. Our orders have more than doubled in the past 2 weeks. It's a good service. However, the misconception is that if the order is placed online that the product is automatically available... Some people are using Instacart. Whole foods is now doing an Amazon Prime service similar to Kroger's.