Online shopping: the ideal solution for those short on time.

At the end of a stressful day filled with work and family commitments, you arrive home exhausted and the fridge is empty. You have no desire to drag yourself out to do the shopping, but the ring of the intercom saves you. The delivery person has brought the online grocery order you placed. In such a hectic life, even finding the time to purchase essential food items is becoming increasingly difficult. Technology comes to our rescue, allowing us to do our online grocery shopping directly from a PC or smartphone and have it delivered conveniently to our home.

Online shopping: The advantages and disadvantages of shopping directly at home

Online shopping with home delivery, as we already mentioned, is definitely a great convenience: it means saving the time we normally spend going to and from the supermarket and the time we lose at the checkout.

The time-saving is the main advantage of home delivery shopping. A convenience that is gaining more and more ground; in fact, in 2018, according to data from the Altroconsumo association, 18% of Italians purchased packaged foods online (+7% compared to 2017) and 7% fresh foods. The disadvantages, instead, are the delivery times and costs, which can sometimes be really disappointing. But the true weak point of these services, however, is the respect for the cold chain. Temperatures are often too high, and that’s certainly not good for frozen products.

Many grocery sites allow you to shop online: the two most common systems are as follows. The first allows you to choose products from virtual shelves, pay by credit card immediately or at home upon delivery, and receive the goods at your front door on the specified day and time. The second, instead, after you have selected what you need from the website, requires the customer to personally go to pay and pick up the already packaged groceries at the point of sale or at a pick-up point at the agreed day and time. Timeliness varies from operator to operator.

Online shopping: with Spaghetti & Mandolino, you have a world of products at your disposal

If there is an incredible strength given by the ability to do grocery shopping, it is certainly the ability to find and order any product you want, on one of the many sites available to you. From the most sought-after organic products to big brands, nothing escapes the net.

In addition to supermarkets that offer same-day delivery, there are online portals dedicated to food where it is possible to purchase quality products and wait for them to arrive at home with the courier without any worries.

This is where Spaghetti & Mandolino comes in, an online luxury shop with quality products. These are often sought-after foods among tens of thousands of small Italian producers. In short, the typical Italian feels at home at Spaghetti & Mandolino.

Online shopping: how Spaghetti & Mandolino works

Spaghetti & Mandolino is a digital food and wine store where you can find thousands of quality Italian specialty products. An online club with many proposals selected by food & drink experts, ideal for making your lunches and dinners true tasting moments. The portal aims to be a meeting point for true connoisseurs and gourmet lovers, but also for those who want to approach genuine Italian specialties that are difficult to find in regular stores.

Among the strengths of the service, in addition to the goodness of the products, are shipping and packaging. The boxes are carefully made down to the smallest detail, made of double-wall cardboard, which guarantees strength and resistance to shocks. Whenever necessary, for example, for wine bottles, bubble wrap is used. The finishing touch is given by the Spaghetti & Mandolino branded tape, which is not just an embellishment, but also guarantees that the package has not been tampered with by anyone else.

And unlike many other portals, here there is a great attention for fresh raw materials that spoil easily, such as cheeses and cold cuts.

For shipping fresh items like cheeses and cured meats (always vacuum-sealed and labeled by the producer), special packaging is used with several dry ice packs inside. Once the products are placed inside the package, the packaging is sealed and placed inside a box. This way, the product will arrive fresh, and thus in optimal conditions, even after 48 hours.

Start your online shopping now and remember that Spaghetti & Mandolino can also be the perfect opportunity to give beautiful Christmas baskets, quality holiday gifts, featuring great food and wine products from made in Italy.