Sardines Online

You may have ordered groceries online and had them delivered to your doorstep or mailed to you, but last week was the first time I did it.

I bought ten cans of Reese brand "skinless, boneless sardines in water with low sodium" from Amazon.com, since Shoppers Food Warehouse - the grocery store near my home - discontinued selling them.

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The cans were delivered by UPS within a week. They were cheaper on Amazon.com ($1.50 per can) than at Shoppers ($2.00), but I paid a $7 shipping charge, so they worked out to be slightly more expensive than buying them at Shoppers.

Since Amazon offers free shipping for orders exceeding $25, I tried to get free shipping by ordering another package of ten cans. But Amazon had only one package in stock, so I decided to grin and bear the shipping cost. I could have bought some another grocery item or a book or something, but I didn't do it.

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Grocery stores carry several different brands of sardines apart from Reese, but all of them are either in olive oil or vegetable oil, or they aren't boneless, aren't low in salt (sodium), etc. Reese's is the only brand that offers what I think is the healthiest option.

These sardines are imported from Portugal, and they aren't quite as tasty as the ones imported from Morocco. The Reese sardines used to be Moroccan ones until a few months ago.

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None of the other grocery stores that I visit (Giant, Lotte, Trader Joe's) carry that particular type of Reese sardines, so I was having to rely on Shoppers grocery store. Here's hoping that it's just the grocery store that has discontinued carrying the brand, not Reese that has discontinued making it.

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I wasn't home when UPS delivered the package, so they left it at the rental office in the adjoining building.

I've picked up several different kinds of parcels (mostly books) from the rental office. But picking up a delivery of fish was a first.