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12 helpful eco-friendly Android apps to tackle food waste
Find out how you can stop delicious food from landing in the trash
It's estimated that the typical American family wastes $1,800 worth of food each year due to food waste. This is equivalent to throwing away 40% of the food they've purchased. Due to the energy and resources, it takes to grow, harvest, process, and export food, you can imagine what a huge waste this is. On top of that, this food ends up decomposing in landfills, which produces methane, a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming.
How to use Amazon Key in-garage grocery delivery
You can have groceries dropped off in your garage, even when you aren't home
Amazon has become the service when it comes to at-home deliveries. Particularly during the pandemic, when many shoppers were hesitant to go into stories, the e-commerce retailer further established itself as the go-to option for online shopping. It even offered special discounts to Prime members through its Alexa-enabled smart speakers and displays. And since its acquisition of Whole Foods Market, Amazon has been offering grocery delivery services with its Amazon Fresh service, taking the stress and inconvenience out of one of the most common errands run by people around the country.
Google's built-in price tracking for Chrome is inching closer to reality
It helps make shopping products at their lowest price much easier
It's no secret that we're constantly looking for ways to save our hard-earned cash when we purchase things. While there are plenty of resources to help us hunt for deals, it still requires a bit of work on our end to find the best prices. Thankfully, Google has been working to bring a price tracker to Chrome for Android, and with a future update, it could be even easier to find products at their best prices.
Out of Milk will kick tons of users off the service, here's what you need to know
The app's new owners don't want anything to do with anyone outside the US or Canada
There are plenty of apps to help you remember what to buy from the supermarket. Some people, like me, like to have everything in a single place and use to-do list apps to keep track of what they need to buy. There are also more specific apps, like Bring or Out of Milk, that focus specifically on making grocery shopping easier. The latter, however, just got bought by an American company that doesn't want to deal with users outside of the US and Canada.
Google Maps is getting a ton of new features — here's what to expect and when
Indoor Live View AR navigation, weather and air quality layers, grocery pickup integration, eco routing, and more
Google Maps is easily one of the company's most successful products. The era of using a paper guide or linear follow-them-or-get-lost MapQuest directions is long over. And though some competing services like Apple Maps might be prettier, Google Maps is king when it comes to functionality, tools, and services integrations. But the best-of-the-best is getting better this summer, and Google is rolling out a handful of new tools and tweaks, like indoor AR navigation, weather and air quality information, grocery pickup integration, and tweaks to reduce your dead-dinosaur-burning car's carbon footprint.
Here are 41 grocery delivery apps for supermarkets and stores across the US
Food Lion to Publix to Walmart and beyond
There are plenty of grocery delivery options out there in the time of our society's self-isolation and subsequent, exacerbated need. Some of them come from national services such as Amazon, GoPuff, Instacart, and others. But if you want to be able to get right at the source for your produce, meats, and pantry-fillers, your local store might have an app for that.
The best grocery (and alcohol) delivery services, plus discount codes
Stay fed, stay lit, stay safe from the coronavirus
The coronavirus pandemic continues on and social distancing is the new normal. But you've probably seen news footage of hordes of people at the supermarket, ready to pounce on a pallet of toilet paper or a bottle of hand sanitizer come the rooster's crow. Doesn't look too socially distant, huh? Maybe you'd be better off having your groceries delivered for you. If you're able to pay a small premium, then there are a bunch of apps that can help, and we've got the skinny on them.
We were a bit perplexed earlier in the year when we saw that Walmart had mysteriously disappeared from Google Express, but it seems the two companies are still collaborating on other ventures. Online grocery shopping with pickup or delivery is a popular service from Walmart, and it's now getting even easier with a new Google Assistant voice ordering capabilities.
Since Amazon paid an eye-watering $13.7 billion for Whole Foods Market last summer, we knew we'd eventually see some integration of the luxury grocery chain's products into existing Prime services. It's taken a while to work out the details, but Amazon has just announced that Prime Now customers in select locations can now get Whole Foods items delivered within two hours.It's only available to residents of Austin, Cincinnati, Dallas, and Virginia Beach to begin with, but more cities will be added over the course of 2018. If you live on the outskirts of any of those places, check the site to see if you're eligible. Products from pretty much every aisle will be available through Prime Now, and Whole Foods CEO John Mackey says he's worked with Amazon to bring prices down across the board in preparation.To qualify for a two-hour delivery slot you have to order at least $35 worth of groceries. If you're super hungry (and have money to burn) you can fork out $7.99 for extra-fast one-hour delivery. Orders will be taken between 8:00 to 22:00, either online or through the Prime Now app. Happy shopping![EMBED_APP]https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amazon.now[/EMBED_APP]
Blue Apron's meal kit delivery service has become a popular choice for busy Americans who love to cook but struggle to find the time to shop for ingredients. Its flexible plans let you choose what you want for the days you know you'll be able to spend time in the kitchen, and its range of recipe options is pretty exhaustive. iPhone users have been able to control their accounts with the iOS app since way back in 2015, but the Android app has been conspicuous by its absence, until now.
There are many powerful to-do list apps out there that can be used to help you remember the milk, but given the sheer number of features they provide, relying on these apps for such a singular purpose could feel like overkill. Even the somewhat barebones Google Keep may come with more weight than someone needs for their weekly shopping runs. If you want an app that just strives to do one thing - in this case, be a shopping list - and do that thing well, then you may want to consider Buy Me a Pie!, the latest popular iOS app that has made its way over to Android.
As if Amazon hasn't already helped make our mobile life easy enough, today it released AmazonFresh for Android into the Market. If you've never heard of AmazonFresh you're not alone, as I hadn't either. As it turns out, it's Amazon's take on grocery shopping, complete with fresh produce and home delivery.