Online grocery shopping in Shanghai
Launched in 2012 to help Shanghai’s foreign residents find food they miss from home, Epermarket offers a stock range similar to the likes of import shops such as Feidan but with a focus on convenience. Their website is available in four languages (Chinese, English, French and German), they are one of the only stores to deliver goods in temperature-controlled vans and all products are traceable throughout.Ordering experience Hands down the quickest of all our online carrefour shanghai online shopping experiences, Epermarket features a slick site navigation that enables us to blitz through our shopping list in only 15 minutes. Our favourite feature is the fast buy, which searches the site for all the items on our copy-and-pasted shopping list in one go, saving us more than 20 minutes of page scrolling.
Delivery experience We opt for the late night 8-10.30pm delivery slot, the latest offered by all the stores we tried, but our delivery man actually arrives at 7.30pm without calling ahead. Helpfully though, he’s the only one to offer to bring heavy items through to the kitchen.
Goods are perfectly chilled on arrival, all packed in one sturdy recycled cardboard box, with non-food, meat and dairy items all separated in individual carrier bags and fruit and veg in card trays.