Love this!
Irvin
Awesome enough to put up with
I’ve used Imperfect Foods for years because the food is high-quality, the mission aligns with my values, and I genuinely enjoy the surprises. The whole appeal is getting an interesting assortment of odds and ends, so being slammed by algorithmic monotony feels especially backwards.
The cart is open from Thursday to Sunday evening (not midnight) for a Wednesday delivery. It’s easy for me to miss my chance to make edits. (ADHD?) I often get the default cart which tends to send the samebthings over and over again. At one point, I accumulated over 15 heads of garlic, three at a time. I finally put garlic into the “never send me this” box, only for the algorithm to start sending me tubes of garlic paste instead until i had five. I love garlic. I just do not need an endlessly regenerating garlic supply.
The same thing has happened with cooking oil, chickpeas, and potatoes. I currently have 8 cans of tomato paste. The only reliable way to stop an item is to banish it completely, which means many of my favorite foods now live in grocery prison until I get to the end of the surplus and remember to let them out.
Please add a pause option, item-specific cooldowns, and some kind of smarter automatic rotation. Certain groceries simply should not accumulate this quickly, and the automatic cart should offer more variety instead of repeatedly selecting whatever it chose last time.
I love the service enough to keep using it. I would just prefer that its algorithm be more clever not convert my house into a storehouse for surplus grocery items.
The cart is open from Thursday to Sunday evening (not midnight) for a Wednesday delivery. It’s easy for me to miss my chance to make edits. (ADHD?) I often get the default cart which tends to send the samebthings over and over again. At one point, I accumulated over 15 heads of garlic, three at a time. I finally put garlic into the “never send me this” box, only for the algorithm to start sending me tubes of garlic paste instead until i had five. I love garlic. I just do not need an endlessly regenerating garlic supply.
The same thing has happened with cooking oil, chickpeas, and potatoes. I currently have 8 cans of tomato paste. The only reliable way to stop an item is to banish it completely, which means many of my favorite foods now live in grocery prison until I get to the end of the surplus and remember to let them out.
Please add a pause option, item-specific cooldowns, and some kind of smarter automatic rotation. Certain groceries simply should not accumulate this quickly, and the automatic cart should offer more variety instead of repeatedly selecting whatever it chose last time.
I love the service enough to keep using it. I would just prefer that its algorithm be more clever not convert my house into a storehouse for surplus grocery items.
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Great food
Love the options and selection. Keep food price down delivered right to your door.
Very happy with this wonderful service!
Bi-weekly buyer here. I am very happy with the variety, selection, price, but especially overall quality! It is a lot of fun when our box shows up and it feels really good to support such a wonderful mission! If you want to clean up your diet, help stop waste of so many wonderful foods, and do it semi-affordably and very conveniently, this is a great service! It also gets us to try things we normally would not!
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Great produce and products, and great value!
We’ve been using Imperfect Foods for years now, brought them through a move with us. « Imperfect » may mean excess inventory, too big, scarred, but they’re all still delicious. As good, and often times better than what I pick out myself at the grocery. The 1 or 2 small issues I’ve ever had were quickly resolved, more than fairly. It helps keep staples like onions, lemons, green onions, avocados, apples and potatoes stocked up at our house and we get to try new products like the seltzer waters and kombucha. Not to mention I was introduced to persimmon with imperfect and LOVE them. Very customizable, great customer service. Love the service!
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