Buy from Esselunga in Italy and ship internationally

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Esselunga prices its Italian shop in EUR and often delivers only inside Italy. Italy Buying Agent buys from that shop after you approve USD lines, then ships from our warehouse in Italy.

Esselunga is a supermarket chain opened in Milan in 1957 by Bernardo Caprotti. esselunga.it sells groceries for delivery inside its Italian service areas. Use it for shelf-stable pasta, coffee, and sweets priced in EUR. We do not buy alcohol. Fresh meat, gelato, and other cold-chain foods are a poor export. Delivery slots are local. We place the order to our warehouse after you approve the USD total. Chocolate in summer needs a heat note.

What we actually do

You place the request on the order form. You type the Italian shelf price in EUR. Staff open the live page, check that the seller delivers inside Italy, and look for an EU size, a 230 volt spec, or a bundle that changed. We then write item lines and the service fee on your order page in USD. You approve that record before we pay the seller. We do not receive random parcels. Goods come to our warehouse in Italy only after that purchase. Questions and substitutions stay in order comments so the approval has a date.

Service fee and the two payments

The service fee is published on pricing. We apply it when we write your order page. You see item totals and the service fee in USD before the first payment. International shipping is not guessed on this page. After the goods are at our warehouse, we weigh them and write a second USD total. Estimates, not final bills, sit on the shipping calculator. Enter the price you saw in EUR. We convert the working total to USD.

Combine sellers, then ship once

Shoes from one Italian shop and coffee from another do not need two international labels. Ask us to hold pieces at the warehouse. We combine them when the products and the paperwork allow it. Glass, fragrance, and a bulky appliance may still need their own cartons. Service fee rules stay on pricing. Rough weight bands are on the shipping calculator. Final shipping is the weighed parcel, written in USD. You entered EUR only as the shelf reference.

Details that save a rejected order

Tell us if the item is a gift, if it must stay sealed, or if Italian-only packaging is a problem. We can photograph a label before export when you ask in order comments. Small appliances from Italy are often 230 volt with a Type L plug, three round pins in a line. That plug may not match your wall. Summer heat is hard on chocolate, lipstick, and some creams. Mention heat if the goods will sit before the second payment. We buy only the item you approved, matched to the listing that day.

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Saldi and a moving EUR price

Winter sales in Italy often start in January and summer sales in July, though regions set the exact day. A screenshot of Esselunga can be wrong by the time we open the cart. We pay the live EUR price after you approve the USD lines. If the sale ended, we stop and write the new total. The service fee follows the approved goods total, not the old screenshot.