I cannot understand people who still go out and shop!! To me they just must be masochists!!! I buy everything on line from food to the widescreen TV to shoes, clothes. Just ordered a new deep fat fryer and a mini oven.
You can compare prices in five minutes with Google compare or just put the item you want into Google search and it comes up with places all over UK and the prices. I have save hundreds of Pounds ordering from England for delivery to my door on a date stated by the vendor. Many have update delivery sections on their websites where you can check the progress of your order.
On the food issue, I use Tesco, all of the time. They have a 'favourites' section which lists your common purchases like milk, bread, pizzas beer and so on. Anything out with this list, that I fancy, I just put it into their search. There is, certainly, no trawling through loads of sections!
I then chose from the two hour periods from 0800hrs up to 2200hrs at night to have stuff delivered. Pay everything at the checkout via either my Debit or Credit Card, as I choose. I can change my order prior to the day of delivery or change the time/date delivery to another available slot. On the morning of the delivery I receive a text bringing the delivery down to an hour from the two hour window that I've picked!!!
I get confirmation E mails and can have lists of my shopping printed or saved. The delivery guys bring the goods right into the kitchen.
Anybody who would prefer to go to a supermarket in the rain and snow, as opposed to this wonderful system is very sick indeed, in my opinion!! Who wants to get all ready, drive there, find a parking space, well away from trolleys, which invariably end up embedded in your car!!! Then, after the car is secure, alarmed and with a guard dog inside when possible, enter the market to listen to a cacophony of mobile phone ring tones,screaming weans and imbecile parent's incessant chatter about next door's affairs with the dustman, postman and cess pit emptier!
The women are worse, as they barge round, using the trolley as a destroyer and leg breaker with a wean hanging over the side of it shouting ' I want that, I want that' with the resulting arguments. It is all extremely dangerous!
Then you reach the checkout to wait in a queue and the people in front of you, as you get near the till after your frozen food has melted while you waited, have 34 tonnes of stuff!! They wait until it is all charged and packed away before making any effort to get out payment and then hunt for purses, usually under all of the stuff that they have packed, and start counting out money. On discovery that they do not have enough cash they then play hunt the cheque book, then hunt the guarantee card or they hunt for a Credit or Debit card and, of course, haven't a clue about the four digit number, which they then must hunt for too. I have heard it said that they will have to go out to the car to get Cheque Books or Cards which they leave in the glove compartments unattended!!!. This jams up the till and others are left dangling in the queue while these morons get their act together. Then they don't have a pen to write a cheque!!!!! It takes some of them four hours to do the shopping which I do in 15 minutes, lying in bed, at 3 or 4 in the morning. So who is the mug??? I don't struggle to get there nor suffer being in there. I don't queue nor do I have to carry anything.
Enjoy your shopping !! My feet ain't killing me either !!
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