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Driver101 said:
Personally I don't find supermarket home shopping convenient. It takes me longer to build my shopping list online than it takes to run to the supermarket at get back home.
Surely you would have your shopping list written in advance, same as you would if going to the shop. Once you go in the site its just a matter of locating the item as adding it to you virtual basket.Driver101 said:
I don't think waiting in the house for a few hours for my time slot is convenient either. I don't want to plan my day around being tied to the house.
Mine is a one hour time slot. I am tied to the house anyway working from home anyway, stopping for a few minutes to accept a delivery is no major hassel.
Bacon Is Proof said:
Just spent about four seconds googling the phone number of this evening's potential curry provider, having used Just Eat to browse their menu. Reckon it might take me an extra minute to call it in.
And I might not even get takeaway tonight! That's how much time I have on my hands!
Think I might walk to the pub and have a lovely pint in the sun.
So long suckers!
Enjoy your rat-race!
I can beat that "Alexa, open Just Eat, order my last meal". And I might not even get takeaway tonight! That's how much time I have on my hands!
Think I might walk to the pub and have a lovely pint in the sun.
So long suckers!
Enjoy your rat-race!
Cotty said:
Driver101 said:
Personally I don't find supermarket home shopping convenient. It takes me longer to build my shopping list online than it takes to run to the supermarket at get back home.
Surely you would have your shopping list written in advance, same as you would if going to the shop. Once you go in the site its just a matter of locating the item as adding it to you virtual basket.Driver101 said:
I don't think waiting in the house for a few hours for my time slot is convenient either. I don't want to plan my day around being tied to the house.
Mine is a one hour time slot. I am tied to the house anyway working from home anyway, stopping for a few minutes to accept a delivery is no major hassel.I don't buy a lot of things from supermarkets. The quality from things like the butcher and fishmonger is far superior.
When I've used supermarket online shopping the time slots are a few hours. Sometimes the time slot would be a half a day, but on the morning of delivery the slot would be narrowed down to a couple of hours. It's not convenient for me.
RobbieTheTruth said:
skinnyman said:
LukeBrown66 said:
Lol
"My time is far too valuable to go to the supermarket"
I am literally speechless.
Nope, I'm with this guy. I value my time, and covid/lockdowns has only highlighted the value of time to many people. I used to wash my car myself, now a mobile valeter comes round. Supermarket shopping is now done via delivery. We've recently started Hellofresh, again as it saves times and is more convenient. "My time is far too valuable to go to the supermarket"
I am literally speechless.
I will happily pay money for convenience.
While this guy is 'literally speechless', the rest of the population is spending over a billion a month on online shopping, leaving us free to do more enjoyable things with our time and massively cutting down cars on the roas by letting one big delivery van deliver to mulltiple addresses.
Driver101 said:
I rarely make a shopping list. I remember the essential things I need and pick up what takes my fancy. I see people save their shopping list and order the same things every week. I couldn't do that.
I don't buy a lot of things from supermarkets. The quality from things like the butcher and fishmonger is far superior.
Different sites work different ways. Sainsburys doesn't give the option to re-order a previous shop, not that I would. It retains a list a Favourites which is just things that you have previously purchased. Handy to just run down and hit add on items that you order every week, like milk, beer, chillies, diced beef, peppers, onions, eggs etc etc. I then add to the basket. I don't buy a lot of things from supermarkets. The quality from things like the butcher and fishmonger is far superior.
LeadFarmer said:
RobbieTheTruth said:
skinnyman said:
LukeBrown66 said:
Lol
"My time is far too valuable to go to the supermarket"
I am literally speechless.
Nope, I'm with this guy. I value my time, and covid/lockdowns has only highlighted the value of time to many people. I used to wash my car myself, now a mobile valeter comes round. Supermarket shopping is now done via delivery. We've recently started Hellofresh, again as it saves times and is more convenient. "My time is far too valuable to go to the supermarket"
I am literally speechless.
I will happily pay money for convenience.
While this guy is 'literally speechless', the rest of the population is spending over a billion a month on online shopping, leaving us free to do more enjoyable things with our time and massively cutting down cars on the roas by letting one big delivery van deliver to mulltiple addresses.
As another poster said, we've built a list on Tesco/ASDA/Sainsbury. Its a core list which gets reloaded once a week and between a 30 minute debate sitting on the sofa late in the week we tweek what else is needed. Then the shopping is delivered at ridiculous o'clock of a Friday night meaning no hassle for us beyond shouting at the older kids not to be lazy buggers and help put it away.
If i was young, free and single and my weekly shop was £20 i'd scoff at me - but it works and saves f@nnying about in a tesco car park with a trolley load of food.
Interestingly we now patronise far more farms, local butchers and the like as, like another poster commented, i like the odd browse but just for things i am interested in. So online and tech has turned me on to spending local as it allows the core requirements to be covered in 30 mins.
LeadFarmer said:
skinnyman said:
Ah yes.......
"hello Mr Curry house, I fancy a curry, what's on your menu?"
"well........................"
If someone doesn't know what's on any typical curry menu then they shouldn't be allowed near a phone."hello Mr Curry house, I fancy a curry, what's on your menu?"
"well........................"
skinnyman said:
LeadFarmer said:
I've never used Just Eat, or any of the others. I don't understand why folk can't just ring the takeaway themselves.
Ah yes......."hello Mr Curry house, I fancy a curry, what's on your menu?"
"well........................"
In terms of whats on the menu it will be a combination of Box 1 and Box 2
Box 1
Chicken
Lamb
Keema
Prawn
Box 2
Jalfrezi
Rogan Josh
Dopiaza
Madras
Vindaloo
Korma
okgo said:
LukeBrown66 said:
You are right on all of those things, but why does that mean you have the right to presume anything about me or anyone else?
I presume you are very well paid, have numerous cars, live in the middle of nowhere in a house worth a lot, have more than one kid a demanding life and feel you are more important than me?
Yet also feel it's OK to put your valuable time before just about anything else in life?
Before we go off track, this was simply a post based on a radio report, I found it staggering at what was said, and have said enough to end this conversation here, and my input into it.
Because you have made a number of assumptions about others and called us lazy and scoffed at someone else who has said their time is too valuable (while knowing nothing of their situation), so why can't I ask what on earth you know about how other people in different situations choose to live?I presume you are very well paid, have numerous cars, live in the middle of nowhere in a house worth a lot, have more than one kid a demanding life and feel you are more important than me?
Yet also feel it's OK to put your valuable time before just about anything else in life?
Before we go off track, this was simply a post based on a radio report, I found it staggering at what was said, and have said enough to end this conversation here, and my input into it.
I don't know what you class as very well paid, live in London and have a busy job at times and a young child, ergo I will pay people to do things I don't want or have time to do, which is why I have a cleaner, someone to do the garden and will use deliveroo (because I can't physically leave the house if my wife is out and I want a takeaway because my son is asleep) and as I said, there are quite literally hundreds of takeaways on my doorstep and it is not feasible to ring round them/google all of them to see their menus.
That doesn't make me more important than you. But it does give me the ability to give the other side of the argument. Pretty much all of us have been you (maybe save for the location you live in) in terms of having spare time, being single etc etc, you haven't yet been me, and I dare say your opinion of such things may change if you suddenly had much less free time and more free money.
Re being tied to the house and taking time to craft an online shop, my car is outside the house, by the time I've got in and driven to the end of the road I could have tweaked last weeks shop and had it ordered (it takes perhaps 30 mins in the first instance, but obviously it takes at least that every week or more if you're going there). I also am sure they offer a pretty tight time slot, which given most people work from home these days isn't difficult to work with.
If I've had a couple of beers and fancy a Lebanese mezze session from a place that's 10-15min walk away, why wouldn't I just hit the button and not spend half an hour walking to/from a restaurant?
The main convenience of these companies is everything in one place. We'll sometimes decide we're going to get a takeaway/delivered meal but not have a specific meal in mind. Open up the app and there's a list of all the places in delivery range including loads we've not tried before.
Still can't find a decent curry place around here though, and my Mrs is still annoyed that the decent Greek place we've been to a couple of times is out of delivery range
As for online supermarket shopping it's bloody brilliant as my wife buys what we need instead of wandering around the shop for an hour putting loads of random stuff she fancies in the trolley, and then buying loads of things we don't need just because they were on special
Still can't find a decent curry place around here though, and my Mrs is still annoyed that the decent Greek place we've been to a couple of times is out of delivery range
As for online supermarket shopping it's bloody brilliant as my wife buys what we need instead of wandering around the shop for an hour putting loads of random stuff she fancies in the trolley, and then buying loads of things we don't need just because they were on special
RizzoTheRat said:
As for online supermarket shopping it's bloody brilliant as my wife buys what we need instead of wandering around the shop for an hour putting loads of random stuff she fancies in the trolley, and then buying loads of things we don't need just because they were on special
I do our supermarket shopping, as I do the cooking. Since lockdown v1 I have been doing it online, but prior to that I mainly used Aldi. I used to come home with some proper random stuff from the aisle of wonder 
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