| I was in Bideford North Devon in the summer sat in | | | | Somewhere in that agreed time slot your food |
| cafe enjoying a lovely cup of tea when i got talking to | | | | shopping is delivered, usually with loads of carrier bags |
| a older lady who asked me the usual, you on holiday, | | | | but it arrives. |
| have you come far etc....? I was just up for the day | | | | The question has to be asked though is it right that a |
| from Exeter but it did raise the point what she was up | | | | multinational using their buying power and economies |
| to, so i asked her. She had in fact come to 'town' as | | | | of scale uses the internet to deliver at a very |
| she called it for her weekly food shopping as her local | | | | convenient date and time, attacking in some cases the |
| village shop had closed recently, and she went onto | | | | very lifeblood of rural villages? This lady's village shop |
| say; | | | | had closed as the new people coming into the village |
| 'with this new fangelled internet, people just don't go | | | | she had lived in all her life either shoped online or could |
| out and buy local nowdays'her words.... so that got me | | | | drive to town, for her it was the bus and her feet. |
| thinking..... | | | | You have to hand it to Tesco et al for using their |
| Online food delivery is now part of many peoples lives, | | | | foresight and business to do this, but in areas where |
| Tesco, Sainsburys, Asda and Ocado all play a major | | | | there is a high elderly population they clearly suffer and |
| part in making peoples lives easier, you simply create | | | | is this right, what do the supermarkets offer for these |
| an account with your favourite store. Its all pretty | | | | members of society? At the moment it is zero maybe |
| standard, you first choose your preferred delivery slot, | | | | they can/and should look at exploiting this after all we |
| then choose your items, checkout and pay. | | | | all eat and all need milk and bread... what do you think? |