Online grocery shopping

     Today I reflected on all of the new ways my day works and what I conquered! Ordering on line for me used to be limited to Amazon, flowers for out of state family, airline tickets, etc. Now I can proudly shout that I can order groceries online.  For some reasons, I am willing to admit my errors, the errors of the store, a new system for all and misinformation, yet I have ordered and picked up groceries. More on that below.

     Then the whole takeout routine. I have done okay with that way of life. Ordered and picked up food, or used one of the food delivery services successfully, even one day getting breakfast. Yes, we were tired of our own eggs!  With each new site, new apps, new passwords, new ways to pay. We even have started playing cars online with friends.

   Back to groceries though. As a young child, I remember going to one grocery store with my mother on Mondays and Thursday’s. Never did we go on a Tuesday. She had some coupons, and then there were the S&H stamps that we licked, or wetted down, put in books, and redeemed for some good items. Perhaps what I am saying, it was the routine. Now I don’t even go in the store.  I have friends my age who are still shopping. We each have to decide our own comfort levels and our own levels of risk. I am tempted to go the stores that don’t have online shopping,  yet I am not ready to be with so many people.

   So, what have you learned how to do? What is your level of risk to obtain food? Will you continue to be an online shopper when you can? What’s it like to have someone shop for you?

     
             
               

By: Kirsten Hartman