Food Shopping

Food shopping – another daily chore
Food shopping – every housewife’s favourite hobby? Or more like another unpleasant but necessary chore? The problem with food shopping is that it is timeconsuming and despite our best laid plans, the weekly big shop is never enough. Lots of little shops in between seem to be necessary every week – to stock up on all the little daily essentials that ourfamilies are able to get through quicker than a plague of locusts.
The internet has created some time saving opportunities when it comes to food shopping – and certainly the big shop can be completedonline with considerably less hassle than the non-virtual variety. However, because of the delivery charges it’s harder to justify the little shops – ordering a loaf of bread and a pint of milk onlinewill be more expensive than growing the wheat and keeping a cow in the back yard!
The benefits
There are two benefits to doing some of your food shopping via your local milkman’s online service. Afterall the dairies have been delivering fresh produce to our door for longer than just about anybody else and they know a thing or two about what we want. With established rounds – rounds that are nowgrowing again – they don’t charge a delivery fee. When you add to this fact that they deliver very, very early in the morning, it then becomes obvious that they offer an unbeatable service. Orders canbe made as late as nine in the evening and even if you only want a bag of spuds it will be with you first thing the next morning – minus expensive delivery charges. Compared to just about any otherdelivery service this really is about the best on the market.
New take on an old service
Food shopping may not be a favourite activity for many people – and finding the time to fit those little shopsin can be frustrating to say the least – with the services on offer from the local milkmen and women it’s likely that more and more people will soon be shopping for food using this new take on an...