I prefer getting my own groceries despite my hatred of fellow shoppers. I need mah exercise. Carrying those heavy bags up and down the stairs is some damn good exercise.
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Quoth blas View PostI prefer getting my own groceries despite my hatred of fellow shoppers. I need mah exercise. Carrying those heavy bags up and down the stairs is some damn good exercise.https://www.youtube.com/user/HedgeTV
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Quoth Whiskey View PostI bike and bus wherever I need to be. I need to get a basket for my bike so i can chuck groceries in there.https://www.youtube.com/user/HedgeTV
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Quoth Food Lady View PostI just realized I spend wayyyy too much time here. I read "pavement" and automatically pictured concrete. I've started to use other britishisms in my everyday speech, too.It's floating wicker propelled by fire!
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Didn't Joni Mitchell write a song on the original topic?
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Quoth Whiskey View PostI bike and bus wherever I need to be. I need to get abaskettrailer for my bike so i can chuck groceries in there.
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Quoth Magpie View PostFTFY. telecom_goddess, if you're shopping for four with weekly excursions you'd be able to fit everything in there. Well... depending on how much you need at once. I get produce from market and dry goods from the baking supply store, so my grocery shopping is less bulky. I never need to buy flour at the grocery store for example.
I like the change to trailer on the bike that was cute. I generally have to get a standard shopping cart pretty full...some weeks are bulkier than others depending on what I need. Actually it's a moot point I don't own a bike at this point in time. Until we get another car I'm basically stuck. If it was just me or just me and my boyfriend it would be way easier. Maybe.https://www.youtube.com/user/HedgeTV
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Where I work we have shop front glass windows, but as we're an office not a shop (and an office that requires some degree of confidentiality) we have that film that turns it into mirror glass. We have a front door that is clearly marked as ours, two mirrored glass shop fronts, then a "back" door which isn't obviously belonging to our organisation (and which we share with other organisations).
So one day I am standing at this back door with 2 co-workers. We've just come back from lunch and one of the other's is a smoker so we're chatting while she smokes before returning to work. All 3 of us are female.
I'm looking the other way down the street to the other 2 - and I see this man weaving down the road.
He passes us, stops less than a meter down from us. And urinates on our window.
We didn't even say anything to him. He was so obviously not all there - and even if he didn't get angry we didn't want him to, say, turn and try and talk to us...
Luckily none of the people in the office were looking out.
I've just moved into this area too...
Quoth Magpie View PostYou only wish you had them until someone calls you up trying to get you to switch, and tries to convince you that it's just a cheap and then you don't have to shop. (FTR, it's only just as cheap if you're rich, you have to normally buy name brands for it to not cost more. It's like how Sobey's is cheaper/no more expensive. And what's this about not having to shop? Yes, sometimes it's nice, but then I'd never see the discount rack, never make impulse cookie buys and never find out that there's a new brand of soy frozen dessert on the market.)
LOVE home grocery delivery.
Victoria J
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Telecom_goddess, I can't comment, as I don't know which size of cart is actually standard (and by "don't know, I mean "don't remember because the local store has three sizes, which I believe are all non-standard), and what level you consider "full". I think the main limit is that you're not supposed to put more than 50kg in the trailer at once. Given that I have no kids in it (it's a kiddie trailer, so it probably holds less than a normal one) I have about as much space as you would if you were trying to use the trunk of a normal car. Which, I am aware, is sometimes not enough for shopping.
Quoth Victoria J View PostIt doesn't cost more here. You do pay a delivery charge which has been between around £3.50 and £6 when I've done it.
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Quoth Magpie View PostActually I think that here it's not even that you're paying more - I think that the delivery charge is eaten by the company through discounts they got from promising one of the chains their business. But they have limits on what you can buy. GroceryGateway is the only one I know, and they work with Longos. Longos doesn't even have a store brand, so I'd be forced to buy brand name products. I a) don't know what brand names are actually worth spending money on and b) refuse to spend extra for the same or lower quality.
What you can't get is the extra stuff that the shops have been expanding into selling. I normally use Tesco's (not particularly recommending it - I live by a large one and therefore get a good selection online too). If I go to the shop they have clothes, and electronics etc. Online those are separate websites with separate delivery charges.
Which I like as it is less distracting and less expensive. Though I do have problems with amounts sometimes, I forget to stop and look and think about packet size and sometimes end up with ridiculously huge or tiny amounts of something or other.
You do less impulse buying - but also aren't limited by how much you can carry.
You can't check the best before dates.
Victoria J
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Quoth Victoria J View PostYou can't check the best before dates."It is traditional when asking for help or advice to listen to the answers you receive" - RealUnimportant
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Quoth greek_jester View PostOr the quality of fresh produce. I'm fussy about my fruit & veg, & if I've got to go out to buy them, I might as well buy the rest too. I just with the fantastic farm shop (not a brand - a shop attached to a farm) was nearer They do some of the nicest eggs & veg I've seen in a long time - without the large mark-up you get at the greengrocers (as opposed to the tasteless stuff you get at the supermarket).It's floating wicker propelled by fire!
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Quoth blas View PostIs there such a thing as a "public urination" fine in the UK?
Around here, it costs $218.00 if you get caught peeing on the streets/sidewalk.
A pregnant woman in the UK, however, has the right to pee anywhere and at any time she chooses, even - get this folks! - in a police officers helmet, if she so requests....Engaged to the sweet Mytical He is my Black Dragon (and yes, a good one) strong, protective, the guardian. I am his Silver Dragon, always by his side, shining for him, cherishing him.
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Quoth Marmalady View PostActually - believe it or not - in the UK a man may perfectly legally relieve himself in public, BUT he must aim at the rear wheel of his vehicle and keep his right hand placed upon the vehicle for the duration (why right hand? don't know!)
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