Just thought of something else - I miss being able to use the reusable grocery bags! We’re just back from the grocery store with at least eleventy-seven of the stupid thin plastic bags.
Me too!!! A few of our stores are at least using paper not plastic...but the paper is pretty thin, so I end up have a million bagsJust thought of something else - I miss being able to use the reusable grocery bags! We’re just back from the grocery store with at least eleventy-seven of the stupid thin plastic bags.
Both the NH and MA stores that I go to are allowing the reusable bags. I had built up quite the supply of the plastic bags in the last year.No reusable bags yet where I live in Rhode Island. I can use them, as long as I bag, in Vermont. And I was given plastic bags in New Hampshire. It can make my head spin! I’d be fine with bagging my own. But every place is different.
They've been training us pretty successfully it seems to use the reusable ones, then the pandemic and we we weren’t allowed to. They'll have to start all over again!Oh, that's wild. Plastic bags got banned in supermarkets in New Zealand a year or two ago, so now we all just have collections of reusable bags at home!
I became an early adopter of grocery delivery service so did not need to make that pivot a year ago. Seriously, I get so distracted and over-stimulated in large modern grocery stores I come out tired, thirsty, and behaving like a cranky toddler. Oh, and I leave with a fraction of what was on my list.
I am doing curbside pick up at local Independent market.. had groceries delivered for about 6 months and pick up 6 months. Wonder if I’ll ever go to Whole Foods or Trader Joe’s again.I became an early adopter of grocery delivery service so did not need to make that pivot a year ago. Seriously, I get so distracted and over-stimulated in large modern grocery stores I come out tired, thirsty, and behaving like a cranky toddler. Oh, and I leave with a fraction of what was on my list.
I wish this were me. I go to the store and come home with at least twice what I went for, and then on the way home realize I forgot something.I became an early adopter of grocery delivery service so did not need to make that pivot a year ago. Seriously, I get so distracted and over-stimulated in large modern grocery stores I come out tired, thirsty, and behaving like a cranky toddler. Oh, and I leave with a fraction of what was on my list.
Yes me too, I hate grocery stores and crowds and have used a delivery service for several years. It’s nice to have the groceries show up at the door.I became an early adopter of grocery delivery service so did not need to make that pivot a year ago. Seriously, I get so distracted and over-stimulated in large modern grocery stores I come out tired, thirsty, and behaving like a cranky toddler. Oh, and I leave with a fraction of what was on my list.
I wish this were me. I go to the store and come home with at least twice what I went for, and then on the way home realize I forgot something.
We are fortunate to have a two independent grocers and a small cooperative grocer/farm market in the historic neighborhood in Philadelphia that we live in. We were working members of but it is tiny and because of the pandemic we opted out, paid the extra fee in lieu of work hours. I went in there once months ago for milk or something and even though the number of shoppers is capped the aisles and overall space is just too limiting to allow for any social distancing. I left without anything.Funny, since I've had more time during Covid I do more grocery shopping than ever. I go to an independent grocery for my main shop, a large natural food coop for my produce and a few other things, my small neighborhood market for the things I forget, and a bakery 7 minutes away for my bread. When I go to my favorite park in another neighborhood I take the opportunity to go to a great grocery over there.
If my only choice were one of those huge chain supermarkets where they keep all the sugary cereals on the bottom shelf I would never want to go. I can't stand a bad grocery and I tend to think poorly of places that only have bad chain groceries (Boise, I'm looking at you).
I am doing curbside pick up at local Independent market.. had groceries delivered for about 6 months and pick up 6 months. Wonder if I’ll ever go to Whole Foods or Trader Joe’s again.
I became an early adopter of grocery delivery service so did not need to make that pivot a year ago. Seriously, I get so distracted and over-stimulated in large modern grocery stores I come out tired, thirsty, and behaving like a cranky toddler. Oh, and I leave with a fraction of what was on my list.
I am so this person, too. I was using curbside/service desk pickup at stores for like 2 years before COVID hit (especially during the holidays at stores like Target!) This last year has made me feel so validated in this lifestyle choice.
I'm with you all on this one. Since March 1 of last year I haven't been in a grocery store. I've finally come to terms with the difficulty of shopping online; it's not like it was when I could walk up and down each aisle and browse. So I've learned to make a list, and check things off as I order them. It's taken a year to get me to do that with some amount of competency. All my groceries come in paper bags.Yes me too, I hate grocery stores and crowds and have used a delivery service for several years. It’s nice to have the groceries show up at the door.