Published on 12, July, 2020
I'm just writing to a well known food chain, advising them of some shortcomings I am experiencing with their home delivery process.
Post Pandemic, I've realised just how much I utterly hated going "shopping" and I realised we are really invested now in home delivery!
(So much, that I'm actually attempting to get the process to work a bit better)
I wondered if it's just me, or is this a more universal Autism thing?
For those of you who don't like to post or vote, this is a very simple question, and you can possibly excercise a bit of power if you have a strong feeling about shopping.
We constitute about 1/50th of the population if I have my facts correct, (I may not when it comes to that number) so IF we turn out to be "all of one mind" it's worth "niche influencers" like myself (I KNOW companies, and even lawmakers, can be influenced by a well written complaint, as I've been doing it for years! I claim credit for killing a Kellogs ad campaign in the nineties with a particularly vitriolic communication to the right department and the part of U.K. drone law that lets your kids (and me!) fly a toy in your own back garden...
Complaining is like planting seeds, and waiting to see which ones sprout. For those who are lacking in funds and powerless it's a very cheap hobby, too.
You just have to do it creatively, and not "whine"...
So how do YOU feel about a trip to the shops?
Just survived buying paint in B&Q without killing anyone (luckily for them they didn't stand too close to me).
Also survived collecting items ordered from Sainsburys with the same result.
Gave up on the idea of food shopping in M&S as I thought it might be too dangerous.
2 actual shops with 2 items to buy/collect was more than enough.
Thank goodness the internet was invented.
Question 1: why does piped music exist in shops?
I have read that it exists in restaurants loud so that people don't hang about after their meal but surely shops want you to be comfortable enough to stay there.
Question 2: do NT people actually like it?
I suspect you are asking in the wrong place...
My theorising: NTs don't like silence/quiet? They like to have some background noise in case people can overhear their conversations? Maybe shops have done studies that show they make more profit with music on? I have no idea if they actually like it and not sure whether I know any to ask!