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?
I took my Artist Friend with me, this afternoon, to Meadow Lane; Magherafelt. He got three pairs of Jeans, for £75, at Dunne's. Then, I got supplements from Holland and Barrett.
Win-Win. And it was, in his words, the quickest shop he ever did.
Every time I go in Holland and Barrett I vow never again. The staff will just not leave me alone. They appear to be trained to follow the customers around and keep asking if they need any help.
If I need any help I will ask for it. Otherwise I want to be left alone to browse.
On my last venture in there I was approached three times within a few minutes, twice by the same member of staff. What part of "no I'm just browsing thanks" do they not understand? I felt like screaming at her to leave me alone and left without buying anything.
If you'd like to change that, drop their customer service people a line, and tell them how you feel!