Weekly shop

30 Years ago when I was working at the factory, i used to go for weekly walks to the mall that was downtown.  I went for those walks sharpley dressed and wearing Beatle boots.  I used to walk through the mall each Saturday and look at the CDs in the music stores.  I used to browse clothing stores looking for clothes that had a Mod aesthetic to them.  I'd have fish n chips at the food court and than I'd head back home. 

- nice expression!

I food shop once a week - Tesco, Lidl, Sainsbury or more than one, depending what I want. I also do one small 'top' up locally [10 min drive] if I want to top up or buy weekend treats. At the big shop I also buy hardware and things I list during the week. I only get deliveries if I feel unwell or tired. I usually use Amazon - the driver is efficient and I rarely return things. Internet shopping's convenient, saves fuel - and spending ages wandering round a shopping centre in the heat  and often not finding what I want. I enjoy browsing whilst watching TV but only if I already have something in mind. The first thing I do after moving is suss out the local shops.

You got Temu’d 

I've had a couple of things bought on my behalf from ebay, and I'd never use temu again, they lie, outright lie, a friend bought a vintage knitted chunky Scandi style cardigan from them and it turned up as a poor quality thin fleese with a chunky knit pattern printed on it. I was bought a long chunky knit cardigan from them for xmas one year, it was supposed to be extra large and oversized. Not only did it not fit me, it didn't fit my mum either who's 3 dress sizes and 7 inches smaller than me. They seem to think this sort of thing s acceptable and just say keep it when you complain, to me this is waste and I hate waste almost as much as I hate being lied too.

Up to Press I've had no problems and got what I wanted touch wood lol. Admittedly I've received items from Ebay and Temu that were smaller than they looked in the description but I'm ok with that. 

I don't buy clothes and non food items on a weekly basis, apart from things like loo rolls obviously. I go to the shops myself, usually weekly, as I cook most of our food from scratch I go to 3-4 shops everytime, so as I get the best produce at the best price. I wouldn't like someone else picking my food for me, the way they're allowed by their computers to echange items would be totally unsuitable for me. I might ask for quorn sausages, if they didn't have any, instead of giving me a different type of veggie sausage they'd give me meat ones, because the computer sees sausages not veggie ones, so I'd end up with a load of meat stuff that I couldn't eat and if I put no substitutes then I'd end with half my shopping missing.

I'm not a huge fan of online shopping, I thought we'd be able to buy anything from anywhere in the world instead we seem to be able to buy the same dozen items and woe betide you if they're not what you want. Also woe betide you if you're not a standard size, have special needs like allergies, or just don't like whatever's currently in fashion. I feel like the internet has given us less choice, not more and it's put a lot of the smaller, interesting shops out of business, even places like etsy that used to be a haven for independent jewelry makers and other crafters seems to have been taken over by the big guys. The big guys pay for their stuff to come top of any search, leaving what you actually want on page 203 or even 2m and 3 and honestly who has the patience to seach through all those web pages?