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Coping with weekly shopping trip - older people

Marianne72

Having coped quite well at home with the heat, I'm starting to find it exhausting doing the weekly shop. I try to arrange things so I don't visit more than 5 shops. I always take a hat and cold drink and sometimes a sandwich.

How do you cope with shopping, in this heat?

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  • in reply to TheCatWoman
    TheCatWoman said:
    I go to 4 or 5 shops as its the only way I can get the things I want to eat and in many cases can eat.

    That's why I go to several shops.

  • in reply to ArchaeC

    Our Co-Op isn't very good, not very big, more like a high st corner shop than a supermarket and the one in Llanfair PG, is terrible all they seem to sell is biscuits and booze.

    I go to 4 or 5 shops as its the only way I can get the things I want to eat and in many cases can eat. I see myself as time rich and cash poor, and shopping around gives me the opportunity for a slightly better lifestyle.

    We don't have a sainsbury's and ocado don't come over the bridge to Anglesey, I did look at having shopping delivered, but found that I was only allowed small packs of things like pasta and rice and not the cheaper large sizes I buy rice in 10KG bags and pasta in 3KG packs. I also wouldn't trust anyone else to get me the right stuff anyway, the algorthingies that staff have to follow won't let them swap one type of veggie sausage for another and give you meat ones instead, if I picked no exchanges I'd probably end up with about 3 things delivered. Lack of stock is one reason I have to shop around so much.

  • in reply to Lonehare12

    I believe the co-op is good for some things that other supermarkets don’t stock.

    Unfortunately, there isn’t a branch near me, the Spar would be my nearest local.