Rant about Amazon couriers

Wilco were great on garden plants and bulbs and cheap mixed boxes of seeds, as well as cheap kitchen gadgets. I miss Woolies for pick and mix. 

I miss Woollies, Wilko & C&A.

I do like Argos as their drivers are great, always polite, follow delivery instructions and bring the goods up to my apartment. But unfortunately some of their stuff isn't very good quality. I ordered a new kitchen bin from Argos but it has a scratch on the lid and there is a big sticker on it that's one of those that you can't peel off, you have to scrape it off bit by bit and I really cannot be bothered, so I'm returning it.

Wilko do have a website where you can order for home delivery so I'm thinking of ordering a bin from there. From past experience their delivery drivers are not as good as Argos, so I hope it works out ok. It was better when you could go in the shop and look at & choose things yourself.

I loved the woolies cafe and the littlewoods cafe woolies did kids. Boxes with sandwiches and a toy and I had. Ore fun out of those to us than any McDonalds one 

Also Asda cafe used to do this too 

And chip shop kids meals used to include a book or. Toy now most are just the small meal option but put on a kids menu 

My old village did kids meals in a  smaller box though and you got a free lollipop 

I still miss Greenshield Stamps, I was so happy when I was considered old enough to stick them in the book myself.

I really miss Wilko, or Wilkinsons as it was when it first opened.Thier bulbs and seeds were always really good value and quality. I think all thier stuff was really good quality, we've got a clothes horse from there thats still going strong and was about a third of the price of a vile edna one.

I used to buy quite a bit of stuff from BHS too, they often had trousers long enough for my legs. Woolies was always a bit random though they did brilliant kitchen ware. Our pound shop closed too. I miss C&A too.

Who's old enough to remember when Littlewoods, Woolies and BHS all sold food?

I always loved the smell of new catalogues, especially mail order ones. I'd open one up, stick my nose into the fold, and breathe in deeply, savouring the scent.

Can I still be caught doing this today with magazines? Maybe...  [smile] 

Yes I remember spending hours as a child cutting out pictures. It is problem solving too as you work out the best way to cut them out. Someone gave us a thick catalogue and it lasted for ages. Cutting out and making pictures is therapeutic. I also remember making mosaic pictures with bits from magazines. 

I miss paper catalogues too, I found I had a much better idea of what I was looking at, because the pictures wern't just of the object in isolation, but next to other things so you got a sense of scale and context. I find web pictures to flat somehow and I can't gauge them properly for size or shape.

I also miss doing cutting and sticking with small friends, like my friends little boy, when I was looking after him for a couple of hours. A big sheet of lining paper and an argos and IKEA catalogue and he had a great time making a new house for mummy. It also help children learn dexterity in a away a computer never will

I miss catalogues, I find sometimes I don't know what to put in the search or it comes up with different things than you asked for.

My local Argos had seats and I found sitting or standing in Argos at Xmas time oddly relaxing mu local Argos is a gym now and my other local is. Just empty I think I have fond memories of both I miss all the old stores Woolworths, bhs, blockbuster, gamestation, wilkos, 99p store and now i found out my local pound bakery is closing 

Thpsguy said:

I do wish Argos would be one the giant it once was I miss the experience of getting the items in store and not online/in a small part of Sainsbury's 

I used to love flicking through their brick of a catalogue. I'd rather queue as well.

I tend to. Use Amazon for items I won't find in stores or will be too expensive in store  but I do wish Argos would be one the giant it once was I miss the experience of getting the items in store and not online/in a small part of Sainsbury's 

I'm. Currently in one of my anti consumerism moods tbh but it's because I value feelings more than stuff but not to the extent of I would give up all my stuff but I always find my self chasing the balance 

I'm currently getting one more model beofre outing modeling building and painting on hiatus but a lot of that has come from amazon with mixed experience

I order most things from Amazon and find them good most of the time. I leave a plastic box in my open porch for them to leave stuff in - it has a note for them not to knock unless they need a signature and this works. I'm probably lucky in that the driver doesn't change often, so they get used to the area. Fingers crossed you will have better luck in future.

We have a a problem recently with a different company where we get a message to say when it is coming, then it gets delivered on the doorstep several hours earlier without ringing the bell. The first time I was at home and didn't know it was there until I had a message from my other half who was out. 

I know, I live in a house and they rarely knock on the door and even more rarely  do they leave a card telling me where they've left it.