Shopping Convenience?

Made a midweek trip to the supermarket today . . . and left wondering why we doggedly stick to Saturday afternoon to do our shopping.

You can bet your life that Saturday is going to be the day when you most likely to find yourself pushed and shoved as you try to make your way through the store with your shopping trolley.

Yet, we are retired, yes pensioners and we are at that stage in life when our time is our own and we can do our shopping any time of the week that we choose.

So as I discovered when I popped into my nearest Waitrose today, getting round the store was much easier with fewer people, and less interruption from the too frequent obstruction of aisles by staff restocking shelves or home delivery shopping assistants picking groceries for several online shoppers at a time.

Problem is that while habits die hard, and for years we have tackled the weekly shop on a Saturday afternoon, there is nothing to prevent us from doing it on a Wednesday every week. Or Monday. Or Thursday. Early morning, or during the evening. Or abandoning the weekly shop altogether and pop in to the supermarket, or our nearest convenience store, for anything we need, especially fresh food as we need it.

It’s got a lot to commend it. And today, the queue at the machine dispensing free coffee for regular customers, was much shorter, as well. Another good reason, methinks, to avoid the weekend shop!