Amazon about to sell grocery's

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Well said zzzLazyDaisy & weegie.geek :T

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shadowknightz wrote: »

Fair do's in your case, but I was referring more to people who are completely able to either walk or drive to a nearby grocery shop but are lazy enough to sit at home and have groceries ordered in! I fully appreciate however that for some people who can't easily get to the shops without enduring costly bus travelling or are disabled etc, getting groceries delivered is quite helpful.

In regards to Amazon.com's grocery service itself, though, I still don't think it will fully work out. I understand the concept that people may want to order one-offs that they can't find elsewhere but I think the delivery charges will prohibit many people from bothering and they can probably find the goods from other specialised online stores.

If everyone apart from the disabled and those living too far away went to the shops to do it themselves, the supermarkets would probably argue that there is not enough demand for home deliveries and withdraw the service leaving those very people who find it so difficult to shop themselves with very few options once again.

It is a service, which people choose to use or not, I am not sure why anyone should have to jusitfy it. I personally do not order online, but if I had to drive a long way to do all of my shopping rather than walk etc, I would probably order online to save the petrol and have a lower environmental impact. And I am not sure why ordering online is more lazy than driving to the supermarket anyway!