Headline : Boxing Day sales: Shoppers flock to stores.
Excerpt from the Link "Shoppers across the UK have been descending on their High Streets for the annual Boxing Day sales.
Some had queued from the early hours in the hope of securing bargains."
My thoughts :
Im not one for standing inline outside Retail shops in the early hours , but I do look online in various places for some deals. 😄
Did you wait in the early hours for a shop to open or visited your HighStreet to get a deal ,or instead go online from the comfort of your home ?
Source : BBC News.
Boxing Day sales: Shoppers flock to stores
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@Anonymous wrote:
I haven't had many good experiences with online grocery shopping unfortunately. We used to order from Tesco and the food was always near the use by date, meat was fatty and the substitutions were rubbish. I gave up when the snotty delivery driver told me it was against health and safety rules for him to take the shopping up to my first floor flat!
Sainsburys were no better, they could never find us as our address wasn't on the sat nav. Every time we had a delivery my husband used to have to direct them to us.
We've since moved so one day I might try again!
I would try again @Anonymous I honestly think it must be the luck of the 'postcode'. All the drivers know me and carry my shopping into the kitchen. I just have to put it away. 
They don't always get the substitutions right but that is only a slight niggle.
Offset all that against 1) Having to drive to town and find a parking space 2) Push a trolley with wonky wheels round a massive crowded shop 3) Move people out of the way.. who have stopped to chat in the aisles 4) Queue for ages at the checkout...5) Pack shopping 6) Wheel wonky trolley to car.... and repeat ad infinitum........
I agree it is a different experience for everyone....but for me, its an experience I will gladly miss
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@Anonymous wrote:
I've tried it a couple of times, once with Tesco anger once with Sainsburys. On both occasions I was quite restrictive with what I bought. Nothing fresh. No instore bakery.
Overall it was fine. Turned up on time. Staff very friendly. Carried shopping in and took bags away. Substitutions. .....mmm ok.
Problem is for fresh i am a fussy so and so. Yeah i know. Hard to believe. But when i move I will probably have everything delivered.
I know its late @Anonymous ...but what exactly is Tesco anger?? 
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@Anonymous wrote:
Tesco anger is something I get about once a week!
Shopping has got better since I started using scan and shop as it cuts out the queue at the checkout and means I don't have to take everything out of the trolley, load it on the conveyer belt and then repack it.
Scan and shop @Anonymous ?? Is that where you have the trollies with the scanning devices fitted? We haven't got those in our area yet....)
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@Anonymous wrote:That's the one @Cleoriff . It makes it so much quicker so I don't mind going into the store as much now!
Actually...that might be an innovation that could get me shopping for groceries instore again 
Only to try it out and see how it works...Once would be enough though...
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There is an app that will scan your items for you..
