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Default Grocery Shopping Via Home Delivery?

On Mon 06 Apr 2009 11:04:31a, James Silverton told us...

> Andy wrote on Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:31:38 -0500:
>
>> Who shops using grocery delivery?

>
>> I saw a grocery delivery truck pull into my neighbor's driveway a
>> couple weeks ago.

>
>> I'm good at on-line shopping my ACME supermarket for ideas.
>> Also have a few other local market "coupon" pages out of curiosity.

>
>> I've never bought food over www but that IS an interesting option.

>
>> I don't think I want an ACME anybody employee picking out my steak.

>
>> You?

>
> It's hard to imagine being so busy that I would have someone else select
> meat or vegetable produce for me. A particular example is bananas where
> I select 4 or 5 with colors ranging from completely green to nearly
> complete yellow to allow ripening. I'd never buy melons, pears or kiwis
> without prodding them.
>


So *you're* the one whose been prodding those melons! :-)

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Wayne Boatwright

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