On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:50:13 -0600, Melba's Jammin'
> wrote:

>> >Curiosity, Nathalie: Why do you buy the flour, sugar, and pasta online?
>>
>> All dry grocery (I also buy cleaning products and boring stuff like
>> that) that I don't need to see to choose, don't want to carry, and
>> don't want to spend time in a supermarket to pick. Bought online, it's
>> conveniently delivered to my door in the evening, I love that :-)
>
>> Nathalie in Switzerland
>
>Sure. So, is this from a local store? I can buy groceries online from
>a local service, but my sense of it is that it's expensive to do so.
>OTOH, I used to use such a service 30 years ago and found I spent less
>on groceries because I did no impulse purchasing. Then gas prices went
>up, delivery costs became prohibitive for the service, and they folded.

Well, local... It's everywhere in Switzerland, but then, Switzerland
is small :-)
It does cost something (but it's a fixed delivery price, and I buy big
quantities at a time) , but not that much considering the gas and time
I'm saving.

Nathalie in Switzerland