[LINK] rant - online shopping websites

[Adam Todd]

At 06:04 PM 5/08/2007, Jan Whitaker wrote:
>Linkers, I thought I'd do some price comparison between the big two 
>before going out for my groceries this week. Wow, what a shocking 
>situation! Coles is where I started. It's full of js and its 
>shopping area has FIVE frames.

Jan, this is why we gave up on Home Delivery Grocery Shopping a long 
long time ago.  Rarely are the prices even comparable.  The time you 
spend online going round the process of selecting and item, then a 
qty and then going through the confirmation process is longer than me 
ducking up to the shop, going to the shelf, loading my trolly and checking out.

ALDI opened and the online prices are generally 35-60% higher, and 
now we have a coles and a wollies with an ALDI all in the same 
building the price war is on.  Our grocery bill has dropped 13% the 
last fortnight and my ALDI manager tells me expect even better 
pricing and special deals.

I pity however the old Green Grocer who was pushed out of the local 
market by Wollies under cutting their prices every time.  Although 
anyone with intelligence and a lust for quality food bought from the 
grocer he was compelled by market demand to drop his prices to avoid 
people taking a lower quality for lower price.

Anyway, online shopping is for those who have a psychological belief 
that it's better.