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Originally Posted by susiejwill
Last year we placed 164 Amazon orders, this year 92 so far. We live 25 miles from a mall, thus we have a Wal-Mart. Willing to drive the 25 for Trader Joe's, Whole Foods or Natural Grocers (except for meat and milk, which we get from local farmers). I'd rather shop garage sales than go to a mall.
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You must be pretty rural.......to have to drive 25 miles for groceries ......
Our supermarkets are 3 miles away. Once upon a time, they were right in town....which made it convenient to run out and get an item or two.
Now, we do large shopping and stock up in pantry and freezers so we don't have to go that often........just to get weekly milk, eggs, etc. like you mention. Hubby just brought home huge tomatoes and cukes from our farmer's market.
Our daughter's closest supermarket is a 24 mile round trip, 12 each way, to go into Montpelier our state capital which only has a pop. of 10,000.
So, one is always "on the road" and "in the car" as they live in a very rural area. Now, our only grandson is in middle school which is at the high school in Montpelier so he has to walk down his 600 foot long dirt driveway to the dirt road to wait for the school bus which picks him up at 6 a.m. for a long long ride all over creation before he gets to school.........
They also do a lot of online shopping it is easier for people who live in rural areas.
That's how the old SEARS AND ROEBUCK catalogue as well as MONTGOMERY WARDS became so popular in the olden days.......
They delivered....I still remember our kids looking through the Sears "wish book" prior to Christmas time.
We also order a lot from amazon.com and have never been disappointed.
Keeps our FEDEX and UPS drivers employed........they don't mind.
Ditto for our mailmen who deliver some of the FEDEX stuff now.