Re: [london.food] Supermarket Syndrome

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From: James Bywater
Subject: Re: [london.food] Supermarket Syndrome
Date: 12:58 on 05 May 2005
Is that your customer feedback up there on the front page of their  
site Juliet?

I will give them a try, as I am about to move to Ladywell, where  
there's no supermarket within walking distance.

James


On 5 May 2005, at 11:55, Juliet Kemp wrote:

> On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 08:21:00PM +0100, Kake L Pugh wrote:
>
>>
>> I do buy things from supermarkets; canned tomatoes, chickpeas and
>> other pulses, shampoo and foil and things, oils and vinegars, and of
>> course BOUZE.  But I don't go in them - I get a nice driver to bring
>> it all to me for the really well worth it delivery charge of 4 quid.
>> I've not been inside a supermarket for months, and if I'm lucky I'll
>> never have to go in one again.  I shop mostly at Surrey Street  
>> Market now:
>>   http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1718360
>> Fish and meat come from the fishmonger and butcher around the corner.
>>
>
> We get as much as possible of our stuff delivered from Organic  
> Delivery
> (http://www.organicdelivery.co.uk, though their site is not great,  
> sadly
> :-/ ).  They do tins & stuff as well as veg, though the basis of our
> weekly order is their small veg box.  You don't know what you're going
> to get, but this does lead to interesting eating.  Though I wish they
> wouldn't put cucumber in - still, the rats like it.
>
> Stuff we can't get there comes from the Co-op down the road (which may
> be a supermarket but at least is a smaller & less scary one); Tescos
> across the park is a last resort.  We're currently considering  
> getting a
> delivery from them, or possibly Ocado, for those items, every month or
> so.  BTW, does anyone know who, other than Ocado, have the 'green
> delivery' option, whereby you put your order in with another one also
> coming to your area, to reduce van-miles?
>
>
> Juliet
>
>


There's stuff above here

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