The Changing Face of Shopping

 Each Wednesday when I was a little girl, Mother and I would walk around to Mr Todd's shop.  There Mother would shop for such things as flour, butter, tinned goods (not many of those), biscuits and the like.  And we'd go home without anything!  The reason?  Mr Todd would send the delivery boy with all the things Mother had chosen.  

I remembered being totally amazed the first time I went with her to a supermarket and she helped herself to items from the shelves and nobody stopped her!

She also went "into town" several days each week.  She'd go to Marshall's for meat, Fishers for baked goods (not many of those as she baked at home), and Shipley's for the fruit and vegetables not grown at home.  On Tuesdays the fishmonger would call.  

But she had to shop several times a week.  I remember the excitement when I was about six and we got our first fridge.  That was a total transformation as she could shop for several days supplies of perishable goods.  

Once a month Sainsbury delivers my groceries.  In one way it's like Mother used to shop.  She had to go to Todd's but the groceries were delivered.  My groceries are delivered but I don't need to go to a shop.  I need a monthly delivery as I'm a bit slow and I worry about the frozen foods.  I use Lidl on the other weeks. 

But I am making much more effort to support a local butcher and the farm shops.