Shopping carts made of plastic (No joke!)

[matrixmann]

Anyone's already seen the latest craze - shopping carts with the basket area entirely made of plastic?
Only the wheel area and their legs that connect to the basket made of metal?

One of those things which make you ask how much the appeals to you personally to use less plastic in life to go easier on the environment are actually meant seriously...

Comments

[matrixmann]

Doesn't work for groceries.

By the way, I don't think it's too environment-friendly letting all that servers running day and night. Electricity doesn't grow like fruits on trees, you know...

[benicek.livejournal.com]

I buy all of my groceries on the internet. The supermarket delivers most of it on Tuesdays and then at around 6am on Wednesday I get my fresh trout, kippers, duck eggs and rye bread delivered by another company. For other herbs, spices and seeds I use eBay.

[matrixmann]

Not a self-evidence of service here.

Btw, as long as you're not disabled or live in a really rural area far away from the next general store anyway, they'd regard it with bewilderment here if you let everything in groceries delivered to your place.

Or you're simply rich and don't want to be seen in between the plebs.

[benicek.livejournal.com]

Haha. No, I’m not rich. I’m just a bottom-rank hospital nurse. The delivery charge for the supermarket is £2.50 a month for up to three deliveries a week. It is cheaper even than the petrol it would use to drive ten minutes to the supermarket and much cheaper than a bus ticket. The delivery charge for the organic fish etc is slightly more expensive at £1.25 per delivery.

[matrixmann]

Nope, that's definitely a different price model than they do here (for store chains which do delivery at all, mind you)...

Deliveries can be tied to a certain minimum sum to order (but that may not be much, just 10-15 €, differing between store chains), but then it's a charge for the delivery every time. Also dependent on the chain how much they take. 4, 5, 6 €.
How it is qualitywise with perishable wares (or if they offer them at all for this), I don't know. Never had to do with it, nor knew anybody who ever did.

On the other hand, I must say, I don't guess it's the environment-friendly way either to have all stuff delivered to you privately on the spot (at least as long as it isn't common for other people to use the service too so that one car covers several deliveries)...

Although, I must recognize, if it costs you less than driving to town yourself.