The inconvenience of convenience

[Jenise]

Thanks to my friend Nadine for pointing out this article in the Globe and Mail about the way technology has changed the way we shop for food and other things--not, always, for the better.
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https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/ar ... ce-crisis/[/url]

Good article. I quite agree.

[Jenise]

I am someone who still shops for my own groceries. Found it hard to imagine (but then again, maybe not so much) the sons she mentions who run out of toilet paper and immediately order more from Amazon instead of heading to the store--buying a cheap household staple the second one runs out. The thought of that amount of cardboard piling up around the country because of lazy acts like that kind of makes my blood boil. Meanwhile, most of the rest of us carry a mixed pile of bags into the stores and procure our groceries in person. And, as she points out, while doing so discover all kinds of cool groceries we wouldn't know about if we didn't personally walk in and also have casual chats with neighbors we run into in the aisles. Shopping's both a burden and a joy.