What was that?

You'll be spillin' cash out for years.

Cobblers. I've done it several times with IGA. You need to be careful with it though. It took me many months to work through the rather large quantity of fabric softener I accidentally ordered on my first attempt.

Ok, there is some limited internet grocery shopping available through IGA and Grocery Gateway but it is not a common and establised service in the manner that it is in the UK. How's that?

Sounds marvellous.
Will my CD's play out there ?
And as im heading for one of the prairie states will binoculars be a good thing LOL.
LOAFY...

When traveling in the UK last summer we bought a couple of CD's at an ASDA in Wakefield to play in the rental car CD player.

They work just fine in our Canadian CD player at home.

Loafy me lad, we don't have states here in Canada.

They call 'em provinces.

Oh and yes your CD's will play.

Oh sorry i will get their in the end. As for the CD's that is good news.
Now for the prairie Provinces, I can see for miles, someone said it was the biggest sky he had ever seen from the pics its prob true.

Off to work now trucking round wet and windy Blighty for now.
TTFN LOAFY

Apparently you can see your dog running away for 3 days

Distance, probably. I guess the business model only really works when you have a large target market in a small area and in a certain type of housing. I think that the guys who do the delivery are contractors (ours were). They probably don't get paid much per drop. They need fairly concentrated residential areas, with single houses that they can park outside and deliver quickly. Much of the UK offers that. Most of Canada doesn't.

I disagree with this, I think most of the housing in Canada is of a comparable, perhaps higher, density to that in the UK, but, since I loath the idea of internet grocery shopping and think that people who patronize Grocery Gateway should be wheeled out and shot (assuming there's any sort of wheeled device that can support the weight of their bloated bodies), I don't really care why it's not more popular. I'm just glad it's not.

Can you order that on the internet

Not from rural Canada.

I'd agree with you that internet shopping is not the best way to buy groceries but it has its uses. I, as you know, do not drive. This time last year Souvette was out of action for a while (weeks, bed-ridden). Being able to buy and have delivered staples such as bog roll, tins, 24s, if fact anything you don't need to touch, point at or sniff, was a boon. I wouldn't use it for any fresh foods.

I suppose I don't think of Costco stuff as "groceries". I was thinking of meat, fish, veg, fruit, cheese, stuff that does need caressing and/or sniffing. Still, even blocking the street with a big truck so you can get toilet rolls delivered seems very anti-social.

Ahh, that would explain the Pontiac Shitfire then.

I only ever used Tesco home delivery once in the UK when a slipped disc meant I couldn't stand or sit for more than 10 seconds. Much though I abhor the process of the weekly grocery shop in person, doing it online just has never appealed. Still, not an option in these parts. Just as well really as one has to sort through the damaged, half rotten fruit and veg to get the good stuff. Can't see some delivery oik doing that for me.