[Nfbmt] Albertson's Food Delivery, Great Falls

[Rik James]

Well, this is an interesting topic.
Thank you, Joy.
I hope to hear more about it from you all.
And how it is working for many of you, in the various communities around 
Montana.

I think I am going to do a bit of research here in Bozeman.
So far, early on in my quick look online Bozeman research, I see that we 
have an independent personalized shopping service. Probably since there are 
a bunch of rich folks who live up at Big Sky and out and about throughout 
the Gallatin Valley.  They say that they will go and shop for you at any 
number of places, and promise to help you find best prices and so on, too. 
The fee they mention is something around the neighborhood of $40 for an 
approximate total of $150 amount of purchasing. So of course, that does not 
compete with Free Home Delivery. But interesting to find this out.

No Albertson's is seen online here for doing home delivery. But I bet they 
do.
Safeway, Heeb's, Rosauers. And our Community Food Co-op. All of these pop up 
from a Google search, mentioning free home delivery.


So happens it is good timing that Joy brings this up. As I may need to go 
and do some shopping. As my family designated shopper has left me for 3 
weeks or so, as Karen went to help her son who just had double knee 
replacement surgery in Washington.

I personally confess I have gotten lazy on employing techniques of 
independently shopping for our household. I am not proud of that. But I 
imagine most may understand how this can kind of get to be the case.  I used 
to be rather stubborn about it, and would take my backpack out, and make 
numerous trips, using my own mule legs power of walking and using the long 
white cane. But with advancing age, poor travel routes to a store, and of 
more physical such and such troubles, yes including less usable travel 
vision, I do see it is a much less practical option.

Some of you may recall that I was a student at the NFB Louisiana training 
center in Ruston in 1997.  What?  18 years ago? What? How can that be? 
Anyhow, at that time, I did lots of shopping. There were really only 2 
viable grocery shopping places. The downtown small grocery and the super 
Wal-Mart, way out on the the interstate. That was about a 1.5 mile hike. You 
could and most did use the taxi.

I was recalling those days, when, this past Sunday I was at our local 
Wal-mart, which I have been pretty much boycotting for some time.  I was 
amazed at how they have shrunken their aisle space. Very very narrow are the 
aisles now. Yikes! The aisle end displays were so tricky I had nearly 4 or 5 
run ins with them.  Tippy displays, with their contents, quite ready and 
willing to go sprawling out and to tumble God knows where. Oh, geez! I don't 
like to draw a crowd. At least not like this!  I guess I could fault my cane 
technique to not have discovered these unattractive retail obstacles. But 
for gosh sakes. It did make me pretty much out of the mood to go back there 
anytime soon, I can tell you!

Anyhow, good topic, Joy.
Let's hear from other shoppers on the blind list.
Thanks for listening to my yammer jammer jabber walky talky.

Rik