[Nfbmt] Albertson's Food Delivery, Great Falls

[d m gina]

Wow,
I do hope you will take a cab to the store if that is what you need to 
do to get all of the groceries while Karen is gone.
We take a cab because it is easier for us to do this than to have them 
come with an order.
Then I can decide what to do next if they don't have what I want.
What are you doing for Thanksgiving.
To bad you can't come our way, dinner and our home is always open to you.
I know you would eat well, we sure will.

Original message:
> 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


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