"Tim Watts" wrote in message
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On 02/06/18 16:00, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
charles wrote:
Round these narrow London residential streets it's supermarket delivery
vans which are the pain. Near always double parked blocking the road. I
suppose this is progress. Wonder what all those people do with the time
they've saved on shopping themselves?

they are working - to pay for the stuf that is delivered.

If they are out working, how come they have stuff delivered during the
day?

But, deliveries of groceries is not new - my mother had a weekly
grocerly delivery and, as required, food from the butchers and
fishmonger.

Yup. But generally a grocery delivery was a boy on a bike. And there were
travelling shops for all to use.


And the mother was in most of the day do the delivery boy could more or
less come as was convenient to the business.

One of the reasons, in my view, why society is suffering in many ways is
the need for 2 people to work to afford housing. It doesn't matter so much
if it's the mum or dad who stays at home, but shunting kids between school
and nursery, having big shops delivered rather than walking up the road
for an hour and buying 1-2 day's things on foot, not having time to spend
with kids providing out of school education - all are having a net bad
effect.

On the other hand there were bad effects with bored housewives with
nothing useful to do except get drunk etc for something to do too.