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Online Grocery Shopping
Britons spend more when grocery shopping online
The British spend more when doing their grocery shopping online than in stores, according to a study by Lightspeed Research.
Almost 60 per cent of Britons who do their main grocery shop online spend between £51 and £100 on each shop, compared with 42 per cent of offline shoppers.
The survey revealed that online consumers tend to shop less frequently than those offline in supermarkets, but correspondingly spend more.
Supermarket giant Tesco is by far the favourite, with 71 per cent of online shoppers having used the service.
Waitrose online is preferred to in-store, with 14 per cent of shoppers using the retailer for their main online shop, but only 2 per cent would actually go to the supermarket.
Lightspeed chief executive officer David Day said: "Grocery retailers need to understand the different purchasing patterns of their online- and store-based customers.
The Online Grocery Game
(WCCO) For the past six years, there has been one big player in the grocery delivery game. Now Simon Delivers has some new competition, Lunds and Byerly's.I'm used to shopping the old-fashioned way -- with a grocery cart, a real grocery cart. Not today. I'm stocking up in stocking feet. Actually, slippers. I'm going to shop for groceries without ever leaving home.Using my regular grocery list, I order from the new Lunds and Byerly's site and from the online grocer Simon Delivers. I order 25 items from both sites -- everything from carrots to Campbell's soup. Since I'm hosting a party the next night, I get plenty of pop, water, tortilla chips and salsa plus ingredients for some appetizers.Both sites were easy enough to navigate. It took me 32 minutes to place my order with Lunds and Byerly's, 36 with Simon Delivers.
Online a net gain or pain?
SHOVING a laden trolley full of items you hadn't planned to buy through a heaving shop with cantankerous kids in tow and the sickening realisation hits you that the queue for the check out is 15 deep . . . no wonder so many of us have turned to armchair grocery shopping. Online grocery purchases now account for a third of UK internet shopping transactions - last year the Tesco site alone sold £1 billion of groceries. .
Gingerbread castle
Moving cookie castles is tricky business. It caused Juliette Bezold, interior designer for GBBN Architects, to worry about the stability of her spaghetti struts for the castle's drawbridge and the pretzel-stick flagpoles atop waffle-cone turrets. After all, she'd spent a couple hours drafting the cookie-castle's design and at least 40 hours with two GBBN colleagues baking and shaping the curved gingerbread walls. That doesn't count grocery shopping and online research. She'd made gingerbread houses before, and still found her sandcastle challenging: "It's hard to do 'round.'" A trio of colleagues - Bezold, GBBN architect Jane Goode and Aaron Kingsley, contract architect currently at GBBN - took up the task of creating an original gingerbread structure inspired by a storybook. That was the rule set forth for each design firm participating in the local charitable competition last week: Select a child's book, and build a house to match.
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