So what did you (and everybody else) do before Amazon Prime? Did you go without, plan further ahead, lose money/business? Not being funny but I really think we're being manipulated. I understand JIT manufacturing and all that but I'm talking about I must have that book/trainers/garden umbrella tomorrow.
I didn’t need stuff the next day before Amazon Prime, I do now. Perhaps in an attempt to stay open shops could progress by stocking everything you could possibly need at competitive prices & deliver locally within 24 hours. What phone do you have? A mobile or a trimphone at home? Do you still have **** mags or have you moved on to the internet? Life moves on.
I have Netflix and Sky. As a big cricket fan and golf fan I find Sky quite good value, having all 8 hours of the cricket on whilst I worked today was value enough for the full month for me today. Throw in all the T20 matches I've watched this month and the ODI series. Chuck in some random golf and it is worth it.
I think it's a bit difficult to quantify Sky's value of offerings, but for what is on offer, and for me that means films, documentaries and historical stuff, sport, which means football for me, darts and tennis for my wife, F1 for my elder grandson, and the plethora of kids programmes for when the grandkids are at our house, like today. And don't tell me that I should be outside in this weather with the grandkids, half an hour at the most is all I can manage now with a five year old and a nearly 3 years old, and in this heat. We have a couple of TV's in the house one with Sky one with Freeview, as for my views on Freeview I'm afraid that I would rather read a book, which I do, as I am not a soap fan, and as for reality shows, pass. I think I'm missing something about Netflix/Prime etc services, what about the cost of the delivery service, either mobile or static broadband? Don't you count the cost of that in the equation? As for watching a City game live, that will depend on the quality of what is on show, even for P.L. games I sometimes give up around half time, sheer boredom takes over at the tip tap football, 12 passes and they don't get beyond the halfway line but finish with a long ball back to the goalie, football?
Thing about this Ben is that with the traffic situation as it is, especially in Hull, another hold up on the Clive Sully, all these extra delivery vans will make things even more gridlocked that they already are, and to expect shops to stock everything you could possibly need is just a bit daft, and their home delivery vans as well? In America Amazon have a system whereas if you are not at home when their delivery man calls they open your front door and drop your parcel in the hallway, they fit a special lock in your front door for this it seems, a security lock, not sure how this is going at the moment, the other Amazon thing is drone delivery. I can see a great opportunity for those of a certain ilk to be able to grab these things out of the sky before it even reaches their destination. And of course the other great innovation, not sure if this is Amazon, self-drive van delivery, more vehicles on the road. As with most of these so called innovations, they do nothing for older folk who find it hard to come to terms with a way of life disappearing as it is.
It was meant to be a bit daft. Just making the point that times are moving on. I get my meat off a local farm small holding, veg from another local farm & food shop but some stuff I need as soon as, Amazon addresses this. I resent paying them the money but needs must.
**** that. Costs a fortune to park. Then lugging your **** back to the car. After paying over the odds for it. High streets should be for social purposes. Shop online. Better for the planet too. Probably.
Yearly ritual , I even tell them when I ring , I don't want to cancel but i know I need too for you to ring me back with a big discount , so can we cut to the chase and just sort it now . They always say they can't do it , so I play along and like clockwork get the call a few days later .
I've just got back from the bookies to put my season bets on . All my mates take the piss for still going in and writing my slip instead of doing it online , but I'm old fashioned and i like the satisfaction of going in and collecting the cash when I win , and I'm hoping one day I get to experience it
1. Take the bus. Have the shop deliver, they'd soon catch on. 2. Shopping is a social activity. It is also an economically beneficial one. 3. And kiss goodbye to the High St. Wandered round Hull or any other City Centre recently. 4. Dozens of Transit vans flying about all over the place 24 hours a day delivering parcels (sometimes) the size of a *** packet? I don't think so. I'm not proposing a return to the 'good old days', whenever they were, I just think we're being driven by retailers needs rather than the other way around. SCB dismissed my opinion earlier, saying 'Life moves on'. Well I'm glad it does but it doesn't mean we can't question it along the way.
As a sort of shop keeper I think internet shopping is ****, any customer who walks through my door gets my 40 years of experience and advice for nowt. My parts my be more expensive than online but you will get what you need. Find it online and you're on your own. So after you have bought all the fast moving easy stuff online, and then need something a bit out of the ordinary or hard to find don't come to me because I will have gone bust.
For you and the other 3 viewers. In other news, Sky has pretty much destroyed the audience / interest in Test Cricket so big congrats to them for that.
