We've been online shopping for a while now, so I can't claim that it was a change I made in my little campaign. However it made me think about many things that we get from Online shopping that we didnt get from visiting the supermarket, many of them have a positive environmental impact.
1. The Carbon Footprint. This one is obvious, it's the same principle as using the bus - only have one van on the road instead of all of us individually in our cars, and we'll collectively reduce our carbon footprint from petrol consumption.
2. The choice of foods. We have started getting fruit and veg boxes from Ocado. They select the fruit & veg for us, we don't have any say in it. We did it at Christmas the first time ever, we had no idea what veg we would be having on Christmas day until the box arrived and it was surprisingly exciting! It means they can manage supply and demand better, pick seasonal items and help us make a better, more environmentally friendly choice. They always deliver the essentials - potatoes and onions and a variety of carrots (I love that i get purple and yellow carrots to add with the orange), and then we get a variety of green veg that shapes our meals for the week, it makes us quite inventive!
3. Easy access/awareness of last minute deals. Via the app that we order through, if they have items that are about to go out of date they remind us just before check out. They do this with impulse deals too, but ignoring them, it gives us the opportunity to choose meat, fish and vegetables that would otherwise have been put in the bin at a reduced rate. Saves us money, and lower's their wastage.
4. No bags. This is the bit that makes this my step of the day. When they deliver, they ask if we have any plastic bags to return. Today I enquired as to which bags they wanted, just their own? They said no, they'd take ALL bags. My mouth dropped, I told the man to wait a moment for me to sweep up bags of bags, many, many bags full of bags that we've collected over the years from various supermarkets, and gave them all to him. And the best bit is that they give us 5p per bag. That's right, they give us money for making the right choice. Woohoo!
P.s. In case you're wondering if it's more expensive to get online delivery, it's not in our case.On one occasion Ocado failed to deliver our shop at all and we couldn't rebook for 2 days because all the slots had gone (major downside!), so I had no choice but to go up to Tesco. I used it as an experiment, I compared every item on our list with Tesco and at the end of the shop it was at least £20 more expensive at Tesco. It made me forgive Ocado for the delivery hassle...
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