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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Amazon tried grocery delivery, which didn't really seem to work well. When one talks about instant gratification, ordering something and getting it from two day to a week later can't compete with the local grocery store. (Ironically, Piggly Wiggly, the first self serve grocery store turned 100 this week. Before that, you handed your order to the clerk and waited while he filled the order. Kind of interesting how things go round.)
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I am just guessing about the history here, but I imagine before 1916 most things sold in a grocery store were pretty basic. "I'd like a dozen eggs, half a pound of chuck roast, 3 ears of fresh corn and, a head of lettuce, Oh and tell the butcher hi! Hope his wife is feeling better!".
I gather things were more local, and now everything is more processed. Not that processed foods didn't exist back then, perhaps, but one could go into a store and know what "a tin of cocoa" was.
Nowadays you go into a store and everything comes in "kinds", and different brands. Then there's fat free, gluten free, cholesterol free, low carb, high carb, etc. No wonder people have to pick out their own kinds!
But back to the topic about books, I'm all about the "instant". I don't take it for granted that minutes after the idea to read a book pops into my head, I can either download it from the library or buy it to my kindle (if I have the money for it, which I don't for this particular title
