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Originally Posted by andyh2000
I can't remember if it was just in the late 70's or carried on into the early 80's but we used to have a van come down our street selling fresh fish; a big lorry came and sold Corona fizzy soft drinks in returnable bottles; the milkman delivered milk to your doorstep; and a local small supermarket (more a minimarket) would deliver your order in a van. I guess all that died out in the 80's with the rise of supermarkets and private car ownership. And now it's returning. Yay! This was in south west England, where the outskirts of a large town hit the green belt.
Edited to add - not to mention coal delivery. Of course you couldn't order any of these things on the spur of the moment.
Andrew
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We didn't have any delivery besides mail in the pre-internet days, at least not in larger towns and cities. You wanted something, you got up off your a$$ and went to fetch it.