The neighborhood grocery was back in business today and the customers’ delight was palpable.  The father and two sons who run the business seemed desperate and so were we.  After all, since our daughter was in isolation with her family – each in separate rooms – and they had run out of the basics, a little trip to the grocery was essential.  She lives three doors down and the grocer is one door down, so for us it was a brief jaunt, but with the supermarket on- line having gone a bit daft, it was essential.

How has the supermarket online gone daft you ask?  Well last week, while I was in the middle of some zoom and it was essential I not leave the screen, the delivery came 3 hours early.  Ezi put everything away and I forgot about it.  But the next day I began noticing that some things were missing, and I assumed I’d forgotten to order and couldn’t find a receipt.  But as more and more things turned out missing I began querying Ezi and realized that more than a third of my very large order had not been delivered and I had been charged for it.  It took me another two days to figure out how to speak to someone, and almost as long to figure out I was right and then to add the items to my next order, which, hopefully, will be next week. 

I know I should be grateful that there is such a thing as online grocery shopping, but I’ve been doing it for over a dozen years and very rarely had any trouble at all.  

I know also that there are far greater troubles in the world and in the country than my groceries, but … food first.