Sometimes you don't notice the great business ideas until they are already part of the commercial landscape. They sneak up on you and you wake up to find society marinated in them. And then you wonder how you ever managed without them. One of these is Tesco home delivery. Other major supermarket companies have tried home delivery - Sainsbury, Ocado (Waitrose) for instance - but none have succeeded like www.tesco.com.
I only noticed this when I read Sue's post tonight on her No Problem blog:
I have just finished an order for a Tesco 'home' delivery, and will be picking that up on Thursday at Buckby by the A5, I have never been down the Grand Union south of Norton Junction in all my years of boating, so I have no idea about moorings there, but there is a pub, The New Inn, so hopefully the Tesco van will be able to get close enough.
She's several miles away at Braunston at the moment, but she's ordered her grocs over the web, and will cruise to the rendezvous, up six locks and through (shudder, she's not looking forward to it) a mile-long tunnel. And I think she's fixed the delivery location so that she can sit in the warm in the New Inn at Buckby Top Lock, over a pint (or presumably a girlie half-pint, because pints are for men and lesbians) until her date, Mr Tesco, arrives.
