I could also be making excuses for myself because I really really like grocery shopping now. 
For years I thought I hated grocery shopping. It might be because I didn't do it often enough so it was a huge undertaking and an awful chore, or it could be because it's now literally the only time I go anywhere except for the occasional health related appointment. 
Anyway, weekly grocery day. 
Gonna squeeze me some radishes. 
daft gopher
and yeah, i'm one of them people who can't call online grocery shopping the new normal for me. Coulda said that many years back, but it's no longer new for me, just normal.
I would so love to pick out my own fresh fruit and veg. Luckily the store stuff is usually good quality, but sometimes it's terrible, and when you've ordered several kilos for home freezing (i can't eat commercially frozen veg any more- they spray it with corn-derived citric acid, and my body always knows it) that reallym really sucks. especially given that fresh produce already costs
n times more than frozen produce... even before you chuck half of it in the bin. Also , I have to avouid all the ready[repared/washed/packaged stuff (same reason) and it can sometimes be hard to tell from websites. And generally pre\prepared spinach is the only kind of spinach they sell online
(I
love spinach and sorely miss it)
Ideally, i'd like to buy my fruit and veg from the local market (they sell unwashed spinach! *drool * and similar delights) but that's out of the question unless i get an apartment right next to the place. I kept up B &M shopping for as long as I realistically could, and then a bit longer. eventually got to the point where I just couldn't figure out why my weekly shop was takng me 3 hours when it used to take an hour , and i was utterly exhausted at the end of it (to the point that most of my groceries never got unpacked , let alone cooked, cos I'd be spending the next 3 days just sleeping off the strain of getting it).
So my friend, David, followed me around the store one week and watched from an inconspicuous distance. We found out that by the time I'd coverered a couple of aisles, I'd be getting absence seizures all over the place, and wandering around in circles, unwittingly barging into other shoppers with my trolley
Heck, I'm lucky the store didn;t ban me! Then (as we alreafy knew) I'd often fall over on the way to the car park, especially when David "helpfully" grabbed my shopping and marched ahead with it. That was the only thing holding me up
and he knew it , but he just couldn't find his helpfulness "off switch".
So, shopping not only brecame a ghastly ordeal for me , but -worse- I was incoherent, rubbish company and a pain in the arse. So I finally decided to never go anywhere with any of my friends anynore , not if i could help it, not unless i could realistically arrange it so i didn't need to walk any further than the length of one very short street. I'm usually decent company -for a weirdo- if that condition is met- and i much prefer to keep it that way. Friendship is all about company, after all, and not about getting your groceries
But in practice, that means I almost never go anywhere at all anymore, shops included, not since David died (2-3 years ago) You know how it is? almost nobody stays in the same town forever, so David was my very last close, local RL friend, as it happened , and the only one who drove. I don't drive, I'd be fecking dangerous, as you can probably tell from the above
Heck, I wouldn't even drive an electric wheelchair, if offered one, cos i'm not
that irresponsible.
The upside is that Covid-19 has made bugger all difference to my lifestyle
except it's expanded my social life enormously, what with everything moving online
