Losing our colour
Oct 28th, 2008 | By Ian Poulton | Category: IrelandThere must have been a point when shopping passed from being a necessary duty to being a leisure activity.
My grandmother in Somerset did her weekly shopping from the farm telephone: making a list through the week, she would phone the Co-op in the local village with her list of requirements and the Co-op van would deliver her groceries to her door (online shopping would have been no novelty to her).
Trips to towns with high streets and department stores were rare. Maybe women would have lingered at drapers, looking …