 Online
shopping is growing three times as quickly here in the UK, as compared to the
USA. Here online sales already make up 4% of all retail sales, whereas in the
USA they are just 1.3%. Of course it is helped by us being a smaller, more densely
populated country...
UK online sales in November were up more than 10% on the previous month, with
spending at a record £1bn ($1.6bn). Not bad with a population of just 55
million people! Or, to put it another way, that's an average of £18 ($29)
spent for every man, woman or child.
One of the reasons is the service from these online stores is just so good, with
many offering next day delivery.
I can order building or decorating materials from ScrewFix at 7pm and they are
here the next morning. Despite this company  being
based at the other end of England and my address here being in a fairly rural
spot. And delivery is free if I spend more than £40. But, even on smaller
orders, the delivery charge is less than my travelling costs to get to the nearest
DIY store.
I've had a LOT of deliveries this weekend. A grass cutter for the garden, a new
mattress and bedding from Argos. Strangely they delivered each of these separately.
The cutter arrived on Saturday and two deliveries today...
Plus a load of decorating materials from ScrewFix. Guess how I'll be spending
Christmas and New Year...
On Saturday I watched an old tape of the BBC's TV movie
Stonewall. It's about the 1969 riots
at the Stonewall Inn in New York, when drag queens decided they'd had enough of
Police harrassment.
I'd seen the movie before, but enough time had passed for me to have forgotten
most of the story. I particularly like the scene in which drag queen La Miranda
turns up at the draft office, having received her call up papers for the Vietnam
war!
I just received my first Christmas card! From mum and dad.
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