Agreed - and to be honest, if it gets the country back on its feet quicker and stops a few restuarants/pubs from going under, then I've got no problem.
I currently have a weekly standing order to my local pub (small/independant) to help them through these times, and place a few online orders for cider. Had a chat with the boss when he delivered on Friday and he says he's coping, and doing about 40 deliveries a week, but unsure what will happen when they are allowed to re-open. As the pub is quite small, he says he'll only be allowed 15 punters in and it may not be cost effective.
Yep. I'm very happy to support small businesses, and the smaller and localer the better. I'm quite relaxed about chipping in a few quid wherever I can to help them out.
The only big company I regularly buy from these days is Ocado, even before this mess their service was good, but throughout it's been extremely impressive. As an ex IT guy I'm mightily impressed by the quality of their systems, and whoever's providing their cloud services has been bloody good at spinning up extra capacity when needed. I'd love to see one of their robot picking warehouses in action. They seem like a decent company to work for too, all the drivers I speak to are very happy indeed. I've heard "Best job I ever had" from more than one of the guys.
