Growing up on a farm in northern Alberta, I still remember my mom phoning our grocery order into the local store just before leaving home.
After the town errands were done we’d stop at Great West Mercantile and pick up our groceries, already boxed, and head home.
A modern version of phoning in the grocery orders may be the wave of the future for a Grande Prairie grocery store.
Mike Reid, food manager of the Grande Prairie Co-op, hopes to marry the computer age with the old fashion grocery store order.
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This month he hopes to have an e-mail grocery store ordering system.
Farmers or oilfield camps could e-mail their grocery order into the store and it would be boxed and ready for pick-up when they came to town.
Time-saving method
“We have a lot of farmers that live outside Grande Prairie. I can see them ordering by computer,” said Reid. “It could be time saving, especially in seeding. If they have to rush into town they could e-mail their order in ahead of time.”
The idea isn’t new. A few Ontario grocery stores are already experimenting with the idea, he said.
If the idea takes off in Grande Prairie, he would consider expanding the idea to a full-fledged internet site.
“It’s the wave of the future. There’s not many homes that don’t have computers.”
