Groceries

Today I got my groceries delivered! It's a very popular thing here...I know in some places in the United States you can do that, but here, they deliver to ~98% of the addresses in England. Before I came here, I knew that it would be a possibility to do so, and it is so nifty for a college student without a car who also has to cook all their own meals.  Taking the shuttle to town is difficult because you can only get so many groceries before it's more than you are able to wait for the bus with or travel on the bus with, bags in hand.  Trying to get a ride from someone else always makes me feel uncomfortable too.  So delivery, at least for groceries, is very nice.
The store "ASDA" is like the Walmart of England, I think. That's where I ordered my groceries from, I can go online and view all their different products and add them to my "trolley" and choose a time slot to get my groceries delivered. I got a call fifteen minutes before the delivery guy said he was going to show up and he was here on time and also right on schedule with my time slot. How nice! Also, anything that they didn't have in stock on the day of delivery was substituted with something of equal or greater value. For instance, I ordered a block of cheddar cheese which they ended up not having in stock, so instead I got two blocks of a different cheddar cheese worth more than the one I ordered and I got charged the cost of the original cheese I ordered. They okay all the substitutes with you and are willing to refund you the price if you don't want the substitute. I also ordered eggs and there was one broken one, so I was refunded the price of the eggs.
The one thing I was worried about when ordering food was the space that I have in the fridge and freezer.  I have three spaces to put food--the fridge, freezer, and a cupboard.  I share a shelf with another girl in both the fridge and freezer. That being said, the people who live in my corridor are used to living without us two girls here with them and they...take over a little bit in the fridge and freezer.  Our shelves are filled with things that are not ours.  (There's not much to do about that, really..especially when they can't understand us and I don't care too much anyway).  In turn, I was pretty weary of space when I was ordering food, so everything fit!
So that's my grocery ordering experience.  It's pretty handy and my shelf of the fridge, freezer, and food cupboard are now stocked well!