RE: UKNM: Boo's special offer

[Jo Chipchase]

Stewart Dean wrote:

> > <whinge>I reckon shopping for clothes on the Net is a

> > complete pain if you

> > live in the UK.  During a recent attempt to kit out my Summer

> > wardrobe, I

> > couldn't find a Gas denim jacket, a Levi denim jacket, nor a

> > Diesel hooded

> > top in any colour except cream (Diesel's UK range is very limited).  I

> > tried buying Oakley sunglasses online: you can only purchase

> > them if you

> > live within Alaska, Hawaii or the States.  Well... that's not

> > much use to

> > me.</whinge>

> >

> > In contrast, I found a nice parlour palm for my flat within

>

> > minutes...    :)

>

>Sounds a bit like Chiswick in West London - you can buy plants, food and a

>mobile phones from one of the many mobile phone shops (and I mean many) but

>can you buy jeans and boxer shorts? Nope.


Funnily enough, the parlour palm is from Kew - just down the road from

Chiswick.


I used to work in Chiswick... I thought the area was a bit dull.


>It appears product lines in most online stores are secondary to the

intent -

>and it's not just the UK that does this.

>

>In New York there are two competing services Kozmo and Urban Fetch that

>offer delivery of videos and that kind of thing. Kozmo has a food section

>and, feeling lazy on Sunday, was prepared to give it a go. Logged in, put

in

>my zip code (after finding it on the post office site) and found that

>breakfast to Kozmo consisted of Crispie Creame doughnuts. Much as I like

>these far superior to dunkin 'baked goods' they're far from breakfast.


I used an online pizza ordering service a while ago... and my pizza never

arrived.  The reason?  Despite it's fancy software, provided on CD-ROM, The

company printed out orders made via the Net and faxed them to the chefs. On

this occasion, the fax machine was broken.  Durrr !


>Retailers (except for in Chiswick it appears) usually understand the need

to

>have things people want to buy - someone should tell the online upstarts.

>

>The Internet is a bit like prison - you can get anything you want providing

>you know who can get it.


It would be good to order fried chicken and burgers on the Net.   Food for

nerds.


Jo.

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