© We Do Your Shopping - 2019
The History of the Idea
By the Founder - Ian Mabb
In 2014 I realised my parents could no longer get to their local supermarket. My mother was house-bound and my father had just stopped driving. I lived 80 miles away, but obviously I wanted to help, so I suggested to Mum and Dad I would order their groceries online and have them delivered to them. After a few weeks we had a nice routine. We quickly worked out it was much easier to assign a number to each of the items they needed. Dad would ring me on Sunday night and give me the ‘bingo numbers’. There were around thirty ‘Regulars’. For ease of reference we used more numbers for ‘irregular’ items. After a while the process was really slick and we cut the ordering time down greatly, which meant Dad and I could talk about more interesting things!
Some
are
happily
ordering
their
groceries
online.
One
lady
is
very
open
about
what
this
means
for
her.
Were
it
not
for
shopping
online
she
would
have
been
in
a
home
for
years.
She
desparately
wants
to
go
on
living
in
her
bungalow
independently
-
despite
suffering
from
multiple
sclerosis
-
and
this
she
has
been
able
to
do,
in
no
small
part due to buying her groceries via the web.
Others
just
cannot
get
used
to
the
technology
or
are
deeply
mistrustful
of
it.
They
will
never
shop
online
as
they
are
worried
about
security
when
using
credit
or
debit cards.
Very
sadly,
both
my
parents
died
within
a
few
weeks
of
each
other
in
2016,
but
the
germ
of
an
idea
had
been
sown with the shopping arrangement we had.
Since
2005
I
have
run
Tutors
4
Computers
.
We
teach
people
how
to
use
their
laptops,
tablets
and
mobiles
etc
in
their
own
homes.
Most
of
our
clients
are
in
their
70s,
80s
and 90s.
A
sizeable
number
of
them
could
well
end
up
in
the
same
position
as
Mum
and
Dad.
Owing
to
an
increasing
lack
of
mobility
and
the
development
of
other
health
problems,
getting
to
the
shops
can
be
a
real
issue
for
them.
They
also have no-one to do the shopping for them.
Many
older
clients
of
Tutors
4
Computers
do
use
a
computer
but
will
not
pay
for
goods
online,
just
like
many
thousands of others throughout the country.
There
are
well
over
five
million
people
in
the
UK
who
never
use
a
computer
or
go
online
at
all
(Mar
2019
-
ONS
study).
The vast majority are aged 65 plus.
Of
this
huge
number
of
people
there
are
many
who
are
experiencing
real
problems
physically
getting
to
the
shops.
Then
there
are
those
who
also
lack
anyone
they
can
rely
on to go for them.
These are just the sort of people we can help.
The service was born from personal experience
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The History of the Idea
By the Founder - Ian Mabb
In 2014 I realised my parents could no longer get to their local supermarket. My mother was house-bound and my father had just stopped driving. I lived 80 miles away, but obviously I wanted to help, so I suggested to Mum and Dad I would order their groceries online and have them delivered to them. After a few weeks we had a nice routine. We quickly worked out it was much easier to assign a number to each of the items they needed. Dad would ring me on Sunday night and give me the ‘bingo numbers’. There were around thirty ‘Regulars’. For ease of reference we used more numbers for ‘irregular’ items. After a while the process was really slick and we cut the ordering time down greatly, which meant Dad and I could talk about more interesting things!
