Tag Archives: shopping

Standing up for sitting down

Standing up for sitting down

Older people’s charity, Anchor, is highlighting the dire need for the high street to reinvent itself as a new report predicts up to £4.5bn annual losses by 2030, if retailers fail to attract the grey ...
The travails of the elderly shopper

The travails of the elderly shopper

Automated checkout machines put off about a quarter of older people from going shopping, a survey from a housing charity for the elderly suggests. They can find the automated checkouts “intimidating” ...
Convenience versus supermarket

Convenience versus supermarket

There have been huge changes in the way we shop – particularly in the world of groceries. From the end of rationing in the 1950s shopping for food has changed out of all recognition. From standing in ...