I would not buy fresh food online, I must confess. It gives me a great excuse to potter around the town and vist the green grocer etc. (Butcher only when I have to - as a vegetarian I hate the smell. Ditto the fishmonger.) And all the other nice little shops too!
Oh, yes we do have Co-ops. one in the village but they are all convenience shop size.
When I started using smaller shops there was no internet and I must confess that even though I plan menus and shop to a list I do like to choose my own fruit and veg based on what they have in stock and what looks nice and sometimes I am looking for a certain size or shape of fruit. Last week I want out and carefully chose one, as cylindrical as possible, carrot because I wanted to grate it for a salad and didn't want any left over.
We are a small town but have large Tesco, Aldi, Co-op all walking distance of the High St. We will in the next few weeks have an out of town Morrisons opening. 10miles away is Sainsburys, Aldi, Asda, Morrisons and a Tesco Express.
I am always amazed at the range of super markets people have available to them. I live in southern Oxfordshire and within a 20 mile range the only supermarkets we have access to are Tesco, Sainsbury and Waitrose.
This doesn't bother me as I find large supermarkets boring and time-consuming. This is not a sign of incipient (arrived?) old age. I decided when DC were teenagers that life was too short to spend a second more than necessary in a large supermarket when I could do a weeks shopping in a smaller supermarket in half the time and still able to buy all the products I wanted.
Nonu I love my Morrisons we are lucky enough to have a big superstore on the front at New Brighton and a smaller Express type shop further into town I must say they do have some nice garden plants and their house flowers are always fresh and stay good for 7/10days.
There is a branch if Morrisons not far from my place of work and it is very convenient for me to pop in on my way home or at lunch time. I find their fresh fruit and vegetables to be of very good quality and their meat and fish are always fresh and good too. I wasn't aware that they were changing their name though.