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   From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com   
      
   Bernard Peek  wrote   
   > Robert Bannister wrote   
      
   >> For a while last year, I was without a car so I signed up for online   
   >> shopping, but fortunately got the car back before it became necessary.   
   >> If I were still working, things would be different, but now I'm retired   
   >> doing a little bit of shopping every day gets me out of the house and is   
   >> partly a social occasion.   
      
   > Yes. It's worth remembering that we may be able to automate the   
   > primary function of shopping there are secondary functions too.   
   > Someone at home most of the time may need to get out or go stir-crazy.   
      
   But there is no point in wasting that time doing   
   something as pointless as shopping for most of us.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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