Maybe it’s the checkout assistant who always remembers your kid’s name. Or the time you found that weirdly specific spice you needed for a recipe you only made once. These little moments are the glue of daily life, and they’re about to get a little less convenient.
Think about your morning coffee run. If you’re like me, you’ve got a route—a little dance of dodging shopping carts and overly ambitious pallets of toilet roll. That routine is about to get a remix, and not the fun kind you can whistle to.
Why should you care? Because your convenience is about to get a shake-up.
That quick trip for a forgotten onion for the spaghetti bolognese? It just got longer. The spontaneous biscuit aisle detour after a tough day at work? That’s now a planned expedition. Bummer doesn’t quite cover it.
But let’s not spiral into full-on doom. Change is annoying, sure, but it’s also an invitation to be a little more fierce about your own town. This is your chance to rediscover the smaller shops you’ve been breezing past for years.
I’m talking about the local bakery that has those incredible sausage rolls. Or the greengrocer whose apples actually taste like sunshine, not cardboard. Maybe you’ll save a bit of cash, too, and that’s never a bad thing.
