A Great Shopping Experience

For all intents and purposes, we're done with the Christmas shopping. Sure, there's always that last little thing to pick up and a few extra stocking stuffers one might chance upon. But for the most part, it's finished.

One of the things that made my shopping experience much easier was a new wrinkle from Walmart. Their online store has what is called "site-to-store". Most of what you can buy online can be packaged and shipped to your local Walmart store so that you avoid the shipping costs and simply pick up your package at the store when you're out and about. There's a little area within the store dedicated to it so you're in and out in a jiffy.

I hope more stores do this. It looks as if they're all offering free shipping on most items now. Maybe they were caught of guard with Walmart's innovative idea or maybe it's just a way to attract customers in a stagnant economy. No matter what the reason, this new concept will be nice going forward so that I can keep my shopping time to a minimum.