Robot shopping

Not sure that I can yet fully embrace the idea of online shopping. Don’t get me wrong, I am no stranger to ordering things online  and getting excited by anticipation of a package or parcel arriving by the postman, or courier.
But I am not totally convinced that I can do my weekly grocery shop this way, and sad to say on the few times I have used it, I get that feeling of being disappointed.
By just what is difficult to put your finger on.  The ordering process itself, I have never found particularly straightforward, nor am I overjoyed to find that the store has chosen to substitute an item I’ve ordered for something else. And can I be certain I am getting the best prices or can benefit from current in store offers.
I guess it’s fine if shopping is a chore and something you are happy to avoid,  but with a handful of supermarkets within easy reach of home, I like to think I know them all and what’s on their shelves at any one time. And mentally be able to compare prices.
Or maybe installations like this in the car park at one supermarket I visit, seem to be the direction in which online shopping is moving.  Order online, and simply drive up to one of these stations in the car park, press a button and your shopping Is brought to your car by an assistant on a trolley and who will then help you load it into your boot.
Or is it that I am still old fashioned enough to want to explore what’s inside the shop myself, and pick my own things from the shelf.
Even that is a long time distant from the time I recall when as a lad, accompanying mother to the local Co-op regularly on a Thursday afternoon, when the grocer or shop manager would take your written out shopping list and fetch everything on it himself and bring to the counter.

If I have difficulty in getting my head round find this idea of a ‘click and collect’ robot machine in the car park, goodness knows what mother would have thought all those years ago!