Eithne Shortall: You’ll never catch me letting Big Grocery do my shopping

I was listening to a radio item recently about supermarkets, and how just five per cent of Ireland’s grocery shopping is done online. During the pandemic, this rate rose to between 10 and 15 per cent but once we were past social distancing and infection fears, it fell right back to near pre-Covid levels.

A lot of new habits adopted during the pandemic lingered, such as working from home and getting off the middle door ...