18 July 2025

Online shopping oddity

I had a very unpleasant experience this evening. I had placed order for my dinner via Swiggy at at 6.50 pm. My dinner was delivered at 9.30 pm. In the meantime, I called the delivery assistant; he gave reasons such as "my mobile got switched off", "I lost my two wheeler key" etc. When I asked Swiggy to cancel my order and return the amount, their customer care guy said that Rs 100 for the delay would be placed as coupon that I can use. I am not a shopping enthusiast who is interested in shopping using coupons etc. The delivery assistant who brought my dinner was impolite and wad shabby in his outfit. I have decided not to use Swiggy any more.

(Any single old man who has an inderstanding wife or daughter who cooks and serves affectionately is lucky).



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Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
I am a retired K-12 Education Management Professional. I have worked at different levels in K-12 school systems, textbook publishing, elearning and Education NGOs. I have held memberships in The Association for Science Education (UK), American Association of Physics Teachers and The Malaysian Institute of Physics. I hold a 1st class B Sc Degree in Physics followed by B Ed [English and Physical Science] and M A [Childcare and Education] degrees. My published works include 59 articles in teacher development magazines in India and the US and a book entitled `Creative Classrooms and Child Friendly Schools' (listed in Amazon). This book is almost an anecdotal account of my professional experience in six countries (including Cambodia where I worked as Technical Adviser to the Ministry of Education, Youth And Sports). I served as mentor in the Certificate of Teaching Mastery Program offered by Teachers Without Borders.