Shopping Online for Grocery Delivery from Home

Highlighting  the favorite online Food Supply Chain convenient services available for getting food services delivered to your home. Post COVID Pandemic Grocery Shopping changed the way we shop and receive the foods, goods and services for our home.  

Demand for online shopping services is driven by: 

• Isolate at home orders,  
• working from home, 
• record levels of unemployment, 
• people unable to shop because of COVID or caring for COVID patients

Best Online Shopping Centers   

Here are the top best sites for online grocery shopping.  I am not a big fan of paying money to spend money.  I will pay membership if I see value, however my 2 favorites from this list are InstaCart, for the convenience and speed to order and receive.  Post COVID InstaCart and Amazon had to increase the wait time promise for delivery, but still both are very good.

InstaCart has no membership and great service.     InstaCart would get my loyalty, if they were could return to post COVID, DoorDash competitive delivery within an hour or two.    
DoorDash does not make the list of best sites for online grocery shopping, but its worth noting that they have expanded their offering that to coin a phrase, "If you've got the money, honey, We've got the time".  You can order from Door Dash for some basic grocery store services including Safeway, Walgreens, CVS.   InstaCart could lose marketshare if they can not scale to meet this level of service offering. 

Amazon is my favorite for online grocery delivery.   I am willing to wait a little longer for an Amazon product , and it delivers quickly on most items.  If it were between Amazon and InstaCart, I would choose Amazon first, for its supply chain strength in breadth of product and speed of delivery.  

 Best Sites for Online Grocery Shopping in 2021

1. Thrive Market - sort of a Costco Membership experience online
2. Fresh Direct  
3. Shipt
4. Boxed
5. AmazonFresh  
6. InstaCart 
7. Yummy Bazaar 

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Supporting a Woman, after a Miscarriage

My Story:   MARCH 2021:  This article does not focus on the types the symptoms and medical aspects of miscarriage, instead it's focus is on healing and when possible, trying again to conceive.  I am a mother of 2 children, and 3 angel babies.  

• I never named my first angel, a baby boy.  
• I had named my second angel, Alexandria, a girl.  
• My Last angel baby was named Quinn.   He was to be born March 23, 2006.    

Writing this article in March is one of the ways I memorialize my angel babies.  Service and comfort to other Mom's who suffer helps me do something positive in one of the most difficult times.   I am here to share from my heart, that for as much as this hurts now, it will get better. 

There is nothing so exciting as the first time you discover you are going to be a parent.   There is nothing quite so heart breaking as feeling this little life grow in you, living in wonder of the magic of pregnancy, and then losing the baby.  

If my experience may offer you comfort, please feel free to reach out to me.   I am actually writing this as comfort to a mother who has just lost her baby to miscarriage.   I put my virtual arms around her, and pray for her recovery. I then promised to write this help guide. 

Miscarriage is traditionally a very private, personal experience. What it takes to recover is as unique as we are.  There are many things we can do to explore the options.  This article is written for the mother who has lost her first child.  Our feelings on this first loss are often a range of emotions, as tragic as this feels, the range of emotions that come to us, must be felt and thus are all necessary to grieve and heal: 

• anger for being so excited to bring this life into the world, and have it end before its time. 
• frustration for feeling the huge set back, the hopelessness and the sorrow of the loss of life
• fear that something horrible is wrong and you just want a happy family
• guilt for overthinking what you could have done differently to avoid this horrific event
• worry life may never be the same again
• hope that you can put this behind you and try again

Too often well intentioned people will tell you "not" to feel a certain way.    I am here to give you permission and even encourage you to please feel what you must. Grief is a cycle, and if you honor letting this take its course, it is better than denying the pain of the loss exists.   

FACTS ABOUT MISCARRIAGE:

Miscarriages are much more common than people realise. A known pregnancy followed by miscarriage, occurs in 1 in 8 pregnancies. 

It is unknown how many women have missed miscarriage events happen.  A missed miscarriage is when the woman loses her baby,  without ever knowing she was pregnant. 

WHAT SHOULD WE DO TO RECOVER ? 

PHYSICAL 

1. Women must give ourself physical, mental, and emotional time to heal. 
2. Get lots of rest, especially for the first days.
3. Every evening, check your temperature for a week, seek medical care if your temperature is above 100° F / 37.77° C. 
4. Expect heavy bleeding  greater than a menstrual period for a few days.  It is normal to have mild cramping for several days.  Use pads and change frequently.  If you normally use tampons, do not resume using them until your bleeding tapers off, and then, change them minimally every 8 hours.
5. Call your doctor for any severe pain as well.  In your routine checkups  discuss nutritional/health recommendation for supplements and birth control during recovery. 
6. Your body must heal.  Do not resume intercourse until the bleeding has stopped.  Use birth control or natural planning to not try to get pregnant at this time.   
7. Consider natural self care health supplements, and pregnancy vitamins,  that can help you to heal, and prepare your body for when you are ready to try again.  

TRYING TO CONCEIVE AGAIN AFTER MISCARRIAGE

Physical Recovery of the body before trying to conceive is 3-6 Months. 

During this time, here are the steps you can take to have a healthy baby. Here are some tips to boost fertility after a miscarriage. 

1. Allow your menstrual cycle to regulate before trying to conceive.  It will take physically 3-6 months to reset, but the time you have before you try again can be invested in creating the best conditions for you and your baby's well being. 
2. Exercise will strengthen your confidence, improve your condition for childbirth, and offer feel good endorphins. 
3. Discontinue unhealthy behaviors. Regain control of anger, emotional issues, anxiety. Reduce caffeine intake, any alcohol or drug use.  
4. Reduce stress and meditation.  Focusing on breathing will help you to recover, and prepare your body.  Visualize perfect health of yourself and your baby.   Breath in wellness and goodness, breath out anxiety, stress, sorrow, guilt and anger. 
5. Eat a pregnancy diet friendly meal to boost your fertility and pregnancy nutritional readiness. 
6. Take pregnancy supporting vitamins and supplements.  
7. Why did I put this again?  Because there is nothing we want more than a baby after a loss.  It is too common to try to try again immediately.   Do not rush to try to conceive.   Instead focus all energy on creating conditions to conceive successfully.   Taking time to become your best and healthiest self will help improve you and your child's chances.  

Support Groups: 

• TTC After Miscarriage & Loss 

 EMOTIONAL RECOVERY TIPS

Take care of yourself. Give yourself time and permission to grieve. 

• Remember to relax and eat well-balanced meals. 

• Organize a couples or private SPA Self Care Day to pamper, eat healthy, and rejuvenate   

• Journal about your feelings, create art, or volunteer to help the less fortunate families with children 

Ask for what you need. If you are feeling sad, ask your partner or a friend to listen to you. If you feel ill, ask for whatever will make you more comfortable.

 

Discuss your experience with a professional. You can talk with another mother who has experience the loss,  your family doctor or nurse, or midwife. Social workers are also available to help you. 

• Miscarriage Support Group Online Group 
• Pregnancy & Infant Loss Support Groups - Rachel's Gift   offers Zoom meetups during Covid.  Also provides a USA state by state list of resources
• Miscarriage Support Group on Facebook
• Miscarriage and Pregnancy Loss Support  
• Pregnancy Loss, Stillbirth & Miscarriage Support Group👣💜
• Miscarriage Mamas Group
• 💙Pregnancy and Infant Loss Support Group💖 and hotline for emergency support
• Miscarriage Matters to Mothers

Organize a memorial ritual to comfort you in your loss. The goal is to give meaning to this moment, to allow you to feel it and grieve it.   If you are a person of faith, a religious service or small personal memorial can help you and others express the grief you feel.  On my first loss, I did not perform a ritual, and I felt like those around me were trying to encourage me not to feel.  My breasts were creating milk, and my baby was not living, the pain was deep.     On my miscarriages that follow, I organized rituals for them.   I named them, I remember them and I honor them as I do my own kids.  I bought little memorial ornaments that I would bring out as decoration.  At the top of a Christmas Tree, we had memorial ornaments near the angel, for each child, with the date. 

My son Quinn required a special memorial as I knew it would be my last pregnancy and there was no more trying again.  I loved him, he made it to the second trimester, and past the danger zone, then stopped living.  To this day I grieved not just his loss, but a continued desire to be a mother.   Being a Mom and caring for these lives kept me so alive and vital.   Here is the letter I wrote to memorialize my son: 

Happy Heavenly birthday Baby Quinn. Few knew or honored your life, but you were loved. You are my son

You were growing and healthy, I did not expect to have a baby and started showing far far before I wanted the world to know. With my angel baby Alexandria up in heaven, I wanted to make sure. How relieved I was when I saw you and heard your heart beat, when I still saw and heard your heart beat into the second trimester "Safe Zone"

You were due on the 23 of March 2006, but you left us in August of 2005 the day Hurricane Katrina hit the gulf coast. I had empty arms, broken heart, and yet on the day you became an angel, I donated the pretty maternity clothes to relief organizations in the gulf area. people who lost their home,and everything but their babies. I donated your nursery, the breast pump, the fancy baby bottles, I bought diapers and formula because it felt like if I took care of THOSE babies, I honored your life.

No one else might remember, but I will remember you forever, I bought a beautiful Christmas Ornament and we put it at the top of the tree with the angel every year. I have explained all about you and Alexandria.

 

 

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When the Sky is the Limit: Musnad Ahmed must be driving the Solution...

 

Musnad E Ahmed - LI, FB   SkyTech - Web, LI, FB

Please join me in wishing a happy birthday to Musnad E Ahmed, CEO and founder of  SkyTech Solutions Ltd.  Musnad has built an amazing operation for all seasons by tending to the entrepreneurial business demands of the marketplace, and motivating a cohesive talent base in his people.   

Bangladesh is Booming, says Bangladesh Prime Minister, honorable, Shiekh Hasina for World Economic Forum. Bangladesh's economy has rocketed by 188% since 2009.  Digital Transformation has developed Bangladesh to now in the top 5 largest internet user population in Asia-Pacific.  

A big part of Business Development can be served by companies out of Bangladesh.  SkyTech is a popular service because it develops quality business marketing and features world class English Language Skills such that there is no obvious "scripted" English as a Second Language Experience in SkyTech.  When your focus is on developing people to deliver World Class Service, your association, and your reputation, creates opportunity for growth.    

RESOURCES FOR CALL CENTER LEADERS: 

• Questions every leader should ask in challenging times- SupportWorld, Vicki Brackett, 03/10/21
• Amazon added more than 5,000 Contact Centers in March and April- Wall Street Journal, 12/20
• Shifting to Value Driven Service Management- SupportWorld, Alma Miller, 03/17/21
• Why Knowledge Centered Support is Hot Now- Dawn C Simmons, 12/20
• Global AI Market + USD $4735.10 million by 2026 - DataBridge Market Research 03/17/21
• Association with Top Performers Makes you a Better Leader- SupportWorld, Alma Miller

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WHAT ARE LINKEDIN GROUPS? 

LinkedIn Groups are best practices information hubs on LinkedIn extends the business for professionals in the same industry or common interests to connect, learn,  and share content. They can use these networks to find answers, post and share or find jobs, make business contacts, and establish themselves as industry experts.  

WHO LEADS LINKED IN GROUPS?  

Most of these groups are volunteer lead organizations, a labor of love by the volunteers that help moderate the community to protect it's purpose, and provide the best networking solutions for the members they serve.  Most groups will have a group or individual named that you can reach out to discuss your membership.  Before joining a group, it is important to review the membership rules and what the group's primary purpose is.  

Members that are not clear fits for the group take longer to process because they have to be manually vetted, by someone or a team of people that are doing this, in addition to their "day job" or "business".  

WHY JOIN IN LINKED IN GROUPS? 

Members who are both student (receivers) and teacher (givers), realize that asking questions and sharing content that others are interested in, increases your chance of “connecting” with others that share your interest in a topic, business connection, or opportunity.  The opportunity of networking through LinkedIn Groups with a person of industry influence is higher than randomly hitting “connect.” 

People Participate in LinkedIn Groups for win win business networking.  Many use groups to strengthen relationships, with your ultimate goal of connecting on and offline with Group members.

Are their Limits to Joining LinkedIn GROUPS

 

LinkedIn sets a Limit for LinkedIn Users to access 100 Groups.    The leading reason Group membership is pending is that the Group Volunteer Team can not approve your access due to the LinkedIn Limitation.  They try to notify members as to why they must reject the request, but some Volunteer teams do not have time to notify everyone personally because membership requests are so high.   This blog post was in fact created for that purpose, to help people who might not even know that they are at the threshold.   It is kind of a ceiling you do not know you have hit, until you ask a group manager why your membership is pending.

• How to Find and Join Groups on LinkedIn   

• How to Leave a Group you are a Member of 

• How to View Your Membership to the Groups you are a Member of  

 

(2) LinkedIn Groups have their own requirements for membership.  Not every group has membership requirements, however, the second largest reason for denial or delayed processing of a Group membership request is that of the purpose of the group.   Read the groups "ABOUT" page for membership requirements. 

 

Maintaining Purposeful LinkedIn Group Membership

 

The most common post COVID use case we have seen for maintaining purposeful linkedin membership is in the Global Recruiting Professionals Network.   This is a group so very affected by COVID Business Requirements and Business Demands.  This group exists to support these challenges.  Because of it's name, it supports a huge volume of recruiters, but it also is host to a high volume of secondary requests that do not fit the purpose of use. 

 

Global Recruiting Professionals purpose is to connect HR and Staffing related professionals to share best practices. It accepts requests from HR and Staffing Industry Professionals, but declines those whose profile do not fit the industry.  It is NOT to be used for jobs posting and exists to help HR professionals:

• Recruiting
• Employment and Staffing 
• Talent and Sourcing 
• Human Resources 

 

The Global Recruiting Professional's  ABOUT page states the groups primary use, however post COVID unemployment has also created a flood of requests from people hoping to run into a CROWDED "virtual conference" and yell "HIRE ME". 

~ While Global Recruiting Professionals is not the place, Jobs N Career Success Is!

 

Jobs n Career Success Networks was created to connect job seekers with Hiring Managers and Recruiting professionals. It exists for Job Listings, Career Articles,  Employment Event Sharing and Professional Development Resources. 

• Jobseekers, and Recent Graduates, or Laid off professionals NOT in HR and Staffing Industry are recommended to join this network. 
• Sourcing and Staffing agencies who want to list jobs, need to join and list them in the Jobs N Career Network.  

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Comfortable COVID Recovery fashion

Comfort for Work from Home, and COVID Recovery Fashion

Dressy upper body with comfort on the lower body.  My new go to fashion is compression gear and a long tunic style shirt. You can quickly change the upper for a video conference.  

Fashion Forward Comfort for Work from Home

Bright cheery and comfortable designs.  

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Career blunders to watch out for, and mitigating suggestions to avoid them entirely.

1. THINKING OF YOU, as I pay the post man. Sending Resume’s or Thank You notes with insufficient postage. 

MITGATION: Keep the current stamps in circulation on your top desk drawer, if you have old stamps, upgrade them with the appropriate current rate.

2. VIRAL MARKETING IS HOT, email viruses are not. Leveraging a business network to create possibilities is great. Emailing Resumes without cover letters is not a good idea. Never make an employer or recruiter have to choose between risking a virus or a resume, most won’t risk it. 

MITIGATION: Draft up a cover letter format that can  be customized in a rush. You have your resume ready in that format, keep your cover letter saved as a template.

3. “Caring about qaulity’ shows first in what and how you represent yourself in your materials. Sure spelling errors happen, but not if you are leveraging your network and tools well. 

 MITIGATION: Use Grammarly!! or have a friend review your resume and support material before you send it out for feedback. Turn on spell check in email and your office applications to correct frequent mistakes, then you can rush, with quality.

4. I want you to want (to hire) me, but I don’t need you to hire me. One of the most clashing fashion faux pas in the career seeking space is accessorizing with too much desperation to get a new job or visible contempt for your prior employer. You want employers and recruiters to want to work with you and want to hire you. 

MITIGATION: It’s okay to feel, feelings, just don’t accessorize with them on a job interview. What’s the toughest question they can ask about this situation I do not entirely feel comfortable with? Prepare your response in advance. Whats the worst that can happen thinking, rarely does, but if it were to happen, you would be ready!

5. Momentum is rarely created waiting for the phone to ring. Remember that there are probably a half dozen possibilities that could improve the career situation you are in. After an interview, don’t stop and drop and wait. Stop Drop, and ROLL like you are on fire, and it is a matter of time and consistency before you are celebrating your success. 

MITIGATION: After taking an action, it is common to ‘wait and see’. That’s not momentum, it’s hopeful thinking. Define what the next thing you can do to recognize your objective. Don’t forget that thank you’s genuinely expressing your skills, appreciation and interest can help. Other strategies when waiting for response is to have a few extra letters of recommendation in pocket, that you can send on. The best thing to do, is to keep busy working to identify what is next– what is your next opportunity, partner, interview, action, event, or activity that can create momentum. Ask a mentor for ideas!

6. People in Grim Reaper costumes have a hard time hailing cabs and finding jobs. Slipping into something a bit more professional when responding to professional opportunities helps things along. It’s not that the cab driver doesn’t want the fare, so much as they don’t want the ride to a feeling of certain death. Thinking about the ‘fun’ social image you project still matters if you also use that persona to respond to professional opportunities. 

MITIGATION: If your networking from a system that will have you responding to professional opportunities, avoiding violent or off color representations of yourself when applying for a job in the social service arena, is always a good idea.

 

For questions about any of our Professional Business Networks, contact the administrators on the network, or you may contact Dawn C Simmons on LinkedIn or Facebook.

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