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Home shopping

Internet supermarkets

This page deals with home shopping for groceries and domestic wares. If you have concerns about leaving your home or just can't get out that easily it may be useful to do your shopping by phone or on the internet.

Some of the things to consider and check before your buy may include:

• How secure is it to make payments over the phone or internet or even on delivery?
• How convenient will the delivery times be for you?
• Will the delivery come with some help to unload the goods?
• Does the shop I want to buy from deliver to where I live?
• Can I trust the firm I'm buying from?

You can get more information from:

www.oft.gov.uk/Consumer/Your+Rights+When+Shopping+From+Home/Online+shopping.htm - consumer rights information from the Office of Fair Trading

www.dti.gov.uk/consumers/Fact Sheets - consumer rights information from the DTI

www.carers.org/articles/aids-and-equipment - Aids and Equipment information from The Princess Royal Trust for Carers

There are people who can help:

www.tradingstandards.gov.uk - West Sussex Trading Standards Service. Use the postcode search facility on this Trading Standards Service webpage to find the office local to you.

West Sussex Carers Network