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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

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<v Speaker 1>Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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<v Speaker 1>Today's tip is that when you buy something and it

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<v Speaker 1>doesn't work out, keep track of y so you don't

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<v Speaker 1>repeat your mistake. In the last few years, many people

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<v Speaker 1>have started ordering a lot more items Online. Delivery can

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<v Speaker 1>be a win for efficiency, and it can save you

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<v Speaker 1>from errands you don't enjoy. I know each year I

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<v Speaker 1>prefer shopping holiday sales from the couch rather than in

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<v Speaker 1>crowded stores, so I am a big fan. But there

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<v Speaker 1>are also the inevitable order fails. Maybe it's the container

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<v Speaker 1>of kitty litter that's so heavy that the kid in

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<v Speaker 1>charge of changing the litter box can't lift it. Or

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<v Speaker 1>there's the hamburger that was so delicious when you ordered

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<v Speaker 1>it at the restaurant, but when delivered to your home

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<v Speaker 1>it is cold and saggy. Or maybe it's the shirt

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<v Speaker 1>that supposedly fits true to size but that is actually enormous,

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<v Speaker 1>or the bottle of olive oil that's weirdly tall and

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<v Speaker 1>won't fit in your cabinet, or that the most popular

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<v Speaker 1>order of hot glue gun sticks on Amazon turns out

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<v Speaker 1>to be bigger than your particular glue gun. I bet

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<v Speaker 1>some of your own delivery fails come to mind. The

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<v Speaker 1>occasional delivery fail is inevitable. It is kind of the

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<v Speaker 1>price we pay for convenience. What you can do is

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<v Speaker 1>aimed to avoid repeating the fail and falling again for

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<v Speaker 1>the same dream that your favorite hamburger won't suffer in

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<v Speaker 1>delivery from a far away restaurant, or that you are

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<v Speaker 1>size ten when you are not. For clothes and shoes

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<v Speaker 1>and other occasional purchases, if something doesn't work out, you

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<v Speaker 1>could just forward the order confirmation to yourself with notes

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<v Speaker 1>about each item you returned and why. Then the next

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<v Speaker 1>time you are purchasing from that retailer, you can search

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<v Speaker 1>in your emails to find your notes and remind yourself

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<v Speaker 1>what was quirky in their size NG or which cut

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<v Speaker 1>of pants didn't work for you, or anything else that

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<v Speaker 1>will help you have a more successful order. For places

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<v Speaker 1>you order from more frequently, a note on your phone

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<v Speaker 1>or a page in your planner can list dues and

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<v Speaker 1>don't For instance, for your go to grub hub restaurant,

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<v Speaker 1>you might have chicken caesar salad in their club sandwich

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<v Speaker 1>on the do list, and French fries on the don't

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<v Speaker 1>list because they are always a giant disappointment. For grocery delivery,

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<v Speaker 1>you might have bananas and avocados on the don't list

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<v Speaker 1>because no one else is going to get them at

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<v Speaker 1>exactly the moment of firmness that you like. For your

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<v Speaker 1>chewy order, you might have fifty pound bags of dog

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<v Speaker 1>food on the don't list because they take up too

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<v Speaker 1>much space in your pantry, or the brand that your

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<v Speaker 1>dog ate once and then didn't eat again, but you

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<v Speaker 1>can't ever really remember what it was when it's ordering time.

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<v Speaker 1>You might also have a list of dudes and don'ts

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<v Speaker 1>for places to order from for food delivery. After a

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<v Speaker 1>few orders, you can probably get a sense of how

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<v Speaker 1>likely it is that the restaurant's food will make it

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<v Speaker 1>to you hot and appealing, even with restaurants you plan

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<v Speaker 1>to eat in in person. This can be helpful, as

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<v Speaker 1>the human brain isn't always good I remembering why we

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<v Speaker 1>remember a place. My husband and I keep remarking on

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<v Speaker 1>a Mexican restaurant that we pass every time we take

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<v Speaker 1>a certain trip and think maybe we should stop there sometime.

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<v Speaker 1>Then it takes a minute to remember that Actually, the

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<v Speaker 1>reason we are remembering the restaurant is that it really

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<v Speaker 1>wasn't all that good. A delivery fail here, and there

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<v Speaker 1>is no reason to decide you have to do all

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<v Speaker 1>your shopping and pick up all your food in person.

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<v Speaker 1>A fail also doesn't mean you need to avoid a

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<v Speaker 1>retailer entirely, but you don't need to repeat fails when

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<v Speaker 1>you can avoid them, make notes to yourself and you

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<v Speaker 1>can improve your success rate over time. In the meantime,

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<v Speaker 1>this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making

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<v Speaker 1>the most of our time. Hey everybody, I'd love to

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