Back-to-school in a box: Even in the Amazon age, parents rely on school-approved supply kits
Jenny Driscoll has fond memories of back-to-school shopping as a kid: picking out the perfect folders, decorating new notebooks.
She'd been looking forward to sharing the experience with her son before his first day of kindergarten five years ago at his new school in Hinsdale, Ill. - until she took a closer look at his supply list.
Monroe School had specific requirements that left little room for choice. Driscoll couldn't find a particular set of washable markers in traditional colors at any of the stores they visited. She ended up buying them on Amazon to make sure her son had the right ones, rather than risk picking something that seemed close enough.
"It was actually really not fun," said
