Are pet food stores included

[ravenrover]

Are people seriously having a go at supermarkets for first-come-first-served delivery slots filling up? Jesus wept.

How, and more importantly why, do you expect them to be prioritising you over other people who have ordered? We're in a global crisis and people are being asked not to leave the house, but of course, big bad Tesco are doing you over by not taking into account your clubcard points! Do me a favour.

Short answer, yes.
It wouldn't surprise me that many of these "new" customers of online shopping are amongst those that cleaned the supermarkets out in the 1st instance
I would also add that our local village shops, which we regularly use, are swamped with people who I have never seen in the village yet alone at the shops and these will be the same people who when things calm down will never use them again and go back to shopping at the cheaper supermarkets.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Are people seriously having a go at supermarkets for first-come-first-served delivery slots filling up? Jesus wept.

How, and more importantly why, do you expect them to be prioritising you over other people who have ordered? We're in a global crisis and people are being asked not to leave the house, but of course, big bad Tesco are doing you over by not taking into account your clubcard points! Do me a favour.

I am actually.  Put a system in place to prioritise those who need it most such as my Grandfather who is pushing 90 and has no family within 2 hours of home and his wife in a home.  Tough for most of us, but fair for those like that who need it.

This requires Govt to step in and instruct where the priority deliveries go. How can Tesco know who is a priority, vulnerable case?

Nearly three weeks ago, the Health Secretary lied in front of the nation on Question Time about the Govt having started discussing this with the supermarkets. Three weeks on, there's still no indication that this is being sorted.

[pib]

Are people seriously having a go at supermarkets for first-come-first-served delivery slots filling up? Jesus wept.

How, and more importantly why, do you expect them to be prioritising you over other people who have ordered? We're in a global crisis and people are being asked not to leave the house, but of course, big bad Tesco are doing you over by not taking into account your clubcard points! Do me a favour.

Short answer, yes.
It wouldn't surprise me that many of these "new" customers of online shopping are amongst those that cleaned the supermarkets out in the 1st instance
I would also add that our local village shops, which we regularly use, are swamped with people who I have never seen in the village yet alone at the shops and these will be the same people who when things calm down will never use them again and go back to shopping at the cheaper supermarkets.

Ok, so let’s look at BFYP’s post from a slightly different perspective then.

Say Tesco/Ocado say “only regular customers can place online deliveries for the next X days”, what happens when an elderly/vulnerable person goes on who is in a situation where they have to shop online for the first time? Imagine the flak the supermarkets would receive for that! They can’t win really can they?

I’m in no way advocating idiots who are hoarding and stockpiling essentials at the expense of everyone else btw, but it doesn’t take a great deal of thinking to work out why you’re not, by some divine right, at the front of the queue just because your normal supermarkets/shops/online delivery services are busier than usual.

[idler]

There was a story on Facebook today where a bin man allegedly reported that the amount of waste collected was up 30% to somewhere near Christmas levels. A lot of this was fresh fruit and veg with some of it still in the packaging. I said to the wife when it started that this would happen.
Absolutely ridiculous.

[5minstogo]

I'm a supermarket delivery driver and every time Boris says use home deliveries I wince. In Rotherham we have 3 vans and 9 drivers. The vans go out full to 860kg capacity (or thereabouts) 3 times a day. A van on a busy day would do around 45 deliveries. The problem is because folk are over ordering we have to reduce the amount of orders to be able to stay within the weight limit. Add into that drivers working hours and there is absolutely no wiggle room. Our vans are  now going out full but only doing maybe 35 deliveries a day. Recruiting and training new drivers takes months and even if that was an option we'd also need to recruit pickers, increase stock availability etc which would also take months to implement.

One supermarket has identified old and vulnerable customers and is allocating slots to those first. Morrisons are also doing a mystery box of essentials being delivered by DPD so check those options out if you can.

[Dagenham Rover]

There was a story on Facebook today where a bin man allegedly reported that the amount of waste collected was up 30% to somewhere near Christmas levels. A lot of this was fresh fruit and veg with some of it still in the packaging. I said to the wife when it started that this would happen.
Absolutely ridiculous.

and I bet theres bugger all wrong with it apart from a "best before" date on the packaging

[Pancho Regan]

There was a story on Facebook today

No disrespect Idler but I stopped reading after this......

[Pancho Regan]

I'm a supermarket delivery driver and every time Boris says use home deliveries I wince. In Rotherham we have 3 vans and 9 drivers. The vans go out full to 860kg capacity (or thereabouts) 3 times a day. A van on a busy day would do around 45 deliveries. The problem is because folk are over ordering we have to reduce the amount of orders to be able to stay within the weight limit. Add into that drivers working hours and there is absolutely no wiggle room. Our vans are  now going out full but only doing maybe 35 deliveries a day. Recruiting and training new drivers takes months and even if that was an option we'd also need to recruit pickers, increase stock availability etc which would also take months to implement.

One supermarket has identified old and vulnerable customers and is allocating slots to those first. Morrisons are also doing a mystery box of essentials being delivered by DPD so check those options out if you can.

That's an interesting and informative post from the 'inside track' 5mins.
Good luck mate.

[Colin C No.3]

Those stats are an eye opener for me 5 mins.

It must be frustrating & demoralising knowing that at a time when you need & want to be making more deliveries, your constrained by lack of vehicles, drivers & hoarders.

You can only do what you can do.

[idler]

There was a story on Facebook today

The sister-in-law works in Bradford. To save costs some workers are now based in waste department fixes as they know that these will never go in cost cutting exercises. I'll ask her if she has seen or heard of any evidence of this in Bradford.

No disrespect Idler but I stopped reading after this......

[ravenrover]

Are people seriously having a go at supermarkets for first-come-first-served delivery slots filling up? Jesus wept.

How, and more importantly why, do you expect them to be prioritising you over other people who have ordered? We're in a global crisis and people are being asked not to leave the house, but of course, big bad Tesco are doing you over by not taking into account your clubcard points! Do me a favour.

Short answer, yes.
It wouldn't surprise me that many of these "new" customers of online shopping are amongst those that cleaned the supermarkets out in the 1st instance
I would also add that our local village shops, which we regularly use, are swamped with people who I have never seen in the village yet alone at the shops and these will be the same people who when things calm down will never use them again and go back to shopping at the cheaper supermarkets.

Ok, so let’s look at BFYP’s post from a slightly different perspective then.

Say Tesco/Ocado say “only regular customers can place online deliveries for the next X days”, what happens when an elderly/vulnerable person goes on who is in a situation where they have to shop online for the first time? Imagine the flak the supermarkets would receive for that! They can’t win really can they?

I’m in no way advocating idiots who are hoarding and stockpiling essentials at the expense of everyone else btw, but it doesn’t take a great deal of thinking to work out why you’re not, by some divine right, at the front of the queue just because your normal supermarkets/shops/online delivery services are busier than usual.

I don't expect any preferential treatment regarding delivery slots, I would just like to be able to place my order be it for delivery this week next week or whenever. My gripe is that the pound signs rolled with the increase in subscribers in mycase Ocado when they had neither the IT or supply infrastrucure in place to cope. Thankfully my Son on Law is bringing in a few essentials but he shouldn't have to be out and about when they have 2 young children to look after