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Waitrose delivery with no bags?!

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playaaa · 05/02/2022 21:32

Just got our first Waitrose delivery after defecting from ocado... Wtf, all the items come just in the crates rather than bags? It does seem more environmentally friendly tbf, but how do people put everything away?!
Do you put everything away properly and make the poor delivery person wait?
Or tip everything (massive shop to last us the whole week ahead) out onto the living room floor like DH did, in a huge mess, in an attempt to get the empty crates back to delivery person as quickly as possible?
WWBU to switch right back to ocado after this harrowing experience??

OP posts:
RedCandyApple · 06/02/2022 00:55

Tesco’s haven’t done bags for years, yes they did it during the pandemic for a short period but they haven’t used them for a long time now. I really do hate it and I do find it takes much longer,
My hallway is small so I can’t really tip all the crates as it doesn’t fit and I order about £150/£200 worth of shopping so I also hate standing here having to pick up shopping one at a time, as it does take much longer, and I do find that must drivers seem impatient.

PainterMummy · 06/02/2022 00:54

I just bring my own bags to the door, the driver and I put the items from the crates into my bags and off he goes. I then carry the bags through to my kitchen. Simples

Eightiesfan · 06/02/2022 00:49

@JollyAndBright

Take crates into kitchen Unload onto kitchen counters Return crates to driver Wash and put away shopping.

Easy.

This is what we do, much better than having dozens of bags hanging around to send back with the next delivery.
Luredbyapomegranate · 06/02/2022 00:46

You just bung it all on the kitchen table/counters, and sort it from there. It takes a minute or two, tops.

MummyGummy · 06/02/2022 00:37

Get some bags for life and unload straight from the crates into the bags at the front door.

mycatisannoying · 06/02/2022 00:08

Tesco: take in the crates, give driver the crates from last time (which have been stored in my cellar). No rush and no pressure. The drivers have always been perfectly happy with this arrangement.

msbevvy · 06/02/2022 00:03

I cancelled my Waitrose delivery because of this. I am disabled and can just about cope with bringing in and unpacking my Ocado shop one bag at a time. Some of it has to wait until the next day.

There's no way I could unpack the crates into something else and I need to minimise contact with the delivery person as I'm immunocompromised.

It doesn't even help the environment as if I don't have any plastic carrier bags I have to buy some similar sized plastic bags to put our rubbish down the chute.

Ijustreallywantacat · 05/02/2022 23:51

Yeah it's all very well being environmentally friendly, until its slightly inconvenient for you then fuck it. YABVU

PREACH

oknowimscared · 05/02/2022 23:51

I love Morrisons for still using bags. They charge 10p per bag, but when next week rolls round you give them last week’s bags bag for 10p reduction per bag. So it costs nothing, essentially, and makes doorstep delivery easy and stress free.

Bumply · 05/02/2022 23:43

It's one of the reasons I prefer Amazon/Morrisons as they deliver in paper bags you can recycle.
Odd occasion I use Tesco I dump the larger items in the laundry basket and it doesn't take long

Perfectlystill · 05/02/2022 23:41

Please tell us why you are washing your shopping @JollyAndBright

Poetree · 05/02/2022 23:40

@Vinorosso74

We get a Sainsburys delivery without bags and just unload the items from the crates into our bags. Doesn't take very long.
Same. I take massive bags to the front door and empty the crates into them.
KrisAkabusi · 05/02/2022 23:36

@Travis1

Take crate to kitchen. Empty crate onto worktop. Hand crate back. Take next crate. Repeat until all crates empty. Check items and place in their appropriate homes once driver gone.

It is not difficult. YABU. Save a turtle.

This. For years now.
TheOrigRights · 05/02/2022 23:34

@Davros

I hate it. My recycling is full of packaging that comes from shops and supermarkets but I can't be trusted with a few bags to put said recycling in
That's a good point. It's fine that my shopping isn't bagged, but don't go all eco about it - getting manufacturers to package their food using less packaging and using more materials that can actually be recycled would make more of a difference.

There has been a huge increase in plastic which cannot be recycled, a decrease in the option to buy loose produce, or that the loose products work out more expensive e.g. 6 pink lady apples.

Jaxhog · 05/02/2022 23:32

We've been doing this with Waitrose and Sainsbury for nearly 2 years. You re-use your bags.

PS. Ocado is so 'efficient' they dropped my neighbours bagged shopping outside OUR front door, and then scarpered without telling anyone!

Clymene · 05/02/2022 23:31

I just have big bags for life by the front door. It takes a few minutes to decant the shopping into them. Apart from it taking an age to carry crates into the kitchen, unload and bring them back, they're really heavy! I can't think why anyone would do that

My elderly parents get a weekly delivery from Waitrose into their garage and they let them keep the crates until the next delivery and unload at their leisure which is very nice of them

Mmmmdanone · 05/02/2022 23:27

I take 2 washing baskets and some big heavy duty bags to the front door and chuck everything in them. I much prefer having no bags- I used to have them stuffed in drawers all over the kitchen.

AnnaSW1 · 05/02/2022 23:25

We have several shopping bags ready at the door. Put it in the bags and then unpack in the kitchen. It's simple - just how you do it in a shop!!

amnm · 05/02/2022 23:23

Bring bags to the door, unload at the door, then bring stuff in bags to the kitchen. Simple.

lisaandalan · 05/02/2022 23:21

I have a disability and my front door is downstairs and my kitchen upstairs it does make it a lot more difficult for me with no bags. X

WeatherwaxOn · 05/02/2022 23:16

I've never had bags with any shopping delivery. Just decant from the crate onto nearest surface and put away when the delivery person leaves.

Teethhelp · 05/02/2022 23:12

I'm utterly bemused that you still expect bags! It's been 18 months since we saw a sainsburys bag.

We have massive bags by the front door and empty the crates into those.

This really isn't a big deal

lisaandalan · 05/02/2022 23:10

They used to give you a choice wether you wanted to pay for bags or not but have changed their policy, I think it should still be individual choice wether to pay for bags or not, some of us are not able bodied enough to empty the totes every week, it's exhausting.
We take bags for life to the door but it is still hard work, I have asked for bags to come back but not sure if anyone will listen, all companies except Ocado now do no bags. Everyone bangs on about giving people choice and rights but take it away from you at every turn. X

ThinWomansBrain · 05/02/2022 23:10

I don't often get deliveries, but when I do I have bags or a box ready to load stuff into.
When I had covid I left bags outside the door.

TheUsualChaos · 05/02/2022 23:07

I'm all for reducing plastic but I did use to reuse all the carrier bags as bin liners for the kitchen bin and now I have to buy bin bags instead. So in this case I don't feel there has been any great benefit in cutting them out. Better they try harder on reducing their plastic packaging. Yet again was impossible to buy Christmas food without a ton of plastic waste.