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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??

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Daenerys77 · 05/02/2022 23:01

I leave my own crates outside the front door and the driver transfers the goods from his crates to mine.

longwayoff · 05/02/2022 22:59

My post was a bit tetchy. I should say that Waitrose delivered to me every couple of weeks during the pandemic, always on time, good substitutes when necessary, return and refund without delay and employ impeccably polite and pleasant delivery staff. So no complaints other than the bags which, overall, is minor.

WonderfulYou · 05/02/2022 22:56

Tesco and Asda do this.

I had a Tesco delivery a few days and it says to click if you are isolating and they’ll provide bags so it’s easier to just lift out but they didn’t provide bags so it took ages.

I know the delivery drivers are on very tight schedules so I just put it all on the floor in the hallway and then put it in the kitchen once they’ve gone.

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playaaa · 05/02/2022 22:55

@EddyF

What about for people who live in apartments/lifts/stairs etc?
Exactly
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EddyF · 05/02/2022 22:50

What about for people who live in apartments/lifts/stairs etc?

ErrolTheDragon · 05/02/2022 22:47

@DoctorSnortles

I use laundry baskets (the ones I use for hefting laundry about, not the ones that sit in the bedroom full of stuff from last summer that I never get round to washing). It's easy to quickly chuck stuff from the crates into the baskets and send the delivery person on their way.
That's what we do. One for veg, one for other fridge/freezer stuff, one for cupboard stuff is usually about right. Doesn't take long for me and DH to do it between us.
mumwon · 05/02/2022 22:46

I have boxes & large bags in the hallway & half sort into them -the delivery drivers are fine (I don't fancy taking their boxes into my kitchen on my surfaces)

pontiouspilates · 05/02/2022 22:45

I just put everything into those big Ikea bags and unpack in the kitchen. Doesn't take long.

TeaAndStrumpets · 05/02/2022 22:41

@notthe1Parrot

We just put empty stack-a-jacks (crates similar to the ones they use), on the doorstep and Waitrose, Tesco, or Sainsbury’s just unloaded it into those - takes 2 or 3 minutes. Then we carry it through to the kitchen.
Yes we do this, with the added refinement of a little trolley to push them on, saves DH getting a hernia!
Xds1453 · 05/02/2022 22:39

@JollyAndBright

Did I read that right you wash your shopping ?

Phineyj · 05/02/2022 22:38

I ordered a delivery from Tesco for a holiday last year - luckily I'd seen it said no bags so I took some. We'd rented a boat and the delivery arrived to the carpark and the boat was out on a jetty, so I don't know what the heck we'd have done if I hadn't brought bags...formed a human chain along the quayside or something I suppose!

I do think they should use some common sense in tourist areas. Plastic bags can be reused.

Hugasauras · 05/02/2022 22:37

@Mummy1608

Have bags for life ready near the door when the van arrives. Unload crates into bags. Takes less than a minute.

Single use plastic is bad enough but you want plastic bags for the 2-second walk from your front door to your kitchen?! Yabu

Yep this is what we do. No drama!
dannydyerismydad · 05/02/2022 22:36

Years ago Waitrose gave free hessian bags for customers using their in store quick check scanners.

We tip the crates straight into our quick check bags.

It does feel like I'm in Aldi though - rapidly cramming shopping into a bag.

surreymum89 · 05/02/2022 22:36

I hate those crates , I was unpacking a crate in the kitchen and was walking it back to the delivery man at the front door , I was walking at quite a fast pace holding the empty crate at chest level and I misjudged the doorway width , crate bangs into door frame and against me with some force completely winding me Sad really hurt , I'm much more careful how I hold them now , pointless story Grin

SaltedCaramelIcedLatte · 05/02/2022 22:32

I thought all supermarket deliveries came without bags! I empty the crates on to the sofa and then put everything away when the delivery driver has gone

Cookerhood · 05/02/2022 22:31

Mushrooms are literally covered in shit.
Why are your mushrooms covered in shit? They are grown in compost. Do you really think they would be allowed to seel them if they were grown in shit?!
If you wash mushrooms they go slimy. Just wipe any bits of compost off with a cloth.

C152 · 05/02/2022 22:30

Sainsbury's do this too. To be fair to Waitrose, if you say on the 'notes' bit of the order that you're ill/elderly and need help carrying the shopping in, they will do it for you. They carried everything into my mum's house, asked her where she needed it and then unpacked it all on her kitchen table for her.

Greyhare · 05/02/2022 22:29

Your confirmation email will have told you to have your bags ready, as I ordered from them last week and noticed that it told me that the delivery was bagless so needed bags ready to receive shopping, took hardly anytime to decant crates into a couple of bags.

eddiemairswife · 05/02/2022 22:28

I have a plastic bag on the kitchen door which is full of plastic bags. When Waitrose calls I use 3 or 4 of them to pack the shopping. When they have all died I have several bags for life I can recruit. I haven't thought beyond that.

notthe1Parrot · 05/02/2022 22:28

We just put empty stack-a-jacks (crates similar to the ones they use), on the doorstep and Waitrose, Tesco, or Sainsbury’s just unloaded it into those - takes 2 or 3 minutes. Then we carry it through to the kitchen.

TheDogsMother · 05/02/2022 22:26

Just have some of your own carrier bags ready by the front door and a plastic laundry basket if you have one. It doesn't take much time and saves more plastic bags getting into the system.

DoctorSnortles · 05/02/2022 22:22

I use laundry baskets (the ones I use for hefting laundry about, not the ones that sit in the bedroom full of stuff from last summer that I never get round to washing). It's easy to quickly chuck stuff from the crates into the baskets and send the delivery person on their way.

longwayoff · 05/02/2022 22:22

It's bloody annoying. I get the delivery driver to pack my shopping from the crates into 2 shopping trolleys that I then trek thru to my kitchen. Terrible waste of their time but I can't pack it myself, that's one of the reasons I have a delivery. I wish Waitrose would pack into paper bags. Why not? They've slapped a £3 delivery charge on at the same time as dispensing with bags so another £ on top would more than cover it. Angry

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playaaa · 05/02/2022 22:20

@hangrylady

Yeah it's all very well being environmentally friendly, until its slightly inconvenient for you then fuck it. YABVU
That's not my attitude at all!!! I was wondering how to handle it without making the driver wait too long
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