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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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LouLou789 · 05/02/2022 22:20

Yep, have bags waiting at the front door if getting a delivery. We generally find it easier to do click/collect so we have more leisure to load it from the crates to the bags but appreciate that’s not a practical option for everyone

waterlego · 05/02/2022 22:19

@JollyAndBright

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

Easy.

This, but without the washing in my case. Grin
hangrylady · 05/02/2022 22:19

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

PriamFarrl · 05/02/2022 22:16

I have a handful of Aldi big bags by the door and decant into that.

The thing is though that with out last one I was so busy head down pulling stuff out of crates that I didn’t notice the delivery driver was a friend!

loveliesbleeding1 · 05/02/2022 22:14

This is why I always get a Sunday delivery,DH has to help!

ButtockUp · 05/02/2022 22:13

I use a couple of those giant rubber buckets. When the driver arrives , I put the shopping in those buckets then I sort them out at my leisure.

Summerfun54321 · 05/02/2022 22:13

Asda have been doing it for years. I take shopper bags to the front door and unpack grates to bags then put away. It's still easier than going to supermarket.

Exactly this. Large baskets or bags by the front door ready for when the food delivery arrives.

Growuppeople · 05/02/2022 22:12

And please don’t wash your shopping while the drivers waiting wtf!!

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playaaa · 05/02/2022 22:10

@Sparklingbrook

this still takes about 10x longer than ocado's drop-all-bags-by-front-door-and-leave method! I just felt for the driver!

How much shopping was delivered? Shock How did it take a whole ten times longer? Although you were putting it into the wrong room so that's not going to help.

There's a long staircase between front door, and we have an open plan lounge/kitchen. Should have done a diagram really! Wink
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Pyri · 05/02/2022 22:09

Can’t believe people are still washing their shopping! Shock

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playaaa · 05/02/2022 22:07

@Wafflesnsniffles

playaa it takes just a couple of minutes - no need for it to take an age. Im astonished you care more about the driver getting away quicker than the environment. It literally takes me 3 minutes to unpack mine from their crates into mine.
I promise I do care very deeply about the environment. I guess I just also care about being kind to likely precariously employed staff who are doing me a huge service. Just didn't know the etiquette yet I guess as it's a different method to how ocado works really! We shall be better prepared next time with cotton bags and laundry baskets
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Theforest · 05/02/2022 22:06

We load up into ikea blue bags

Growuppeople · 05/02/2022 22:05

We get 30,000 items to pick a day, start at 2am and if lucky finish around at 3pm, if we added bagging to that? Plus bagging takes up more space in the crates. I don’t think people understand what goes on with home shopping, we get moaned at being instore while everyone’s shopping as well, Can’t win really

changewwible · 05/02/2022 22:05

There's absolutely no point washing shopping.

MyDogsSpeakItalian · 05/02/2022 22:05

Since Tesco have stopped delivering in bags, we put our shopping away as we take it out the crates. Our delivery driver told us to the first time we had a delivery without bags, he said there’s no point in putting it in bags to then have to put it away.

jay55 · 05/02/2022 22:04

My last Waitrose delivery, the chap took my second bag for me and unloaded the second crate into it while I did the first. He was marvellous.

But I do miss bags. I liked when Tesco did liners and you could scoop the whole lot out in one go.

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playaaa · 05/02/2022 22:02

@Cavagirl

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?

😂

you don't have a waitrose issue, you have a DH issue

Wink

Fair point! 😂
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DobbyTheHouseElk · 05/02/2022 22:01

I think Ocado bags are also liners for the crates. Because they are filled in a warehouse by robots it’s a different system to pickers in a supermarket.

Anyway they take them back, plus other single use plastic/bread bags etc and recycle it into new bags. I use them for multiple reasons before I hand them back.

Redglitter · 05/02/2022 22:00

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

This is what I do, it's not difficult & takes almost no time. Except for washing my shopping Confused Do people really do that

WalkingOnSonshine · 05/02/2022 22:00

I’ve never had my shopping delivered in bags, except for the pandemic at its peak.

I use one carrier bag to store all my soft plastic which then goes to Coop for recycling once a week.

So much quicker and easier to just unload at the front door into bags for life.

I just assumed everyone did this!

Marmm · 05/02/2022 21:59

@Growuppeople

No? Who washes fruit and veg? Confused
People who read the instructions and take food hygene seriously. Also reduces the amount of pesticides consumed.
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playaaa · 05/02/2022 21:59

@CythereaGraye

I unload it into laundry baskets - only takes a minute and then easy to move it into the kitchen and put it away.
Genius!!! This is what we'll do next time !! Solved Smile Thanks All!
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Marmm · 05/02/2022 21:58

Some people were/are washing their tins and other plastic packaged groceries. That's unnecessary ah got you. Well the cornflake box would go soggy I guess.

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playaaa · 05/02/2022 21:58

@phishy

this harrowing experience?

Pretty sure it’s more harrowing for the whales swallowing our plastic waste, OP.

Fair point 😳
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Growuppeople · 05/02/2022 21:57

No? Who washes fruit and veg? Confused