Question about removal men - will they take my food shopping?

£500?! You got a bargain!

I paid that 15 years ago for a man, his mate and a van.

My most recent move 6 months ago, I paid close to £2K. That was just for a simple move from one side of town to the other, and no packing service. That was out of a first floor flat and into a house.

On our last move we didn’t move far & they took our fridge freezer with all the food in it. They waited until the last minute to remove it from the old place, & took it off the van first to the new place. Plus they took the food from the cupboards, which is shopping. They told me they’d take whatever I liked as I was paying for it, so there’d be no point moving anything myself. Although I did to get a head start with the kitchen & bathroom stuff, & move a few things I didn’t want them seeing.

If they've done a quote based on looking round your flat or on an itemised list showing the number of boxes etc you'll be asking them to move, then you need to tell them what you are adding and let them adjust the quote.
If you've agreed a price based on 'contents of a one bed flat' or whatever, then you should be able to pack a few of boxes of food and have them moved without any problems.
It all needs to fit in the van, it's not just about carrying them.

Surprised that there is no lift. Don’t think I’d have move there if frail

Have a box available to hand with kettle, mugs, tea, coffee, sugar, plates, cutlery. crockery, something for breakfast. Plus loo roll, soap (ideally in the pump bottles), a small towel to dry hands on.

Think my parents when they moved put their tins etc in boxes with kitchen written on them

She’ll have to make friends with the man next door!

Having moved house a gazillion times they will pack whatever is out for them to pack, even an unemptied bin, carefully wrapped in packing paper….

It's not the lifting so much, but manoevering the stairs with the box in both hands likely blocking your view. You kind of have to experience death stairs in old flats to get it!

Bit of a bad choice then? How do you plan on doing your shopping once you move in?

I doubt £500 would include a packing service, that's remarkably cheap.

A couple of giant bags of rice...yes because they might be reasonably something someone is already storing at home, alongside some tins, flour, etc. The entire contents of your fridge and anything fresh/freezer food feels pretty unreasonable.

For everyone going on about how cheap the removal is.

I moved last year and we got a legitimate moving company (not just man and van set up) for £650 which also included all packing materials. They came round a couple of weeks before the move and dropped off loads of boxes and bubble wrap and then about two weeks after the move I contacted them when the boxes were ready to collect.

There is no lift where she is moving to!

Ask them. Personally I would do a huge grocery shop for delivery when I have moved and only have a few things now that I can transport myself easily. However they might do it.

"I am going to do a HUGE food shop of heavy items, such as bottles and tins and jars, bags of rice and pasta, just all of the heavy shopping"

Don't.

Just an FYI about shopping and flats, home delivery is best and they all deliver to your door.
Personally I go shopping little and often so I'm not carrying much at a time and stuff is always fresh.( Just me at home)
Best option is a rucksack to spread the load and or bags that fit onto your shoulder as you can carry way more weight that way without suffering.
Wheelie trolleys are good too but rubbish on the stairs, found that out the hard way!

Also, if the stair situation is bad now, how will you cope as you age? Lifts do break down. Tears will get you nowhere then!

When we last moved, the removal firm wouldn't move perishables - specifically food from the fridge or freezer, fruit or veg or bread. They did pack and move tins of food. It was in the contract.

They did, however, pack the bin with half full bin bag before DH or I realised. And tried to pack a cool bag of fridge food until I wrestled it out their hands.

Tesco deliver to the door and I am on the 8th floor! There is a lift though! One day, a delivery lady carried my order all the way up the stairs because she wouldn’t use the lift. I felt sorry for her.

10kg is lighter than most young toddlers! Women haul that around all the time…

It’s very very cheap! Our cheapest move has been nearly 4x that.

Then why do you need so much food?? 🤣

Boxes labelled "kitchen" yes, fine.
Bags, no.

But upthread you said tins and pastabake!

Why all the crying emojis OP???

£500 for removal is cheap. On the other hand, if it’s a Luton van, possibly not. I think it’s pointless to buy a load of stuff and transport it. Apart from anything else, you’ll be busy sorting out furniture, bed, kitchen en stuff etc.

Get a delivery and bring it up to the flat in boxes. It’s always going to be an issue if you’re in a flat without a lift though.