To Be Annoyed at Sainsbury’s

This being mumsnet I'm amazed no one has quoted this so I'll go. Why are you having to ask your husband for money to get the shopping a day earlier? What's going on there.

Not sure, but OP is in Scotland where apparently serving is between 10am and 10pm. Although I believe they have normal opening hours on Sundays!

I posted upthread that I was put out that I didn't get nectar points for wine. Yesterday I didn't get nectar points for a small yogurt so you must have to spend over £1.

I'm buying peaches today in my scintillating life so I WILL get some points!

I want to empathise because I love gin but this scenario just seems so alien to me to get upset about.

However, thanks for the heads up because I am going to Scotland for a week in an AirBNB in August and after the activities my DC have planned I will need a gin so I will make sure to take my own in the car 😂

Maybe in some supermarkets (maybe in Sainsbury's) certainly not in all. There are times where that could have been really useful!

I don’t shop this way but wouldn’t other supermarkets have this rule too?

The online order payments are processed through the till system but the shop isn’t scanned at the till

@LadyMonicaBaddingham if that was being snidey towards me....
I APOLOGISED to the OP for my comment.
Is that ok with you?
(Do people still drink sherry? Many a good trifle has been ruined by sherry 😂)

Brilliant comeback! And, ffs my FFS comment earlier aimed squarely at the pleasure-sponges that were making the disingenuous and MN-predictable remarks about needing help with alcohol because one has more than a vague sniff in the direction of a small sherry once a decade...

They do it overnight at my local Tesco for all deliveries. So it can’t be that.

So why on earth would you risk being late to work for gin?

I was annoyed with Sainsbury's myself a fortnight ago when I discovered they don't give nectar points for wine.

I've got used to the little chinkle when it adds your points and lets you play for more.

It does sound annoying OP, guess you'll have to plan around this in future.

Same here in Ireland - you cant purchase alcohol till 10:30am on Monday to Saturday and 12:30pm on Sundays. the one on Sunday drives me wrong as if you are going to someone's for dinner cant stop on the way to get a bottle of wine. They also have the alcohol section corned off with flappy doors to go in and out

Yup. I'm aware.

But the warning on the Sainsbury's page says

"Scottish alcohol legislation
Due to Scottish licensing legislation, online grocery orders containing alcohol can only be delivered after 10am."

Which is exactly what I have said on this page.

Legal laws and licences can vary

A licence can restrict more than the law can for example.

Given that the pop up says the same as the rules that Tesco have to adhere to, that seems very unlikely...

👋

But this is Sainsbury's. And that's the PP point. Sainsbury's licence might not be the same as Tesco. Their system might not be the same.

Saying "well at Tesco we did this" is as useful as the fact where I work we can't sell alcohol until 10am but the pub around the corner can serve from earlier and someone posting to complain about where I work and someone saying "well we can serve from 8am". Different licence.

It's when it's delivered or collected.

Source: a former Tesco dot-com employee.

I guess it comes down to when legally, the sale is considered to be made for one, is it when the payment is made? When it's picked or when it's put on the van for delivery or when it's actually delivered?

Either way, Sainsbury's aren't going to risk having sanctions imposed on their alcohol licence and the staff picking it aren't going to risk the personal fines that can be issued (presume it's the same in Scotland for the individual as England) because a customer is a bit inconvenienced. They're expensive to get and renew, and sanctions or loss heavily affect the company.

You don't actually have to break the law to break the terms of an alcohol licence, and licences don't all have the same blanket terms. And licencing teams are looking for policies that tell them you're a responsible retailer when they give/renew your licence. This would be a way to show there's absolutely no way the licencing conditions, or the licencing laws, around sale times would be breached.

A bit annoying to some customers? Yes.
Enough of an impact for them to risk it? Clearly not as that's their policy.

Not for picking. The key time is the time of collection/delivery. So collection and delivery can happen from 10am.

Ok one final point.
The OP had a choice to decide her priority.
Choice 1 Delivery at a convenient time with no gin.
Choice 2 Delivery at a non convenient time with gin.
The word "gin" could be replaced with anything (even "crisps 😂) - but the point is still the same - which one is actually more important to the OP. 1 or 2.
She chose 2.
I don't really care one way or another.
I clicked on the thread because I was curious as Sainsbury's (and other supermarkets) annoy me too on occasions.
Maybe my first comment was a bit harsh (and I did apologise to the OP up thread).
Anyway.... I have nothing more to say.
Bye.

Have a think of when you’ve ever seen a home delivery picker going through checkouts with a customers order. I can tell you never because how do they pay for it? The customer has paid online but if it goes through the tills there’s no method of payment. We pick alcohol around the clock in my store because it’s paid for online at the time of placing the order.

Yes argue later on again, see you then!

in the meantime, assuming someone who orders a bottle of gin, can’t live without it or moan about a system is judgemental as has been pointed out to you ms y times.

You need to think about your words, it’s not just me saying it!

Presumably the different system also has to allow for licensing hours.

There's no 'deal'. Those are the hours of trading. We all know that. Most of us cope.