ElQuintoConyo - thank you I'm sure your friend REALLY appreciates the support and understanding
Itsnotahickey (and others making similar points) - I get what you mean but honestly just reading your post made me anxious! I wish I could do that kind of acceptance right now. I can do it to a degree when I'm more well than now but really bad at the moment
"Tesco and Asda already do this so the options are limited." Exactly!
"Would them helping you to the kitchen help or would that trigger your OCD more?" Not only problematic with the OCD there plain isn't the room in the kitchen! Me OR dd can barely fit in the kitchen WITHOUT a large crate of shopping, NO WAY a stocky delivery guy WITH crate could even get through the door!
"Is there a local supermarket that will deliver to you?" No! Fairly rural here, nearest town is really quite small I think population under 10,000? Maybe even under 5000?
Listsandbudgets wall mounting not an option sorry, lots of reasons 1 I rent 2 I'm dreadful at DIY! 3 weird layout means I can't think of a wall space! (Even the kitchen door can't open fully because of the cupboards!
"My Sainsburys delivery today arrived in bags. I asked the driver and he hadn’t been told about it"
That's bloody shocking that even the staff most affected haven't been told?!?
"OP I get my deliveries from Tesco and they allow you to keep the crates and then swap next time.
Ask customer services if you can do this. Or change to Tesco?"
Already been told no to that option, considering returning to Tesco even though I had (other) problems with them last time I used them.
Just spoken to Tesco they TOO make NO concessions for customers with disability though say drivers are "very helpful" and ONE difference is that customers CAN buy bags for life from them as part of online shop (this is NOT possible with Sainsburys!) so I may end up switching to Tesco, hoping their issues from before are now resolved and ordering bags for life each week (at an estimated cost of at least £5.50 PLUS their delivery fees are higher!) BUT even with Tesco even if you order bags for life as part of your order, the order STILL arrives unbagged and you have to locate the bags you've bought and then faff transferring groceries to bags etc.
The Tesco call handler was refreshingly honest and admitted they've had a LOT of complaints about this policy and HAVE lost custom as a result.
"I like having it in bags, pick up, swing round, put on floor, repeat 10 times." Exactly!!
"Now I pick each item up, maybe 2 or 3, carry it to the table put down repeat 80 times..." Precisely - therefore multiplying the time taken to travel from door to kitchen 8 times, multiply THAT by however many MILLIONS of deliveries and that HAS to have a cost impact on the business!!
"This costs them a lot of money. All because they are short sighted and virtue signalling, whilst not listening to what their paying customers are actually asking for." Totally and utterly agree - absolute prime example of cutting off nose to spite face!
"Just moves the pollution elsewhere... more trips by vans, more vans needed, more drivers needed as it takes longer, more refrigeration time as it takes longer, more plastic crates made, more washing of crates, more buying of bin-bags, more buying of dog poop bags... virtue signalling."
surely a far greater cost to the environment overall?!