Shit, shit, shit, shit!!!

[EvangelineTheStarOnTheTree]

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Stupid husband has arranged for us to go to MIL for the pressie run on the 22nd-23rd, last minute. I've had my shopping booked for the 22nd for weeks but have now had to cancel. Desperately trying to find another slot but no one has anything in the on the 23rd or 24th.
Ive tried;
Tesco
Asda
Morrisons
Waitrose

Quick! Where am I missing? I really really really don't want to do a whole food shop in person on Christmas Eve!!

You’ve left it too sate to get a delivery that close to Xmas. I would never have cancelled the slot!

Get all the non-perishables asap. Christmas Eve 7am for the rest.

Did DH know the shopping was booked on this day and time? Only then is he at fault.

I always do an analogue shop (we have similar numbers to you, OP). In the days of 24hr supermarkets & online food deliveries, the supermarkets aren’t chaos anymore. There aren’t queues halfway up the aisles. People have got much more choice and ime, it has alleviated a lot of the Christmas crush.

In London Ocado have slots for both 22nd and 23rd

Is Amazon Fresh an option for you? I’ve only used it a few times (we’re in London) but it’s very quick and I’ve been very happy with the quality.

Any other slots this week sometime for the non-perishables? Maybe get the bulk of it delivered that way, and just do a quick shop for the fresh stuff closer to the time? Still a couple of slots for Sainsbury’s and M&S in our area on the 22nd.

Good luck!

"Click and Collect!" is the new "cancel the cheque!!

Get yourself on google calendars OP and make sure anyone who wants to book anything looks there first, puts a stop to exactly this sort of double booking shennanighan!

Iceland?

If the present run to MIL requires an overnight stay and is something that happens every year - then I'm wondering if your DH's take on this would be - why did my wife book a shopping delivery for the weekend before Xmas when she must have known that's when we would be visiting my parents?

Just get an earlier slot in the week before for most stuff then go out and get a few things on Christmas Eve. Thats what I'm doing as sometimes the delivery isn't so good right near Christmas, they may not have what you want in stock or even worse the delivery could be cancelled if the weather is bad

1st world problem :(

Iceland?

Keep the slot.

Let your dh go alone or with the children on the 22nd.

You go visit your MIL on the 23 or 24th or any other day of the year.

Do not cancel the slot. He will leave you stress and worry about it and, unless your MIL is a 10 hour flight away, GO SEPARATELY.

If you can't get a delivery... I'm going to tell you my top secret info (can't believe I'm doing this!) If you can hold out until tea time on 23rd - it has to be tea time...so between half four and six say... we discovered by accident one year that the food hall in M and S is almost empty .... it starts to busy up again after about six. We reckon everyone heads home with the kids to feed them etc around this time. And returns in evening. The actual shop part of M and S is completely dead. I usually get everything I need - apart from maybe have to buy a slightly different ham for roasting. I hope this isn't some glitch in the universe that only happens near me but it hopefully is a national "thing" and you'll never look back! Also, you get to choose your own substitutions if necessary!

If I didn’t have my precious online Christmas Tesco delivery slot, I would buy all non-perishables now and message a farm shop and boom a slot to pick up a turkey, pigs in blankets, veg etc.

A few round ours do it and you just show up at a certain time, get the goods and be gone. No hanging around.

I don’t do anything until Christmas Eve. I do the food shop and all the presents.

The shops are empty and it is very relaxing.

Well I wouldn't have cancelled, I would have made DH re arrange MIL visit. Why wasn't that an option?

Anyway, I suspect you will have to go to shops. I go at 5am Christmas Eve, lovely and quiet.

Don’t go to the supermarket very late on the 23rd. I don’t know if I’ve been unlucky but I did this two years in a row at the 24h Tesco and it was absolutely rammed both times with barely anything on the shelves. It genuinely took me about three and a half hours to do the shop as you had to queue to get down the aisles. And I still came home with loads missing!

Agree with the PPs who say go at about 6am on Christmas Eve if you don’t manage to get a delivery slot. This is what I did last year and it was practically empty and everything had just been stocked. Will be doing the same this year

The 23rd is a Sunday this year so the supermarkets will shut at 4pm (in England anyway). I would go early on Christmas Eve OP.

Just go to the shops, it's really not that bad.

Ours open 6am on the 23rd/24th, it's actually quite a nice time to go.

Not getting all this drama.

I would order a slot for this week for Non-perishables. Veggies will last a week etc.

Local butchers will still take meat orders for Christmas Eve collection.

Are there no neighbours or friends who could wait in for you and put it away once it's getting delivered?

Best of luck, I’d be surprised if you found another spot now. Why did you cancel? You should have sent dh out and you stayed home.

If the slot is cancelled then she won’t get it back now.

In hindsight getting someone to accept delivery/or leaving it outside would have been the best idea.

Late night delivery slot or collect from store late in the day?