Aibu to be annoyed at Tesco forcing me to have bagless deliveries

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Just that really, they are doing a trial and won't deliver anything in a bag. Not even a paper one. Don't really won't the delivery driver walking through the house so will have to take my delivery via the back door .

Change to Morrisons if you want bags. You have to have bags, but they take them back at the next delivery and you get some money back.

Gosh sorry to say I decided to go bagless with Ocado last year for about 5 months but it was a bit of a nightmare so we switched back to bags , Ocado are very good at taking your previous bags each week and I always have them ready. We tried a few systems but none were foolproof!

We use the blue ikea bags. They get placed by the door in readiness. Then we just empty the crates into them. If they're too heavy to lift, I just drag them to the kitchen to unpack. Worked for us for a number of years.

No shopping bags here. Brief period of adjustment and I can't imagine what actual purpose they fulfilled.

What would make sense is including a folding crate in the first delivery (possibly with an initial charge) and you swap out the crates when you get a delivery, so the driver doesn't have to wait/carry upstairs or whatever. Obviously details would need to be worked out but I am thinking like warehouse pallet systems.

I have a collapsible crate I keep in the boot of my car. When doing a shop I put it in the bottom of the trolley and it goes from shop, to car, to kitchen.

""I love how the majority of poster assume that everyone

a - lives in the same style house as them
b- are able bodied and able to bend down and pack shopping into bags.
c- is happy to have the delivery driver traipse through their house""

Completely agree.
I refuse to have random strangers walk through my house, so much so id leave the driver outside, unloading from my front porch item by item, but it wouldnt just get shoved on the floor or table, i aint double handling, id be putting everything in its correct place. Not exactly a time saver for driver who outside twiddling his thumbs
My kitchen is tucked away, plus i have a dog heavier than me id have to lock up. Makes logistics of getting driver inside, even if i was ok with it, rather hard

Woolworths here in aus tried to float bagless delivery, after consumer backlash we have an option of buying unlimited plastic bags for $1, bagless in crate or you can do a swapsie thing with reusable fabric bags. I get the $1 option as i use the plastic bags round my house for many things other than shopping

I’m in the usa, no bags for life here, when I go to Publix’s Walgreens or Walmart, the plastic bags are flowing like the river Thames, out of the Stores, so whatever the uk are saving is out-plastic bagged tenfold in minutes. Bizzare.

ooh and the plastic bags are free too.

Well bumblebee you're sooooooooo right, i mean fuck the planet ay? Lets all copy america and just carry on turning most of the ocean in to more plastic than water.

Lets carry on creating weather conditions that are completely unnatural and cause death and distruction.

Lets feel absoultely fine about watching creatures whos speices have been on this planet many times longer than human beings have been literally sufercate and drown because of the pastic waste.

Yep, lets carry on doing that. Seems like a great idea.

What i think is bizaree as you put it is you think that what you do in america is the way forward. Just cos you can get plastic bags in abundance, doesn't mean its right that you do so. I know your president thinks that climate change is a lie created by the chinese, its not, its a scientific fact created by humans.

The charge in tje UK and ireland for bags, maybe a small change, but its a good one. Its changing attitudes as this tread actually proves. No we're not going to save the planet alone. But we stand more of chance of doing so than if we carry on contrubuting to the horrifically polluting oil and plastics industries and the non biodiogradable waste pile.

On a more serious note, I live in a country that uses SO much plastic and there's little to no recycling facilities. Everywhere you go there are plastic bags and water bottles littering the streets and countryside. It's horrible.
As of 1st October last year the government brought in a charge for plastic carrier bags. Hallelujah! It's quite expensive for bags now, which is a good thing. I always used the carrier bags that I had for bin bags, and only took as many as I needed but, the times I'd see people taking 4-5 bags for just 1 or 2 items in the supermarket. It made me so sad.
When I had Tesco's delivery in the UK I always chose bagless, the driver brought the crates to my door, I unpacked there, in the hallway and then put the groceries away myself. It's really not that difficult!

OP just go to the shop, then you can bring your own bags. If you choose to have a delivery, then you must take it on Tesco's terms. What a whinger you are.

Tesco haven't delivered with bags for ages here. I just take a few of the big blue Ikea bags to the door and put
them in there to take through to the kitchen. It's really not a problem!

I’ll have to bend down a hundred times and put it all away in cupboards later; (while keeping it all safe from crawling curious babies). I’m assuming the driver won’t be too happy to stay and wait around while I do it straight from the crate? I would have to change supermarkets if they did that here.

I've had a driver help me unpack into the kitchen and ask if I needed help putting things away.

And yes I did email Tesco and thank them.

I get virtually all my shopping delivered so I know some of the drivers and Callum and Steve (at the Tesco store) try their best to get shopping to me even if I have had a problem with a credit card.

They know I'm disabled so I don't know if they have a policy or I'm just really lucky with the drivers.

I didn’t even know you could get bags anymore with online delivery! I haven’t had them for years. I can’t believe people are making this into an issue at all. It’s not that fucking hard to work out how to do it in your own circumstances, surely?

We just unload all the stuff out the crates onto hall floor to let the driver get on his way and then put the stuff away at our leisure.

MarilynSlumroe

That's exactly what I was thinking!

How did people cope before home deliveries? Seriously?

Is it really so difficult to pack your groceries into bags on the front door step and carry them through to the kitchen yourself if you don't want the driver to come in?

The delivery drivers are instructed to help if the recipient is disabled. They always help my parents.
We are told in work when a customer mentions any disability in the phone, we must note a pop up on the account for the next agent, they can be aware to give extra help and patience on the call.

I can’t believe this is even an issue. Unless you are disabled (I know many and they do their own shopping including myself) then you sound ridiculously entitled.

So what if your kitchen is on a different floor, that double handling will cause an issue with curious babies (safety gate, cot, play pen, common sense?) and that you don’t want people traipsing through the house.

Dump it all in the kitchen, have your own bags ready or the driver can wait - they’re used to this anyway.

If you’re getting 5/6 crates or more then surely you can unload the first couple while the driver gets the next load?

I’m sure you all want a planet for your children, grand children and yourself to live on. I bet these people moaning about this are the first to moan when a plastic bag is wrapped around a swan’s neck.

If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem!

How did people cope before home deliveries? Seriously

They brought their groceries home in a shopping trolley, or a taxi, or drove them home, or shopped more locally and/or daily.

Of course you have the issue of people having less time because more women work so don't have time to shop daily, and the shops aren't open when they're not working, but there will be many people who have their groceries delivered simply because they can and it costs nothing or not very much.

If home delivery becomes less convenient due to all this arsing about with crates in the hallway some people might decide that the solution is to just go to the supermarket and do their shopping themselves, which the supermarkets probably won't mind, because it costs them more to bring it to your door than it does for the customer to do all the work themselves.

How did people cope before home deliveries? Seriously

Christmas shopping was hell on earth

It is obvious, if you want bags then go do the shop yourself. If you can't then you'll have to adapt and organise a system to get it in the house.

Just empty everything into the porch and put it away at your leisure. It's really not a biggy is it?

Exactly Barbara and Gamerchick, I just don't understand all the fuss. Instead of packing shopping into bags at the supermarket, you need to do it on your doorstep if you don't want the driver in your house. Hardly the end of the world is it?

My hallway is very narrow and if a week's shop is dumped there it causes a blockage that needs to be moved now. It is much easier to carry shopping through to the kitchen in bags than anything bigger that is hard to move through a narrow space.

I usually also have a litter of kittens running around the house as I foster for a rescue, so having the door open for long enough to dump a week's worth of shopping in the hallway could result in escapes.

Added to that the need to be in at a certain time to receive the shopping and an inability to see what looks good in the supermarket rather than on a screen or look at the reduced shelf, plus the problems with substitutions and short dates when someone else does your shopping for you, makes home delivery quite unattractive when the supermarket is close by and just as easy to just go yourself.

Yes but if you don't substitute, you have something missing and thus cannot make the thing you wanted to, or have to go to the supermarket anyway.