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 .

The delivery driver sees your sanitary products!

When I used to get shopping delivered, I never had bags. It just came in a crate. I tip the crates out on to the hallway floor, hand them back. Them just carry stuff through from the hallway to the kitchen.

When kids were little they thought it was great fun running the shopping through the house!

I don't understand, why exactly is it a problem for you OP?

If its to do with towels/tampons, I understand that but what I used to do (before I started using the re-usable fabric pads) was just buy that sort of thing separate at Savers.

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 assume from this you have a physical disability and I do agree that this changes things. Delivery drivers should be trained to accept that some people might take more time or need more assistance. Or for people who have disabilities which make this harder should be given the option of bags or additional assistance with unloading (although this would be open to abuse).
I also expect it’s a bit of an exaggeration that it would take bending over hundreds of times - the vast majority of people don’t order hundreds of items in each shop!

Don’t really get the concern about sanitary products. Is taking them out of a crate any more embarrassing than buying them at a til? It’s just a packet after all!

Delivery drivers will typically carry crates to the kitchen for you. Maybe they won't if your kitchen is upstairs, but I haven't encountered that. They will put the crates on a table or worktop if you can't bend down and you can unpack it from there. If you can't unpack even from a surface then I'm sure the driver will unpack, and if you can't do that, then you wouldn't be able to pick up bags either. And why is there a problem with the driver coming into your house? He is just a person doing a job and he has not been standing in muddy fields or rolling in manure.

You realise men also can pick your shopping so shock horror they pick your sanpro too, even teen boys and old men like my dad .
Get a grip of yourselves

Asda do this, I just unload the crates at the front door, everything onto the floor in the hallway. Then I take everything into the kitchen once the guy has gone and my doors locked... don't see the big deal?

i can’t believe the driver stands and watches you all unpack your shopping. In Ireland they help you unpack and put the stuff on the counter for you.

And why is it any more embarrassing unloading sanitary products in front of a driver than buying them in a shop and putting them on the conveyor belt in front of everyone? I'm sure most drivers know that women have periods - hell, they may even have wives or girlfriends or sisters or mothers themselves.

Also all my sanitary items sitting there and the delivery man watching me unpack them well it's likely she uses them too, or his wife / daughter does. If it's a guy whose never really dealt with anyone who uses them he's probably feeling at least as awkward as you for the two seconds it takes to take them out of his crate.
What do you do if it's a guy on the til and you have to buy them at the shop??

Also, what I do is just have a big ikea bag ready at my door and I or both the driver and I put the stuff from the crates into that, then when he's away, I drag it into my kitchen, simple :)

It absolutely makes sense not to use plastic bags for deliveries. Have a couple of boxes or some bags for life by the door on the day they deliver. It's not rocket science is it. I use a trolly to take items from hall to kitchen but the drivers are always happy to take it to my kitchen.

HalfBloodPrincess
Slightly annoying, as our council has just stopped supplying food waste bags and have asked us to use carrier bags instead for a new recycling scheme.

I only ever had one roll of bags from my council. I buy rolls of green biodegradable bags - you can get them from supermarkets, Wilko, Poundworld etc. I ran out once and put in a spare plastic bag and they refused to take it.

OMG! If the delivery drivers are unsettled by "sanitary items" they must be driven to distraction by phallus shaped vegetables, bottles of baby oil, lust inducing oysters and celebratory champagne. I'm surprised they can manage to walk up the path.......

If your kitchen is upstairs and actually you like your walls without big scrapes on them it is a problem. I overcame this problem by making smaller orders, delivery saver means it doesn’t cost any more.

Is it that you're concerned the driver will have muddy feet, cause other than that I can't see what the issue is?
We regularly get 5/6 crates and never have it bagged. The driver brings it straight to my kitchen, why on earth would I need bags? Just unpack onto the counter/floor and off he goes.
In our previous flat he used to bring it up two flights of stairs too.
Never has he been cross at how long it takes me to unpack it and to be honest they are never really looking at what you have ordered. Condoms, sanitary products - who cares. No different to going to a till and paying for them??!

Also I used to live in a main door flat where the kitchen was upstairs and never had an issue with delivery drivers carrying things up. They all just did it automatically.

Just go to another supermarket? I dont like Tesco as the one here is shit - I always go to Sainsburys (or sometimes Morrisons). Sainsburys let you choose to have things packed in bags or not, depending on your choice.

I'd feel too bad asking the driver to bring my shopping up 3 narrow flights of stairs to my front door so I keep a few big Ikea type bags ready for when they knock. Move all shopping to that then take up one or two at a time. Knackering but better than plastic bags.

I don’t have a physical disability but a horrible back from carrying twins both before and since birth and general exhaustion from only getting a few hours sleep each night for the past year. I know it’s a bit (a lot) pathetic but the thought of the small extra effort required does just fill me with ... I dunno... a massive sigh. One more thing to do. Fair play to Tesco for trying it.
Honestly I do think the other decisions we make in our family life do outweigh the maybe 12 plastic bags that come with our shopping each week. All other shopping we do I have reusable bags or carry things in the double buggy. So I’m not going to feel guilty about those bags.
(The person who is most active on my FB posting videos and links about the problems with single use plastic is also someone who flies long haul for pleasure at least one round trip a month.)

I'm sure most drivers know that women have periods - hell, they may even have wives or girlfriends or sisters or mothers themselves.

I've never had my shopping delivered, so until today I was unaware that it was delivered in carrier bags, or that women are apparently incapable of driving vans.

I thought anyone who doesn't want to carry crates through the house would transfer the shopping from crates to smaller bags for life at the door. Isn't that the obvious solution?

Yep, buy a few of these, transfer as much or little per crate as you can carry. We have them, great for the car boot too. And loads of other uses for transporting storing carrying etc. www.ryman.co.uk/really-useful-folding-box-32-litre?&istCompanyId=724692e0-2f99-4874-9565-6fc82074fe86&istItemId=pxxxmxi&istBid=tzxi&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIlseg4s3e3wIVzrvtCh31XgZTEAQYAiABEgKaCvD_BwE#

BarbaraofSevillle Tue 08-Jan-19 15:55:35
so will have to take my delivery via the back door

Snigger.

Wasn't just me then