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 .

Lots of people dont want random
people in their house. Theres no way I would let a delivery driver in.

Sainsburys always leave the crates with me and we swap them next time. I realise not everyone would want to store them but I just tuck them away in my garden shed.

SleepingStandingUp thank you for your comment. I hadn’t thought of Amazon. That’s might be a better option for me. I need such a large quantity which adds to the embarrassment.

Right by the front door, the dirtiest bit of floor in the house, some of them.

Umm, you do realise that this food comes in its own packaging, right? The stuff that protects it from floor germs? Anyway, I'm quite sure that someone's hallway is not the flithiest place these packages have been put down - back of lorries, shop floors, in the crates themselves (don't google them by the way!), yeah I'd take my chance with 5 minutes on my own home floor .

windy I think if you subscribe or something you can get discounts on stuff you buy regularly so you could set up like a standing order delivery 🚚

EmeraldShamrock I didn’t know that. Thank you, that would work for me.

I couldn't lift the crates. Fortunately I don't have to as the delivery driver carries them into my kitchen and leaves them for me to unpack. I hand him back last weeks crates which I had stored in my garage and he leaves me to unpack in peace. If they didn't do that I would just have some bags for life ready at the door to decant the shopping into.

I'm glad they are stopping brown paper bags as they use so many I am overrun with them. When I asked the driver to take them back he said they don't re-use them just bin them.
I can't find a use for the brown paper bags other than as firelighters.

Ocado insist on sending bags but refund you when you hand them back.

Surely it's not beyond the relams of imagination to understand why someone might not, whilst alone in their home, want to let strange men in?

Waitrose deliver in carrier bags, then next time they deliver you return the last lot of bags.

Just an idea.

Sleeping I will look into that. In the past I’ve had drivers hand me one by one and I’ve been mortified. Yes I appreciate they may have a felame partner who uses them, but my DH wouldn’t ever go near sanpro or speak of it, so it’s odd for me.

WindyWednessay If you order from a laptop rather than a mobile site, each product allows a note to picker when checking out.

*Right by the front door, the dirtiest bit of floor in the house, some of them.

That is fucking disgusting*

That's probably one of the least grim parts of the groceries journey tbh.

Yeah this would annoy me too. My kitchen is on the first floor and the one and only time I had the driver take the shopping upstairs he left dog poo on the carpet. I always just get them to dump the bags at the front door and DD and I carry them up. I don't think I could manage to carry one of the crates myself when it's full of heavy things like milk or laundry detergent. I guess I could just decant it into extra bags but it would waste time.

Huh! Tesco laughed at me for reusing my bags, then they go and do this! It would give me another reason not to shop there. If they are your only option you probably have bags in your home you can decant it into at the door to bring it inside.

but my DH wouldn’t ever go near sanpro or speak of it

Good lord, have you ever considered leaving him for a normal person?

Some years ago (around 2001/2 maybe)Tesco brought out blue boxes which you bought and used in your trolley. Put the shopping back in them after you paid and just loaded them into the car. We still have ours although they were left by the door and became taken over as a cat bed and then newspaper storage, and are now in use elsewhere.

It never caught on but those boxes would be ideal to put your delivery in at the door and take inside.

sometimes I think AIBU should have a third option
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(It wouldn’t bother me but I realise everyone’s circumstances are different)

My kitchen is downstairs in the cellar but I just get my delivery to the front door....stack it up there then taken it down to the kitchen in stages. It's really no big deal.

I'm with the OP. I don't want random men in my house and due to disability I could not carry the crates to the kitchen at the back of the house.

When did this start? I had a delivery on Saturday with bags.

There are some serious drama llamas here. So find another supermarket so you can continue paying extra for useless plastic bags.

It is fantastic. Driver carries crate to your kitchen. You empty straight into cupboards/fridge etc and by the time you are signing for your shopping it is all away!

Best thing ever.

It is actually quite problem if you live up a flight or two of stairs in flats. The crates can sometimes be too heavy to carry upstairs for most people.

I think bringing bags for life to the door and unloading into those and then unloading all the shopping into them the carrying them upstairs in several passed might work but it would mean the driver is less likely to help carrying upstairs as they will have to wait while it is all transferred to bags first and they probably won't have time to wait for that ansdto also help carry stuff upstairs

A wheelie trolley that folds up was my lifeline for shopping as I lived on a high floor apartment.
Easy to pack away after use.