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 .

Well done tesco.

Yabu.

Some people dont like random men in the house I cant see why people
find that hard to understand. Its not the same as a tradesman as I leave them to it and stay in a different room. As a woman on my own it makes me uncomfortable personally.

I just stick it all on the floor, thank the driver then put it away at my leisure. Would that not be the best option?

I live on a 10th floor flat and still get bagless delivery! I've never ordered bags, tbh I've always thought who the hell orders bags?

Personally I feel there's no excuse. 10 bags a week is 520 bags a year, 5000 over 10 years, about 30000 over your life. That's just going to sit in landfill for hundreds of years (at best). Its a total waste.

If you don't want the delivery driver in the kitchen just put a crate/laundry basket/reusable bags by the door and unload the stuff into that, then you can move it through at your leasure.

I just take big reusable bags and decant into that, takes about 30 seconds. I realistically couldn't get a massive shop delivered anyway because I can only do one trip with my shopping up to my flat, otherwise I'd have to leave bags in the corridor.

My mum is disabled and the driver brings it into the kitchen and just unloads it onto the work surface. If she didnt want this she could unload it into her own crate by the front door.

All problems can be worked around. Almost all the excuses on here can be worked around. This is a positive step, we need to sort out our planet and things are going to get less convenient. If we can't even manage little changes like no plastic bags how can we manage the big ones? I wouldn't be comfortable recycling the normal bags as a lot of our plastic recycling ends up in landfill anyway, and I'm not 100% confident that those bags will be recycled effectively.

Whenever threads like this come up I end up reading with exasperation and thinking a hell of a lot of people are so shit at life. Mountain. Molehill. So many solutions to this very minor issue.

My kitchen is on the second floor as well. I have decent reusable bags by the door when I'm waiting. The 50p ones which are made of firmer material and stay open. I fling everything into those as if I was packing from a conveyer then carry upstairs once they are gone.

I got sick of all the one use carrier bags and the fact they pack terribly, often leaving half the stuff out of bags anyway. This way I can pack better and it also helps me notice if there are any obvious errors in my shop eg stuff missing or a swap I hadn't been told about. It also obviously helps reduce the carrier bags.

I tried having Tesco deliver to my kitchen, but couldn't actually fit the delivery guy and me in the kitchen at the same time - and once everything was on the worktop and floor, neither of us could fit in. Which was a bit of an issue since the only way to get upstairs is through my kitchen...

Whenever threads like this come up I end up reading with exasperation and thinking a hell of a lot of people are so shit at life. Mountain. Molehill. So many solutions to this very minor issue.

Yeah, I know right? Some people even go around calling others “shit at life” oh wait....

I remember running out of tampons when I was a teenager, heavy bleeding, awful cramps. My younger teenage brother told me he'd go and get some for me and asked for the brand and size. I think he was about thirteen at the time.

I'm not about to giggle or snort, but seriously why is a grown man so weird about sanitary products?!

In my area Tesco won't deliver bagless to flats.
But half the stuff arrives loose anyway.

Chouette but surely you could have just unpacked from the one side to the stairs? Or he brings it up and you unpack? If its that small he's only about 1ft away from you if he stands outside the door! You don't have to both stand there blocking each other.

I really want Tesco (and others) to offer me the chance to pay a deposit on the big crates they uses and return it on the next delivery! Would make life a lot easier

Agree that the OP is BU.

We've used the folding crates option for years, never occurred to us to get bags. Although the big jute bags would do as well. We decant to crates at the front door, stack them in the living room and then put away at our leisure.

If I don't have the shopping bags I'll have to buy more bin bags, so it's not actually reducing my plastic bag use, if anything it would probably slightly increase it.

And no, I wouldn't have it taken straight through to my kitchen, my kitchen is small with very little worktop space, and I can't decant it in the living room because the cats get locked in there as one of them is an idiot who has been known to try and get in the delivery van.

It's not undoable and I wouldn't complain or so elsewhere, it would just be slightly irritating.

Blah 🍷 I’d offer you 🥜 to go with it, but I think we have plenty already 🙄😂

whatsthepointthen. So you wouldn’t have a supermarket delivery man in your kitchen. A man who a large supermarket has employed, has details of, knows he’s at your house and would ID him (in the HIGHLY unlikely event of anything happening), but you’re ok with some random tradesman (not employed by a big company, not on their scheduling) there in another room? I really don’t get the logic there.

I unload the shopping from the crate into a laundry basket at the front door. Then carry basket into the kitchen and put it all away. It's quicker for the driver and saves him traipsing through the house and having to dodge the dog.

We bought one of these for the summer to take stuff to the beach, but we mainly use it for when our shopping gets delivered! Unfold it, unpack the crates, pull through to the kitchen, unpack! Done!

When I said tradesman I actually meant council (I havent needed to have any others in thanksfully) so yes.

Haha thanks Ilove crazy world we live in eh??

will have to take my delivery via the back door

Fnar fnar

Even when they come its because something needs doing. This is just ridiculous. If I want bags I should be able to get them as I use to be able to pay for them. I will just have to take the shopping at the door which will take forever as there is no way im letting the drivers in.

I've always used bagless deliveries. Why wouldn't you when it's being brought to your door? I go ALDI style and have large reusable ones at the ready and plonk everything in them at the door.

@BertieDrapper where is that genius contraption from? I have mobility problems and that would be really helpful for lots of things.

@dishranawaywiththespoon Sure, he can stand outside the door, but then he's way more than 1ft away from me. Trust me, I have tried. Several times.

And as I said, I did try unpacking from one side to the stairs, which was the point at which the only way to get in my kitchen and put things away was to walk ON my groceries. Fine for tins of beans, not great for perishables.