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 .

As someone that is so worried about plastic pollution I find it so depressing that there are people like you unwilling to put up with such minor inconveniences. I feel bad about every piece of plastic I use.

If you don’t like your children crawling round when the shopping is on the floor then do your shop at 7pm when they are asleep. I have three children under three by the way, still managing to avoid the carrier bags.

Ladies. Don't tell anyone but over the hills and far away there is a small hidden factory that only employs women. These women work hard at making sanitary protection, that is delivered to stores by other women.
They are placed on shelves by women at the deepest darkest corner of the store where only women shoppers can go. Then they're buried under a cottage loaf in a basket by the woman shopper, who then gives a secret nod to a checkout woman.
No men even know of the existence of sanitary protection, much less have knowledge of women needing such things.
Folklore has it that men who did accidentally discover these items, hidden in the women's airing cupboards are said to have disappeared into the hills, never to be seen or heard of again.

Back to the subject of plastic bags with deliveries. Any plastic reduction can only be a good thing for the environment and the planet's future. It's not hard to have a crate or a few sturdy shopping bags to hand to transfer your shopping from your door to your kitchen. Get a couple of collapsible crates that you can store away and just get out ready for your delivery.

Not read thread but I do feel the focus on plastic bags does take focus off plastic for absolutely every other thing in a supermarket

TBH I never liked the delivery person traipsing through my house anyhow, and always had them deliver into the hallway as it was......

I guess I might have felt different if it was a female driver, but, I was always just happy it had come, and helped them carry it in from the van, so having them bring it to the house, albeit without bags is actually an improvement.

After all, why else did I have 2 kids if not to bring the shopping in :D

I will mention, that the uk, a tiny island, is far more uptight about all of this than any other place in europe, the americas, or asia I've lived in.

I find it hard to believe that we're not pulling our weight here compared to other countries

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 REALLY feel for you if you feel so threatened by a professional person being in the same room as you at home. I can only imagine that the world is a frightening place for somebody who feels that way.

If you have your reusable bags at the ready, I'm sure your driver will be just as happy to help you to transfer the shopping into them as he/she would be to help you decant onto the kitchen work surface. I'm sure it wouldn't take long.

Meanwhile, I'm glad Tesco are doing at least one thing responsibly and taking the choice of plastic bags away from people who don't really need them, and don't appear to understand what a complete mess our planet is in, and that radical change is needed. I hope they and all supermarkets address a more sustainable type of single use packaging next, it's long overdue.

Out of curiosity, does no one else reuse their carrier bags as kitchen bin bags? We use 2 a day as we don't like rubbish to linger in the house. Now many shops don't offer carrier bags, we buy bin bags instead - no net gain to the environment but now these bags only get used once.

@NoShelfElf if we end up with a carrier bag we use it to carry sandwiches in or dog poo bags (not the same one obviously). Very rare though!

Yes NoShelfElf I used to reuse the bags as bin bags so have never had to buy any, Have no plans to start buying them in the future as i'm trying to be less "shit at life"

ChakiraChakira - I'm glad your delivery people have all been professionals - I've had more than one make innapropriate remarks (and I'm not talking throwaway, I'm talking - 'is your name on the delivery the same as on facebook? Can I be your facebook friend' levels of creepiness)

luckily I live in a flat, so there's two levels of buzzer before they actually get anywhere private, but lets just say, all my alarms were buzzing, and I preferred to carry a dishwasher to my flat alone, than let that man into my flat.

Noshelf I empty my kitchen bin once a week. I flatly refuse to exacerbate the world's plastic problems by fannying about emptying bins twice a day.

and yes noshelfnoelf - I used to use them as binbags. Now DP just uses the large size ones (again, in a flat, not keen on keeping stinking bins in for days - luckily in my country they pick up the bins every day if you take them down)

*NoShelfElf

Out of curiosity, does no one else reuse their carrier bags as kitchen bin bags? We use 2 a day as we don't like rubbish to linger in the house. Now many shops don't offer carrier bags, we buy bin bags instead - no net gain to the environment but now these bags only get used once.*

What happens to the bin bags one you've emptied the bin? Some situations people need bin bags, like if you're in a flat and shared wheelie bin rules dictate it, others, people don't. I have a bin liner in my kitchen bin, but it only gets replaced when it's gross, and that's lazy of me as I could just wash the bin. I normally just tip the contents into my wheelie bin without the bag. I can't imagine emptying my kitchen bin twice a day, don't you have better things to do with that time?! :p

Also, what do you do with your recycling? That can't be in bags?

I don't really use bin liners, or at least not in the sense of bagging stuff up and binning the whole lot. I put a bag for life in a small bin in the kitchen then empty the contents (but not the bag itself) into the outside bin a couple of times a day.

My hall is usually cluttered so I just take my Tesco shop at the front doorstep. I bring my bags for life and just load them up from the crates. Usually the driver grabs one and helps me. Takes no time.

I've had more than one make innapropriate remarks (and I'm not talking throwaway, I'm talking - 'is your name on the delivery the same as on facebook? Can I be your facebook friend' levels of creepiness)

Christ almighty I hope you reported them and that the company dealt with it severely!

You can request a brown bags for santry products.

@EmeraldShamrock when my sister lived in a flat in Santry I called it her Santry Pad.

Happy times.

We have 1 recycling and 1 waste, so go to bins once a day. When we used a larger bin for waste and emptied less often, we had a maggot incident on the kitchen floor which we're keen not to repeat. We could re reuse the recycling bags though.

The reason I get shopping delivered is so that they bring it right to my kitchen.

Out of curiosity, does no one else reuse their carrier bags as kitchen bin bags? We use 2 a day as we don't like rubbish to linger in the house. Now many shops don't offer carrier bags, we buy bin bags instead

what a waste. So your taking out barely filled bin bags every day?

"Also all my sanitary items sitting there and the delivery man watching me unpack them."

Oh come on ,do fully grown adults really get
that embarrassed ?

A few years ago Ocado gave us a free gift ...it was a Durex vibrating cock ring .
(apparently free with another purchase)
As it happens,it was DH birthday so included in the order was a birthday cake & "Dad" cards.
The delivery driver was very chirpy & as he left he wished us a good weekend & winked ,we didn't think anything of it ,just thought he was a nice fellow until we saw what was in the grey bag.

We both laughed & found it funny !

I take the Tesco crate off the driver at the front door, carry it through to kitchen, empty, take it back to door and repeat. If it's too heavy I'll take some stuff out and dump by the door. It's not hard.

so will have to take my delivery via the back door

Snigger

I'm finding this much funnier than I should do.

When I first wasn't able to do my own shopping (mobility issues) I got bagless deliveries a few times from Tesco. I had to ask the drivers to carry it up the stairs for me (kitchen on first floor.) I asked the driver if it was a pain to have to unload each item for me and which did they prefer bags or bagless......no surprise that they preferred deliveries in bags. Much quicker for them. None of them ever complained about carrying it upstairs.
Some of them said they prefer to carry the crate to kitchen rather than wait for decanting.....but understand people are "funny" about them traipsing through their house.

I think if you are physically able to quickly decant your order into a bag and then carry to your kitchen then you should! If you're not able to then it should be delivered in bags, reusable or not.

I've encountered an embarrassed deliver driver when he had to tell me my Tena ladies were not available......well he didn't tell me he said "An item isn't available...here (hands me delivery sheet) look for your self."

Having a period announced to delivery driver is just a bit less embarrassing than announcing that "sometimes I piss myself a little."