AIBU to ask how you bring in delivered groceries?

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The delivery driver brings the trolley thing onto my front patio, I then pick up each box/tray and carry it into the kitchen and quickly pull out the bags.

I don't like strangers in my personal space. Does your delivery guy come into your house? When I was at university, I used to have him come in but I just prefer this way now.

Have it delivered at garage door (freezer and beer/drinks fridge are in the garage as well as some shelves for unopened bulky stuff). He just leaves the crates with me and collects the empty ones the next time he comes, so it only takes him 2 minutes now that there is no paperwork. (Asda).

I was stolen from a Tesco's driver £80! I complained and was made to feel like a racist because he happened to be black. I shouldn't have left the money out but my mother had just died and had other things on my mind. Tesco's didn't believe me and even got the police to tell me not to call them! Fast forward 4 months I get a call from the police he's stealing from pensioners going into their handbags AND stealing high value items from the van such and fags and booze. I will never shop at a Tesco's again because they treated me appallingly when I brought this their attention. He went on to do it again and again to vulnerable pensioners. I hide all items of value although I think the Sainsbury's and Waitrose delivery drivers are of a higher calibre and don't call me "babe"🤮, which is totally inappropriate.

Asda, Morrisons, Sainsburys, tesco and iceland bring it straight in the back door into the kitchen, all help unload the crates on to floor or worktop except iceland who don't use crates the bags just get dumped on the floor.

Usually takes about 5 minutes!

It's a bit of an obstacle course to get to my kitchen (no hall, through the living room and dining room avoiding whatever toys my toddler has discarded) and there's not really anywhere there to unload anyway. We unload the crates (bagless) at the front door into big shopping bags, then unpack those at leisure once perishables are away.

we have a steep ricketty path and dodgy steps into the courtyard, so I always feel they have done enough to get the stuff to the back door.
And they have to leave the van on the road and hoik it all up the drive a bit even before the iffy path.

So it's dogs shut out of the kitchen, they then bay at the back window like the hounds of hell at the Tescoman at back door, or he'll stand in v small utility/porch, it's really narrow and the back door and kitchen door are oddly positioned so usually Tescoman passes crates to dh and he gives them to me, and I unload as fast as possible. Like some sort of grocery Pass The Parcel.

When Iceland used to do deliveries Jason (for that was the nice man's name) would help me put it all into the freezer out in the shed! I liked Jason.

One of them left a crate behind once, they are so very useful, I was FURIOUS when dh remembered to give it back.

We get ours from Tesco. They always ask where we want it. They normally take it into the kitchen and help me unload it all on to the kitchen table, I then put it away after they’ve gone (I do not get bags). Sometimes I will ask to take it at the door if I’m doing laundry and have piles of washing everywhere for example. They’re always really nice and normally come in pairs.

I unpack in to my own boxes in the hall and then ship to the kitchen after they've gone. One of the drivers accidentally chipped our wall and put a big scrape along the kitchen door, so prefer to do it this way now.

Driver pulls up onto the road outside (no parking) so have to unload fast. I generally throw it straight onto the sofa (right next to the front door) and then sort and out away when driver has left.

we don't have bags, so they come to the door with the crates, and we carry the crates through to the kitchen and empty them onto the kitchen table/worksurfaces.

The delivery person brings the crates to my front door then hands me the bags, I just place them in my hall near the front door. Quick and I don’t expect them to bring the stuff into my kitchen, even if the company offers it I feel like it’s taking the piss tbh. I get it all delivered in bags and the next week I give the bags back to the driver so they get refunded and recycled, win win.
If it was a company that did bagless only I’d still do it the same way I would unload the crates into my hall.
Then the kids help me take it to the kitchen and put it away which they like doing.

We have no bags so I just carry the crates to the kitchen and tip it all in the floor. When they've gone I put it all away. Usually 5 crates.

Mine brings the crates to the kitchen door and leaves them just inside the kitchen. He waits outside. I love my Tesco delivery men.

We have it delivered without the bags, my partner and I unload it all into Ikea bags at the front door and carry it to kitchen when we're done.

Back in the days when you could get a Sainsburys delivery slot within the next four days, the driver would stand in porch and I would remove bags from boxes into the hall and then carry them through to the kitchen. Apart from frozen which I'd put straight in freezer (usually only one or two items) and dog food which I'd have to put on a table or dog would have it before the front door is closed!

I'd like to do it without bags (although we always use them for something) but I can't cope with the thought of having to grab individual items out of the boxes - or he would have to bring the boxes into the kitchen (which I wouldn't have a problem with).

My delivery driver will just unload the bags into our hall way and I’ll take them into the kitchen whilst he’s unloading some more. I always get really awkward though and end up running to the kitchen and back and tripping over.

I alternate weeks between Asda and Tesco. Both of them bring the shopping in crates to my door and I quickly unpack into my hallway. I then put them away in my own time after the driver has left. My kitchen is at the back of the house so they’d have to walk through to get to it which would take ages, especially as I usually have 8-10 crates.

I get mine delivered without bags. The driver brings the crates into the kitchen, and I unload onto the table while he/she gets the next crate. By the time they return with the next full crate, there is an empty one for them to take back to the van. Repeat for however many crates (usually 4-6). If I'm ever too slow, they will also help unload. This is Sainsburys and Waitrose. When I (occassionally) use Ocado, they just leave the bags in the hallway and I carry them through to the kitchen.

The delivery driver puts the crates on the front driveway and I lift the bags out and carry them through to the kitchen. We always have bags after seeing a programme on how dirty the crates were 😷. We don't have the driver bring the crates in because the cat get scared. 😂

I get delivered without bags. When the delivery’s due I put my ‘bags for life’ by the door, unload the trays into the bags then carry bags to kitchen. Drivers like it cos it’s quick and I can sort it as I would in shop.

I am surprised by the amount of posters who say the delivery man helps them unload their shopping. I did not know that was a thing, I thought they were simply employed to bring the deliveries to the door? Surely that eats in to the delivery time slots and slows them down on the job.

crimsonlake there are normally 2 people who come when we have a delivery. They take it in turns to go and bring in crates and help me unpack. I get anywhere from 4-10 crates and we’re done in about 1 min each time. They are very fast (it’s like being at the till in Aldi 😁!) the bit that takes the longest is them telling me if there’s a substitution and getting my signature at the end. They also always check things like eggs as they take them out to check if they’re broken. Where we live it’s a really good service

Delivery people (we have got quite a few delivery women around here) are happy to ask unload in the kitchen if you ask them.

I normally ask the delivery guy to leave crates at the door, lock the dogs in the kitchen, empty crates in ikea bags so it's easier to bring food in the kitchen once he's gone (or she).

To the kitchen floor I return bags

One of the many joys of home grocery deliveries is having the crates carried into my kitchen and sometimes the driver helping to unpack crates onto the surfaces.