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.

I take the crates into the kitchen and empty them on the worktops. Return empty crate to driver, repeat until done.

We get deliveries without bags. DH takes each crate into the kitchen and takes items out onto kitchen island, returns it back to driver and repeats. Takes about 5 mins or so. Driver waits.

No way are we tipping stuff out into the hall to take it into the kitchen and we don't have shoes on in house so driver can't come in.

DH is 'particular' so always unloads and puts away happy days for me.

Mine stands outside and lifts the bags into the doorway. After he's gone I carry them to the kitchen.

Same here, not because I don't want them in the house but because of the way the house is structured.

Funny this should come up now, I had a delivery yesterday and was thinking for the umpteenth time how awkward it makes me feel when the driver decides to get helpful and hand me everything individually rather than let me take the bags out of the boxes myself. It's not that I don't appreciate the thought, it just makes me feel incredibly self-conscious having to stand there repeating 'thankyouthankyouthankyou' as I take each bag! Am I the only one?

I get bagged deliveries and the driver puts the boxes in the porch, I pull the bags out and sling them down the hall. Take them all through into the kitchen once he's gone. I have a dog who I wouldn't trust to run out so I need to be blocking the door at all times.

Plus the dog sounds savage as hell (she isn't) so I wouldn't expect a driver to come in the house with a dog which sounds like she will rip his face off!

I've never had a food delivery. After being on mn for sometime I really feel
I'm missing out

You can do your online shop whilst in the train, or when watching tv in the evening - it is a huge time saver! Let alone fight with others about parking space, getting rudely shoved with trolleys, having kids scooting in your ankles and so on.

Tesco deliver mine straight into the kitchen and help me unload them onto the floor or work surface.

My old Sainsbury's driver used to bring them through to the kitchen while I distracted DS. The new driver stacks them on my doorstep and I unload onto the sofa and put away after he's gone. He has started putting empty crates underneath the stack, as I'm 8 months pregnant, so I don't have to bend so far! I now book slots when DS is asleep as he tries to "help" put it away.

If they come to the back foot, they leave the crate outside and I take the bags and just put them in the floor (teeny tiny kitchen)

I’ve just had a delivery at the front door, he put the crates inside the door and I emptied each one of their bags and put them on the living room floor (which is now wet). But I didn’t want to waste any more time as it is pouring down, by taking through to the kitchen.

I’m now looking at them groaning that I have to put them away...

Delivery man puts it all on the doorstep. I grab the bags and lob them down the hallway unless I remember I’ve bought glass items. It’s quicker and gets rid of him faster. No way I’d have them come into the house.

The delivery guy brings boxes into the kitchen (basically right by the front door) and I quickly tip the things out onto the floor or work surfaces.

When I lived in second floor flat so 4 flights of stairs. Tesco still used to bring it up into kitchen and helped me unload no different to now I’m in a house. Depending on how much I had they would do couple of trips or bump upstairs on a sack barrow.

I take it all out of the crates at the front door. Pile it all up in the hall as quickly as I can. I take it to the kitchen once the delivery guy as gone. It is very quick.

They stand with the crates by the door, I take everything out and put at the bottom of the stairs and move it once they have gone, they never come into the house.

Tesco man* carries crates through to kitchen (accessible from hallway, no need to enter any other rooms), and we unload together onto the worktop.

(*Almost all of them.There's one I feel a bit iffy about, so I keep him at the door and carry the crates in myself.)

We use bags because there's a few steps up to my door and I have problems with my hands (and back and hips and everything, really!) I ask the driver to pass the bags up to me and I line them up either side of my hall. I can then get the chilled and frozen items put away straight away then take my time with the rest (though I can't leave it there overnight, or else the neighbourhood mice come in and help themselves to my Dorset muesli. Arseholes)

I always assumed they were on tight schedules personally. Admittedly its a long time since I had any delivery, but would have felt that I was treating them as a servant expecting them to help me unpack in the kitchen.

I take a washing basket to the door, tip the crates in there, push through to kitchen. Cuts down on toddler helping/escape attempts.

If dh is in, chuck the dog out the back, someone holds the toddlers hand, two people take crates into the kitchen, tip out.

I take the big bags for life to the door and load the shopping into them

He brings it in and leaves the bags in the kitchen and goes. Easy