Online shopping- no bags

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I like ordering my shopping from tesco, but after their recent email saying they will no longer have the option of delivering in bags, I’m considering switching which is a shame as I like my clubcard points.
I don’t know why they can’t use the bag return scheme like ocado.

How does everybody who doesn’t get bagged deliveries get their shopping in? I think I have mild anxiety in social situations, especially with strangers and my home so it’s stressing me out. The delivery driver coming through my front door is not an option. So will I leave him standing there whilst I carry what I can in, or put it in bags at the door. Will they think I’m ridiculous? It seems such a waste to stand there putting it all in bags just to take it to the kitchen and take it out again. It would also make me feel really awkward as I’d feel they were becoming impatient

Also, I’m not sure I like the idea of my shopping loose in the dirty sticky crates.

I’d look at the individual supermarket and see their policy. Asda are the same, our kitchen is 1st floor and they offer to bring the shopping up for me. I decline and we pack it into bags for life at the door and the driver will help if I want him too!

Where are you going to switch to?

Asda have also started no bag deliveries and I am sure the other big supermarkets will follow soon.

Loose fruit/veg, uncooked meat, fish, chemicals will be bagged so nothing will be contaminated.

Crates or bags by the door or ask the driver to take the crates to the kitchen is not that much of a hassle.

Asda have stopped bags too. I usually end up with 4 crates and I carry one at a time to my kitchen, dump all of the stuff onto the counter and go back for the next one. Or if it’s a helpful driver get them to carry it through.

Another one who doesn't see the issue.
As pps said, the crates aren't dirty and food comes in packaging anyway. Nothing that goes into your mouth will have touched the crate. Yes loose fruit and veg is still in bags - ridiculously imo, there is still too much packaging.
I just dump the stuff on the hallway floor and put it away in my own time - no drama. If I was organised I'd have some boxes/ containers ready and separate categories e.g. fresh, food cupboard. I do understand social anxiety and would never let the delivery driver into my home, they just stand in the doorway.

Tesco man or sometimes Tesco lady carries crates into the kitchen and I off load the things in the bench.

I've not had plastic bags since they started charging for them. Delivery driver takes the crates through to the kitchen (DH does if he's home so I try to get a delivery on the day he's home but not always possible).

I unpack. DS takes the empty crate back to the door.

Very simple. Can't see the problem. It's like the gas or electricity person coming to read the meter under the stairs. And all the items like fruit are usually in paper bags with meat in red plastic bags anyway so there's no loose food on 'dirty' crates. I've never licked a bag of peas in my life so I doubt I'd catch something by them being loose in a crate.

The bag return service is still bad for the environment as the supermarkets do not reuse the bags they have used for you OP.

And even if food had touched the crates....WASH IT! It's not hard!

I’ve never had food delivered in plastic bags, it’s such a waste.
I have a massive bucket in the porch and empty everything from the crate into that.

Depends what mood im in and where I end up shutting the dog away. I either

-ask the delivery driver to carry it through to the kitchen where I unpack onto the table

-unpack onto the hallway floor and then carry it through to the kitchen

-carry the crates through to the kitchen myself and unpack (usually while the driver gets more crates from the van.)

Op I agree, YANBU.

I also don’t want the delivery man coming into my house. I shouldn’t be forced into this, and shouldn’t have to explain this to anyone. I also have a carpeted hallway and the kitchen is at the rear of the house. On a rainy day my front garden is very muddy, so wouldn’t want someone walking through the house in their muddy shoes. I can’t lift heavy weights so I guess I will have to unpack everything at the doorway into carrier bags!

The blue crates they use are not clean, they are not cleaned between uses and often have spillages on the bottom, eg leaked yoghurt, milk, cleaning fluids etc. I have a catering background and wouldn’t be allowed to store food like this in a catering kitchen.

I use either Waitrose or Tesco delivery. The drivers always take them through to the kitchen and usually help me unload onto the kitchen table. Waitrose staff are lovely here and we always have a chat as we unload. My ds helps too.

Driver just leaves the crates here and I hand him back last week's crates.

I always unload the shopping into the hallway, and then transfer it to the kitchen. If it's heavy stuff, I leave it for DH to bring through when he gets home.

If DH is in for the delivery, he has the driver take it through to the kitchen and they both unload it onto the bench

A slattern @SilverDragonfly1

I load into IKEA bags too.

We just got our Tesco shop with leaflet (we do bagless anyway but sometimes they seem to forget) and think it's great. We just unload the stuff in hall and then take through to kitchen when they've gone as dog is usually in there.

In the nicest possible way, it’s really not that hard!

For the sake of the planet, you are just going to have to find a way.

I’ve never had my shopping delivered in bags. What on earth do you do with them all afterwards?!

Lots of good suggestions here, particularly the laundry basket one.

Alternatively, just quickly transfer stuff to the hall floor, or kitchen worktop if it’s not too far, and tidy away once the delivery driver has gone.

They always wait patiently while I de-crate my stuff. Honestly, you’re not gonna die from unbagged shopping!

Give it a go, try to get a new system and see how you get on. Necessity is the mother of invention. Carrier bags will hopefully soon become a thing of the past anyway!

I have a couple of Ikea bags by the door.

I’m in a second floor flat. Either I unpack the crates while the driver waits or i unpack into bags for life at the door. It takes less than a minute. I wash my fruit and veg before i eat it anyway, and even recycling plastic has an environmental impact - it’s still better to use less in the first place! You’re being totally unreasonable I’m afraid.

The blue crates they use are not clean, they are not cleaned between uses and often have spillages on the bottom, eg leaked yoghurt, milk, cleaning fluids etc. I have a catering background and wouldn’t be allowed to store food like this in a catering kitchen.

Yes, because the warehouses the stuff is stored in and the lorries it’s driven around in are completely sterile environments

That ship has already sailed before your shopping makes its way into carrier bags

Take the crate through to the kitchen myself, empty it onto the kitchen floor/table, return empty crate to the driver. Repeat. Takes all of 2 or 3 minutes and is no extra work for them. I then put it away properly.

Asda have been doing no bag deliveries for a long time - only substitutes come in a bag. Usually driver puts the crate in the door step and I take everything out, he takes the crates, then I put everything away. When I was heavily pregnant they would bring them straight into the kitchen for me, but always ask if I wanted them to first.

They help unpack here or I just tip the lot onto the worktop. It's fine

The fruit and veg comes in paper bags. The rest I pack in to bags at the door then take through to the kitchen.
They won’t think you’re odd, one of the drivers once told me they get a couple of minutes longer per delivery now to allow for this. I’m sure some people have them taking it through but not everyone does.
It’s kinda just like packing your bags at the end of the conveyor belt if you think about it, except you didn’t have to unload it all first.