Online shopping- no bags

[Imustbemad00]

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’m still thinking of going back to ocado

And when Ocado stop plastic bags ... ?

Could you go back to in-person shopping if you want to stay with Tesco? At least you can use your own bags. (I feel like putting my scruffy bag for life through the washing machine after reading this thread,!)

The shopping comes to your door. You don't need bags.

Absolutely. “Needing” plastic bags to carry your groceries a few feet through your own home is utterly ridiculous.

No wonder the planet is fucked

Brightright

Sorry, if this has been answered, but why don't you just go to the shop, OP? If getting a delivery is making your life harder, rather than easier, then surely shopping yourself is the answer?

I’ve been thinking about this aswell as I hate letting people in so I will probably just unpack it all at the door

I have Tesco, I have always taken the crates into house, unpack in kitchen and take them back to the driver who waits at the door.

I ask the delivery drivers to put the crates in the doorway, it creates a barrier so the dog can't get to them
and just put it in the hallway until they go. Sometimes they hold the crates up so I don't have to bend so much (I'm visibly pregnant)

If it's this one guy I can usually put away before he comes with the next crate as he does it one at a time.

We’ve had bagless shopping for a few months now. At first, I was putting the shopping into my own bags by the door.

Then I asked one of the drivers what other people do...he said most people keep the crates. I had no idea this was an option before. So now I just swap my empty crates every time. It’s much easier and the drivers love it as it makes it faster for them.

Just ask whether you can keep the crates and return next time. Honestly, it’s really no problem

I've been taking a laundry basket to the door.
The last 2 times the drivers have brought it in to my kitchen which has been really helpful.

We much prefer no bags, we have our own waiting at the door and just load up. Takes seconds and no waste.

If you have a basket instead use that, no reason to go out buying new bags unless you have to.

I have a few boxes/Ikea bags laid out ready by the front door, and quickly transfer. The delivery drivers are very used to this, they really don’t mind, it’s no worse than packing at a checkout.

Same as many other PP, I have a load of those big bags for life in the hallway and unpack the crates in to those then carry them through to the kitchen. It has had little to no impact on my online shopping experience.

I’ve used all online and they bring into kitchen I empty onto worktops - jobs a goodun

I can't believe that so many people have a problem with this. I always opted for no bags anyway. The driver leaves the crates on the doorstep, I carry 1 to the kitchen, empty it and go back for the next one. This only takes a couple of minutes, less if the kids are home as I get them to help.

I live in third floor flat with communal front door. I take a couple of Ikea bags downstairs, unload the crates (that are on doorstep) into bags. When all shopping is in Ikea bags I sign the gadget and carry shopping upstairs. Sometimes takes two trips. It’s nowhere near a big a deal as some are making it out to be. I’d be concerned if I could work out how to get shopping to kitchen without the aid of plastic bags.

Delivery driver is welcome to bring crates into my kitchen btw I just don’t want to put him/her though the 3 flights of stairs.

I am totally against single use plastic but I don't know how I'd manage this - I would really struggle to get down to floor level enough times to take everything out of the crate on the doorstep (debilitating back and hip problems).

When shopping myself I use self scan and pack stuff carefully into several reusable bags, making sure none are too heavy. So for a week's shopping I have to bend and lift maybe 5 bags from the trolley to my car boot and then from the boot into the house (straight onto a table or counter, never on the floor). If I had to pick up only a handful of items at a time I would have to bend maybe 20 times which is not possible - or I'd have to grovel around on the floor transferring stuff from the crate to bags.

So I'd hope the driver would carry the stuff into my kitchen and let me unload on the counter. I do think it's important that shops consider disabled and elderly customers when making changes like this. I like the idea of reusable crates with a deposit that you return the next week.

Where do you keep the crates?

I carry each crate in to the kitchen while the driver waits at the door. I unload it all on to the counter tops. Then I put it all away when the driver has left. I have never had bags with my online food delivery

Raisins I'm lucky (?) to live in an old ramshackle house with storage areas off the garage, so I'd put them in the one that I use for food storage (stuff like homemade jam, extra tins and loo roll). If I lived in a more conventional house - garage, pantry, cupboard under stairs?

The food in the supermarket that isn’t in packaging is handled by the dirty public. Their dirty hands and germs have been all over it anyway - I’m not sure why it being in a crate makes a blind bit of difference!!

@Imustbemad00

I use Ocado but used to use Tesco without bags. I just unloaded the crates into my hallway and then unpack properly after they'd gone. I've never let a delivery person in my house yet (even when I had a newborn) partly because of muddy boots and partly because I just don't like strangers in my house!

Tbh, I swapped to Ocado years ago because the delivery slots were shorter, but the bags annoy me!

This thread has been eye opening.

I've never had a delivery with bags. I genuinely thought that the delivery drivers would judge me for being lazy and wasteful and that no one got stuff delivered to their house pre bagged.

ASDA who I usually use also recently changed to bag free apparently. I assume the others will swiftly follow suit.

It's really not hard to just tip it out of the crates onto the floor/ worktop/ table and put it away from there. I'm struggling to understand how the bags make the process easier?

Room I refer you to my post 4 or 5 posts back where I explain why 'tipping everything on the floor' is not not an option for everyone. Lucky you that you don't have to plan every single daily activity to the nth degree to keep pain within vaguely manageable levels.

mountaindweller which is why I also said worktop/ table. You don't have to tip them on the floor.

How is unpacking loose goods from a table/ worktop any different to unpacking them from plastic bags on the table/worktop?

Where do you put your bags now when you unload them?

We used to have Asda and they delivered in crates. Now switched to Morrison's and they use bags. We empty them into the kitchen then they refund the cost of the bags. Seems to work ok.