Would this piss you off ... ‘D’H and food delivery

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... he took each crate from the driver and proceeded to tip all the contents onto the kitchen floor!

Utter bell end

I'd find that dreadfully sloppy apart from the fact that I have a bad back and couldn't bend and pick up that much shopping. Delivery driver brings crates into kitchen stacks two and I unload onto kitchen counters as quickly as possible. The delivery driver usually helps with the bottom crate. Takes all of a couple of minutes for 5/6 crates.

I carry the crates to the kitchen and unload the shopping on to the worktop. I have to be organised and make sure the surfaces are clear or there isn’t room. The drivers sometimes ask where I want the crates but I just say the doorstep is fine,

What is your issue OP. Putting things on the floor I would be ok with but the tipping sounds careless. Was he being narky? Did he put ipthe shopping away? Where were you?

Did things get broken or damaged?

DH tends to do this. How reasonable it is depends on the contents of the crate and how much care is taken with the ‘tipping’. It used to annoy me when my fruit ended up bruised, crackers broken etc (all things he doesn’t eat, so didn’t see the problem), but after smashing a glass bottle containing something he liked, he now does a quick visual check of the contents first!

My shop is usually over £100 and after taking out eggs and breakable stuff everything else just gets tipped out onto the hallway carpet and put away from there.

It's all (unfortunately) in plastic packaging so what's the problem?

My shop is usually over £100 and after taking out eggs and breakable stuff everything else just gets tipped out onto the hallway carpet and put away from there.
This is what I do too. Usually there is a teen mooching about so they carry it through to the kitchen😊

Kitchen floor - tipped - absolutely not acceptable.

Quickly popping it into work tops doesn't take long - I clean my kitchen floor ten times a day (weaning baby and muddy cats) and I would never put food on the floor even for a second!

I imagine most of us remove the goods from the crates and put them neatly and carefully on the floor or counter top, rather than tipping the crates out onto the floor where stuff could be damaged or broken.

@MilkTrayLimeBarrel paper bags are as bad for the environment due to the amount of water that needs to be used. Plastic bags were originally created to save the environment, they were never meant to be one use.

I have bags in the hall for things like fruit and veg. Tins and boxes go on the floor. I am not going to keep the driver waiting.

Sounds easier than picking the individual items out and placing them down. Bagless deliveries are a PITA.

what were you expecting him to do?

Literally tipping the crates over so that everything falls out would annoy me but just putting it on the floor is fine.

I still get bags with a Waitrose order. With a newborn and a toddler around I can’t always unload the crates right away.

This is obviously more complex than I imagined. We take delivery at the kitchen door from the door step then lift and put the crates onto the worktops and unpack from there. We don’t hold the driver up. If it’s the front door then they would naturally go on the floor.

Blimey didn’t expect so many responses! I would take the crate into the kitchen and unload it onto worktops, doesn’t take much longer really. What’s the point of all that bending when it’s in the floor!

Could not be arsed with that. My weekly shop is big, would hate to have to empty it from crates , hardly convenient. Ocado delivers in bags and picks the bags up the next week.

Another Ocado user here.
Im that you have to carry the crates
Surely the whole point is that you shouldnt have to ?

DH took delivery of our Tescos order last week and kept the crates and shut the door on the guy! It was only when I came downstairs as the doorbell was ringing I realised, I opened the door and he said "Can I have my crates back please?"

I do that so think yabu

My friend is a delivery driver and says that tipping it on the hall floor is absolutely typical of how unsupervised males receive the shopping!

Unless he sent glass jars crashing onto a hard floor it's not something I could get so worked up about that I'd post on mn!
I ferry all of our stuff from porch to kitchen and put it either on floor or kitchen island 🤷🏽‍♀️ if kids are about I ask them to muck in.

BarbaraofSeville I'm disabled & live in a flat with communal bins that I have to struggle up 5 steps to, the bin lids are at my shoulder height, very heavy for an able bodied person to lift, let alone someone who is severely disabled. I do what I can to protect the environment, but I have to balance that with what I can manage. Walk a mile in my shoes before criticising.

I don't tip anything out. I unpack onto the floor or the worksurface depending on how much is in the order. But tip it out? No way! It's my food - I don't tip it out if I go to the supermarket so I'm not tipping it out just because a delivery person is waiting. They've never got a problem - if they have they have a mouth and can use it. All my stuff is just stacked up and on we go with the next one. Apart from anything else it's not always easy to see if there's breakable stuff - like a washing up liquid bottle can come undone if you just chuck it on the surface or chuck a tin of baked beans on it. YANBU

We do that, it’s quicker than making the poor delivery driver wait whilst you carefully take out each item one by one. Only breakables get removed separately.

I unpack to my own bags. How can you simply tip out and be certain nothing will be damaged?

Sounds lazy.