Tesco coronavirus delivery!

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I know I should be grateful that I had a Tesco delivery (my first ever) but was horrified when the driver arrived with his crates and then proceeded to handle every item without gloves. I realise these things have been 'picked by other hands' but why can't they use bags just during the pandemic. AIBU to worry that every single item he touched could be comtaminated?

There are 3 of us but we are keeping 3 over 70s fed too.
None of our neighbours would know that was our situation

I thought they waived the bag fee to speed up deliveries? Before the virus I used to help the driver bring the crates in, dump them on the table and just whip everything out, which was time consuming enough, but when I had one last week and was unloading them on the doorstep it took an absolute age, and that's delivering to the ground floor, goodness knows what I'd have done if I lived in a top floor flat. Bagless deliveries when they can't come into the house are just not going to work.

My DH is a Tesco delivery driver. Delivery’s have been in bags for around 5 days now. they are not allowed in customers houses. They are leaving them on the door step and retreating 6 ft away and signing the PDA. That’s the instruction. anyone not adhering to that is not following the rules.

My Tesco order came in bags today too. Driver was also wearing gloves. Only one item in my order was missing so thankfully the panic buying seems to be tailing off. Hopefully theyll do something about the shortage of slots soon too.

I have heard quite a few posters say they do big online shops for several people at once. I can understand having a maximum shop size in many ways but it will make it difficult for those feeding/shopping for a larger number.

You are lucky to get a tesco delivery. We've done our online orders in the past. Got one this week (wisely booked 2 weeks ago just in case). But since I've not been able to get a slot and I've just been told to shield. I'd take the food any way it comes & would be eternally grateful to tesco delivery. I'd just put mask & gloves on and spray whatever I could with antibac or boil the rest . Rather do that than send the sister outside.

YABU. I work in the food industry; gloves are extremely unhygienic.

People seem to think wearing them means they’re “safe”, so then they go round touching anything and everything, contaminating things left right and centre. They don’t change the gloves and they don’t wash their hands.

I would certainly never eat anywhere where food was prepared with gloves. It’s just grim. Trust me, you don’t want him to wear gloves.

Someone must have put the items into the boxes and unless the driver is putting on a brand new pair of gloves between every customer/ delivery they’re not going to be much use. If he washed his hands properly before his shift then his hands will be as clean, if not cleaner, than if he were wearing gloves.

Next time just ask the driver to wait outside and unpack from the boxes yourself.

I was impressed with my Tesco delivery on Wednesday, the driver knocked, and then shouted for us to keep the door shut, and said he would leave our bagged groceries on the door step.

My Sainsburys order came in bags this morning. Didn’t have to sign for it and the driver was wearing gloves. He put the bags in the porch and we took them into the house.

Just had a Tesco delivery an hour ago and although I never have it bagged it came in bags. So my store is on the ball.

I'm very surprised to hear they're still using crates anywhere.

My Tesco delivery five days ago came in bags which he left on the doorstep ( and phoned beforehand to let me know this was happening).
And I wasn't self-isolating.

Gloves are mainly to protect the wearer not anyone else. And they are no substitute for hand washing/sanitizing and would need to be changed in between each delivery.

At this time I would say all the onus is in you , the individual, to keep clean and sanitized. I basically assume that every person I meet is not washing their hands etc and change my own behaviour accordingly.

We don't need to wash our hands with bleach or dettol. Soap and water is adequate - I keep reading how the virus outer coating is made of lipids = fats, therefore soap will interfere with that membrane, destroying the virus.
Surely wiping groceries with a soapy cloth will be good enough?

You do realise washed hands have always been cleaner than gloves?

Gloves are used to stop the wearer having contact with bodily fluids etc.

If he wears gloves all he's doing is transferring what's on the gloves to what she's handling?

Mine came bagged and the driver stood well back. He also wore gloves

Consider how many people touched them before he did and you won’t even worry about him anymore

FFS.

Gratitude eh.

I watched and realized I've not been careful enough. I've been washing hands and decontaminating carts, but using my reusable bags, putting them in the kitchen, and not cleaning the products when I bring them in.

My brain is veering between "this guy is way over the top" to "omg, I'm not doing nearly enough to prevent bringing COVID into the house" and "if I commit to this process, it'll certainly make me think about whether we really need to shop or not."

There is only so far anyone can reasonably go. Some of these posts are insane.

I am marigolds on, washing up bowl of dettol/ bleach in water, wipe down everything that arrives in the house.
Otherwise dettol spray and leave 24 hours.
Only exception fresh fruit and veg

I am, however, gladly going to adopt this policy with my teenagers when they arrive home.

Wearing gloves can give people a false sense of security and also doesn't mean they haven't coughed in to their hands or touched their face.

FWIW (which probably isn't much), I suspect at least some of the clean freaks now are the same mingers who wouldn't normally wash their hands before touching food, and who would send their children back to school with a D&V bug.

I am not paranoid about Covid and am merely taking the same precautions that I normally take - but I have always washed my hands before touching food, after cooking, a million times after contact with raw meat, etc. And I have never, ever sent a sick child to school.

Seriously millions of children (and some adults) are going to be left with raging OCD after this is over. I am seriously concerned about the effect on children who witness their parents bleaching groceries.

AND YES BEFORE I GET JUMPED ON I KNOW HOW SERIOUS CORONAVIRUS IS.

Where we live there online ordering/delivery to home doesn't exist. I read of everyone in the UK who takes this for granted - I can't even imagine it! Normally, I like to choose my own fruit and veg, have a good browse around the reduced section etc.

Now, of course, it's a bit rubbish, but because of where we live it's impossible to get a shop in for anything more than about 4/5 days because of the need to replenish things like bread and milk which don't last very long, and milk can only be purchased in litre amounts at the most (No big bottles here - no bottles, for that matter, only tetrapak!) and imported bread is hard to come by, so local bakeries are upping their production, but don't use additives, so it only lasts 3 or 4 days.

I'm not sure I could cope with the stress of online shopping right now - by the sound of it, it's very hit and miss.

Wearing gloves gives a false sense of security