Woman selling Tesco shopping slots for £30

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www.entertainmentdaily.co.uk/lifestyle/woman-admits-selling-supermarket-home-delivery-slots-to-the-elderly-and-vulnerable-for-30-each/

Profiting from the misery of others or supplying a service to fill a gap in the market?

I think this shows entrepreneurial thinking. She saw a gap in the market and moved to fill it. Its not against the law.

Not a particularly easy way to make money. She has to stay up to bid for all those slots, arrange payment and delivery and do the shopping for all those people. Obviously it wont last as when the lockdown has ended people will go back to physical shopping and there will be plenty of slots available again.

But it shows enterprise and she could graduate to providing a "personal shopper" service with a bit more thought and organization.

I’m afraid I don’t think it’s entrepreneurial, I think it’s exploitation. There are people who genuinely need those slots and who won’t have been able to get them because of this, and may not be able to pay £30 on top of their weekly shop. If people suffer because of your ‘enterprise’, particularly in a world crisis, then you need to evaluate your ethics. You’re essentially profiteering from other people struggling.

I agree with Sparklesocks

She sells shops shoys on the shoy floor....

I think Tesco should suspend her account. There are people struggling to get online shopping who need it.

She should be banned from all online shopping systems she’s quite frankly a selfish cunt!

I think it's appalling. It is profiteering in the worst possible way.

I am trying to secure online shopping slots for my elderly mum which is almost impossible. And then you get people like this woman. Just because it's legal doesn't make it morally ok.

There is no gap in the market. She is exploiting the market. No difference between her and gig touts. Absolute scum.

So she take up all this spaces so she can sell them on for a fortune? how does sheanage to get the spaces in the first place?

She should be banned. My tescos has plenty of slots. I booked one earlier for 10am tomorrow.

It takes a certain type of person to do something like that and entrepreneurial isn't the word I'd choose.........

I hope they ban her.
Disgusting behaviour.

This makes me desperately sad for humanity

OP are you the person in the article?

Ah ok read the artical. That's pretty disgusting!

Are you from Entertainment Daily and looking for some clicks?

Of course profiteering from the misery of others.

I have weekly slots at Tesco and this week have been offered slots through emails from Iceland, Sainsbury’s and Asda. Previously they declined to give me a slot because I wasn't elderly or vulnerable but I checked yesterday out of curiousity and I could have slots with al of them within days which was surprising.

I'm surprised that Tesco hasn't banned those accounts.

It is mainly vunerable people who are trying to get delivery slots! You can't enterprise off vunerable people, who more than likely have a lower income. It's abhorrent at best.

Ok Nancy, nice article

I do that for free each week. I helped a numbest ro elderly and vulnerable family/parents/friends/freinds parents register as vulnerable/extremley vulnerable and get supermarket accounts set up.

For a couple I secure the slots as they can still be hard to get even if extremely vulnerable in some areas (there is a massive variance across the country having) and then phone them to get the orders as they don't really use the internet. It takes several hours each week but I wouldn't dream of charging.

Only if you think other exploitative industries are entrepreneurial as well.

Sweat shops
Child labour
Sex trade
Drug cartels

Hey, they're filling a gap in the market. And it's hard work.

She is a cunt

It's exploitation. I got an Asda slot for tomorrow and I'm ordering for my next door neighbour and my friend but of course I'm not charging them for it!

If she didn't take those spots then people who actually needed them could use them for whatever cost the supermarket is charging.

If she were to start up a business offering to shop for people and selling that service to them that would be fine but she's essentially stealing the spots for her own profiteering and that's not ok.

I also hope that her account is suspended.

Jesus H Christ.

I had two slots for either side of next weekend overnight last week, and badgered my inmates household first thing the next morning to make a decision as to which one I should let go.

That is vile behaviour.

If you've been trying for weeks to get a slot and can't, you might be prepared to pay a little extra to get one for sure.