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 think this shows entrepreneurial thinking.

I think this shows you have no moral compass. You really think this is entrepreneurial? She is not just predicting what is going to sell well and profiting from it, she is exploiting vulnerable people's fear of dying if they need to leave the house to buy food. Give yourself a talking to.

It sounds like from reading the article that she’s running errands for old people, offering a bit of companionship (she chatty) and using her time to find the slots, which she’s been asked to do by her ‘customers’ who are happy to pay her for it. It’s The Sun, so they’re gonna put their own spin on her activities.
She’s offering a service her time in exchange for money, not too dissimilar to a carer. Staying up for hours to secure a supermarket slot for £30. Probably works out at minimum wage.
It’s nice that some people can do this kind of stuff voluntarily, but presumably they haven’t just lost her jobs, or have other sources of income.
On the face of it she’s just trying to get by, whilst she’s out of work. So can’t really condemn her for that.

@DimplesToadfoot thanks. My DD is normally awake at that time, she has sleep apnoea among other conditions, so I’ll give that a try

@Mummyoflittledragon thanks, I tried emailing the supermarkets in the initial weeks, but they wouldn’t add anyone not on the official list. I’ll try calling, as they may have changed their criteria now that things have started to ease a little

I bet she is a hypocritical clapper too!

So this little racket in Bodmin is taking advantage of elderly & vulnerable people who could access help for free, get shopping and prescriptions collected for free all via a local network of volunteers. I hope these people can now access this help...the group just probably need to find whomever is being ripped off by ‘Louise Lucas’ and make them aware they’re being scammed. It shouldn’t be too hard, it’s a fairly small community.

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If you continue to scam people and are stupid enough to boast about it in the press I can’t imagine the locals will take long to notice & respond/retaliate...

I think Tesco will deal with it now anyway as they’ll have seen the articles.

Entrepreneurial or not it's downright unethical. She should be banned from doing this. What a naive outlook you have OP

PP who described her as a parasite hit the nail on the head. Disgusting behaviour.

Lots of goody threads lately, like yesterday’s ‘at the garden centre with an oxygen tank’ one!

That is sickening

On the plus side, HMRC are now aware of her "entrepreneurship"...

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

Yeah but a dick's still a dick, even when it's tarted up and touted.

I assume as she is living with her 90+ father she is getting slots because he is on their priority list. It’s fairly easy to get slots that way and there’s no need to wait up to midnight.
Telling people they can do this is the right thing to do.

Disgusting. Charging people an extra £30 on top of their shop. They could have £30 worth of extra shopping for that. Tesco needs to step in and block her.

I don't understand how she's still managing to do it. I've got a Delivery Pass with Tesco so can see slots up to 4 weeks in advance, however as soon as I've booked one for that week the rest of them are blacked out so I cant have anymore.

She's an absolute disgrace. Imagine going to the papers to advertise that you'd been exploiting the elderly and vulnerable? Shameless cow

The OP has gone very quiet...

@TheFairyCaravan she’s either really thick, or has been talked into it by the journalist - perhaps she expected a more positive piece.

Either way she’s fucked now!

It's disgusting behaviour.
IF she was reserving slots for genuinely vulnerable people and charging them nothing but the price of the shop + delivery, it would be fine.

As it is, she is greedy and a big part of the problem.

I don't understand how she's still managing to do it.

Because she's logging in using the customer's names and addresses

Do you know what I'm just going to sit here and saying nothing in future, what is it with mumsnet everytime you try to be nice some some smart alec comes along and shoots you down ... go back to paying £30 a slot or not being able to get one, I'm seriously past caring

I was trying to help, 10pm is a lot more manageable than 3am and I thought it might help you too, I don't recall saying your advice was crap or anything? Sorry if you felt that way.

The word "entrepreneur" is over used in my opinion, I mean people who join MLMs think they're entrepreneurs fgs, this woman is exploiting vulnerable people and it's a disgrace, I hope Tesco come down hard on her.

I think even the most hardened capitalist (Boris) wouldnt think this was ok.

@Thepigeonsarecoming

Clearly I'm wrong but how does this not mean all their shopping goes to her house?

How can the bitch say this
"When they have a slot they don't want, I buy it off them for a tenner, and sell it on for £20 or £30. I’m also doing people’s bank balances a favour I reckon - I consider myself a real community helper.

And sleep at night. What a ducking lowlife scum she is.

I think even the most hardened capitalist (Boris) wouldnt think this was ok.

The OP does.