Woman selling Tesco shopping slots for £30

[biglouis]

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.

Nope, no sign of the OP, it makes you wonder doesn't it? If you were playing devils advocate you'd join in the conversation wouldn't you?

I feel a bit cats bum face at my relatives continuing with their deliveries and my over 70s parents who have never had one not being able to get a slot. I felt those that could physically and safely go to a supermarket should, to free up slots for those who couldn’t.

@T1redmum1
Good luck and please be pushy.

I too think she is a parasite. In the same league as those who profiteered buying up all the antibiotic handwash and re-selling at hugely inflated prices.

It's disgusting.

I suspect the OP is the woman in question.

And the defenders are her sock puppets.

I’m somewhat intrigued as to how she manages to get delivery slots though? Once you book one you can’t book any more for another seven days I think it is? So how many accounts would she need?

And who gives a toss if she has to wait up until she can get a slot... So does everyone else,and those people actually need them.

I managed to get added to the Tesco priority list and after much battling the sainsburys one (although sainsburys have now opened up deliveries to all again). I am considered vulnerable, however, in order to get a slot I still have to be awake past midnight, and I have asked my eXH if he needs anything,but it would never occur to me, or any other decent human being for that matter to exploit this for my own financial gain.

Hopefully all the supermarkets will ban her,block herIP address so she can’t create new accounts,and blacklist her home address....

OP hasn't come back to reply, has s/he?

The woman in the article lives with her shielded father. He has a big posh house. She spends her proceeds on luxuries so I assume she doesn't pay any board to her father, or contribute to the household (though that could be down to how the article has been written). I think what she is doing is exploitation of the vulnerable.

@Flashinggreen Iceland release slots on a daily basis and even tell you on their site what time they're released.

I’m not sure there is an Iceland near my parents

I suspect the OP is the woman in question.

Thought this too considering the ops name, biglouis. The scum in question is called Louise..

It's not entrepreneurial, it's taking advantage of people. Anyone who thinks otherwise just shows what kind of person they really are, cruel and so stupid.

They managed to get a click and collect shop after about 3 weeks and have been happy to do that

Of course it's not ok. It's akin to the low life profiteering scum buying up all the hand sanitised and selling it at ridiculous prices. I hope it really comes back to bite her.

Here's some competition for her: shoppingslot.co.uk/

Automation seems to be taking over just about everything!

Revolting person. Taking a massive profit from elderly and vulnerable people to buy tropical holidays, Prosecco and bath bombs. Trashy behaviour.

She sounds like a right charmer from the articles.

Block booking delivery slots and selling them on for a profit is profiteering and disgusting.

On the other hand, offering a paid service to organise delivery of shopping, managing their online account or running other errands for those who want to pay rather than accepting free help is possibly a different matter and there probably is a need. DS is helping UNPAID some of his grandparents' neighbours who don't have family to help them and don't use the Internet. There are plenty of volunteers who would do shopping for them but none of them wanted to accept help from strangers because they didn't need "charity", it's only because they know DS that they accepted his help. I suspect many of them would have happily paid someone to organise online shopping so they didn't have to go to the supermarket (which is what they were doing before DS helped them) but they would rather catch coronavirus than accept "charity".

no its profiteering in a pandemic there was no gap in the market shes taking slots and geting money for them

But morally how is it different from what Somerset Capital Management do but on a much larger scale? The only difference I see morally is that in this case the "entrepreneur" probably doesn't shove the money into an offshore tax haven.

Why is one reviled in the tabloids and the other hailed by the same press and sitting in cabinet?

@StanStreeson I discovered that slot through here and have found it really useful. Never seen any Tesco slots on it though.

It's called price-gouging and it's opportunistic and morally vapid. But I expect the neoliberals will applaud her initiative.

I call bullshit on the whole story that the link displays. The reporter probably heard somebody had charged for doing a Tesco shop and decided to exaggerate and embellish the story. There’s a lot people like to get riled up and throw pitchforks. Stories like this just feed them.

Unfortunately the story appears to be true. Another publication has pictures of the charmer:

igvofficial.com/woman-is-buying-supermarket-home-delivery-slots-so-she-can-sell-them-on-for-30-a-pop/

Are you from Entertainment Daily and looking for some clicks?

This

First reaction shock/ horror
However on reading the details it’s clear she’s cornered a niche market for quite affluent people .
Arguably she’s probably denying slots to the truly vulnerable but it’s Tesco‘s own system that needs to sharpen up to avoid abuse .
I don’t blame her but don’t warm to her either .

I suspect @biglouis either works for the ‘news’ source and is successfully generating clicks to boost their advertising revenue or is the woman in the story.

This is just wrong. It wouldn't be wrong if she actually went to the shops to buy their shopping and delivered it to people as there is such thing as a personal shopper but this is definitely different.
Hope she pays her taxes.

Why is one reviled in the tabloids and the other hailed by the same press and sitting in cabinet?

Because one is working class and is getting ideas above her station and the other is one of the establishment and so to be commended?

Both are scum IMO.

Cunt