To think that shops are gonna be absolute carnage tomorrow.

[Meimeimei]

I've posted this for traffic.

I have bad anxiety with crowds and queues but I need to go into town tomorrow to pick up a few things from click and collect.

Obviously, news of maybe a national lockdown being announced on Monday.

Will people be flocking to the shops.

YABU - yes I'm going to do Christmas shopping tomorrow.
YANBU - No I'm not going to

@cologne4711

that's literally how online shopping works! Yes you "hold a slot", and you fill your baskets with what you need and want the day before. How else would you manage

it isn't. Before covid I could log on the day before, choose a slot for the following day, do my shop and it arrived the next day. I never felt the need to reserve slots way in advance.

Supermarkets should cancel all delivery slots for the next 4 weeks, make the able-bodied use click and collect or shop in the shop and rebook home delivery slots for those with evidence that they are vulnerable.

So all the loyal online customers pre covid shouldn’t be able to use them? Not exactly good for customer service or sales to stop the regular users using a service.

Making everyone go to the shops isn’t going to help lockdown is it.

@cologne4711

that's literally how online shopping works! Yes you "hold a slot", and you fill your baskets with what you need and want the day before. How else would you manage

it isn't. Before covid I could log on the day before, choose a slot for the following day, do my shop and it arrived the next day. I never felt the need to reserve slots way in advance.

Supermarkets should cancel all delivery slots for the next 4 weeks, make the able-bodied use click and collect or shop in the shop and rebook home delivery slots for those with evidence that they are vulnerable.

Sorry couldn't figure out how to quote LucillevsLowkee post as there was no quote button on it.

My inital post seems a bit dramatic now I read it back. I was in full on panic mode at time of posting, calmed down a little now and will just have to hope I manage to get a cancelled slot. Thankyou for the further post with info in it about help, will start looking into that.
Im only classed as moderate risk though so i dont get prioty slots or access to food parcels etc which is frustrating as one of my medical conditions causes me to be housebound for periods of time.

Just to clarify I wasn't talking about placing your order and it arriving next day or within a few days though which is what I have always done.
During the initial lockdown people were putting items in the basket so they could reserve not just one slot but multiple slots for several weeks in advance of needing it. Lots of talk about it on older covid threads with people saying they were doing this during initial lockdown - was also the woman in the papers who was selling slots iirc.

I always book my slots in advance, there is a certain slot that I know is most convenient to me and so I make sure I book it in advance, the same as I book any other service be it hairdressers/train tickets/a prebooked taxi. I currently have my next 3 slots booked in and have done this for the last 10 years.

It is like christmas eve! Incredible numbers of people out shopping for christmas. It is actually quite lovely in the cold winter sunshine.

Christmas eve used to be fun. There was a festive buzz about town centres as everyone finished their Christmas preparations. More recently they have become sad - shops half empty with the broken leftovers, decorations taken down and displays broken up as staff hurriedly prepare for the sales and a few desparate looking folk sifting through the remains in search of last minute presents.

Meh, we'll have 3 weeks in December, and if we don't people will just have to make do with whatever I can get.

I don't make do with whatever I can get when things are already so miserable! No way!

Pleased (if nor surprised) to note that my local shopping centre was almost empty yesterday afternoon. It has a big Sainsburys in there, and that wasn't queueing either. Had a mooch around M&S and bought my Christmas wrapping paper....

Meh, we'll have 3 weeks in December, and if we don't people will just have to make do with whatever I can get.

Exactly. Who cares!