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Waitrose delivery with no bags?!

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playaaa · 05/02/2022 21:32

Just got our first Waitrose delivery after defecting from ocado... Wtf, all the items come just in the crates rather than bags? It does seem more environmentally friendly tbf, but how do people put everything away?!
Do you put everything away properly and make the poor delivery person wait?
Or tip everything (massive shop to last us the whole week ahead) out onto the living room floor like DH did, in a huge mess, in an attempt to get the empty crates back to delivery person as quickly as possible?
WWBU to switch right back to ocado after this harrowing experience??

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changewwible · 05/02/2022 22:05

There's absolutely no point washing shopping.

Growuppeople · 05/02/2022 22:05

We get 30,000 items to pick a day, start at 2am and if lucky finish around at 3pm, if we added bagging to that? Plus bagging takes up more space in the crates. I don’t think people understand what goes on with home shopping, we get moaned at being instore while everyone’s shopping as well, Can’t win really

Theforest · 05/02/2022 22:06

We load up into ikea blue bags

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playaaa · 05/02/2022 22:07

@Wafflesnsniffles

playaa it takes just a couple of minutes - no need for it to take an age. Im astonished you care more about the driver getting away quicker than the environment. It literally takes me 3 minutes to unpack mine from their crates into mine.
I promise I do care very deeply about the environment. I guess I just also care about being kind to likely precariously employed staff who are doing me a huge service. Just didn't know the etiquette yet I guess as it's a different method to how ocado works really! We shall be better prepared next time with cotton bags and laundry baskets
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Pyri · 05/02/2022 22:09

Can’t believe people are still washing their shopping! Shock

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playaaa · 05/02/2022 22:10

@Sparklingbrook

this still takes about 10x longer than ocado's drop-all-bags-by-front-door-and-leave method! I just felt for the driver!

How much shopping was delivered? Shock How did it take a whole ten times longer? Although you were putting it into the wrong room so that's not going to help.

There's a long staircase between front door, and we have an open plan lounge/kitchen. Should have done a diagram really! Wink
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Growuppeople · 05/02/2022 22:12

And please don’t wash your shopping while the drivers waiting wtf!!

Summerfun54321 · 05/02/2022 22:13

Asda have been doing it for years. I take shopper bags to the front door and unpack grates to bags then put away. It's still easier than going to supermarket.

Exactly this. Large baskets or bags by the front door ready for when the food delivery arrives.

ButtockUp · 05/02/2022 22:13

I use a couple of those giant rubber buckets. When the driver arrives , I put the shopping in those buckets then I sort them out at my leisure.

loveliesbleeding1 · 05/02/2022 22:14

This is why I always get a Sunday delivery,DH has to help!

PriamFarrl · 05/02/2022 22:16

I have a handful of Aldi big bags by the door and decant into that.

The thing is though that with out last one I was so busy head down pulling stuff out of crates that I didn’t notice the delivery driver was a friend!

hangrylady · 05/02/2022 22:19

Yeah it's all very well being environmentally friendly, until its slightly inconvenient for you then fuck it. YABVU

waterlego · 05/02/2022 22:19

@JollyAndBright

Take crates into kitchen Unload onto kitchen counters Return crates to driver Wash and put away shopping.

Easy.

This, but without the washing in my case. Grin
LouLou789 · 05/02/2022 22:20

Yep, have bags waiting at the front door if getting a delivery. We generally find it easier to do click/collect so we have more leisure to load it from the crates to the bags but appreciate that’s not a practical option for everyone

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playaaa · 05/02/2022 22:20

@hangrylady

Yeah it's all very well being environmentally friendly, until its slightly inconvenient for you then fuck it. YABVU
That's not my attitude at all!!! I was wondering how to handle it without making the driver wait too long
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longwayoff · 05/02/2022 22:22

It's bloody annoying. I get the delivery driver to pack my shopping from the crates into 2 shopping trolleys that I then trek thru to my kitchen. Terrible waste of their time but I can't pack it myself, that's one of the reasons I have a delivery. I wish Waitrose would pack into paper bags. Why not? They've slapped a £3 delivery charge on at the same time as dispensing with bags so another £ on top would more than cover it. Angry

DoctorSnortles · 05/02/2022 22:22

I use laundry baskets (the ones I use for hefting laundry about, not the ones that sit in the bedroom full of stuff from last summer that I never get round to washing). It's easy to quickly chuck stuff from the crates into the baskets and send the delivery person on their way.

TheDogsMother · 05/02/2022 22:26

Just have some of your own carrier bags ready by the front door and a plastic laundry basket if you have one. It doesn't take much time and saves more plastic bags getting into the system.

notthe1Parrot · 05/02/2022 22:28

We just put empty stack-a-jacks (crates similar to the ones they use), on the doorstep and Waitrose, Tesco, or Sainsbury’s just unloaded it into those - takes 2 or 3 minutes. Then we carry it through to the kitchen.

eddiemairswife · 05/02/2022 22:28

I have a plastic bag on the kitchen door which is full of plastic bags. When Waitrose calls I use 3 or 4 of them to pack the shopping. When they have all died I have several bags for life I can recruit. I haven't thought beyond that.

Greyhare · 05/02/2022 22:29

Your confirmation email will have told you to have your bags ready, as I ordered from them last week and noticed that it told me that the delivery was bagless so needed bags ready to receive shopping, took hardly anytime to decant crates into a couple of bags.

C152 · 05/02/2022 22:30

Sainsbury's do this too. To be fair to Waitrose, if you say on the 'notes' bit of the order that you're ill/elderly and need help carrying the shopping in, they will do it for you. They carried everything into my mum's house, asked her where she needed it and then unpacked it all on her kitchen table for her.

Cookerhood · 05/02/2022 22:31

Mushrooms are literally covered in shit.
Why are your mushrooms covered in shit? They are grown in compost. Do you really think they would be allowed to seel them if they were grown in shit?!
If you wash mushrooms they go slimy. Just wipe any bits of compost off with a cloth.

SaltedCaramelIcedLatte · 05/02/2022 22:32

I thought all supermarket deliveries came without bags! I empty the crates on to the sofa and then put everything away when the delivery driver has gone