Question about removal men - will they take my food shopping?

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Just that really

I should be moving shortly, fingers crossed, and have agreed £500 for removal men to take our stuff

It costs extra because they need to remove my fridge doors

I am going to do a HUGE food shop of heavy items, such as bottles and tins and jars, bags of rice and pasta, just all of the heavy shopping, as its a 2nd floor flat, no lift

Aibu to think that they would take that stuff? It would be in heavy duty shopping bags

Tia x

I mean, sure but you’ll have to pay for it. As in, it will be included in the quote for your move. And needs to be packed appropriately.

But why not just have your food shopping delivered to your 2nd floor flat. They’ll put it literally on your counter for you. 🤷🏻‍♀️ And it’s included in the £5 or whatever delivery charge.

This thread has really tickled me 😂 (laughing emoji FYI)

I’ve had rice weevils and it was an absolute nightmare. I had to throw everything away. Flour, cereal, cupcake papers. Everything!

😄😄😄 me too tbh (also now using the correct laughing emoji)

I think you'll be fine. I'd probably tip them £10 each anyway once the move is completed
Plus coffees/teas/biscuits

Hate to worry you but beware of mice in the rice however I think you have a cat

Thank you, I hope so. yeah that's a good idea, will get some snacks in for them

Omg 🥺🥺

How do you know i have a cat, have I been too outing? 😅

Anything like rice or flour will get weevils if kept for a long time. Just get smaller bags if you struggle with carrying stuff. 40kg is ridiculous

Pasta bake is a jar/ packet/ tin.

She can use which emojis she likes. Who do you think you are?

OP, you've got the worst replies.
It's totally fine. As long as it's not too much extra. If it's more just email them and they can tell you how much extra it will be although I doubt it would be more than £10/£20

They are taking the contents of your home so that includes the food. Stop worrying about it.

This. And also realise if it's based on time/weight your essentially paying extra for that.

How are movers so cheap?
Get a home delivery next day.

£500 is cheap. Don’t take the piss. Plus, it’s weird not to just get it delivered to your new address. The supermarket delivery guys will bring it up the stairs.

£500 is very reasonably priced as others have said. But the size of their van for that price is not your problem. They should have come over to your current place to review contents/amount and made arrangements to have the appropriately sized van for everything (extra rice won’t make much of a difference there 😉).

They’re not gonna leave stuff behind, otherwise what’s the point of movers, so yes. They’re moving heavier stuff than bottles.

Definitely. That's knock-off rate where I live, which is the cheap and cheerful NorthWest. I'd be worrying if a proper company quoted me that much.

You mentioned cat litter

Interesting that a lot of posters say that online supermarket delivery men carry shopping up lots of flights of stairs.
Is this the case in blocks of flats where there’s no lift?

Of course.

They are paid to deliver to your door. If your door is on the 10th floor and there’s no lift, they still have to deliver it to your door.

If they left it at the bottom they wouldn’t have delivered it to you, because that isn’t where you live.

I've been told no before 😄

But will see how it goes on my first monthly shop

Oh 🙈

This thread was a rollercoaster tbh

I'm taking a video of all of my stuff for them

And someone mentioned that stuff would be stacked, so I'm hopeful