Tesco Xmas slots open at 6am 04/11 for delivery savers

[meisafairy]

When are we all logging in?
I’m ordering food to order from Durham which covers a massive area so slots always go quick.

I have done the Tesco online list so I can just slam the food to order through then plan to do the rest later.

I plan to login at 5amish on laptop.

Can i be your friend? @bobcat1987 😂😂😂

Yes, you are missing something. Just have a think, you'll work it out.

I've been waiting for someone to come along and suggest I take in ironing and then I'll be able to afford the £35 taxi fare to my nearest Tesco Extra. Or, the imperious, "But why don't you drive?"

Supermarket deliveries are a boon for elderly people who are no longer fit to drive, disabled people, people who work full-time or have carer commitments.

It's not all that expensive, either. The 12 month Delivery Saver Plan costs £6.99 a month.

"What's the point of everyone driving to the supermarket when they deliver?" would be more my question. All those additional people in an already busy shop, all those additional cars on the road.

My grandfather's first job was delivering groceries on a push bike when he was 14, so about 1929?

Yet the concept of having food delivered is apparently new and controversial to some people.

Personally when we started filling an entire trolley and then some with our weekly shop for six people, two cats and a dog we started getting it delivered instead, and as someone who works full time every minute of my weekend is precious to me. I fucking hate spending it schlepping about the supermarket, I'd rather be in my yoga class, watching football or writing my novel.

And cooking a Christmas dinner for eight people is a lot of food however you look at it. There is a lot of weight involved, particularly with drinks as well. Then some people have family to stay for several days. Or have more than eight people for dinner.

It's one of those things where you just have to think about it for a moment and the question answers itself.

I logged in about 7.30am. I actually nearly forgot lol. I preferred it when they released at midnight as I'm not a morning person but still.
I got 21st which is fine for me. I buy most of my stuff before Xmas anyway so it's only a few last minute fridge/fresh items. I get my veg from Riverford who will deliver on the Thursday anyway so that's fine.
At least there was no queue at that time.

Exactly. I've had my shopping delivered for years. I drive and am quite capable of getting to the Tesco store. I just don't want to. I much prefer getting it delivered.

I've now got slots on 20th and 23rd so I think we'll be ok one way or another 😅

To be fair 20th is our usual Friday. I sometimes find it easier to have a "just Christmas" order which is 23rd one. Plus I'll be working up to lunch time on 23rd this year and am cooking dinner so really appreciate feeling a little organised.

It's busy and hell with lots of annoying people and I get trolley rage. So it's better for everyone if I get it delivered 🤣

I take my original post back, it does sound like Tesco was harder than the other supermarkets!

My nearest supermarkets are 70 miles away, so sod that on single track roads in hazardous weather. With that journey both ways and time it takes to get the shopping & petrol at the busiest time of year, it's around 6 hours, no thank you.

Madness.

What is "madness"?

I (disabled non driver) didnt log in til 9.30 and got a slot on the 21st but each area is different, My regular slot is on a saturday so this last one will just be for a few bits I may have forgotten. I have now booked all my slots for the rest of the year. I would not want to go back to shopping in a supermarket. Cant recall the last time I wa sin one.

🤣 viviennemary if you think booking a grocery slot is madness you should try reading a book, watching a tv show or having a conversation without someone outside your social circle.

honestly your mind will be BLOWN. Some people eat food you have never tried, and they enjoy it 🤯.

Some people work in jobs that you wouldn’t enjoy and aren’t qualified for 🤯.

Some people don’t enjoy the same TVs as you 🤯.

Seriously - it’s WILD out there. WILD.

I logged in at about 7.30 and got straight in.

We’ll be away with family for a week over Christmas so I got slots for 14th (our usual Sunday delivery) and 27th when we’ll be back all sorted. I’ve only chucked a load of booze in to save the slots but that’ll do for now!

"Viviennemary · Today 12:44
Madness."

If VivienneMary is on the same page as Starlight1984, and thinks we are all mad to be up early securing a slot (one morning a year!) to have our groceries DELIVERED in the run up to crazy Christmas week, with items we are guaranteed will arrive (Food to Order), while they drive to their local town (mine is 15 miles away), queue to park, face the Christmas hordes, plough through a crowded store, queue at the checkout with what they could get (pot luck) and then pile it all into the car, drive home (in possibly the worst weather of the year)... then I think I know which of us are the bonkers people? 🤔😆

I have done both. I know which is better.

I have no excuses. I live in a city but I work crazy hours - Christmas is overwhelming - I have people to stay, I host an extra six people (it’s normally me and the cat).

I take as many shortcuts as I can. I am up at 6:30 anyways - it saves me a couple of hours on Christmas Eve (when I have a million other things to do!).

what’s the harm. We are all different

You don't need excuses, Bellyblueboy This is a service supermarkets offer of their own free will, and is popular enough that people will put up with one early start and a short (usually) wait in an online queue (while you sip coffee and chat)..

Not only that, it's surely more environmentally friendly to have one van delivering to 20 people than 20 people driving out in their guzzly fuel monsters.

People have voted with their feet on this or rather they have voted by staying off of them 😀

High street shops are failing because no one wants to drive to 2-3 town centres looking for an item that may not be in any of them and then settle for something similar in the first shop they visited.

Ordering online is not just less effort, but more likely to get you what you were looking for.

Prices can be lower too as in many cases there's no need to maintain a shop at all or employ staff to stand around hoping for a customer on a wet Wednesday afternoon.

Home delivery really comes into its own with grocery shopping. It's not even environmentally friendly for everyone to drive to the supermarket when a van equipped for easy packing and keeping food fresh can service so many in one trip.

If you have small children even more so. Getting them in the car, out of the car, back in the car and out of the car while trying to get a weeks shopping into the boot is like organising an expedition to the north pole.

Christmas is tricky because everyone wants to shop at once, but nowhere near as bad as doing it in person.

Tesco have to have online queues because the sheer numbers overwhelm servers. Each year they increase the capacity and each year we get at least some glitches as the system struggles to cope. This year went pretty well for me I think I was done by 6.15 having logged on at 5.45.

Even if it had taken me 2 hours I was in a comfy chair with coffee and I could do other things while I waited so I wouldn't mind too much.

Other supermarkets may have an easier time of it because they have fewer customers who use them at Christmas. Tesco does have the 'Food to Order' advantage.

Yes 😂