Unpack online food shopping into bags!!

[Spanielsandpups]

Please help me understand why would you unpack food delivered to your house into bags?

I obviously understand if you would struggle to lift the heavy trays that putting it into bags is better.

but my friend was over when I had my shopping delivered and she couldn’t understand why I carry the trays into my kitchen and not unpack into bags.

as I am physically able to carry the trays, how is it easier to unload into bags then unload again into kitchen ??

We have ocado and it comes in bags which are delivered to the kitchen and last week's bags are taken away

I also can’t imagine making the driver hang around for any longer than necessary. It’s so cringe making and lacking in self-awareness.

People who behave like this should watch eg Ken loach’s ‘Sorry we missed you’ and look at the working conditions of some of these delivery drivers.

It's not an additional step though because you will still handle everything twice.

My best friend and I had this discussion when she was here and I did the bags by the door thing.

I don't think either method is quicker or easier for the customer but unpacking by the door is a bit quicker for the driver.

@Timeforachange26 yep. All the delivery drivers were saying how much longer its going to take them but the management were more concerned about "being green"

If you get it from one of the Amazon grocery programmes, such as Amazon Fresh, it comes in brown paper bags, even better than plastic bags. Reusable and recyclable.

Nope. Read the thread again, perhaps.

Eh? I put it into bags at the door. Brining it in the house to unpack and put away takes longer.

You lot are all such nice customers and it seems a very British thing to do. Hurrying, rushing, tipping shopping on the floor, etc. so the driver (employed by a huge profit-making company) does not run late. I try to be quick so that there is more time for customers who do need their groceries putting away for them, e.g. the elderly. Really the fault is not with customers taking the time to bag their own groceries on their own doorstep/walk their groceries to the kitchen etc., but with the supermarkets making such poor working conditions for the drivers. Supermarkets would not offer this service if it were not profitable, customers pay for their delivery slot and/or for their delivery passes, it's not a free charitable service. Sorry that the delivery drivers have such pressure to fit in their deliveries, it seems unreasonable, especially when time-saving measures like using bags or deposit crates or sacks are not offered by the supermarkets.

I can imagine that one way or the other would take longer depending on the layout of your house and how fussy you are about your packing into bags or unloading the crate.

If your kitchen is very far away from the door then it would probably be quicker to “chuck stuff” into bags. If your kitchen is right by the door (my old house literally opened the front door into the kitchen) then it would be quicker to tip the crates out onto a work surface than to be packing bags separately with differently categorised items.

I don’t think it would “hold up the driver” that much either way.

Again, nobody is doing this. Everyone on the thread is prioritising unpacking the crates quickly so the driver can get on his way - the dispute is over whether it is quicker to bring the crates directly to the kitchen, empty them out and hand them back to the driver, or unpack them at the door into multiple carrier bags/laundry baskets. As backed up by the poster above whose partner worked as a delivery driver, the “straight to kitchen and dump out”
method seems to be quicker.

Why are so many people assuming that those of us who aren’t bagging our shopping are putting it away? We’re just taking it out of the crates, the same as those that are then putting it into bags.

Just the factthat you have to walk to the next room down the hallway is adding on time, the shopping comes out of the crate whether its in the kitchen or in the hallway into bags, so the additional time of walking into the kitchen is unncessary. It might only be 10/20 seconds or so, but if you've got about 8 crates orwhatever thats a minute or two added on.

For the people he delivered to (and even then I actually don't believe that it's as clear cut as it's being made out to be). It really wouldn't be for some of us (I explained the process for me up thread, which involves getting through a closed baby gate!).

HOUSE!

All those still saying "it's quicker for the driver" did you not read the post from the wife of a delivery driver saying it isn't???

I imagine that people doing this, are doing it because it's quicker/easier in their individual situation.

From my front door I would have to carry crates through the living room and down a narrow flight of stairs (with two corners) into the kitchen. It's just way quicker to dump the shopping into IKEA bags at the door and the bags are much easier to take down the stairs.

Why does it bother you what other people do? 😂

I'M NOT PUTTING IT AWAY. I PUT IT ON THE TABLE/SIDE/FLOOR.

Putting it in a bag in the hallway would take longer and be like a shit game of tetris.

He cannot possibly know if it's quicker at every house though!

Maybe those of us unpacking by the door (I don't bag it) know that if we took it into the kitchen it would take longer. For us. That doesn't mean it isn't quicker for others to take it into the kitchen.

It simply is not possible for just one way to be the quickest at every single house in the country! Logic dictates this really. 🤷‍♀️

Everyone is saying it's quicker FOR THE DRIVER.
He knows. He's the driver.

Well, apparently it cannot be true that it's quicker to unpack by the door. Source: one delivery driver!

If it takes more time to unload the crate for the customer,then it takes more time for THE DRIVER

He doesn't know the layout of every house. It simply cannot be true that it's quicker to take it to the kitchen in every house. I would take WAY longer if I did that. I know I would, so there's no point one driver trying to say that it's always quicker to take it to the kitchen. Not at every house it's not.

I think he was saying that people packing bags take longer than people not packing bags. Obviously the people packing the bags would take longer still if they took the crates through to their kitchen or whatever the alternative would be, since they’re only doing it as it makes the most sense in their case.

edited for typo

I get supermarket uber orders and always bring my reusable bag down to put stuff in as the paper bags will build up otherwise. I put them in the recycling downstairs straightaway.

No, he specifically said that putting it in bags by the door takes longer than taking it to the kitchen:

'His heart would always sink when he saw the big bags lined up at the front door, because in his experience people took LONGER to unload the groceries into bags than if they just hauled the crates into the kitchen to unload onto the counter.'

It simply cannot be true in every house!

And so many of the door-unpackers aren't doing it to be quick, but so those nasty germ ridden crates/plebs aren't in their house.

I bet the delivery drivers would be quicker to bring in the crates - after all they are used to carrying crates, and they help a lot of customers with their unpacking so are probably pretty efficient at that too.