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 ??

This is what I mean though, it takes longer because the people who aren’t doing that obviously have more accessible kitchens than the ones who use bags. The people using bags are doing it because it would take longer in their case to unload the crates in the kitchen.

Precisely. But some people are quoting what the driver DH said as gospel: that it's always quicker to unload into the kitchen.

I reckon you could get a decent maths question out of this scenario though! 🤣🤣

I'm with OP.

Why make it harder for yourself?

Take the delivery trays into the kitchen. Empty the trays. Take the trays back

Ocado deliver everything in bags, just saying!

It's harder for me to take them into the kitchen. 🤷‍♀️

I carry the crates into my kitchen and dump it all on the floor. Much quicker than packing it into bags

So you keep the driver waiting while you carry it all back and to to your kitchen?

It's a doorstep delivery. Unload at your doorstep.

My Waitrose drivers are more than happy to help pack the bags at the door. Indeed they will do it themselves if asked - I do sometimes because of a dodgy back

With two of us it’s done very quickly. I would have thought faster (for both of us) than carrying the crates through as they would have to do that themselves

Let alone finding somewhere else to shut the indoor cat away! 😹😹

No, it's home delivery. Which is why the driver often helpe to bring the crates into your home. Our Sainsbury's driver usually asks if we want them to do that.

You still have to take each crate into the house, one by one and unload. Therefore it takes longer than unpacking at the front door. Heavens to Betsy!

Not if you’re unpacking into several smaller bags imo, the manoeuvring of items to make sure cans aren’t on bread or meat isn’t on top of something fresh would realistically mitigated the maybe 20 seconds it would take most people to walk the crate from their front door to kitchen or table.

I use big ikea bags at the front door out of respect for the drivers who are on a very strict schedule

This. Because otherwise the driver is hanging around waiting while I put it all away!

in my last house the kitchen was a long way from the front door so I used to unload it into shopping trolleys and wheel them into the kitchen
At this house I unload it straight onto the kitchen counter

the driver brings the crates into the kitchen and I unload onto the sides and then put away when they have gone.

Except I don’t unload item by item like you would for bags, I just tip the stuff out of the crate and return, so I suspect the time difference is negligible (or even in my favour as it’s not far from front door into kitchen! Unloading into bags would take longer. Maybe I’ll time it some time!)

I tip it from the crate into my bags. I have to ask the driver for help as I cant lift the crate but it just goes in the bag in one go.

Not if your kitchen is basically at the front door. It would take longer to faff around putting everything in bags than just to empty it out.

Lots of people have explained from both sides why their way is quickest and easiest for them. I don’t understand why anyone can’t imagine an alternative to their own circumstances.

they charge 10p per bag to keep within the law and refund 10 p for every bag returned up to 99 bags per order. They take them back torn or whatever and recycle them. I keep some for lining bathroom bins or my food waste caddy or other similar jobs and get money back on the the rest.

I unpack carefully by the door

Then stop replying if you think you are right

Well exactly, it can’t actually save that much time if any to unpack carefully into bags, making sure you don’t squish items vs carrying a crate 15 second to the kitchen and quickly spreading it all on the counter.

There is no way, for most people, that packing item by item into bags, moving each bag aside, opening the next etc is quicker than carrying crates to the kitchen and quickly unloading in one place. We have a large house with a long corridor to the kitchen and then double back to get to a table and unload. It is still a matter of seconds to get there and still quicker not to use bags.

Our drivers rarely seem to be in a rush either. They stop for a chat, pet the dog/cat.

At the end of the day, people will self justify whatever system they have developed as being the best.

Because I suffer with fatigue as a result of a cancer diagnosis. I can drag the bags into the kitchen, focus on the fridge freezer stuff first and then out the rest away as and when I have the energy. If DH is about be brings the crates into the kitchen, I unload and then tell him where I want it all put.

Isn't it less steps than Aldi where they expect you to pack yourself at the side after paying?

I didn’t say I am right. I said everyone knows what is faster for them. I am responding to people saying it’s faster to put shopping in bags because of “how far all the walking would take”. You’re the one assuming you know anything about others’ circumstances and that one set way is faster than another.