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 ??

I do this too

It depends on your house layout/mobility/pets. The only constant is the need to empty the crates quickly so the driver can get on.

My dog is shut in the kitchen during deliveries, so I unpack into large cardboard boxes in the hall, giving me a chance to sort items by storage destination, and spot damaged, unwanted, or short-dated items.

A wheelbarrow sounds like a good idea! Having everything spread all over the kitchen sounds annoying.

When I worked at tesco both on dotcom and as a driver, there's the contradiction of them telling you to always put the customer first, but also getting it in the ear when you do and you fall behind on your pick rate or deliveries. I'd never say it to a customer, but I was stressed by some people's leisurely approach as we were timed for each drop. In theory you can get more time allocated for certain addresses, but the reality doesnt really work like that. I imagine its the same for the other chains too.

Every method other than the Ocado one is more time consuming and annoying. Wish all supermarkets did that as I'd like to go back to some of the Sainsbury's range but it was such a palaver.

I have a patio table that I pull in front of the back (kitchen) door. They put the crates on there, I grab the stuff and put it behind me on the worktop. Quick, easy, no bending down.

I find having shopping delivered a bit socially awkward, maybe that's just me? I just want to grab the stuff and shut the door! If the driver was waiting for me whilst I carried the carts into the kitchen and unpacked there I would not like that at all. Ocado being pre bagged is my preference.

Don't even get me started @Spanielsandpups I recently helped unpack an online food shop at someone else's house (they were recovering from surgery) and was stared at like an alien when I carried a tray into the kitchen and unloaded it onto the worktop. They usually handball everything into the floor in their porch, then the whole household (up to four adults and a small child) climb over eachother to pick up one or two items and take them to the kitchen 😵‍💫

Eh? I have a very narrow hall (admittedly not Victorian) but there's still room for a couple of bags for life to decant the shopping into.

Me too. I don’t have a strong enough back to lift the crates or bend at repeated horrible angle to put stuff into bags (to then unpack 3 metres away from where I packed them). I ask the driver to carry the 3 metres to my work surface. If they were to refuse, I would be complaining to Tescos and asking them to pack the shopping into bags for me.

I unload the crates into my hallway, at the open door, and then carry it through when the driver's on his way.

I certainly found it socially awkward after saying thank you, returning indoors and finding my boob out from breastfeeding. HE SAID NOTHING... NOTHING.
He was my regular delivery driver, so the following week was a bit red faced and gave a mumbled apology... I still check the boobs are away when I answer the door - 20 years on!

Do you not buy much fresh food? A huge part of my shop is loose fresh fruit & vegetables,bags of flour, milk containers. If i tipped it all out the food would get bruised, flour bags split easily and milk jugs also split quite easily.

My delivery guy recently suggested I use the sledge we had standing by the door lol so I’ve been using that. Best idea ever lol

A couple of bags for life is fine but I usually have about 5 or 6 crates worth delivered. Like I said, everyone is different.

Omg I once went swimming doing laps and at some point I noticed I had a boob hanging out— there was an old man who kept staring at me and I never knew why until then lol.

We decant it into a washing basket by the door, and just carry bigger stuff directly into the kitchen. We are elderly, and don’t have a ton of stuff, but being the two of us we just do it from the doorstep. My neighbors get the driver to carry the trays into their kitchens. We just try to be quick and helpful while we’re able. If I was alone I might decant into bags, so it’s not so heavy to move. Everyone has different needs or ways.

Omg haha. I would've just changed supermarkets!

I do. It's usually one giant shop a month, with small top-up shops of fresh fruits and vegetables in between. Milk comes from the farm where I work, and so far, the bags of flour, fruits and vegetables have been fine! The only thing other than eggs that I would be cautious about tipping out would probably be yoghurts and pots of things like double cream, which I don't buy very often.

No Victorian hallway is too narrow for shopping bags, surely? How do you get the crates down then? But yes, I agree - everyone should do works for them which kind of makes this entire post a bit of a moot point.

My Tesco man brings the crates in onto my kitchen table. we take the groceries out onto the kitchen counters.
Tesco man brings away the empty crates.
why involve bags ?!!!

We are a lovely bunch of people doing the driver a favour. Continually I have been reading that we do things quicker so the driver can get on their way. What we are enabling is the bloody supermarket to come up with these half arsed ideas to make it easier for the bloody supermarket. Why do we have deliveries, we do not have to go to the actual store! Now here we are loading our bags up at checkout (front door) to do exactly what we want to avoid, by paying for a delivery. So we are actually paying for a delivery to pack our own shopping (that we pay to have done for us) I personally have had some lovely drivers who help pack up the bags to make it quicker for them to get away, also they do not hurry me and are very courteous. The point is why am I doing a delivery shop and having to pack up my items at my own front door, Morrisons pull your fingers out and stop abusing the drivers who have been a constant through thick and thin, doing up to and over 40 deliveries a day. Also, I was never informed about the delivery changes, did this happen to anyone else?

Yep, this is what I do! Thought this was normal! I keep big shopping bags by the front door when I have a delivery due.

I use Ocado who deliver in recyclable bags. They charge for these and refund at the next delivery when you return the bags.

So you hold up the driver by taking the trays into the house and unloading them ? Leaving the driver waiting at the door instead of him being able to be on his way

when you get to your kitchen do you then dump out the crates? if you are taking your time unpacking them then I think it’s unreasonable to keep the driver waiting.