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 ??

Delivery driver brings them to the kitchen and I unload while he fetches the next one. They seem to think that's normal...?

DH piles it all by the front door, puts the freezer stuff away ans then leaves it for muggins here to sort.

I take the crates to the kitchen.

They inly use the trolley uf its a driver not familar with our bizarre street layout which can get you within sight of our house, but not able to drive to it (that for some reason google maps says you can drive down it still... its been over 5 years!)

Our front door is near the kitchen though. I can understand if your kitchen is at the back of the house.

This is bad what I do! Take the trays into the lounge/kitchen area and dump it all onto the carpet (obviously do a bit of a check if what’s there and anything that will ruin is plonked on the floor a bit more carefully). I think unpacking into bags would take far far longer.

There’s really no reason loading into bags vs loading directly onto the table or counters would actually take less time though.

It would take me too long to unload in the kitchen and I would run out of space. I have the shopping delivered to my garage door and I have my own bale arm crates to quickly put the stuff in. I made sure to have different colours from the supermarket ones. Then I can carry them one at a time into the kitchen and unload without delaying the delivery guy.

This makes so much more sense (as long as it's optional for those with space). I heard in Germany they have special big bags that they leave (also deposit system) and collect next time. So a quick handover of shopping and last time's bags = win win. Fast drop-off for driver and less awkwardness and stress for the customer.

I think it’s been covered that in loads of peoples houses and the way they unload it would be quicker than packing everything into bags (although in other cases the inverse is true). Not sure why you have to be so sarcastic about it.

Well..... I just had to rush off and quiz DH, who spent several months as a Sainsbury's delivery driver. His observations......

• Less than 10% of people did the "unpacking into bags" at the doorstep - it is definitely not the norm. Everyone else took the crates away to unload (or very occasionally ask him to bring them in).

• 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.

• he did have a couple of customers who would just up-end the crates onto the floor, or a nearby piece of furniture. Amusing, but really not necessary - he quite enjoyed his brief rest at the doorstep!

This has blown my mind. I didn’t know anyone who was physically able didn’t just take the crates into their kitchen. I can’t understand why unpacking in the kitchen takes any less time for the driver then unpacking into bags (but would take twice as long for me doing it twice).

The driver always brings my stuff into my kitchen in their containers and helps me unpack.

Yes, this. The driver is waiting for the empty crates, so it's much quicker to have a stash of bags (or your own crates, if preferred) ready in the hallway to unpack the delivery into. Then you can carry the shopping into the kitchen and put it away at your own pace, without having to be concerned about keeping the driver waiting.

I used to do this and store them outside but the tesco delivery man said that's not right as there might be rats etc around. Then I had a few years of frantically putting everything on the counter +table+ floor as fast as I can.

Now I have an island with a lip that extends out a bit. I keep all the crates, stack them in the kitchen under that lip once I've put it all away, and drop them back to my local Tesco click and collect station the next time im passing...so within a few days.

My dog will be shut in the kitchen while I answer the door, and if I let her out she’d be chasing the scent of a fox down the road within seconds (beagle). So it’s easier for me to chuck it into bags by the door.
Surely everyone just does what suits them? That’s all there is to it really.

I was beginning to wonder if I was the only Ocado customer left on the site! Ditto.

My husband carries the crates to the kitchen and puts everything away in cupboards, fridge etc before returning crates to the driver on the doorstep. I've long suspected he's unreasonable, confirmed by this thread!

I pack mine into bags, don't want the Tesco man with his grubby boots wandering through my house bumping crates off the wall/door frames.

It's quicker for the driver. I pack into bags at the door. I see no difference than unpacking the crates into the kitchen counter- you've still got to then put it all away.

Yes despite both sides claiming the other way takes longer, literally no one has said that they actually put their shopping away before returning the crates, so he is an outlier there.

Surely it takes the same about of time whether you unpack the crates at the door or in the kitchen? They still have to be unpacked….
you don’t actually unpack the crates and put your shopping away while the driver is waiting do you?!

Totally agree with this and do the same.

Several extra large bags at the front door ready to pack into, really quick job so the driver can get on their way (they are allocated a short time per delivery, even if they have to walk up several flights).

As I’m unloading I give it a quick quality check and sort into fridge, freezer, kitchen cupboards.

Toiletries, loo rolls etc are left on the hall floor for their onward journey!

I think the crates would be really heavy especially with wine, lots of fruit and veg, large bags of flour, rice, granola etc

I get them out of the crates as fast as I can I to the hallway floor and let the driver get on with his or her day then take my time putting away frozen/ fridge stuff first.

I hate that you cannot opt to have things in bags. Much easier from those shops that do.
I assume the trays are filthy too. Which is another reason I prefer my food packed in a bag.
If it is a reusable bag what is the problem?

I also hate it when the driver stands there and stares watching you put into bags at the door. Hate that.

same. I keep laundry baskets (plastic muck buckets) by the door and just decant everything into them. Its actually one of the reasosn (not the main one) why I stick with ocado, its because they still use bags. Some get kept to line bathroom bins with, some get used to line food waste bins with and the rest get returned and I get the money back

My Ocado delivery comes in bags, the diver carries the bags to my door in a couple of trays, hands me the bags which i dump in the front room as my door opens out into the street. I give him the bags from last months shop and off he goes. I then lug the bags into the kitchen, unpack everything. fold all the bags and put then away ready to hand over when I get next month's delivery. Ocado is pricey but the quality is good and the dates are long, used to use Sainsburys but it wasn't much cheaper and they would often send me stuff with only one or two days of use before the date expired.

Dh unpacks into bags, organising as he goes.
I am a chaos goblin so just chuck the contents of the crates on the kitchen floor and sort out once the driver has gone.
From start to finish I estimate we take the same length of time from answering the door to everything being away, if not me being marginally quicker.