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 suppose it depends where your kitchen is mine is just across a short hallway into the kitchen. We keep the kitchen door open when we know we have a delivery and it's 10 steps at the most from the front door. It's very quick to just put everything on the worktop and give the empty tray back to the driver.

I imagine she puts them there just before the delivery slot! I have ikea bags waiting in the hallway for the Tesco delivery but they don’t live there all week long…

The drivers carry them through to my kitchen and we unload on the worktop together

Faster, easier for me as I don't have to bend, and it's quicker for the driver

My kitchen is at the back of the house, which is open plan, and my two labradors would do an excellent job of ‘helping’ if I emptied everything out in the kitchen. I put a pile of Bags for Life in the porch ready on Sainsbury’s day.

However this thread has nudged me to ask my mum what she does. She’s elderly and there’s no way she can faff about on her hands and knees with bags. Hopefully the Tesco’s person is able to help her but if not I’ll suggest she tries Ocado.

We just take the crates into kitchen and tip them onto counter or floor in front of fridge. Takes no time at all.

Sometimes we get drivers who do one crate at a time, so they get started with the delivery right away when they arrive. Sometimes you have ones that spend a while at the van stacking all the crates and then bring them all at once. Net time is the same really as they have to wait for the latter method for you to transport the stuff inside anyway.

I unpack into laundry baskets in our porch. Then put it all away when they’re gone. It would take like 3/4 times as long if I was going back and forth to the kitchen (and my four year old would grab the biscuits and devour them)

I use sainos delivery and no spring chicken but can bend to pick out shopping but the drivers often lift the crate up to make it easier to pick items out or stack crates to raise the height.

I bought a couple of small crate trolleys from Dunelm and have them ready at the door. The driver packs groceries for me as I'm disabled, then I can wheel them (the crates not the driver!) into kitchen, and unpack at my leisure. Much more relaxing than scrambling around and holding up the driver.

I carry the crate into the kitchen and my kids help chuck it all onto the kitchen table. It's really quick. I couldn't be bothered with packing into bags and then unpacking it again.

Why do so many bag packing posters have to act all superior and assume that people who do it differently are dilly dallying and holding the driver up? 🙄

I don't always use the same supermarkets and they always bring one crate at a time to the door.

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Are you not holding up the driver?

Well I must say this is an absolute revelation to me.

In my house: driver hands me a crate at the doorway, I carry it into the kitchen and take the items from the crate and put them on the counter. Then I carry the empty crate back and get the next one, and so on. The driver leaves, then I put the items into the fridge/cupboards. All nice and quick and easy (and no dreaded muddy boots).

Are people really adding all these extra steps with bags/laundry baskets/tipping it out all over the floor?! What the hell?!

Yes, this is what I do, into my washing baskets.

Me too. Although I really did prefer it when Ocado were partnered with Waitrose rather than M&S.

Tesco driver brings the crates into our kitchen which has direct access to driveway. Then I unpack into worktop. Most drivers will also help.

We usually use Ocado, so it’s in bags already. Which for me is much easier

When we used another supermarket I would have the shopping delivered at the door nearest the kitchen and very quickly empty the crates into the worktops and hand the crates back. Given that they were delivered next to the kitchen I can’t imagine it was any slower that unloading into bags. The lack of bags was annoying and it partly why I switched to Ocado.

First world problems

The bag thing is a great idea. I’ll be doing this from now on.

How does it hold up the driver to unload the crates onto a table/work-surface instead of unloading the crates into bags? You’re having to unload the crate either way. I would imagine packing everything into bags takes longer, because you can’t just spread it all out you have to try and fit it in another container. (Also see the woman’s post who said her DH was a Sainsbury’s delivery driver and he said the people who packed it into bags at the door always took longer).

I take the crates into the kitchen and chuck it all out onto the sides, it takes no time at all, then give the trays back and off the driver goes.

I didn't know deliverers mostly did not go to kitchen - I've never had a problem with that and they always usually have a trolly. They never seem in a great hurry either and often chat. Logically - if they want their crates back immediately - they probably need to help unload them.

Mum and dad are elderly. The online people always carry it into the kitchen and unpack the trays for them. Used several different shops and they all have done it

We did that for years. When supermarkets first started home delivery we used to keep the crates (in the garage) and hand them back the following week.
Then they stopped it just before covid.

I unpack ar the door but but really hate it. The last tray on the ground is always a struggle and hurts my back. I then have to unpack them all again in the kitchen! As a result i prefer every day smaller shops rather than deliveries.

Is Ocado the only place that allows bags for big shops? I am tempted but it is a bit expensive.

They go back to Ocado and the bag charge is refunded. It's probably too much to hope they get used again but at a minimum they get recycled.

Thanks, yes I know.