Booking multiple delivery slots is pretty selfish?

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I think it’s actually on par with the panic buyers.

I see so many MNetters saying they have reserved a slot every week for online food delivery, is this not just as selfish as panic buying hundreds of toilet rolls? Why do you get to hog all the delivery slots. It seems to be something that people let slide on here.

Nobody can get a delivery slot for the foreseeable now and there’s people with multiple ones all to themselves. Is there not something wrong with that?

If everyone who usually did weekly shops did fortnightly shops... how does that help the supply chain?! There’ll be less food and everyone will get less of what they ordered. Shopping as normal is what is advised!

We’re getting normal weekly shops because we’re self isolating high risk and miles away from shops. Only half of that shop is arriving. It’d be worse if we all did larger shops.

I think a weekly slot is fine - and I can't get another slot for love nor money, so I know how difficult it is at the minute.

I can't get a click and collect slot either, and there is nothing on the shelves in my local supermarkets, so goodness only knows what we're going to do when our current supplies run out. I am just hoping that the situation will somehow improve between now and then. I reckon we'll be ok for a week or so...

To add... i do think that the elderly and most vulnerable should somehow be given access to slots first.

I know someone who has booked slots at 9am, 10am and 11am on the same day so she can get 9 tins of beans instead of 3.

Really? Morrisons for one won't let you do this. The system rightly only allows you to book one delivery a day. So I'm sceptical.

I've done it, because I'm autistic, I'm a single parent, and I have an injury which means I can't drive or lift anything. My youngest DS is also autistic, and can't be left, so I'd have to take him with me.

I still feel guilty about it though.

What a ridiculous post? I've been on line shopping for 10 years and always have a weekly online shopping. I also don't drive so can't do a big shop for the family. I need this weekly slot as I work full time for NHS and so am not going to be able to pop in during the week.

So I'm keeping my weekly slots thank you

I would happily have less frequent online deliveries and make do with less fresh stuff (more basic fruit and veg and store cupboard staples, fewer chilled processed things with very short shelf lives), rather than have to give up the online method completely. I need us to avoid the mixing in supermarkets that would put my own vulnerable family members at risk. But I don't need it to be frequent enough for me to get everything fresh.

Some slots will get cancelled. Government is saying supermarkets have to help those who will get a letter saying to self isolate, to get access to online delivery. Expect outraged threads soon on here about how their slot has been cancelled but they NEED it.

I'm also using it to get fresh fruit/veg/milk etc for my neighbors, both are isolating at the moment.

So why do I feel guilty?

Threads like this, I imagine.

I’m disabled and chronically ill. We seriously considered dh not working to care for me. But I need space and time alone. I cannot shop. Dh needs to be here to do all the stuff I would do were I well. Both dd and dh also do caring things for me at the weekend.

As a family, it would be extremely difficult if he then had to go to the supermarket in the current climate. IE I’m getting very rest time with dd off school and dh wfh last week and this due to my symptoms, which look like cv.

I also need more surgery. I’m shit scared the delivery slots will be taken by all the people who don’t really need them but don’t want to trudge round the shops. I have the next couple of Tesco ones booked. I shared my last delivery with a few friends - we hardly ate this past week due to illness and thought it would be a great idea. Hardly anything came. The entire front sheet was a list of substitutions and missing items.

I’m getting seriously worried.

If you do a double size shop it takes the picker twice as long and it takes the driver twice as long to unload it all. Plus the driver can only fit half the number of people’s shopping on the van so he has to go back to the depot more often. So that’s not a solution.

@Mummyoflittledragon are you one of the people who will get a letter from the NHS?

@alloutoffucks
Some slots will get cancelled. Government is saying supermarkets have to help those who will get a letter saying to self isolate. Expect outraged threads soon on here about how their slot has been cancelled but they NEED it.
Well, yes, what if you're self isolating but don't get a letter ? And then your slot gets cancelled ? I'm lucky to have great neighbours who'll probably bring supplies, but what if you don't..

Well I have one delivery booked for next Sunday with Ocado, which I have just edited and checked out. Then tried to book for the following week and it's not allowing me to. Only shows one week ahead then showing no dates at all. The calendar won't go that far ahead.

Maybe supermarkets could start allocating slots rather than letting people choose them now that many people are at home. Only one slot allowed in a 7 day period and instead of choosing a delivery slot, you pick a 7 day window and select times you cannot be home to accept delivery rather than when you want it. Supermarkets can then use a sorting algorithm to optimise delivery routes, maximising the number of deliveries they can make. Many people are working from home or self isolating and they shouldn't be out socialising so they could be far more flexible, they don't need the convenience of choosing a time.

Looks like the council will be delivering food to those who are to receive a letter I guess it will be a basic package of essentials but will mean they don’t need to rely on delivery slots.

Those who will get a letter are most vulnerable. So more at risk than the longer list, although is still about 1.5 million people. If you don't get a letter or email, you might need to self isolate, but you are not as vulnerable as this group.

@goingoverground I agree, although I think that those who need these slots most will not be going out at all.

Not everyone who gets a letter will need help. I don’t. I shop once or twice a month at Ocado. I have got plenty of food because I have always lived rurally and have a well stocked pantry and a full freezer. Not selfish, just a way of life when you work full time and grew up in/have always lived in the sticks.

alloutoffucks
No. Not on my records. I went for a diagnosis of elImination, which would have led CFS/ME. But I had to stop because I was too ill to attend the barrage of tests I needed to undertake. As was I had a brain scan, eeg and was tested for narcolepsy.

I was sent to a psychiatrist, who patronisingly told me to to come back in 3 months. It was awful and I couldn’t take it anymore. I then went privately. And because it wasn’t a proper official diagnosis, I couldn’t put it on my records - also chose not to pursue further - in case I ever wanted to pay for private healthcare (nhs is going to the walk). Diagnosis too long ago now. And now all this irrelevant since I had major surgeries bla bla bla. Need more surgery. Now too late.

But no, I’m just regular fit as a fiddle apart from having a blue badge.

Sorry should have said I possibly wouldn’t get one anyway. I’m just fed up... and ranting.

Sorry to hear that. Although ME would not I would have thought put you in the most vulnerable group anyway. These are people with issues like cancer, severe respiratory illnesses, etc.

@Bouncingbomb No of course not. Some will also have family who can shop for them and leave food by the door.

I think the difference is that the wider vulnerable group should stay in except for things like shopping. The most vulnerable should not be going out at all for any reason.

Over the last 12 years I’ve shopped with all the supermarkets. Not one of them allows more than one slot a day. For good reason! Perhaps one a week should be max at mo like at Xmas.

Some only have slots for a week at a time now.
But slots are becoming available. I booked one as did a friend with cancer. You just have to keep checking.