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?

The trouble is 1.5 million people got the letters there wouldn’t be enough delivery slots for them even if every supermarket suspended delivery just for them.

I think what this has taught us is that people can’t win and there are an awful lot of people in our society determined to criticise and see the worst.

The whole population was told that they might have to suddenly self isolate for 14 days with zero notice. The whole population decided to buy enough non perishable food to see their families through it and were collectively called twats, hoarders, pannickers, selfish etc.

Enormous numbers of people (1.5 million medical, plus all elderly plus all pregnant and various other medically vulnerable who aren’t quite vulnerable enough for a letter), were told to stay in for 12 weeks. If they go out for food they will be judged, if they buy in bulk they will be judged, if they get online delivery they’ll be judged. There is another thread right now judging people for doing physical shopping and filling the shops up instead of shopping online.

Stay home
But don’t order online
Don’t go to the shops
Definitely don’t go to two shops
You can exercise
But not THERE!
We’ll close the parks so you can all run/walk your dogs on the same path
WHY ARE YOU ALL IN THE SAME PATH!
Shop for your vulnerable friends and neighbours
But stay out of the shops
And definitely don’t buy anything
You need enough to last you 14 days
You need enough to last you 12 weeks
PANIC BUYER! HOARDER!

Far too many people have far too much time in their hands

I used to have the Ocado weekly slot thing until the “adult human female” debacle and if I still had it I’d keep it. I think I’m just as special as everyone else thinks they are (run ragged in nhs, elderly parents, one with cancer, 2 asthmatic kids) but I know I’m not unusual. The whole world is vulnerable.

@stampMC the best post I have read for a while. What people think is THEY deserve everything. Everyone thinks their needs out weigh everyone else’s . It’s human nature . Just like when people go to busy shop everyone else is in the wrong not them. Even though they are there at the time contributing to the busyness. They think they are justified to be there and everyone else isn’t.

What people think is THEY deserve everything. Everyone thinks their needs out weigh everyone else’s. It’s human nature

Indeed, which is why weekly slots should be reallocated from those who aren’t in vulnerable groups so the people who need them most can get them.

I agree OP! Not a popular opinion but true

I think supermarkets should be giving priority to their existing customers (which Ocado are defining as before 2020) if those customersfall into the government identified especially vulnerable group.

@Dongdingdong that wouldn’t work either . What if they couldn’t afford to take on all the expensive delivery’s . Most are £5 . What if they didn’t spend the £40 minimum so had a extra charge of £4 too for your basket being under the minimum . Most vulnerable people I know , the really vulnerable wouldn’t get able to loose that money every week.

What if one area has too many vulnerable to offer them slots do we start with a another list to decide the most vulnerable of the vulnerable.

*lose

In my view, there's absolutely nothing wrong with having slots booked ahead, provided, as others have said, it's not multiple slots in a week. One per week is fine, and in fact it's very sensible to book ahead. Personally I'm not going to be apologising for having had the foresight to do this. I am vulnerable and disabled, and don't want to be exposed to getting the virus in a supermarket. Anyone could have booked ahead. No money is taken until the items are picked and the delivery is sent.

I should be listed as one of Ocado's 'existing customers' since I've been with them for years and have a smart pass to save on delivery charges. I don't have a 'fixed slot' but whenever I book a delivery there's no charge. I've had no email from them to confirm any kind of special access. At the moment there is no special access for me - when I go to the site there's either a huge long queue or no access at all.

Are people with once a week reserved slots selfish or are you just pissed off that other people are more organised than you?

I didn't have to panic buy or stock up either as living rurally and a 30 mile round trip from a supermarket I'm always stocked on the basis I might get cut off from the world for two weeks.

That's how I have to and choose to live my life, organised and well planned ahead and I don't feel it's very fair that the rest of the world who have got used to a 'just in time' style of living are now calling that selfish.

Excellent summary @StampMc

I have a slot booked tomorrow and then one for 15 days later.
I don't think it's selfish

I have an Asda recurring slot, a perk I paid for with my delivery pass. I was informed today, after not being able to check out all weekend (and so losing my delivery slot tomorrow) that all recurring slots have been disabled. Has anyone else found this? I'm inclined to think it's incorrect, a customer service member at the weekend referred my issue to tech support and today someone else told me this.

@thatswhytheladyisatramp , that sounds fair enough! I have a friend who is awaiting her 3rd Sainsbury's delivery/click and collect of the week... . I have no idea what she keeps having to buy!

@RapidRainbow as far as I was aware if you miss one you just miss that delivery. Although what happened to you, happened to my friend weeks ago ands she hasn't managed to get a slot.

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Three in a week is excessive, bloody hell. No wonder no one can get a slot.

Does anyone know any Supermarket that has ANY available delivery/click and collect slots right now?

You know that those who aren't in a vulnerable group could well be shopping for someone in a vulnerable group or could become sick and be quarantined for weeks themselves.

We had the exercise police
The dog walking police
The newspaper police
Now there has to be delivery slot police too? And what on earth makes anyone think if someone gives a slot up it will go to someone more deserving. You know nothing about who it will go to

I know its frustrating and we are all slowly going crazy from all this but please dont start being angry at people who were able to do something you can't. Its petty and childish.

Amd besides half the stuff wont arrive and delivery may well be cancelled so they wont be any better off than you are anyway. Should make you happy

@SarahTancredi what on earth makes anyone think if someone gives a slot up it will go to someone more deserving. You know nothing about who it will go to

The thinking of absolutely everyone who is currently able to make an order - no chance of any availability to anyone else-

The thing that stood out for me on this thread is the lady getting three delilveries a week. Totally unnecessary and yes, that is selfish. One a week or more? Not selfish.

The slots are going cancelled anyway.

We Currently have a thread where a single mum has been refused entry into a shop with her child after her delivery slot was cancelled.

I had to spend an hour in a virtual queue at 1am fir boots...no idea if the stuff will even turn up.

@SarahTancredi I agree with you- it's not soley the fault of the people keeping their multiple slots, it's the fear that people have that they wont get them anyway and become like the masses who can't get anything anywhere.

There needs to be a solution, from the supermarkets or government in terms of supply.

They do need to now add Lone parents to the vunerable list in need of a delivery now that they won't allow children in! I can't really believe this wasn't taken into consideration when they made that decision!

I think the very restrictions that have been placed are the very things that are making it impossible to stick to the guidelines anyway.

We needed sensible limits on items before hand rather than Implementing them now when shelves are empty and applying the same limits to family of 6 as they do to a single person.

They need to do something that will ensure people can get their weekly shop in one hit so they dont have to go out again.

Not allowing children in is disgusting. Having worked in adult only venues I can assure you the toilets and the behaviour and the hygiene is far worse from.adults. and yet single parents are being labelled murders merely for not leaving their 4 year old at home or in the car.

@Taddda there is over 1.8million single parent households in the uk. Add on the 1.5million shielded there is no way supermarkets can cater to that,p. Our local ASDA has three trucks . It's impossible. I thought the supermarkets had came out and said no children wasn't true if you are a single parent .

If you are a single parent of young children, who currently has no means of childcare or your support network is currently in isolation and you cannot take your child or children into the supermarket there has to be a way for them to register as vunerable in order to get a food delivery, as they would be.

Agreed, many lone parents do have at least someone to help out with shopping, but what for the ones that don"t?

@Peppafrig I hope your right that they are now allowing people (who need to) take their children.