No more Sainsbury's deliveries

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They will now only deliver to you if they have identified you as elderly, vulnerable or disabled. I assume other supermarkets will do the same.

I'm glad they have done this, but at the same time worried that the supermarkets will be busier germ factories than ever!

There is no way on earth I’m asking a random of FB

Why wouldn't you use a resource that's willing and able to help you? I joined a couple of local FB groups recently and the amount of goodwill is lovely, it really restores your faith in human nature. Local businesses are working together to make sure people get what they need. Every request for help posted is inundated with offers of help or suggestions for alternative resources. People are desperate to help. On at least one of the groups there's a mechanism for requesting help privately via the admins, who match up an appropriate volunteer from the network set up so no one needs to know who is asking for what. Honestly, it's brilliant.

That's a very good point @Chouetted.

I have just had to ask a random on Facebook to do some food shopping because I need some stuff for myself my baby and my two-year-old in the next couple of days and my next Tesco shop isn’t coming until the beginning of April! She’s off to get some shopping for me and another family just now and I’m absolutely delighted about it, we must do what we can, and when we are no longer self isolating I will be returning the favour to members of the community. These are different times

I haven’t read the whole thread (sorry!) but wondering what to do as well. My husband is type 1 diabetic and I’m pregnant, as well as being on immune suppressing drugs - which I’m currently weaning off. We’re also in self isolation as our son had a temperature & cough last week.

We have evidence to prove both ‘conditions’ but who do we submit it to? Even once we’re out of self isolation I don’t think we should really go to the shops? And if we go at the vulnerable times I’m sure people will think what on Earth are they doing here as we are both young and healthy looking...!

Not everyone on these FB pages is on there for good reasons. There's someone on our local one who is being extremely vocal about everything they personally are doing but given what I know about them outside the group I wouldn't be wanting them round my house. Not criminal activity per se but dodginess including when dealing with authorities and a kind of troubled personality.

I shop with Tesco’s, I know this is Sainsbury’s but I think they will all follow. Mine from Tesco’s definitely comes from a warehouse.

How do you know? Mine definitely comes from a shop because I never know whether I will get much of the order. Ocado is always correct as they can control it if there are no customers taking things off the shelves.

Right, after discussion with kind neighbours I'm now going to stop trying to get delivery slots after my two imminent ones.

I could carry on fighting for slots, but as I've found another way (which will mean a less good diet for me, but hey, a few months won't kill me and this is what vitamin supplements are for), I think it's right I should let others have them.

My Ocado shop has a sub, my nice bread for some yukky bread, I will still take it though, bread will have to be bread.

Why wouldn't you use a resource that's willing and able to help you? I joined a couple of local FB groups recently and the amount of goodwill is lovely, it really restores your faith in human nature. Local businesses are working together to make sure people get what they need. Every request for help posted is inundated with offers of help or suggestions for alternative resources. People are desperate to help. On at least one of the groups there's a mechanism for requesting help privately via the admins, who match up an appropriate volunteer from the network set up so no one needs to know who is asking for what. Honestly, it's brilliant.
How are you paying these randoms? Handing cash over? PayPal? How do you know they aren't going to take your money and bugger off somewhere? Are people really going to pay upfront for a family's weekly food shop and bring it to them?

How do you know? Mine definitely comes from a shop because I never know whether I will get much of the order. Ocado is always correct as they can control it if there are no customers taking things off the shelves.

Because I know where my shopping comes from, and I’ve googled it, it comes from a dot.com store

warehousenews.co.uk/2011/05/tesco-builds-“dot-com-only-store”-for-grocery-home-shopping-fulfillment/

You might be comfortable with it OnlyTheLangoftheTitBerg but I am not. I would rather go the the shops or leave the older 2 children alone tbh. There is no way I’m asking for someone to do it on fb. I’m not comfortable with that.

Does anyone think that EXISTING slots (if you already have a confirmed slot in place) will be cancelled? Or is this just going forward from here?

My sister has many health issues and a blue badge but Sainsburys have decided that she's not vulnerable or disabled
Does anyone know how to get on their list?

How do they establish this ? I am at higher risk due to an auto immune condition, so I am in isolation with my family. I have youngish children though, so it might not be apparent ? I don’t want to have to give out my medical info to a supermarket!!

I have tried the ocado site twice. It lets me choose the stock but then there are no delivery dates and it is only showing the next 3 days. How come we can't book say for 2 weeks time? Presumably because everyone would panic buy/book??

I thought deliveries would be preferable than going out to shops tbh.

I've been trying to get through to them since 8 am and finally at 3.19 pm I cracked it. Great listened to the recorded message, waited to be put through to someone and was disconnected.

Absolutely useless.

Someone (allthefucks?) keeps saying that if you have 14 day isolation for symptoms you should already have two weeks food as instructed, but this is patently not what people have been told to do.

People have been explicitly and repeatedly told to shop normally, not buy extra stuff and only buy what they need. Anyone who buys more than they need is utterly slated on here and on SM generally.

Therefore to say you should have bought extra ready for a two week isolation is highly disingenuous.

Sorry but before the panic buying we were told that. And then yes the messages changed. I got 2 weeks worth of food in when we were first told that. Obviously not bread and milk, but enough food to survive on.

Yes, dammed if you do, dammed if you don’t.

If you have 2 weeks worth of stuff you’re a selfish panic buyer who should be shot.

If you haven’t got 2 weeks of stuff you’re an irresponsible idiot.

Never mind some people can’t afford to buy two weeks in advance.

@couldbeouting can school order milk/bread/veg through their school dinner supplier for staff to buy?*

Our caterers today had no milk.. it was marked “unavailable” on their order... the company that provides the individual milk cartons for our under fives stopped delivering last week.... our catering company will only be providing a very basic “packed lunch” from next week because they don’t want to put their staff at risk.... so, one of the reasons our vulnerable children are in school - to get one balanced meal a day - has been removed.

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Does anyone think that EXISTING slots (if you already have a confirmed slot in place) will be cancelled? Or is this just going forward from here?

I booked a slot on the App last night for 9am this morning and it came as normal (actually it came early!)

Quite a lot of subs which is understandable but pretty much everything was there in some form or another.

For the PP saying they wouldn't trust some random, I asked if Boots could deliver my mum's medication to her, if I had to self isolate. They referred me to the local community facebook group that has sprung up, so she will have to rely on some random picking up her medicines and I will have to rely on the same random to get her food shopping too if I can't get out.

Waitrose deliveries from our area come from the shop, I see the people going round the shop putting the items in the boxes.

Waitrose is now stopping people buying more than 3 things at a time, and they are limiting their stock, so not re-ordering all items.

When will the supermarkets be able to provide a reasonable frequently of delivery service ? because at the moment they all seem to be overwhelmed

They really are, aren't they. And, yet, Boris told us all to shop online last night.