[Food] Fav Supermarket home delivery

[The Clamp]

I like to go out and shop.

I am not fond of the way the world is turning, people sitting at home clicking and having things turn up.

I appreciate the convenience aspect, especially for busy people but it’s not for me.

I like to walk and talk and select food myself.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

On a vaguely related note, has anybody ever bought anything from a door to door fresh fish salesman?

One of these turned up at my mum's house one day a few years ago. I politely declined the offer.

 

[The Clamp]

On a vaguely related note, has anybody ever bought anything from a door to door fresh fish salesman?

One of these turned up at my mum's house one day a few years ago. I politely declined the offer.

Quite frequently when living on the outskirts of Belfast but he was a regular fella. As was the egg man and the sweet van.

 

[kevo]

I'm a feeler-squeezer-sniffer.

Too much information.

 

[Weststander]

We had home delivery for many years, we tried them all. Then counter intuitively stopping the moment the pandemic came. Couldn’t be arsed to get up early to join the mad online scramble of all the newbies and silver surfers jostling for delivery slots.

As a result for 4+ years we shop buy vegetables, meat etc that are fresh and don’t go off in two days time. With no silly substitutes.

 

[Weststander]

Used to over see a ‘dot com’ operation of over £500k a week at Tesco. You’ll be amazed how many of your substitutes/out of stocks are actually in stock but are not picked by lazy or incompetent pickers

It shows.

Substitutes. Then you drive to the same supermarket and find the item the picker couldn’t be bothered to locate.

 

[Tom Bombadil]

It shows.

Substitutes. Then you drive to the same supermarket and find the item the picker couldn’t be bothered to locate.

More likely thats it's been restocked in the 12 hours between your order being picked and you turning up at the store

 

[Weststander]

More likely thats it's been restocked in the 12 hours between your order being picked and you turning up at the store

What about, the home delivery excludes out of stock items, then you drive to the same supermarket 5 minutes later and find them all?

 

[BevBHA]

More likely thats it's been restocked in the 12 hours between your order being picked and you turning up at the store

Serious trust me, it’s much more this…

What about, the home delivery excludes out of stock items, then you drive to the same supermarket 5 minutes later and find them all?

Literally one of the biggest things we focus on is (obviously) availability in retail, never stop talking about it. In the home shopping operations the team leaders will pull an ‘out of stock’ report twice an hour. It also shows the stock holding of that product. So when pickers mark 4pint milk as out of stock and there’s 1500 bottles in stock, you can have that conversation.

The wider issue is, I’d say probably >80% of the pickers are kids earning pocket money whilst at school/college/Uni. They don’t really give a fcuk. It’s the same reason they pick you a wilted broccoli when they are supposed to use a ‘would I buy it’ principle and shop as they would if it was theirs! That’s the never ending battle!

 

[GingerBeerMan]

Serious trust me, it’s much more this…

Literally one of the biggest things we focus on is (obviously) availability in retail, never stop talking about it. In the home shopping operations the team leaders will pull an ‘out of stock’ report twice an hour. It also shows the stock holding of that product. So when pickers mark 4pint milk as out of stock and there’s 1500 bottles in stock, you can have that conversation.

The wider issue is, I’d say probably >80% of the pickers are kids earning pocket money whilst at school/college/Uni. They don’t really give a fcuk. It’s the same reason they pick you a wilted broccoli when they are supposed to use a ‘would I buy it’ principle and shop as they would if it was theirs! That’s the never ending battle!

Nice insight. I suppose the ultimate solution is to pay higher wages so people actually care about their job security.

 

[essbee1]

I'm just far too fussy with my groceries to ever do home delivery. When it comes to the fresh stuff, I'm a feeler-squeezer-sniffer.

Which, I appreciate, renders my presence on this thread completely superfluous.

Greengrocers hate people like you. It malkes the fruit go off more quickly. So my advice to you
is stop your grubby little feeling hands when you're next in.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Bit of both. Use delivery (Tesco) for a lot of staple items but not for things like fresh meat, fish etc which we’ll buy separately as needed. Pay £7 a month for the subscription service, means we can book a slot pretty much any time we want. It’s almost always bang on time and we rarely have anything substituted.

Almost exactly the same here. Meat from butchers (Wickies), fish from. er, Fish and very often get veg or spices from Teba. Once a week delivery from Tesco because the Doris pays the subscription for non-foods. bulky items, cupboard staples such as ketchup, mayo etc, diary, wine and used to get dog food before he moved to a raw diet.

 

[el punal]

I'm just far too fussy with my groceries to ever do home delivery. When it comes to the fresh stuff, I'm a feeler-squeezer-sniffer.

Which, I appreciate, renders my presence on this thread completely superfluous.

Feeler-Squeezer-Sniffer? That reminds me of the red light district in Amsterdam when we played Ajax.

 

[Chicken Run]

Serious trust me, it’s much more this…

Literally one of the biggest things we focus on is (obviously) availability in retail, never stop talking about it. In the home shopping operations the team leaders will pull an ‘out of stock’ report twice an hour. It also shows the stock holding of that product. So when pickers mark 4pint milk as out of stock and there’s 1500 bottles in stock, you can have that conversation.

The wider issue is, I’d say probably >80% of the pickers are kids earning pocket money whilst at school/college/Uni. They don’t really give a fcuk. It’s the same reason they pick you a wilted broccoli when they are supposed to use a ‘would I buy it’ principle and shop as they would if it was theirs! That’s the never ending battle!

With regards to the ‘’Would I buy it’ principle, why hasn’t a member of staff removed the wilting broccoli?

 

[BevBHA]

With regards to the ‘’Would I buy it’ principle, why hasn’t a member of staff removed the wilting broccoli?

They are supposed to, another battle. Sometimes in comes on delivery as poor quality, it should never make the shelf. Once it does make the shelf the next staff member to see it (whether thats a produce colleague or a picker) should remove it and put it in the charity donations.

Nice insight. I suppose the ultimate solution is to pay higher wages so people actually care about their job security.

This is definitely the solution. I’m now a Store Manager for Aldi. We are the first supermarket to pay the living wage instead of minimum wage. One of the only retailers who will still reward colleagues with full time contracts of 35 or 40 hours. I’ve had 5 pay rises in my 3 years there.

Even as a Store Assistant, on 40 hours a week you are taking home circa £26k. More than a nurse for example. Aldi have taken the barrier away of retail being an entry level job for those looking for full time work. And trust me, you get a hell of a lot more out of the staff for it.

 

[schmunk]

What about, the home delivery excludes out of stock items, then you drive to the same supermarket 5 minutes later and find them all?

We have Tesco deliveries, but they don't come from our (not very) local Tesco (who is Jane Murray, anyway?) but some manner of specialist warehouse in Creepy.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I have two options here. REWE is the supermarket we use for everyday stuff and they have a delivery service which you have to book and spend a minimum of 50 euros. Only used this a few times.

But what is much better is they have partnered-up with a Lieferando which is a delivery device usually delivering take-aways; REWE express is superb and I only have to wait 20 mins max for my items.

I wanted a cream cheese and smoked salmon bagel for my lunch over the weekend; 20 mins later the ingredients are at my door.

 

[Tom Bombadil]

Serious trust me, it’s much more this…

Literally one of the biggest things we focus on is (obviously) availability in retail, never stop talking about it. In the home shopping operations the team leaders will pull an ‘out of stock’ report twice an hour. It also shows the stock holding of that product. So when pickers mark 4pint milk as out of stock and there’s 1500 bottles in stock, you can have that conversation.

The wider issue is, I’d say probably >80% of the pickers are kids earning pocket money whilst at school/college/Uni. They don’t really give a fcuk. It’s the same reason they pick you a wilted broccoli when they are supposed to use a ‘would I buy it’ principle and shop as they would if it was theirs! That’s the never ending battle!

Serious trust me, it’s much more this…

Literally one of the biggest things we focus on is (obviously) availability in retail, never stop talking about it. In the home shopping operations the team leaders will pull an ‘out of stock’ report twice an hour. It also shows the stock holding of that product. So when pickers mark 4pint milk as out of stock and there’s 1500 bottles in stock, you can have that conversation.

The wider issue is, I’d say probably >80% of the pickers are kids earning pocket money whilst at school/college/Uni. They don’t really give a fcuk. It’s the same reason they pick you a wilted broccoli when they are supposed to use a ‘would I buy it’ principle and shop as they would if it was theirs! That’s the never ending battle!

Seriously trust me no it's not

 

[BevBHA]

Seriously trust me no it's not

Ok boomer

 

[Bakero]

Anyone who doesn't get their groceries delivered is a life-wasting masochistic MUG of the highest order.

FINALLY a thread which allows me to say this out loud.

You would hate my life-wasting habits

I go to the market once a week for my fruit and veg, the baker every couple of days, multiple supermarket trips, the odd trip to the butcher, the fish monger, the greengrocer, the corner shop, another market...