Panic buying...

[vickster]

If anyone needs flour... Brake Brothers are selling 16kg sacks for a tenner, open to public if you have one locally and can collect in bulk! Phone up to order. Colleague bought today in Tamworth

 

[Notafettler]

I disagree with that, especially large national Retail stores, the frontline staff have been brilliant in the few I have visited, it's the senior managements decisions & lack of leadership that is of concern, my personal bugbear is Tesco's they have been incompetent in getting their home delivery/click & collect fit for purpose. I have always been a customer of Tesco in favour of Asda & Morrison's, yet I can get a delivery or C&C from both inside 10 days, Tesco nothing before the 25th May at a store 20 miles away & for which they want to charge me.

Check every night every hour. They will suddenly open up an entire day of deliverys. Nothing Saturday for the whole 3 weeks. Sunday all next Tuesday free.
I had a months worth free deliverys (Tuesday Wednesday and Thursdays) they emailed me to tell me they were extending it untill further notice

 

[Notafettler]

You are clearly a very lucky person, however are you not in their back garden?

How does that make a difference?

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Check every night every hour.

I have a life

 

[Notafettler]

Got a Tesco slot 2 o'clock yesterday. Tesco great company. Aldi Lidl don't deliver, how does thst help keep people at home?

 

[Mike_P]

Got a Tesco slot 2 o'clock yesterday. Tesco great company. Aldi Lidl don't deliver, how does thst help keep people at home?

Read yesterday that home deliveries at most are only covering at most around 15% of the food shopping activity do thats a lot of people who need to go out to shop anyway.

 

[classic33]

Doesn't have more than delivery a week, prevent someone else from getting a delivery slot?

Somewhat akin to panic buying at a store, in person. How many foods go off within a week.

 

[PaulSB]

Check every night every hour. They will suddenly open up an entire day of deliverys. Nothing Saturday for the whole 3 weeks. Sunday all next Tuesday free.
I had a months worth free deliverys (Tuesday Wednesday and Thursdays) they emailed me to tell me they were extending it untill further notice

Got a Tesco slot 2 o'clock yesterday. Tesco great company. Aldi Lidl don't deliver, how does thst help keep people at home?

If I read your first post correctly you have or have had consecutive daily deliveries three times a week.

How does that help keep people at home?

Tesco don't care about customers at the best of times and at my two local stores have consistently failed to remain stocked. I also hear home deliveries are littered with shortages and substitutions. A good stock control system would eliminate this. Tesco had a large home delivery service prior to lockdown and therefore should already have a good system in place. Failure in home delivery is about stock control not stock shortages.

My local ALDI has been fully stocked throughout lockdown meaning customers have confidence product they need will be available. This keeps people at home and results in zero queues.

 

[PaulSB]

As an aside on panic buying has anyone mentioned how lucky the supermarkets have been with the weather? At my Aldi there is covered queuing space for perhaps 10 people, at Tesco probably 50 with the queue often 50% longer than the covered walkway.

A wet April might have seen people queuing in the rain. More likely though I feel is people would wait for a dry day before descending on supermarkets. This could have created huge queues and resultef in stores being cleared out before many got inside.

 

[mjr]

As an aside on panic buying has anyone mentioned how lucky the supermarkets have been with the weather? At my Aldi there is covered queuing space for perhaps 10 people, at Tesco probably 50 with the queue often 50% longer than the covered walkway.

Not only the supermarkets. As mentioned above, some pharmacies and hardware stores also have long queues.

Three supermarkets near me could easily have a snaking rope queue in their large entrance halls, but then they'd have to move the unused trollies and non food tat displays and they're clearly more important than customers. Queuing across the car park - because you're worthless.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

If I read your first post correctly you have or have had consecutive daily deliveries three times a week.

No I think you will find he/she is a cheapskate, Tesco offer a deliver 7 day service or deliver 3 day service, it means you can have delivery on your specified days, not that he/she has had them. But just a note on the free delivery, you pay for free delivery in advance, mine persoanlly is paid up until the end of May, once again they aren't delivering so taking money under false pretences.

A wet April might have seen people queuing in the rain.

Funnily enough I purposely when yesterday afternoon to our local Aldi as it was raining, I figured it may have put people off, I walked straight into the shop no queuing, then straight onto a till with only 1 shopper in front of me.

 

[Mike_P]

A wet April might have seen people queuing in the rain. More likely though I feel is people would wait for a dry day before descending on supermarkets.

It rained on the first Saturday IIRC, I gather those waiting to get into Waitrose were given umbrellas by the store. Not that I would except that to be done by most.

 

[PaulSB]

No I think you will find he/she is a cheapskate, Tesco offer a deliver 7 day service or deliver 3 day service, it means you can have delivery on your specified days, not that he/she has had them. But just a note on the free delivery, you pay for free delivery in advance, mine persoanlly is paid up until the end of May, once again they aren't delivering so taking money under false pretences.
Funnily enough I purposely when yesterday afternoon to our local Aldi as it was raining, I figured it may have put people off, I walked straight into the shop no queuing, then straight onto a till with only 1 shopper in front of me.

Thanks.

 

[mjr]

Doesn't have more than delivery a week, prevent someone else from getting a delivery slot?

Somewhat akin to panic buying at a store, in person. How many foods go off within a week.

Do any of the stores commit not to put short-date products in the deliveries? It always used to be a drawback but I've not used deliveries for years, since I broke bones IIRC.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Do any of the stores commit not to put short-date products in the deliveries? It always used to be a drawback but I've not used deliveries for years, since I broke bones IIRC.

They advise you of any short dated product as they deliver, if you don't want them just refuse them, under normal circumstances they take them away & refund you, not sure about now, they will probably leave them & still refund you.