Stock piling , panic buying.

Over the last couple of weeks I've managed to grab a couple of click n collect slots, one for sainsbury's and one for Tesco. They both worked well, but now seem like gold dust. Ended up going to sainsbury's at about 7pm on the BH Monday which wasn't too bad.
Thankfully my mother who is high risk is now receiving home deliveries as she's "on the list", so I'm not needing to buy extra.
 
We sorted Tesco home delivery for M-i-L and placed a first order for her on Saturday. As she is 90 she qualifies for priority slots and we got a delivery booked for this coming Thursday pm. M-i-L thought it was great (she normally is very dismissive of anything techie-based or that smacks of the 21st Century). Just wait until she gets her delivery. She'll probably have a bit of a moan about some things that weren't available or that were substituted for what she asked for :) But hey...nice one Tesco Chesterfield. (y)(y)
 
ScienceBoy said:
Panic in our house this week as we can’t get a delivery spot for the first time since lockdown! No home delivery or click and collect! Going to have to actually go to a shop!!!o_O
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Yeah we have this issue, all slots taken across all outlets. We usually try to get a slot during the period we can update our present order. As we couldn’t, we went and doubled everything.
I spoke to my mum and she is getting vulnerable slots and has been getting in shops from a couple of outlets .. which did get up my nose a bit.

Anyway we will keep searching for slots and get creative with what we have! Glad I don’t have to worry about baby milk/nappies etc!
 
IainP said:
Over the last couple of weeks I've managed to grab a couple of click n collect slots, one for sainsbury's and one for Tesco. They both worked well, but now seem like gold dust. Ended up going to sainsbury's at about 7pm on the BH Monday which wasn't too bad.
Thankfully my mother who is high risk is now receiving home deliveries as she's "on the list", so I'm not needing to buy extra.
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I got a slot for Sainsbury's on my way home from work..got a load of bulky items ordered ..was a week away

The day of when waiting for email to say how much of order I got

Order cancelled

Was pretty early on tho.

Iceland just been delivered most what we needed. Ordered some kitchen roll off Amazon and bin bags off eBay to stock us up
 
HomerJSimpson said:
Been trying to get a slot for the F-i-L from any supermarket but despite being high risk unable to do so. Several emails sent to customer service desks tonight
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Thats because all the less vulnerable people on here have been grabbing them all.
 
drive4show said:
Thats because all the less vulnerable people on here have been grabbing them all.
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Slight over reaction, sound bite. Very strange comment..

How do you know that less vulnerable people on here have been grabbing them all ?

And how do you know if someone is vulnerable or not from being on a forum or even knowing a person, lots of the at risk people, you can not tell if they are or not due to underlining health conditions.
 
DRW said:
Slight over reaction, sound bite. Very strange comment..

How do you know that less vulnerable people on here have been grabbing them all ?

And how do you know if someone is vulnerable or not from being on a forum or even knowing a person, lots of the at risk people, you can not tell if they are or not due to underlining health conditions.
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You're a bit touchy this morning. There have been plenty of comments on this thread by people that I have met or can deduce from comments on here that are perfectly capable of going to their local shop but they are using online deliveries and depriving genuine high risk people of slots.

Wind yer neck in fella.
 
drive4show said:
You're a bit touchy this morning. There have been plenty of comments on this thread by people that I have met or can deduce from comments on here that are perfectly capable of going to their local shop but they are using online deliveries and depriving genuine high risk people of slots.

Wind yer neck in fella.
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Yawn, so basically your comment 'all the less vulnerable people on here have been grabbing them all.'

is rubbish. Wind your comments in EDIT or post sensible ones.
 
DRW said:
Yawn, so basically your comment 'all the less vulnerable people on here have been grabbing them all.'

is rubbish. Wind your comments in EDIT or post sensible ones.
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Get real. How many people on this forum? And how many millions of home delivery slots available across all the suppliers in this country? It was an off hand comment about fit and able people depriving the less fortunate :rolleyes:
 
I can't speak for others but I have TWO vulnerable people in this household. I would be happy to go out and get the shopping but I'm in a position where if we get the virus in this house I could lose my partner and her father.
And for that reason I wouldn't use generalisations about people on this forum I know nothing about.
 
Robster59 said:
I can't speak for others but I have TWO vulnerable people in this household. I would be happy to go out and get the shopping but I'm in a position where if we get the virus in this house I could lose my partner and her father.
And for that reason I wouldn't use generalisations about people on this forum I know nothing about.
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Well I genuinely hope you are able to get delivery slots. Stay safe fella ?
 
HomerJSimpson said:
Been trying to get a slot for the F-i-L from any supermarket but despite being high risk unable to do so. Several emails sent to customer service desks tonight
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Have you registered your F-i-L as a vulnerable person?

With Tesco On-line once you've done that priority slots become available. We did it for my M-i-L over the phone with Tesco. The agent registered my M-i-L and her home address - no proof of identify or age required. We were then able to create an account for her. A couple of days later the priority slots screen was available for us to access. On Saturday M-i-L gave us a list of what she needed over the phone and we created the order. There were quite a few free slots this week. She's getting it delivered tomorrow pm.

I suppose we might be able to change the delivery address to our own and abuse the priority delivery slot system - but I'm guessing not and we are not going to try in any case.
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
Have you registered your F-i-L as a vulnerable person?

With Tesco On-line once you've done that priority slots become available. We did it for my M-i-L over the phone with Tesco. The agent registered my M-i-L and her home address - no proof of identify or age required. We were then able to create an account for her. A couple of days later the priority slots screen was available for us to access. On Saturday M-i-L gave us a list of what she needed over the phone and we created the order. There were quite a few free slots this week. She's getting it delivered tomorrow pm.

I suppose we might be able to change the delivery address to our own and abuse the priority delivery slot system - but I'm guessing not and we are not going to try in any case.
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Tried it from F-i-L PC and ours and yes made it abundantly clear in emails and when registering that both in-laws are housebound. 5th May is the earliest we've been offered
 
drive4show said:
Get real. How many people on this forum? And how many millions of home delivery slots available across all the suppliers in this country? It was an off hand comment about fit and able people depriving the less fortunate :rolleyes:
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Tesco have been asking people to go to their shops rather than go online as they're struggling to keep pace with all the requests
As a result some people who need these slots ain't getting them.
 
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