Tescos - Wearing the shirt

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS THE UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUM (INTERACTIVE)
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So Supermarkets in general think they can form an army out of nothing but foot soliders…
Alright for the “final mile” of deliveries I guess…

There’s already the Discounters who offer full time jobs to Warehouse workers who happen to have LGV licences…

So big question is folks - Where are the trucker’s jobs to bulk-deliver all this demand to the dotcom depots?

No WONDER there are so many “substitutions” in these home deliveries…

All that tosh where they say “If we cannot fill your order, we’ll replace the item with one of better quality normally for higher price, but without charging the customer extra”.

Then you get told (having filled your entire order with bottom-price-range groceries…"

Sorry bud, we didn’t have any subsitututes in stock neither. We’ll give you a credit to your next order, knowing ■■■■ well you don’t intend ever giving one, for this shoddy service!

I put in orders for Cat Food of a certain type for instance, Gravy over Jelly, Felix/Kitekat over Whiskers

Now these get progressively more expensive, and my cats won’t eat Jelly.
SO instead of me getting an order for 4x12 packs of Gravy Kitekat, filled with more expensive Whiskers which my cats WILL eat, I end up instead with the 4x12 packs of any random brand that happens to have Jelly that I’ve gone out of my way to say “Do not fill with jelly - It’ll be returned”.

All Supermarkets have to do to get this right is employ the correct amount of people across ALL duties, except Acting Mangers, which they could probably do without at all.

If Lidl can have a driver do their own picking and loading - why not at Tescos, and pay the staff a decent wage for all that responsibility, such as the £16ph I understand you now get at Lidl as one of these “Warehouse workers-■■■-LGV drivers”

where the ad says “80% of your job is NOT driving. Must hold C+E entitlement, no more than six points, at least 12 months experience in the past 12 months.”
…which means you’re on any “Warehouse to Wheels” programme, then it’s tough-■■■■■ for you my son. :stuck_out_tongue: :unamused:

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I might respond to that in a month or so once ive deciphered it and figured out what the ■■■■ youre talking about

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Winseer:
So Supermarkets in general think they can form an army out of nothing but foot soliders…
Alright for the “final mile” of deliveries I guess…

where the ad says “80% of your job is NOT driving. Must hold C+E entitlement, no more than six points, at least 12 months experience in the past 12 months.”
…which means you’re on any “Warehouse to Wheels” programme, then it’s tough-■■■■■ for you my son. [emoji14] :unamused:

Frankly I’m surprised your cats haven’t left home by now. I wonder if they are as confused as we are with your ramblings. Anyway carry on as you were.

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Oh and a shame you didn’t mention this earlier, I’ve just given away 69 pouches of felix gravy lover as good as it looks as my little ■■■■■ won’t eat the meat in gravy just kicks the gravy and leaves the meat. So rather than keep throwing food away gave it away and bought felix as good as it looks in jelly again. Admittedly I did pick it up myself as there wasn’t any in jelly but hey ho such is life. [emoji23]

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simcor:
Oh and a shame you didn’t mention this earlier, I’ve just given away 69 pouches of felix gravy lover as good as it looks as my little ■■■■■ won’t eat the meat in gravy just kicks the gravy and leaves the meat. So rather than keep throwing food away gave it away and bought felix as good as it looks in jelly again. Admittedly I did pick it up myself as there wasn’t any in jelly but hey ho such is life. [emoji23]

Could you have strained out the meat from the gravy using a fabric filter?
I imagine an old sock would do it.

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Franglais:

simcor:
Oh and a shame you didn’t mention this earlier, I’ve just given away 69 pouches of felix gravy lover as good as it looks as my little ■■■■■ won’t eat the meat in gravy just kicks the gravy and leaves the meat. So rather than keep throwing food away gave it away and bought felix as good as it looks in jelly again. Admittedly I did pick it up myself as there wasn’t any in jelly but hey ho such is life. [emoji23]

Could you have strained out the meat from the gravy using a fabric filter?
I imagine an old sock would do it.

Possibly could, but a clean sock or a used one? Which is better?

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simcor:

Franglais:

simcor:
Oh and a shame you didn’t mention this earlier, I’ve just given away 69 pouches of felix gravy lover as good as it looks as my little ■■■■■ won’t eat the meat in gravy just kicks the gravy and leaves the meat. So rather than keep throwing food away gave it away and bought felix as good as it looks in jelly again. Admittedly I did pick it up myself as there wasn’t any in jelly but hey ho such is life. [emoji23]

Could you have strained out the meat from the gravy using a fabric filter?
I imagine an old sock would do it.

Possibly could, but a clean sock or a used one? Which is better?

Cheesy or salty gravy?

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Lidl drivers dont do any picking. You load and unload your own truck. Thats the reason they specify clearly not all driving. When you get back to the yard you unload all the rubbish again. Believe me its not easy.

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In plain English.

I’m a lazy trucker, who doesn’t go to the shops and I use home delivery, I was delivered the wrong cat food, I’ve been affected by this gross injustice,and want the drivers to pick and loaf there own vehicles, because I’m important and entitled to this service.

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Winseer:
Then you get told (having filled your entire order with bottom-price-range groceries…"

Sorry bud, we didn’t have any subsitututes in stock neither. We’ll give you a credit to your next order, knowing ■■■■ well you don’t intend ever giving one, for this shoddy service!

Have you actually used Tesco’s home delivery service?

They don’t do credits against future orders. If no substitute is available they simply don’t charge you for that item. If you reject a substitute (or anything else for that matter) they simply refund to your card the same day.

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Where has Trucknet gone this time?

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Actually, I have not used Tesco delivery in particular for yonks, as I am solidly prejudiced against all home deliveries of main supermarkets these days because of the bad experiences I heighlighted in the past…

My OP was more about “Who’s gonna do all this delivering” seeing as we’ve got much-increased home order demand, many newly appointed puddle jumper drivers BUT no warehouse space to handle such increased capacity, and no sign of increased LGV delivered orders to that warehouse neither.

Surely all you people out there are still not languishing on furlough these days by this point?

…If you are, then you’d better hurry up and get back to work, 'cos the schools go back next week, and there might not be any jobs to go back to, if you don’t hurry up…

There doesn’t seem to be any demand being put upon LGV drivers already, which suggests that existing drivers are having extra duties lumped onto their current salaried job to “try and keep up” OR there would be lots of agency shifts going at least…

The agency model is dead already though, as they continue to play client politics rather than just get the bloody job done at minimum expense, which was bad enough in the old days…
As these agencies gradually die off over the coming months (no increase in jobs/shifts available - right?) full time employers will tighten the screws on the T&Cs with their own full timer shirt-wearing drivers ever further.
Eventually, by the time you’re all working 56-60 hour weeks for 48 hours @ sub £12ph pay - there won’t be anywhere else to run to, as every other firm out there will already have co-ordinated the same moves between them as a cartel, which used to be illegal, but I guess won’t be pretty soon now…

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Roymondo:

Winseer:
Then you get told (having filled your entire order with bottom-price-range groceries…"

Sorry bud, we didn’t have any subsitututes in stock neither. We’ll give you a credit to your next order, knowing ■■■■ well you don’t intend ever giving one, for this shoddy service!

Have you actually used Tesco’s home delivery service?

They don’t do credits against future orders. If no substitute is available they simply don’t charge you for that item. If you reject a substitute (or anything else for that matter) they simply refund to your card the same day.

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Sorry bud, but this doesn’t seem to be true.
You put an order in for say, £90 worth of stuff. They don’t have £30 of it.
They’ve already charged your debit card the £90 though - with the original order.
It might be a week or more before you get any back-credit to your card for the under-spent £30 in question. The quickest a credit has ever come back - is two working days later.
In any case, I didn’t want the credit, I wanted the bloody goods I’d ordered. If they didn’t have them in stock, it should have said on the system as I was picking my order on-screen. “Lack of Dotcom Deliveries” is what I’ll blame for this, rather than poor warehouseship.

If there is a supermarket that will deliver your order in full to your door FIRST and THEN debit the amount the order ends up costing - then I’d like to know which supermarkets are doing it that way please. Serious Question! Educate me!

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Winseer mate, you never cease to amaze me (and for all the wrong reasons) , if you ain’t playing the victim sat hiding in your nuclear shelter under your staircase, you’re putting a doom and gloom type negative spin on every ■■■■ thing you hear or read about. :neutral_face:

Surely it’s a good thing if jobs are being created in a dodgy suffering economy, as most people that ain’t totally paranoid would think. :bulb:

As for Tesco home deliveries we’ve used them since the ‘plague’ broke out, firstly because with all the initial unsurity over all this I did not want my wife walking amongst a load of ‘lepers’ as we were first led to believe.
Then when I decided things were not SO bad in reality, we continued just for convenience, as it is a better proposition than me miserably following the Mrs around Tescos pushing a ■■■■ trolley on my day off. :unamused:

We have had the odd substitute order, but you get the chance to tell the lad on the van before he leaves it…no dramas.

As for your own personal experience, if you come across in real life as you do on here, I would suggest the lads in the store are just winding you up for a laugh, as people did with Victor Meldrew on the telly…oh hang on you ‘‘refuse to use them’’ :unamused: …(.I bet Tesco are devastated btw :smiley: )…so if you don’t even use em, wtf are you slavering about exactly??

As for your cats? :open_mouth: …ffs man a cat is a wild animal by nature, they eat any ■■■■■■■ thing stop pampering the ■■■■ things and feed them the cheap stuff on a take it or leave it basis…it seems that even your cats take the ■■■■ out of you ffs. :laughing:

Get a grip man, the world ain’t half as bad in real life as it is in Winseerland. :unamused:

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Franglais:

simcor:

Franglais:

simcor:
Oh and a shame you didn’t mention this earlier, I’ve just given away 69 pouches of felix gravy lover as good as it looks as my little ■■■■■ won’t eat the meat in gravy just kicks the gravy and leaves the meat. So rather than keep throwing food away gave it away and bought felix as good as it looks in jelly again. Admittedly I did pick it up myself as there wasn’t any in jelly but hey ho such is life. [emoji23]

Could you have strained out the meat from the gravy using a fabric filter?
I imagine an old sock would do it.

Possibly could, but a clean sock or a used one? Which is better?

Cheesy or salty gravy?

Or through your undercrackers…savoury onion gravy.
Too much? :blush: :laughing:

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Winseer:
I put in orders for Cat Food of a certain type for instance, Gravy over Jelly, Felix/Kitekat over Whiskers

Now these get progressively more expensive, and my cats won’t eat Jelly.
SO instead of me getting an order for 4x12 packs of Gravy Kitekat, filled with more expensive Whiskers which my cats WILL eat, I end up instead with the 4x12 packs of any random brand that happens to have Jelly that I’ve gone out of my way to say “Do not fill with jelly - It’ll be returned”.

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Sorry to keep going on chaps :blush: …but I’ve just read this over again, even shared it with the Mrs over breakfast. :smiley:

Could I just take the opportunity to nominate it for ‘Trucknet post of the year 2020’
:smiley: Cheers.
:laughing:

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robroy:
Winseer mate, you never cease to amaze me (and for all the wrong reasons) , if you ain’t playing the victim sat hiding in your nuclear shelter under your staircase, you’re putting a doom and gloom type negative spin on every [zb] thing you hear or read about. :neutral_face:

Surely it’s a good thing if jobs are being created in a dodgy suffering economy, as most people that ain’t totally paranoid would think. :bulb:

As for Tesco home deliveries we’ve used them since the ‘plague’ broke out, firstly because with all the initial unsurity over all this I did not want my wife walking amongst a load of ‘lepers’ as we were first led to believe.
Then when I decided things were not SO bad in reality, we continued just for convenience, as it is a better proposition than me miserably following the Mrs around Tescos pushing a [zb] trolley on my day off. :unamused:

We have had the odd substitute order, but you get the chance to tell the lad on the van before he leaves it…no dramas.
Not true. Those delivering my orders so far during the lockdown have moreorless dumped the shopping bags on my doorstep, and run away having rung the doorbell.

As for your own personal experience, if you come across in real life as you do on here, I would suggest the lads in the store are just winding you up for a laugh, as people did with Victor Meldrew on the telly…oh hang on you ‘‘refuse to use them’’ :unamused: …(.I bet Tesco are devastated btw :smiley: )…so if you don’t even use em, wtf are you slavering about exactly??

As for your cats? :open_mouth: …ffs man a cat is a wild animal by nature, they eat any [zb] thing stop pampering the [zb] things and feed them the cheap stuff on a take it or leave it basis…it seems that even your cats take the ■■■■ out of you ffs. :laughing:

Get a grip man, the world ain’t half as bad in real life as it is in Winseerland. :unamused:

I’ve been trying out all the home delivery services - just to see how good each of them are, and if you get wot it sez on the tin every time, or no.
I’m unwilling to try the more expensive home deliveries as yet, of course - due to limited finances at this time.

My main use to put home deliveries through though - is the lumpy and heavy stuff like TINS that I’d rather not bulk-shop getting, to save my car springs you understand.
The entire object of the excercise here is to get me out of having to go to any supermarket for a prolonged period wearing a mask, so I want to do as much by home delivery as possible, for as cheap as possible at the same time. Special offers are more scarce on the supermarket shop floor these days as well, so there’s even less motivation to actually GO there.
The Queues meanwhile, have all but petered out, making me wonder if there are a lot of other people sick to death of the way Supermarkets in particular are playing this lockdown.
Where else do you get security guards at the entrance enforcing the “wear a mask” mandate, of which I spoke of in other threads as to my disdain here?

Meanwhile on here, I’m sure the vast majority of us are NOT cool with the notion of being forced into a puddle jumper job, whilst artic driving gets all but wound down - in those places where you don’t see any kind of prosperity for trucking of course…

Yes, “Food Delivery” is THE growth industry these days. Let’s not sleepwalk into any notion that it might one day be entirely vans and no trucks though.
This has been going on for some time already, even before the lockdown.
I got made redundant from Brakes as a full timer when they moved away from artics and had their fleet on a rigid/van delivery basis instead.
Now we hear Stobarts are taking over full timer drivers from Morrisons?

If the future of trucking is to be in “bulk depot to depot deliveries” - then where is it all at these days? NOT agency, I suggest…

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robroy:

Winseer:
I put in orders for Cat Food of a certain type for instance, Gravy over Jelly, Felix/Kitekat over Whiskers

Now these get progressively more expensive, and my cats won’t eat Jelly.
SO instead of me getting an order for 4x12 packs of Gravy Kitekat, filled with more expensive Whiskers which my cats WILL eat, I end up instead with the 4x12 packs of any random brand that happens to have Jelly that I’ve gone out of my way to say “Do not fill with jelly - It’ll be returned”.

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Sorry to keep going on chaps :blush: …but I’ve just read this over again, even shared it with the Mrs over breakfast. :smiley:

Could I just take the opportunity to nominate it for ‘Trucknet post of the year 2020’
:smiley: Cheers.
:laughing:

Re-post it on Mumsnet if you want… At least people ask and answer useful and sensible questions derived from “observations” on there. :unamused: :unamused: :unamused:

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I wouldn’t know Winseer,.I ain’t the type of guy that uses it tbh, so you have the advantage over me on that knowledge. :wink:

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Winseer you really should check your facts before posting drivel as usual.

I worked in my local Tesco for 11 years, the last 5 of which I was on the vans doing the home shopping deliveries so I think I’m pretty qualified to answer this and know how it works.

You aren’t charged for things you dont receive. You do your online bit at home and that will come to a total. Then it gets picked in store and when that is completed payment gets processed so if theres £10 worth of stuff missing you will get charged £10 less than what your original online bit was.

As robroy says if a customer is charged for something, say a substitute and they don’t want it they hand it back to the driver and they reject it on the hand held scanner - this triggers a refund that is processed straight away. Pretty simple really!