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My son does the home delivery vans for Tesco.
They refund any substitute or short dated items that are not acceptable.
The pickers in store disengage brain and have to keep up the pick rate, which is why some of the substitutes are way out from what you order.
The big supermarkets have plenty of space in their stores, so all the extra products just go in on the normal deliveries to store, except the few dark stores (no customer’s in store) in and around London.
Ocado and Amazon have dedicated automated “fulfilment “ centres.
msgyorkie:
It’s all made from roadkill meat anyway/ Just feed your cat lunch/dinner leftovers. My neighbor’s cat eats cucumbers and stuff. Tough boy, he rules the neighborhood (the cat, that is), other can-fed cats can’t stand up to him. He gets all the ■■■■■, too. The cat, that is.
commonrail:
Hi winseer.My advise is to just wear the mask,and shop locally.
I went to the butchers in the next village…today,and purchased 6 rashers of bacon 6 tomato sausages 6 slices of hazlet and 2 meat and potato pies for £8.70.I’d never consider on line grocery shopping,as I like to see what I’m getting.
There is a farm shop come take away cafe on an industrial estate round your way I recall. Being from ‘down south’ I had to check they hadn’t missed off half my order when it came to pay.
I guess supermarkets don’t get away with regional price variations.
Winseer,
You’ve got time to write 500 word essays, ergo, you’ve got time to visit Tesco. Don’t forget your mask (to wipe away the salty tears).
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Tesco will no longer provide me with the home delivery option after what they refer to as “the incident!”. Basically the driver turned up two hours earlier than I had been advised, I promptly took his key and made him sit in the shed whilst waiting for his booking slot. I did provide a television set tuned to Homes under the Hammer, set the volume very loud and then removed the batteries from the remote.
Obviously I rejected two or three items simply because I could and I didn’t like the look of them. I offered the driver the option of restacking but he refused.
the maoster:
Tesco will no longer provide me with the home delivery option after what they refer to as “the incident!”. Basically the driver turned up two hours earlier than I had been advised, I promptly took his key and made him sit in the shed whilst waiting for his booking slot. I did provide a television set tuned to Homes under the Hammer, set the volume very loud and then removed the batteries from the remote.Obviously I rejected two or three items simply because I could and I didn’t like the look of them. I offered the driver the option of restacking but he refused.
Thread: back on track.
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Winseer:
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…
Maybe it’s just your agency?
I’m getting regular texts and phone calls and have done for weeks…
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.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.
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.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’’
…(.I bet Tesco are devastated btw
)…so if you don’t even use em, wtf are you slavering about exactly??
As for your cats?
…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.
Get a grip man, the world ain’t half as bad in real life as it is in Winseerland.
Double barrels delivered at close range, ouch 
the maoster:
Tesco will no longer provide me with the home delivery option after what they refer to as “the incident!”. Basically the driver turned up two hours earlier than I had been advised, I promptly took his key and made him sit in the shed whilst waiting for his booking slot. I did provide a television set tuned to Homes under the Hammer, set the volume very loud and then removed the batteries from the remote.Obviously I rejected two or three items simply because I could and I didn’t like the look of them. I offered the driver the option of restacking but he refused.
Now wouldnt you just want to do that…
robroy:
tmcassett:
This is surely a wind up now?Nah he’s deadly serious mate.
The last post had it all, …looking for negatives, overthinking simple things, mountains out of mole hills, playing the victim, sour grape jealousy, all garnished with waffle… Winseer is a psychologist’s ■■■■■■■■■.
And don’t forget Furlough … he has managed to get that whinge in too!
When woody comes to stay mrs does him boiled cod , salmon ( not so keen as greasy ) & boiled chicken , also sits on side waiting for his bowl of roast beef ,
Gets it from her mum who had 2 Persians & a rag doll that got fed the same , spoiled rotten .
At home daughter puts him in dinning room at night , mrs lets him roam our house so who gets up at 3 am to feed him !!! , then at 5/6 he’s back for more
If only gravy / jelly were all I had to worry about with the little terrorist
Took over the bloody bed as well
ETS:
msgyorkie:
It’s all made from roadkill meat anyway/ Just feed your cat lunch/dinner leftovers. My neighbor’s cat eats cucumbers and stuff. Tough boy, he rules the neighborhood (the cat, that is), other can-fed cats can’t stand up to him. He gets all the ■■■■■, too. The cat, that is.
The meat wasn’t the problem, it’s the jelly…
Just seen this article, and I’ll have to chirp up in a similar vein here:
“TNUK - Be Kind”.
the maoster:
Tesco will no longer provide me with the home delivery option after what they refer to as “the incident!”. Basically the driver turned up two hours earlier than I had been advised, I promptly took his key and made him sit in the shed whilst waiting for his booking slot. I did provide a television set tuned to Homes under the Hammer, set the volume very loud and then removed the batteries from the remote.Obviously I rejected two or three items simply because I could and I didn’t like the look of them. I offered the driver the option of restacking but he refused.
I had a similar incident. He was only 30 mins early though but I specified a code that he had to enter on a vtech children’s keypad i stuck on my gate, but to be devious I rewired the buttons so when you press 4 to get a 4 you’re actually an inch out and get a 6 instead. I wouldnt let him in until he adjusted his mental dexterity to permit him to provide me with a number that matched.
Then much like you I made him wait as I had no room in my kitchen and had to clear space for my goods. Eventually I let him put my shopping on my doorstep but I left it there for a few hours before attending to it, checking every item before telling him i don’t sign pdas but hes welcome to use one of the lads ink stamps of animal shapes as proof he’s delivered.
You really do seem to spend an inordinate amount of time over thinking about the most pointless of things and even then seeming to struggle to understand the basics
dozy:
When woody comes to stay mrs does him boiled cod , salmon ( not so keen as greasy ) & boiled chicken , also sits on side waiting for his bowl of roast beef ,
Gets it from her mum who had 2 Persians & a rag doll that got fed the same , spoiled rotten .
At home daughter puts him in dinning room at night , mrs lets him roam our house so who gets up at 3 am to feed him !!! , then at 5/6 he’s back for more
If only gravy / jelly were all I had to worry about with the little terrorist
Took over the bloody bed as well
To be fair your Mrs is probably grateful to have some intelligent company for a change
Winseer:
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.
Madness isn’t it. You’d think in creating 16,000 new jobs the countries and one of the worlds biggest retailers might have actually bothered to put some thought into it, how very careless of them.
Come on Chap you really can’t be as dim as you increasingly sound?
robroy:
Winseer:
Would that I could, but a tightened belt means I don’t have the luxury of letting people rip off my time and money any longer.
That is the source of this “Constant Belly Ache” you insist I have…
I’ve got more chances of meeting Jeffrey Epstein on my way to the Chemists than getting to see my GP for any appointment any time soon.
What stresses me out most of all though - is everyone else’s “couldn’t care less” and “I’m alright jack” attitude.
Got that?I really don’t like being thrown under the bus at work one minute, and laughed at the next.
I find myself looking forward to the “worst is yet to come” biblical disasters coming our way, rather than fearing it now.
That’s probably “not good for one’s mental health” of course, at least from everyone else’s point of view who’ve been laughing like the townsfolk at Noah, and won’t stop laughing until the proverbial rains come…When you find yourself in a pit, trying to climb out, and find everyone else stepping on your fingers at every attempt, you start thinking of ways out instead that don’t involve the co-operation of other people, since they’ve become the enemy manning the proverbial searchlights whilst I attempt to cut the fence out of anger, rather than my wrists out of depression…
Ffs
Your’e ■■■■■■ because you were looked over at the period of furlough, the world don’t owe YOU a living, stop bleating about every minor [zb] thing that goes not according to plan in your miserable life, get a grip, and pull yourself together…[zb] happens mate, life ain’t pretty.You ask if I’ve ‘got that’, …yeh, got it along with the t.shirt mate, trust me on that, as I’ve been on the bones of my arse in real situations, not trivial everyday scenarios where I have moaned looking for sympathy like you do on here on a tedious regular basis, but REAL crap, where I just dug in and dealt with it.
So give us all a [zb] break on here, and stop your eternal [zb] boring whinging about every [zb] thing.!!..give the Samaritans a bell instead, although I suspect you’d even depress them!
(Had a few pints this afternoon, so if I come across as too In your face, then tough [zb], but ffs get a grip man.
@Winseer.
Ok, Back pedal time. 
Thought better than a pm.
Just read this back from yesterday, and decided I mebbys went a bit TOO far, … 
Even got a couple of messages ((not pms) telling me so.
My excuse? (or no excuse… ) .stuck in the pub all day on cheap beer, on my own, dipping in and out of TN, just got mildly agitated at reading your errr …‘inimitable type posts’…
Still stand by a lot of what I said, but could have been more tactful and less nasty in putting it across…a tad out of order eh? (my life story when on large amounts of beer )
Cheers.
It would be a whole lot easier if people just stuck to answering OPs questions, or reflecting on their own experiences, and how they get around any unpleasantness or pitalls in the process.