Grocery deliveries

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  • onmylonesome
    onmylonesome Online Community Member Posts: 620 Empowering
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1101686#Comment_1101686

    I take it at the door because im ok lifting etc and my freezer is in the hallway by the door anyway.

  • Rachel_Scope
    Rachel_Scope Posts: 3,189 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    Ah that's good. It looks like some supermarkets do take it to the kitchen for you which is really good if you need it. I can imagine that people with disabilities make up a large portion of their customer base.

  • silmarillion
    silmarillion Online Community Member Posts: 41 Empowering

    I’ve got a wee shopping trolley on wheels and the delivery people put my stuff in it and I move it around the kitchen etc to unload it

  • Rachel_Scope
    Rachel_Scope Posts: 3,189 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    That's a good idea @silmarillion. Do you always find the delivery people helpful then?

  • nevermore57
    nevermore57 Online Community Member Posts: 3 Listener

    Tesco delivery driver always brings my order into the kitchen and unloads, leaving the fridge and freezer items next to the fridge. Marvelous men

  • SwiftFox
    SwiftFox Online Community Member Posts: 775 Championing

    Morrisons deliver in bags, because I didn't want bags. And they're ten pence each.

  • Delphi
    Delphi Online Community Member Posts: 49 Contributor
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1101919#Comment_1101919

    Me too. If you're institutionalised, I'm worse. I can't let anyone else in my house at all now.

    We haven't had anyone in since covid began, not even my adult children. My husband is almost 70 and diabetic, at the start of covid we started masking (FFP3) and not going anywhere or having anyone in. Older people and diabetics (amongst a lot of other conditions) can end up hospitalised with covid so we were super cautious.

    Now almost everyone I see (I go to get the fresh fruit & veg) or communicate with (a few family members by email) is treating covid like it's a cold. I wish I'd never researched it properly and that I didn't know the potential negative outcomes of covid etc as I now have a very isolated life. I'm not able to do the 'covid-lottery' that others do and I just couldn't risk it without guilt that I may damage my husband's health.

    Nobody knows what covid would do to my own condition but excessive coughing wouldn't be good. However, I'm sure I'd be taking a lot more risks if there was only me to consider. Now I'm isolated, 'institutionalised' and paranoid about contact with anyone. This isn't how I saw retirement!

    My adult daughter (our different disabilities now prevent us from travelling to see each other) has long covid and is the one who needs the groceries bagged as she can't undo crates at the door. There have been some useful suggestions and information about solutions on here.

  • SwiftFox
    SwiftFox Online Community Member Posts: 775 Championing

    I've got diabetes, I used a visor when we went shopping in the height of covid. It helped better than a mask, by stopping invisible spray when people talked to you. We didn't get covid till after, 2024 was the year we had it, it was bad but we survived and it was Christmas😂Didn't get many gifts that year lol.

  • brushcolours
    brushcolours Online Community Member Posts: 44 Contributor

    Hi Delphi :-)

    I can't help about London as am up in the North East. Have had to shop at Iceland due to card issues you describe years back. The best way I've found to cope with the bags change is making orders smaller, and I ordered 2 foldable strong crates from ebay plus have the walker there in the porch and ask the driver if they'd kindly put frozen/fridge stuff in there. Anything else stays on the porch table in the crates, as I can't make more than one walker journey per delivery.

    I'd emailed Iceland about the bag change, but the response unfortunately wasn't great, despite referencing disability and that elderly would struggle too.

    The drivers though have always been great about putting items on the porch table before this bag change, and have said having the crates there on the table now is also a great help to them, but currently they only get an extra 45 seconds to unpack an order, although they said that may be extended. I can add the link to crates, if that's allowed/if you want it … NEW Heavy Duty Collapsible Transport Crates Boxes up to 50KG Capacity 2 Sizes, sold by 3jcsales.

    And, yes, it's a bit challenging to shop healthily at Iceland, but, if you need something cheaper and are prepared to carefully select things, it's doable and at least something in the cupboards. Hopefully you have a good local branch; could well be worth a try, and, if so, hope it goes well for you.

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