Which Supermarket Is Best For Deliveries?

I sit on a stool in the open front doorway, they chat to me as I shift the items from the crates into 4 bags for life. They have each offered to bring the crates in, but know I prefer to do it my way by now.

The driver last week, he was telling me about a third floor penthouse in St Andrews he has been at that day.

The middle aged woman told him they were having a party, that's why the order was so large. He was going to have to carry half a dozen loads up six flights of stairs on his own. This was a man in his 60s, and not exactly a slim man.

When he got up there with the first load, he was told to bring it into the house, whereupon he encountered 3 grown up sons, in their 20s, they were playing a video game.

He politely asked if they wouldn't mind giving him a hand, and one of them, about 25yo, he called "do we have to, mum?", and she said "of course not!".

Three kidults lounging around, whilst a man in his sixties struggles? I would have told them to get off their idle arses if they had been my sons. What a disgrace.

I suppose it must depend on the store in question. Where i am, there is only one Sainsbury's in the Dundee and surrounding arearea. My delivery always comes from there.

Do you southerners consider Sainsbury's a more premium supermarket to Asda etc? I think that the scarcity of them here, we might associate that with a more exclusive store than it deserves? It tends to be better off people shop there ( So I am obviously an exception to the rule).🫡

The week before, a driver told me of a delivery to a former jute mill, of which Dundee has plenty, it was the jute capital of the world once.

The top floor flat is the fifth floor, he would have to struggle up and down a spiral staircase to make his delivery.

He called the customer, asked him if he would be good enough to meet him half way, and the man rudely refused, then hung up. He kept cool, it was only a request, and took up the first load.

When he got to the top floor, he was coopered, as well you can imagine, and the man, early to mid 20s, body builder physique, he again rudely ordered him to bring it into the flat, whereupon the driver refused (we all have our limits).

After the final load, he was done in, but determined to keep his dignity, despite the man stating he was making a complaint, said the driver was supposed to obey the customer (Where do these arrogant young men get their attitude from? Especially to a man of middle age).

Mr Billy Big Arms then took it too far, and the driver pressed the button on his electronic device, that then relays and records the 'conversation' back at the manager's office.

The good news is that that arrogant person is now blacklisted, he will have to look elsewhere for his grocery deliveries. With any luck, although I doubt it, he might reflect on his attitude towards relatively low paid, hard workers.

@MissMarple it must vary depending on store, I am starting to think that anyway.

All the Sainsbury's men, they all say the have it easier than Asda and Tesco They tend to get the suburbs, whilst Asda and Tesco get alot of the housing schemes, up and down tenement stairs.

I am leaning towards renewing my delivery pass, it's been my supermarket since just after lockdown, better the devil you know sort of thing. I agree about Aldi, but then their prices would have to be 'upwardly adjusted' to accommodate it. 😉

I am 5.5 miles from an Iceland, but they refuse to deliver to my address, yet their website states that they deliver within a 10 mile radius. 🤔

I have seen an Ocado van several times, but very occasionally. We don't have Waitrose either, but have no doubt such things exist in the Central Belt of the country.

I have had one delivery from Iceland, about 6 or so years ago. The very next week, the website said it wasn't available, and that still applies. Must not be worth their while I suppose.