Do you do your food shop online and live in a flat?

leandygandy

Do the supermarkets have an obligation only to deliver to the building rather than the flat? Fair dos if that's the policy, but it would be very helpful to know.

I'm 19 weeks pregnant and can only see shopping in the next few months becoming even more of a problem than they are now. Carrying the bags up the stairs (converted house rather than a huge block of flats so two small flights of stairs) has begun to prove absolutely exhausting! Hence I'm considering online shopping as an alternative... but if the delivery comes and I have to carry the bags up the stairs myself I may as well forego the charge and go to the shop myself?

I could send my husband with a list on his day off, but unless it's written explicitly (i.e. baked beans, small tin, get reduced sugar and salt please) he tends to be rather useless, and he doesn't seek the deals etc. so it's not very MSE :rotfl:

Failing that, I suppose we'll have to go together on a Sunday, but tbh shopping with him is so stressful I really want to avoid it if possible - he gets the Sunday paper and slowly reads it while crawling along at a snails pace with the trolley (getting in people's way, may I add :mad:) so I'm rushing along with my hands full of items only to turn round and find that the trolley isn't there! Not to mention all the other things he deems 'essential' for the week, thus pushing the food bill up for that week :eek:

onlyroz

When I lived in a 2nd floor flat I got ASDA to deliver, and they brought it to my door. The trouble was, the idiot driver would decant the stuff from his plastic trays into about 100 carrier bags before bringing it up. One time I got a carrier bag with just a single garlic bulb in. Madness...

liz-paul

I get deliveries from tesco and they always bring it in to my kitchen when I ask. They always help me unpack too and were esp helpful when I was preg. Failing that tesco do home deliveries until 9 or 10pm so you could get a delivery to come when your OH is home in case he has to carry it up....

Pigget

Yes.
We live in a 2nd floor flat and have used Tesco for delivery a few times. They have always delivered directly to the flat, although we don't need to buzz them in. I'm not sure if that would make a difference?

There is a section for notes when you place your order and we usually make them aware that we are in a second floor flat.

I'm sure you would be able to call customer services of the supermarket you wish to use just to confirm.

Loopylaura_2

Used to get Mr T deliveries when we lived in a flat and my back was dodgy and they'd bring them right to the door (3rd floor). Just as well really cause if I'm paying for delivery I expect that delivery to be to my door otherwise what's the point?

I have heard from a friend that one of them refused to bring her shopping upstairs but can't remember who it was.

ankspon

I live in a ground floor flat so they always bring it to the door when they find out,but some drivers ring the buzzer and say can you come down for your shopping before they know where i am.What is the policy?

leandygandy

Thanks all, seems like you've had really helpful delivery people!

Here are my experiences from the past (pre pregnancy) :

Tesco delivery 1 - female delivery person, refused to carry up to the flat
Asda delivery 1 - male delivery person, happliy carried up to the flat
Tesco delivery 2 - male delivery person, happily carried up to the flat
Asda delivery 2 - female delivery person, didn't even want to wait while I checked the order, let alone help carry it up to the flat!

So for me, the trend has been that men are happy to carry the shopping but the women not so much. And that deliveries by the same supermarket can be hit and miss! Hence my wanting to know what your experiences have been...

Obviously being pregnant may mean that people are more willing to help carry the shopping up, but I'm not sure if it's worth taking the risk?

Someone suggested getting the delivery for an evening when hubby is home, but I agree with the other person who posted that if they don't deliver to the flat door then there's no point paying the charge, I may as well just send hubby...

Maybe I'm being harsh on husband, but I'm not sure I want to take the risk of sending him alone and having to live on 3 tins of beans and 8 cans of lager for the week haha!

leandygandy

davidhwdn wrote: »

I live in a ground floor flat so they always bring it to the door when they find out,but some drivers ring the buzzer and say can you come down for your shopping before they know where i am.What is the policy?

I'm just not sure - perhaps it's down the to delivery person's discretion?

Think I'll have a little root around online and see if I can find out...

daska

Tesco policy as advertised on the side of their vans:

We deliver to your door. (Your fridge door)

chocdonuty

I get my shopping delivered by sainsburys or iceland to my 2nd floor flat (no lift) and they have always delivered it no problem, well apart from the ones that try to carry it all at once and end up bright red and have to catch their breath at the top:rotfl:Well it saves me doing it!
It's definatly worth the delivery charge to save the carrier bags cutting into my hands or using a shopping trolley which is fine till you try and lug a weeks worth of shopping up the stairs in one!

pinkshoes

The Tesco delivery driver offered to carry it to my kitchen when I was heavily pregnant.

I just get mine delivered at around 9pm when OH is at home, otherwise I find myself trying to hold a baby, wrestle with the dog (who can't decide if escaping or food bags are more exciting), AND check the shopping all at once, which doesn't really work.