Tesco dumped my shopping and ran!

carolt

I repeat, Dave Brooker, what was the point of your analogy?

Or are you, as I suspect, utterly pointless?

Dave_Brooker

carolt wrote: »

I repeat, Dave Brooker, what was the point of your analogy?

I think that planning to ignore the deliveryman for half an hour is a bit of a silly thing to do, and that it's not really surprising that he started to unload the van, quite possibly because he assumed you would answer the door after a few minutes.

Perhaps home delivery is not really the thing for you?

carolt

Thanks, Dave, for confirming your pointlessness by once again avoiding the question.

Well, we all knew anyway...

Dave_Brooker

carolt wrote: »

Thanks, Dave, for confirming your pointlessness by once again avoiding the question.

Well, we all knew anyway...

Because the dinner party analogy was not started by me?

carolt

You used the analogy several times to show why my behaviour had been wrong. Therefore you should be able to justify it. But you can't. Al Mac, who intruduced the analogy, makes sense - his logic is that it is bad manners for anyone, even someone like a friend who is NOT being paid for it, to turn up early. Therefore how much more wrong is it for someone whose paid job it is to do so.

Your use of the analogy, however, makes no sense.

Pointless, pointless, pointless.....

Dave_Brooker

carolt wrote: »

You used the analogy several times to show why my behaviour had been wrong. Therefore you should be able to justify it. But you can't. Al Mac, who intruduced the analogy, makes sense - his logic is that it is bad manners for anyone, even someone like a friend who is NOT being paid for it, to turn up early.

I think that it would be extremely poor form to turn away dinner guests who arrived half an hour early.

But then I also think that it's bad form to make a delivery van driver needlessly wait half an hour too.

But that's just me.

1jim

I have just skim read this thread so forgive me if some of my facts are wrong here
I am really suprised at the reaction to the OP,
1) The OP ordered her shooping to be delivered at a given time slot, she picked this time as it was convenient and she would be in a position to recieve the delivery
2) The delivery arrived 30mins before the actual specified time without warning
3) The OP chose not to leave her crying children to answer the door
4) The delivery person unpacked her shopping including frozen items and left them at her doorstep
I cant really see how anyone can think that the delivery driver behaved reasonably
1) The whole point of picking a delivery time/slot is that this is when you want your order to be delivered, you dont want it 30mins early, I order through tescos and arrange delivery to arrive when I am in the house so that I my wife does not have to juggle a 6mth old and a 2year old and carry the shopping in to the house
2) The delivery driver is supposed to phone and say "I am running early is that ok", this would have allowed toe OP to say no its not, again this is perfectly acceptable and tesco allow you to say that arriving early ion not convenient and then they will deliver in the booked time slot
3)Good on the OP, she chose to care for her children and not answer the door. To be honest its not just a quick thing to take delivery of the shopping, she would have had to put away the chilled/frozen food as well, all whilst her child was crying. I thinks its perfectly reasonable not to answer the door when your child is crying and needs you
4)There is no way the driver should have unpacked items untill someone was ready to take them in, what about the "chill chain"? frozen food will start to defrost if left out of the frezzer for 30mins and with some foods this can cause a health risk

Give the op a break, she booked a service that did not live up to its expectations and quite likly the expectations of chief exec of tesco.
OP I think you did the right thing, I would write a complaint letter to the Cheif Exec of Tesco and possibly copy it to your local environmental health dept
Jim

carolt

Dear me, Dave Brooker, can't read AND pointless.

And yes, Dave Brooker, if I was paying my 'dinner guests' £5 for the privilege of coming to my dinner, I'd like it if they showed up on time. But that analogy just shows how stupid your comment is. Tesco delivery drivers are NOT my friends, or even acquaintances. It is a business arrangement, pure and simple and one which I pay for. I therefore expect the service I have paid for, nothing more and nothing less.

You must really be a sad Johnny no-mates if the Tesco delivery driver is your 'friend'. Do you pay all your 'mates' a fiver? Can't think why......

Dave_Brooker

carolt wrote: »

Dear me, Dave Brooker, can't read AND pointless.

For someone who was far too busy to answer the door, you seem to have plenty of time to post here...

carolt wrote: »

You must really be a sad Johnny no-mates if the Tesco delivery driver is your 'friend'. Do you pay all your 'mates' a fiver? Can't think why......

I shop at Sainsburys and Waitrose, but that said I'm on freindly terms with all the drivers who regually make deliveries here.

hollydays

..I saw a post on here once about the danger of being too friendly with drivers..:rolleyes: