Q. Do you tip your TESCO delivery person ??

Owain_Moneysaver

badabing wrote: »

Got tesco delivery last night & the thought never crossed my mind to tip the driver...brings me back to the scene in Resevoir dogs about tipping!!!

or in The Good Life where Barbara doesn't have enough money to pay the milkman ...

lilykim

I have had Tesco groceries delivered for over 5 years and have to admit I have never thought of tipping.

Mark7799

Only did it once - last December during the snow when they agreed to park in a different place and pass all the trays over the fence. Our street was impassable to vehicles and they could easily have decided to be bolshy and plead 'health and safety' but did so and we were able to get a Christmas delivery of food.

appleblossom

I have never thought of tipping them but after thinking about it I probably wouldn't anyway - not sure how they differ from the local kebab shop and chinese who I do tip for- possibly as we live in a small row of houses in the middle of no-where with no street lighting so I appreciate them coming out late at night whereas the tescos delivery is done during the day - I don't know. Saying that, I don't tip the dustbin men or the postman either but i do tip taxi drivers and hair-dressers??

Owain_Moneysaver

5thElement wrote: »

Never tipped them either lol

Question for guys, do you ever tip your hairdresser? if so, how much?

Hairdresser? This is MSE.



That's £7.50 a month saved ...

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Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »

Hairdresser? This is MSE.



That's £7.50 a month saved ...

Moneysaving and I cut it properly without bits missed or friends of stylist being allowed in before you when you have booked an appointment:mad:

cdam

cracker1979 wrote: »

Those of you who want/expect the drivers to bring your shopping into the house etc should bear in mind one thing, in most areas the drivers are only allowed 4 minutes on their schedules from the time they find your house to the time they are supposed to be driving away. Therefore any time over and above 4 minutes is putting them behind schedule. Even the smallest delivery will take longer than 4 mins, and that doesnt include any time for actually finding your house (lots of small village and named cottages round here), or time for finding parking spaces, moving the shopping up long/awkward driveways etc4

Whilst this 4 minute policy is not the customer's problem, it is a fact that should be considered when you give your opinion of how "helpful" the drivers are. 90% of people are perfectly capable of taking the bags out of tray that has been properly placed inside the doorstep, while the driver goes to collect another from the van. Im sure 99% of drivers wouldnt hesitate to give assistance to those who really did need it (elderly, pregnant, infirm, injured etc)

Also bear in mind that if a driver comes into your house and puts mud onto your carpet you would be straight on the phone complaining to Tesco asking for them to pay the cleaning bill, or if he knocks over your priceless ming vase while carrying your shopping through im sure you wouldnt be happy

As for those who say the drivers job is easy, that really isnt the case at all. They have to deliver in all extremes of hot/cold/rain/snow, while other employees are in a nice air conditioned store. They normally have extremely tight schedules and DO deal with a lot of crap from customers. You wouldnt believe the amount of fuss some people make over the smallest of things (one of our local drivers once spent 45 minutes at a customers house while she complained that her mince pies had been subsituted for ones without a decorative top!). In fact the drivers have to deal with MORE complaints than the average person working in the shop. Think about it, say you are working in the booze isle, you might have to deal with a few complaints about lack of stock of booze items, but the delivery driver gets complaints about EVERY department as he is delivering stuff from the whole store.

Quite often the drivers around my area have to start work an hour before they are due in, and work through their lunch breaks to get stuff done on time (they dont get paid for this, they do it out of goodwill to get the stuff delivered to customers)

Im not saying everyone should automatically tip, but even a quid would be a welcome bonus to the driver if you feel they have given good friendly service (i know not all do, but there are miserable people in all walks of life), and i can guarantee the next time there is a delay or problem with your order, if you have historically been "nice" to the driver, the driver will be 100% more inclined to help out to rectify the problem, go out of his way to help you out and and give you priority if things are running behind schedule. Also they are more likely to make "gestures of good will" towards you, i.e if you have bought something on BOGOF and its been subbed so you arent getting the good deal they may well refund you for it and let you keep it etc (which isnt strictly allowed, but it happens if the driver likes you)

Yeah, it's a bloody disgrace isn't it. I agree, but rather than expecting the public to top up wages why don't the companies making hundreds of millions of pounds of profits pay a living wage with decent working conditions.

henrik777

mymerrywidow wrote: »

no i dont tip the tesco driver, i pay a delivery fee.

but i do tip the iceland driver as its free delivery.

I'd imagine the Iceland driver gets the same cut from the delivery charge the Tesco driver does. 0.

tyllwyd

cracker1979 wrote: »

Those of you who want/expect the drivers to bring your shopping into the house etc should bear in mind one thing, in most areas the drivers are only allowed 4 minutes on their schedules from the time they find your house to the time they are supposed to be driving away. Therefore any time over and above 4 minutes is putting them behind schedule. Even the smallest delivery will take longer than 4 mins, and that doesnt include any time for actually finding your house (lots of small village and named cottages round here), or time for finding parking spaces, moving the shopping up long/awkward driveways etc4

Whilst this 4 minute policy is not the customer's problem, it is a fact that should be considered when you give your opinion of how "helpful" the drivers are. 90% of people are perfectly capable of taking the bags out of tray that has been properly placed inside the doorstep, while the driver goes to collect another from the van. Im sure 99% of drivers wouldnt hesitate to give assistance to those who really did need it (elderly, pregnant, infirm, injured etc) ....

Drivers have always been quite willing to bring the crates through to the kitchen for me. Its quicker for me to unpack them there while they go back to the van to fetch another one than if I was trying to get everything out onto the floor in the hall and falling over everything. And I have my stuff delivered without bags, which would make it even more awkward to unpack onto the floor of the hall, rather than just piling it up onto the kitchen worktop.

littlewren

Am I mean as I don't tip taxi drivers? Ours charge £5 for a trip that takes 3 minutes, so I don't feel it's justified in tipping them.