Bit of a random one but why do I always feel like I’m in the way whenever I go in Tesco these days? They have more price checkers, stock takers and shelf stackers than customers (only doing their jobs of course). It never used to be like this so my question is what’s changed? Did this used to happen at night and some random laws changed I’ve missed? Or have I just been walking about with my head up my arse again (TM my mum).
They're more likely picking people's online orders for home delivery or pick up. My neighbour works there at night doing all the things you describe so that's still going on.
Stay true to the forum and just think of the money you save spending more money and thank the gods for the money that you don't save.
My son is a shift leader for Tesco. They employ Christmas temps on a 3 month contract that run from the beginning of November, so shop floor staff does increase at this time of year. To put that into perspective, 1 days total sales at this time of year can be more than they would take on an average month.
Aldi is worse locally for me, they almost run you over with their stacking trollies as they furiously stock the shelves.
Am I right in thinking they started doing deliveries in Covid and could quite easily put a halt to it now and peoples lazy arse ways?
You're not right. They did Online shopping and deliveries long before COVID. Like 20 years before. It certainly became more popular during the pandemic. I understand why people do it although I have only used the service a handful of times at most. Usually tied to an online only offer.
On line delivery is a big part of the business and has been long before covid I rely on my home delivery as I'm still shielding A lot of un lazy people rely on this delivery service The busy family across the road have their delivery either late at night or early Sunday morning
Tesco have been doing online to home deliveries for around 20 years now, they once had the largest fleet but I believe they have been overtaken by Sainsbury’s. All the main online suppliers expanded their fleets during Covid by around 25%. They’re slowly reducing their fleets as demand is declining to pre Covid levels. Not sure it’s laziness, we used to when my kids were little as it took a lot of stress out of going shopping and we tended to spend less as there were no impulse buys.
lol that’s my main beef with it tbh lazy arse neighbour getting their shopping delivered at stupid o’clock Sunday morning and listening to the poxy van beeping and waking the whole street up. (I do get and sympathise with people who need to use the service of course) I couldn’t have someone picking my groceries for me (and deciding a suitable alternative for out of stock stuff). You’ll probably not be surprised to hear I’m far too persnickety
Shopping at any of the big stories is just awful and I'll happily pay for delivery if it means i dont have to go near some of the fat / lazy slobs that you see in these shops.
Wife works in Aldi - shes a deputy manager....she does laugh at the amount of staff they run in tescos....just spoke to her on her break..she just said....weve been open just over 3 hours and the place looks like its been ransacked, the place is jammed....she gets in a 4.30am which is a mad rush to get the store ready (hand over from night shift) which they only run constantly in the run-up to xmas....mid october is when they start to get really busy....
Really don’t understand this sort of mindset. It’s not as if it’s the end of the world, there's no shortages (other than Guinness) that I know of and the (food) shops are closed for 1 day (or 2 if you are lucky) over Christmas. What is the mad panic for ? Andy
Not a clue....she works Sundays (which is pretty well the same throughout the year - mental) - id say a couple of dozen times a year she'll get in on sunday and say "we literally couldnt get it out on the shelves fast enough..."
Boy No.1 is on a 3 month temporary contract waiting for his Grad position to start. He gets in at 6am and spends the best part of 8 hours solid picking on line orders. When he gets home, judging by the look on his face, it's not great work.
Since we are talking about Tescos, I'd like to say thanks to all their staff for doing such a great job putting up with all of us -especially at this time of year when the antics of "we the great unwashed" are frequently something to behold... And for helping me drive faster, for longer, with the cheapest premium petrol around! So no need to apologise for the rock hard peaches.
Agreed and I did start off the thread by stating I appreciate all these folk are only doing their jobs. Not their fault one bit and that wasn’t the point of the thread at all Anyway, I wonder sometimes as the supermarkets basically put an end to high streets as we used to know them (and people seemingly love complaining about Turkish barbers charity shops and nail bars taking over the local high streets now) whether deliveries will put an end to shopping “on site” eventually. Will we end up with Amazon style warehouses holding and delivering all our food stores at some point?
