Deleted User 298457
Deleted User 298457
lol I do feel bad for my Amazon guy when my subscribe and save turns up. It is basically all the heavy stuff I don't want to bring home myself. He must be saving a few quid on gym membership though.
Supermarket home delivery services
- Thread starter 1664kronenbourg
- Start date
Not that heavy, i remember working in a warehouse and the law back then ( dont know what the law is now ) one employee was allowed to carry upto 50KG.
So there was a 50KG box and the manager ordered me to move it by myself because it was within the law.
I was a very skinny 19 year old at the time.
Permabanned
- Joined
- 25 Oct 2004
- Posts
- 9,078
In Asda the totes are meant to be limited to 19kg but they often weigh more than that. Individually they are not a problem, but when you 10-15 of them and you have 4 flights of stairs then it becomes an issue, and no amount of feedback to "management" ever changes it.
I've done this delivery work on and off since 2011, seasonally mainly and this job is vastly worse now than it was 10 years ago, and the expectations on the drivers by both management and customers just beggers belief, its just not sustainable and that is reflected in the staff retention numbers for the drivers (1 in 9 recruited last more than 3 months)
I've done this delivery work on and off since 2011, seasonally mainly and this job is vastly worse now than it was 10 years ago, and the expectations on the drivers by both management and customers just beggers belief, its just not sustainable and that is reflected in the staff retention numbers for the drivers (1 in 9 recruited last more than 3 months)
Last edited:
I watched a bit of a talk show interview thing that touched on working conditions in Amazon in the USA. The guest was talking about plastic bottles and bags, which Amazon delivery drivers carry as toilets. Bottles for urine, bags for faeces. The host asked for clarification because that's so far past reasonable working conditions that "wait...they have to crap in plastic bags?" is a very reasonable response. That shouldn't be a thing.
- Joined
- 17 Nov 2018
- Posts
- 483
I work thereon he shop floor and the thread's a discussion about supermarket home delivery services. I was just pointing out the fact that there're're some peole who're too lazy to walk twenty minutes up the road if they're perectly capable and don't have a good reason as to why they can't.
I'll give you health, waiting in for a deliveryor lack of child care as three perfectly good reasons.
Skpeaking of Kronenbourg, I managed to get the last four in the shop the other day.
Because you'll do it for them, that's the reason.
We tried Morrisons for a while. I agree that the food was good, however their stock control leaves a lot to be desired, we frequently had loads of missing or substitute items. So for example, you'd order five meals, but out of that you'd have e.g. two main courses missing, puddings/starters substituted for duplicate items etc. So you'd end up having to go shopping a few days later to backfill the missing stuff, meanwhile getting bored of eating the same puddings.
It's a shame because as I say, the food quality seemed better than Asda and Tesco, they just couldn't deliver it all.
I fail to see how anyone wouldn’t want their shopping delivered? We pay £6 monthly to ASDA who allow us to book our delivery slots. We do a weekly shop so it’s around £1.50 per delivery. How is it worth my time and fuel to go to the store (closest supermarket is less than 1 mile away but ASDA is 20 miles each way), walk around collecting the items, loading the car and driving home? We can have a delivery on a working day when I am working from home so I can be earning whilst someone shops for me and all I have to do it put it away when it arrives.
It is convenient and cost effective and a far better use of my time to be working to spending time with the kids doing anything else.
It is convenient and cost effective and a far better use of my time to be working to spending time with the kids doing anything else.
You're having your shopping delivered for £1.50/week because it's a service being provided to you at a loss to maintain market share. If you had to pay the actual cost perhaps you'd think twice about it.
^^ because unless it's in work time or you're self employed and would rather be working extra hours then you're time is worth £0 an hour when you go to the shops...I can see how it's advantageous if you're WFH and getting deliveries during the day when you're restricted on what you can do, but if you need to be somewhere for work then come home to wait around for a delivery (even with the 1hr window...) then it could cost you less time to just go to the shops on your way home/whenever suits etc
Soldato
- Joined
- 16 Aug 2009
- Posts
- 8,084
If you think thats bad theres a report in the local paper online where an amazon driver takes a dump outside someones house during the xmas rush caught on CCTV
Associate
- Joined
- 4 Jun 2020
- Posts
- 2,410
I've had very few substitutions with Morissons, far more when I initially used Asda up until I got rancid veggies from them.
I find Morrisons quality higher than some of the other supermarkets but at the same time I find the food quite bland. Sainsbury's for instance if I had the same pudding 10 days in a row I'd still look forward to eating it, Morrisons after 10 days in a row I'd be totally bored of it.
Someone I used to work with lost their job in the pandemic and started a couple of weeks ago as a store manager at Morrisons and said the stock control was abysmal (bare in mind he replaced someone who was given the push for being totally useless) - he did a stock room audit and around 1/3rd of stock wasn't on the system! and in some cases there was stuff over a year out of date which had been pushed to the back and forgotten about.
EDIT: Our nearest Morrisons has been quite good though - even in the darkest days of the pandemic they still had OK stocks of stuff and is generally well run - I suspect a lot depends on the quality of the local management team.
Last edited:
Soldato
- Joined
- 25 Nov 2007
- Posts
- 5,581
- Location
- London
Should be the other way round, i.e. stock should be on the system that does not exist, if he infact found 1/3 of the stock that is not on the system that is basically free money appearing out of nowhere.
SO its good news
I was talking to his other half and asked if he'd found work yet, etc. so getting details indirectly but it seems they were showing out of stock for a lot of stuff which was actually on the premises when he went looking so it wasn't selling and some stuff going out of date so losing them money. It seems there was a lot of complacency under the previous manager and he is kind of regretting taking the job now he has found out what he has got himself into.
Depending on how their ordering system works that would lead to them pushing more stock into the store when there is already an excess in there and therefore pushing up their wastage figures for the month.
Soldato
- Joined
- 25 Nov 2007
- Posts
- 5,581
- Location
- London
Basically its a lack of communication.
What has occurred is, manager walks in, shelf is empty, goes behind and see's its right there, why is nobody shelving anything etc etc.
Just to edit, that would be a normal thing. Its possible however the previous manager and a few other staff have all been sacked. If really the system says there is no stock, but you can see it in front of you.
The only way to achieve that is to take the delivery, put it in the stock room, but not scan it into the system.
Last edited:
Associate
- Joined
- 4 Jun 2020
- Posts
- 2,410
Note this thread is about home delivery.
Sainsbury's website is nothing short of shockingly bad compared to either Morrisons or Asda. One time I tried searching for an item and it comes up with zero results. Put the same search terms plus Sainsbury's into google, and it comes up as in stock on the same site I already tried searching.
Deleted User 298457
Deleted User 298457
Getting your inventory wrong is never a good news story. Especially if they have been audited and publish their numbers (i.e. they're a listed company).
