UK - Resources for help getting food during quarantine and other supermarket related problems

My ex text to say the queues at supermarkets here is on average an hour and a half, it's down the street. He says everyone is outside like a normal Saturday

Tagging @wdb
Morrison's food box arrived this morning. DPD gave me a delivery time of 10.27 to 11.27 and it arrived bang on 10.27, he brought it upstairs thank god as it weighed a ton.

There is currently no queues for the food boxes and next day delivery is available for tomorrow. Tomorrow is the only date listed.

It contained a fibre cool bag with ice packs for the cool items. Not a bad selection but contained zero cleaning products that I'm sure was advertised as the time. Luckily I don't need any right now.

I have no idea what the cost of food individually from morrison's is so I'm not sure if it equals £30 my mam used to just gives me the receipt from Tesco's and I paid the bill.

Contents:
Morrison's Food Box:

Toilet roll (x4)
Kitchen roll (x2)
White sliced bread,
Cravendale milk,
Salted butter,
Cathedral mature cheddar,
Sliced ham,
Bacon,
Mince (500g)
Chicken Breasts,
Richmond Sausages,
Tomato and basil sauce,
Bag of baby potatoes,
Bag of carrots,
7 onions,
Small cabbage,
1 cucumber (Trish's substitute Cheers Trish lol)
Heinz tomato soup,
Heinz baked beans,
Heinz vegetable soup,
Penne Pasta,
Basmati rice, microwaveable.

Excuse the crappy pics, I've been locked out of s4me on my iPhone again for the last 2 weeks so having to use my phone's wifi to access forum on very old IPad.









Eta: that fibre cool bag is very comfortable and warm! Gonna save them up if I make more orders and make cushions with them

 

Much closer to a weeks food than yesterdays package

 

Lol you're not kidding

 

Tesco have no slots available for the next 3 weeks as of this morning. I have an existing delivery saver plan with them and am on the government most vulnerable list, so it doesn't look like they've used this list to pick up even their most vulnerable customers who have regularly used their home delivery service - I'm not impressed!

 

I guess we are now playing the 'if we survive then which supermarket is not going to - after all this is over' game.

 

Definitely, the supermarkets are currently having a reshuffle of loyal customers based on their behaviours to them right now. Most people no longer have a loyalty to one or two supermarkets, their loyalty is to the ones that keep them alive the longest. It'll be interesting to see their popularity rankings after this crisis

 

This looks like it could be useful https://www.beelivery.com /
they say they can delivery within 45-90 mins. it looks like it is nationwide. and they do have a huge selection .[household , grocery , meat, frozen ,snacks etc etc]

 

From their help section - How to place an order-

Makes it sound as though it's a single transaction done through their website. I guess they have deals with certain suppliers within each delivery area.

 

I 'm not sure. I put a number of things in my basket to test it out. It said they can deliver them in 30 mins - 90 mins ! so I think you do order direct from them but they then arrange an independent delivery driver to deliver them to you.

 

the prices are roughly double what sainsburys would charge.

Delivery is on top.

 

Yes I came across this before - the prices are hugely inflated, more than I’ve seen anywhere else except maybe Ebay, but in an emergency could be helpful.

 

Looks like an urban service, they don't have any drivers in my area!

 

Just had a crappy general reply from Tesco's helper of the CEO. Telling me how to create an online account (even though the email stated I've been an online customer for at least 12 years)

Just got the usual crap about trying to improve slots by limiting people's orders to 80 items each

So F U Tesco's. Thanks for nothing.

 

Yeah it's got a 'desperately buying from a 24 hour garage at midnight in the olden days' feel about the prices

Still an extra option for the emergency list. For some, sorry @Simbindi

 

oh man that gave me a laugh, 25 yrs ago when I was well & working long hours I was a frequenter of such establishments Id forgotten all about them

 

Link to a site that is collating and updating supermarket delivery availability:

https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/which-food-delivery-services-have-slots-available-this-weekend

 

The morrisons food box backlog appears to have cleared now. No more queues, straight in every time. It looks like this is going to have to be my main source of food now as I still haven't obtained a single food delivery slot from anywhere.

I'll combine this with my meager weekly government hand out

Then there's the weekly graze box, combined with gourmade frozen meals and home comforts local meals on wheels service I'm pretty sorted I think.

Then there's amazon for strange things and my ex for prescriptions, painkillers, eggs (that no one seems to provide) and cleaning products.

At last; a plan of attack to stay alive

 

So, I wrote to Sainsburys, Ocado & Morrisons, snail mail to head office - to ask them to pls include me on their priority list - housebound etc etc etc as was discussed earlier in thread.
No response from morrisons yet, Ocado told me to sign up to the extremely vulnerable gov list with the link for the form that we know doesn't include us unless we got one of the specific conditions yada yada. completely uselss

Sainsbury's just emailed me
Thanks for your letter.

I've checked your sainsbury's online account and you do show as a priority customer. I can confirm all our delivery slots for the week become available every day so please just keep checking your Sainsburys online account.


Please don't reply to this email as this email address isn't monitored.

Also completely useless because it doesn't recognise me as a priority customer when I try to book a delivery - it still gives the 'you are not worthy' message. But since I cant reply... Am totally miffed with the lot of em.

 

What are you trying to log in on?

As I found that on android devices I had to log out (even though on starting the app it had just logged me in) and then manually log in again, and then it would give me access to the booking system.