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Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Re Tesco dot com

I may be missing something not having come to blogging until fairly recently but why do people apologise for mentioning Tesco Home Delivery?
Having repeated panic attacks in crowded supermarkets left this household without required items time after time.
Not being able to drive since 26 January has caused huge problems and would have meant no necessary grot shopping.
A close friend 75 years old recently lost her husband after nursing him at home for some considerable time I asked her how she was managing shopping ...."Tesco Home Delivery of course without which I would have been stuffed!"
I can well remember the 'home deliveries' of the past - grocery man Wednesday afternoon and Saturday morning, Corona man - Tuesday morning (wasn't allowed any -very bad for children!) Butcher lady -Friday afternoon as well as the daily milkman, the laundry man (one posh house only) the coal man, the oilman with calor gas and parafin.
The Tesco delivery man or lady takes back plastic to be dealt with accordingly, took the Christmas cards for recycling and delivers to about 14 households at once saving all those cars doing a 30 mile round trip on the roads.
I use Tesco's for the necessary type of things like toilet rolls and shampoo while I still support any Farm shop I can find, the local butcher and baker down the hill and I have a stall at the monthly mini farmer's market to sell home made preserves.
So what's the matter with Tesco Home Delivery? Personally I LOVE IT!

posted by snailbeachshepherdess @ 11:07 AM  

16 Comments:

  • At May 15, 2007 11:41 AM , Blogger toady said...

    I think this is a throw back to 'elsewhere' where I think all spermarkets were considered the devils work. I've used it twice now, and although it takes a bit of getting used to as far as pack sizes are concerned, I'm getting hooked and shall continue. OH is delighted. He hates shopping of any kind unless it involves electronics.

     

  • At May 15, 2007 11:48 AM , Blogger KittyB said...

    yes, supermarket hangups and guilt from 'the other side'. We were virtually pilloried if we mentioned shopping at anything other than local, sustainable, ethical, organic, la la la knit-you-own-brown-rice-and-jesus-sandals stores. Now, we all love the country and want to do the best we can for our farmers, but even on The Lie of the Land on TV last week, the farmer's wife from Chipping Norton came in with a Somerfield bag. Supermarkets are a part of life, love 'em or hate 'em. Just don't buy your milk, meat or veg there is what I say. Or ice cream!

     

  • At May 15, 2007 11:55 AM , Blogger countrymousie said...

    Yes its the old arguments about the supermarkets killing off farming as we know it. They set the standards and prices paid to the farmers, whilst charging the earth for the end product. They have such buying power others cannot compete. Some good points, some bad - I use them all, and the local shops - as my husband says - I put it about a bit!! I use the home delivery as it saves on miles and petrol and me lifting all that stuff with my dodgey neck. I am married to a farmer and come from farming stock. I see both sides. I think it goes back to the days when everyone delivered - the butcher, the baker, we even had a chemist come round when I was little. We do not condemn on this site, unless you really hate purple that is!!

     

  • At May 15, 2007 12:05 PM , Blogger Exmoorjane said...

    OK, really really smug here (I'm ducking as you all throw eggs) - no home delivery....all local shops and organic bag! BUT.....have to now explain that we don't get Tesco (or indeed any) delivery here. Otherwise I would certainly use it for some stuff...though would have to arrange it for when Adrian out as he thinks supermarkets are indeed the spawn of the devil. I am such a saddo that, when I do go to Tesco, it's quite an event and I usually end up buying things I don't need like DVDs, tops, candles etc.

     

  • At May 15, 2007 12:28 PM , Blogger WesterWitch/Headmistress said...

    Same here as Jane . . . Tesco big lorries travel past our road with 'you shop we'll drop' plastered all over them . . . . but they won't berludy well drop to us. Wrong postcode again. So yes once a month I toddle off to Sainsburys in Stirling and buy all the stuff I didn't know I needed until I saw it on the shelves.

     

  • At May 15, 2007 12:47 PM , Blogger Milla said...

    You've all said it all, but it def refers to finger burning episodes over the other side...

     

  • At May 15, 2007 1:02 PM , Blogger UN PEU LOUFOQUE said...

    Ah I suspect it is a hang over from the other place perchance? They don't yet deliver to France so its not an issue here!You shop were you like petal no need to justify what or where you shop to anyone it is your business.AND if any one has a go just send in the macfeegles!

     

  • At May 15, 2007 1:03 PM , Blogger annakarenin said...

    What really bugged me was the way it was all praise to Waitrose, lets face it they can afford to give better deals to farmers because their clients can afford to pay extra. They are the costliest supermarket based in areas where people have high incomes.

    I started tesco home delivery when I tried to do a monthly shop for family of 5 with no 3 strapped to me ( he was a month old). It took me two trolleys and two hours and I ended up with migraine because I had missed my lunch. I then had to drive home unpack and dash to the school to pick up the eldest two. Never again.

    I do try and get some things locally but it is not easy and I certainly couldn't afford to buy everything that way. Even having to stop our organic box because it keeps giving us the same things and none of us like them but will buy local fruit and veg still because tesco's is often mouldy here and pretty tasteless..

     

  • At May 15, 2007 1:10 PM , Blogger The Country Craft Angel said...

    Don't you worry SBS-I am a 'Tesco' user too! Couldn't believe my luck that they come right out here and the farm next door use them so that's good enough for me!

    There was a lot of flack on other site about Tesco's. Don't you worry.

    warm wishes
    xx

     

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  • At May 15, 2007 1:10 PM , Blogger Brownmouse said...

    Ha - super smug moi has given up on Tesco entirely! Why? Because I'm extremely lucky to have local shops providing everything I need and with all this restaurant settig up business, I seem have lost the power of organising myself to do a big shop. There's always something that needs painting or snading instead, and it only takes two minutes to pop next door for the milk/chocolate/wine.

     

  • At May 15, 2007 1:23 PM , Blogger KittyB said...

    Yes, and brownmouse - don't you find when you run a foody business you can get good local people to deliver to you. The butcher, sausage man, dairy, cheese people, mineral water bods, and grocer came most days and I used to add my home shopping on to that and tot up what I owed and pop it in the till. My husband's family's business sells all agricultural and gardening stuff, cleaning and laundry bits and bobs, pet food, loo rolls, dishcloths, toys etc etc etc. so I was sorted. Have to say am very lazy and stock up from Tesco/Sainsbury's to save time. But I hate all the unneccessary (I can't spell it) packaging. And, like Xjane - I buy too many books, Cds, clothes, etc and bump up the bill drastically so I should avoid!

     

  • At May 15, 2007 2:09 PM , Anonymous Sew Recycled! said...

    Oh my god! I was just ranting in my head the same thing! Or was I justifying it to myself in my head as I was unloading. I too buy just for the things that I can't get - I shop for meat locally, we have an allotment and a veg box, the milkman delivers milk! Yep I can justify it every 2 weeks!

     

  • At May 15, 2007 3:27 PM , Blogger Pondside said...

    It's funny, out here in the country the closes store is the Costco (probably like Tesco?) because they need a lot of land for the big box store and adjacent parking. That means it's my corner store. The nearest farmer's market is a good 20 minute drive, so I frequent both. No one delivers here.

     

  • At May 15, 2007 5:17 PM , Blogger Milkmaid said...

    It's all been said, I do not go a bundle on supermarkets, all the usual reason, (dictating prices, killing off small shops etc) but it's all a question of balance, I shop at them all, we produce and sell our own meat, get veg from the box, eggs ditto, Milk from the tank, use a butcher for other meat, baker when I can find one, but there are times when I need to go to a supermarket, I like Tesco the least, I guess that just because I a champion of the underdog, and they are def not the underdog, but use Morrisons, Aldi, Waitrose if feeling rich,The Coop and Sainburys depending on which direction I'm heading in

     

  • At May 15, 2007 5:42 PM , Blogger Withy Brook said...

    Our nearest shop is 5 miles away and has a good range for a Village Shop/Post Office. However, it doesn't necessarily have what one wants - and that 10 miles round too - ..
    I go to Hexham once a week anyway, where there is the Co-Op about to close. I never liked it. Waitrose - I use it occasionally but very expensive. Robbs - the store that is causing much unhappiness by being in the process of closeing - not because it was failing, it was the holding company. Good franchise butcher there selling local meat. And Tesco - I'm afraid I do use it but selectively. It is so convenient and particularly good for loo rolls and things like that. Then there is a farm shop on the way home - currently much patronised by me for asparagus.
    Whatever, no-one should feel guilty or have to explain themselves. The whole question is so much broader than it appears anyway. And we all love each other whatever we do - don't we?

     

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