Supermarket Shopping whilst Motorhoming

[138go]

Since the start of the pandemic, we’ve either had home deliveries or done click and collect. Currently we’re touring England because we didn’t fancy Europe.

I pondered on how to get our weekly groceries, without entering a store. Anyway, it turns out you can get a click and collect order from any Sainsbury’s store. It’s been brilliant and even without a pandemic it’s a godsend when you’re away.

I didn’t know about this, so thought I would share.

 

[jdk62]

What’s wrong with going into supermarkets now?

 

[tonka]

Click and collect available at lots of other stores as well as Sainsburys
We even have a local ALDI who are doing it now..

 

[chaser]

What’s wrong with going into supermarkets now?

Not knocking the op but It's coming to the time we have just got to get on with life, can't see it ever getting much better, covid is here to stay.

 

[Bessy765]

Most supermarkets offer click and collect. Irrelevant of what other may think, if that works for you carry on. I think people are fed up and dropping their guard. The virus will be with us for many years.

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[SpeedyDux]

I park my PVC at Sainsbugs and go inside the store as I have been doing throughout this pandemic. Facemask, SD, handgel which are still recommended by experts as mitigating precautions although no longer compulsory. Other shoppers are getting complacent, 'tis a fact.

 

[jollyrodger]

Yes not a new idea the main one here at Marsh Mills have been doing it for some time pre pandemic top end of cp.
Good if you get what you actually ordered

 

[138go]

What’s wrong with going into supermarkets now?

I’ve come to like someone else doing my shopping for me and I don’t have to wear a mask. There is of course a virus still circulating, which I’m happy to avoid.

 

[The Dotties]

You can click and collect from any branch of Tesco. (Not the little ones)

 

[138go]

Not knocking the op but It's coming to the time we have just got to get on with life, can't see it ever getting much better, covid is here to stay.

So is click and collect! Sure beats trudging around a supermarket.

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[GAVLAD]

Check with your site that they allow supermarket deliveries.
I’m sure it was Blackpool CAMC that told us that they don’t allow deliveries to the site.
Not sure whether it was a temporary thing due to Covid recovery or whether it’s their policy.
You could always arrange delivery to outside and carry the shopping into the site yourself.

 

[The Old Man]

I like to do my food shopping, I like to pick an choose which bananas, steaks and veggie packs, that's home and away.

Yes, the people concern me but ..

When I'm shopping in the van it is usually the only time I use a trolley.

Parking the van towards the rear or the carpark I can wheel the trolley to the habitation door and trans ship, return the trolley and then stow the purchases.

When I'm in the van is usually the only time I buy food for more than one day!

 

[joe and sue]

Not knocking the op but It's coming to the time we have just got to get on with life, can't see it ever getting much better, covid is here to stay.

As are the Flu and the common cold, but we just get on with life
I wonder how this latest episode would have been handled back in the 60's / 70's without instant communications and the social media platforms ??

 

[138go]

I’m getting on with my life, having a great time thanks. I see you compare Covid with influenza and the common cold, as many others have and do.

It’s not the same, in terms of deaths and serious illness.

 

[Tonks]

As are the Flu and the common cold, but we just get on with life
I wonder how this latest episode would have been handled back in the 60's / 70's without instant communications and the social media platforms ??

Considering that 672 years ago the Plaque in 1349 on was responded to with social distancing of communities and households, and with much terror between local communities (I've ironically recently had to read a book on it for work), it was in several ways handled as now, except the locals were far more immediately aware of many people they knew dying in misery and being buried in mass graves in or just outside their local churchyards.
They had the added complexity of very little understanding of what the disease was or why it was spreading. Sometimes people in families who survived, when almost all their relations died, were then also treated as though they were possessed by an evil spirit...
That outbreak of Bubonic Plague lasted seven years, was not as widespread as Covid, and the MOST conservative death estimate is 75million, with other estimates suggesting well over double.

I agree that we have to get on with life, which I think we've all been doing the best we can throughout - as did people centuries ago facing their own pandemic, but different folk have different ways in which they prefer to approach doing so. And sorry, but Covid is NOT like Flu or the common cold, and we as yet have no idea of the long term effectiveness of the vaccinations. Our family lost my Dad to Covid, and I went onto a Covid ward to see him (I was lucky I could do this as the hospital like most was officially closed to visitors). I wouldn't recommend the experience.

Personally, I do now shop in supermarkets - with a mask and sanitiser, since supermarkets seem often to be the places where the concept of 'personal space' seem least recognised. I go 'off peak'. Sometimes nipping in from the van. But click and collect is really useful. Apart from anything else it's far quicker than trawling round the shop. But I do like to select my own veggies whenever I can.

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[busby]

I’ve come to like someone else doing my shopping for me and I don’t have to wear a mask. There is of course a virus still circulating, which I’m happy to avoid.

Tried shopping on line once..That many alternative products its not worth the hassle.BUSBY.

 

[138go]

Tried shopping on line once..That many alternative products its not worth the hassle.BUSBY.

It’s been fine with Sainsbury’s. Other supermarkets are available.

 

[Dramfineday]

Question: irrespective if you click and collect or self shop, do you clean the the shopping with disinfectant wipes, when you take it into your home?

 

[138go]

Question: irrespective if you click and collect or self shop, do you clean the the shopping with disinfectant wipes, when you take it into your home?

The need for that was scientifically discounted ages ago.

 

[Tonks]

Question: irrespective if you click and collect or self shop, do you clean the the shopping with disinfectant wipes, when you take it into your home?

I still clean mine, but my friend, who works with a major organisation dealing with worldwide disasters, whose international team of experts have been doing enormous amounts of work with and research on Covid, no longer does because she says the evidence doesn't support the need. Having a death in the family from Covid does, I guess, make one still rather careful.

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[ChrisL]

As are the Flu and the common cold, but we just get on with life
I wonder how this latest episode would have been handled back in the 60's / 70's without instant communications and the social media platforms ??

I think in the 60's / 70's we would have had public service information commercials, like what to do incase of nuclear attack.

 

[Dramfineday]

I think in the 60's / 70's we would have had public service information commercials, like what to do incase of nuclear

of which, this was a hoot:

 

[Puddleduck]

I'm in the shielding group and although the restrictions have now been lifted the advice is still to avoid busy places (including supermarkets) and public transport - so I am still getting my shopping delivered.

When away in the van will either do C&C or go at the quietest time I can.

 

[vzac]

So my question is. If I park on say sainsburys carpark will they deliver to me on the car park? Or to wind some up, would they deliver to a competitors carpark. Dont like going in nor do I like click and collect, but that's me. Except to go in to use the loo, my luck that would be when they would attempt to deliver.

 

[ChrisL]

of which, this was a hoot:

I was trying to add a link to a nuclear attack one but my tablet is having a funny 5 minutes, I may have to reboot

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[tonyidle]

My wife and I detest food shopping (or any shopping really) so Covid brought no change to our existing weekly deliveries. We rarely buy anything in a shop or store. Shopping ceased to have any appeal once large chains came into being and on-line came of age.

 

[busby]

It’s been fine with Sainsbury’s. Other supermarkets are available.

My shopping was with Sainsburys,,They put IPA in not Speckled Hen,,Cognac instead of Spanish Brandy and a few other blunders.BUSBY.

 

[joe and sue]

Considering that 672 years ago the Plaque in 1349 on was responded to with social distancing of communities and households, and with much terror between local communities (I've ironically recently had to read a book on it for work), it was in several ways handled as now, except the locals were far more immediately aware of many people they knew dying in misery and being buried in mass graves in or just outside their local churchyards.
They had the added complexity of very little understanding of what the disease was or why it was spreading. Sometimes people in families who survived, when almost all their relations died, were then also treated as though they were possessed by an evil spirit...
That outbreak of Bubonic Plague lasted seven years, was not as widespread as Covid, and the MOST conservative death estimate is 75million, with other estimates suggesting well over double.

I agree that we have to get on with life, which I think we've all been doing the best we can throughout - as did people centuries ago facing their own pandemic, but different folk have different ways in which they prefer to approach doing so. And sorry, but Covid is NOT like Flu or the common cold, and we as yet have no idea of the long term effectiveness of the vaccinations. Our family lost my Dad to Covid, and I went onto a Covid ward to see him (I was lucky I could do this as the hospital like most was officially closed to visitors). I wouldn't recommend the experience.

Personally, I do now shop in supermarkets - with a mask and sanitiser, since supermarkets seem often to be the places where the concept of 'personal space' seem least recognised. I go 'off peak'. Sometimes nipping in from the van. But click and collect is really useful. Apart from anything else it's far quicker than trawling round the shop. But I do like to select my own veggies whenever I can.

I do recognise the seriousness of Covid, having been hospitalised with it and only just escaping being ventilated,
I still maintain that this is a man manipulated virus, like so many before which originated in China / Asia, in their quest for world domination,
No-one was confident about Flu vaccines when they first came out, likewise with measles, chicken pox, TB etc, but the world evolves and fights these things, along with some help from mankind.
The problems with click & collect and on-line shopping, as i see it, is the decline of our high streets for shopping, and people not getting enough exercise by walking around the shops and browsing. The only true winners here are packing manufacturers and delivery companies.
We, as we have always done, prefer to use local farm shops, butchers, bakers etc, to support local businesses.
Stay safe out there everyone, however you chose to cope with this situation,
Joe

 

[Richard n Ann]

Online shopping is alright if you like stale bread. I had to freeze it and toast it.
I ended up buying that 50/50 stuff because it has about 6 days on it.
And don't mention the bacon

 

[GirlyVanGirly]

So my question is. If I park on say sainsburys carpark will they deliver to me on the car park? Or to wind some up, would they deliver to a competitors carpark. Dont like going in nor do I like click and collect, but that's me. Except to go in to use the loo, my luck that would be when they would attempt to deliver.

Re 'click and collect' our Sainsburys had a container in the car park, shopping collected from there, no need to go in the shop. Tesco were better organised in my opinion, they trollied the shopping to your car, stood well back and its ready to bung in the boot! I preferred click and collect to having to empty containers on my doorstep and getting close to the delivery driver, who knows where he had been?!!

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