Online Shopping and Supermarkets

[lectrolove]

I'm getting more and more frustrated by the amount of clutter in supermarket aisles these days. The shelf-stacking trolleys have always been around and they're bad enough, but what's really annoying me at the moment is the numbers of supermarket staff clogging up the aisles filling online orders, sometimes you literally can't move for them. Sainsburys on Archer Road used to be the worst for this but Tesco Abbeydale is catching up rapidly. Surely they have storage areas, why can't they fill orders from there rather than get in the way of those who prefer to shop offline?

[beansforyou]

Surely one person filling a trolley/basket is going to take up the same amount of space, be it the customer or an employee doing it on behalf of the customer.

 

You could give them a ring half hour before you go down, they might close the store for you to do your shopping

 

I don't do online supermarket shopping, as I like to be able to squeeze the food before I choose to purchase it.

[lectrolove]

Surely one person filling a trolley/basket is going to take up the same amount of space, be it the customer or an employee doing it on behalf of the customer.

 

 

No, the trolleys they use are HUGE. Behemoths. Two abreast in an aisle and you're stuffed.

[beansforyou]

I must not have come across these employee's then, why can't they use normal trolleys?

[md25]

We used to shop online but since they enjoyed delivering almost-out-of-date meat a bit too much for my liking we restarted going ourselves. We now go at dark o'clock as we can't hear ourselves think amongst the daytime crowds dithering over which brand of canned tomatoes to purchase.