Supermarket/food Deliveries

[catmiss]

4 hours ago, tinfoilhat said:

Are you friendly at all with any of these neighbours? I’m sure if you asked one of them you know they’d get a few bits in on their delivery. 

Use another pharmacy!

Difficult  to change now when this month’s prescription has been issued to Boots electronically by doctor and they won’t issue another this month. I will change once I get the medications.

Not sure what you mean about friends/neighbours getting a few bits in their deliveries??????

[tinfoilhat]

6 minutes ago, catmiss said:

Difficult  to change now when this month’s prescription has been issued to Boots electronically by doctor and they won’t issue another this month. I will change once I get the medications.

Not sure what you mean about friends/neighbours getting a few bits in their deliveries??????

The deliveries bit was meant for John little to be honest, but it works for anyone struggling with supermarket deliveries - ask a neighbour to get you stuff on their delivery if you can't get one online.

[johnlittle]

18 hours ago, catmiss said:

Sheffield Community Helpline-0114 2734567 or WRVS 08081963646 for volunteers who will do your shopping. WRVS on radio today saying they have lots of volunteers with nothing to do

Not actually living in Sheffield although having a Sheffield post code ......

4 hours ago, tinfoilhat said:

Are you friendly at all with any of these neighbours? I’m sure if you asked one of them you know they’d get a few bits in 

Two helpful families have offered to shop for items for me but I don't think they can be expected to shop for everything I need. They also couldn't be expected to spend time tracking down the urgent items  I needed which the supermarkets ran out of during the panic buying.

Fortunately, prescriptions are not a prob as I live close to a chemist.

On a happy note, I had delivered today, by two pleasant young local community carers, a packed anniversary VE day afternoon tea courtesy of the Parish Council and local Gala committee in lieu of the cancelled picnic activities.

Well done to them although this perhaps illustrates one of my original points that, in an emergency such as this, community help cannot (and should not) be expected to replace the need for carefully planned and directed government action (such as ensuring anyone who is vulnerable can obtain priority for food deliveries and that issues with that are dealt with thoroughly).

Edited May 8, 2020 by johnlittle
Correction and emphasis of meaning

[tinfoilhat]

If they do online shopping all they have got to key it in and find it on a list. Might take a bit of back and forth over the phone but its doable and isn't alot of effort for them, alot easier than walking round a supermarket looking for it.

 

No harm in asking!

[johnlittle]

Tinfoilhat , I do agree except that many single people like me find that they are not on the usual communication or grapevine lines (school run, church etc) to get to know many people.  Here lots of my neighbours are themselves elderly and alone or are renting the property for a short term. 

I suspect (but only that) that many of the local folk having food delivered are self-employed working families who see themselves as very busy normally but who may now not have any work but can afford to continue their deliveries. 

Having been born a few months after VE day, I can see the changes in social behaviour and expectations between then and now but that is a discussion for another topic!

 

[tinfoilhat]

4 minutes ago, johnlittle said:

Tinfoilhat , I do agree except that many single people like me find that they are not on the usual communication or grapevine lines (school run, church etc) to get to know many people.  Here lots of my neighbours are themselves elderly and alone or are renting the property for a short term. 

I suspect (but only that) that many of the local folk having food delivered are self-employed working families who see themselves as very busy normally but who may now not have any work but can afford to continue their deliveries. 

Having been born a few months after VE day, I can see the changes in social behaviour and expectations between then and now but that is a discussion for another topic!

 

I am in that self employed category and shopping for 4!

 

Next door but one in a similar spot and shoppi g for at least 3.

Edited May 8, 2020 by tinfoilhat

[johnlittle]

That's very good of you tinfoil hat. Reminds me of my childhood days on the estate where I lived. 

[catmiss]

I get priority access to supermarket delivery as am classified as extremely vulnerable due to chronic lung disease and have been advised to stay in my home (no outside exercise) for 12 weeks at least.  After registration, as per the Government letter, it was 4 weeks before access to supermarket delivery was confirmed and I received very basic food parcels in the intervening period. I am normally self sufficient and people might wonder why I’m getting deliveries- perhaps some of the people or family members observed have similar classified 

conditions. 

There are numerous local and national organisations who have CRB checked volunteers who will collect shopping lists, deliver goods and be able to accept cash or debit/credit card payment. The supermarkets are giving priority access as per government lists and to others often accessing slots in overnight. I don’t understand the correlation between being ‘out of work/self employed’ and still being able to ‘afford deliveries’

[steve68]

8 hours ago, catmiss said:

After registration, as per the Government letter, it was 4 weeks before access to supermarket delivery was confirmed.

Likewise I'm  in category  for the extremely vulnerable group, I got my first delivery slot on 9th April 

 

Morrison have a telephone line for both vulnerable and also the elderly to place orders over the phone although it's does require the use of chip and pin on delivery to pay for the items.

 

https://www.morrisons-corporate.com/media-centre/corporate-news/morrisons-introduces-new-measures-aimed-at-helping-vulnerable-and-elderly-during-crisis/

[blackydog]

Morrison's have rolled out home delivery across many more stores this last few weeks. I got a start doing home delivery for them from someone I knew who worked there. All the applications I made for similar online came to nothing.