Are you gambling on a slot?

I have had an online delivery every two weeks from Tesco ever since they first started delivering. But I cannot get a delivery date anymore. I am not on any "vulnerable list" being aged 63 but I have very poor mobility doe to arthritis and have a blue badge for parking.,

I've tried staying up,until midnight as I was told that's when they release new slots to no avail. Sainsburys and Morrisins are not accepting new customers. So I now have to go to the shops despite the problems I have with walking, I often cry with exhaustion and pain by the time I've got back to my car.

So to see my neighbours, who have never had deliveries before, having at least two a week does make me a little frustrated. They will be in the vulnerable category but there does not seem to be a limit on the number of deliveries, at least not with Tesco.

Callistemon

'Why can you not to to the supermarket if you are fit and able to go out for exercise'

Many of us can exercise, walk for many miles a day even, but simply can't carry weights without pain and difficulty.

We have become Asda shoppers. We never were before but were unable to get a delivery or Click and Collect from any other store. We now order our groceries on Click and Collect at Asda where we were able to get a slot. Our son picks it up and brings it to us. We tag my elderly mother’s shopping on to ours and take it round to her sheltered apartment after cleaning it for her. We are not over 70, in fact both 67, but we both take high blood pressure tablets and additionally I have asthma for which I use a high dose steroid inhaler. We stay away from other people, although we do exercise, just by walking in the local area. I miss my little trips to Waitrose, the M+S foodhall, and Lidl, and being able to choose what to buy according to what I see on the day, but it is a small price to pay for keeping ourselves as safe as we can.

Seen on Tesco website today.

My understanding is that anyone over 70 should stay at home as much as possible regardless of underlining health conditions as one's immunity reduces with age.

When I eventually managed to get back on the Sainsbury's website, having messed up my password, I was offered slots on the basis of my age. As I said above, I can see lots of slots but DD1 can't! I can only imagine I gave my details when I first signed up for Nectar card as I dont think I have ever had a home delivery.

I too missed the pun.

I can see slots on my laptop that aren’t there on my phone, even though I am logged into both. I don’t know why, as ordinarily I use either or both for ordering.

Sainsbury’s don’t release more than one slot a week, and as far as I know (although I am not listed as vulnerable) don’t allow recurring ones either- you can’t book a slot if there is an undelivered one waiting.

I think that’s fair enough really. If some people are unable to get slots for weeks ahead, if doesn’t seem right that others have them booked up into the future.

Having said that, availability obviously varies from area to area, so if someone is able to get a slot after six days instead of seven, that presumably means that it was spare. Either having two slots in a rolling week is ‘allowed’, or the software wouldn’t free it up.

I couldn’t live as hidebound by rules as some people. That is something I have learned from all of this. I will never crave moral superiority enough to waste headspace by nit-picking over someone else’s interpretation of a recommendation.

Hetty58
I was assuming people had their own transport, apologies.

'Never assume anything'
Living where we do, not having a car would be extremely difficult.

I was surfing the supermarket websites this morning (7.30am) and managed to get a Morrisons delivery for three weeks time.....yippee!!!

The pun was gambling on slots.
Many people are slot machine addicts. ?

It took me 9 weeks to obtain a supermarket delivery, when it arrived it had no bread, milk, cooked meat, fresh meat or fresh vegetables. No toilet rolls and only one bottled water.
Two pensioners in their mid 70s one with cancer, one recovering, no family close enough to help.

Many people are slot machine addicts
Really?
I don’t know any

Made me smileKittyLester about stocking up in case you don’t get another slot, I am doing exactly the same! Suddenly realised I was thinking of getting a ’ spare’ in case the spare I had runs out? Managed to rein myself in a bit.

Obviously recent news is all about the virus but gambling including slots is up there with drink and drug addiction.
Many suicides.
One doesn't need to know anyone who has a habit, to be aware of the problem.

Yes, domestic violence, gambling and harmful drinking are all on the rise since the onset of the virus.

It's easy to see why, but all will add to the suffering of those around them.

Blimey! I'm so glad that pun has been explained.

I was going bug eyed looking for it.

After reading this message late last night, I had a quick look at Tesco online click and collect ( to leave deliveries for those who really need them) and there were none available three weeks ahead, none two weeks ahead but there were two slots free for next Sunday - so I grabbed one quickly!

I did a huge click and collect order last Friday so will only get fresh things I need for the week ahead plus a few treats or items my local Coop don't stock. It will save me from struggling around the shop with my walking sticks!

So thanks for this post reminding me to look.

GabriellaG54 the quick and easy gratification of slot machines in betting shops and online has in my opinion got totally out of hand, ruining lives and in some case causing suicide.

I'm with you there GrannyGravy13.
Recent events have pushed other items off the news pages but in many cases (so I've read) it's a hidden obsession. One can neither smell nor actually see the habit but when debt letters arrive, cards are declined and borrowing reaches astronomical amounts, families suffer. Sadly it's both sexes who start with the easy route in via slots and being able to play in your own home, online, it can go unnoticed until...one day. ??

GG54! You rang 111 to ask about shopping slots?????
You surely did not do that. That would be ridiculous and irresponsible behaviour.

Given that gambling is an addiction which causes a huge amount of distress, is it right to joke about it in a (feeble) pun in connection with supermarket shopping?

MawB

^Many people are slot machine addicts
Really? hmm
I don’t know any^

Because you don't know any doesn't mean there aren't. I know a young man who went to prison because he stole to finance his slot machine habit.
I still don't mind GabriellaG54's pun. Could you give her a break!

There is a big difference between going for solitary exercise and walking round a shop, re catching the virus. I think it was Callistemon who wondered.

As you say, a serious problem which will have probably impacted his whole family.
Not to be treated as a joke is it.

Parsley3
Can you read?
I rang 111 to ask whether the NHS was treating over 75s as vulnerable and asking us to stay indoors, as many websites and media outlets gave various conflicting advice supposedly from scientific sources.
I got a call back when a senior nurse was off her shift. Ok?

The pun was incidental, not dreamed up to be funny.

My neighbour, a middle aged lady at the time, went to prison for theft from her employer. She stole money from the company to fund her one armed bandit addiction. She went into therapy, got over her gambling but later died from alcohol which she had previously never touched.