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Tesco stopping letting customers have tray liners

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ElderlyPerson Mon 05-Apr-21 10:26:54

Tesco has decided to remove the option of having tray liners with online grocery deliveries. So no tray liners in the middle of a pandemic yet with social distance delivery.

I currently opt for tray liners and the delivery driver leaves the trays on the doorstep while I am at an upstairs window and when he or she has gone I go down and get the shopping in, using a number of reusable shopping bags bit by bit so that there is no great weight in each bag. The process takes about 20 minutes and is gentle exercise and I do not rush and as I am retired there is no need to bother about how long it takes. I get my food deliveries so I am content.

I am wondering just how this is going to work when there are no tray liners.

Is there anyone out there who is currently not opting for tray liners who can say what they do for delivery please?

Are there people out there who are currently opting for tray liners who are also now wondering how to cope with this change while the pandemic is still active?

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ElderlyPerson Tue 28-Sept-21 21:34:50

TWO MONTHS LATER

While puting out boxes I realise that I have carried out a lifestyle change and helped the environment.

How much?

Since mid April 2021, so over five months now, I have had two deliveries each week, so at least eight per month, so at least forty deliveries after the tray liner era.

At least one tray liner each delivery previously, often two, perhaps three sometimes.

So somewhere between forty and a hundred tray liners.

Yet adding up all the deliveries each week for several vans, that is quite a lot of plastic that has not been used. Just for one store. And there are many stores.

Putting out the boxes is just routine now.

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Oopsadaisy1 Wed 29-Sept-21 03:57:20

Good for you elderly person it’s a bit more of an effort, but the amount of plastic that isn’t being used is enormous when multiplied by the number of customers.
Using the delivery service also takes hundreds of cars off the road per day.
Win win.

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