No Tesco delivery slots for November

I looked at ordering from Iceland when other supermarket slots were hard to get, but when I put my post code in, I got a message saying they don't deliver to my area. Later that very same day i saw one of their vans go past our house

Oh yes I second that about Iceland. At the start of the pandemic we couldn't get slots anywhere but Iceland always had them. They are great. Free delivery if you spend £35.

Take no notice Marydoll . We've been getting slots every 10 days. I don't consider it taking slots from less able people. There are usually several slots when I book.

I still have delivery slots available from Tesco. I did cancel my delivery pass with them as they had no slots from March to September. Slots became available about 4 to 6 weeks ago. they did not give priority to either regular or vulnerable customers.
I now use Sainsburys or Iceland if Sainsburys has no slots.

I didn't think that of you Doodlebug, so don't worry.

I never even really got out of shielding and am sick of all the nastiness and unpleasantness throughout GN at the moment.
Thank goodness for the nicer posters, who show compassion and kindness. It costs nothing.

All I ask was did anyone know why there were no slots.
I pass my time baking treats for my lovely neighbours, who have been so good to me throughout shielding. I like to reciprocate that kindness.
Therefore, I NEED flour, eggs, margarine, sugar etc.

I'm sorry I posted in the first place.

I've just had another quick look and they have several, right up to 13th November. Very strange.

Hello Marydoll I got one on the Tesco site this morning for 12th November. There were plenty. I wonder if it depends on which area we are in. I don't think it's anything to do with Christmas. They have given out the dates when they will be releasing Christmas slots. It's not until November.

How strange, Marydoll!

I'm presuming you have looked again since then, to check that they hadn't been late in fully loading the Friday slots, perhaps due to some technical hitch.
There are slots available for that date in my area, so it's not a nationwide thing.

Good luck. I hope you get the slot you need

What on earth has happened to GN these days?

I think we are all feeling beleaguered, Marydoll. I'm sorry if my post came across as getting at you - it wasn't, but I did feel a bit triggered by the memories of the last lockdown and the constant sniping at other people and their shopping habits.

I think we all need to take a step back (me included) and remember that everyone is just doing what they have to do, and if they don't like the way we are doing things we should ignore them. I did let the judging get to me last time - I am not able to go to the shops either, and being stuck in since March is enough to fray anyone's temper.

Marydoll ?

I have noticed they only seem to book a week or so ahead for a while. Maybe with current unsettled situation they dont want all the slots fully booked for weeks on end.
I dont drive and have ordered groceries online for a decade. Pre covid I would sometimes shop in town and get a taxi back. I'm in a high risk group and options are now limited. During February and March I made sure I had the basics for 12 weeks. For me and my two cats. I remember feeling that if I was short of anything I could always do an online delivery. How wrong I was, there was nothing for weeks and weeks! I'm lucky ,my daughter lives close by and I have lovely neighbours but I wouldn't have wanted to ask them to do a full shop for me. I live on my own so it can be tricky to balance as often it's only the top up things you need. Still I'm a big fan of long life milk and I wont starve. If you cant access shops easily or at all it is very worrying though. Goodness knows what will happen next year with impact of Brexit plus problems covid and weather have caused food production.

I posted a simple question, not expecting to open a can of worms.
I would give anything to wander around a supermarket and just browse. Life is rubbish enough, without having to be answerable to people I don't even know and who know nothing about my circumstances.
What on earth has happened to GN these days?

Gosh. I couldn't manage without my weekly slot - from the local farm shop as it happens.

Even then I sometimes run out of fresh fruit and veg, milk, bread. Tuesdays is usually a tinned day.

Perhaps we just eat a lot of fresh stuff?

When I log in to my accounts, there are always 4 sets of weekly slots.
At the beginning of Lockdown, when I was shielding, I couldn't get any deliveries from anyone.
Once I had access to priority delivery slots, I could book up to three weeks ahead, which was great,a s I knew I couldn't go anywhere.

When we came out of lockdown, I was stll advised not to go near supermarkets or busy places, so I kept getting deliveries. The availibility increased to four weeks ahead.
On a Saturday morning, I always book for four weeks time. There are always lots of slots, which only become available for me on a Saturday morning, as I get my delivery on a Friday.
For the first time ever today, I couldn't book a slot for four weeks ahead.
If I went on first thing, as I always do, how could all the slots be gone for four weeks time?
This is the first time since March, I couldn't get a slot, any slot! The whole week of 7th-13th of November is fully booked. No priority, fixed time or flexible slots.

mamacaz, I’m confused as well

I get so fed up with the judgements over how people do their shopping. It happened in the last lockdown, and it seems to be starting again.

On my local FB page someone had seen her neighbour get weekly deliveries, and complained bitterly that this wasn't fair, as she (the complainer) had been unable to get slots. The reason for this was that the neighbour was a long-standing online shopper, and had been offered slots that were not available to the complainer. This seems to me fair enough, as the complainer clearly had other ways of shopping, which she had used for all the years leading up to the lockdown (she was not on the shielding list).

The complainer decided that the neighbour was buying non-essential items, that she didn't need to shop so often, and that basically she wasn't entitled to deliveries at all, because the complainer couldn't get a slot at that time.

I have shopped online for years. I don't drive, so click and collect is out of the question, and I am asthmatic, so can't carry a lot of shopping, even if I was willing to go out to get it. I shouldn't have my motives for shopping online questioned by those who don't use it. It is not a charitable service - I pay for the privilege, and frankly, if people like me had not had deliveries for all this time the service wouldn't exist at all.

I found a lot of the spying, judgement and demands for justification quite upsetting, and I really hope it is not starting up again now that we seem to be heading for another lockdown.

I suppose it's only to be expected under the circumstances really because if these " tiers " keep rising, there'll be fewer going outside their doors.

Riverwalk I agree with you. That's how I understand the post. I feel sorry for Beverly. If you are new, Beverly, I hope you are not feeling too hurt by some of the remarks. Welcome from me.

I'm still a bit confused, Marydoll, sorry - in what way is it a problem after 13th November? Are you saying that tomorrow, when I would expect Nov. 14th slots to become available, that won't be the case, or what?
(I'm not trying to be difficult, I promise - I simply don't understand what the problem is, or is going to be.)

I remember reading about delivery slots last week and it's looking a bit bleak if you don't already have deliveries. Even those who do aren't going to have a good time of it coming up to the festive period. Oh heck.

beverly10

For the first half of lockdown, I shopped approx. fortnightly from Tesco. However, they had limited the number of items you could order at one go, and I found it increasingly difficult to buy everything we needed (two of us) within that limit, so I started shopping approx. every ten days instead, though even then, I had to juggle things to do it within the item limit.

I'm saying this to show that you didn't have to shop weekly to get a slot - all it took was a lot of time and persistence to continually monitor their site in order to grab a slot that randomly appeared. Luckily I have plenty of the latter and always managed to get one sooner or later!

Just to add, like others, I initially read your post as a criticism of those who shop weekly, but having read it through a few times since, I can see that I might have read something into it that wasn't intended.

The post was ambiguous, so perhaps I may have taken it the wrong way. ? I did say I hoped I was mistaken that it was a criticism.
Just feeling touchy today!
It's after 13th Nov which is the problem.

Yes, it was implied criticism.

Am I the only person who didn't think beverley's post was a criticism?

I read it as she lives alone and doesn't want to order a weekly delivery, which she seems to think is what Tesco require.

Really Beverly10, you are a luck one are you not ? Hope you
never get a physical disability which stops you stepping outside your front door.

Try carrying bags from supermarkets with only the use of
a thumb and forefinger, most you could manage is a bag of
sugar, you would need a lot of taxis in a week.