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We spent too much time tracking down an alternate dog food to the dogs rotation (keep em keen) then found it locally at a decent price after likely 6 hours internet searching "online only deal price" malarky (as much as 55p difference instore & won't go through final sale

Wife therefore decided to try Iceland, food delivered to doorstep (quietly, unlike tesco to our neighbour) to the door lickety split in the stacking tubs, & whilst I am anti plastic the goods trug was tough plastic skinned meaning a fast load / unload design, all visible ..the easy acceptance of soft plastic made it far easier to swallow, the delivery guy said they are given 4 minutes per delivery (he was actually outside (earlier) than his designated time slot ..just seems very efficient compared to the street noise of my neighbours tesco delivery (engine was off as well, not on tick over)

Do Iceland take a different approach to other supermarkets with delivery or were we just lucky? (we shop for ourselves "In actual shops" normally, ) it's all pollution this is our 3rd supermarket delivery in a decade.

The bags whilst tough are not regular design, so are a "straight in the recycling" vibe (sort of thing you expect from a fridge delivery beneath the polystyrene) & 1 per plastic trug as a liner seems to make sense as to waste stream "plucking" due to size, thus less machinery jamming.

Anti-plastic is one thing, but the handing out of ridiculously big paper bags elsewhere (often via 2good2go ap purchases) with a massive carbon footprint is not good either, so it's finding a middle ground for something you know isn't going away.

Morrisons paper bags are expensive & tat when we have felt we needed something to take some strain for the 30 metre walk to the car

I have to say out Tesco deliveries are excellent, plastic stacker trays with the produce loose within no bags etc so less plastic, engine off delivery to the door (inside if you need it but we save the poor guy from being tripped up by the dogs) we unload within ten minutes and hes on his way with the empty trays.

We never go into a shop these days, we order what we need and not what looks nice on the shelf and we dont burn miles so all in all we feel its a step in the right direction regards lowered Carbon foot print (hopefully)

Moxi

Moxi, are you really saving carbon loaded miles though? ..someone still does it, usually in a dirty diesel.

That's why we normally plan shopping around where we are going anyway or as per pandemic shopping as recreational necessity when you haven't been out of the house for 7+ days / wife on her way back from work without incurring a diversion adding more miles than the commute.

A little excitement when I see grocery fleets go electric that will be a massively marketable moment & emissions drop potential (sadly not yet though)

Yes of course, the van carries around ten homes worth of groceries, they deliver to a group of homes up here on the mountain on the same day, so that's at least ten separate car journeys to the local supermarket that are covered by the one van ? I accept that there are some losses in efficiency as the van does the individual drops but the distance between the cottages cannot add up to same distance of ten separate trips.

Moxi

Moxi wrote: ↑Mon Apr 03, 2023 3:06 pm Yes of course, the van carries around ten homes worth of groceries, they deliver to a group of homes up here on the mountain on the same day, so that's at least ten separate car journeys to the local supermarket that are covered by the one van ? I accept that there are some losses in efficiency as the van does the individual drops but the distance between the cottages cannot add up to same distance of ten separate trips.

Moxi

Yup, good logic.

Kids today wouldn't believe we used to have a mobile shop visit once or twice a week nowadays would they!

We only get a home delivery when it’s all the heavy stuff, saves me carrying it up all the stairs.

Soft drinks, tins of beans etc, washing liquid etc, nothing with a date to get delivered and find it’s either out of date or goes out of date the next day