Deliveries to site from supermarkets
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I have seen supermarket deliveries on CLs, with permission of owners of course, but that's a totally different thing from what would happen on a Club Site.
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My own view is against, when the office is closed who lets these delivery vans on and off site or will they be pressing the emergency bell when they can't get off at 9.30pm. This actually happened on site where I worked a couple of years ago, the member let this van on site at 9pm but forgot to let it out of the site barrier which was two hundred yards away from pitch and the member told the driver to press the bell on the office door.
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It will come - and sooner rather than later. The new type of camper explorer in their glamping, yurt, teepee, pod, Hobbit Hole will demand it (since they never go out to shops and buy only on Internet). It's Life, Jim - but not as we know it.
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Ive got the solution campers .......cut out the middleman & just pitch up in the supermarket car park .
Wild camping with everything you ever needed.😜
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I'm sorry, but I have to agree - either it will come, or sites won't keep going. My sons, part of a very different generation, don't 'do shopping' - they order food deliveries on line, get their supermarket shopping on line, and have their new clothes delivered from internet shops! Whether we oldies like it or not, things are changing - and changing radically. We might not agree - but then we've had a pizza delivered to a site in France so it's like the pot calling the kettle black - but sites will probably have to adapt or fail! They may well install 'delivery boxes' outside the site, so things can be dropped off!????!!!
How many more years can us 'oldies' keep sites going before they 'belong' to a very different generation.
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I agree with Val. My issue is how to make it work safely and smoothly, but as they put a man on the moon, I’m pretty sure they will find a way to make this work one day.
If it’s something people want, and judging by the number of deliveries around our way, and even people on here who say they do it at cottages etc, but not campsites, then it plainly is then .....
To me the question is not Yes or No, but how can it be made to WORK.
Some people on here are plainly resourceful people who can get there van all around the UK & Europe safely and securely, whilst dealing with whatever problems are thrown at them. However, ask them to solve something like this, that THEY don’t particularly want or need, and the answer is NO.
Come on guys, suggestions for ways to make it work !!!
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Thank you everyone so far for your 37 responses. I must say I love some of your sense of humour & you have really made me laugh. I really feel for those that are not able to get out & about like they once did & those that need to use the disabled pitches. I maybe like this one day but would still wish to use our sites. Deliveries to site would be a big help in these cases. Looking ahead Amazon have a big box for food internet deliveries & eventually - maybe sooner than we all think - drones will deliver them to our pitch so most of all the negative comments will be overcome! Please keep your views coming as my wife & I still cannot agree - she does not like pizza anyway!!
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Catherine
I think you are correct, in fact I thought they even came to an agreement with Tesco, but at the time they may have been the only ones doing it?
I am not sure I would rule it out but it would depend on how it was managed, perhaps a requirement for orders to made to the arrival area. LIke others I don't think it would be a good idea to have vans going to pitches. Not that I use them myself but I understand they can be timed so there could be a requirement that they had to be booked only for certain times. Do wardens get their food delivered to site?
David
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One of the questions that hasn't been asked is "what is the drop off policy" of the companies? If the recipient is not there do they take it back? Can they deliver to a "dead letter box"?
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Home delivery by supermarkets suit people with busy lives. I understand that. But who has a busy life on a caravan site? Surely a holiday is an opportunity to relax, take it easy, and do things differently. Otherwise, why bother going away? Going food shopping with the children is educational for the kids and the parents.There are other people who benefit from home deliveries such as those with restrictive mobility [physical or other].
My understanding is that supermarkets are more attracted to click and collect than home deliveries. Shopping habits are changing from a large weekly shop to a few trips a week to the local smaller supermarket. Are we going to see Aldi delivering to sites several times a week to the people on pitch 101? I doubt it. Perhaps the wardens could organise a convoy to the click and collect point.
Perhaps a better idea is to have a local shopkeeper bring a van load of foodstuffs up to the site and selling to those on site. That would provide home delivery for those who need it and also support a local business. Or build a small supermarket on each site - is it Brecon that has one? We're not going to see either of those.
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We rarely stock up on food when we're away. We go out for the day or a morning, then either eat out or pick something up on the way back to the van. Love browsing around local markets or farmers markets or a small deli.
I can understand a delivery when you're at home but not when on holiday or a short break. Make the decision on what to eat part of your holiday - much more fun.
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I'm not a regular user of online supermarkets, but as I recall you can choose a time slot from whats available, so it is possible that Tesco, Sainsbury's, Morrisons, & Asda etc could each come several times during any one day for different customers... Hardly ideal.
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Wardens ,would i would think keep a stock of food ,and top up on their days off,as with others who can see what they are getting rather than the way OH and I have seen shop staff just grabbing any fresh food/veg and bunging it in the deliver boxes,but if some wardens do have "home"delivery their "homes" are normally outside the site barriers
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It’s the 21st century not the 50’s/60’s/70’s et al, the C&MC can’t cater for the future whilst the past demands no changes. Accept that things must evolve or fail. Toys R us & Maplin failed to evolve, they’ve now failed. Older folk are very much the ‘me, me, me’ generation. Stop blocking the survival of the C&MC it’s selfish☹️.
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I see JV, so your-‘climbing into the car, driving outside the entrance to a store then driving back after shopping is the ‘none lazy’ way. I see now thanks🙄🙄. A car that exercises you-very clever😂😂
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I do not like the idea of some of the drivers the supermarkets employ driving round the site at speed so they would have to park near the entrance and deliver from there but that might be a problem on larger sites.
The other problem could be if you are delayed getting there and the delivery arrives before you. Do we want the wardens spending time dealing with the delivery on top of other duties and what happens if there is a problem with the delivery.
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and all visitors should report to the office, barrier to be raised as well, then, on some sites you have to swipe to raise the it again.
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I have had delivery drivers, after being let on site by other members walk into my compound and into my awning and dump handfuls of shopping bags for mr xxx because he didn't know where his was pitched so I could deliver them
. I've also experienced two near misses with delivery drivers dropping off in the arrivals area and not realising it's a caravan site and not the open road.I think a short term solution would be if space allows outside of the gates for shoppers to meet their delivery, or any way that prevents what could become unsafe and unnecessary traffic on site, or better still to come into my shop to stock up (late opening on Fridays) and I'll let you push the trolley back to your pitch
JK
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In your case. . . .No👍🏻
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Been there, done that....
i guess it's always best to take the horse to water than......
in France, Lidl have inviting signs on the doors saying things like "please feel free to overnight in our parking area, we open for fresh bread etc at......"
how nice
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....."we were in a two seater car with two big dogs".....
One in the driving seat and the other in the passenger seat?
Bit of a squeeze?
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I am sure that when I have been out during the day, returned home, had a brew and started prepping the evening meal that the warden will be only too happy to admit the delivery driver, explain where to find my pitch and the importance of 5mph and to then let him out when/if necessary so that I can get on with putting shopping away and finishing the cooking.
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