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Nov 09, 2020 Christmas delivery slots are already available to book for the dates between December 20 and 24. However, the store says that demand is already high. It said: 'The demand for Christmas delivery is high. If you can't find a delivery slot to suit, we still have Entertaining collection slots available for your Christmas turkey and festive feasts. The slots have apparently been released for delivery pass holders, but when I go into the website I can't actually see where to pick a slot. If I go onto the 'book a slot' page as usual, it's still only showing the next two weeks. Where do you find the Christmas slots?
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Delivery experts fear a massive shift to online shopping means many food and other retailers will be unable to cope.
The amount of money spent online this Christmas is expected to overtake the high street for the first time, creating a need for an armada of drivers to drop off orders.
However, industry experts have warned it will be impossible to recruit all the people needed.
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- Tesco had already laid on 1.5 million delivery slots a week, compared to 600,000 before the pandemic, but the vast majority of these for the Christmas period have already gone.
- The online grocery specialist Ocado had said its Christmas slots were already booked out but more might be made available in early December. Sainsbury’s will release its delivery slots on 29.
Royal Mail is taking on 33,000 seasonal workers, Amazon UK is recruiting 20,000 staff, while delivery services Hermes and Yodel have announced 13,000 and 3,000 seasonal workers respectively.
Despite this, head of consumer research at courier specialists ParcelHero, David Jinks, said: 'Even though many retailers and delivery companies are attempting to hire thousands more staff in preparation for this year's Christmas peak, this might be difficult to do in practice. A capacity crisis is set to cause delivery chaos.
'The double-whammy of families, separated by Covid restrictions, mailing their gifts, plus a shortage of skilled drivers, could prove a mountain too high to climb.'
Waitrose has more than tripled the number of online order drop-off and collection slots ahead of the festive season to 190,000 each week, but these are already being sold out.
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It has already had bookings for 115,000 deliveries for December 20 to 24, which compares with 44,000 slots for the whole Christmas run-up last year. As a result, all the slots between December 20 and Christmas Eve are already fully booked in some areas.
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Other online grocers will not open their delivery slots until closer to Christmas, however it is clear there will be a battle over the prime dates.
Tesco is using its sought-after festive delivery slots as an incentive for shoppers to sign up to its Delivery Saver subscription, which costs £7.99 a month. Slots for Delivery Saver members open up on November 13, but it is a week later for non-members.
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Marks & Spencer has teamed up with Ocado to offer a hugely increased home delivery capacity.
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Sainsbury's has increased its online order capacity from 340,000 a week in March to 700,000 this month. And Tesco has already taken on 16,000 more pickers and drivers.
Shoppers are being advised to make online purchases early to spread out demands on the courier system and so avoid the feared delivery log jam.
Amazon has tried to spread sales by launching Black Friday deals a month early while many others, including John Lewis and Debenhams are running 50 per cent off deals.
The chief executive at the British Retail Consortium, Helen Dickinson, said: 'We're encouraging people to shop early and prevent the last minute rush so their fellow customers and all the store colleagues, warehouse workers and delivery drivers working behind the scenes, have the space they need to stay safe and well.'