The end of England's second coronavirus lockdown of the year is now in sight. Throughout November, the population has once again been reliant on grocery deliveries sent to their homes.
At the moment, after taking a look through delivery slots and options available from Tesco, Sainsbury's, Waitrose, Asda, Iceland and more, we've found that availability has stayed generally rather good during the month.
As it stands, Tesco home delivery is filling up fast but there's still plenty of available slots for this week depending on your location. Towards the start of December and onwards there are more slots up for grabs. But come December 2, the UK will be out of lockdown and we won't have to rely too heavily on shopping deliveries.
Morrisons, on the other hand, has no availability over the next three days. Iceland in London has free slots for the entire week and into December and beyond. In general, we've seen shops showing greater availability compared to the first lockdown, which is a huge relief.
Supermarkets will continue to offer priority delivery slots to elderly and vulnerable customers. Supermarkets are using customer and government data to prioritise food delivery slots for those who need it most. Make sure you've signed up to the government's database of clinically vulnerable people if you need support. Sainsbury's, for instance, has a special service which you can see here.
Food delivery: quick links
Grocery delivery
- Amazon Fresh - grocery delivery to select cities
- Asda - next day delivery possible
- Co-op - delivery and collection available
- Iceland - delivery slots available
- Morrisons - no slots over the next three days
- Ocado - no delivery slots available
- Sainsbury's - home delivery and click & collect slots available
- Tesco - delivery available, Click & Collect is better
- Waitrose - limited delivery for the coming week, Click & Collect is better
Recipe box and meal delivery
- Allplants - plant-based meal delivery, cooked by chefs
- Feast Box - order your first-world food recipe box
- Mindful Chef - healthy recipe boxes with fresh ingredients for you to cook
- SimplyCook - Get a £3 trial recipe box to cook at home
- Hello Fresh - meal prep delivered for every person and diet
- Pasta Evangelists - Restaurant-quality pasta meals available for delivery
Pizza delivery
- Domino's - 50% off pizza when you spend £35 or more
- Pizza Hut - two large pizzas and a classic side for £22
- Papa John's - 33% off your order when you spend £30
Takeaway delivery
- Deliveroo - takeaway delivery from top restaurants
- Just Eat - takeaway delivery from local restaurants
- Uber Eats - takeaway delivery from your favourite restaurants
Alcohol delivery
- Beer Hawk - free delivery on beer orders over £50
- The Drink Shop - 20% off selected wine, beer and spirits
- Vinatis - Plenty of deals available, with many wines on offer.
- Majestic Wines - stores are open to customers and are also operating a next-day order and collect service
- Honestbrew - free delivery on orders over £50 in the UK
- Flavourly - 20 craft beers and two free glasses for £29.95, with free delivery
Grocery delivery
Just like the first lockdown, we've signed up to all the major supermarkets and we're assessing the situation daily across the country, in London, Leeds, Portsmouth, Manchester and Bath. Your area may differ and indeed your shops may also differ, but there's plenty of reason to believe that availability on delivering groceries should be much easier than it was earlier in the year.
Importantly, for all of the below supermarkets, you will need an account which we recommend you do as soon as you can as doing so will allow you to see your own local availability for deliveries.
Meal delivery
Pizza delivery
Alcohol delivery
- Want to order your shop online? We've compared the best online grocery delivery services
