I've got my first ever online delivery coming today, from Iceland. Tuesday I set up an account and made up an order, but there were no delivery slots. But I kept randomly looking, and on Wednesday morning at about 10:15 all of the next day's slots were suddenly available, so I got my chance to top up on some frozen food and basics.
They're missing a few things (bananas for Mum's secretly healthy-ish puddings) and bread's a bit of a lottery, but at least we'll have
some bread & fresh milk again, and the freezer will be topped up with veg. Mind you, I had a bit of a panic yesterday and had to defrost the fridge/freezer... amazing how much more they hold when not "a bit frosted up".
Anyway, that info might help someone. I've had no luck with my Tesco slot-finding, but if our reserves start to dwindle too much I'll activate the priority ordering I'm trying to not to clog up for now.
Someone also told me that if you look on Google Maps there are pretty good 'live-ish' queuing/busy-ness indicators for supermarkets now (anonymous data from phones, like their travel info). Mum fell asleep early last night so I took a calculated risk and whizzed out to check, only to embarrass myself by missing where the queue began and thinking there wasn't one. There were plenty of folk out there in line at 9:15 so I sheepishly turned round and legged it back home before Mum stirred. Random hanging around does not fit my lifestyle, so my first outing for 3.5 weeks wasn't successful.
At least I got 2 miles and half an hour's worth of decent exercise for a change... and it was rather special (in a weird but nice way) to be walking down a normally busy road that only had me on it. Not a car in sight until I got to Tesco and discovered where they were all hiding.