The UK’s biggest supermarkets were overwhelmed with customers flooding their online shopping platforms to book delivery slots, following the government’s announcement of a third national lockdown.
Sainsbury’s temporarily limited access to its online groceries service on Monday night to “manage high demand for slots and updates customers were making to existing orders,” a spokesperson confirmed. “We’re continuing to monitor the situation and are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.”
Morrison’s online booking for grocery deliveries showed “no more slots available” for some areas at the time of publishing.
Asda said they saw a spike in visits to their website after the lockdown announcement. A spokesperson told The Epoch Times, “We have increased our weekly delivery slots to over 800,000 so were already far better prepared for sudden increases in demand than we were with the first and second spikes.”
Tesco still has delivery slots available at the time of publishing, and shoppers are being advised to plan their deliveries well in advance in order to take advantage of the free slots.
