Tesco - Home Delivery

I went to Tesco with Stepanka on Saturday morning. We met at Tesco - Narodni (which is downtown) at 8:30am. This was a good time since the store was not very busy yet. It seems no matter what time I go to the grocery store during the week it is always busy so this was a nice change. Stepanka got me started on my shopping and I quickly filled up one trolley (that is what they call a shopping cart). She showed me where to put it and we went and got a second trolley (Stepanka was actually on her 3rd trolley at this point). We went our separate ways to finish our shopping and then met up at the front of the store where we had parked our other trolleys. We got in line in #11. Stepanka told me that it is usually #11 that handles big shopping orders but if I come by myself to make sure I ask first and let them know that I will be leaving trollies so that they know what I'm doing. Stepanka checked out first and I helped to bag the groceries since they do not have baggers here in any store. Stepanka spoke to the cashier in Czech to let the woman know it was for delivery. The cashier produced little stickers and writes the #1 on them. As I bag the groceries and tie the bag in knots I have to stick these stickers on all the bags. At the end of the order the cashier goes to some other room to make a copy of the receipt and finds out that there has already been one delivery order for the day so we need to go through and take off all the stickers and put new stickers on that have the #2 on them. Then it is my turn to check out. Stepanka bags the groceries for me and starts putting the #3 stickers on all my bags. I pay and fill out a form with my name, address, phone number, the date, and the number of trollies that I have. You need to note the number of trollies b/c it costs 10 Kc per trolley which you get back when you return the trolley. With delivery you can't return the trolley until after they have taken all of your things so they just bring the appropriate number of crowns with them when they deliver the groceries. I went home and waited for my groceries to be delivered in the afternoon. They arrived without any problems and were brought all the way up to our apartment. Since I spent more than 3000Kc there was no charge for the delivery. It is definitely worth waiting around for an afternoon to have all that stuff delivered. I stocked up on milk. It is such a nice feeling to not have to worry about getting milk every other day. I stocked up on other things too but the milk was the most important one to me. I think I could do it on my own now but Stepanka and I may just go together again since it is nice to have someone bagging for you.