Ocado warehouse fire
Discussion
I hope our members within a delivery radius of Andover are not waiting for a delivery..
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-47...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-47...
Been following this story, as Ocado have delivered our weekly shop for years (I assume from Andover, as we're in East Dorset).
Had my delivery cancelled yesterday, and the re-booked delivery cancelled today. The email invited me to re-book again, but obviously give the state of the building, there are no delivery slots available.
Customer services have no information at all. I imagine that given time, they'll attempt to serve some of their southern customer base out of other depots, and rest of us will just have service withdrawn until (or if) they rebuild.
Unplanned trip to Tescos for me tonight, which will be thoroughly unpleasant. Feel for the staff who work in Andover though - if the building is a total loss, a bet a lot will be laid off.
Had my delivery cancelled yesterday, and the re-booked delivery cancelled today. The email invited me to re-book again, but obviously give the state of the building, there are no delivery slots available.
Customer services have no information at all. I imagine that given time, they'll attempt to serve some of their southern customer base out of other depots, and rest of us will just have service withdrawn until (or if) they rebuild.
Unplanned trip to Tescos for me tonight, which will be thoroughly unpleasant. Feel for the staff who work in Andover though - if the building is a total loss, a bet a lot will be laid off.
Jordan210 said:
Shows the scale of the fire.
Scale sums it up. Huge distribution point home delivery warehouse goes up in smoke and millions of pounds in damage and thousands of customers disrupted.
Loads of people out of work etc etc. Months needed to get it back up rebuilt and running.
Little 7/11pm shop on the corner run by the hardworking family burns down. We lose a few out of date packets of cornflakes and a tin of fray bentos stewed steak. Fourteen customers including the old granny in the flat at no 12 have to change plans and go to the co-op instead or the other little shop round the corner for a few days. It's open again a week later with a tarpaulin for the roof and chipboard door.
The all our eggs in one centralised basket scenario springs to mind.
Jordan210 said:
We have been evacuated!
Aparently it's due to the ammonia tanks in the warehouse.
Your tweets on the BBC website mate, also as my workshop is on one of the roads listed as closed looks like I wont be doing much tomorrow!Aparently it's due to the ammonia tanks in the warehouse.
Edited by Jordan210 on Wednesday 6th February 19:28
boobles said:
We were about 200 meters away from the evacuation cut of point. My partner works for Ocado & is concerned just like all the other 700 employees.
This was taken from my place of work over 3 miles away.
On the BBC article, a spokesman for Ocado said that they had "comprehensive business insurance" or words to that effect, no doubt covering them against lost business, stock and the building, but does that cover the cost of the staff I wonder?This was taken from my place of work over 3 miles away.
Edited by boobles on Thursday 7th February 09:17
boobles said:
Our friends live just down the road from commercial center & their house & cars are covered in dust...
Some of the houses as you enter the village have huge chunks of ash on drives and car. Never thought living in a small village we would be evacuated.
Hopefully Ocado have contingency plans.
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