Tesco customers have been left furious after having to wait hours in a virtual queue to secure a Christmas delivery slot.
This morning the supermarket released slots for the week starting 21 December - but only to their delivery saver customers who pay a subscription fee.
But after waking up to log on at 7am, many complained they had still not been given a slot after two-and-a-half hours of waiting.
Tesco has apologised to customers for the lack of delivery slots for the festive period. Shoppers are being urged to shop in store if they can, shop earlier, or use click and collect where available. A Tesco Christmas delivery slot scramble has seen people stuck in queues for hours as customers line up to slam the retailer. Tesco operates stores across Birmingham and throughout the Midlands.
One person posted on Twitter: 'What an absolute joke. Been a delivery customer for years, have delivery saver.
Almost two and a half hours waiting and still in the queue 😡
— Sonia Bradley (@50N1ABR4DL3Y) November 13, 2020'Went on at 6.45am. Been in the queue for two hours and 20 minutes. What is happening? Should I just shop elsewhere this Christmas?'
Another user posted: 'Been waiting 2.5 hours now (since 6.59) in a queue for Christmas slot. What's happening? Am I lost in cyber hell somewhere?'
Customers were faced with a message that read: 'You are currently in a queue - we'll put you through as soon as we can.'
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On its Twitter page, the supermarket posted: 'A lot of customers are using our website and app at the moment. So we're temporarily using a virtual waiting room to help manage the flow.
'We're sorry if things take a bit longer than usual.'
Anyone else still in the online Tesco queue for a Christmas slot?! #tescopic.twitter.com/f4qKOrng2l
— SEN Resources Blog (@senresourceblog) November 13, 2020
While some were given slots after a long wait, others were unsuccessful and forced to shop for their Christmas dinner supplies elsewhere.
Those who did manage to book complained festive essentials like turkeys were not yet available.
There was also no mention of people on the government's vulnerable list, who are entitled to priority delivery slots because of coronavirus.
@Tesco been waiting 2.5 hours now (since 6.59) in a queue for Christmas slot. What's happening? Am I lost in cyber hell somewhere?
— annie (@annie6724) November 13, 2020A Tesco spokesman said: 'Demand for online slots over the festive period is high, and we have more slots this Christmas than ever before.
Emu casino bonus codes december 2019. 'We are experiencing high volumes of traffic to our website and groceries app and are temporarily limiting the number of customers using it.'
They apologised for the inconvenience and claimed home delivery and click and collect slots are still available for the Christmas period.
Tesco customers have been left furious after having to wait hours in a virtual queue to secure a Christmas delivery slot.
This morning the supermarket released slots for the week starting 21 December - but only to their delivery saver customers who pay a subscription fee.
But after waking up to log on at 7am, many complained they had still not been given a slot after two-and-a-half hours of waiting.
One person posted on Twitter: 'What an absolute joke. Been a delivery customer for years, have delivery saver.
Almost two and a half hours waiting and still in the queue 😡
— Sonia Bradley (@50N1ABR4DL3Y) November 13, 2020'Went on at 6.45am. Been in the queue for two hours and 20 minutes. What is happening? Should I just shop elsewhere this Christmas?'
Another user posted: 'Been waiting 2.5 hours now (since 6.59) in a queue for Christmas slot. What's happening? Am I lost in cyber hell somewhere?'
Customers were faced with a message that read: 'You are currently in a queue - we'll put you through as soon as we can.'
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On its Twitter page, the supermarket posted: 'A lot of customers are using our website and app at the moment. So we're temporarily using a virtual waiting room to help manage the flow.
'We're sorry if things take a bit longer than usual.'
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Anyone else still in the online Tesco queue for a Christmas slot?! #tescopic.twitter.com/f4qKOrng2l
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While some were given slots after a long wait, others were unsuccessful and forced to shop for their Christmas dinner supplies elsewhere.
Those who did manage to book complained festive essentials like turkeys were not yet available.
There was also no mention of people on the government's vulnerable list, who are entitled to priority delivery slots because of coronavirus.
@Tesco been waiting 2.5 hours now (since 6.59) in a queue for Christmas slot. What's happening? Am I lost in cyber hell somewhere?
— annie (@annie6724) November 13, 2020A Tesco spokesman said: 'Demand for online slots over the festive period is high, and we have more slots this Christmas than ever before.
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'We are experiencing high volumes of traffic to our website and groceries app and are temporarily limiting the number of customers using it.'
Another user posted: 'Been waiting 2.5 hours now (since 6.59) in a queue for Christmas slot. What's happening? Am I lost in cyber hell somewhere?'
Customers were faced with a message that read: 'You are currently in a queue - we'll put you through as soon as we can.'
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On its Twitter page, the supermarket posted: 'A lot of customers are using our website and app at the moment. So we're temporarily using a virtual waiting room to help manage the flow.
'We're sorry if things take a bit longer than usual.'
Anyone else still in the online Tesco queue for a Christmas slot?! #tescopic.twitter.com/f4qKOrng2l
— SEN Resources Blog (@senresourceblog) November 13, 2020While some were given slots after a long wait, others were unsuccessful and forced to shop for their Christmas dinner supplies elsewhere.
Those who did manage to book complained festive essentials like turkeys were not yet available.
There was also no mention of people on the government's vulnerable list, who are entitled to priority delivery slots because of coronavirus.
@Tesco been waiting 2.5 hours now (since 6.59) in a queue for Christmas slot. What's happening? Am I lost in cyber hell somewhere?
— annie (@annie6724) November 13, 2020A Tesco spokesman said: 'Demand for online slots over the festive period is high, and we have more slots this Christmas than ever before.
Emu casino bonus codes december 2019. 'We are experiencing high volumes of traffic to our website and groceries app and are temporarily limiting the number of customers using it.'
They apologised for the inconvenience and claimed home delivery and click and collect slots are still available for the Christmas period.
Tesco customers have been left furious after having to wait hours in a virtual queue to secure a Christmas delivery slot.
This morning the supermarket released slots for the week starting 21 December - but only to their delivery saver customers who pay a subscription fee.
But after waking up to log on at 7am, many complained they had still not been given a slot after two-and-a-half hours of waiting.
One person posted on Twitter: 'What an absolute joke. Been a delivery customer for years, have delivery saver.
Almost two and a half hours waiting and still in the queue 😡
— Sonia Bradley (@50N1ABR4DL3Y) November 13, 2020'Went on at 6.45am. Been in the queue for two hours and 20 minutes. What is happening? Should I just shop elsewhere this Christmas?'
Another user posted: 'Been waiting 2.5 hours now (since 6.59) in a queue for Christmas slot. What's happening? Am I lost in cyber hell somewhere?'
Customers were faced with a message that read: 'You are currently in a queue - we'll put you through as soon as we can.'
Tesco Christmas Shopping Slots 2020
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On its Twitter page, the supermarket posted: 'A lot of customers are using our website and app at the moment. So we're temporarily using a virtual waiting room to help manage the flow.
'We're sorry if things take a bit longer than usual.'
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Anyone else still in the online Tesco queue for a Christmas slot?! #tescopic.twitter.com/f4qKOrng2l
— SEN Resources Blog (@senresourceblog) November 13, 2020Christmas Gift Ideas
While some were given slots after a long wait, others were unsuccessful and forced to shop for their Christmas dinner supplies elsewhere.
Those who did manage to book complained festive essentials like turkeys were not yet available.
There was also no mention of people on the government's vulnerable list, who are entitled to priority delivery slots because of coronavirus.
@Tesco been waiting 2.5 hours now (since 6.59) in a queue for Christmas slot. What's happening? Am I lost in cyber hell somewhere?
— annie (@annie6724) November 13, 2020A Tesco spokesman said: 'Demand for online slots over the festive period is high, and we have more slots this Christmas than ever before.
May 27, 2009 Hello Reddit! We are Jason Les and Dong Kim, part of a 4-person team of top professional poker players battling Libratus, an AI developed by PhD student Noam Brown and Professor Tuomas Sandholm at Carnegie Mellon University. We are among the best in the world at the form of poker we're playing the bot in: Head's Up No-Limit Texas Hold'em. Libratus poker reddit streams. Libratus is not the death of online poker, but online poker will definitely see the introduction of bots over the next decade. Online poker sites can delay the inevitable for a few years by practicing good computer detection, and being proactive, but I dont expect them to do much if it doesnt hurt their bottom line. Libratus was famous for over betting huge. I'm pretty sure over betting in the real world was extremely rare before Libratus did it. Libratus changed the way people think about it. I think the war equivalent of over betting is Libratus would be more likely to drop a nuclear bomb than use precision conventional weapons. (source: wrote my thesis on poker AI a few months ago) There's no natural way of ranking players or rating their play for poker the way there is in games like chess. The group that played against Libratus are well-respected pros; two of them featured in an earlier match against Libratus' predecessor. The team that played against DeepStack is. Earlier this year our AI Libratus defeated top pros for the first time in no-limit poker (specifically heads-up no-limit Texas hold'em). We played four top humans in a 120,000 hand match that lasted 20 days, with a $200,000 prize pool divided among the pros.
'We are experiencing high volumes of traffic to our website and groceries app and are temporarily limiting the number of customers using it.'
They apologised for the inconvenience and claimed home delivery and click and collect slots are still available for the Christmas period.
