Tesco website ‘CRASHES’ as Christmas delivery slots sees nearly 300,000 customers queuing
Tesco website ‘CRASHES’ as nearly 300,000 customers join online queue to secure Christmas delivery slot: Fury more than 130,000 shoppers log in BEFORE advertised 6am opening time
Shoppers have complained the Tesco website has ‘crashed’ this morning as hundreds of thousands of customers logged on to try and secure a Christmas delivery slot.
When MailOnline checked at 8.20am, there were nearly 300,000 people waiting in the online queue to get their festive shopping sorted after the UK’s biggest supermarket started taking orders.
Delivery Saver customers were told they could book a slot from 6am this morning, but many were left shocked to find more than 130,000 people on the site already.
Some complained that the queue was opened before the advertised time and others claimed they were ‘kicked out’ before they could get the chance to order.
Posting on Twitter, one customer said: ‘I logged on at 5.59 (am) to get ready only to find over 135,000 in the queue already.’
By 6.13am, users were posting screenshots that showed the queue was up to 180,000 people.
Others complained they spent time waiting in the queue only to be kicked out: ‘Hey @Tesco just sat for half an hour in your xmas queue and as soon as I reached the front of the queue I got kicked out and now the wait is an hour.’
Another said: ‘I was 38,000 in the queue and the app ‘refreshed’ itself and now I’m number 178,000. You’re having a laugh.’
Tesco has been contacted for comment.
Hundreds of thousands of people have joined the online queue to get a Christmas delivery slot from Tesco
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