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Catherine Murphy

Meet the 22-year-old who has created a system to help secure supermarket home delivery slots

If you're unable to get out to your local supermarket you will no doubt be familiar with how hard it is during lockdown to secure an online delivery slot.

Many supermarkets are dedicating slots to vulnerable or elderly customers and encouraging those able to do so to visit its stores.

Before coronavirus lockdown, delivery slots were released weeks in advance, but to help manage demand many supermarkets such as Asda are only releasing availability one week in advance.

However, there is a website which acts as a 'delivery slot finder' which will search and notify you when a delivery slot at any of the big supermarkets becomes available.

Shopping Slot was founded by 22-year-old Jason Moore who was later joined by 24-year-old Sabrina Stocker who has previously appeared on BBC's The One Show and The Apprentice.

Their website currently searches across all main supermarkets and will soon cover local companies too.

On why he decided to design the website, Jason said: "‘I was spending hours online trying to reserve spaces, so I designed a website which automated the process.

"Initially, this was for my family and friends, but I thought it would be nationally beneficial for those elderly, vulnerable and isolating."

The searches are free for users and hopes to save them time continuously refreshing supermarket websites. Users need to enter their postcodes, press search and their results are instantly brought up.

If there are no current slot available, which we predict it to be the case across most stores at the moment, users have the option to upgrade to be emailed as soon as one becomes available.

Sabrina said: "My grandparents couldn’t leave the house and my family are isolating so we couldn’t deliver her food shop this week.

"Using Shopping Slot, I was able to book her a next day delivery slot from Iceland and was so grateful. I want Shopping Slot to become a national brand to help others in need."

Jason and Sabrina are hoping their website will help millions of vulnerable or elderly shoppers or anyone self isolating who is currently finding shopping online impossible.

You can visit the website here.

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