A gardener has slammed Wilko for 'absolutely ridiculous waste' after delivering ten plant pots each in their own giant box - leaving a seven-foot wall in her living room. Angie Evans and her husband, Martin, 38, ordered ten plant pots from the homeware retailer, only for them to arrive each in their own large individual box, ironically marked 'recycle me'.
The 34-year-old then showed how five pots could be stacked together and would fit into a single box - meaning that a whopping eight boxes were unnecessary, a level of waste the IT analyst branded 'absolutely ridiculous'. Angie said that when their usual delivery man arrived at their cottage in Eynsford, Kent, in May and began to unload the boxes she quickly realised Wilko had not learned their lesson from her last encounter with the retailer - when they did the same thing.
Angie explained: "He said, 'I've got ten parcels for you', and I thought 'What did I order?' Then as soon as he took a box out I thought, 'That's insane. They've done it again', because it also happened last year. That was the only other time I'd bought from Wilko. I'm a keen gardener, and the same thing happened [last time]: I bought ten plant pots and they came in five boxes, so it wasn't as bad as this time but still quite wasteful.
