Online shopping substitutions

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Had a blinder today!

Bought a bit off shopping from Asda to be delivered (refuse to mix with the council mob :p)

Anyway, I had 3 great results.

1. 2 chicken breasts in a creole casserole sauce, substituted for a chicken winter casserole. 8 legs and thighs, loads of veg in a big tray bake. Will feed the whole family.

2. 2 lamb chops in a mint sauce. Substituted for a tray of 9 lamb chops!

3. Not really a substitute, but they gave me 4 chicken breasts as a substitute for 2 lime and coriander chicken breasts, but the lime ones were actually in there!

Over £20 up on the day :)
 
I shop with Ocado and because of the model (ie, Waitrose ship to them based on placed orders) there are rarely subs.

When they do sub they tend to be really miserly or ridiculous :(

Example - before Christmas, ordered some canapes, one of them was subbed - I think it was a mini beef fillet/horseradish/yorkshire pud, they swapped it for a pack of frozen, large yorkshire puds. Useful.
 
i never again shop with asda online, i ordered my food and arrived nextday, as i was putting it away in cupboards, i checked sale by dates and everything was out of date, i contacted asda and was given a full refund
 
Supermarket what is that?

Well actually I do order a bit on ocado, but not a lot at all.
Veg I get from Bristol community farm, delivered before 6am on a Wednesday and buy a meat box monthly from Turner&George/Devon Rose and a couple of others.

Much better quality. Especially the meat.
 
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I buy chicken from Westin Gourmet, some veg, pork and beef from farm shop nearby and the rest of the beef from Turner and George.

Grains/salads/rest of veg and everything else from Ocado. Sounds complicated but it's easier than wandering round a real shop :)
 
Glaucus said:
Supermarket what is that?

Well actually I di order a bit on ocado, but not a lot at all.
Veg I get from Bristol community farm, delivered before 6am on a Wednesday and buy a meat box monthly from Turner&George/Devon Rose and a couple of others.

Much better quality. Especially the meat.
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So you don't get general household things then? Like tomato puree, any tins, cleaning stuff, toilet roll?
 
I've only used Tesco delivery once when I got a £30 of shopping for £20 voucher.

Ordered about £5.80's worth of steak. Picked a late delivery so I guess they'd shut the meat counter, so got a bag of steak worth £8.90 according to the sticker.

£8.90 worth of steak for about £3.80 put a smile on my face.
 
I used to shop online years ago, I remember ordering about £30 in stuff and the bloke delivered what appeared to be a weeks shopping for a family of 4 on top of it.

This was near Christmas so it was full of chocolates and stuff - must have been £100 in total. It did have a load of disgusting ready meals and **** like that in it though, those got binned, I don't know who I could have given them too really.
 
I ordered some french mustard once and they substituted it for French's American hot dog mustard, sad times.
 
I get household basics delivered from Asda, never neat etc as they're just retards.

The subs I get are baffling though, sub a sanex bubble bath when I ordered a shower gel, the guy tried to argue with my wife to keep it. Also order a deli pizza counter pizza but it apparently wasn't it stick so got a rubbish boxes one that went out of date that day.

Wrote a very sarcy email to Asda and had the picking manager ring me and apologise and got a load of refunds. I find it quite fun actually :p

Free eggs too as ones always broken :o
 
Sometimes you wonder what Asda are thinking with their substitutions but sometimes you come away money up
 
drone said:
Sometimes you wonder what Asda are thinking with their substitutions but sometimes you come away money up
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Staff make the substitutions, you're getting paid jack **** in a job you hate working for *********.

Would you honestly care? "Oh I better find a suitable substitute, Asda might lose money otherwise" no, you'd grab the first thing you see and just shove it in the trolley.
 
we order from Ocado, have used other deliveries in the past and have been really bad compared to Ocado.

Just before christmas we ordered a rib of beef, on the day of delivery we were told it was not available, a phone call an hour later we were told that they would deliver our beef to free.

cue a man coming out in his car to deliver our beef free of charge! so a £40 rib of beef for free!
 
Ocado are normally great on having everything in stock that they say is in stock, and are usually good with Ocado-brand substitutions as there is often a Waitrose equivalent product. One that sticks in my mind though is when I had my heart set on eggs Benedict for breakfast on a Saturday and my late night Friday delivery had English muffins replaced with crumpets. :( Nice try.
 
We do click and collect and have had some good substitutes from asda aswell as a few where we've gone 'how is that a substitute for what we ordered!!' I think it just depends on who you get packing your shopping to what you get.
I have found asdas online shopping has improved greatly compared to when it first started; but that could be because we moved and where we lived was full of idiots :D
 
Asda is by far, to me, the biggest gamble for online shopping They must employ some real numpties to pick, pack and deliver at mine.

I've had entire sections go missing/changed/randomly given to me.
i dont think ive ever had one order that was correct, but they refund for the cost of a phonecall so unless its something major im nearly always at least £5 better off. Plus it adds a nice random element to whats for dinner :P

Ocado i have never used. Not sure ill get the chance till im back from Sweden
 
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