Supermarket Home Delivery Shopping.

Sliver

Sliver

Sliver

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I started using it a few months back and I'm really liking it. It's so simple and easy to just do your grocery shop online and have it all delivered to your door the next day at a time of your choosing.

Delivery charges can be as little as £1 for a late delivery the next day or anything up to £6 for a first thing in the morning delivery the next day. I usually pick noon which costs me £4. This is with Asda btw.

If anything you have picked online is out of stock, then Asda pick a similar replacement item for you. You can accept this item when the delivery arrives or reject it and get a full refund.

How many of you use this service?
 
Used to do it occasionally, rinsing them with vouchers.

But I prefer to pop to Aldi or Lidl after 9 p.m when it's quiet - still a lot cheaper and it's about 3 minute drive from me.
 
Used it once, found it to be far more expensive than actually going out and doing a shop. I think the choice and the aimless clicking add to basket by the mrs didnt help. May look into it again to save the trip but at the moment the routine of going to the supermarket suits us quite well.
 
This must be a sign from a higher power. :)

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ocado are great. Nice little touches like buy back of carrier bags, decent length dates and a nice receipt which separates things by their use by date (good to put up on the fridge)
 
We use Tesco quite regularly. The mrs has just signed us up for a delivery saver trial, where you pay a fixed fee each month and then delivery is free so long as you’re above a £40 threshold.

We plan out a week of meals and shopping and then whack it all through the website. We’d be doing all that planning anyway, so then it’s just a case of typing it all in, which takes about as long as driving to the supermarket, never mind actually walking round the store.
 
We've tried them all and keep going back to tesco. Pretty fuss free really. The rest of them have been middling to useless with short shelf lives, too many items substituted or missing entirely ect. Ocado were particularly bad for use by dates in our experience.
 
Used Asda twice, stopped after both times they'd managed to break a beer bottle in my order and it had leaked over the shopping.
 
I find it pretty relaxing going around the supermarket, but it is always nice just to go online and order your stuff if you don't go outside. The primary issue I have is the substitutions. They're generally not very logical, in my experience, and you could end up sometimes with 8 items substituted, which is infuriating. Half the time, it's the dinner you planned for that night!
 
I use Tesco’s quite often but only for what I describe as standardised items. I never buy meat, fish, fruit and veg online as I like to look and choose that stuff myself. Also, I have found dates a problem online. Regularly had stuff turn up that was for dinner a few days later, but the dates been the next day. Also, never got over the fact that one worker thought a packet of custard creams was a decent substitute for a carton of Birds custard.
 
I would like it more if their stock availability was a little more reliable. Often for me, loads of items are subbed. I don't think items should show on the website if they are not in stock. It would be so much more convenient.

..also the guy who does the subs is a right bell. Ordered a Meat Feast pizza once and got send a veggie one as a sub. Must have been a joke surely.
 
MooMoo444 said:
I would like it more if their stock availability was a little more reliable. Often for me, loads of items are subbed. I don't think items should show on the website if they are not in stock. It would be so much more convenient.
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Basically impossible given that they pick the stock from the shelves in the store where all the regular customers are shopping...
 
We've been using it heavily for a couple of years since my mother became ill and I didn't have the spare time/energy to go grocery shopping.

If you use it regularly get the delivery saver plans (both morrisons and tesco do them), it works out about a pound or so a week regardless of number of deliveries (as long as you reach the minimum spend) or time of day.

Tesco have messed up a couple of times, including marking my fathers pipe baccy as substituted for papers (wth?), even though they'd packed the actual baccy, I rang them up and they said to keep it.
A bit of a win there are it was about £60's worth of tobacco and they only charged about £3 for the papers.
Another time they had a driver shortage so gave me a £10 voucher for the inconvenience of popping in and using the store collection point rather than the planned delivery.
 
Vonhelmet said:
Basically impossible given that they pick the stock from the shelves in the store where all the regular customers are shopping...
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There's more to it - you can order things that are not available in the local store. Where do they get those if they're not put out?
 
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