anyone do their food shopping online?

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if so, do you ever use this website? www.mysupermarket.co.uk
sounds like it's pretty much a price comparison site for groceries. i've never done my food shopping online but i am considering the idea, just wondering if this site is the best place to start?
 
we do, and we use the mentioned site before usually ordering from the same place every time!

It is useful though, expecially the tool that suggests cheaper/healthier alternatives!
 
I don't. but if I did it would only be for long shelf-life stuff. I like to get the fresh stuff with the best use-by dates, and having some randoms pick them means you aren't likely to.
 
Only ever used it once (Tesco) and wasn't all that impressed with quality of fresh foods and some of the best before dates, that said it was a long time ago.
 
We get ours from Tesco and there are just a couple of niggles. You obviously get the crap they want to get rid of 'best-by' wise sometimes but that's not what really gets my goat. It's the pickers. they must be minimum wage monkeys as they do things like put cans in with loose bagged tomatoes or loaves of bread in with big bottles of washing machine liquid so they get damaged or squashed. Often also they will deliberately put things like tubs of potato salad in upside down so stuff leaks out.
 
Tribune said:
We get ours from Tesco and there are just a couple of niggles. You obviously get the crap they want to get rid of 'best-by' wise sometimes but that's not what really gets my goat. It's the pickers. they must be minimum wage monkeys as they do things like put cans in with loose bagged tomatoes or loaves of bread in with big bottles of washing machine liquid so they get damaged or squashed. Often also they will deliberately put things like tubs of potato salad in upside down so stuff leaks out.
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These things always annoyed me too. Luckily the drivers were always pretty good about taking said items back.
 
usually get my long shelf life stuff/drinks online and get fresh veg, etc on the way home from work.
 
Tribune said:
We get ours from Tesco and there are just a couple of niggles. You obviously get the crap they want to get rid of 'best-by' wise sometimes but that's not what really gets my goat. It's the pickers. they must be minimum wage monkeys as they do things like put cans in with loose bagged tomatoes or loaves of bread in with big bottles of washing machine liquid so they get damaged or squashed. Often also they will deliberately put things like tubs of potato salad in upside down so stuff leaks out.
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Pickers, at least at ASDA, don't get told to give out any particular foods. They just grab the first of the shelf, if the shop floor are doing their job properly the foods with dates close to the current date should be at the front anyway so the pickers will pick them.
If you do have a problem, just tell the driver and they'll always refund you.
 
I always shop online - mainly because I work long hours however also because I don't drive and can't be bothered to put up with navigating round everybody else in the shop and waisting my time waiting to be served!
 
I've done it from tesco and find you get all short-dated ****. Ordered from Ocado and it was much better quality but I ran out of food really quickly - I think when I actually wander around the supermarket I pick up things that I wouldn't necessarily have remembered to put on the list, so I found I forgot a lot of things when I did online shopping.

Will stick to going to supermarché myself.
 
Liked the idea, started to try and fill a basket, realised almost everything I eat is fresh so gave up. If I ate more stuff with a long shelf life I'd probably give it a go.
 
Have done it a few times, ones to avoid are asda, really bad for short dates, it seems they go out there way to give you the stuff that is out of date the very next day.
Tesco not so bad but often item alternatives turn up.
 
vicisthebest said:
I've done it from tesco and find you get all short-dated ****. Ordered from Ocado and it was much better quality but I ran out of food really quickly - I think when I actually wander around the supermarket I pick up things that I wouldn't necessarily have remembered to put on the list, so I found I forgot a lot of things when I did online shopping.

Will stick to going to supermarché myself.
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One of the good things about Ocado is that they give a good idea of the shelf-life whilst shopping online.
 
I dont drive so i get a "big" online shop every 3 or so weeks for mundane stuff tins packets jars other "heavy stuff"

Ive never had a problem online grocery shopping. used tesco and Asda. Asda spam me with free delivery and discount vouchers all the time too... Works for me...
 
Have only done it a few times.

Did a big ocado shop (~£80-90) past week. Took advantage of the £15 off first time order. A few of the items were damaged by poor packing. E.g broken biscuits, ripped cereal box, bent cans - I asked for a refund on these items and got an extra £9 off, no questions asked, so overall very pleased with the service. I even was refunded for a pack of waitrose essentials peppers - I was annoyed that there was not a single red pepper in the bag, so I said it was unsatisfactory quality.
 
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