Online grocery shopping?

Online grocery shopping?

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Patrick Bateman

Original Poster:

12,143 posts

173 months

Friday 12th October 2012
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Anyone do it?

I'm tempted but can't help but feel a bit pathetic at the thought, moving into my first house 3 weeks today though and I hate supermarkets (often the general public too) at the best of times.

I've always thought of it as purely for pensioners that can't get out the house (I'm only 23) but the idea is appealing.

So, pathetic or using a decent service that's there to be used?

DavesFlaps

679 posts

190 months

Friday 12th October 2012
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I use it maybe once or twice a year (Tesco).
The service has been fine, however it's not ideal for fresh produce like fruit, veg & meat, where I prefer to select my own.

eta: My local supermarket isn't generally patronised by inbred scum, so I don't mind shopping there.


Edited by DavesFlaps on Friday 12th October 08:53

tyrewrecker

6,419 posts

153 months

Friday 12th October 2012
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Do it. Saves you speaking to the staff, saves car getting dented and saves you walking around avoiding people gossiping and getting in the way.

petemurphy

10,108 posts

182 months

Friday 12th October 2012
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do it for the big boring items that you have week after week - milk, nappies etc and then go local for things like meat etc imho

wiffmaster

2,602 posts

197 months

Friday 12th October 2012
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Scenario 1: Click a few buttons whilst sitting in your pants. Food and beer appears the next day within a one hour time slot selected by you.

Scenario 2: Get dressed. Climb into car. Struggle through traffic to local supermarket. Park in the furthest corner of car park to avoid any other cars. Battle through supermarket aisles full of doddering old codgers and screaming children. Forget half the stuff you went for as you are so desperate to escape. Get stuck behind 130 year old pensioner at checkout who's decided to tell cashier their life story and pay for their entire weekly shop with loose change. Return to car to find somebody has parked right next to you (in largely empty car park) and that car has newly acquired dent. Leave supermarket apoplectic with rage and return home. Decide to have a nice cold beer to try and calm down. Realise that in your haste to leave the supermarket, you forgot to buy beer. Cry.

I'm 24 and I don't care what anybody says - online grocery shopping is the best thing that mankind has ever devised.

whirligig

941 posts

194 months

Friday 12th October 2012
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I've tried them all and have found Sainsbury's to be the best. They are good with sell-by dates and meat and fruit and veg is generally of a good standard. They usually have what you want in stock and always arrive when they're supposed to (if they're going to be early they'll phone in advance to make sure you're in). Really good service.

ETA - also found their website the easiest and quickest to navigate.

Edited by whirligig on Friday 12th October 09:21

petemurphy

10,108 posts

182 months

Friday 12th October 2012
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prefer waitrose and not for any snoobery reasons - free delivery over £50 whatever day and more importantly they swap out anything they dont have for something better and they charge you the same price unlike sainsburys.

just as cheap if you stick to deals and brand names too.

and the delivery drivers are polite and friendly unlike the last sains one who smashed all my eggs dumping the bags on the floor.

their website though is the most frustratingly slow piece of crap ever


Hoofy

76,253 posts

281 months

Friday 12th October 2012
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whirligig said:
good with sell-by dates and meat and fruit and veg is generally of a good standard.
That covers my concern - the buyer picking a bag of salad that's due tomorrow and a bag of fruit with two bruised/dented items.

Patrick Bateman

Original Poster:

12,143 posts

173 months

Friday 12th October 2012
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Having a browse on the Asda site and it's painfully slow when actually trying to select products.

NiceCupOfTea

25,280 posts

250 months

Friday 12th October 2012
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Been using Ocado for 3 months or so now and wouldn't go back. Really good mobile app too.

Zeemax_Mini

1,213 posts

250 months

Friday 12th October 2012
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petemurphy said:
prefer waitrose and not for any snoobery reasons - free delivery over £50 whatever day and more importantly they swap out anything they dont have for something better and they charge you the same price unlike sainsburys.

just as cheap if you stick to deals and brand names too.
As above, I have all my shopping delivered by Waitrose every week and it's brilliant. Hardly any more expensive than the other supermarkets but if they haven't got something they'll substitute it for something better/bigger without charging the extra (apart from weighed stuff like counter meat). If something has a really short expiry date they also give it to you completely free rather than not sending it at all.

For every item you add to your basket you can add a note to the shopper (it's all done in your local store rather than a central warehouse setup) so you can specify the type of fruit/meat etc you want them to pick, and they do tend to take notice of it!

Dom (25 years old and getting excited about grocery shopping)

hollydog

1,108 posts

191 months

Friday 12th October 2012
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I saw a tv program last night on a English woman living in Greece ordering groceries on line in the uk. Her shopping was delivered to a hub in the uk. Then a bloke in a big van delivers it to Greece corfu and she was saving 50 euros a shop doing that. And what makes it unbelievable some of the produce was come from Greece in the first place. How wrong is that. Good for the uk though.
This van was crammed full and he was delivering the goods to individual homes in corfu.

Sticks.

8,707 posts

250 months

Friday 12th October 2012
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wiffmaster said:
Scenario 1: Click a few buttons whilst sitting in your pants. Food and beer appears the next day within a one hour time slot selected by you.

Scenario 2: Get dressed. Climb into car. Struggle through traffic to local supermarket. Park in the furthest corner of car park to avoid any other cars. Battle through supermarket aisles full of doddering old codgers and screaming children. Forget half the stuff you went for as you are so desperate to escape. Get stuck behind 130 year old pensioner at checkout who's decided to tell cashier their life story and pay for their entire weekly shop with loose change. Return to car to find somebody has parked right next to you (in largely empty car park) and that car has newly acquired dent. Leave supermarket apoplectic with rage and return home. Decide to have a nice cold beer to try and calm down. Realise that in your haste to leave the supermarket, you forgot to buy beer. Cry.

I'm 24 and I don't care what anybody says - online grocery shopping is the best thing that mankind has ever devised.
You forgot the bit about you get a trolley, and fail yet again to get one which isn't pissed. You put your stuff in the trolley, go to the till, take it out of thr trolley, it's scanned, put it back in the trolley, go too the car, take it out of the trolley, get home, take it out of the car. In the rain.

Or have it wheeled into your kitchen for a few £. Costs me more in petrol to get to a decent store, and I've discovered my local butcher is often cheaper than Tesco.



Malx

871 posts

203 months

Friday 12th October 2012
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I always seem to save money when doing the weekly shop online.
Remember, when they deliver items you can return them to the driver for any reason, so if you get a shoddy bit of meat or if you just don't want it anymore they give you a refund. That's what tesco do but as I use Asda now I've never had to return anything.
There is always the added bonus that if they substitute something and you don't notice until later, they refund the money and allow you to keep the item smile

AyBee

10,522 posts

201 months

Friday 12th October 2012
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Used to do it at uni when 3 people doing a bulk order was cheaper and easier than each getting the bus into town and doing shopping individually tongue out Don't bother now, the local supermarket is only 10 minutes walk away so I don't really have an excuse.

joe_90

4,206 posts

230 months

Friday 12th October 2012
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We both work, 2 kids and the weekends are precious. We use it every single week, wife orders on a friday (in her lunch) and it arrives early sat morning.. That's it done for the week.

No way I want to drag 2 kids around the shop + the wife who will want to then buy more random impulse stuff for 1+ hour on a weekend.

We order loads of the same stuff each week, so it works really really well.

evoivboy

926 posts

145 months

Friday 12th October 2012
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SWMBO works at Tesco so hates shopping there aswell, we do click and collect as she can pick it up when she finishes, works out fine

Liszt

4,329 posts

269 months

Friday 12th October 2012
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Ocado - been using them for years.
buy the pass if you use regularly and you get free delivery
They are now price matching Tesco.
The delivery sheet has the use by dates of the products delivered so you know exactly what you're getting.
Picking is in a warehouse so your melons haven't been squeezed by every Tom, Dick and Harry in the local store.
They carry it through to the kitchen to.
Can do the shopping on the mobile app on the throne or on the commute no need to waste time going to the shops.

Why do a big shop anyother way?

JonnyO

237 posts

199 months

Friday 12th October 2012
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Tried it first with Tesco a few years ago. The problem was that they obviously have a motivation to give the rubbish/short dated stuff to the online customers leaving the good stuff on display in the store. As such we stopped.
A year or so ago we tried Ocado. As they don't have real stores there is no such incentive to them so you get stuff with good length dates on them and the quality is good. Their website and iphone/ipad apps are great too and make the shopping really easy.

Ki3r

7,806 posts

158 months

Friday 12th October 2012
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I work for Tesco home delivery, and I would say 75% of the people I deliver to and under 30.