What's the strangest "substitute" item you've been offered on your home delivery?

neneromanova

Tesco apparently didn't have the 2 400g chicken breast packs I wanted, so they sent the 2 400g pack of chicken breast with 4 packs of 200g chicken breast packs... we both laughed at that. He said you may as well keep them as they'd just get thrown out when he got back.

robbies_gal

so apprently asda bosses are blaming the staff for all the sub errors-charming

Mrs_Soup

We have our tesco order without bags so the delivery driver comes and stands in the kitchen while we haul everything out of the crates (some of them help). We have most of our order flagged as no substitutes except for very generic things like bread, butter and milk. Substitutes are listed separately and bagged separately so you can reject or accept them easily. We don't tip.

xxlouisexx56

Not a strange sub but I did get a free pizza in today's delivery

alsibk

I was told by the delivery man that the chap in charge of substitutions is very proud of his substitutions algorithm.

This was because I had queried the substitution of semi skimmed for skimmed.

It's been beaten today by my order for 2 packs of household candles (we live with power cuts) being substituted with birthday cake candles.

But I can't beat the Tampax/Twix one! :rotfl:

LplateSaver

I used to be vegan and ordered soya milk with my ASDA delivery. They were out of soya so decided I was lactose intolerant and gave me that milk instead.

clumsy_cupcake

Last year Tesco substituted frozen chicken breast for a pack of frozen samosas. Not quite sure how they expected me to make chicken pasta?? 😂

toniq

A few years ago we ordered birthday cake candles for my son who then was due to turn 17, we ordered the 1 and 7, they sent the 7 but substituted the 1 for a 0.

When queried with cs it took them a minute or two for the penny to drop for them as to why the sub was useless.

We stuck 70 on is cake as that's what tescos sent so therefore he was 70 for a day.

happyandcontented

I have easter eggs on the Tesco offer today.....they didn't have the medium eggs I ordered so they sent two small ones for each egg ordered. I have a lot of children/ friends children and nieces and nephews to buy for but instead of 20 eggs I now have 40! This is one occasion when I would have been more han happy to have had a sub for another egg which they did have in medium!!

System

My friend's mum ordered some jelly to make trifle. Got a tin of dog food in jelly.

Surely they didn't have a different flavour or Hartley's jelly crystals.