Ocado on demand - worth it?

alfsmum

Have found Ocado's site by far the easiest to use, deliveries always on time, good quality items. Minimum shop is only £40 so I tend to split my shopping into £40 loads so that we have regular deliveries of fresh stuff. Thumbs up from me.

SophieCat

Hi,

Can somebody please tell me if Ocado accept Visa Electron as I was told they didn't & on their site (under Payment Methods) it says: 'Not accepted: Solo, Electron, cash or cheques', yet a poster said they used their Electron card, so I'm confused

Thanks

comms1

Having done a number of comparisons on the things I like to buy, I have found there is very little difference in prices for me. If I went all ASDA own brand, I suspect there would be, but I generally I don't choose that route and for what I buy Ocado generally does well with me buying the occasional offer elsewhere. However, for me the big plus is on getting things fresh and not wasting. I punch things in the website as they occur to me, which as I work at the computer a lot, doesn't take long. Then when I get to around £40-50, I get a delivery. This is probably every 4-5 days. So, for us, going from a big shop every other week and ending up with rotting veg, I now buy less more often. It suits our small fridge, I have rarely not been able to get a delivery the following day and our veg is fresher and our fridge less stuffed. Unlike other supermarkets, I have not had very many substitutions, very few damaged fruit or veg and if I have, they have immediately refunded us. So for me the benefits out way any disadvantages. Also, I tend to buy less things I don't need than when I used to go to the big hypermarkets and get distracted by a bargain something I didn't need!

allan2006

it depends, i would say that the waitrose products can be 10% more but you are getting better quality for your money. especially on the meat type products.

if you compare on mysupermarket that isnt necesarily a fair comparison. if you start on tesco, you might put a persil in your basket because it on special...but it might not be at asda,sains,ocado. but that doesnt mean there isnt a similaur offer there or an own branded product.

Also ocado does price match with tesco on some branded goods, and you can get ocado`s own products too.

when ive tried tesco deliveries you tend to get more substitutions, and its a 2hr delivery slot

copper1982

Wife and I had Ocado Delivery Pass for a year. Then went up in price dramatically and decided not to renew. Carried on using Ocado but used free delivery slots. Emailed Ocado to point out we spent a lot of money with them (were offered shares but declined) and thought we could have a better deal (like some of those that are quoted on this site). Got no where.

Then out of the blue a few months back got offered £3.99 a month for Delivery Pass and resubscribed. Has been good and had no issues.

Sam04

Before i signed up for Ocado's Delivery Pass i used to receive an email on a weekly basis for 15% off my shopping bill, which promptly stopped after i signed up. I queried twice with Ocado and they told me that i was still receiving marketing emails. My sister who isn't signed up to Delivery Pass still receives regularly 15% off and even 20% off sometimes, it took a while but they eventually told me that people who shop less with them get offered better deals. Loyalty counts for nothing with companies these days be it banks or supermarkets!!

markdavey

I use the reserved service and always take a free slot. Shopping regularly more than £75 so no saving for me in using the on-demand service.

antrobus

Hippychick wrote: »

I am debating whether to switch to Waitrose for the free delivery, but then the minimum spend with Waitrose is higher, they don't tesco price match and won't do the internet only prices that Ocado do.

Waitrose offer free delivery on every order over £50; Occado only say that they 'may offer' free delivery on orders over £75.

And Waitrose do price match against Tesco. The price match was announced sometime before Xmas. Mind you, I expect that they might be wishing that they hadn't now that the Pricechecker War is in full swing.