morrisons

bluebeary

hello

my main local supermarket is morrisons and i was just wondering why they dont do home deliveries and is that also why they arent featured on mysupermarket.com ?

also, why do they not do a loyalty card ?

alwaysonthego_2

Possibly to keep their costs down hence the good offers that they always have.

Although for the past two christmas' they have had that good offer where you get that high value voucher of £20 the first and £25 the second.

Kirri

I'd rather they kept the costs low and had no loyalty card..

geordie_joe

I don't know why they don't do home deliveries, most other supermarkets do.

The reason they are not on supermarket comparison sites is because they don't publish their price lists on the web, and they don't pay the sites commission for sending them customers. If they did, it would cost them money and that cost would be added to the cost of the stock they sell.

The same with loyalty cards, the cost of these is added to the prices. You aren't actually gaining anything with a loyalty card, you are just spending more in one place and less in another.

spaceman5

geordie_joe wrote: »

I don't know why they don't do home deliveries, most other supermarkets do.

The reason they are not on supermarket comparison sites is because they don't publish their price lists on the web, and they don't pay the sites commission for sending them customers. If they did, it would cost them money and that cost would be added to the cost of the stock they sell.

The same with loyalty cards, the cost of these is added to the prices. You aren't actually gaining anything with a loyalty card, you are just spending more in one place and less in another.

i believe eventually they will do this, but i think they are researching into it, to see whether it is actually profitable, if you think about it tescos, sainsburys, asdas do do it, but i dont know how much they charge for delivery lets say it is £5, they not gonna make much profit on that by the time labour costs/fuel costs/maintainance of veichles costs, etc is all factored in, if it is a big shop then the £5 delivery cost would be swallowed up just by the person picking the order in labour costs, so cant be that profitable for these supermarkets, probably make a loss on it if truth be told

geordie_joe

spaceman5 wrote: »

i believe eventually they will do this, but i think they are researching into it, to see whether it is actually profitable, if you think about it tescos, sainsburys, asdas do do it, but i dont know how much they charge for delivery lets say it is £5, they not gonna make much profit on that by the time labour costs/fuel costs/maintainance of veichles costs, etc is all factored in, if it is a big shop then the £5 delivery cost would be swallowed up just by the person picking the order in labour costs, so cant be that profitable for these supermarkets, probably make a loss on it if truth be told

I can't see how they make a profit, or even break even on the cost of delivery. But it might be good as they make a profit on the things people buy. It may also gain them customers they would otherwise not have. People who live too far to actually visit the store, but can get stuff delivered by shopping online.

If they go the way Tesco and ASDA do then it will also be a good way of getting rid of things they can't sell in the store. The customer orders an item, and they substitute it with the slowest selling similar product, even though they have plenty of the actual item the customer ordered.

Redsky_2

I'd rather they keep it this way, too.

Storck

If you want to shop at Morrisons and still collect points then get an Airmiles, Tesco or Nectar credit card and put your shopping on it. Best of both worlds.

moggylover

alwaysonthego wrote: »

Possibly to keep their costs down hence the good offers that they always have.

Although for the past two christmas' they have had that good offer where you get that high value voucher of £20 the first and £25 the second.

I hate to say this - but we have both a Morrisons and a Tesco in Carmarthen and there is VERY little that is cheaper in Morrisons! Nowhere near the quality on a lot of their own brand stuff (the bread is stale within a day of buying it - even the stuff from the bakery) and I get really annoyed at the long queues for the tills (at any time, not just peak season) despite the fact that hardly anyone seems to have the large trolley fulls of stuff that Tesco customers have.

Having said that, I do like their own brand live yoghurt, they stock the C & B garlic sauce that I love and that Tesco does not and also the Kerrygold butter that Tesco have ousted in favour of some rather white and palid European stuff lately and are worth a visit to see what veg they have on special offer!

OCCASIONALLY good offers on meat or fish - but not enough to make them my number one choice.

As to the special vouchers at Christmas, I get those anyway by using my Clubcard ALL year round in Tesco - which is far better than just trying to tempt me to spend extra at Christmas to get a bit back;) This years Christmas Vouchers added up to almost £100 and is on ALL of my shopping not just a couple of weeks of it/amounts above a certain limit.

They would have to be VERY much cheaper than Tesco to beat them in the game I am afraid - and they are not.

bluebeary

thanks for your replies

Kirri

moggylover wrote: »

I hate to say this - but we have both a Morrisons and a Tesco in Carmarthen and there is VERY little that is cheaper in Morrisons! Nowhere near the quality on a lot of their own brand stuff (the bread is stale within a day of buying it - even the stuff from the bakery) and I get really annoyed at the long queues for the tills (at any time, not just peak season) despite the fact that hardly anyone seems to have the large trolley fulls of stuff that Tesco customers have.

Having said that, I do like their own brand live yoghurt, they stock the C & B garlic sauce that I love and that Tesco does not and also the Kerrygold butter that Tesco have ousted in favour of some rather white and palid European stuff lately and are worth a visit to see what veg they have on special offer!

OCCASIONALLY good offers on meat or fish - but not enough to make them my number one choice.

As to the special vouchers at Christmas, I get those anyway by using my Clubcard ALL year round in Tesco - which is far better than just trying to tempt me to spend extra at Christmas to get a bit back;) This years Christmas Vouchers added up to almost £100 and is on ALL of my shopping not just a couple of weeks of it/amounts above a certain limit.

They would have to be VERY much cheaper than Tesco to beat them in the game I am afraid - and they are not.

Guess it depends what sort of food you buy - for me I find the quality much better than Tesco and for what I buy much cheaper!