Buying all food online!

mdanby

I like to buy frozen meals online, its cheap and can be very good quality

lee111s

Can't get yellow stickered items online! Given the majority of my diet is fresh meat and fish it would cost me a fortune if I had to pay full price for everything!

terra_ferma

siegemode wrote: »

I do 90% of our shopping online and it works for us even though our income is pretty limited. I used to trawl the supermarkets for offers and bargains. I was a regular around the YS areas at certain times and it was not unheard of to spend an hour and a half in one shop hovering for the next phase of reductions or searching the shelves for things with that days date on to take and be reduced by those doing the reductions. I got to know staff and would have a little chat and it made shopping quite a sociable experience. Times change though and with so much pushing and shoving and competition around the YS areas even in Waitrose. The fact that OH was fed up waiting in the car or at home for a call to say I needed collecting became a bit of an issue too. Now because of health we get out even less and have resorted to online shopping with Ocado. Despite the assumption that they are too expensive I've found that bulk buying offers means I rarely pay full price and they have flash sale items that can be added just during the check out process. Another bonus is that offers apply to when the item is added to your order not dependant on when your shopping is delivered, so this can increase the offer duration by 3 wks+ if you book deliveries in advance.
I've found that due to less impulse buys I actually spend less. When I am tempted I often add something and then later have a reality check and think do I really need it or will I actually use it and then delete it.
The Smart pass is useful and if you don't sign up after a while they offer it free for 3 or 6mths. When it's expired don't sign up and the price of it will keep dropping. I got a midweek pass for 6mths for£14.99. If you can afford to have late deliveries then they often have free delivery slots.
Can you tell I'm a fan of Ocado?:rotfl:They have made life so much easier for us.

I used to shop from Ocado very often, and still do occasionally for example if I'm ill or go have shopping organised when we come back from a holiday. There are a lot of good things to be said about them, I don't shop online with anyone else a part from O or W, but one thing that can't be said is that it saves money, I really wish it did...