Online grocery minimum spend

bundly

Yes, we can do that - for now. How long before Asda follows Tesco and Sainsbury and has a £40 minimum?

alanq

MSE_Paloma wrote: »

I've just been in touch with Asda's press office to confirm that the min. spend is £25 but for delivery pass holders it's £40 as stated in the article. It has confirmed this is correct. Many thanks, MSE Paloma.

You have been misinformed. As I previously explained...

alanq wrote: »

The above article erroneously repeats the false claim that ASDA has a minimum order of £25 for one-off orders. There is a minimum order of £40 in some areas including my own.

From ASDA FAQs
"Order Limits - Minimum Order
The minimum order amount is £25 for the majority of our stores. This does however vary in certain parts of the country and will be displayed once you log in to your account."

I have no pass and I see "£40 Minimum order for Home Delivery"

Nada666

bundly wrote: »

OK then explain this: Why did the supermarkets, of their own volition, create an online grocery delivery service?

Why would their highly-paid marketing financial advisors recommend it? Why would their accountants approve it? Why spend hundreds of thousands of pounds setting it up, if they thought it a millstone?

Your assertion makes no sense because it's not as though they were forced by the govt or anyone to offer deliveries!

Uh, because most households would spend £250 not £25 per delivery. Okay, not quite, but easily close to a hundred pounds.

They decided to offer a £25 service to try it out - you hope that not too many people 'abuse' it and enough people shop sensibly. If it turns out that too many people spoil the commons by unnecessarily ordering only in £25 chunks then they have to change it.

It is not complicated.

Those still in contracts will be released and balances (if not more) refunded.

Again, not complicated.

bundly

alanq wrote: »

I have no pass and I see "£40 Minimum order for Home Delivery"

So Asda have that rule for YOUR area, but not all others (yet).

Bundly

bundly

Nada666 wrote: »

you hope that not too many people 'abuse' it

Oh, so spending money with a retailer is "abuse" now, is it?

I can only conclude that you are posting such ridiculous statements in order to be deliberately provocative. And there is a short, uncomplicated word for people like that.

Stupid me - I've been told not to "feed the t...." and yet I got sucked in.

Bundly

bundly

Nada 666

Statistical bulletin: Families and Households, 2013



"There were 26.4 million households in the UK in 2013. Of these, 29% consisted of only one person..."

Single-person households buying less than £40 of food per shopping event is not "abuse" of the retailer.

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/family-demography/families-and-households/2013/stb-families.html

That will be my final response to Nada666.

tim_n

Used to shop at Tesco when they had Value ranges etc, however since the move to "market value", we get less of the value and much more mark-up. Perhaps the wrong name. So now we started shopping in Aldi. Judging by the queues just to park, quite a few others are doing so now as well. Anything we can't get from the local market or Aldi we get from Asda, which is further away, but also not Tesco - and generally cheaper too.

jtk174

I will be another customer, cancelling my Delivery Saver contract and changing to ASDA.

ASDA has a £25 minimum spend in my area and its pretty rural. I am actually surprised they deliver to me and their store is further away than the Tesco store. But I have carried out a test run and everything went smoothly.

Bye bye Tesco. ( Sorry for only being able to spend a little over £1500 with you last year! In my defence, I never really saw it as abuse of the system. Until it was pointed out to me on this forum )

bundly

jtk174 wrote: »

Sorry for only being able to spend a little over £1500 with you last year!

Yes, I think I also "abused" them to the tune of about £1500, maybe £2,000) last year.

harz99

We're staying with Mr T, mainly because they have some products we like and we don't want to end up lugging the heavy elements of our weekly shop to and fro on the bus, also 'cause we used doubled up vouchers to pay for our delivery saver and I can't see them giving out back. Asda could be an alternative but they have a shocking reputation for substituting items with completely different ones - say food to toothpaste.


Some joker a few posts back talked about being "released" from our contract, he/she obviously doesn't get that it ain't a two sided contract, so we don't need releasing.


I feel, but don't know for sure, that the contract such as it is, would come under the definition of "unfair" due to the company being able to change a substantive part of what the customer signed up, with no comeback at all. I thought there were consumer protection laws within the EC to stop this sort of thing?


Of course, if MR T could supply fresh goods that had both a long sell by date and were in good condition, we could easily spend the £40 each week..................but that's another story.