Supermarket online shopping

Beenie

Wirhin the last 24 hours, social services are looking for a care home for her.

The situation is delicate: I don't say that I mistrust her carers, but stuff does go missing regularly. She could be hiding things, or giving it away, or with food in particular, putting it out for the birds. Dementia is a weird and sad condition. She is content in herself, seems happy with her 'friends' (the carers) and so I don't want to rock the boat. Given that she doesn't really know where she is, and her memories are of places 30-40 years ago and long changed since then, there is no point in moving her elsewhere. As long as she is warm, dry and fed then that is all I can hope for to be honest. That is a bleak statement, but it's true for someone in her befuddled mental condition. I will continue to buy her supermarket shopping each week, and hope the carers sort out her diet with what is delivered.

Mojisola

Beenie wrote: »

Wirhin the last 24 hours, social services are looking for a care home for her.

Dementia is a weird and sad condition.

Given that she doesn't really know where she is, and her memories are of places 30-40 years ago and long changed since then, there is no point in moving her elsewhere.

Having been the main carer for my parents, I found being near them very important so that I could deal with all the issues that arise in their care and health.

Some dementia patients would find a move to a new place quite difficult - if she doesn't know where she is, a move would be easier.

Beenie

I don't want to go into details on a public messageboard, but I have a disabilty myself and am in remission from cancer a second time. There is no way I can cope physically, emotionally, mentally and financially with a demented parent nearby. Don't want to sound harsh, but that's the truth.. Social services are doing a good job, and my shopping for her food and clothes/toiletries etc. is working well. Moving her hundreds of miles is out of the question.

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sarah1972 wrote: »

I think most of them have a minimum of £40 now which in my opinion is only fair when you take into account that someone is being paid to pick it for you and then it goes through the till so the cashier is being paid and then its loaded onto the delivery van at a cost and then it is delivered to your front door again at a cost. It wouldnt be worth their while if we all ordered £10 for example.

While someone picks it and the driver delivers it are true, it doesn't go though a manual checkout in the same way a customer in store would. It's scanned with a handheld terminal while it is being picked.

Unless you are doing it yourself in Iceland then ask for delivery at the checkout.

MrsStepford

Abel & Cole £1.25 delivery charge £10 minimum order but unless you shop offers only, it's more expensive than supermarkets for most things.

ASDA does several delivery passes and if you don't save with them they will give an eVoucher for the difference. The annual is £55 or you can pay £5 per month.

Ocado SmartPass costs me £74.99 for an annual Anytime. They also do Midweek. Doing just one order a month means the pass pays for itself for me. Additionally, there are offers and the very occasional freebie, for SmartPass holders. Plus you get advance notice of Christmas slots BUT you have to pay for delivery and have a higher minimum (normally £40)

Amazon Pantry. If you're already a Prime member (£79 per year IIRC) you can use this. You don't have to be a Prime Member to use Subscribe and Save. Do check prices thoroughly though because they don't always save much.

Poundstop is an online discount store, from the guy who thought of Poundland. Used it once and was pleased.

Waitrose minimum order is £50 with free delivery IIRC

Holland & Barrett does free next day delivery if you spend £20

itadka is now Red Rickshaw, UK's biggest online Asian grocer. £5 off first order, £5 voucher if you sign up to emails and free delivery on orders over £45

Iceland is offering a free bottle of Prosecco/7.99 worth of food on first delivery. Minimum order online is £35 with free next day delivery. I don't use them anymore since my 5pm order arrived at 10pm. If we want anything we go in store.

I haven't even mentioned Tesco, Morrisons, Sainsbury's..

Selfridges is now doing an annual delivery pass so three orders in a year pays for it. All sorts of goodies in the food Hall to choose from.

Fortnum & Mason charges 5.95 for standard delivery but they do have offers. Good for festive occasions and special presents. A couple of years ago I got a load of jam for 50p each in a clearance offer and shared them with my mother.

williamjackk

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It's madness to be paying £55 or £79 or whatever for "delivery passes". I can feed myself for a month just on that and not be tied into where I get my shopping from.

sarah1972

Deleted_User wrote: »

It's madness to be paying £55 or £79 or whatever for "delivery passes". I can feed myself for a month just on that and not be tied into where I get my shopping from.

Not if you shop at the same shop every week and pay for delivery each time it isn't.

Its a saving.

lindens

Deleted_User wrote: »

It's madness to be paying £55 or £79 or whatever for "delivery passes". I can feed myself for a month just on that and not be tied into where I get my shopping from.

Yes but that fee is instead of the delivery cost they add onto the shopping bill at the end. And in fact they make sure you are not out of pocket. so if you dont use it as much as you thought and it would have been cheaper paying delivery each week, they will refund you.

jenniewb

Deleted_User wrote: »

It's madness to be paying £55 or £79 or whatever for "delivery passes". I can feed myself for a month just on that and not be tied into where I get my shopping from.

Not everyone can get out to the supermarket- not everyone has a car or live close by to a larger supermarket where things are more affordable than convenience stores, some have disabilities which make supermarket shopping pretty impossible on a good day, some work long hours, have children to mind all day and night or just prefer the time saving having it delivered means.


If you were always going to have to pay for delivery anyway, for the average £5 a week, over a year this would work out to over £200. I'd make even a £79 spend a saving on what that person was already going to spend.


No offence but try not to judge, sometimes things are not always as they seem