New to online supermarket shopping-any tips?

Steve_L

GaleSF63 said:

Steve L - The store you shop in may not be where your online order comes from. There are several Tescos, including 2 superstores,  nearer to me than the one which delivers which is 30 miles away. 

I think ASDA will more likely be worrying about getting stock into the shops whatever it is, at the moment, rather than picking and choosing. Probably whatever is quickest.

It is the same store. I asked the delivery driver.

I don't doubt that they're getting stock into the stores. If you don't sign in, the situation looks like it was when I used to shop in store and when I've been forced to shop in store now.

It's the apparent situation if you sign in to shop online that concerns me.

calleyw

Steve_L said:

I don't doubt that they're getting stock into the stores. If you don't sign in, the situation looks like it was when I used to shop in store and when I've been forced to shop in store now.

You have not been forced to shop in store you have choosen to.  Wish you would stop being so dramatic, which you seem to be in nearly everyone of your posts.  If this was someone who was very young and naive I might let it go.  But I thought you were grown man with supposed life experience. 

If an item does not arrive then it does not.  I just change my meals around.   If I wanted spag bog and had no mince delivered,  I would either chuck in a tin of tuna or just have the pasta and sauce.   I have no intention of going in store as I am in isolation so I can be a carer for someone who is shielding.

Your posts are getting very boring its just the same old moaning.  I for one are very grateful that someone can pick and deliver my shopping for a couple of pounds.

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Calley x

Steve_L

pumpkin89 said:

Steve_L said:
on the few occasions when I've had to risk my life and shop in store in order to get things I really need but can't get online now

Sorry, I can appreciate your frustration, but it's ridiculous to claim that a cheap product being out of stock online means you need to risk your life.  Plenty of different types of food are cheap; of course we all want our own preferred items to be available, but ultimately there is a lot of choice (and you don't have to be loyal to Asda, since you're finding them so annoying!)

If there's only an expensive/high margin alternative shown as being available, then I have to accept it. I reserve the right to not be happy about being "ripped off", though. And all these slightly more expensive alternatives add up. I'm buying the same types of item but it's costing me more. My income, an occupational pension, is only £879.86 a month: "Every penny is a prisoner".

Other people have noticed this and assumed that the stores must be putting their prices up. But a store doesn't have to put prices up to make more money.

When there have been basic items, that are allegedly totally unavailable, like the previous instance with the potatoes, then, yes, it's my choice to go without or go out to get them. The quantity involved makes an online shop elsewhere a non-starter. But. my point is that, if ASDA was "playing with a straight bat" online then I ,and probably others, wouldn't be put in the position where we had to make the choice and, at worst, it all goes horribly wrong. I'm 64 years old & diabetic, so officially at risk: if I catch it, my odds aren't very good.

Like so many others in the current situation (for example. the local street artist who painted a mural exhorting people to stay indoors) , ASDA simply haven't thought their actions through.

Yes, I did consider switching to Tesco. When they've shown an item as being "unavailable" online, it was usually also not available in store. When it was, it was a pleasant surprise, and probably because they'd refilled the shelf between me checking online and arriving at the store. They seem to be "playing with a straight bat".

But, overall, they're more expensive than ASDA. When I shopped in store, I used to "ROBOshop" (Research Online Buy Offline) every item I bought. Being retired, I have both the financial incentive (see above) and time to do this. I bought more stuff from ASDA than Tesco.

MysteryMe

I received an email from Iceland today and they are saying they have increased delivery capacity in my area and slots are released at 11am each week day.  Now this is obviously going to be location specific but for those interested it might be worth checking just in case.

MrsStepford

Morrisons and Waitrose (second order in 12 weeks) left it quite late to tell me by email what was subbed ie less than 30 mins in case of Morries.. As I always make a note that I don't want subs, I taped a note to front door asking them to take back some items. Both times, they read the note, took the unwanted subs back to the van and then came back and knocked on front door.