ASDA home delivery not sending toilet roll!

moneysaver

I do online shopping reluctantly. Could not agree with you more. I usually shop instore with Asda but have been doing online grocery for a while now.

Not the best experience lots of items out of stock or cancelled at the last minute. At the store I have never had any regular item I buy out of stock. Seems they do not sync up the online buying with the stock instore.

Due to the current restrictions I will persevere but not the best experience for me.

Moneysaver

BooJewels

k.child90 said:

[...] We aren't stockpiling toilet roll and don't intend to as I think that's immoral and has caused shortages.

k.child90 said:

I guess everyone has their own idea of what they consider acceptable [...] everyone has different things they will or will not do!

For the record, my husband was taken ill one day in November 2005 and by the early hours, he was on a life support machine in ICU and remained there for a couple of weeks.  It happened the night before we were due a supermarket shop and as I don't drive, I found myself having to go out on a very bad day with deep frozen snow, on foot, to walk over a mile there and then back to get supplies.  I swore that I'd not get caught short like that again.  Over coming months, as he recovered, we got more organised and bought a second freezer and installed some shelves in our cellar and I now habitually keep a month or more of non-perishable food and toiletries in the house at all times.  

He's been kept in hospital at short notice several times since, so this policy has made life very much easier for us.  I haven't stockpiled or bought anything extra during the pandemic, as I was already [inadvertently] prepared for it, but I did work through my stash in the first month or 6 weeks and have gradually replenished it as supplies and availability of deliveries improved.  

I don't think that's in any way immoral or questionable, just pragmatic and sensible.  Those going into supermarkets and buying things they didn't need to either profiteer or then destroy food as they hadn't even needed or used it, are the ones being immoral.  Putting aside a 2 week contingency stash (2 family members who work with the public have actively done this and have both needed it as they've had to isolate at minutes notice), when there's a real possibility you might have to isolate is just common, practical sense.  In fact the Government advice on isolating states "plan ahead and think about what you will need to be able to stay at home for the full duration".

ETA: Add to this what moneysaver posted - sometimes on-line orders are missing items or you get inappropriate subs - so getting a step ahead with a buffer of supplies means that you're not suddenly left short, as you've found.

k.child90

Yes it seems quite a few people here have got 2 weeks of supplies in a stash! I could not personally do this. As I said, everyone has different things they consider the right thing to do in these very strange circumstances

ToxicWomble

Even B+Q had some round by us back in NovI’m with you OP - stockpiling “just in case” is what causes the supply issues in the first place.
Glad you got it sorted - stay safe

lemondrops69

Maybe you ordered too much from them in the first lockdown? Don't forget it was only Tesco that didn't have a naughty list 

Spank

k.child90 said:

Yes it seems quite a few people here have got 2 weeks of supplies in a stash! I could not personally do this. As I said, everyone has different things they consider the right thing to do in these very strange circumstances

That's a ridiculous stand to take at the moment. If it wasn't for your friend going to Asda for you you would be wiping your !!!!!! on cut-up tablecloths. Nobody's saying have a 6 month supply, but a couple of weeks is hardly stockpiling.

Lemondrops69 have you not read the OP's posts? spoiler, they don't stockpile.

Torry_Quine

I don't call having a spare item stock piling but common sense. Usually it's in case of inclement weather but it's been handy in the current crisis. It means that I won't be in the situation of the OP. 

theonlywayisup

We live 40 miles from a supermarket and aren't serviced by any home deliveries.  I would be mad not to have extra provisions for those 'just in case' moments.  I have always done it, so it definitely isn't panic buying.  In this day and age, no one should run out of the basics, regardless of where they are. 

mikb

ToxicWomble said:

Even B+Q had some round by us back in NovI’m with you OP - stockpiling “just in case” is what causes the supply issues in the first place.
Glad you got it sorted - stay safe

Fortunately, as a DIY store, when they run out loo roll B&Q have the option to "substitute" trade packs of 400-grade glasspaper.

davidmcn

k.child90 said:

Yes it seems quite a few people here have got 2 weeks of supplies in a stash!

I find a pack of 16 bog rolls last many weeks in a one bum household.