Supermarket Online shopping - is this a thing?

GaleSF63

With Tesco and Waitrose, if you book your slot before adding to your trolley the offer prices that are valid on the date of your delivery will be the ones you see.
I don't know about price rises though. 
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Mnoee

GaleSF63 said:

With Tesco and Waitrose, if you book your slot before adding to your trolley the offer prices that are valid on the date of your delivery will be the ones you see.
I don't know about price rises though. 

That's not true of Tesco. My next delivery is Tuesday the 11th, it's showing loose red peppers on clubcard price which ends on the 10th, as an example. It used to warn you at checkout if you added an offer that ended before your delivery, but no longer does.

GaleSF63

Mnoee said:

GaleSF63 said:

With Tesco and Waitrose, if you book your slot before adding to your trolley the offer prices that are valid on the date of your delivery will be the ones you see.
I don't know about price rises though. 

That's not true of Tesco. My next delivery is Tuesday the 11th, it's showing loose red peppers on clubcard price which ends on the 10th, as an example. It used to warn you at checkout if you added an offer that ended before your delivery, but no longer does.

Oh. I thought Tesco did it as well! 

mjm3346

I used Waitrose a few times years ago when delivery was still free and they offered discounts on I think it was the first 5 orders, I remember that substitutions were charged at the lower of the actual price and the original item price and I got what was then  a £3 cake replaced with one that was normally over twice the price (and really nice) and for a neighbour over the course of several orders got dozens of 4 packs of Baked Beans where the cheapish ordered ones were replaced with far more expensive Heinz ones. Also had some Sainsburys deliveries when they had introductory offers but don't remember there being any substitutions but Tesco back then charged the same way as Waitrose for substitutions. 
Ocado charge whatever the price is for the item actually supplied - unless the original item was on offer then they turn the offer into a percentage reductio and reduce the supplied item by the same percentage.

MoneySavingTracy

That's so sneaky! Never done online shopping, but am thinking of giving it a go, is it worth it?

pumpkin89

In my opinion, if you've never done online shopping before (i.e. during lockdowns) that means it probably isn't worth it for you.  There are certainly far fewer reasons to do it now than there were two years ago.

Some people find it helpful in terms of budgeting, because you can play around with your basket and see the total before you place the order.  But all the major supermarkets offer "scan as you shop" type devices which allow you to do that in the shop.  Aldi and Lidl don't have those but they aren't online either.

The one reason it might be worthwhile is to give you access to a supermarket you don't have locally, if you like their products and find them good value.  But you have to pay a delivery fee and can't choose your own substitutions / inspect fresh items before buying.

Mnoee

MoneySavingTracy said:

That's so sneaky! Never done online shopping, but am thinking of giving it a go, is it worth it?

If you do decide to give it a go, there's often new customer offers of £10-20 off a certain spend. 

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/shopping/grocery-delivery-services/ - for codes, though checking the grocery sites themselves is worthwhile too, as that page still has old offers on. 

I personally couldn't do without it, but I don't drive. I'm also the kind of person who does a weekly shop, has a big pantry of dry goods and a freezer full of batch cooking, so if something doesn't turn up its rarely a big deal. Really depends on how you shop, how much storage space your kitchen has, and whether you plan meals or are more impulsive as to whether it'll suit you. 

p00hsticks

pumpkin89 said:

Some people find it helpful in terms of budgeting, because you can play around with your basket and see the total before you place the order.  But all the major supermarkets offer "scan as you shop" type devices which allow you to do that in the shop.  Aldi and Lidl don't have those but they aren't online either.

The one reason it might be worthwhile is to give you access to a supermarket you don't have locally, if you like their products and find them good value.  But you have to pay a delivery fee and can't choose your own substitutions / inspect fresh items before buying.

I don't shop online myself, but I imagine that another possible advantage is if you are one of those people who don't use a shopping list but tend to impulse buy as you walk around a store.  I'm guessing that shopping online offers less in the way of temptation and if you shop online regularly effectively builds up a virtual shopping list for you.

GaleSF63

p00hsticks said:

I don't shop online myself, but I imagine that another possible advantage is if you are one of those people who don't use a shopping list but tend to impulse buy as you walk around a store.  I'm guessing that shopping online offers less in the way of temptation and if you shop online regularly effectively builds up a virtual shopping list for you.

It also means unfortunately that you can miss out of things because you don't see them. I've been limited to online shopping for several years, and every so often I remember something I haven't had for a long time because I've simply forgotten about it. Or they are new, and don't quite fit your search terms. Trawling through the online shop using a catch-all term becomes very boring, and frustrating as a lot of things don't even seem relevant to the search term. And the catch-all doesn't always. Still, I enjoyed my Arctic Roll when I eventually was reminded of its existence. About 40 years since I last had it!

EnterANamePlease

Hi,

I did an online food order for next day delivery. Between checking out the order on one day and it being delivered on the next day, the supermarket increased the prices of several products in my order (the price increase was overnight). They then charged me at these new prices.

I am wondering if this is correct, or if I should have been charged at the prices shown when I checked out the order?

Many thanks!