Do you do your food shop on-line?

[KayleeUK]

Just curious about this, as yet again we have over spent at Sainsbury's I see new things and have to try them

Do you find it easy to shop on-line? Does it stop you from spending more?

 

[DisneyAli]

Have used Tescos online in the past, usually got what i ordered,and they eventually took notice of the "no" substitutions request when one time i sent back over 50 unwanted items. The service has on the whole been excellent and the delivery staff very friendley and efficient. I find their webstie very easy to use and they have an ongoing favourites list of everything you have ever brought. Find i buy what i need, but like you shopping in the store puts temptation very much in the way.

 

[jockey]

I shop a few times a month on tesco.com and I think it's great - it's so handy the way they link your clubcard to the online store so that everything you have ever bought before is displayed!!! We probably spend about the same amount as we would instore!!

 

[Mike Jones]

We did do our shopping online with Tesco for a few months, but I must admit that we 've drifted back to normal store visits, mainly due to frustration that almost every delivery would have substitutins (usually a critical 'must-have' item) and that we found the quality of the fruit and veg was a bit questionable at times.

Mike

 

[Joanne UK]

We used to do our shopping with Sainsbury's online until christmas before last when several items including the turkey weren't delivered! I also found that fresh items weren't really that fresh so we went back to shopping in store.

 

[steve_rob]

Similar stories to everyone else here.

We started to shop with Sainsbury's online, mainly because our local Sainsbury's is in the middle of the town centre and quite small, while the one they deliver from is fifteen miles away and really big, so we were getting a much better selection of items that we wouldn't be able to get otherwise.

It started off really well, but they then started to substitute more and more of our items each time we ordered (and got worse about the replacements they picked - we order a 24 can multipack of Coke, they replace it with a 2 litre bottle of Diet Coke?). Plus they started to give us items that it was almost like they were the last ones left on the shelf (all the other 'in store' customers had rejected them) e.g. items that were very close to their sell-by dates, 'fresh' produce that wasn't of the highest quality etc.

So we went back just to shopping in store again. I wouldn't rule out using it if we were so busy one weekend we couldn't do a shop, or say schedule a delivery for the day we come back off holiday, but I don't think I'll ever do it on a regular basis again.

 

[SammieG]

we do one or two shops iwth Tescos a month and the rest in store at Waitrose. I wouldnt bother with Tesco's if they delivered to us.. but they dont!!

I have to say though. Tescos are excellent - and we rarely get substitutions..

 

[shellbell]

I used to do my shopping on line with tescos but i found it used to take me about 2 hours because i would look at eveything on the pages and i would always spend around £15 more than a trip to Asda So now i stick to the stores

Michelle

 

[gilld]

Have Tesco deliver a couple of times a month - never, ever a problem.

 

[UKDEB]

I order online occasionally from Waitrose. You <i>do</i> spend less and their substitutions policy is great - you decide on an item by item basis. I set my default to 'substitute' and then go through my list when I've finished unchecking those I don't want them to substitute. The drawback is that it takes so long (the whole thing, not the substitution part!). I could drive to my nearest Waitrose, do my shop and drive home in the time it takes to do an online order!

I did try Tesco (twice) a few years back when they first started offering the service in my area, but both times they failed to deliver the most expensive item on the list (a bottle of wine in each case) even thought they'd charged for it (leading me to think it must have been there when it left the store as it had been scanned). Both times they were as good as gold about refunding, but I felt really uncomfortable about it - I guessed they probably thought I was trying it on.

 

[Goofyish]

I actually enjoy walking round ASDA doing the weekly shop

Anyway - I like to give my fresh goods a good squeeze before I choose them

 

[KayleeUK]

DH likes shopping too......perhaps I will just stay at home

 

[gilld]

I wouldn't use on-line ordering for fresh foods, but for loo rolls, drinks, stores etc it's great. I have no idea if I spend more, if I do so what? I still go to the supermarket most weeks but I'm in and back home within 30 mins. On-line ordering takes about 15 minutes so a great time saver.

 

[Slimey_snake]

I have used Tesco for online shopping. The biggest problem is always the substitutions. I always spend less when I do online shopping. When me and hubby go shopping together we always like to try new delicious, fattening, chocolatley, creamy foods. But I dont tend to buy those things when I do online shopping as I just tend to buy the same things every week from the favourites list.

 

[Danauk]

We put a tesco order in each month for the basic items (tins of cat food, cleaning products, cans of soup etc.) But we also go to our local ASDA each week to stock up on fresh things. The tesco order doesn't take long as we get the same things every month so we just use our favourites list. I guess it takes about 5 minutes to do.

 

[barrett7890]

we've used tesco to deliver a few times......usually when we've overspent during the month and need to stick to a budget! alwasy spend less as hubbie can't walk round adding crisps and sweets

cami
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[KayleeUK]

That is usually me Cami

 

[steve_rob]

we've used tesco to deliver a few times......usually when we've overspent during the month and need to stick to a budget! alwasy spend less as hubbie can't walk round adding crisps and sweets

Yeah, that's what my wife says about me - she says she's always at least ten quid less when I don't come shopping with her. I can't help it if I've got a sweet tooth!