[Food] Fav Supermarket home delivery

[Chicken Run]

We pay Tesco £7 a month for our delivery saver plan and rarely have issues.

We have provisional baskets booked 4 weeks in advance which we can amend or update up until 11:45pm the day before.

This also allows you to lock in prices at the time of booking rather than delivery, which is significant for some items

I’ve switched off all alternatives in the app and most weeks get everything we’ve asked for (as ordered quite a while in advance) or miss a few minor items that can get in my local Tesco express if needed. Any serious dinner / bbq etc I’ll use our local butchers

Can’t think of anything worse than going to a supermarket in peak times at the weekend, it’s busy enough as it is, but imagine bumping into ****s you went to school with and all the avoidable charade and you will meet up for a drink “soon” f*** that.

This ‘peak time’ you talk of is all day post covid, WFH types are all over the supermarkets during the day now and twice at weekends

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

We get Tescos and Waitrose deliveries, Tescos a godsend during Covid. Some subs no real problem too many other things to worry about!!

'Waitrose' in your original post is in a blue hyperlink, 'Tescos' isn't for some strange reason...

 

[Weststander]

You would hate my life-wasting habits

I go to the market once a week for my fruit and veg, the baker every couple of days, multiple supermarket trips, the odd trip to the butcher, the fish monger, the greengrocer, the corner shop, another market...

But that gives you less time at home on the internet, to label other people mugs.

 

[Geoffbn2]

After being p1ssed off again by Asda and the number of subs and out of stock FFS no onions! I thought I would gauge users fav supermarket delivery.
Multiple choice, 8 allowed max.

Asda had a major issue with fresh and produce at the weekend due to lorries unable to get to and from the depot in Erith, this affected multiple stores, I do agree that sometimes the substitutes are woeful but logistics problems happen unfortunately

 

[Weststander]

There's an older guy in Seaford who hits both Sainsbury's and Morrisons in the evenings exactly when they reduce their stuff who is known in-store as 'The Magpie.' Looks a bit like Greengrass from TV show Heartbeat, dresses like a tramp, but is supposedly very wealthy.

There was a fly on the wall TV doc about a supermarket chain, crikey 20 years ago? Set in a West Riding town, the supermarket’s nemesis was a pensioner bloke who challenged the manager, daily, on why item after item didn’t meet the price match promise of rivals down the road. Living the dream.

 

[Alex BH]

Marks and Spencers is not on there and is the best supermarket.

 

[Chicken Run]

Marks and Spencers is not on there and is the best supermarket.

I agree ruined only by the sheer volume of chattering boomers who fill the aisles, especially in the evenings and weekends

 

[Springal]

Has anyone found that supermarket milk goes ‘off’ really quickly ? Like within 2 days of opening even with a long date?

We had a spell of it with Sainsbury’s then it stopped but happened again yesterday. Don’t think it’s the fridge or anything as everything is ‘cold’ and no problems with meat etc

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Used to use Ocado or Sainsbury’s, but as we get most of our shopping from Costco we just top up on items they don’t sell by occasional visits to the Sainsbury’s store. Biggest problem with home deliveries is that you seem to get all the stuff on short expiry dates.

 

[Pevenseagull]

Use Uber eats on Monday's for fresh Waitrose. 50%[

 

[mile oak]

Asda had a major issue with fresh and produce at the weekend due to lorries unable to get to and from the depot in Erith, this affected multiple stores, I do agree that sometimes the substitutes are woeful but logistics problems happen unfortunately

They seem to happen more often with Asda though. I like some of their range and they have a wider range beyond groceries that can be delivered but the subs are poor and

Has anyone found that supermarket milk goes ‘off’ really quickly ? Like within 2 days of opening even with a long date?

We had a spell of it with Sainsbury’s then it stopped but happened again yesterday. Don’t think it’s the fridge or anything as everything is ‘cold’ and no problems with meat etc

I think its impossible to track without dates and given Asda have a habit of delivering perishable food out of date I personally dislike the whole idea of milk not dated! As for Asda and my annoyance at their delivery which started this threat, a fiver voucher to compensate for their poor service offered, nah, no thanks i have binned you for a while at least, I do like variety and not sticking with the same delivery but I'm off elsewhere for the short-term at least. Asda you are relegated!

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Has anyone, in the entire history of womankind, EVER had any luck with 'ripen at home' avocados?

 

[clapham_gull]

Amazon Fresh 2 hour delivery.

 

[WATFORD zero]

Has anyone, in the entire history of womankind, EVER had any luck with 'ripen at home' avocados?

If they are that variety that stay rock hard on the outside while going brown/black inside, then yes.

But what do you expect if you're not a feeler-squeezer-sniffer

 

[Goldstone1976]

Has anyone, in the entire history of womankind, EVER had any luck with 'ripen at home' avocados?

Define luck.

If you mean ‘wait until they’ve gone hard enough to use as hard core’ then I’m the luckiest man in the world.