Lazy shopper

Sainsbury's must ahve heard your clals because they now have a delivery guarantee!

We may be lazy shoppers too. We have used the delivery service from Tesco and Asda.

We now generally go there in person.
We have a database of all (almost) all the things we are likely to buy. We simply check off those items we need, and print out our list. It gives prices, aisle numbers (saves searching for ground nutmeg) and a box to check off the items as we get them.
We get what we want and are usually in and out in 30 minutes.

There is a wee bit of history in why this system was developed but that was a long time ago in another life.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE online shopping.  It's one of the best things about the UK, in my opinion. 

We've used Tesco, Sainsburys and Ocado (Waitrose) and by far the best service and quality of food is with Ocado.  They are really fantastic. 

Sainsbury's arrived late *every time* we ordered from them and they seemed to have some sort of compulsion to squash the bread and smash the eggs.  We only used them once or twice.

Tesco was horrendous.  They number of times they were late drove me to whipping out my American attitude more than once.  In fact, the worst was when they were 24 hours late....but kept telling me every time I called that "it was on it's way and would be with me within the hour"....which of course was a complete lie!  I waited up until 11:30pm for groceries that were due at 9am the previous morning.  They didn't ever show up that night and it was mid day the next day before they finally got around to us.  I was not a happy camper.  I think we got all our groceries free but we ended up wasting a whole weekend afraid to leave the house lest they show up finally!  Ugh.  So that was the end of Tesco.

I'm a big, big fan of Ocado though.  THey have one hour slots as opposed to the two hour ones everyone else has, they separate your food into coloured bags so the washing powder doesn't end up smashing the bread and the produce doesn't get infected by the chicken, etc.  And they always show up one time, if not early, have the most friendly drivers and every time I've ever had to contact them to change my delivery or anything they have had wonderful customer service.  I really think they are leaps and bounds above all the others out there.  Only complaint I have is that they stopped delivering on Sundays. 

Online shopping rules though....it's great for people on a budget and it's so friggin easy.  I'd be lost without it. 

I checked into Ocado last night. The prices were fair and seems orders over £75 are delivered for free so Im gonna give them a try next week. We havent had a prob with Tesco but the bread was a bit smashed yesterday. I have done other shopping online for years. In the USA I lived on Amazon.com and here I also use Amazon and of course Ebay. Pretty soon people will never have to leave their homes. What will society be like then!

Has anyone tried Iceland.com? I registered with them fuly intending to try them out but when I saw their delivery times are in 3 hour slots i changed my mind. Then guess what? Iceland started bombarding me with phone calls.  They kept calling me when  I was at work and I kept asking them to call me after 6 but they still kept calling during work time. After about the 6th call I got really angry and told them where they could stuff their online shopping. Didn't hear from them again.

I know what you mean about Tesco Becca abd the funny thing is I had stopped using them after a very late delivery but ended up using them just before Xmas last year when Ocado was booked up until after the New Year. They were bang on time 2 days before Xmas and have been bang on time ever since.  As I said above, I think they did heed my complaint and they are always on time now and sometimes they call and ask if it's ok to come a bit earlier.  We quite often get the same delivery guy and he is really friendly - except of course on the day I went into labour - tescoes came and I was at home by myself having contractions - the guy didn't know that but I think it was pretty obvious I was ready to pop - when I asked him to carry the shopping into the kitchen he huffed and puffed and said only if the kitchen wasn't too far away. I told him there was no way I oculkd bend down and pick up heavy bags of shopping right now. So anyway he started bringing all the bags in and he asked me when my baby was due, I said any minute, I'm in labour right now - you've never see anyone move so fast! Haha!!

Not the kind of delivery he was interested in making, I guess...

groan ...

I know what you mean about Tesco Becca abd the funny thing is I had stopped using them after a very late delivery but ended up using them just before Xmas last year when Ocado was booked up until after the New Year.

Ocado sent us an email acknowledging that they had that problem last year and now you can book your Christmas delivery NOW if you want! You have to commit to a £50 order right away, but you can amend it all you want in the meantime. Seems like everytime they have a f*** up they send an email and offer you something - we've had free delivery, a free bottle of wine, etc. usually due to them having low stock on things and stuff like that. Wishstar is right - their customer service really can't be beat.

We order our shopping through abel and cole http://www.able-cole.co.uk  It is an organic box scheme, so we get a mixed veggie/fruit box plus essentials like rice, tinned tomatoes and oil delivered every week.  They just come and leave the groceries in a specified place, I don't even have to be there.  Plus I get yummy surprise fruits and veg every week. 

Hey I know them, Katgold!  We got a flyer though the letterbox a couple of years ago and they looked really cool!  Never heard of anyone using that service though. You really like it, huh?  I think I may have to give them a try one of these days. 

Well I have just joined the Lazy shopper club! I had often thought about ordering online but never did until reading this wonderful thread! I just received my first order from Tesco-- very pleased.

I tried to tip the driver and was told "No, This isn't America."-- so curious now-- do you all tip the drivers??

Helena

I tipped the first time, but I haven't tipped since.

http://talk.uk-yankee.com/index.php?topic=3743.0

I tipped the first time, but I haven't tipped since.

http://talk.uk-yankee.com/index.php?topic=3743.0

Thanks for the link-- I must have missed that thread somehow--if only I had seen it earlier today ;-)

There is a wee bit of history in why this system was developed but that was a long time ago in another life.

Hi Cascode,

I hate to be the nosy one to ask, but I am really curious about the history of the shopping system!! I am intrigued..........

Regards,
Sheril.

Hi Cascode,

I hate to be the nosy one to ask, but I am really curious about the history of the shopping system!! I am intrigued..........

Regards,
Sheril.

I was a single father with a fairly high pressure job and three children to look after. Shopping, cooking, cleaning , washing, taxiing, school lunches, help with homework.......the whole nine yards.

To make shopping easier I generated a database of all the things we used.
We, me and the children, then went to the store with a printed list of what we needed. This had several benefits.
We each went to get different items of the list. This got it done in record time, but, more importantly, got the children involved.
I left a few wildcards so that they could each make a special choice.
And, because the database was comprehensive, we never ran out of anything.

That's enough of my personal history !!