Online Food Shopping

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xane

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/24790.html

Report into how the various supermarkets are fairing with online shopping.

We converted to online shopping last year, orginally with Sainsbury's. It was great and sure beats the hell out of trudging round aisles for hours. Once you have "favourite" lists set up you can do shopping in around 15 minutes.

Then Sainsbury's started missing important stuff, like milk and bread. Eventually we got fed up and transferred to Tesco, a much better website but after a few weeks they've started playing up too, this weeks shopping excluded both milk and bread !

Anyone else get these problems ?
 
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Kempo

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we ahve been using online shopping at tescos for a while now, they dont usually miss the important stuff (milk bread eggs etc) but they do sometimes miss strange things, i mean stuff that has never ever been out of stock when you go shopping there they say is out of stock when you do it online, very strange.
 
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bigbigt0

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I shop online wiv tescos. A couple of times they have substituted things they can't supply (gettin to like this tesco's cream soda :)) On two occasions there has been an 'extra' item tho, once a tube of tomato puree and once a jar of nescafe 'alta rica' :rolleyes:

bigt :clap:
 
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Embattle

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Food shopping.....isn't that what parents are for :p
 
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old.samm

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Online food shopping worries me a bit. I personally (I know its going to sound wierd) like to go food shopping. I worry mainly about fresh produce, like when you're buying fruiit and veg etc you don't just pick up the nearest thing you hunt around for the freshest. I always thought that if you bought online you'd get stuck with the shit stuff that theyt couldn't sell. However if this is wrong then John can start doing the shopping from now on Woo hoo.
 
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xane

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Maybe for me its a bit different, I have a family and as such used to get a weekly shopping bill in excess of £100 on a regular basis, using the online shopping has cut this back dramatically as we only order stuff we actually need, none of the "oh that looks nice I'll try it" tendancies you get in a hunter/gatherer instinct. This far outweighs the £5 delivery charge :)

Fresh fruit and veg is not a problem as we get these delivered from an organic farm anyway, luvverly stuff and much better than even the fresher supermarket crap.
 
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Summo

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Yer lazy bastiges

You all want to get open-top sports cars. That way every trip outside is a joy. I even do bits of my house-mates shopping now, so I can go out driving with some sense of purpose.

In fact I can pick you all up some stuff if you want. I don't mind. Anywhere in the country. Scotland might be nice. Make a trip of it.

Please note that overseas deliveries carry a ferry-charge.
 
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Moving Target

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Originally posted by Embattle
Food shopping.....isn't that what parents are for :p
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Well, most of us left our parents unlike you :p
 
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old.samm

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Yeh Theres nothing like arriving at Tesco to do your shooping with hair like a birds nest, but if you're offering............





PS. I've just received and email to say that we failed sending you the piccys just in case you thought you'd lost them. hee hee
 
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S-Gray

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my Sis inLaw uses Tesco Online.. she likes it... everytime i go Bros house she's invaded his computer on the tesco website :D
 
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Embattle

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Originally posted by Moving Target


Well, most of us left our parents unlike you :p
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Green eyed monster....you didn't leave yours, they left you :p
 
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Damini

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I actually heard an interesting theory on why women spend more in supermarkets than men. Its the hunter/gatherer thing.

Men will just head straight to the meat section, pick up the largest reddest slab of something dead they can carry, and slope off to the check out, maybe grabbing some peanuts or anything essential on the way. As a generalisation. They will buy what they want to eat that night, or what is necessairy to survive. Man is the hunter.

Woman is the gatherer. We will scuttle around supermarkets, and if we see Marzipan on special offer, we will buy it because one day in the future we might have relatives coming over who like cake, and then we can make minature dogs out of marzipan to go on top of the cake. My cupboard is full of sauce sachets just bought just on a whim, sachets like orange and olive flavour sauce, or anchovie suprise. I discovered when we moved that I had been carrying about the same tins of potatos I had bought and never fancied eating in the first year of uni everywhere I had moved since, and they were now two years out of date. This, chaps, is because us women are the gatherers. We will stockpile decay flavoured pasta if its going cheap, Just In Case.

As a gatherer, I couldn't even contemplate using an online supermarket. I need to rummage with frantic energy through the dented tins section. Who knows when I'll find that all consuming tin of rambutans reduced? What if I miss the cheap liver sausage?!!?!

So, if this theory holds true, online shopping should appeal alot more to men than women. Its never going to be my thing.

I bought some pork things for ten pence today. And some egg fried rice for 5p. To hell with your online shopping!
 
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mr.Blacky

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and here is me, that believes why women go more often to supermarkts, is caus they believe the rumour that the supermarkt is the best pick up place ;)
 
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old.samm

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Yeah cause you completely feel relaxed etc after youve had to ram tem old biddies out the way who decide the best plasce to hold the saturday coffee morning is reight in the middle of the loo roll aisle. Not to mention the idiots who have nbo control over their trolleys so either crash into you or decide to abandone the trolley paralel to another abandoned trolley thus blocking the aisle again.

Maybe online shopping isnt so bad.
 
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Kempo

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I ran out of eggs this morning, summo you wouldnt mind would you?
 
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*Kornholio*

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LOL Damini - that's exactly what my shopping sessions are like with my missus... I wanna rush right in & grab what's needed, she does the hunting around & the 'impulse' buying... along with the 'gathering'... we're tempted to try the online thing (read : i've nearly persuaded her) but have heard some horror stories... might try it this weekend & let you all know how it went :)
 
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Moving Target

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Originally posted by Embattle


Green eyed monster....you didn't leave yours, they left you :p
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Well I was over 18 at the time... :p
 
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Embattle

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Originally posted by Moving Target


Well I was over 18 at the time... :p
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Don't lie......I found you in chip newspaper and full of shit...how ironic that some things never change :p
 
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Moving Target

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And why were you scrounging in the streets huh!? Tramp :p
 
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Embattle

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Originally posted by Moving Target
And why were you scrounging in the streets huh!? Tramp :p
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Just some litter I started to kick until I found you in it.....then I booted it :p
 
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