Post by: loulou on April 10, 2006, 12:54:47 am
Post by: smurfboy on April 10, 2006, 03:44:45 am
Post by: oldspice on April 10, 2006, 08:55:07 am
Tesco may be the biggest supermarket chain but the quality they used to offer is no longer there. Their fruit and vegetables are terrible, their stores offer a poor range and their staff are clueless.
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on April 10, 2006, 09:26:18 am
Post by: goldencup on April 10, 2006, 10:35:49 am
Tesco may be the biggest supermarket chain but the quality they used to offer is no longer there. Their fruit and vegetables are terrible, their stores offer a poor range and their staff are clueless.
Sainsbury's products and staff are way superior. In my area anyway.
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on April 10, 2006, 01:51:17 pm
I agree, Sainsbury's is better but ours is difficult to get to and far away. I can't buy anything frozen there as it will defrost by the time I get it home!
Post by: minty on April 10, 2006, 01:54:45 pm
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on April 10, 2006, 02:09:48 pm
If they don't have what you want they just bung in any old thing - and when they do have what you want, you always get what's only just in date.
I like to choose what I buy so I don't think I would use online grocery shopping even if it were available to me. I buy practically everything else online though.
Post by: chocolate chick on April 10, 2006, 02:34:21 pm
Post by: smurfboy on April 10, 2006, 04:22:29 pm
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on April 10, 2006, 04:29:56 pm
Exactly - you don't want any old bunch of bananas that some chimp from the warehouse has shoved in!
I heard the chimp in the banana warehouse got fired for stealing.
Post by: smurfboy on April 10, 2006, 04:31:05 pm
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on April 10, 2006, 04:45:53 pm
I believe the packers cannot be bothered to look for the items I've ordered so throw in anything.
And in terms of packing, how is it delivered to you? Tins at the bottom with nothing squashed, or just thrown in the crate any old way?
Post by: loulou on April 10, 2006, 08:39:22 pm
It comes well packed. All seperated into different bags, fruit, veg, cleaning stuff, petfood, frozen. I cannot complain there but it's when the driver gets out the substituted list it all goes wrong. I never order meat as I know they would send the scraggy looking fatty stuff with the next days date on.
I shop online because I don't have time to go to the supermarket and when I do I can't carry all the petfood and soap powder from where i park my car to my flat.
Post by: on April 10, 2006, 09:10:06 pm
We only have one Tesco in the whole of my shire! Possibly as a result it is good with decent service. (Yes, I do, Lou in case you wondered about the housing activities).
Maybe it's me
, more likely they have to attract from all the Somerfields, Asdas and Morrisons here.
Post by: chocolate chick on April 11, 2006, 11:14:31 am
Post by: chocadmin on April 11, 2006, 01:19:46 pm
I've tried Ocado (waitrose) and Tesco (I think thats who it was 
). Ocado were very good, but then you're paying a premium for waitrose food and there tend not to be many offers unlike other supermarkets (none of morrisons 150+ bogof offers).
What I really object to (and the Wife suffers me going on and on about whenever someone mentions online groceries) is that they charge for delivery. Why should I pay for an inferior service compared to choosing my own, they should be encouraging me to buy online as its far cheaper to operate an online service plus delivery vehicles than a large store. Then they wouldn't have to build stores as big and have as large an area for parking etc.etc. I think Ocado have got it right (stuff comes from a warehouse rather than a store and is selected/packed by properly trained/supervised staff), just a shame they're expensive and still charge for delivery.
I don't think Iceland ever charged for delivery but I've never used them (my freezer's not got enough space for most of the stuff from there anyway ).
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on April 11, 2006, 01:48:21 pm
Our neighbours get a delivery from Iceland every week!
Post by: smurfboy on April 11, 2006, 02:04:43 pm
Post by: chocolate chick on April 11, 2006, 02:22:09 pm
Post by: smurfboy on April 11, 2006, 03:13:08 pm
Post by: chocolate chick on April 11, 2006, 03:33:52 pm
Post by: smurfboy on April 11, 2006, 03:46:05 pm
The reduced section is great! If I go shopping and don't get at least one thing marked down I am very unhappy
The best trick is at Tesco if they have any BOGOF products reduced - always buy two, even if you don't want to. The bacode system recognises the price reduction, but also the BOGOF at the original price - therefore you end up actually making money!
Post by: chocolate chick on April 11, 2006, 04:52:59 pm
The mini pancakes I mentioned should have been 1.38 for for 24 but I got them for 24p. And my 8 crumpets were 8p!
Post by: kevvosa on April 11, 2006, 06:59:49 pm
I got a refund for some of the stuff.
Post by: loulou on April 13, 2006, 08:49:38 pm
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Post by: kevvosa on April 13, 2006, 09:25:30 pm
Tesco charge £3.99, £4.99 or £5.99 for delivery depending on what day you choose but 9/10 times they don't come at the proper time and will be up to 4 hours late.
Asda delivered way too late for me, I was waiting half the day for the delivery.
Post by: lorri on April 15, 2006, 03:54:01 pm
Tesco charge £3.99, £4.99 or £5.99 for delivery depending on what day you choose but 9/10 times they don't come at the proper time and will be up to 4 hours late.
your tesco sound really bad, i have used the home delivery from ours for about 4 years and i always click the do not substitue button so i only get what i order and to be fair to them its rare for them to not deliver more than 1 ordered product, which reading other peoples experiences sounds like i have been very lucky, they delivered yesterday and i had booked 1-3pm and at 1.20 they phoned to let me know they would be about an hour which is something they seen to do as routine here if they are not going to get to you in the first hour of the booked time, also if u look on line u can find voucher codes for £5 off a £50 shop that people have posted, i have not paid for delivery for 18 months
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on April 20, 2006, 01:29:29 pm