Best supermarket delivery substitution ever?

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Unless of course someone out there has had a better one!

Occasionally if I know I am going to have a night in on my own I order a half bottle of champagne to come with the supermarket shop. I make myself a sandwich, put on something comfy and snuggle up on the settee with a book or box set and enjoy not having to share my fizz.

In the past I have done this on a Tesco delivery and when the half bottles haven’t been in stock they’ve substituted a full bottle of Cava or Prosecco instead. These always get sent back. Spanish or Italian sparkling wine is not a reasonable substitute for champagne IMO.

Yesterday I had a Waitrose delivery instead as I wanted some stuff that Tesco doesn’t stock and added a treat half bottle as I knew all the family would be out with DH to celebrate Father’s Day tonight. Imagine my delight when the shopping arrived and instead of my half bottle of Waitrose champagne (£11.99), they had substituted a full size bottle of Moët & Chandon (don’t know how much that costs as it’s out of my league). Now that’s a GOOD substitution.

I’ve just opened it and am about to settle down and watch episode 5 of Game of Thrones (I’ve been away so need to catch up). If the family hurry home there might even be some left for them.

Tesco:

Ordered: 8 rashers of bacon
Received: a large family size joint of gammon ham

Ordered: shaving razors
Received: shaving foam

Ordered Tiger Bread
Received A box of Maltesers

Would love to know the thought process behind that

Outing myself here but in the very early days of online shopping, Tesco sent me Caesar salad dressing instead of shower gel!

From asda, ordered two packs of peeled maris pipers so I could make quick mash, received two sacks of spuds.
From tesco ordered a small piece of value steak, received a large pack of their finest ribeye!
Enjoy your bubbly op!

Ordered a Birthday card.
They sent a knitting magazine

Ooh good sub! Think my best was when two bags of standard prawns worth £3.50 a bag was subbed for two packets of langoustines worth £8.50 per packet.

Most random was when a packet of bog standard pork sausages was subbed for a Linda McCartney vegetarian crisp duck kit. I have no idea how they arrived at that one 🤷‍♀️

My big annoyance is ordering a gluten free something (I'm coeliac) and being subbed the ordinary version instead. Yes Tesco, let's pretend I was ordering the 3xmore expensive, 3xless tasty version for fun 🙈

I once was sent massive sanitary towels instead of pampers nappies.
A Muslim friend was sent pork instead of halal chicken- bit naughty that!

Often ASDA send their premium range instead of the basic range as replacements. Had a few nice surprises there!

Ordered fresh strawberries, got tinned strawberries in syrup. I can see the logic, sort of.

Ordered a pregnancy test
Got condoms.

I had to laugh

I ordered 1kg of stewing beef which they replaced with 1kg of fillet steak, and they even called me to make sure I was happy with the substitution (naturally I said yes)!

Our turkey crown for two at Christmas got subbed for a turkey big enough for about 14 people. It barely fit in our oven and we were eating turkey for a week (including the dog).

We ordered alcohol free beer and got sent a litre of vodka.

Screw in light bulbs when we ordered bayonet.

Sweet potato/paneer masala (from Tesco's new vegetarian range) substituted with duck in hoisen sauce.

I used to work in online shopping, the computer chooses the substitute and the employee doesn’t always bother to override it.

One shop I did; order was fish pie, computer’s substitution was beef stew. I said hell no and picked up the branded fish pie instead!

My sister in law sent relatives' Christmas gifts through a sort of supermarket in a different country. For her niece she ordered a soft toy in the shape of dog; the sub was dog poo bags to the value of the soft toy. It was a lot of dog poo bags.

Ordered: rice
Got: bananas

Similar to Undies1990- ordered 2 packs of birthday balloons (age 6) from Tesco but these were substituted for one pack age 5 and one pack age 1

Not a substitution, but I think our Tesco employed a new packer a few months ago as for 3 consecutive weeks we were sent a lemon as a lime. Quite worrying that anyone has made it to adulthood with such a limited knowledge of fruit.

Not online shopping but my husband was going to the supermarket and o added “Always Ultra (green pack)” to the list. He came back with the attached.

Last Christmas I ordered two pork chops. Had a whole gammon delivered instead.

Ordered night tune pull ups and they delivered bed mats. I kind of liked the ingenuity of that one.

Ordered: party platter of 20 sandwiches
Received: one single tuna sandwich 🤦‍♀️

Ordered a miniature Ciroc vodka for a Christmas stocking - got subbed for a litre bottle but only charged £3!

I ordered a very small bottle of gin, it was substituted for a 1l bottle! And was price matched !!!

@VodselForDinner I laughed out loud at that- it's something my DH would do! Fecking idiots