Supermarket subs that miss the mark

[1frenchfoodie]

Why oh why Sainsbury’s think my order of chopped tomatoes from KTC think I was demonstrating brand loyalty vs need for tomatoes and sub for KTC kidney beans? Really not going to work for pizza topping.

Same shop subbed sliced ham for smoked salmon.

Please, console me with your equally ridiculous subs.

Marzipan for chocolate. It was a no thank you from me.

We ordered 4 tins of vegetable soup

They obviously didnt have any…so did they send leek and potato soup? Or tomato soup (its veg for my purposes) or even chunky veg soup

Nope

Vegetable curry

Went in the food bank

Ordered quorn sausages

And what did they send?

Meat sausages

(Ive got rid of the subs thing on my order now….pointless)

I keep getting toilet roll instead of kitchen roll...

A box of tissues instead of a packet of sanitary towels.

I also had pork sausages in place of veggie sausages. Veggie anything would have been a better swap.

I ordered egg white powder last Christmas, needed it for a recipe. They sent yeast. Not even close 🤣

In the early.days of supermarket.deliveroes I ordered a pretty.'normal' weekly shop.
Everything was fine except.the salt and vinegar. I ordered a normal sized saxo salt or what have you and a small bottle of brown vinegar.

I ended up with a ginormpus bag of cooking type salt.that I could have gritted half the roads in town with and a massive 4 litre bottle of white vinegar. They lasted me about 2 years I think.

Years ago. I had ordered olive oil based margarine. The substitution was a Daily Mail. Never ordered from the supermarket again.

Apparently last week there was no huge washing powder (massive pack for GBP12 special offer) or indeed any washing powder of any brand which is why they sent Flash Floor Cleaner .
(Incidentally, upon visiting the store later that day they did have the huge GBP12 washing powder but it was on top of the top shelves with a sticker saying ‘Reserved for Jeremy/Bakery’ - two of them

@nocoolnamesleft

Years ago. I had ordered olive oil based margarine. The substitution was a Daily Mail. Never ordered from the supermarket again.

WTF?? 😂

I think @nocoolnamesleft just won this thread

I had an amazing substitution during lockdown one. Ordered two spinach & ricotta pizzas... Got two Margherita pizzas, a bag of spinach and a tub of ricotta, was very impressed with the pickers ingenuity!

Nail polish remover instead of antiperspirant!

@Daisymclazy

I had an amazing substitution during lockdown one. Ordered two spinach & ricotta pizzas... Got two Margherita pizzas, a bag of spinach and a tub of ricotta, was very impressed with the pickers ingenuity!

I got thickening granules instead of cornflour Which would have been great but I needed the cornflour to use to make carrot chips

Chicken nuggets instead of chicken breast (fresh) was bad enough but in the same shop they supplied newborn nappies in place of the size 4 toddler pants I ordered!

Not a funny one, just annoying. This week I ordered 8 litres of milk, they sent 2. I went to the shop to see with my own eyes, they had a fcuk tonne of the exact milk I wanted.
Why do they make these dick moves?

I ordered vegetarian sausages which were replaced with beef sausages.

Ordered quorn mince for a chilli

Got quorn nuggets

Which my dad said was a perfectly reasonable sub as its all quorn

Thereby completely missing the bloody point

A knitting magazine instead of a birthday card

Nivea lip balm replaced with nivea hand cream. I know they had other lip balms in stock. Definitely a weird brand thing.

@Blahdyblahbla

Not a funny one, just annoying. This week I ordered 8 litres of milk, they sent 2. I went to the shop to see with my own eyes, they had a fcuk tonne of the exact milk I wanted. Why do they make these dick moves?

They start picking at 5am. If you had an early delivery it would have been before their deliveries arrived.

They don't deliberately fail to fulfil orders for shits and giggles

@Blahdyblahbla

Not a funny one, just annoying. This week I ordered 8 litres of milk, they sent 2. I went to the shop to see with my own eyes, they had a fcuk tonne of the exact milk I wanted. Why do they make these dick moves?

I once ordered a basic item (can't remember, but bread or milk type of thing) and on delivery was told the item was unavailable. I mentioned to the driver that I found it hard to believe they had NO other bread or milk, or whatever it was, to provide as a substitute. He said, well you might find these items are in stock in the store now, but at X o'clock in the middle of the night when they were picking your order, they will have been out of stock because an expected delivery was late.

Oops, x-post with Clymene.

Some of the subs that other posters have received (meat products for veggie/vegan items) must have been really annoying. Other subs mentioned have made me smile, though (e.g. the Daily Mail for margarine, or a knitting mag for a birthday card). I wonder if those pickers had a sense of humour, or were just too tired to think straight?

Even more annoying at my Tesco click and collect when you reject the rubbish subs you never get refunded!

I ordered 24 pack of Pedigree chum dog food pouches but they bought 24 pack of whiskers cat food pouches.
I don’t have a cat. Why not bring different dog food brand or smaller pack size. Or just not sub. I found it funny and just rejected the sub.