Crappiest/best substitutions...

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Here's mine.....

Flapfuckingjacks....instead of a tin of chocolates. Why not just use another brand???

So annoying...

"juice drink" instead of orange juice. 2 weeks running!

It's like surely the person scanning must be doing it for shigs n gigs

Newborn nappies instead of the size 5 pull ups I ordered. They're a bit of a squeeze on my 3 year old...

I don't really get why another brand or type wouldn't be considered but hey, what do I know.

Last night out was a shop had 6 substitutes, all equally ridiculous. Got a packet of toilet training wipes instead of nappy bags, fresh orange juice swapped for cranberry, chocolate chip cookies swapped for bourbons, blackcurrant squash swapped to barley juice, coke swapped to lemonade and worst of all, dog food swapped to cat food.

They also had no bread apparently.

Oh I once ordered 6 chicken breasts (was making fajitas for a good few people).

I received 18 packets of sandwich wafer chicken

last Christmas my Bendicts after dinner mints got subbed for a packet of Trebor Extra Strong Mints. Sad times.

This was my karen moment ..

I ordered a mini bottle of brandy only needed it for the cake

They subbed it for a litre!

I had cat food subbed for the same brand, but dog food.

The driver was mortified.

Apparently one week there was absolutely no toilet paper to be had in the store so I was substituted for wet wipes. Not a terrible substitute as such just hard to believe there wasn't a single roll of toilet roll in the shop! Got no nappy pants yesterday, not substituted for anything. Bloody annoying as obviously I have to go out for them now!

There was a really funny thread on here on Valentine’s Day, op had ordered her partner some kind of chocolate loveheart thing iirc, and her substitute was a roll of tinfoil!!

ordered tinned jackfruit (to make veggie curry)

tinned fruit cocktail delivered!

Best received 2 x 1.5 litres of Absolute vodka instead of 2 0.5 litres of Smirnoff.

Worst received packet of ginger nut biscuits instead of stem ginger.

And avocado instead of nectarines.

Some of these are ridiculous! My worst was regular plain white loo roll got substituted for coconut scented Andrex. Who on the world wants scented loo roll? And worst of all was that it made everything in the delivery with it smell of synthetic coconut too.

I'm still not over the time around 5 years ago, that Asda substituted a pair of pillows with a pair of pillowcases.

It's madness, just choose a different brand? They could have used heroes as an alternative tin or celebrations. . Flapjacks though. Meh.

Worst: apparently there was no substitute whatsoever for the Pinot Grigio I ordered!!

These are hilarious.

I once ordered a pack of chicken breasts, received pork & beef meatballs.

Today, for the second week running I received jalapeno and cheese coated peanuts instead of wasabi coated peanuts. I'm devastated, I don't eat cheese. DH likes them but that's not the point.

I’ve had a mildly annoying substitution once 7 years ago and I immediately turned off substitutions and have never done them since. The mildly annoying sub? I had selected sardines in extra virgin olive oil and they sent me sardines in sunflower oil. I was genuinely aghast they would sub sunflower oil for EVOO. The two simply do not compare. I told my Italian roommate at the time and we just shook our heads in amazement and disgust at the literal bad taste of the shopping picker. Why didn’t they just give me another brand in EVOO? SIGH.

Big multipack of 24 packets of crisps substituted for a multipack of 6 packets. Not 4x6 packets. Just 6 packets. Not much use with 2 teens!

Spinach and ricotta tortellini subbed with sausage meat tortellini. Helpful for a vegetarian.

Free from cakes for my mums birthday picnic replaced with "normal" cake. So the birthday girl couldn't actually eat them.

Best was when Morrisons replaced my jar of sliced jalapeños with a jar of... sliced jalapeños. Same size jar. Same brand. Same price. Although the stock photo was different

And not an online sub, but similar. Way back in the first lockdown my mum would pick up anything she thought would be useful (and non perishable) for me and my brothers household on her rare trip to a shop. (I don't drive and couldn't get an online shop at all). She would drop bags off on our doorsteps. One week she dropped off a couple of loo rolls, biscuits, bread etc and a couple of packs of incontinence pads. When I checked if she'd given me someone else's shopping she said she thought they were sanitary towels, had no idea if I needed them and bought them 'just in case' without actually checking the packet TBF they did the job!

The first one says diary milk, so I'm surprised you weren't sent a diary for 2022.

My best sub was when the supermarket was unable to supply my requested book of 6 first class stamps, so they substituted (at no additional cost) with a book of 12 first class stamps - bonus!!!!

I want to know how they decide between substituting a vaguely related item, and telling you something is out of stock. For example, today's shop - persil non bio powder - out of stock. Did they really have no other brand, no liquid or those little capsule things to offer at all?? I can't believe they didn't. But mini packs of gingerbread men unavailable, offered pack of party rings instead, no idea why unless it was the nearest biscuit. There must be some logic to it but I just can't see it!

We recently had those little hot hand warmer things that you snap to activate substituted with a car washing sponge!

Apparently they are in the same department so it's the 'nearest' substitute!

My best one was a small £2 single serve can of Seedlip and Grapefruit tonic was subbed with a full bottle of Seedlip which is about £30! That got me through the whole of dry January! Result!