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to be confused by this supermarket behaviour

94 replies

SecretWineBox · 19/09/2015 22:20

Why do people get taxis back from supermarkets with a big weekly shop, when the supermarket delivers for a couple of quid?

I really don't get this - there is even a special taxi phone near the exit. Surely this can't be cost effective?

Also, why on earth do people wander round the shop with increasingly bored/irritated children to do said weekly shop, when said shop delivers?

I see people combining both of the above, is this some form of masochism?

I get it all delivered - drop in occasionally to get the odd thing.

Why? This has been bugging me for ages....

OP posts:
gandalf456 · 19/09/2015 22:37

Computer illiteracy

foxessocks · 19/09/2015 22:37

Sorry a mum or a dad with a grumpy child.

TheSkiingGardener · 19/09/2015 22:37

Habit I should think. If that's the way you've always done it and you are happy then why not?

MrsPresley · 19/09/2015 22:39

Well my Dad is in his 80s and likes to do his own shopping for him and mum.

He wouldn't know how to do an online shop and he still likes a 1/4 of chopped pork Grin

Plus if he gets a taxi home, the driver always helps him to take his messages in the house Smile

lottiegarbanzo · 19/09/2015 22:39

I used to use a taxi for a large shop every six weeks or so. It cost £5. Then I move to delivery, which cost £5. It is only in the last 2-3 years that delivery prices have dropped to £1-2 for an unpopular slot. Popular ones still cost £5-6.

I don't want to waste time traipsing around a supermarket, some people like doing that, are habituated to it or feel it is necessary for some reason. Also, not everyone has access to the internet at home, know how to do an online shop or wish to find out.

MidniteScribbler · 19/09/2015 22:44

Because I don't buy all of my groceries from large chain supermarkets who deliver. I buy in bulk from Costco, I get my fruit and veg from the markets, my meat directly from suppliers. If I'm going in to one of the big supermarkets it is just to pick up a last minute item or two and it's not worth the online shop. I only did online shopping when I was housebound for a couple of months due to illness. I don't want someone else picking out my groceries for me.

BaronessEllaSaturday · 19/09/2015 22:45

taxi home from the supermarket costs £2.50 for me which is less than the delivery cost it also means I'm not stuck with the minimum order value and come next month not stuck with being charged for bags that I have no choice over getting (I do give them all back again).

AgentZigzag · 19/09/2015 22:47

Think of all the juicy aisle rage and check out incidents MN would miss out on if we only shopped online.

The consequences of the huge decrease in hoiking judgements would be catastrophic for DC and DHs everywhere.

You haven't thought this through at all have you OP?

steppemum · 19/09/2015 22:54

I prefer to go and shop instead of on-line.

It isn't that I like supermarkets, but I prefer to shop that way, for example, I want to chose my bananas.

Lots of people do not actually have computer access believe it or not.

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SecretWineBox · 19/09/2015 23:00

I clearly haven't Agent!

So there are practical reasons for this behaviour and I'm not living in a town populated by mad masochists.

I'd rather tear out my own eyes than spend an hour in a supermarket.

Maybe I have been lucky but I rarely get subs (meat and veg we get delivered from a farm - poncy I know).

Also, people who take 25 min to choose a pot of yogurt. Move.

OP posts:
QOD · 19/09/2015 23:09

Just can't stand the thought of someone taking food ftom the front of the display!
I'm a date digger

Prelude · 19/09/2015 23:14

People go to actual supermarkets because they want to put the divider length ways on the conveyer belt.

Uh, duh.

Grin
MissingPanda · 19/09/2015 23:18

Erm...Aldi don't deliver...do they? Confused

AgentZigzag · 19/09/2015 23:22

I go because I like to chat to whoever's on the check out long after I've paid for my shopping Prelude.

It's a good lesson in patience and anger management for the people behind me in the queue.

AgentZigzag · 19/09/2015 23:23

I also like to get into deep conversations with people I know in passing right in the middle of the aisle so nobody can get past.

Original poster
SecretWineBox · 19/09/2015 23:26

Oooooo Agent, your time will come......

Bet you're a dreaded yogurt-ditherer too....

Grin
OP posts:
Prelude · 19/09/2015 23:26

You sound like my kind of fellow shopper AZ Smile

margeys · 19/09/2015 23:27

ALDI and LIDL don't deliver, sadly.

ouryve · 19/09/2015 23:29

You can't get the final day reductions with an online shop.

You don't get your pick of the best fresh stuff with an online shop. I've given up ordering any more than the odd bit of veg from Sainsburys because I end up throwing out more than I eat, particularly broccoli, which always ends up having caterpillar eggs in every single nook and cranny and goes mouldy in a day if the cabbage whites left it alone.

Or I order one of the uniform 347g £5 packs of lamb rump steaks and end up with one over an inch thick and another that's more reasonable, but 50% fat and sinew.

ExasperatedAlmostAlways · 19/09/2015 23:32

Can't be arsed sitting doing an Internet shop and deciding what to have. I also think it's much easier seeing the offers on inside the shop than on the net. I prefer to choose my own food and Check iv got the meat with least fat,blood bits, the longest sell by dates etc. I don't like Internet food shopping at all.

AgentZigzag · 19/09/2015 23:35

Grin I don't really, I'm a quick in/out kind of shopper really and want to drop kick people who hold me up but I do like stealthily dropping farts behind The Unsuspecting before silently moving away up the veg aisle

HackerFucker22 · 19/09/2015 23:43

I get all the heavy stuff delivered fortnightly but I live close to a Sainsbo's, Waitrose, Tesco and M&S so end up going in to at least one of them daily. I literally past them though!

HackerFucker22 · 19/09/2015 23:44

*pass

Kaekae · 19/09/2015 23:45

I drive to the supermarket but if I couldn't then I would rather get a taxi than home shop because I like to choose my own fruit and veg and make sure I get decent use by dates on the products I buy.

I also agree with this:
Why do people bring their kids with them - because they've no one to leave them with, because it won't damage a child do to something they don't particularly like, because it's part of family life, to show them how to budget, pick ingredients, put a meal together.

MakeItACider · 19/09/2015 23:47
  • I loathe shopping online.
  • I go shopping when I need to, I hate having to decide several days ahead what I want.
  • I'm picky with the produce and meat.
  • Can't stand the substitutions they offer.
  • I like having sandwich meat lasting for the week, instead of only having 2 days left before expiry.
  • I like reading the ingredients list

And most of all, how else will children know how to shop wisely themselves? Isn't it a skill that needs to be taught?