To be unimpressed with this substitution

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I know these are difficult times but FFS Sainsburys! If I order a box of wine and it's not available, surely you should sub it for another box? Or perhaps 3 bottles so it's a similar amount. Not a single 18.7cl bottle. It's neither use nor ornament!

@Originalyellowbelly
Use Pets at Home - we got loads of litter and whiskas delivered 3 wks ago and last wk. Might be a few quid more, but at least you get what you want!

Someone on MN ordered white wine, and got grapes instead. She didn’t want DIY wine!

I ordered a family pack of kids yoghurt pouches (18) and recieved as a substitution just one singular pouch. Useful!

@Villageidiots my post is most certainly not made up!

Bohai I had a proper,real laugh out loud moment at your carrots sub

I once had a trowel subbed for a hand towel...

I ordered 1kg bag of sugar no substitute available thanks Sainsburs. Went to pound shop and saved 30p on bag of sugar.

I got fed up with Sainsbury's subbing things, so pretty much everything is now on the "do not sub" list. I noticed that they pretty much always subbed for an own-brand item that was vaguely close, rather than a branded item which was the same, so I'd order Sainsbury's own frozen petis pois, and they'd give me Sainsbury's frozen sweetcorn, rather than Birds Eye petis pois. Don't know if this is just my local shop, or general policy, but it irritated me. I now get most of my shopping from Morrison's.

Mine's not made up at all @Villageidiots. Why would I? If you're not interested scroll on.

At Easter I ordered a few Easter Eggs for my friends family as they were having to isolate and I was dropping off a full food shop anyway...

They were all just the ordinary 'medium' eggs, they delivered 3 and said nothing suitable substitute' for the 4th

HUGE supermarket - not one spare Easter Egg - bollocks!! (Luckily I had some fancy beer in, so I told the Dad the Easter Bunny thought he'd prefer that!!)

A while ago I ordered a single piece of fresh ginger. I got about 6 ENORMOUS pieces.

During lock down I've had a few 'no suitable substitute' where it would have been very easy to substitute, but I guess they're exhausted and fed up - so 🤷🏻‍♀️

I had a couple of strange ones,but struggling to remember what they were now?!

My funniest one was when they substituted bubble bath for femfresh 🤣

I order regularly online with Sainsburys and the driver told me the pickers have to go by what the computer suggests for a substitute

Years ago I ordered a 1 & 7 candles for my sons 17th birthday cake they sent a 7 & 0! I actually posted it to Tesco’s twitter page and saw the funny side of it!

I don't even care if some are made up, still v amusing

OP I share your frustration - I order in large quantities because I have large family. I'm beginning to despair of the number of times they substitute with an item half the size. Just the one. In what computer program resides the algorithm that says no you can't have two times that half size item?

Though I did have a beneficial substitution a while ago - instead of 12 loose tomatoes I got 12 packs of tomatoes (ie 72)!

I absolutely love these threads, they have me howling with laughter 😂

I got 5 useless subs which aren't as bad as many other, but I ticked 'no substitutions' on those items (and no, I do not make shit up to post on Mumsnet.)
Bag of mixed veg instead of cauliflower cheese.
Bio washing powder instead of my hypoallergenic one.
Fuck off with your peas instead of mixed stir fry veg. I already have peas.

I work as a picker. Substitutions are generated by the computer. Tbh if they look ridiculous I put them as out of stock 🙂 please don’t blame the pickers lots of us are also very new and learning on the job 🙂

@villageidiots hopefully this will post

A 4 pack of tins of dog food for a box of herbal tea. I don’t have a dog.

@Villageidiots

@swampytiggaa I always assume it’s a ridiculous computer-generated substitution rather than anything else. The drivers always laugh when you get something a bit silly.

We got a free Easter egg from Sainsbury’s. It was a kit kat one, which I definitely did not order (because I only ordered eggs with no gluten in them). It wasn’t a substitution. Nor was it listed on the receipt.

The driver said that I could just keep it (so DH got an extra egg). I felt bad because it must have gotten into the wrong crate and someone would be missing an Easter egg they had paid for (and presumably needed). It was the Saturday of Easter weekend.

I guess once it had passed my doorstep the driver wasn’t able to take it back though.

Oh another sub I got was 2 packs of bistro gravy for 2 cans of sardines.

I told the driver to take it away but later realised it was a substitution as the sardines were missing.