Grrrr - over 15 items tesco subbed which I’ve had to return

[Fallagain]

Guess I’m going to the shops after all. How has everyone else done?

Mine was delivered yesterday, with no substitutions.

I did get a really good substitute- large Ferrero Rocher instead of the small box for the offer price!

@LefttoherownDevizes Aldi click and collect ? I've not heard of that before , wonder if that's everywhere ? Will investigate!

Only a couple of subs but a lot of food is dated before Xmas

@Odoreida we've done that for things like mince pies, chocolate,
alcohol . We're actually booked to go out for Christmas lunch but I've got frozen Turkey breast, roasties and stuffing mix in just in case !

@shinynewapple21 have a shiny new apple for your excellent organisation skills. I have a private catering company (or I do when there isn't a pandemic) and you have to be really systematic with ordering

Sainsbury’s- 10 subs, mostly sensible
Couple of questionable ones…

Crispy onions - beef jerky
Turkey gravy - bisto

I did get a really good substitute- large Ferrero Rocher instead of the small box for the offer price!

LOVE it when that happens. It should be a large one at Christmas after all!

I logged in yesterday to change some things & as I checked out it said that things I had previously ordered where uavailable & would be removed from my basket (frozen pigs in blankets & party food for boxing day). I need to go in & change something again so I wonder what will happen then.

Only one sub and it was crisps so non issue ☺️

Asda yesterday evening. Couple of like for like subs. Only thing not available was Quality Street. Order included all the Christmas veg, Christmas pudding etc. Decent dates too. Pleasantly surprised and relieved!

Mine hasn’t actually assumed yet so hoping dates are ok

We got a couple of good subs, like a bigger pack of smoked salmon than the one we ordered and paid for.

We’re not hosting, but had a big Asda shop yesterday - the only missing item was bread.

I'm waiting to find out if I need to do a trolley dash tomorrow. That's why i never book an online shop for later than the 22nd. I don't want to be anywhere near a shop on Christmas Eve with the last minute stressheads swarming everywhere.

do posters really think that once they've placed their order it's picked and sits in a basket until delivery? I might have got the wrong end of the stick but that's the impression I get from some of these posts.

Subs are to be expected this time of year. They just go round the shop like any other shopper.

I was fully expecting this when I collected yesterday but thankfully only had like for like switches on 3 things. I did forget broccoli and milk though 🤦🏼‍♀️

Ocado here. 3 subs. All very sensible. One (Pate) was actually my preferred brand which had showed as out of stock when ordering. Others were slightly bigger versions of what I ordered.

2 unavailable items, but neither vital, and one wasn't even needed anymore.

More subs and unavailable items than a normal week, but all the essentials and must haves were present and correct, and delivery was free so I am happy.

Yup, another 6 things removed when I checked out again - mince pies, which were already a change, Christmas Day breakfast and various other things. I wonder what will actually turn up tomorrow. At least I have Christmas eve to get anything that I'm missing.

Asda
Turkey crown unavailable. No sub offered.
Beef joint unavailable. No sub offered.

Sprouts - given a cabbage
Pancakes - given ice cream roll
Xmas pudding for 4 - given a 1 person gift boxed fruit cake
Baileys - given tia Maria

My subs were really good. I ordered two single portions of salmon, got two pack with a large piece of salmon in that is easily four portions.

The sausage meat was sort dated but I just made stuffing and froze it ready to cook.

We had five subs, four fine (one a very similar product I was happy with, three two smaller sized in place of larger - better value in the end) and one sent back (but it wasn’t anything we needed for Christmas). I was braced for much worse. Having said that, due to crap quality veg from Tesco last year, I’ve had a delivery from a local greengrocer instead, and have turkey on order to pick up locally tomorrow. Plus I got everything like the Christmas pudding, stuffing, cranberry sauce weeks ago.

If you’re braving Morrisons, make sure you remember your bags. Our local is out of carrier bags and folk are abandoning trolleys or having to individually loads their Xmas shopping into their boot! Total mayhem.

They had plenty of the £3 bag for lives, seen one woman spent almost £30 on bags to get her shopping home!

We had Ocado delivery pretty much delivered as ordered. but had to run round the corner to get "the bird" ( we did not order from Ocado ) - ended up with 2 ducks rather than a goose ( But I am secretly pleased as prefer duck to Goose or Turkey ) None of us like Christmas Pudding so DH's job to get a Mille Fleur instead.

But we will not starve. I also have candles from last year as I could not buy them for love nor money so overbought and they are in the sideboard. Cheap crackers at the ready & so all we need is cheese .

It is one day so I am happy. We have a small house and a small fridge freezer & DH said - have we forgotten anything - everything fits in - which is when I reminded him - there are only 3 of us - no guests this year .