Share your ridiculous online shop subs

[bonkersbirdie]

My Christmas food delivery arrived today. I had 9 substitutions which varied from fairly sensible to wildly bizarre.

Including (but not limited to):
A family size Christmas pud replaced by a single individual Christmas pudding.

Brandy cream replaced with squirty cream

Baileys cheesecake replaced with wagon wheels.

And not a sub but the roast chicken we ordered for Christmas dinner goes out of date tomorrow and our freezer is full.

So we are off to the shops this evening to try and get the bits we need.

What's the weirdest thing they've sent you?

I had nothing to add but I can’t stop laughing at wagon wheels 😂😂😂😂

I was sent cheese flavoured crisps as a substitute for cheese!

I've had over 500 Tesco deliveries (they gave me a card to mark this occasion!) and I can't believe that I've never had a silly sub. I feel quite put out.

It's always my mistakes, like ordering what I thought was 5 satsumas and then getting 5 bags of them. Also, I thought I'd ordered 6 single bags of BBQ French Fries but they were actually multi packs. I was hysterical with laughter. It was a whole pallet box of them and the driver remarked on our apparent love of BBQ French Fries

I once had a pack of size 1 nappies replaced with...........a Cabbage!!! Not even any other package of nappies in a ridiculous size (which still would have been useless but a Cabbage? God knows what the picker was thinking)

@Glentheredbeakbattleostrich

when dd was a baby got tena lady pads instead of nappies. In my sleep deprived state I actually cried as I'd just used the last nappy, hadn't slept in what felt like weeks and DH was away in our only car for the night for work.

I think I'd have cried too. What did you do?

@ILookAtTheFloor

I've had over 500 Tesco deliveries (they gave me a card to mark this occasion!) and I can't believe that I've never had a silly sub. I feel quite put out.

It's always my mistakes, like ordering what I thought was 5 satsumas and then getting 5 bags of them. Also, I thought I'd ordered 6 single bags of BBQ French Fries but they were actually multi packs. I was hysterical with laughter. It was a whole pallet box of them and the driver remarked on our apparent love of BBQ French Fries

Never ever ever? how?

Ordered petit filous. Got breaded ham.
Ordered nappies. Got rice cakes.
Thanks sainsburys. Tomorrow’s order could be interesting.

During the first lock down I ordered bleach and they substituted it with a massive bottle of beer!!

I once ordered a wide selection of Christmas party food. Tesco subbed the lot for cheese bites. I ended up with over 120 cheese bites - they did refund me the lot and I filled the freezer but I was pretty fed up of breaded cheese by Easter!

Not exactly weird, but annoying. Years ago, when I still had children in nappies, I got newborn nappies of the same brand as a subsitution for the much bigger ones I'd actually ordered. Same size in a different brand would have been fine, or even a bigger size in the next brand might have been workable, but there was no way the newborn ones were going to be any use at all!

Not an actual sub, but a suggestion

Mine is coming tomorrow. I popped to Morrisons for the essentials that I thought may end up not turning up. Some of it wasn't available or had awful dates. So I might end up bk in there again xmas eve if my delivery doesn't go well tomorrow X

Some of these are hilarious. Definitely making my wagon wheels seem swirly sensible!

Lemon grass shampoo instead of lemon grass

Why are the substitute situation always so ridiculous? If it is the pickers thinking they are funny, why? If it is the computer who has programmed it wrong. Why so the bosses allow this as they will lose money and customers eventually. I certainly wouldn't use a delivery service if they can't send proper substitutes or allow pickers to send stupid stuff.

Asparagus tips for loo roll, that was about 10 or more years ago with Asda.

I had 9 subs on Sainsbury’s today and all were acceptable. Just blooming grateful I didn’t have to go out for it.

🤣 the wagon wheels instead of the baileys cheesecake made me laugh. Who decides these things?! 🤣🤣

A tin of red kidney beans subbed for a tin of tomatoes - the only logic was that they were the same brand but why not give me some form of tomatoes!

I ordered one box of beer (12 cans) and they gave us 1 can 🙄. It's not rocket science is it 🤷🏼‍♀️

@spiderlight

I've posted this before - ordered an avocado, got two spiral-bound notebooks.

I would love to know what thinking process went on in the pickers head to create this wonderment

@SunshineCake1

Why are the substitute situation always so ridiculous? If it is the pickers thinking they are funny, why? If it is the computer who has programmed it wrong. Why so the bosses allow this as they will lose money and customers eventually. I certainly wouldn't use a delivery service if they can't send proper substitutes or allow pickers to send stupid stuff.

The handset will give you suggestions but you can over ride this. We have to take notice if there are stupid suggestions and report to the manager who will report it to head office.

However, most people use their brain.

Unlike this picker

That was displayed in our staff room for months. Who the fuck didn’t have their head screwed on that day

A nit comb instead of a thermometer

I ordered an eye liner and got.... A Sharpie!!!!
I also ordered a lemon and git a banana.
My friend orders tampax and got cotton buds.
Another friend ordered broccoli spears, which they substituted for wooden skewers.

Reading through these it reminded me of another. 2 A4 lined pads of paper substituted for 8 A6 spiral bound pads.

Ordered a bag of apples, got sent apple fairy liquid. Was a few years ago now but I'm still a bit baffled!

Did once help a picker who looked very stressed in the nappy aisle. Very obviously had no kids of their own and were struggling with how best to sub them. It reminded me that sometimes it just just be a case of them not using the products to know how to swap them sensibly!