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And not a sub but the roast chicken we ordered for Christmas dinner goes out of date tomorrow and our freezer is full.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

Not quite the same but I was once in a clothes shop and asked the saleswoman if they had a specific skirt in a size 14. She came back from the stock room with completely different garment - a blouse - and said hopefully, 'we have this in a 14'... so that's a no, then.

@spiderlight

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

That has made me laugh far more than it ought to 🤣🤣

@rainbowzebra05

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!

Training...

Disappointed I don't get some of these amusing subs the pickers at my Tesco must be eminently sensible.
Although we did stop online ordering during 2020 lockdowns/pasta shortages which might be why.
Although this month's shop did substitute my toddler's night nappies for a less absorbent one...
I'd hope I'd be understanding as I was once talking to a picker and he said they got very little time to pick the shop.
In pps position with the lack of nappies, I'd definitely have cried.

I once had a stir fry substituted by a bottle of Soy sauce - presumably to put on the stir fry I didn’t get!

Mine were somewhat silly.

So that’ll be cheese and brownies and turkey with raspberry sauce then.

Not necessarily weird but nearly all the veg I ordered was sub with sprouts for instance I ordered pre prepared parsnips and rainbow carrots I got sprouts ok they might not have exactly what I asked for but surely they had parsnips and carrots.

I had the opposite. Ordered a loaf of white sliced bread - not available and no possible substitution.

12 loo rolls subbed with 12 bars of soap (a few years ago)
A couple of weeks ago vegan dippers substituted with chicken dippers

@spiderlight

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

This made me properly laugh

I ordered two cadburys advent calendars for £1 each so they were about 1.50 off.

They substituted with tescos own brand!!!
Doesn't sound like a massive thing but DH and I only eat cadburys and we were so looking forward to them.

They didn't offer us any refund either.. I must say they are the only thing I handed back. I was about 10 days post partum and I honestly could have sobbed.

in actual fact I think I might have

I don’t know if anyone else has found this but it used to be that with Tesco when you got a sub it was always better than what was originally ordered but now the complete opposite is happening.

@BeyondOurReef

Mine were somewhat silly.

So that’ll be cheese and brownies and turkey with raspberry sauce then.

Oh these are excellent

@EveryFlightBeginsWithAFall

A nit comb instead of a thermometer

Oh these all tickle me so much 😂😂

I keep thinking about you serving up a plate of wagon wheels instead of pudding OP. I think I must be tired because I can't stop laughing. Fabulous.

Asda sent me spring onions instead of chives yesterday. Both long and green I suppose.

I remember a thread where someone ordered a bottle of wine but was subbed for a low alcohol version. Now that's tragic.

@Pipplekins

Dog food as a sub for cat food! When I was studying I did the picking for Tesco, a guy who started at the same time as me got a warning for this... Condoms ordered, they didn't have any in the make requested so he subbed it for a pregnancy test. He thought he was funny!

I wonder if this was the guy who picked BILs shopping. Years ago they got dog food as a sub for the cat food they ordered. They found it funny. I work on home shopping and some of the subs suggested are stupid but people are supposed to use their brains and not sub something totally random.

@spiderlight

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

😂😂😂😂

Can't fathom a reason for that one!

Wanted batteries. Got tampons.

Pork sausages instead of vegetarian ones. We are vegetarian. Oh, and a single packet of toilet wipes instead of a pack of 24 loo rolls (that was in the time of the Great Toilet Roll Shortage, but still....

I ordered a Tesco's own multi pack of cheese and onion crisps. This was substituted with 7 individual Walkers grab bags. So about three times the size and 1 extra over the number in the original pack. I was only charged the original price too. That was my best result.

I wanted leeks to make leek & potato soup. Got sent small bunch of green beans.

Out of stock: cling film.
Sub: sellotape

We ordered halal chicken and were given pork, I kid you not. And we are Muslim, obviously don't eat pork.

And once we're given frozen baby wipes to replace toilet roll

Today we got 11 substitute and only one unavailable.... Sigh. I got a refund on them all though to nip over to Iceland to replace.

Years ago, newborn nappies when I ordered pull ups, same shop - frozen chicken nuggets when I ordered fresh chicken thighs