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And not a sub but the roast chicken we ordered for Christmas dinner goes out of date tomorrow and our freezer is full.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

Ordered almond milk, got a bag of almonds.
Ordered a large bottle of Head and Shoulders shampoo, and got a big bottle of dog shampoo
Ordered fake tan and received a bottle of contact lens solution.

Coriander. I got frozen leeks!

We did get a good one once, I'd ordered mini Magnus (box of 6) and got 2 x large box magnums for same price- the children were happy 🤣

Ordered gluten free pastry- got normal gluteny pastry
Ordered dairy free cheese- got lacto free cheese

It just doesn't make sense! At least sub them with something else without the allergen in it...

@DinosaurOfFire

Ordered gluten free pastry- got normal gluteny pastry Ordered dairy free cheese- got lacto free cheese

It just doesn't make sense! At least sub them with something else without the allergen in it...

This is where pickers need to engage their common sense which means there’s no hope for most people

The handset will suggest those subs. I’ve bought it up many times but it never changes.

@SW1amp

Ordered cranberry sauce Received a cranberry scented candle

That should be delicious with your turkey. Not!

3 bags of Brussels sprouts has been transformed into 3 white cabbages ffs

Just a cheese board has been subbed for a prawn platter.......... we don't like prawns :0(

My subs win was ordering a small bag of mini eggs and getting a huge mini eggs Easter egg worth about £12 for the price of the small bag :)

@3littlerabbitsss

3 bags of Brussels sprouts has been transformed into 3 white cabbages ffs

Surely they have sprouts? I’ve been in 3 different supermarkets at different times of day since Sunday and they’re piled to the flipping rafters!!

A kilobof uncooked sea bass instead of 400g smoked salmon

smallest packet of ryvita thins instead of a 900g tub of mixed cheese biscuits.

All of you who had cat/dog food substitutions; was it the same flavour? eg; someone saw chicken dog food and thought the chicken cat food would do?

I know! Couldn’t believe it. I’m sure there isn’t a shortage and don’t know why they won’t let us have some. We’re all isolating so can’t go out to get them either. Hopefully neighbours won’t mind picking some up. White cabbage?!?seriously?!

ordered cheap stickers to keep dc amused
was sent a beer pong game (without the beer)

this week ordered egg cups and a ceramic mug with an odd space at the front for a biscuit arrived

@Chronicallymothering

I ordered a 4 candle for a cake, they substituted with a 7.

. That’s made my day when you take the Two Ronnies sketch into account!

To the pp who said Tesco used to give much better subs but now give worse - I agree! I think it’s been since the change of CEO.

I will say, around Christmas time they generally tend to give better items.

For example - weeks ago I ordered a ton of quality streets and they sent a smaller bag for the same price (returned it). But on my Christmas shop I ordered 2 tins of quality streets for £7 and they sent 2 of the bigger tins.

Some of the substitutions lately have been terrible. We drink a LOT of Pepsi max. Every week they deliver 25-30 bottles to us (2l). Yet one week we ordered 3l bottles as they had them but instead sent less than half the volume for the same price in smaller bottles!

Lost count of how many tiny meat joints have turned up supposed to feed 5 but the picker chose a smaller one than ordered.

Our driver told us at their store one of the pickers sent condoms instead of the pregnancy test (opposite way round to the stories I’ve heard before). Apparently the customer said that was like closing the stamps door after the horse had bolted and took it in good humour.

Oh FFS. Email from asda that I have five missing items and 12 substitutions. Most of them are utterly ridiculous. Are they really telling me they don’t have a single bottle of whiskey for a substitute? Or that a salami and cheese tapas type selection is the equivalent of a cheeseboard?

Guess I’m off to the shops tomorrow then.

Chicken wings fir spiced cauliflower (and I am vegetarian)

In 2018 we got 6 trays of parsnips in various forms (roast parsnips, rostis, stars). They had substituted parsnips for everything missing.

Ordered a tin opener and got a garlic press

Just had my Christmas Tesco delivery and actually it was mainly ok. The only substitutions were a different brand of orange juice - more expensive so I've only got 1.75l instead of 2l which is mildly irritating - and the battered haddock portions will seem a bit odd with the couscous and salad that was actually meant to accompany baked salmon on Christmas Eve. But I'm beyond caring - it will have to do!

I just complained about my delivery substitution of Christmas crackers and so they gave me a bottle of Prosecco and two box of luxury crackers for free. Happy Christmas

I always to get fairly decent (although impractical) subs.

A couple of weeks ago they didn't have our bog standard filter coffee so subbed with a big bag of Finest coffee which was great!

Most recently I ordered 4 individual gingerbread men and received 4 whole packets of ginger nut biscuits - thats 1.4kg of biscuits.

Also received Freddo biscuits instead of star anise for the mulled cider which was odd.

Size 4 nappies instead of size 6 nappies. For my four year old. Another brand would have been more appropriate than two sizes smaller?!

A bunch of bananas instead of foamy banana and shrimp sweets.

We once ordered a large joint of lamb for Easter dinner and received some lamb dog food... we didn't have a dog.