Oh no I've over spent massively

[Greensleevevssnotnose]

I feel such an idiot

A few weeks ago with our Tesco order we got the preorder food catalogue.

It looked yummy and so I picked out what I liked the look of and put it in my basket for the Christmas delivery. I have been asking my oh to go through it and make the choice, which trifle. Which cake. Which meat etc for a few days and now he's finished work he sat down to do it last night

Only to find out it can't be changed as it has already been ordered. The cost is horrendous but the waste is awful. There are two of us, no guests and we have several trifles, logs, cakes cheeseboards. Party food, joints of meat, all 8 portions! The intention was to choose one of each.

I felt ill when he told me, luckily he was calm about it. Christmas is gonna last into February at this rate. Please tell me I'm not the only one?

Has it ever occurred to you that people have different lives?

I live alone and am on my kwn fir Christmas, and still do my Christmas food shop online. I'm away this weekend, work nine to five thirty. I've found supermarkets are bare if you go after six. I don't live near any farm shops or butchers, so I'd have to drive to a local town, but they tend to be open the times I am at work anyway, and you have to pre order and get a pick up slot anyway.

And I'm away this weekend and don't really fancy trying to do all the food shop on Christmas Eve (plus I'm looking after a friend's dog fur the day)

So, an online order is the best option for me to ensure I get what I would prefer, rather than the leftovers.

It also helps supermarkets to plan their stock and ordering so they usually like it.

If you actually can afford it, OP, you could make some people's Christmas. What about donating to young families that are struggling, or elderly people on fixed incomes? Any community outreach programmes near you? I used to belong to a group that put on a Christmas meal for elderly people who would otherwise be home alone, not on Christmas day but the week before. We took donations. I can be a cynic at Christmas but I must confess that putting those meals on even gave me a bit of a warm glow. Reframe it in your mind.

No they haven't 'got wise' to those who 'snatch a slot' WTF?

They need an earlier confirmation so they can order and allocated the Xmas special food as people would be annoyed if they ordered a turkey etc and it wasn't available. All of the Christmas pre order food is guaranteed to arrive.

It's a well known wn fact that people just shove stuff in the basket to take it to the total needed to secure the delivery slot unfortunately.

Either way it is a shame that this has happened.

What happens to the food you get them to take back though? 😯I am genuinely curious as I don’t know. If some of it gets wasted that seems like a big waste, but maybe it doesn’t?

I've had Xmas eve deliveries for the last three years (at least)

The depot near me (not an ordinary tescos, just a online grocery place) sells this stuff to the staff or donates it to charity. Some great bargains for staff, think a whole salmon for £2!

send it back

Stop stressing about it . Where I’m from traditionally we have a full table of deserts after the meal , as inn6 , 7 8 often more kids of desert . We are eating it until the new year lol
Its Christmas, it’s only once a year , enjoy it

Oh wow, I would cancel the whole thing and just brave the shops

Read the thread. Op can't just pop to Asda and do a few hours shop, hence pre ordering it.

@Greensleevevssnotnose so glad it's sorted.

Whilst recovering from an op, with a housebound husband and anxiety?

It makes no difference if they diligently order their shop precisely and don't change a single item or if they chuck 10 champagne bottles in, they still got ot it before you so it makes no difference to you.

Just return it to the driver and it will be refunded to your card.

So if all you actually wanted to cancel when given the opportunity was just the trifles it wasn’t that big a deal then? How about the rest of the party food? So much drama seemingly over nothing.

Yes, for normal groceries. Which they can generall still sell (probably not frozen stuff).

This is special christmas range stuff that they will no longer be taking orders for, so even if it would be fit to re-stock and sell to someone else, no one can buy it, so they'd be binning it. So its really unlikely they'd accept it back and refund.

I might have been caught out by the same thing only I got my delivery slot so early, most of the christmas stuff hadn't been available to order, and I just looked today and I've missed it (which is fine as its two of us and theres plenty of normal stuff!).

For a Christmas Eve 4pm delivery, anything perishable will be binned.

Most shops are shutting at 6pm - it will be too late to do anything else with it.

Hi OP,

I haven't read the whole thread but with normal orders you can just give the driver back items you don't want and Tesco then refund you. I don't know if the rules are different over Xmas though

Is this going to turn into cancel the cheque/whole order?

Glad it's sorted op. Also curious how much the overspend was.

No-one's "got wise" to anything. That's exactly how it's supposed to work.

Haha!!

you should take the hit and donate what you can to food banks / homeless shelters

Do you not have any family you can give the excess food to?
If not, consider donating to a Foodbank. With the CoL going up, plenty out there are struggling to put food on the table this Christmas so every little helps.

Good news OP, glad you got it sorted.

Yes just the special order Christmas food the other stuff could be amended