Ocado tips, tricks subs, M&S shortbread giveaways and defectors..

[Garyunicorn]

Carrying on from the old Ocado thread. www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/a4045676-Ocado-tips-hacks-Toblerone-and-Christmas?msgid=102560793#102560793

I have been contributing, just changed my name to prevent being outed over something!

Also the Good Little sausage are lovely tooz

Also no missing items or subs this week despite warnings

Ok I think I have the worst sub ever. Who are these sick people?!
Obviously rejected!!

I have similar today - Hellmann's light arriving in place of the real thing.

@PseudoBadger

Ok I think I have the worst sub ever. Who are these sick people?! Obviously rejected!!

I too got an Elmlea cream substitutions. I agree with you in general but I was using the cream for cooking so grudgingly accepted it.

I have been looking at substitution policy at other supermarkets and i think the only supermarket that charges for more expensive subs are morrisons and ocado, does this seem right?

Waitrose honours the price of the original item, if subbed. I think they honour offers in 3 for 2's etc too (but I always add picker notes to tell them what to do in those circumstances).

My local(ish) butcher that delivers just finds random stuff costing a bit more from the deli shelves (so I had some smoked garlic salt and some chutney in place of veggie burgers in the summer)!

My local Coop (non delivery), will often let us sub for their crazily cheap junk food offers (like pizza, beer and ice cream for a fiver).

I think so @bruffin. Asda and Tesco both price match subs on delivery, Sainsbury's charge the higher price but then issue a voucher for the difference off the next shop.

Yay - I have access to the app again

@Florelei

Yay - I have access to the app again

OMG!! ME TOO!

Me too! I went for registering using facebook that was linked and then that let me in! Hooray!

No app for me (though what it would let me see is rather purple). Do you think the lawyers at Cadburys are sharpening their pencils and dusting off their laptops?

Now that Ocado is "mostly purple" their swirly "O" does look very similar to the Cadbury logo.

I thought I was on the wrong website when it was purple.

Red cabbage purple.

@Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g

I have similar today - Hellmann's light arriving in place of the real thing.

Stokes is much better than Helman’s...

I'll bear that in mind!

@osprey24

Has anyone else noticed that they no longer stock Eden meats? The mega burgers and sausages were the best.

@osprey24 I’ve just come across an article about post-Brexit trade which says there are issues with chilled meat products coming from Ireland. Eden stuff was “British & Irish” so that might be the reason? Ireland has historically shipped loads of fresh food here. I don’t know how all that will be affected. We’ve been the market for over 50% of their beef and 80% of their mushrooms. (And apparently they can’t have Percy Pigs now because they ship from Germany first

www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/blog/painful-percy-pig-experience-just-start-brexit-border-frictions

It’s taking me a while to get used to the purple. I have to think twice every time.
Are they trying to move away from the Waitrose connection? I know it’s not quite the same colour, but it was similar (& fairly close to Asda’s green too...)

Stock levels are weird. I always have 8 pints of milk a week. Now they say I can only have 4 pints. If I choose another brand of milk I can have 8 pints.

I have not had any limits on milk (and I buy a lot more than you!)

Our order is coming today and I’ve just checked its status. It’s going to be 1.5 hrs late.

@bruffin

I have been looking at substitution policy at other supermarkets and i think the only supermarket that charges for more expensive subs are morrisons and ocado, does this seem right?

Sainsburys too but you get a voucher for the difference.

@GiantKitten

It’s taking me a while to get used to the purple. I have to think twice every time. Are they trying to move away from the Waitrose connection? I know it’s not quite the same colour, but it was similar (& fairly close to Asda’s green too...)

I think so

Doesn't the name Ocado come from avocado? Which is why the original branding was green?

The new purple doesn't leap out at me for my apps but I suppose my brain can re-train. It's a funny thing to do when there seem to be bigger issues to deal with but I suppose it has been in the pipeline for a while earning branding consultants a shed load of cash

To me green looks healthy.

Purple is cadburys.

My delivery was an hour early. Woke us up.