Grocers and avoiding tescos

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Now I hate shopping at tescos.
I buy my milk from the milkman
Veg and fruit from the box scheme.
Chickens from the garden/freezer
other meat from butchers (send DH)
and some bulk stuff from cash and carry/ Suma

BUT
I can't work out where I can shop for all that other stuff. Things you would have got at the grocers from days gone by. I don't drive (live in rural village) and our budget is small. Ocado and Sainsburys are nowhere to be seen around here and certainly don't deliver.

Has anybody got any ideas?

do you have a CoOp?
they afre good for lots of supermarket type things and are quite ethical too

No we don't

are ocado and waitrose deliver the same thing?

Yes, Ocad are the Waitrose delivery service. I also hate shopping at teco, but it is the only supermarket which is easy for me to get to. I also use local butcher, grrengrocer and baker for most fresh stuff, but it's the groceries/cleaning products which are harder to buy without using a supermarket.

Both deliver Waitrose stuff, but (I think) cover different areas and set their own prices and terms and conditions.

Fortunately we do have a Sainsbury and Ocado delivery service in our area. I use them in preference to Tesco, partly because I think they are better, but also they have one hour delivery slots, and fewer substitutions. I realise this doen't help you though...

ahh oooh looks like waitrose deliver do get to us. Can't use mysupermarket anymore. Though I guess I can do my shop as for ocado then just look at what I've ordered and transfer it across.

I've resorted to buying cleaning stuff in bulk from places like spiritofnature. I like biod and it comes in large containers

I guess you have a local shop where you can buy cleaning products, etc?

The local shop, if you have one, does need patronizing by locals, even if the prices are higher. The trick is to make your over-priced stuff last longer. Most people use far too much product when they clean. Use half the amount you would normally, and apply double the (free) elbow grease.

Whereabouts are you? Round us there is a wholefoods co-operative who will deliver, and do everything from flour to canned stuff - all the things I guess you are after. You have to order £200 worth of stuff though, but some people round here put an order together between them.