Not a-fucking-gain!!!!' Ordered stuff by accident from supermarket!'n

[gurteee]

Almost every fucking week I order something I don't want.

This time it's 4 packs x aaa batteries when I wanted 3 x aa batteries and 1 x aaa batteries.

For fuck's sakes

At the very least, he must have thought I was completely bonkers!

@orangenasturtium

Back in the early days of online shopping, I felt very smug that I had ordered a delivery to arrive when we got back from holiday so we could come home to a full fridge. I was evangelical about this amazing new service to anyone who would listen. I even logged on to demonstrate how I could edit my order up until midnight the night before from the other side of the world.

I was slightly less smug when the delivery driver handed me one single pot of yoghurt in a carrier bag. Somehow I had managed to delete and replace my entire order rather than add the yoghurt.

This sounds like something I would do. Haven't yet mind, luckily

@orangenasturtium

Back in the early days of online shopping, I felt very smug that I had ordered a delivery to arrive when we got back from holiday so we could come home to a full fridge. I was evangelical about this amazing new service to anyone who would listen. I even logged on to demonstrate how I could edit my order up until midnight the night before from the other side of the world.

I was slightly less smug when the delivery driver handed me one single pot of yoghurt in a carrier bag. Somehow I had managed to delete and replace my entire order rather than add the yoghurt.

You and me both, it seems!

I don’t normally do online shopping, I did after my caesarean because I couldn’t drive . Ordered 10 of the share bars of milky bar instead of 1 .. I didn’t mind that mistake 😂

My dad assured mum that he was perfectly capable of doing an IKEA order on his tablet rather than using the laptop as she had advised, after listening to him complaining about how bad the app is.

He managed to order 6 identical rugs instead of one! And was adamant that the quantity must have 'changed by itself' 😂

Six packs of six bananas here. Taught us a thing.

Turns out Tesco app can’t handle my DH adding bits to the order as I’m lovingly adding items from the meal plan. For weeks he’s been accusing me of forgetting to add things but it’s because he’s faffing at the sale time!

I may have been partly to blame for flour shortages. Before I go any further I have to tell you DH has been making bread for years and we haven't jumped on the lockdown bandwagon.

I do the shopping from my favourites and don't always check what we've got, I just rely on my memory. A few weeks ago DH took unpacked the shopping delivery and asked me would I please not order any more flour for the foreseeable future as he was running out of room to store it! He's also trying to eat around 60 packets of ready salted crisps.

It's a family trait I think. DM died 3 years ago and we're still using up her bleach stash!

Hah!

I arranged delivery of a mega shop...to a holiday cottage we had booked a few weeks before we were due to arrive.

I had been tinkering with the app to work out if we could get basic scoffs delivered for the night we arrived. Duly done - great bit of household management I thought. But the supermarket app automatically scraped up the last addressed used & yrs truly did not notice until I went to make a last minute addition before the order deadline.

Frantic ringing of supermarket’s customer service & throwing myself on their distant mercy got the erroneous order to Cornwall cancelled by the skin of the proverbial teeth.

Brings me out in a hot sweat thinking of the whole sorry episode.

I have 5 bags of frozen carrots in the freezer. Every time I shop! I’m convinced we need some.

With my husband it is onions.

@UniversalAunt

Hah!

I arranged delivery of a mega shop...to a holiday cottage we had booked a few weeks before we were due to arrive.

I had been tinkering with the app to work out if we could get basic scoffs delivered for the night we arrived. Duly done - great bit of household management I thought. But the supermarket app automatically scraped up the last addressed used & yrs truly did not notice until I went to make a last minute addition before the order deadline.

Frantic ringing of supermarket’s customer service & throwing myself on their distant mercy got the erroneous order to Cornwall cancelled by the skin of the proverbial teeth.

Brings me out in a hot sweat thinking of the whole sorry episode.

Whew!!!! That was close!!!

@SummerHouse

I went into panic mode as I feel uncomfortable with someone delivering my shopping like a servant. I know this is ridiculous. So I compensated by being overly excited and exclaimed "oh wow!!! Cornettos!!!" Delivery man: "Did you not order them?" Me: "Yes, yes I did!"

The winning comment 😭😂😂😂

@unmarkedbythat

There are 34 packets of couscous in my kitchen cupboard. This comes from the time I accidentally ordered 40 instead of 4 and would not admit to the delivery driver, DH or anyone else that I had made a mistake. It is probably lucky that we don't usually order our shopping online because I would fuck it up like a boss every time.

I recently ordered the wrong type of toilet roll. We prefer ‘soft’ in our household, but are powering through! (12 pack)

The funniest online purchase mistake in my family came from my sister.

For a throwback fancy dress party she ordered a pair of ‘fashion’ leggings from ebay. Think 90’s clubbing and iridescencent shine.

When they arrived it turns out the leggings were for a barbie sized doll

The screen on the tablet has cracked, so it is difficult to get it to register touch at times. Posh sausages were in sale with the milkman, so tried to order 2 packs. Much stabbing at the screen later and it wasn't adding them. Only when I went to pay I realised there was a time lag as it was over 60 quid and I had 22 packs of sausages in the basket! Luckily I realised before I paid as that would not fit in the freezer.

Early on in my online shopping career I managed to order 1 single lonely mushroom. At the time I just chuckled to myself but now I’m really bewildered - mushrooms weigh virtually nothing. Surely I’d be more likely to accidentally order 1kg or something and get fucking loads of the things? I must have ordered 0.01g to get just one.

One Christmas I bought some cans of coke (something I don’t ordinarily buy) and they were on a good offer - 3 for £1 or something like that. Turned out they were teensy cans that are meant to be used as mixers for vodka/Bacardi. Still, it was fun to hold them and pretend like I was a giant.

When I was off work ill my 2ic did the end of term order for the following year, he ordered 300 exercise books. Luckily I got a call from them, did I really want 6000 exercise books this year, 300 packs of 20, or my usual 15 packs of 20? It's really easy to do when you're rushing an order.

@swg1

I generally put my Morrisons order in a week in advance. Usually it's pretty much the same stuff.

One week the delivery driver arrived at 10 to drop off my order and returned, grinning, at 12 with an identical order. Apparently I had forgotten I put it in and did it again.

🤣🤣🤣 You win!!!

@persistentwoman

The Christmas order arrived - with one single lonely brussel sprout with a little bar code wrapped round it

Hahahahahahaha that really made me giggle! 💚

I'm a scout leader and when we go on summer camp I always order the first 3 days food to be delivered to our campsite the day we arrive - saves taking up room in the kit trailer and as we are usually around 45 kids with leaders on took it's usually a huge order.

3 years ago got to camp and set up and Tesco delivery was due around 5, ice comes and goes and no sign of the delivery - kids starting to get twitchy as they are hungry.

Phone goes and it's Dh wanting to know why our normal food delivery was about 10 times bigger than normal and where exactly did he want me to put it all!!!

Turns out I had sent 3 days worth of food for 50 people to my home address rather than the campsite we were actually at 4 hours away

We ended up at the local Morrisons with several of the scouts doing a shop that resembled supermarket sweep!!

I put in my usual bulk order of toilet roll as we are on our last few and I thought it hadn't gone through so I ordered again 96 TOILET ROLLS fortunately amazon let me cancel a pack as they hadn't been shipped when I spotted it but ffs slippery check your emails next time 🙃

I also ordered 10 BAGS of carrots online and 12 BAGS of bananas fortunately tesco let me send them back

If it makes you feel better, I ordered a shed load of M&S Christmas food for a big dinner party to be collected... only I selected the collection day for the day after the dinner party..que having to buy everything twice..

Utterly fabulous thread!
Nice to see that others have been caught out by the 1 sprout thing. The family Christmas Dinner of the Single Sprout has gone down in history here.
Love all your stories, especially the two leg waxes one

Oh, and whojamaflip really love yours too! 3 days worth of food for 50 people? ROFL!