Online shopping in the UK?

[reddragdiva]

Just went shopping and had an asthma attack from going outside in 1°C. I've heard quite enough horror stories about Tesco's online shopping service (site looks nice, but is reputedly consistently shite at making an actual delivery and would substitute a side of beef for a watermelon). Waitrose-Online doesn't seem to work in Mozilla, and ocado.com doesn't seem to stock obscure items like, ooh, apples. So how is Sainsbury's (whose site at least appears sane)? And are there any others I haven't listed here?

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[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Tesco.com has been working for me for a while. Main problems are that everything they deliver seems to be at its "display until" date sometimes, and they always deliver the biggest bit of meat they have no matter how little you ask for. Some things they never seem to have no matter how often you ask for them. The substitutions are mad sometimes (eg asked for photocopier paper for the laser printer - got an A4 lined writing pad) but you just go through them when the stuff is delivered and they're always perfectly happy to take it back, takes 2 minutes tops.

It works with Mozilla and Linux fine, if rather slow - in fact, you've just reminded me to put some parmesan (whoops, "italian style cheese") in my basket now, so that we don't forget it next time we do an order.

The overall reduction in pain of shopping is more than words can do justice to.

[reddragdiva]

"The substitutions are mad sometimes"

So can't you actually request 'NO SUBSTITUTIONS'?

"The overall reduction in pain of shopping is more than words can do justice to."

Yes. Oh, yesss.

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

You can; you have three options (iirc) - to say 'pick me something else', to attach substitution instructions, or to not have any substitution. And they take back the substituted items if you don't like them.

[lnr]

Adn the printout they hand you while they're bringing the shopping in has all the substitutions listed at the top, so it's really quick to tell if they're sensible or not. I keep substitutions turned on: most times I'm happy with what they replace things with to be honest.