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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[lucybond.livejournal.com]

I'm nowhere near a Sainsbury's, the nearest Safeways is a short walk away, but not so short carrying the tins I need to feed five cats. It costs 2.50 in a taxi.

So I use Sainsbury's Online.

Substitutions: they *always* have no Quorn chunks. I dunno why. I get fillets. That is OK, I can cut them up. I have on some occaisions ended up with heaps of the same curry sauce when I ordered several different kinds. I once got three litres of vanilla icecream when I wanted different fancy icecreams.

I order midweek. I order with plenty of time to spare, but I never seem to get the special offer US-stylee icecreams or the Quorn chunks. I also once got vegan icecream, but found it was actually yummy, so no probs there.

I like the fact that the driver shows you a print-out of the substitutions to OK before you sign & accept. That is good.

On the whole, I like their service, despite my whinging about icecream, but then, I maybe have heavier shopping than most people, what with the lots of catfood tins & dogfood sacks, & the tendancy to buy tinned stuff & dry beans rather than convenience frozen meals. OK< I partially live on cauliflower cheese grills, but...

I get all my veg, laundry liquid, eggs, rice, sugar, etc from Ltd Resources, an organic local delivery firm, & just get the really heavy or frozen stuff from Sainsbury's.