What is a reasonable minimum spend for an online grocery delivery??

That said, my mother-in-law uses Morrisons phone line to order her day-to-day shopping and that charges... but she likes it and say the phone team are "really lovely".

I think they are happy to chat to her a bit and she likes that too.

I suppose if you genuinely can't spend (say) £40 a shop and are charged £4 it seems like a big chunk.
More than 10%.

If your shop is £100 plus, paying £4 is not so much.

How can anyone resent a charge for someone picking and delivering their groceries? It is such a bargain

I wonder, biglouis, if the people who don't feel happy with the delivery charges are people who used to enjoy shopping?
I think I would resent a delivery charge too if I used to enjoy shopping!

Shopping for food is just a boring chore for me.

Like some of the posters here I hate grocery shopping - always have. Even when I was mobile. Even more I hate putting the b****y stuff away! I shop from a favorites list and get more or less the same things every week as I am not a foodie. If they are out of one thing I can swap to another. I book my orders 2 weeks in advance and just revise the night before.

My nephew does "click and collect" with Azda and then takes a cab home. If I didnt have a delivery I would have to get a taxi to the nearest supermarket and that would cost me about £15 for the return journey. Even if I did a "click and collect" its not worth the hassle for me.

I, like GrammaH, am happy to pay a charge for convenience.

I love having the horrible shopping job done for me! I even like the "suggestions" that the online shop makes as you check out 🤣! The ones "did you forget"... (My husband hates these and skips past).

We do need to top up occasionally but would rather not have to.

I am single and shop on-line once a month with Tesco for all my heavy items. The minimum is fifty pounds and I have not been charged the extra five pounds if the total drops below that because of out of stock items.
I usually pay three pounds to three pounds fifty pence for delivery at the least busy times.
The delivery men bring my shopping into the kitchen for me and from a chair I can unload onto the table.
I have no heavy lifting or carying.
I buy fresh goods as needed.

Charleygirl5

Morrisons, after many years has decided my debit card no longer works. I have switched to Ocado/M&S and have purchased a Smartpass. I could sell cleaning items as I have a cupboard full.

I do not just buy food, I add deodorant etc and may buy 2 if on offer. My order for next week is around £80 but I do not shop weekly, it is more as and when. I will have another look to see if there is anything I really do not need,

I do my mum's online Morrisons grocery shop for her, and right from the start - four years ago - there have been frequent problems with her debit card not working. The most stupid bit is that this only happens with the delivery charge - the actual grocery payment has gone through OK every single time, with the exact same card details! Something, somewhere, is wrong with their system.

We started getting Tesco deliveries many moons ago when they first began & I was working & we had a weekly delivery. Moving on more than 10 years & we still have Tesco as they are brilliant. We now have them fortnightly, spend about £130 a time & pay the delivery saver charge - I think it's £6.99 a month, so just under £3.50 per delivery. Frankly, I couldn't get in the car & drive to our nearest supermarket for that plus I detest grocery shopping. I do buy some things from our nearest Lidl - tonic water (tastes like Fevertree, half the price), cheese, deli products, some veg, wine,milk & things I suddenly "need"! I get cat food, dishwasher & washing tablets in Home Bargains - a dangerous shop as I usually end up with a trolley load of (un)necessaries!!

where i live it 35 dollars delivery is 9 dollars if order is over 100 it is free. 3-4 times a years 3 free deliveries in a row

takeout is more expense

Just to let you know a lot of my family live in the Republic of Ireland. They get free delivery if they are over 65. I wrote to Tescos head office in the U.K. a couple of years where I live asking why we don’t get the same ‘perk’ they said because it’s Tesco Ireland more or less saying it’s different to Tesco UK but my niece works for Tesco Ireland as a Deputy Manager and she said the vast majority of items they sell are organised by Tesco UK. It would make such a difference to Pensioners if it was free like in Ireland. So get writing folks and ask Tescos UK as I tried to see why were left out here but me on my own got nowhere.

I'm in my own so I shop every three weeks and buy milk if I need it separately. On occasion if I need to ivwill buy a few things and just bring them home in my own trolley or shopping bag.

I use Ocado and it’s usually a £45 spend for the two of us but some weeks I don’t need a delivery. They offer a money back voucher if it would have cost more than tescos. Bags are refunded and great guys always carry it upstairs to the kitchen.
I find I am spending less on average, my cupboards are emptier as I’ve used up all the just in case purchases.

Amalegra
I hope you’ll cross that bridge and not jump it when you come to it.

Being single, I rarely have deliveries as I begrudge paying extra which like so much in our society is discriminatory. I don’t eat a huge amount of food and I do have a well stocked freezer, that being said. I eat a lot of fresh produce, as we are told to, and I can hardly order that two weeks in advance! I sometimes have groceries delivered if I need a lot of store cupboard/freezer items but normally I rely on trips to the shops and the bus as I don’t drive. Occasionally I manage to get a lift from one of my children. How long I can keep doing this I don’t know but I’ll jump that bridge when I come to it!

We go to Tesco once a month and have a. Sainsbury’s delivery similarly. We have no Sainsbury near , the nearest is about 40 miles away, but they do deliver. Thus it is a big delivery, anywhere between £100 and£150. This is economical for us as we would have to travel etc. We have always used Sainsburys and where we lived before there were three in the town.

The problem with getting a delivery less than once a week is that fruit does not last! I eat a lot of fruit and there is no where else for me to buy it as there are NO shops where I live and I have NO transport and dont drive.

I could always order a Woosh delivery halfway through for fruit but the charge is £5 and the amount limited. I simply could not be bothered swapping from one supermarket to another. Thats one more time I have to expect a delivery and one more lot of shopping to put away.

Onece a week is enough for me.

Occasionally I run out of something and ask my nephew to bring it along on one of his twice weekly visits. However he already brings me all my meals so I hesitate toa sk him to carry another heavy thing for a 40 minute walk.

I've hardly ever been able to reach the minimum spend but I think this is because I buy meat, fish, and fruit and vegetables from local shops. I did share a delivery with a neighbour but I wasn't too impressed by what was supplied.

I have ocado every week. If the shop is found to be more than Tesco on price comparison they refund the difference. The quality is better and dates much better. But our weekly shop is always £120 plus.

Yes, true, Mojack26 but that was when we had local fishmongers, greengrocers, bakers, butchers, grocers, etc.

I have none of these within 10 miles...

We have a weekly delivery from Sainsburys - you spend £40 to avoid extra delivery charges - we have a Delivery pass which was £60 for the year. DH drinks beer, which is heavy to carry, and we order all the basics. Usually comes to about £42. It works well for us - the drivers are always very helpful and pleasant and arrive on time. If there are substitutions, there is never a problems with refusing.

When I was a child bck in the 194s/50s good were delivered free from grocery, green grocers and fish shops.

My partner is in hospital so I only have to top up vegetables about once a week - under £40 but when he is at home I spend £70 a week. I like to order online from Sainsbury's or Tesco, and it's easy to spend £50, but there are things you can't get in the winter, like logs, so I have to go out for those. They are heavy but I just have to tip them from the trolley into my boot.

It's much easier catering for myself alone because I normally know what I need but he is fussy and doesn't always tell me what he has run out of.

I get a weekly delivery from Tesco and it's always above £50, if I was on my own and struggling to get to £50, I think I'd just get an order every 2 weeks

I don't usually find short dated products Mojack26 - and do 90% or more of my grocery shopping online.