Online grocery shopping

I use Sainsburys and I find them very good indeed. You book an hour delivery slot and they are always within the time slot. I don't pay more than a £1 delivery by choosing cheap slots. If you spend £100 delivery is free. You can even buy books of stamps. We have shopping delivered in carrier bags. It costs 40 p regardless of how many bags you have. We use them to line the pedal bin. The computer brings up your favourites list and as we are often creatures of habit it makes it very easy. The drivers are very helpful and I don't tip them. Good luck with it Ann!

OCADO also offers a SmartPass, which means that for a monthly fee (I think it's about £6.50) you then don't pay for delivery and you get a small discount on some items that you buy regularly. It offers all delivery times, whereas the others, who offer £1 delivery slots, only offer those at certain times of day IYSWIM. They refund 5p per carrier bag) from any shop) returns.

I have used Ocado for the past couple of years and always found them very good,the sell by dates have been within reason and substitutions very minimal,I make sure I order all the big bulky items we need and any heavy bottles of juice and cat litter etc.If for any reason I have not ordered from them for a month or two I always get offered a discount voucher for a future delivery which has been as much as £20.00 off my next order,Ocado sends me emails when they open their order lines for C-------s shopping.

I was very much against online grocery delivery until my SIL said to me don't go out tomorrow you've a delivery coming from Ocado and I've carried on with them ever since. I've looked at most of the other supermarkets and I find the Ocado site the easiest to trawl through. I was a bit sceptical what the quality of the fresh meat and fruit and veg would be like but I've never had a problem and most of their items tell you how many days each one can be kept for. I' ve had very few substitutions and they've always been fine.

Thank you all. I will go onto their websites for a trial in.

I use Asda. £40 shop for a delivery and £25 shop if you want to collect it. No charge if you collect it.

Delivery charge varies and I usually choose a time where it is £1, generally 8 - 9pm. I've ever paid more than £1 for delivery. Not often, but occasionally there are substitutions. You can refuse these, and you can also refuse anything where you think the Use By date is too close. If a substitution is more expensive there is no charge.
The driver points out the substitutions.
I find the Delivery Service very useful.

I posted on another thread that DD had her account hacked into via ASDA. It took three weeks to get her money refunded and she ended up having to have a new bank account so I'd steer clear of them

I find Tesco the best. Like Charleygirl I find Sainsbury's substitutions annoying.

I use Tesco ocasionally when the weather is bad or I can't be bothered. I would prefer to see the fresh meat, fruit & veg before buying, but I have never had any problems.

Without committing yourself to an order you can go to their website and see how to book a delivery, negotiate the lists, tell them whether to substitute the nearest thing for anything out of stock, etc.

If the order is over £40, delivery is from £2.50 to £5.50, if it is less than that another £4 is added on as well. It is very easy to get to £40! You can add more things to your order or delete things, up to 11.45 pm the night before it arrives.

They deliver either in bags or in a crate, which is carried into your kitchen and emptied out for you. Any chilled things are in a cold store in the van, and any frozen stuff in a freezer, so everything stays fresh. If a substitution costs more than what you ordered, you don't pay any extra, and you can reject anything which is not exactly as you want. If you wish you can look at previous orders to remind yourself of stuff you might need again.

Another shop I sometimes use is Iceland - you can shop in person and they will deliver free the stuff you have bought if it is over (I think) £25

ann you do not tip the delivery driver. I ask for items to be delivered in bags, easier for me to carry through to kitchen but the driver will do it if asked. I save the bags and hand them back to the driver the next time I order and I have 5p a bag deducted from my bill. (That is Morrisons).

I have tried them all except Ocado. I personally have found Sainsburys did the most substitutions and some were hilarious- I ordered cat litter tray liners and received ladies panty liners!

My bugbear with all is that they send me items to be used eg tomorrow. Fine if it is only one but when it is many and I live on my own, I have now stated that I want a decent use by date.

One has to spend a minimum of £40. I do not find that a problem because I use long life milk, buy cat litter, cleaning and washing materials so the price quickly mounts up. You will have a choice of delivery times. Some of the prices are outrageous but I go for the cheapest and they are rarely at eg 6am or 11pm at night. I have a delivery coming this Tuesday 2-3pm for 1p! It is something that Morrisons does occasionally.

PM me if you want any more info.

I only have experience of deliveries from Tesco - the only one to deliver in our area at the time. I found the delivery people helpful and they always carried the crates downstairs to the kitchen.
On that site you could choose to have bags or not - the goods were sorted into type. Once I was missing my yoghurts etc so I rang them and the money was credited to my card immediately.
I never bought meat or loads of fruit or veg as I like to pick my own but always added things such as loo rolls and kitchen roll etc- things which are bulky.
It is handy as I sometimes did an order to be delivered the day after I got hom from a couple of weeks away.
I would try all the ones in the area who would deliver to you and decide that way.