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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2017 16:17:23 GMT
We have a small Co-op in the village. Now I wouldn't like to have to do a full shop there, but if you buy their offers, (lurpak is always cheaper than anywhere else), and factor in the 5% you get on their card, especially on their wine!, you get a good cashback. I suspect, if I used our butcher, and the veg shop, plus the Co-op and Herons, we could buy everything we need very favouribly priced compared to everywhere else, but there are things I can't get in the village, and as OH says, "the car needs a run".
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Post by goodhelenstar on Sept 15, 2017 17:41:55 GMT
I'm a great one for buying goods reduced for quick sale, provided that I'm either going to eat them that day or they can be frozen.
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Post by pandaeyes on Feb 24, 2020 10:16:44 GMT
I'm a great one for buying goods reduced for quick sale, provided that I'm either going to eat them that day or they can be frozen. I'm the same. I also use my local Co-op, it's at the end of the street. Buying the 'special price' wine helps too. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2020 17:40:31 GMT
I am now a total on-line shopper. And playing a life threatening game called 'Get A Slot.'
Have my next order in 22 days time. By then we'll be living on little tins of fish - or go all trendy and seek out a meal from the garden. Possibly that will be Tadpoles on Toast...… no, by then no bread, so Tadpoles in mint sauce.
They ought phone and see if you really want your slot. I might be gone by then = or another might become freed up/. Oh life's lottery played out on a virtual trolley.
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Post by profbooboo on Mar 26, 2020 20:55:22 GMT
Which supermarket has a 22day wait? Just wondering.
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Post by marion on Mar 26, 2020 21:07:34 GMT
Well I havent booked anything but when I looked out of interest last week I couldnt get anything for my post code for the next three weeks on Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons or Asda and Waitrose has removed the booking option from their website. And I couldnt get on to the Occado site.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2020 10:48:31 GMT
Some irritable shoppers around here, that's what sort of shoppers we are. No one can get a delivery slot - and we are all long time on line shoppers so as usual the newbys must be getting them. Survival of the fittest if ever. Darwin needn't have gone to the Galapagos he could just hung about around here - and starved if no one helped out.
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Post by goodhelenstar on Apr 13, 2020 11:35:52 GMT
Whereabouts in the UK are you, wavedancer?
I've never done online food shopping and don't intend to, but I receive regular emails from the supermarkets whose loyalty cards I have. They have been provided with information from the NHS about vulnerable people whom they have matched with their records of loyalty card holders, and are giving preferential booking slots to those people. If you don't have a loyalty card you will need to register, which I guess will take a bit longer. They are also encouraging anyone who can to go to the shop in person. So if they know who you are and you are on their radar as in that priority group, you should be getting a slot.
I'm currently listening to You and Yours in R4. Priority online shopping is currently only for customers living in England! This is because health is a devolved issue NHS Scotland is still in the process of making its lists available to supermarkets, but hope to this week. In Wales it has already been done and the supermarkets are working it out now. N Ireland wasn't mentioned.
Hope this helps.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2020 7:49:19 GMT
Dedicating online hours to standing in line for a slot eventually paid off. Today our load of 80 items is shortly arriving because our next delivery is again rather distant. Thank you Good Helen.Star ….. what a lovely name. How came you by that one..... IN fact I do wonder about the names people call them selves.
Tonight is get out there and clap for a few moments, night. Reasons for not doing it are as thought provoking as why many of us do. I shall include in my thoughts tonight the folk who are at the supermarkets at 4am starting the on=lines.
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Post by goodhelenstar on Apr 16, 2020 8:19:12 GMT
That's good – enjoy your delivery! It will probably feel like getting a present, though in fact it's only shopping that you've paid for! It seems supermarkets are now back to normal in terms of stock, apart from a few things like soap, so hopefully fewer people will try to book online deliveries if they don't really need them.
Yes, I also sometimes wonder where people's usernames come from. Some are obvious, others perhaps are nicknames. My name is Helen, which won't come as a surprise, but the system wouldn't allow me to use that as at the time there already was one. I was just fiddling about adding prefixes and suffixes until one was accepted. It probably says something about me that I added good and star! The other Helen isn't in the list of members any more, so I could probably change it, but it's kind of stuck. How did yours come about?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2020 18:02:19 GMT
Re this shopping thing - to be honest living in distant and unsettled lands made us somewhat accustomed to sudden need of staying in - wars, riots, curfew political unrest etc. So a store of basics is second nature and we had one. I ought to have recalled flour as one of the most critical. In the east I saw national grain stores as large as towns - ancient civilisations all had them - and yet we forgot to have a standby bag of SR flour...… yet another human error. Those grains stores that I have seen - often in remote places - are guarded by armies.... outside. I was told by someone in the UN that inside the storage unit have snakes to keep rodents down and - to deter human as well. So am having a rethink about what we will shop and store in case of similar situations as this one. (We used to keep flour in the freezer because of insects.) Here it seems that the flour is available at the mills but there are not enough small packaging arrangements. What are others planning to store?
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Anymore to come?
