To be fair, Ocado doesn’t sell itself as a cheaper alternative. But they’re definitetly more convenient. I used them for a bit towards the end of last year as I couldn’t get any slots with my usual supermarket and found they had a lot more slots. Plus they could let me know how far away the van as and quite a specific time it would arrive. We never had the issue you described with waiting ages, maybe it’s area specific.
But they’re annoying though as you can’t buy individual fruit & veg, like you said it comes in loads of plastic (this will be because of their fulfilment process using those robots).
For me it absolutetly beats going into the supermarket, I’d rather just meal plan and build up the food order at the laptop than go out and drive to the supermarket.
Yeah that’s fair, I mean their radio adverts definitely leaned on the “be demanding” rather than “we’re a bargain” angle. I just thought that the convenience of not having to go to the store directly would outweigh the cost, and I’ve found that for me it simply doesn’t beat a LIDL shop in cost, quality, or quantity
To be fair, Ocado doesn’t sell itself as a cheaper alternative. But they’re definitetly more convenient. I used them for a bit towards the end of last year as I couldn’t get any slots with my usual supermarket and found they had a lot more slots. Plus they could let me know how far away the van as and quite a specific time it would arrive. We never had the issue you described with waiting ages, maybe it’s area specific.
But they’re annoying though as you can’t buy individual fruit & veg, like you said it comes in loads of plastic (this will be because of their fulfilment process using those robots).
For me it absolutetly beats going into the supermarket, I’d rather just meal plan and build up the food order at the laptop than go out and drive to the supermarket.
Yeah that’s fair, I mean their radio adverts definitely leaned on the “be demanding” rather than “we’re a bargain” angle. I just thought that the convenience of not having to go to the store directly would outweigh the cost, and I’ve found that for me it simply doesn’t beat a LIDL shop in cost, quality, or quantity