every little helps!!
Written: Sep 06 '07
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Why I wanted home shopping
I can't drive.
I know, I know, I need to learn but in order to do that I need that stuff…you know that stuff… every one's always talking about it…it begins with M…oh what it called?…I've never had any...oh I remember it's called… Money!
Until I get some of that I cant afford more lessons.
It's a bloody nightmare especially since I now live n a village outside the main town. Bus and train services are great but I cant get a weeks worth of shopping on a bus or train. The village does have a Morrison's but its to small. It doesn't have much stuff, not enough for a proper BIG shop. And I can buy 8 different type of bread each week.
So every Saturday on my husband's day of we have to go into town and do our shopping on the busiest day of the week. And we don't have time to do anything else, our weekends are wasted in endless ques and confectionary isles filled with children creaming "I want sweets"
How I found it
I had seen the Tesco delivery van around the village and knew it must come from Hull. (The town near to me) so I decided to give it a go. I had never shopped at Tesco before but since it was one of the only shops that delivered near me I thought it was worth a try. I went on goggle and typed in Tesco. It brought up load of things:
Tesco.com, Tesco home insurance, Tesco electrical, Tesco electrical, Tesco downloads and more I never knew they did all this stuff, thought it was just grocery's (although now I think about it I remember the adverts with celebrities voice overs for the trolleys talking about getting inured in case their wheels come off.)
I clicked on Tesco.com and this brought up the window where I could choose food, wine, books electrical etc. I clicked on groceries and here I had to register. It was all the usual stuff, name, address, telephone number, email, what food you like, where you normally shop, when you last ate, what you had for breakfast, lat time you watched pornography (ok slight exaggeration but they wanted to know everything else!) once the registration done I could begin my shopping.
The shopping
The first time you use the site it takes ages to do your shopping. You have to find every thing you need and it can take a while.
It is all well set out, you can use the express shopper, which is just like a shopping list you type in what you want and it finds it or you can search by item or by category, I took about 2 hours to complete my first shop. However the next time you do it, it saves your other orders so you can look back and choose the same item again if you like, this saves loads of time and now I get it done in about 20 minuets.
When you choose items you can add a note. So if you want bananas you can add 'ripe' or what ever you want (some time's they even read the notes and take notice).
One thing to be wary of is spelling, if like me your rubbish at spelling you might not be able to find your items. It will not find brocli or cofee or anything unless it spelled exactly right. (I'm speaking from experience)
As you do the shopping your items appear in a list at the side of the screen. So you can see what you have ordered and how much it comes too.
Delivery
Once you have finished you can need to choose your delivery day. Delivery costs between £3.99 and £5.99 and they deliver 7 days a week, the delivery times are any two hour slots between 9am 11pm. So it really is very convenient and they have always being on time and so far have never let me down.
The only problem with getting your shopping delivered is that your fresh things might not be that fresh, sometimes I think they give you the old stuff no body else will put in their trolley. And some times they forget stuff, almost every time I have 3 or 4 items missing but if you ring them up and let them no they refund ASAP.
Payment
You pay then and there via credit/debit card on the website, they do not take cash or check on delivery, if there is a problem with your payment they will ring you before delivery and ask you to pay again.
The Website
The website is very easy to work around and they do try to make it easy to find your way around with the express shopper and 'my favourites' 'my last order' and search by 'special offer' etc. There are regular features, seasonal ideas and special offers.
You can go back to the website and into your account anytime to change or cancel your order.
After every change you will receive a email confirming what you have changed and any orders you have made.
Advantages
*You can choose the items you need and don't get tempted by other items on display
*you don't get little old lady's stopping in the middle of the isle to check which biscuits they want and looking at you in disgust when you politely say 'excuse me' so you can get by.
*delivered to your door
*no heavy bags to trap around the town
*no forgetting where you parked
*easy to use website
*can keep track of how much your spending
Disadvantages
*items sometimes missing
*not always best fruit and veg, most times it's old.
*delivery drivers thinking you want to chat at the door when it's raining, (its hard to be polite sometimes)
Summery
All in all I find internet shopping a life saver and Tesco is great. I have never had any real problems except for the few missing items and dodgy fresh stuff but everything else is great. The staff all speak English and are polite. The products are very cheap (i bought a really nice yougurt for 14p!!) and they have a great range of produce.
One thing I should mention though I that you can not mix your orders, grocery's books and electrical can not be ordered together, one category only, resulting in extra delivery charge!!
Highly recommended!!
Tesco have been a god send since I've been using them and I hope this review help's any one who is interested in home shopping.
Thanks for reading please let me know what you think.
Recommended:
Yes
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Member: tina chappell
Location: brough
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