Dangling the carrot!

Graphite Surely all your friend needs to do is have a non-shopping week now and again to eat their way through the stores in their freezer etc.

I have never had food delivered, but, every so often something happens and there is a minor backlog, so I just skip shopping for a week while we consume the excess.

I happily pay for someone else to do my shopping and bring it to the door. As a non-driver I find home delivery a boon. I just think that when customers pay for a delivery pass it is a bit rich to then insist that they spend £50+ per delivery, when according to Google the average person spends between £32 and £44 a week. Families spending a lot more will more than compensate for any slight losses incurred by lower spenders.

Graphite that is so funny. "More money than sense" comes to mind.

I find these coupons often are useless. They must be joking that is nearly £500 worth of shopping in 4 weeks isnt it? have you an army to keep!

Astitchintime

Just received a bundle of money off vouches from Tesco……£11 off each ‘shop’ for the next four weeks! “Oooh goody” we said……….until we read the small print…….we have to spend over £110 to qualify for the £11 off 🤔🤷‍♀️

I never get these any more!!
It would have come in useful as we have had visitors but too late now.

A friend buys groceries weekly online from Waitrose. She flat refuses to to pay for delivery even for an £8 a month unlimited pass.

Therefore she always buys more than she needs. She stocks up on meat and other produce she can freeze.

As a result of this weekly over-shop, she and her partner, already possessors of a huge American-style fridge freezer bought a second big freezer, cost £700.

Then came the smart meter. She was stressed out at how much her electricity consumption had rocketed … due to running not one but two huge appliances to store more food than two people could eat in a year.

Ofgem figures for standard variable tariffs at February 2026 say a large freezer costs £85 a year to run.

It makes no sense to me, to spend £700 on an extra appliance + £85 extra on energy a year to save two quid a week.

Nor do I understand why people expect their shopping, however much is spent to be picked, packed and delivered free of charge when those who shop in person pay the same price for the same products.

We know why the supermarkets do this but why do we comply?

Sainsburys have just put up their minimum spend for a delivery (even with a pass) to £50. It's currently £40, so that's a sizeable increase.

I spend more than that, but there are two of us and I buy more than groceries (eg cleaning products etc). Someone living alone might struggle to spend £50, and if you pay £80 for a delivery pass it's not unreasonable to expect free deliveries to be reasonably unconditional. Maybe not regular deliveries of single items, but a weekly delivery is a reasonable expectation, I think.

A single person on a budget might find £50 too much to spend, as well as not needing £50 worth of food. Yes, they could shop less frequently, but then they wouldn't be getting fresh food.

petra

But they will still make a healthy profit 😂

I'll still be buying stuff I would have bought there anyway, and saving 10%.

stockpile some wine, detergent, dog food, plus usual shop; easy peasy.

I received some Tesco ones this morning, £13 off a £90 shop.
I had similar ones just before Christmas, used one when I bought the lamb/gammon and extra few bits with usual shop. I don't think I will be spending any of this lot, I don't often spend more than £50.

Families who do a big shop will easily spend £110 so the money off coupons will be very welcome.

Grannybags

I have a Sainsbury’s voucher - 5p per litre off fuel if you spend £150

£150!!!!

My hairdresser is from a family of 7.
Mum's weekly shop is £450 she tells me!

Witzend We do the same thing. The once-weekly shop disappeared some time ago and became a monthly stock-up trip for heavy things like tins. Wherever we are we just wander around the supermarket and pick up things for the next few days.

TBH I often just go round Sainsbury’s with an eye out for Nectar prices - if it’s anything I want or need. I hardly ever do a big shop nowadays - it’s 3 - 4 small ones, not too much to take home on the bus, since I use my car a lot less since having the Freedom Pass.🙂

I have a Sainsbury’s voucher - 5p per litre off fuel if you spend £150

£150!!!!

Waitrose are doing the same sort of thing.

Spend £100 x 3 in March, to get £25 off in April.

Where there is a carrot it is always followed by a stick.

But they will still make a healthy profit 😂