Ecclesville1111
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I got a baby food warmer flask type thing instead of milton sterilising fluid. It was worth about £12 i think
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50sGirl
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Oo sounds like the ideal job for Prince Harry!As an ex picker for a supermarket, i can honestly say it all depends on who picks your items! Some of the people had no common sense and didn’t use their brain when it comes to subs. Most of the time you’d get a suitable sub come up on your handset so you’d go and get that but other times it was bizarre so those of us with common sense would ignore it and choose something suitable, other people would just choose that itemFor example, you wouldn’t have any fresh lasagnes in stock, the sub would be a tikka masala, those with common sense would get a frozen lasagne but the dim amongst us would get the tikka masala
Bumblebee
Chatty Member
I’m a picker at Waitrose on a Saturday and our handset is pretty good at the suggested subs. It’s usually a different brand of the same item or different pack size.
having said that you can sub for anything in the store in that department. Eg if picking from chilled the substitute has to be chilled, so you could replace a turkey with araspberry yogurt if you wanted to.
having said that you can sub for anything in the store in that department. Eg if picking from chilled the substitute has to be chilled, so you could replace a turkey with araspberry yogurt if you wanted to.
Haha that’s brilliant. Someone needs to make a blog or instagram account about these if they haven’t already. I used to have a laugh with my dad about it when online shopping first became a thing. Can’t believe they haven’t improved their substitution algorithm....i remember one time getting meat sausages as replacement for Linda McCartney vegetarian ones which is plainly absurd. Cotton wool buds for tampons is much funnier though!My worst one was cotton wool buds instead of tampons.
Switched off subs after that
Mod edit, good idea I'll create a thread for you
Redblueyellow8
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This thread is too funny ! Maybe my new favourite
Pepperminttea
Active member
I ordered broccoli and got a small tub of chilli paste instead.
JCMSadie
VIP Member
I've not had any too WTF, but just a couple spring to mind that just...I don't think the pickers were thinking too hard that day.
Ordered 5 slices of deli chorizo. They didn't have any so sent me 5 full chorizo sausages! We were eating that shizz for months.
And last week I ordered a 2 for £2 deal, picked one multipack of Wotsits and one of Quavers. They didn't have Wotsits and said they had no subs. I don't understand why they didn't just swap it for more Quavers?!
Ordered 5 slices of deli chorizo. They didn't have any so sent me 5 full chorizo sausages! We were eating that shizz for months.
And last week I ordered a 2 for £2 deal, picked one multipack of Wotsits and one of Quavers. They didn't have Wotsits and said they had no subs. I don't understand why they didn't just swap it for more Quavers?!
Sparks
Chatty Member
that's cruel!
mummy2under2
VIP Member
Waaaaay?
Thats absurd!
I was tempted to make a thread on here. I'm sure there's some absolute pearlers that people have had
Might be a nice pick me up with all the doom and gloom at the moment.
That is genius, especially as they gave two 1.2L capacity deep fat friers to sub for the 1.5L air fryer so you didn't lose on any capacityI ordered a small Air fryer from asda with my groceries. Think it's was around £20. It was sold out so they sent me two mini deep fat fryers in substitution. I was astoundedView attachment 94542
Trampoline
Chatty Member
I ordered bacon recieved smoked salmon 
Alightened
VIP Member
Ordered kitchen roll and they substituted it for a pack of yellow fluffy dusters
Catwinky
Chatty Member
i'd be ecstatic if I was given that much chorizo lol
kettlekitten
VIP Member
a turkey for Xmas dinner swapped for a chicken
And more recently cheese filled gnocchi for dried pasta ffs! 
This thread is killing me!a turkey for Xmas dinner swapped for a chicken
Noname12345
Chatty Member
I'm crying
chocolate choux
VIP Member
Domino’s gave me a full sugar coke instead of diet. When I pointed it out the delivery guy said “oh, we didn’t have any diet left”. I worked with food before and was strictly told to never do that because of diabetes
No ridiculous stories to tell as I have my supermarket substitutions turned off because I’ve heard the horror stories!
No ridiculous stories to tell as I have my supermarket substitutions turned off because I’ve heard the horror stories!
