Ocado Stitching Up

[allenlondon]

Already seeing their share price soar, Ocado want MORE.

In previous years, they upped the minimum basket price at Christmas from £40 to £90. Fair enough.

THIS year they’ve upped the delivery charge for Smart Pass shoppers from ZERO to £9.99 per delivery.

Loyalty to long-standing customers? You are, like Ocado, having a laugh.

[barry1010]

When are they opening their christmas slots?

[Sqad]

Barry........they have been opened and now closed.

[barry1010]

Oh no!

[allenlondon]

Plenty still on Sunday and Monday of Christmas week - but that maybe because I'm a so-called Smart Pass customer (we pay an extra £12-ish a month for the privilege of being stitched-up for longer at Christmas).

A

[barry1010]

The calendar won't go past November for me. Is there a special webpage or something?

[teacake44]

13.10 Not so smart then really, better off keeping that for the pollution charge.

[barry1010]

I'm a Smartpass member too. No pheasants yet

[zebo]

Barry, pheasants offer themselves up on the lanes near here, the last one almost took my bumper off.

[barry1010]

zebo, I'd aim for them.

[smiley1]

Just looked at this for M and S deliveries for my Mum, the minimum charge seems to be £6.99, do they ever do a lower delivery charge? This would be too expensive for the amount Mum buys

[woofgang]

yes they do, you need to check the slots. I rarely pay more than 2.99 for a delivery slot, minimum order is 40 quid though.

[allenlondon]

No consistency smiley.

With Ocado, we get two deliveries a week (if we choose - we only use one), which are 'free', but we do pay £12-ish per month to be 'Smart Pass' members. Not sure what ordinary shoppers pay.

With Waitrose, we get free deliveries, and we have one a week.

Local Asdas charge various prices (£4-£6) depending on time of day, and which day.

Not sure of M&S, but in terms of size of shopping 'basket', most of them have a £40 minimum.

Sorry about your mum. It is no world to grow old in.

A

[barry1010]

I'm a SmartPass member and pay £2.99 a month and have done for at least 4 years.

[teacake44]

I have at least 9 supermarkets round me, 5 I can walk too within 10 mins, and 4, 10/15min drive, that's not counting the co.op or M&S.
my biggest problem is finding enough space/ storage for all the reduced items from all these supermarkets. :0))))))))

[smiley1]

There are no slots past tomorrow, it only shows Mon-Wed as available but no slots Tues/Wed. No smart passes available either. Mum has just bought a second freezer in case she has to shield again so she can stock up

[barry1010]

teacake, I have a lot of supermarkets near me too but none of them sell pheasants. We are still shielding so have to rely on deliveries.

[allenlondon]

Barry: if you're not mistaken, I'd get on to Ocado. We've been Smart Pass for about 10 years, and never paid a penny for deliveries.

Teacake: living in NW London, there are more supermarkets than you've heard of. But if you can't walk, it doesn't help. Does it?

[smiley1]

That's Mum's problem she can't walk far, we get her a fortnightly Asda delivery but she likes stuff from M and S. My stepfather has eyesight problems and can't always drive her to M and S

[teacake44]

14.01 But you are paying for delivery, £12-ish a month?

[allenlondon]

Well yes, like the ‘free’ NHS.

But for the £12 we get all the deliveries we want, and usually about 10% reduction in prices (I’ve checked).

Plus (allegedly) priority at Christmas, although this year they’re clawing back.