La spesa al supermercato potrebbe costare il doppio con le app di consegna, quale? avverte

What ? No way!

If you need to be told this then I worry about the state of our country.

if you pile on some discounts and be a bit thrifty you can get a comparative price with essentially 30 minutes delivery. Can sometimes feel worth it.

But in general even with discounts it’s not really worth it (and I’d argue I’m a very thifty shopper compared to average when it comes to finding good discounts) I’d say unless you’re very desperate for shopping to be delivered immediately compared to just using most supermarkets only delivery service.

People are gonna be shocked when they find out that making their own food rather than going to a restaurant is cheaper.

Seriously why does the media reinforce how stupid we all seem to be

A lot of commentators who have never actually used the service I see.

Let me break it down. Deliveroo/Ubereats etc., have a service fee and a delivery fee. That’s it.

The supermarkets, these are the ones who are ripping off their customers. THEY are the ones that set the prices and they mark them up considerably.

Buy a jar of 200g coffee in store and it will cost you £6-8 (it was like £3 just 5 years ago) Have a supermarket employee pick up that jar of coffee, put it in a paper bag and hand it to a delivery driver? Suddenly that same jar of coffee costs £12.

If the supermarkets feel the need to increase the costs of groceries by 10% to have it delievered, I could understand. A member of staff is being used to pick the items and pack them. Sure. But a 100% mark up? Crazy

Other products have smaller markups. Milk is £1.75 in store for 4 pints, £2 delivered. You smoke? A 50g Cutter’s Choice is £43.45 in store…. £54.30 delivered. Over £10 extra just to have someone put it in a bag and ring it up.

Deliveroo etc., these are not the ones preying on the poor, disabled and vulnerable. That is entirely on the supermarkets. The charges from Deliveroo etc., are the price of convenience and one I am willing to pay in my circumstances, I have great difficulty leaving the house. A weekly shop directly through the supermarkets is fine and they don’t jack up the prices when THEY are the ones delivering. Sometimes you need a few bits and bobs and they come to not enough to get a supermarket delivery, so you turn to delivery apps.

I’ve been saying this for awhile some people genuinely live far away from shops where walking to the shop is impractical or public transport impractical due to time constraints.

^ FOR people who don’t drive or have access to an car or vehicle 

Essentially its an choice between public transport cost or taxi or time.

Cost of items cost more on these apps sometimes and receipts aren’t always avaliable straightaway.

Essentially it’s an form of poor person’s tax because it has to be paid one way or another.

We can argue delivery of foods shopping via supermarket official delivery could overcome the issue but it’s hard to foresee every single item you may need maybe cover 80% of items needed.

Maybe it’s something that is worst addressing 

i get groceries delivered sometimes and i dont pay more for it. why should i. i have noticed online that when you search for the cheapest item available, like you see in store, it’s sometimes not on the website, which forces you to buy a more expensive item. like ASDA hasn’t got their cheap 55p bread available, but they have the 74p bread available online. but twice as much? i dont know what delivery service you’re using, but no way

They scam you with the £10 off when you spend £20 deals.

So you put £20 pounds of shopping in, yes it’s more expensive, add £2 service charge, £1 delivery but with £10 off you save a bit.

Here’s the scam: many of the items are out of stock or can’t be found, you get refunded for those and end up with four items – some bananas, orange, tin of beans and milk, for £4 plus £2 charge plus £1 delivery. So you basically paid £7 for some fruit, milk and baked beans. You expected 50% off but got ripped off instead.