weirdest substitute received on online shopping

starbaby2003

So I collected my shopping for the first time today. I’d ordered it online but couldn’t get a suitable delivery time. Anyway I didn’t check the receipt until I got home ( I know, I know !). I was surprised to see I’d paid for someone’s lunch - A jambon and wedges to be exact. It got me thinking what was the weirdest substitute you had gotten in shopping grocery or otherwise.

starbaby2003

Mods -Can you move to after hours, please

Beasty

starbaby2003 wrote: »

Mods -Can you move to after hours, please

Done

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

starbaby2003 wrote: »

So I collected my shopping for the first time today. I’d ordered it online but couldn’t get a suitable delivery time. Anyway I didn’t check the receipt until I got home ( I know, I know !). I was surprised to see I’d paid for someone’s lunch - A jambon and wedges to be exact. It got me thinking what was the weirdest substitute you had gotten in shopping grocery or otherwise.

Jambon and wedges as a substitute for what though?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Substituting Cat Food with Dog Food is a regular one.

My daughter ordered a box of Cadbury Crème Eggs and they sent a carton of ordinary hen's eggs.

L1011

https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2019/07/24/condom-worst-substition-all-time/ has to be the most nuts. Condoms swapped out for mouthwash

Can vaguely see a jokey logic on behalf of the picker but those kind of jokes are not ones you share with customers!

starbaby2003

Chance Freezing Stepdaughter wrote: »

Jambon and wedges as a substitute for what though?

I didn’t get them, I was just charged for them. I’m presuming it was the shoppers lunch ...

starbaby2003

Chance Freezing Stepdaughter wrote: »

Substituting Cat Food with Dog Food is a regular one.

My daughter ordered a box of Cadbury Crème Eggs and they sent a carton of ordinary hen's eggs.

That’s very funny

Homelander

starbaby2003 wrote: »

I didn’t get them, I was just charged for them. I’m presuming it was the shoppers lunch ...

Can't really see how that would happen. Pickers can pick substitutes but can't add stuff onto your bill. Unless you paid a third party company to collect shopping from somewhere that doesn't have online shopping? If so, that's really taking the piss, I assume you complained?

Poor Uncle Tom

Ordered a Ultra violet light bulb for a fish tank and got a replacement screen for a Commodore SX64, still scratching my head on that one, the fish is none the wiser either, although I have my doubts....

Homelander

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

Ordered a Ultra violet light bulb for a fish tank and got a replacement screen for a Commodore SX64, still scratching my head on that one, the fish is none the wiser either, although I have my doubts....

I ordered Halo 5 on the Xbox for something like 15 euro and got a Samsung Galaxy S7 at the time. Waited a month or two and heard nothing about it so ended up using it.

starbaby2003

Homelander wrote: »

starbaby2003 wrote: »

I didn’t get them, I was just charged for them. I’m presuming it was the shoppers lunch ...

Can't really see how that would happen. Pickers can pick substitutes but can't add stuff onto your bill. Unless you paid a third party company to collect shopping from somewhere that doesn't have online shopping? If so, that's really taking the piss, I assume you complained?

Yeah I rang them. They just said to come down and they’d refund it. Tbh it isn’t worth the hassle driving over for €2.85

L1011

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

Ordered a Ultra violet light bulb for a fish tank and got a replacement screen for a Commodore SX64, still scratching my head on that one, the fish is none the wiser either, although I have my doubts....

Not even a particularly cheap thing to be mis-sent, likely many times the price of the bulb.

RhubarbCrumble

My friend ordered fizzy cola bottles once and ended up with effervescent vitamin c tablets instead.

fryup

what this substitute thingy about??...new online fad?

Gregor Samsa

fryup wrote: »

what this substitute thingy about??...new online fad?

In online grocery shopping (from Tesco, for instance), if they don’t have a particular item in stock, they may substitute it with something similar. For instance, you order a bag of Pink Lady apples, but they don’t have any when they go to pick your order. Instead of giving you no apples, they give you a bag of Gala apples instead. You can mark items that you don’t want substituted if you want. If the substitute item is more expensive than the one you ordered, you don’t pay the extra. If it’s less, you’re refunded the difference. Substitutions are marked on your receipt when you get the delivery.

What this thread is about is unusual or inappropriate substitutions - say a bag of sweet potatoes instead of your apples.

Also, some people are recounting the time they just plain got the wrong thing delivered when they ordered something online. Which is a slightly different phenomenon to substitution. It represents a mistake by the person responsible for picking the order, whereas substitution represents a conscious decision by them.

This is literally everything I know about substitutions, so I hope you don’t have any more questions.