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  • rogerthecat
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    Had to share this.
    Mrs Cat booked a Tesco delivery slot in haste a couple of days ago.
    She’s under quite a bit of pressure – job and a degree in a year – so occasionally odd things happen.
    Just had a call from Tesco van driver – can’t get up the lanes to our house, could I meet him on the main road.
    No probs, get kitted up and dust off the van, and meet him and his mate who are in tucks of hysterical laughter.
    To hold the delivery space open she just stuck a £40 order of stuff in with the intention of changing it later. She forgot, so we have…

    …42 ferking loaves of Hovis – that’s it, nothing else!

    Eggy bread, bread & butter pudding, various toasties…suggestions welcome. 😆

    chojin
    Free Member

    That’s a different kind of special altogether!

    righog
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    Bread Pudding ?

    muppetWrangler
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    She had the forethought to panic buy by delivery.

    That’s the sort of woman you want on your side when the snowmageddon arrives.

    allthepies
    Free Member

    Get creative

    Mikkel
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    build a bike shed from it?
    soak the slices in water first, then when it freezes it should be quite bombproof (for a night or so)

    martinhutch
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    You could the local swan and duck saviour for the day.

    njee20
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    Not quite as bad but the GF once ordered all our veg by weight, not unit. 4kg of courgettes, 3kg of leeks, 2kg of broccoli etc. Ate healthily for a while!

    MarkSS
    Free Member

    Lure some ducks in with the bread… and make some pate to go on the toast?

    My Mrs ordered 15 granny smith apples from Tesco’s online once failing to realise they were bags of apples 🙂

    flippinheckler
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    😆 A lot of loafing about today then, I’ll get my coat.

    Pook
    Full Member

    we’ve taken delivery of ten bunches of bananas before

    Speshpaul
    Full Member

    a work mate ordered 300 screws once, yes they came in boxes of 100.
    oh how we laughed when the pallet turned up.

    as for the bread, what you can’t freeze give away

    rogerthecat
    Free Member

    Just waiting for the village Co-op to run out of bread. then I’m opening a stall in their car park.

    £2.50 a loaf anyone?

    PMK2060
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    One of the buyers where I used to work ordered 100,000 cases of rubber ducks rather than 100,000 units. The mistake was not noticed until 1.2 million ducks were delivered to site.

    andylaightscat
    Free Member

    get some fishees and feed the 5000??

    meehaja
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    buy a chest freezer and that’ll last you through most of the year!

    MarkN
    Free Member

    You’re toast.

    igm
    Full Member

    STW annual picnic lunch at yours?

    lucien
    Full Member

    Bump off next doors horse, then you’d have all the ingredients you’d need for Tesco Economy Burgers

    bruneep
    Full Member

    Pics or it never happened

    rogerthecat
    Free Member

    Pics will be forthcoming.

    Zulu-Eleven
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    I think you’d have to take the opportunity to be the best neighbour in the street 🙂

    mtbmatt
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    Bread is all sold out around us because of the panic buying. ebay it!! 🙂

    njee20
    Free Member

    As an aside, in future why not put a few nice bottles of wine, or a bottle of spirits or something or something to ‘hold’ the order? If you do happen to forget it doesn’t all go to waste.

    nealglover
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    One of the buyers where I used to work ordered 100,000 cases of rubber ducks rather than 100,000 units. The mistake was not noticed until 1.2 million ducks were delivered to site.

    About 100 shipping containers worth ?

    rogerthecat
    Free Member

    @neej20 – we had that little chat earlier.

    If it’s made into breadcrumbs can it be used to grit the road?

    bencooper
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    It happens the other way around too – a bike supplier who shall remain nameless once sent me a carton of high-end clipless pedals (20 pairs) instead of one pair. Same supplier, different time also sent a carton of cable end caps (30 boxes) instead of one box.

    Each time, only billed for one box.

    And yes, I did tell them. Several times.

    PMK2060
    Full Member

    Nealglover – not sure how many containers came in. Company I worked for was one of the largest baby equipment suppliers and imported a lot from Thailand. We had a lot of containers coming in on a weekly basis.

    BigJohn
    Full Member

    [gangster voice] If somebody did that to me they’d be brown bread. /[gangster voice]

    Jamie
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    Take it to your local food bank.

    http://www.trusselltrust.org/foodbank-projects

    Although, for future reference, you could have just told the driver you didn’t want it, and they would have just taken it back. Seems strange you took it.

    grantway
    Free Member

    Didn’t your Mum teach you to use your Loaf 😳

    igm
    Full Member

    Happy ducks

    lipseal
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    esselgruntfuttock
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    Oh crumbs, what a ****up!

    I_Ache
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    I used to be a sainsburys delivery driver and I had one bloke once that had done the same but with £200 of Champagne! I figured he was having a party he thought it was hilarious.

    bruneep
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    rogerthecat – Member
    Pics will be forthcoming.

    POSTED 4 HOURS AGO

    Jamie
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    sc-xc
    Full Member

    For no other reason…

    Jamie
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