Mushrooms in place of tampons, a frozen pizza substituted for tinned peaches, and cream crackers instead of Christmas crackers. These are among the “bizarre” supermarket substitutions reported by online shoppers in a new poll.
Just over a third of online grocery shoppers (34%) reported having received a substitution in their most recent grocery delivery, the survey for consumer group Which? found.
Asda was the worst offender with more than half (56%) of customers receiving a replacement product in their last order. When asked about the strangest substitution of the past year, one of its shoppers recounted their bemusement at having ordered washing powder only to unpack 10 cans of beer.
So throwing this open to the floor: have you had an silly substitutions?
Because there’s no actual logic to their code. They’re just swapping in whatever they have in stock. They want money.
I love having shit like this happen. It means I can go and mark it as an unreasonable substitute, or I’ll just say it was missing, and I get it for free
Nice life hack.