Groceries Online Shopping

Assalammualaikum wbt,

I always love online shopping, I can do that anywhere and anytime, even I was busy at work, I always managed to steal a minute to at least browsing stuff at the online shopping site. Such bad practice. I have various online shopping sites as my favourite and numbers of shopping Apps.. Sephora, Zalora, Zara, H&M.. Dang, online shopping was also my chosen subject for my final year thesis during Degree. If that's not love, I don't know what that is anymore.. 

But that mostly for make up, apparels and buying baby stuff. Now I got more advanced that I started to buy groceries as well. I always do physical groceries shopping at Jaya Grocer and they do have online shopping too but too bad, they don't deliver at my house area yet. So, that's left with Tesco. I tried it for the first time last 2 weeks for a start and I was so so so happy because not only it cut my time by lots but I don't have to carry all those heavy stuff back and forth from car boot to inside the house, that's my most hate part by the way. They will deliver it straight to your house door. You only have to bring them to the fridge, I think next time I'll ask them to bring the stuff to kitchen as well if that's not too much to ask. 

At first I used the Apps but I don't know what went wrong, it's kind of unstable at the payment gateway so I use the full website instead. I guess they just newly launched the Apps or something so it is still not stable and the layout isn't that user friendly. But, that is still the best compared to the effort of getting dress, get in the car, pushing the trolley from aisle to aisle, getting unnecessary things, pack the stuff inside your recycle bag, carry them to the car, carry them to the house, unpack them, sort, arrange them inside the fridge and racks.. ok, I am being exaggerating, the last part on the list I still need to be doing. They don't have the service arranging the stuff in your kitchen yet. 

On the website, they have segregated the groceries stuff into categories namely baby products, fresh food, frozen etc to make your shopping much easier. If you already knew particular brand you wanted, you just type on the search button and voila! There is also a 'Promotion' button whereby you can view the deal of the day, where you can buy certain item/brands at cheaper price! That definitely very helpful and save cost too. 

The only downside which I don't really favor is should your stuff is unavailable, they would replace it with something else or simply don't deliver them WITHOUT a notice. You only found it out when they arrive at your doorstep and show you the list. That is something I don't fancy about because there are certain things that I wanted with particular brand. Like recently, I wanted Hup Seng biscuit but they sent me Jacobs instead which I slightly upset because Hup Seng is always the best guys. And, I am a bit skeptical to buy fresh ingredients especially poultry & seafood because I don't know know the freshness. They might simply pick any, but that is just my assumption, I never really try yet. 

After you have chose and made a payment, they will give you time to amend your order should you want to add another item in the cart. Then, you have to choose your preferred delivery time (usually the next day). Each delivery slot has different prices, the earlier it is, more expensive it'll be. But, not that expensive compared to the cost of fuel, parking fees, and the time wasted driving, going through traffic madness and finding parking spot. The delivery charges is RM6.

I think this is a very good initiative from Tesco and I hope it will cover more areas in the future. So I could actually help my Nenek doing her groceries even from afar. That would be so awesome right? You know lah, orang tua mana larat sangat nak keluar beli barang. Now, back to my Ipad browsing groceries for next week.