“I wait every year with eager anticipation for Jersey royals to appear in our Sainsbury’s store in Beeston Notts , unfortunately this year I have never had so many green potatoes , I have thrown so many away I have now stopped buying them”
“Hello ... its impossible to contact Sainsburys even to report a life threatening example of reckless driving by their delivery driver.
I have experienced what I consider to be such a dangerous example of reckless driving by one of Sainsburys delivery drivers that I wished to contact your CEO Mike Coupe directly as he is listed on the Sainsburys “Complaints” list of contacts. However, It appears Siansburys block any unauthorised Emails to Mr Coupe so perhaps you would forward this complaint for me. I cannot stress enough the importance of this complaint as I am certain that if your driver continues to drive in the manner then there will be a serious accident in the very near future.
Dear Mr Coupe
I am contacting you directly as I fear my frightening experience earlier this evening suggests one of your drivers will cause a serious accident.
I am sure you are aware the roads are used far more often now by joggers, walkers and cyclists and no more so than Gardeners Hill Road in Farnham, Surrey. I live locally and use this road frequently and am now extra careful as it is a winding lane and often frequented by individuals and families exercising. At around 19:10 I was travelling home down Gardeners Hill Road when suddenly one of your delivery vans rounded the bend behind me and proceeded at speed to what appeared to be less than 500mm from the rear of my car.
As we approached the junction with Frensham Vale your driver then overtook me at a highly dangerous speed and reckless manoeuvre and turned right on the wrong side of the road into Frensham Vale. Quite frankly if any vehicle had been approaching the junction from Frensham Vale there would inevitably been a head on collision. As I live in Vale Close I too entered the Frensham Vale road and your driver was again travelling at high speed ahead of me down what is known to be a narrow (and unfortunately badly maintained) country lane.
I believe the registration was PD18 XAC but can’t be certain as it raced ahead of me very quickly.
I can only hope your driver has calmer driving periods otherwise if he or she delivers locally then I fear for the many joggers, walkers and cyclists (often children) that frequent our local roads so often now.”
“Had a delivery slot booked for 7pm until 8pm for yesterday 4th of July. I had got the confirmation a substitution got some items, time on that was the same and always try and print adopt of order anyway. No show until just after 9pm. I am diabled but my husband had words with the driver who claimed he had 8pm until 9 pm on his order sheet. Due to medication I am usually in bed by then so would never order such a late slot. previous delivery has seen a big bag of sugar split. I cannot get through on the phone and sent a message but gave not had a reply . Very disappointed I preferred Sainsbury's and was really pleased when I got a home delivery. Not anymore.”
“I tried to return some shorts that I bought from Sainsburys in Burpham, just before lockdown. I wanted a bigger size but was told I couldn’t return them as I didn’t have a receipt. I said they would be on my nectar card but she said there was nothing she could do. I think this is totally inflexible by yourselves, I only wanted a replacement not a refund and this is the first chance I have had to do this. Before lockdown I spent over a £100.00 each week shopping with you, but I wont be from now on. I really can’t believe you would lose a customer for £15.00 but it seems you really don’t care.”
“after 50 years of being a loyal customer - I will never shop in Sainsbury's again.
My necessary 'on line shopping' was a bad experience.
Food was on occasions out of date - shelf life on many - many items abysmal.
Unable to complain via normal channels as all these routes appeared to be blocked.
Finally 2 weeks ago my daughter on my behalf hand delivered a letter addressed to the manager - marked private and confidential - handed in at the 'Customer Service' desk at Sutton -Surrey branch.
Of course I got no reply and my daughter actually enquired a week later in the store what had happened to the letter. No one had any recollection of my letter.
Enough said !!!
Sainsbury's should be ashamed of the exploitation of the most vulnerable members of our society by off loading unfit foodstuff at full price.
Now do you understand why I will never shop in Sainsbury's again!!!”
“What a sudden drop in standards, Since lockdown we have been shopping on line, they have now changed their window from 3 weeks to just a few days while others have left their windows as is. I now shop with Tesco instead, why wait for Sainsburys to offer a slot when we can book slots 3 weeks ahead. If you dont use facebook or twitter (we dont), the only way to contact them is by phone - and they claim to be user friendly.”
“Past 20 years I buy everything from
my local Sainsbury’s. Over the years Sainsbury’s services declining. Not many tills, unhappy staff. Queuing system complicated. The staff at the door way they call you to enter into Sainsbury’s feel like calling cattle’s. Absolutely disgusted & shambles.”
“Drivers rude and don’t want to deliver to flats. Can’t complaint! Spend hours on the phone to customer services and then no manager is available to complain. Spend time a money and then have to wait a week for a refund and have to buy elsewhere what a waist of time and money.”
“Sainsbury’s Drivers refuse to deliver to first floor flat! can’t get a refund for a week! Then can’t file a complaint with a manager because Sainsburys has no one available, after been hours to their customer services, then they deliver out of date dairy products... what a joke”
“I am appalled that Sainsbury’s should choose to profiteer out of the CV19 lockdown
Eggs have gone up from approx 9p each for 805 grammes to 11p each for 795 grammes
Milk no longer sold in pints so for those living singly it’s gone off before it can all be consumed.
The Belgian sponge puddings are now simply disgusting with a strange taste and no longer properly formed
Butter no longer available in 500 gramme size
No bread flour for months to name just a few.
Do the bean counters take us for such fools? Apparently yes BUT NOT FOR LONG, sadly by then they will have moved on proud of the short term so called improvement in profits but leaving the wreckage of a proud old company in their wake, talking of wakes WAKE UP THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND SEE WHAT DAMAGE YOU ARE LETTING THEM DO TO YOUR COMPANY or we will be attending your wake. Hopefully before it’s too late, but sadly too late for me off to the Coop in future. Chris Taylor Cheshire”
“Disgusted no one way in Liphook store. People going everywhere. Staff not keeping social distancing and generally not a good experience. Tesco can do it right so why can’t they.”
“I went to my local Sainsbury's store today in monkseaton, Newcastle to pick up an item, I snapped a photo of the closed checkouts in Argos as I was talking to a friend on whatsapp, I really didn't think there was a problem.. no people or products were in the photo may I add. Upon leaving the store I was confronted by security Infront of all the other shoppers and told it was illegal to take photos in store (it's not I checked) after a brief exchange of words with the older security guard the younger guard Dan stepped in. His attitude was disgusting and I could tell immediately that he was trying to provoke the situation, grinning at me and trying his best to get me to lose my temper.. my thoughts are he was a bit bored and wanted some excitment at my expense, to be treat like this in store during the current pandemic was disgusting and it took great effort to walk away as such I am now reluctant to go back to shop there, I realise that this isn't an issue with Sainsbury's as such but as a representative of their store I feel that my only recourse is not to go back and that shop security needs to be retrained to descalate rather than inflame a situation and that guards such as Dan have no place on the shop floor working directly with the public”
“I went to my local Sainsbury's store today in monkseaton, Newcastle to pick up an item, I snapped a photo of the closed checkouts in Argos as I was talking to a friend on whatsapp, I really didn't think there was a problem.. no people or products were in the photo may I add. Upon leaving the store I was confronted by security Infront of all the other shoppers and told it was illegal to take photos in store (it's not I checked) after a brief exchange of words with the older security guard the younger guard Dan stepped in. His attitude was disgusting and I could tell immediately that he was trying to provoke the situation, grinning at me and trying his best to get me to lose my temper.. my thoughts are he was a bit bored and wanted some excitment at my expense, to be treat like this in store during the current pandemic was disgusting and it took great effort to walk away as such I am now reluctant to go back to shop there, I realise that this isn't an issue with Sainsbury's as such but as a representative of their store I feel that my only recourse is not to go back and that shop security needs to be retrained to descalate rather than inflame a situation and that guards such as Dan have no place on the shop floor working directly with the public”
“I’ve used Sainsbury’s at bridge of Dee Aberdeen for years but their delivery service is dire. Always loads of items unavailable, even a Daily Mail for an 11am delivery! Have had to start using Asda and Iceland delivery service as they have very few unavailables.”
“You have conflicting information about who is allowed in your stores between 8 and 9 am.
It appears also that media sources are also repeating your original message. I have an email from Sainsbury’s dated 21/3/20 that states cares of the elderly are allowed between 8 and 9 m/w/f. However other guidance from Sainsbury’s dated and issued at the same time doesn’t mention carers being allowed in the stores.
Please clarify the position. I am a cater and have been turned away today from Bamberbridge store, yet as I tried to explain I have been allowed in for the last 8 weeks.
Waisting my time.
Regards
Neil Richardson”
“This is the worst supermarket ever. I was vulnerable for 6 weeks having had major surgery and could not get a shopping delivery because I was not on the governments vulnerable list. You could not even get through to them on the phone. I have always shopped in Sainsbury's but after speaking with a horrid woman named Nicola from head office today who showed Absolutely no remorse whatsoever and said it was their policy. Also complained about the little Sainsbury's always being closed when I went to do shopping to restock. Won't be setting foot in their again and writing to complain about Nicola for sure.”
“I have shopped online with Sainsbury's twice and will not do so again.
During the ordering process I noticed some things I had placed in the basket disappeared and I had to click them again. Some did not get to the basket at all. On both orders, when the delivery arrived items I know I had clicked were missing - but when I checked they had disappeared from the shopping list again.
In addition, the tomatoes and grapes were squashy and over-ripe, and I was given a credit note (usable only online) for unavailable items - in my opinion these should not have been charged for.
I gave feedback via their website but heard nothing (reading the reviews here I'm not surprised.)
Will not use their online service again.”
“Extremely bad communication re problems with online orders. They tell me if I formalise my complaint I will get no reply as it goes into a general?? When I asked if there was a manager I could contact, I was told No; if there was any further complaints procedure I could take, again I was told NO. After a red wine spillage at my door on delivery, a wiping of groceries dripping in red wine and three calls to customer service- I was asked what amount I was to be refunded, I said well the cigarettes will cost me £10.30 to replace. They said we divide the cost of the carton £51 by 5 so that will be £10.20!!”
“Order number 36310144
Ordered a paddling pool and to hit the £40 min for free delivery, added £11 of misc products.
At 5am on the day of deliveyr, received an email stating no pool. Order arrived, with a charge of £7 for delivery of £11 of goods.
Contacted CS, who said I was the mug for signing up to unrerasobale t&cs and a system which does not allow you the time to either amend the order or indeed cancel it if and when over half of the order value is unavailable, and free delivery is annulled. On the order page there was no clear indication this woudl happen. Talk abouyt taking advantage of customers (a vulnerable one no less) during this difficult time. Complete clowns for not taking a discretionary sensible action of refunded the £7 delivery charge, lost a regular customer and have guaranteed this is posted as a warning to others.”
