“They have badgered me to try online service for 5 years. i did. They missed the delivery and did not communicate (claimed to of course). Two phone calls to try and sort (they fail but talk of a voucher for my trouble) . They then cancel my order. I phone; they reinstate order, agree a £25 voucher, then tell me it replaces the £18 voucher I used and that the £7 covers the extra cost of delivery. I then explode and cancel the whole thing. They still have my money as it takes 7 days to credit my credit card.
I doubt i'll even be using the branches from now on and i estimate that in today's money, over the last 40 years I have spent £80,000 with them.”
“I parked at Sainsburys car park on Market Street in Huddersfield.
I lost my ticket whilst in town and advised a member of staff about the situation and I was specific about the time I arrived at the car park. I just wanted to pay for my parking and obtain a new ticket to be able to exit the car park at the barrier.
The car park attendant told me told me to go into store and the staff would issue me a ticket to exit the carpark.
I was shocked to be told that there would be a £50 fee to get a new ticket.
I shop at Sainsburys regularly and I am normally happy with the service I receive. This felt like a very poor way to treat customers or potential customers.
I was eventually told that if I spent £15 in store I would be given a new ticket, and this is what I did in the end.
It took me around 40mins to resolve what I would have considered a simple common issue. Very disappointing!”
“Thought I had ordered online, only realised maybe it hasn’t worked when realised I hadn’t been notified to collect in store. Went back to find no email.. rung customer services to be told something went wrong with the transaction (not my fault). I was annoyed because not only was I inconvenienced but the 25% off sale had now ended. I asked if given the circumstances the 25% discount (for the same items) would still be honoured - I was told no... I thought this was the least they could have done. I used to buy lots from ‘Tu’, this has really put me off.”
“Online grocery shopping not delivered, because driver couldn't easily find the address...even if i had left clear directions that it is a tricky site to access and they should call me if they have trouble. If they are not able to deliver to a place they should clearly state it on their website in advance! Sainsburys clearly puts too much pressure on their drivers and tight time-frames, not leaving them enough time if a place is tricky to find. Driver had to move on and my order was automatically cancelled without anyone even informing me of that. Terrible service. And after spending an hour on their helplines without anyone taking responsibility, they offer me a £5 online shopping voucher...you must be kidding me!”
“Don't use Sainsburys Online Shopping, Worst service ever. Last night the delivery failed to arrive after I specifically left clear directions that my house is tricky to find and the driver should call me if they cant find it. Driver called me only after he spent 20 minutes looking for the place and had decided to move on. Clearly didn't read directions. I called Central Sainsburys helpline and they said that the driver would come back for my delivery, but still never showed up. Then today I was handed over from helpline to helpline no-one taking responsibility and eventually informing me that they refunded my payment and cancelled my order.
What is the point of online shopping and home delivery if you can't rely on it to arrive. Obviously the fact that I live in a place that's tricky to access IS the reason that I have a need for home delivery of groceries, if Sainsbury's can't find an address then they should state it clearly on their website, before I pay for groceries and spend a whole evening waiting for them to be delivered! Basically there is no guarantee of service: "you shop, we might or might not deliver, depending on our mood"
I don't only blame the driver, Sainsburys obviously puts pressure on their drivers to deliver as many groceries as possible within tight time-frames, the driver was clearly apologetic and stressed out and had to move on to the next delivery. SO it's a central management issue, Sainsbury's has to put less pressure on the delivery drivers so they can actually have time to read the directions that customers leave and have enough time to clearly and calmly communicate with the customer about the delivery.
On top of this and only after asking them for some kind of reimbursement, central customer service offered me an insulting £5 online shopping voucher as compensation for my trouble! Ha! how am i even meant to use that if you can't find my address???”
“Ordered cast iron casserole dish but it wasn't delivered as store had none in stock. Why do they advertise nationally "home" items if they can't honour the order?”
“Bought a microwave which was Sainsbury make. Had about 6 months use out of it as the other 6 months it was packed away due to a move. Started to use it after the move which was 7 days after the year and it would not work. After explaining that we only had little use from it the reply was out of guaranty so can not help. I would advise anyone to think twice when buying electrical goods from the store as they do not last even with little use and the duty manager at Pontypridd was not interested and had no compassion even though it was so close after the year was over. Goods should last longer than this did. Will stick to Asda and Currys from now on.”
“Seems that this company is writing it's own reviews. Come on folks. Tesco is awful in every single way, and the person who actually rated their self service checkouts as excellent really needs to do some serious thinking. Like did they know that the price of paying staff to man checkouts is factored in to every single item you buy.This means that you are paying tesco to serve you on self service. Then of course there is the fact that each self service checkout represents one person out of a job. As someone has said, give discounts for using them, if you must that is.”
“I shouldnt give no stars. I really hate how the stupid men talk to me today, for me no more spending my money in racist place hated hated hated, and will tell my husband and my family to not go there, he didnt know how to talk to me. No more going the, i used to do my shopping there. NO MORE”
“Second online order messed up. Arrived an hour early from booked delivery slot. Items substituted even though I ticked no substitute. When I rang the customer service they were unhelpful and condescending. Normally do my shopping in store at Sainsbury's, but have lost faith in them as a retailer since. They think their customers are idiots.”
“Used to spend £400 plus a month on home deliveries, that ended when a very rude delivery driver parked outside, threw the sack barrow from his truck, was banging and crashing with my/other orders on board, Customer services were useless telling me how the drivers in question were told of my complaint.
I won't be trusting them again, so I hope it was worth that email from Chis at their customer service debacle.”
“Grumpy delivery driver even though I Andrew the door and welcomed him, then let me reach below the doorstep to pick up the bags, one tub had no bags even though I paid for 8, got 4 needed 5/6 fir the amount of shopping. Substitutes were unclear what I was going to pay compared to what I'd been sent instead. Overall it just reminded why we stopped using sainsburys groceries delivery”
“Grumpy delivery driver even though I Andrew the door and welcomed him, then let me reach below the doorstep to pick up the bags, one tub had no bags even though I paid for 8, got 4 needed 5/6 fir the amount of shopping. Substitutes were unclear what I was going to pay compared to what I'd been sent instead. Overall it just reminded why we stopped using sainsburys groceries delivery”
“Visit them if you wish to take part in the speediest checkout ever. Checkout staff can be very rude, much too fast and pressure to use self service. DO NOT USE IT!! Ask for a discount if you do as the price of using a real checkout is factored into the price of your goods. Oh, and please do realise that some people do have mobility issues not at first obvious, and not all elderly are as fit as each other, so BE NICE to them.”
