We’ve always made a point of providing a personal service for our customers, and last week we found a new way to do that. And we’re thrilled with it.
One of our customers gave us his weekly shopping list – the list of groceries that he would usually be driving to Waitrose to buy. He asked us if we could fill that order – and we managed to get all but a few items (which will be in stock next time he asks). His order was packed up and delivered to his door on Wednesday evening.
After we had delivered it, I went onto the Waitrose website and priced every item – like for like – and discovered that not only did he get his shopping personally picked, packed and delivered, he also paid £6.63 less for his shopping. If you add in the cost of a drive to Waitrose, at 40p a mile, that increases his saving a further £4.48 to a total of £11.11.
Even we were pretty impressed with that.
In fact, I was so impressed I decided to see what we could do on a different list – a smaller, every day basket of shopping:
1 litre semi-skimmed milk
1 litre grapefruit juice
6 eggs
1 loaf of medium sliced white bread
250g button mushrooms
225g cherry tomatoes
500g Utterly Butterly
1 medium head of broccoli
600g green beans
1 medium cauliflower
1kg carrots
Brussel sprouts
700g clementines
8 apples
700g new potatoes
1.2kg butternut squash
Here’s how the second sample worked out:
Waitrose price including travel cost: £34.81
Masseys price including £1 delivery charge £25.21
Total saving on this sample shop £10.60
And for those who like to shop at Tesco – the saving from shopping at Masseys would be £2.52.
I think this is a rather nice example of how shopping locally can help save the planet as well as saving money.
What do you think?
Photo credit: Alan Cleaver
Posted under Food ideas
This post was written by Vandy on November 28, 2009
