Canned wine co Ocado delivered in UK

 

Canned wine, brought to you by Canned Wine co. Display at the London Wine Fi 22-22ar in May at Olympia exhibiton hall by the Kensington Olympia station in London. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

Why Cans?

Canned wine? Canned wine! A year or two ago the idea might have surprised you, when you held a can of wine in your hand, and even horrified the companions looking over your shoulder., thinking that real wine of any quality must be in a big, heavy glass bottle, sealed with a cork. But life is changing. We are all demanding everything to be faster served faster, and we are wanting to carry our food and drink in backpacks, and to carry back from a supermarket. Storage space must be considered. We are stockpiling for visitors, working from home and emergencies. And we even consider what happens when we individually throw away the packaging. And what happens on a grander scale.

Meanwhile the manufacturers are looking for new customers, new markets, new products, new selling points, environmentally friendly, recycling.

That is where canned drinks come in. 

Summer Cans Coming

With summer picnics and days out. Soft drinks in cans. Even coffee in cans. And, of course, lno alcohol, low alcohol, and prper wine in cans.

What Can yu Buy and Try?

Quite a variety. From ocado.

You can see their website, subscribe to their newsletter and they are on Facebook.

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https://www.facebook.com/cannedwineco/

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Supermarkets and Businesses which delivery groceries, fruit, fish and veg worldwide

Problem
If you are an overseas visitor or a British one and forgot to order food for a bank holiday in the UK, a weekend, an unespected visitor or working from home - or out at work want to order fro the family at home. What if you want to eat breakfast, buy a sandwich or do a shop?

Answers
UK
You can google the trade name of the supermarket, (such as Aldi, marks & Spencers, Morrisons, Tesco, Tesco 24 hours, Tesco Express, Waitrose). Check your nearest branch. Go to opening hours (if not already displayed with open or closed today and today's closing time and tomorrow's opening time.

I checked on a branch of Morrisons and found that on the day I looked it was open 8-6 but the cafe closes earlier and the garden centre might open later or close earlier. Once before I thought I'd do my shopping and then stop for a coffee and cake or sandwich or even a hot meal at the end, but the cafe was already closed.

Mysupermarket.co.uk enables you to choose from assorted branded and unbranded goods and compare the prices at various supermarkets.

You can order British food worldwide from British Corner Shop.
Canyougo promises to deliver grocery shopping wihtin 90 minutes, from £3.95 within the M25.

SINGAPORE
Then I started looking for Singapore and stores worldwide.

WORLDWIDE
Some of the American and UK based stores have branches in several other countries. But if you want German, Spain, or Japan, you will find lots of unfamiliar local names so it's worth just checking, especially if you want only one product. For example, such as deliveries of fresh flowers, which is common in Singapore, a city with lots of busineses and restarantas and htels and expats who enterain in flats without gardens.)

Many pizza delivery services also have cooked potatoes, vegetable dishes, vegetarian pizzas, juices and fizzy drinks, and garlic bread.

TripAdvisor has questions from readers in several countries on forums with replies.

Useful Websites (alphabetically by shop name and country name):
ABEL & CO (Organic fruit and veg)
www.abelandcole.co.uk

ALDI
www.aldi.co.uk

AMAZON
amazon.co.uk

AMAZONFRESH
amazon.co.uk/Fresh
USA (Some US states, log in from the USA to find out); UK London; Japan Tokyo;Germany Berlin, Hamburg, Munich.

ASDA
groceries.asda.com

BOOTS (Sells pharmaceuticals, food and drink. Ships Worldwide but not Singapore.)
https://www.boots.com/wellness/food-and-drink

BRITISH FOOD WORLDWIDE
https://www.britishcornershop.co.uk

CANADA
https://www.walmart.ca/en/grocery/

DISH THE FISH (Fresh fruit, vegetables and fish in Singapore delivered)
www.dishthefish.com.sg/collections

HELLOFRESH
www.hellofresh.co.uk

ICELAND (Frozen food specialist)
groceries.iceland.co.uk

JAPANESE STORES IN JAPAN Seiyu, Daiei, Ito Yokado
http://netsuper.kakaku.com/netsuper/

LIDL
www.lidl.co.uk

MARKS & SPENCERS
marksandspencer.com/c/delivery-and-collection

MILK & MORE
milkandmore.co.uk

MORRISONS
morrisons.com/storefinder
https://groceries.morrisons.com/webshop/get

MYSUPERMARKET UK
mysupermarket.co.uk

OCADO
www.ocado.com/Grocery/Fresh

ORIENTAL IN UK
www.orientmart.co.uk

POUNDLAND
onlinepoundstore.co.uk

POUNDSHOP
www.poundshop.com/£_items/essentials
https://www.poundshop.com/food-drink
I noticed coffee, tea, chocolates, mustard, peanut butter and lots more.

SAINSBURY'S
sainsburys.co.uk/shop/groceries/discover
sainsburys.co.uk/webapp

SPAIN
Carrefour
www.carrefour.es


El Corte Ingles (The name means English Corner but it's thoroughly Spanish)
elcorteingles.es

Hipercor
https://www.hipercor.es/supermarket/

Mercadona
www.mercadona.es

Tu Despensa (price comparison)
https://www.expatica.com/new/es/living/household/online-supermarkets-108765/
MoneySaverSpain.com

SINGAPORE
coldstorage.com.sg/Supermarket/Delivery
phttps://giantonline.com.sg
https://redmart.com/frozen/japanese

SUPERDRUG (Deliveries include NHS medicine and items which must be kept in the fridge.)
https://onlinepharmacy.superdrug.com/delivery-information

WAITROSE
https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/serviceselection?storeId

WONKY VEG DELIVERY IN LONDON, ENGLAND, UK
www.oddbox.co.uk

UK
See Aldi, Asda, Morrisons, Waitrose, deliveroo.co.uk   (meals from restaurants); canugo.co.uk (supermarkets; whatever you request).

UK and Europe
https://americanfizz.co.uk (Food and drinks.)

WORLDWIDE
For sending gifts such as flowers, birthday presents of Champagne, and Xmas hampers, many companies operate a worldwide service seasonally (eg at Xmas and New Year when they stock special lines) or all year.

Many more speciality shops offer to post or deliver, one-off or on a regular basis:
birthday cakes,
birthday gift boxes,
chocolate, or
fruit and veg,
organic fruit and veg
meat, or
nappies (Americans say diapers),
party food,
Wedding cakes,
wines and wine glasses for parties.

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. Please share links to useful posts.

UK Supermarket opening hours on UK Bank Holidays and deliveries of fruit, fish and veg worldwide

Problem
If you are an overseas visitor or a British one and forgot, Aug 27 Monday is a bank holiday in the UK. What if you want to eat breakfast, buy a sandwich or do a shop?

Answers
You can google the trade name of the supermarket, (such as Aldi, Morrisons, Tesco, Tesco 24 hours, Tesco Express, Waitrose. Check your nearest branch. Go to opening hours (if not already displayed with open or closed today and today's closing time and tomorrow's opening time.

I checked on a branch of Morrisons and found that it was open on bank Holiday 8-6 but the cafe closes earlier and the garden centre might open later or close earlier. Once before I thought I'd do my shopping and then stop for a coffee and cake or sandwich or even a hot meal at the end, but the cafe was already closed.

Mysupermarket.co.uk enables you to choose from assorted branded and unbranded goods and compare the prices at various supermarkets.

Useful Websites (alphabetically):
ABEL & CO (Organic fruit and veg)
www.abelandcole.co.uk

ALDI
www.aldi.co.uk

AMAZON
amazon.co.uk

AMAZONFRESH
amazon.co.uk/Fresh
USA (Some US states, log in from the USA to find out); UK London; Japan Tokyo;Germany Berlin, Hamburg, Munich.

ASDA
groceries.asda.com

BOOTS (Sells pharmaceuticals, food and drink. Ships Worldwide but not Singapore.)
https://www.boots.com/wellness/food-and-drink

BRITISH FOOD WORLDWIDE
https://www.britishcornershop.co.uk

DISH THE FISH (Fresh fruit, vegetables and fish in Singapore delivered)
www.dishthefish.com.sg/collections

HELLOFRESH
www.hellofresh.co.uk

ICELAND (Frozen food specialist)
groceries.iceland.co.uk

JAPANESE STORES IN JAPAN Seiyu, Daiei, Ito Yokado
http://netsuper.kakaku.com/netsuper/

LIDL
www.lidl.co.uk

MARKS & SPENCERS
marksandspencer.com/c/delivery-and-collection

MILK & MORE
milkandmore.co.uk

MORRISONS
morrisons.com/storefinder
https://groceries.morrisons.com/webshop/get

MYSUPERMARKET UK
mysupermarket.co.uk

OCADO
www.ocado.com/Grocery/Fresh

ORIENTAL IN UK
www.orientmart.co.uk

POUNDLAND
onlinepoundstore.co.uk

POUNDSHOP
www.poundshop.com/£_items/essentials

SAINSBURY'S
sainsburys.co.uk/shop/groceries/discover
sainsburys.co.uk/webapp

SINGAPORE
https://redmart.com/frozen/japanese

SUPERDRUG (Deliveries include NHS medicine and items which must be kept in the fridge.)
https://onlinepharmacy.superdrug.com/delivery-information

WAITROSE
https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/serviceselection?storeId

WONKY VEG DELIVERY IN LONDON, ENGLAND, UK
www.oddbox.co.uk

WORLDWIDE
For sending gifts such as flowers, birthday presents of Champagne, and Xmas hampers, many companies operate a worldwide service seasonally (eg at Xmas and New Year when they stock special lines) or all year.

Many more speciality shops offer to post or deliver:
chocolate, or
meat, or
wine.

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. Please share links to useful posts.

More on Home Delivery - open your fridge and talk to your watch

Problem
If you have just arrived back in the UK jetlagged, you may not feel like shopping.

Answer
You could actually order a delivery the day before, whilst still in another country, and get it delivered the day of your arrival.

You can also get a home delivery of food if you are packing to go away with no time to race around the shops. You can pick out items such as mosquito nets and suncream and travel adapters and order and continue packing whilst waiting for your delivery.

Would you believe it, you can order your shopping by talking into an Apple watch.

Today, Sunday 26 Aug, when I log on, Iceland is offering free next day delivery when you spend over £35.

The other deal which popped up was ten pounds off if you spent £50, so in effect you only have to spend £40 and you get another ten pounds of food or goods for free.

Useful websites

https://groceries.iceland.co.uk/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=7stars%3ERLSA+-+Competitors+-+Top+Performing&utm_term=morrisons%20delivery&utm_content=Morrisons+Delivery
https://my.morrisons.com/foodtoorder/?utm_source=StoreFinder&utm_medium=Internal&utm_campaign=footer_link#

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.

Ordering online from supermarkets - does it work?

Waitrose Calendar - if you got one last year, you could use it to mark your delivery slot.

Problem
The delivery options are great. You can get delivery in time slots, which are on the hour and on the half hour, from 7-8 am until 9-10 pm. When I looked online after mighnight, Saturday, in effect Sunday, the next day slots on Monday which were already filled and taken were 7-9, 4-5 and 5-6.

Ordering online from supermarkets sound a great way to cater for a leaving party in a studio flat or hotel suite.

However, my efforts in the UK were not a success.

I tried Waitrose. Then Ocado. They sent me a survey and asked my opinion. I said:

Firstly, keep my shopping bag full so if I accidentally close the website I haven't wasted 90 minutes.

Free Delivery?
Secondly, I opened what I thought was an Ocado offer for £30 off and free delivery and got neither. It seems that I have to spend £60 and to get special deals I have to sign up for a year which is not possible as I am retired and shall be away for more than a month at some time in the winter.

Waitrose lets you sign up with Facebook or google or Paypal. That's handy.

Waitrose and Ocado
I started on the Waitrose website, then went onto the Ocado website with different offers and now can't make out if they are the same or different as my website on Ocado disappeared and is not in my history.

I would like to be able to save products in favourites, so if I try to re-load my basket it will pick them again, but I am not sure how to do it. I think it only does that after you have completed your first shop. What if I am hopping about and want to save teh chocolate digestives whilst I look for alternatives?

When I go to close the website without completing my order, it does not offer to save anything.

Basket Price
The website should also give you a running total so you can see if you are near the minimum spend. I think I saw it once. Maybe I moved the screen and it went.

I don't know why the cookies haven't saved me. Instead, I have to start filling in passwords all over again.

How Many Biscuits Per Pack?
Some of the packs said, two pieces, or four.
However, the biscuit packs and cakes mostly don't have numbers of pieces or slices.

I have no idea how many 'family size' serves. A family of four? Six? Twenty?

I am going to a club committee meeting of about 6 to 8 people and want to take a pack of biscuits and a cake or something like profiteroles. I don't want to find I have 8 people and only 7 biscuits or four pieces of cake you can't cut without making a mess all over our paperwork.

Prices
The Waitrose / Ocado online prices are much higher than Tesco Express which has bananas under £1 and a giant box of grapes for £3. I also cannot buy a sandwich, only sandwich fillings. All day in any supermarket I can get sandwiches for £1 or from Tesco for £1.10p.

Tinned Fish
The tins of sardines and mackerel are also much more expensive than Tesco, and the baked beans.

Cheesecakes
I had trouble working out which of the cheesecakes were baked cheesecakes and which were the mousse sort which make a mess and are more like cream than cake. I would like a round cake pre-cut into slices for a party.

If you want to order a large amount, good.

Alternatives
Maybe I'll go back to the Poundland website.

ADVANTAGES FOR YOU
However, your circumstances may be different from mine. You may find that, as there advertising claims, they save you hours of time. And stop you making impulse purchases. And enable you to check your own fridge to be sure you really have run out of something before you buy it.

Useful Websites
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocado
Waitrose.com
www.ocado.com
poundland.co.uk
This sites explains that although products may overlap, the two sites are different. The article was written in 2014 as you can tell from the prices and offers.
https://www.thedrum.com/opinion/2014/03/03/battle-between-ocado-and-waitrose-shows-why-integrated-campaign-needs-more
Author
Angela Lansbury