Does any of the French supermarkets provide a grocery delivery subscription ? I normally have my grocery delivered from SuperU or E.Leclerc and none of them provide a subscription model but per delivery charge it seems.
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Iâve only ever found per-delivery charges. Then again, a country which prices multi-buys higher than single purchases âŠ
Itâs bats, man.
It depends what it is you are seeking. In the court- circuit, bio world there are lots of subscription models. For example weekly fish order - https://poiscaille.fr You just have to look for them.
Also portails to order direct from suppliers such as https://www.pourdebon.com/?
But if youâre after better quality convenience eating then this sort of thing may well be more what you are seeking
Do HyperU/SuperU/E.Leclerc all offer home deliveries and if so, is there a limit to their delivery radius ?
Most of them do in many/most places, so check out their websites. Our superU wIll deliver on wednesday mornings only for example, and only from their âDriveâ list which is maybe 75% of the shop products.
IMO at least round here, rural, until SuperU started offering deliveries from their Drive catalog a very few months ago, no other supermarket waa willing to deliver. Not sure but from the locations they accept I am guessing the SuoerU range is about 15km away max by road distance.
I have no idea why further away Carrefour and Casino are not willing fo simply contract with Chronopost etc. to deliver just like the former Casino subsidiary Club Leader Price did (they also did subscriptions too). The Leclerc 17km away doesnât seem to deliver to anyone and Iâm sure there is quite a bit of demand but it seems they donât feel the need to.
In the UK it was really annoying that most of the supermarkets insisted your order could only come from the nearest one of their branches - which possibly had a limited selection - even if that closest branch was so poor you would never set foot in it. (Morrisons iâm looking at you but you are not the only one). Guessing thatâs why I canât simply order from the warehouse of a national supermarket chain in France either and have them send by post or courier - not even if there is no local supermarket of the brand to feel threatened.
We recently asked our nearest Leclerc why their Drive list of products was significantly shorter than their actual in-store products..They explained that their policy is typically to keep their Drive products in a separate store from the retail store, the former being much smaller than the latter, hence insufficient space to replicate the range of in-store products. By contrast our local Intermarché told us their policy is not to have a separate store for Drive, and they pick items for the Drive directly from the in-store shelves.
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âŠwhich I find really annoying!
I also donât understand how it can be efficient to stock up the shelves & then have the same staff go third party shopping in them.
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Agreed - Sainsburyâs do this in the UK - when I am wheeling my trolley around doing my shop there is often a Sainsburyâs bod in the way with a big cart stacked with âClick and Collectâ baskets picking goods off the shelves.
It seems nuts but maybe itâs to do with stock control and not unpacking bulk goods in the warehouse.
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This happens in virtually every Uk supermarket, at times our local Morinobs has practically empty shelves as theyâre stripped for home deliveries. Each store used to be well stocked so they could replace items as they ran out and all shelves were restocked overnight. This no longer happens, they keep minimal stock in stores relying on constant, just in time, deliveries.
There is no supermarket delivery around us - we are less than 3km from the local Intermarche but it only does Drive, not deliveries.
We have the same issue with our local Carrefour, but we were also told by the Drive staff (who are the same as the ones that work in-store depending on their shift) that the Drive list is still shorter than whatâs actually on the shelves in the store - go figure !