You won’t taste the difference! Fury as Sainsbury’s cancel family’s Christmas Eve turkey delivery
A household has had their Christmas dinner ruined after Sainsbury’s cancelled their Christmas Eve turkey delivery, leaving them with no centrepiece for the desk.
The grocery store pickers additionally left them wanting for his or her Boxing Day lunch, as the ham joint they’d ordered was not in inventory, and was as a substitute changed with eight ham sandwich slices.
The order, which included a medium turkey crown and a Sainsbury’s Brunswick British ham joint, weighing 900g, was positioned properly upfront on December 3, the buyer wrote.
They stated the service equipped by Sainsbury’s delivery was ‘completely appalling’.
Posting on X, previously Twitter, on the morning of Christmas Eve, Jack Rice wrote: ‘@sainsburys cancelling my turkey crown (pre ordered on third Dec) on Xmas eve and likewise the ham joint however changing it with 4 ham slices. Absolutely appalling.’
Mr Rice shared a picture of his e mail receipt from Sainsbury’s, which had one substitution.
It learn: ‘We’ve tried to select the finest substitutes for the unavailable gadgets under. If you are not pleased with these substitutions, you may give them again to the driver and we’ll ship you a refund.’
It then says that the 900g ham joint, which value £10, has been changed with two four-packs of Sainsbury’s Taste The Difference breaded Yorkshire cured cooked British ham slices, weighing 120g.
The deli slices value simply £6.50 between them, saving the shopper a complete of £3.50 in the event that they determined to maintain the substitution.
However, Sainsbury’s had been utterly unable to search out any appropriate substitute for the contemporary turkey crown, which might have weighed between 2kg and 3kg.
Replying to his fuming tweet yesterday morning, a Sainsbury’s consultant advised Mr Rice: ‘Hey there Jack, actually sorry about the situation along with your order.
Could I simply get you to DM me by way of the link under along with your full tackle, e mail and order quantity? I’ll look into this for you.’
MailOnline has contacted Sainsbury’s for remark however nobody was instantly accessible.
