“I can honestly say the experience of shopping with Sainsbury has taken a real nosedive recently. We have shopped with them over many years and had no complaint until recently, and can now testify to three bad experiences. Normally my wife shops instore for groceries, but as we have a touring caravan, time sometimes makes it more expedient to shop online for delivery to be delivered the day before we travel. In theory this should give us fresher goods. The previous time we did this, we found that many of the items were of short date, and having had a late night delivery were unable to do much about it. A few weeks later, my elderly mother had three items in her shopping delivery that were actually out of date. Today, we have had a delivery with tomorrows sell by date on two items, the day after on two more items which would normally have a few weeks on them, and a further two items containing a meat product where the sealed packaging was ripped and open to the air.
One can only surmise that there is a policy to get rid of items with short sell by dates with online shoppers, some of whom wont bother to contest it. However, poor as this transaction was, the problem really came, when, after politely ringing the store I had the phone put down on me. Contacting the central online number, I was told that they would arrange redelivery of the said items, only to receive a call saying that the store manager wouldnt accept this resolution. After organizing a refund for the items, I then proceeded to highlight my complaints and address the policy of out of date or close to expiry products and quite frankly, the operators attitude was little short of a disgrace. Sainsburys pride themselves on being supposedley one of the more up-market supermarkets, but we can honestly say they are going downhill fast, and as a family, we will never shop with them again. I accept that mistakes happen, but the true marque of a company is by how mistakes are sorted out. Sainsburys no longer appear to care about the individual customer and exhibit an attitude that they do us all a favour by allowing us to shop there. We will of course be going elsewhere in the future.”
“Sending a full weeks shop with only 2 days shelf life on everything including items like potatoes and then saying you will only refund on a 1 day shelf life is a pretty disgusting way to treat your customers. We have shopped with Tesco and Ocado home delivery and never experienced this problem. It’s the last time we will be shopping at Sainsbury’s which was once a great supermarket. What happened!!”
“Refrigeration is not up to compliance... products that need to be returned as dangerous (meat). Sainsbury brand Brine tuna with NO brine in the SEALED can. You have completely lost all sense of "quality of service". I am sitting here with cramps until the GP is open.”
“Terrible experience, absolute w**k, take your money then text you to say that a load of your items are not available (3days after ordering) then an hour before delivery cancel and say it will take 3-5 days to refund! AVOID!”
“I am shocked at your constant price increase on items since Easter
Most items for £1 are £1.25. cakes and bread all £1.20 and 1 litre coke £1.60 Iceland sell for £1.45 and tesco £1.25. it's like with more self service less staff you should deliver cheap deals to customer.”
“Since cutting staff drastically at Bitterne branch, staff are demoralised, over worked and constantly struggle to keep the shelves stocked. Management obviously aren’t concerned as this has been the case for some time. I, like many l know, now shop in different places as we can’t rely on Sainsbury’s like we used to. Now with Argos going into stores, even more lines will be lost. With profits falling, stores are going from bad to worse.”
“I purchased an olive baguette at Sainsburys in Sevenoaks.
After a few hours of eating it, I had very bad stomach pains and felt sick and had to rush to the toilet.
This lasted until the next day.
GP said I had food poisoning.
This is the only thing I had eaten all day .
I am self employed and lost a days money and had to throw out a Super-King Duvet.
I complained to the customer services who did not care and would not take any responsibility over this matter.
VERY POOR CUSTOMER SERVICE.”
“I brought an olive baguatte from Sainsburys Sevenoaks bakery department.
After eating it a few hours later I had really bad stomach pains and had to rush to the toilet which lasted until the next day.
My doctor said it was food poisoning.
That baguette was the only thing I had eaten that day.
I am self employed and lost a days money as I had to stay by the toilet all day.
Sainsbury not concernred in the slightest and say it is not down to them.
POOR CUSTOMER SERVICE .
THEY JUST DO NOT CARE.”
“The worst service I have ever used and customers service advisors that don’t help and go back on their word and happy to loose valid customers . Will never is this company again”
“I notice with some astonishment that Sainsburys has decided to proclaim its 'support' for the LGBT+ community. Of what possible relevance is this to a food retailing business? Are rival supermarkets conspicuously homophobic? Are there any more minorities Sainsburys feels it should support? Egregious virtue-signalling, which costs nothing and means just as much.”
“The company have reduced the weight in the bags of charcoal briquettes but used the same size bags and now they have hidden the weight by printing in very small letters under the bar code. I accept prices rise I just would like honesty in the process.”
“They sold me food. I ate it. It was nice. Would definitely recommend. The cafe’s cappuccino was nectar and the chips were in point. Highly recommended.”
“Taste the Difference 6 Pork Sausages (The Meaty One)
Very disappointing, ranks as the worst sausages I have ever eaten. They claim to be 97% prime pork, maybe, but not the muscle. In my judgement was basically ground up pork skin. No flavour, and an extremely dry texture. I'll not be eating the rest of the packet. I'll try throwing them over the garden fence to see if the local fox will fancy them, I doubt it somehow!”
“Sainsbury's slow cooked butter chicken breast looked great on the box picture but inside it was terrible a few pieces of what looked like dark stringy meat with a watery sauce needless to say it went straight in the bin ,don't know what kind of quality control process they operate but it needs reviewed ASAP.”
“I wanted to say thank you to the wonderful Scottish Lady I spoke to on 31st May 2019 at the contact centre number. My mother has dementia and had turned the delivery driver away, so I called and the lady I spoke to was very, very pleasant and helpful. She contacted Swindon Bridgemead shop and arranged for the order to be redelivered the next day. As it happens, the driver was contacted and came back the same evening, which was fantastic and above and beyond, thank you for your care and sensitivity.”
“I found several weird objects in an unopened bottle of Sainsbury's chocolate milk. I could have choked on them, or maybe they were toxic, who knows... The response of Sainsbury's was very unsatisfactory. Also, my review was rejected from their website twice even though it was following the review guidelines, so it seems that they are over-filtering the reviews on their website. Overall this leaves me very disappointed about Sainsbury's.”
“I am unhappy with your bread, previously named taste the difference multi seeded. Where are the seeds? This used to be lovely bread and the reason we shopped at Sainsbury's Leigh. As the bread is bland we no longer have a reason to shop there and will, hopefully, find some we like at another supermarket and let them have our custom.”
