stan Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 I noticed a post on another forum regarding one of these companies who accept deliveries of food shopping from the likes of Asda, Tesco etc, then deliver to France in their vans. There appears to be very little info on them, although they claim to have twice weekly deliveries to the whole of France. Does anyone know anything about them as they claim to be able to deliver mainly within 48 hours? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugsy Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 [quote user="stan"]I noticed a post on another forum .......................[/quote]Wash your mouth out [:P][:D][:D]. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deltamike Posted December 25, 2011 Share Posted December 25, 2011 In the absence of any feedback, I gave them a go and wish I had`nt. They do not deliver in their little yellow vans as per their website. Shopping is delivered to a semi detached house where it is thrown in a single walled old cardboard box, not even packed properly, and then sent by carrier. 30% of my shopping was either ruined, damaged or unusable. ExpatExpress refused to pay for the damage. So, that is my experience of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunday Driver Posted December 25, 2011 Share Posted December 25, 2011 [quote user="deltamike"] They do not deliver in their little yellow vans as per their website. Shopping is delivered to a semi detached house where it is thrown in a single walled old cardboard box, not even packed properly, and then sent by carrier. [/quote]You mean those photoshopped yellow Sprinters with the dummied up logos on the side and the yellow Renault Magnum 44 tonne artic and semi trailer - all of which are likely to be non-existant and all designed to fool people into believing that they provide a personal service, hand delivering Marmite to a few hundred of expats over the whole of Metropolitan France???It'd be cheaper to order your UK groceries through Amazon. They only charge £18 to deliver 30kg to France - and properly packed too..........[;-)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sid Posted December 25, 2011 Share Posted December 25, 2011 There is a service which delivers to our area 79/86/16 and has been highly recommended by friends, so we're going to try it in January. They don't do twice weekly, but it's bi-weekly I believe.If you wish I'll give you feedback around the 20th January. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keni Posted December 25, 2011 Share Posted December 25, 2011 We've used one quite a few times, they have a chilled and frozen delivery as well as usual goods. They charge a fair price, and unless bad weather are always where they say they are. They have several drop-off points here.Apparently this company are hoping to start a home delivery service some time in 2012. We wish them luck. They have travelled through some bad weather in the past, but have always brought the shopping. I know several people who use them and they agree they are a good company.I hasten to add though we only use them for certain things we cannot get in France or special items, we do not use them as a regular shopping service, but I gather some people do! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitty Posted December 25, 2011 Share Posted December 25, 2011 The family missed Golden Syrup on their Christmas porridge this morning...Now how much do Amazon charge for delivery of that, I wonder? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted December 25, 2011 Share Posted December 25, 2011 This company advertises delivery of that, but I have never used them:http://www.alesinfrance.com/products.php?lang=en&display=aisle&aisle=11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deltamike Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 Yes Sunday driver, thats them ..www.expatexpress.co.uk.I forgot to add that they actually used pieces of old fibreglass wall insuation (45mm to be precise) to "pack" the shopping. I was gobsmacked.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keni Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 We use La Maison they have a proper truck and cold/freezer dept on the lorry. It all comes in crates with your name on, very well organised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chancer Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 I can see that if you were ordering perishable food items then this service may not be for you.However as someone that lives in an area that is not served by any of the "shopping delivery" companies due to lack of demand, a company that will accept deliveries and re_expidite them to any address in France for £25 up to 30kg is very interesting and i will be saving their web site, no such thing as bad publicity etc.There are companies that will send parcels to France for a similar price, these are OK if you have a friend or family to recieve the parcel that you order and then wait around for the collection that you have arranged, for me a company that offers that service at no extra cost has found a good niche in the market.I am not sure if you can have goods delivered to companies like Parcelsplease for them to forward on to you but I have some experience of parcel sorting depots, they are geared up to recieve on or more trunk artics a day from their hub in the morning, offload the goods onto their own vans and deliver, anything that does not follow this closely monitored route like bags of shopping or my parcels which i would collect myself as they were behind my office had a tendancy to get buried, lost or to have walked, i would be happier with a semi detached house taking the initial delivery.For the price they are proposing i would not expect them to recieve bags of shopping and then repack them for transport in the way that a chilled delivery vehicle drop off service would, horses for courses I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deltamike Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 [quote user="Chancer"]I can see that if you were ordering perishable food items then this service may not be for you.However as someone that lives in an area that is not served by any of the "shopping delivery" companies due to lack of demand, a company that will accept deliveries and re_expidite them to any address in France for £25 up to 30kg is very interesting and i will be saving their web site, no such thing as bad publicity etc.There are companies that will send parcels to France for a similar price, these are OK if you have a friend or family to recieve the parcel that you order and then wait around for the collection that you have arranged, for me a company that offers that service at no extra cost has found a good niche in the market.I am not sure if you can have goods delivered to companies like Parcelsplease for them to forward on to you but I have some experience of parcel sorting depots, they are geared up to recieve on or more trunk artics a day from their hub in the morning, offload the goods onto their own vans and deliver, anything that does not follow this closely monitored route like bags of shopping or my parcels which i would collect myself as they were behind my office had a tendancy to get buried, lost or to have walked, i would be happier with a semi detached house taking the initial delivery.For the price they are proposing i would not expect them to recieve bags of shopping and then repack them for transport in the way that a chilled delivery vehicle drop off service would, horses for courses I guess.[/quote]I never said anything about chilled or perishable goods. As for £25 for 30kg of delivery weight, probably not bad if re-packed in a proper box and not packed with old roof insulation. I can send you the pics of the box the way it was received, if you like, and you can maybe decide if you would like to keep the details of this website and have your shopping delivered to a semi detached house to be packed by chancers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmilyA Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 Our local supermarket has Golden Syrup in the Anglais section, Kitty. It may be worth a look locally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sid Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 Tesco cannot register a credit or debit card to your that does not have a UK address. This makes it impossible to use the delivery service I was planning to try out. This being the case the other users must, by implication, still have their credit and debit cards registered to UK addresses? If not, how do they do it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deltamike Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 Yes, thats correct. The payment card must be registered to the UK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jo Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 Mine was registered with them before we moved and since you don't have to re-enter the info each time, it is still accepted despite me changing the address with the card company. The old card expires this year so we will have to see!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jo Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 [quote user="Keni"]We use La Maison they have a proper truck and cold/freezer dept on the lorry. It all comes in crates with your name on, very well organised.[/quote]Keni,Do you have their web address? I put in www.lamaison.co.uk and just get a furniture supplier???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trastu Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 Hi JoHere is the link to La Maison:http://www.lamaisonshoppingservices.co.uk/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jo Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 Many thanks! I want to see if they have a larger Tesco near them than the mouse2house firm, when I put their delivery address in, half the stuff falls off the order[:(] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lollie Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 Not true, I have a Tesco Credit Card registered to my address here in France, my statements are also sent here. I often shop at Tesco online and have it delivered to my sons at University over there or to frineds or family ready for us to pick up when we are visiting. Maybe you mean the Tesco Clubcard.??Lollie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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