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Shoppers at major supermarkets are being told they can get up to £206 off the cost of their weekly supermarket shopping by taking full advantage of a little known delivery loophole involving the price you pay to get groceries delivered at different times of day.
Whether you shop at , , or , you may be able to save hundreds of pounds per year by signing up for a delivery pass that will save you more money depending what time of day you normally get food delivered.
If you order your big food shop online, you will be used to paying a delivery fee each and every time you shop, which can be as much as £5 for a peak time Friday night or Saturday morning delivery.
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But with a delivery pass, you only pay once, and then get every shop delivered ‘for free’ – or rather, at no additional cost – from that point.
An Asda delivery pass costs £3.95 for a month for midweek, or go one step further and get an annual pass for £39.50.
An anytime pass costs £69.50 per year, but if you were paying £5 per weekly shop before, that’s a saving of £190 overall – reducing your outlay on delivery fees from £260 down to just £69.50.
Getting one midweek delivery per week would cost £205.40 for a year, but swapping to a £39.50 charge once a year would save £165.90.
For Morrisons, the figures are similar. Some delivery slots cost as little as £1.50, others cost as much as £7.
A midweek delivery pass costs £40 for a year, which Morrisons tells customers will save you an average of £176 per year.
With Sainsbury’s, time of day and day of week are the biggest factors affecting its prices, but if you’re willing to accept a wider delivery window you can pay as little as £1 a time.
But if you take out an anytime annual delivery subscription for £80, you would save £206 a year against using the most expensive slots each week.
For Tesco shoppers, you can pay anywhere between £3 to £7 for a delivery. But if you pay £6.99 a month for a 12 month plan, you would save £176 a year overall, Tesco says.