How We Saved £40 on a £230 Grocery Order
A real walkthrough of using Shopsplit on an actual weekly shop — from importing an Ocado order confirmation to placing two optimised orders and saving £40 in the process.
The full walkthrough
Placed the Ocado order as normal
We did our regular weekly shop on Ocado — nothing different from usual. Total came to around £230. Once the order confirmation email arrived, we forwarded it straight to import@orders.shopsplit.uk.
Shopsplit imported all 53 products
A few minutes later, the full order appeared in Shopsplit as a ready-to-analyse shopping list. This time Shopsplit recognised all 53 out of 53 products — a clean import with nothing missing. The £230 total was confirmed and the comparison was ready to go.
Recognition rates vary by order. Most imports are complete or near-complete, but occasionally some products — particularly local or own-brand items — may not be matched. We continuously improve this.
Reviewed the split options
Shopsplit showed two options straight away:
We decided to go with the two-shop split — Ocado and Asda. The extra £4 from adding a third store wasn’t worth the additional order complexity. The 80% rule held true in practice.
Explored substitutes
With the two-shop split set, we moved to the Savings screen to look at substitutes. Shopsplit identified potential substitute savings across £80 worth of products.
We then applied the supermarket filter to focus only on Ocado and Asda — since that’s where we were shopping. The substitutes list narrowed from £80 down to £65, reflecting only products available at our two chosen stores.
Reviewed and accepted substitutes
We went through each suggestion on the new savings screen — accepting the ones that made sense and keeping the originals where they didn’t. Some were straightforward swaps that saved £1–£2 per item. Others were less clear-cut.
A few of the proposals were too far of a match — a product that was broadly similar in category but not really what we’d buy. We declined those. Shopsplit is designed to learn from these decisions, so next time it will filter them out automatically.
We also kept our preferred organic meat products from Ocado without swapping — a personal preference. Shopsplit registered those as kept and will remember that going forward.
Substitute suggestions vary in quality. Some are spot-on, others may be too broad a match for your taste. Always review each suggestion — the system learns your preferences over time and improves with use.
Checked the shopping list
After accepting the substitutes we wanted, we went back to the Shopping List screen. In Canvas view, Shopsplit showed two clear groups:
Even accounting for Asda’s £1.50 delivery fee, the total came to around £186.50 — a saving of roughly £40 on the original £230 order.
Placed the Asda order first
Using Shopsplit’s shopping list as a guide, we built the Asda order. The List view made it easy to follow — each Asda product was clearly listed and most matched exactly what was shown in Shopsplit.
Two products had slightly different prices online compared to what Shopsplit showed — we added one and skipped the other. Small discrepancies like this happen occasionally as product data changes frequently, but they’re the exception rather than the rule.
Shopsplit prices are updated regularly but live supermarket websites may occasionally differ — especially on products with frequently changing promotions. Always confirm the final price at checkout.
Reduced the Ocado order
With the Asda order confirmed, we went back into the original Ocado order and removed the products we’d moved to Asda. Ocado’s order edit window was still open, so we could adjust and re-checkout without any issues.
A tip from experience: place the new order first (step 7), then reduce the original order once you’ve confirmed what you successfully added. This avoids accidentally removing something from your original order that you then can’t get elsewhere.
Manually adjusting orders across supermarkets is the main remaining friction point. It’s something we’re thinking about for the future — making this part of the process more seamless. We can’t say more than that yet, but it’s on our radar.
Two deliveries, same window
Both orders were placed for the same morning delivery window — Ocado and Asda both arrived within the same two hours. No extra inconvenience, no waiting around on separate days.
The result
Total saving on this shop: ~£40. If we repeat a similar shop weekly, that’s roughly £2,000 saved per year. This was a larger than average order — your savings will vary — but the pattern holds at any basket size.
It’s not just about the money — it’s the time
Without Shopsplit, achieving the same savings manually would have meant:
- Looking up every product one by one across multiple supermarket websites
- Manually comparing prices, weights, and promotions
- Researching substitute products you might not even know exist
- Doing the maths on whether a split across two stores was actually worth it
With Shopsplit, the import handled the list building, the comparison was instant, and the substitutes were surfaced automatically. The whole process — from forwarding the email to having two orders confirmed — took under half an hour, most of which was the actual order editing on the supermarket websites.
It gets easier every time
Every decision we made — which substitutes to accept, which products to keep, which organic items to leave as they are — was recorded by Shopsplit. Next time we do a similar shop, those preferences are already set. The suggestions will be more relevant, the accepted swaps will be pre-populated, and the whole process will be faster.
The first time takes the longest. It gets quicker from there.
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