BRB, searching for "apple juice" because it's the most reliable way I've found to get Welch's White Grape Juice to show up. 👍

P.S. I realise I probably don't need specific "air fryer fries", I just got a fryer today and was trying to trick the Sainsbury's website into showing me products with air fryer instructions.

by meejle

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  1. It’s been shite for ages! Dunno why they changed it! I often order “grated hard cheese”… this product…

    [https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/sainsburys-dried-grated-hard-cheese-80g](https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/sainsburys-dried-grated-hard-cheese-80g)

    So why does searching for that give me this…. It’s not on there!

    https://preview.redd.it/5kuevcaelo2e1.jpeg?width=1872&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=46022e0d71e5a5f4410b027e3054efa56cb33874

  3. I’ve noticed on tesco app that if you go to preparation it’ll give air fryer instructions even tho on the packet there is no air fryer cooking directions.. Until that’s happened I usually just guess an adjust after first cooking something in air fryer.. Welcome to the air frying world.. I’d not be without mine now an my main oven is redundant nowadays

  4. It really is terrible isn’t it. I’m always amazed at how it seems to just get worse.

    Search ‘bolognese sauce’ – no results. Search ‘pasta sauce’ – first result ‘bolognese sauce’.

    Please sort it out Sainsburys!

  5. it cause you searched “air fryer fries” rather than “Air Fryer Fries” /s

  7. Genuinely stopped shopping at Sainsbury’s because the UX was so bad. Do Ocado now and the online shop takes half the time (and less swearing)

  8. And I spend a lot of money and time advertising on that search engine. Imagine how tedious it gets.

  9. Anyone know how to find own brand rice krispies (called rice pops) on their online shop?

  10. For most chips, I just whang them in the air fryer at 180 for 12 minutes, and they always come out fine

  12. Guessing the search doesn’t do actual text searching, just checks for tags that must be behind the scene, and terrible.

  13. You also have to love the kinda person that thinks an air fryer is anything other than a small fan oven with the food cooked on a raised plate and that you need special chips.. cant beat marketing lol

    [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h9JhW-m35o](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h9JhW-m35o)

  15. This comes from ignorance… But aren’t all chips air fryer chips?

  16. Their digital experience is really poor.

    The search engine can be fixed so easily these days at low cost.

  17. imagine paying 3 times the price of potatoes for ‘air fryer’ chips

  18. Just like reddit, the best way to find anything is to go to Google and type in the name of the website and then look for the product.

    Site:sainsburys.co.uk air fryer

  20. Yeah it sucks, but so do most supermarkets, I was looking for an item (can’t remember what it was, and the experience was just awful)

    I ended up just going to the supermarket closest and hoping it was there.

  21. Those are horrible btw just get the regular French fries or whatever they are called.

  22. My son ordered apple vodka for a party when at uni. They brought apples as a substitute.
    I ordered dog food from Tesco…they substituted with cat food.

  23. I know it’s been talked about enough already but 60% fine for not having a nectar card…

  24. Yeah it’s pretty terrible. I just end up googling the product name and putting ‘sainsburys’ at the end to find stuff.

  25. Tbf past couple months theses air fryer chips and air fryer cooking instructions on frozen food are practically new so bit understandable there might be some bugs but yeh kinda funny lol

  26. I dunno if you realised but you don’t need to search that stuff any more nearly all frozen food items have air fryer cooking instructions on them with out them having to be specifically for the air fryer

  28. These are the worst fries for the air fryer. They’re too thin so end up proper crispy or burnt. Get the normal McCain French fries, they’re so much better and more like McDonald’s chips.

  30. This reminds me of the time my friend once ordered 12 mini muffins. On delivery they were substituted for a muffin baking tray.

  32. the ones in partnership with ninja are utter garbage taste wise, just buy the normal ones and give them a shake every 5 minutes

  33. Brave man buying a chip with a 3 star review in this country

  34. I have some insight on this.

    Grocery store inventory systems feed the search engine key words. The inventory systems are fed by present names which are input by supply chain folks, primarily for price tags and bar codes (think it’s called GS1). There are space and character limits in those systems and while you can add further key words in the search engine, that’s not considered important enough at this time by some retailers. Let’s face it, if you are searching for air fryer fries, you’ll dig through the search results to find what you want. Not like Google where they lose a sale without the right key word

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