UberEats reveals milk was more ordered than any other item in 2023

If you thought the days of ordering milk to your doorstep were over, you would be very wrong. 

UberEats has revealed that milk was ordered more than any other item on their app in 2023.

The delivery app has revealed that lazy Londoners place more grocery orders than the rest of the UK.

Bananas were the second most ordered item in the UK followed by eggs, white bread and cans of Pepsi Max. 

However, the convenience of having a food shop delivered to your door comes at a price - as it was revealed shoppers could be charged twice as much when ordering supermarket groceries from delivery apps.

UberEats found the peak day for grocery deliveries was Monday, followed by Sunday, as Brits look to restock their cupboards and fridges ahead of a new week. The app saw the most orders between 4-7pm across the week. 

London was the home of the grocery order, placing more orders than the rest of the UK - with Manchester coming second and Birmingham third.

Rounding out the top 10 most ordered items from the app were cucumber, Coca Cola, orange juice, spring water and Sour Cream and Onion Pringles. 

Now that the festive season is full swing, Uber Eats is also rolling out a brand new digital shopping aisles for those in need of last-minute gifts or forgotten ingredients.

The new aisles digital shopping aisles, which can be found in the grocery section, include a gifting section that selects the best gifts that are available across all stores on the app. 

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The delivery service will be open throughout the festive period and once you've scrolled and found the perfect gift, Uber Eats aims to deliver the item within 30 minutes.

The UberEats delivery service is working with thousands of stores across the UK including Waitrose, Sainsbury's, Iceland and the Co-op. 

Alex Troughton, head of grocery and retail at Uber Eats UK, said: 'Grocery and convenience items continue to be hugely popular with Uber Eats customers, we've seen massive growth in 2023 and expect this to continue over the festive period. 

'We're always looking to innovate in the space to make shopping on Uber Eats a seamless experience and our new digital shopping aisles are the latest way we're achieving this.'

The shopping aisles come after Which? revealed in June that ordering supermarket groceries via a delivery app such as Deliveroo, Just Eat or Uber Eats could cost twice the price of buying directly from the same store.

Which? acknowledged that ordering groceries from Deliveroo, Just Eat or Uber Eats is 'undeniably convenient' and could be received in as little as 30 minutes, but warned it found 'shocking' price differences across a range of products in its snapshot investigation.

It compared the price of a basket of 15 popular grocery items at five major supermarkets against the cost of ordering the same basket from the same supermarket to the same postcode via a delivery app, not including delivery fees.

Almost all of the items were either more expensive on the delivery apps or the same price.