Where Do You Shop?

[jd_1984]

For food and groceries where do you go and why?
Purely out of interest. After buying my first home my spending has had to be re-evaluated and savings made at every opportunity.

I now shop at ALDI. For frozen food, tinned food, pasta, rice, meat ready meals, milk, drinks etc..... It is excellent no frills value. However the fruit and veg is poor quality IMO so I still go to Tesco/ASDA. Special occassions I will nip to M&S. I have calculated that I save approx £80-£100 per month on food now compared to when I was living at home and rarely questioned my spending habbits.

[albaqwerty]

I've a Lidl, an Aldi, an Asda, a Morrisons, a co-op, an Iceland within reasonable distance.
Lidl is closer so I go there for most things, but go to the butchers and fishmongers for fresh meat and fish (obviously)

[bednobs]

the sainsbury's voucher thing annoys me - if they can print out a voucher there and then, why not just take the money off there and then? They are relying on you to forget to either pick up the voucher, or forget to use it next time, and they only have an expiry of about 2 weeks - no good if you shop more infrequently. I tend to keep a couple of items back, and then if i get a voucher i use it there and then

[2sp_]

I'm usually in Sainsbury's about once a week for milk - we go through gallons of the stuff, so my voucher gets used no problem.

[boxtops]

I can't say that's my experience in Morrisons, dotty - they have as many lines for £1 as Tesco's do. I did nearly all my pre-Christmas shops in Morrisons and it cost me on average a good deal less than it would at Tesco. I do shop around more these days though - I always get my toilet rolls at Farm Foods.

[shaneystar2]

I shop locally at Morrisons for some things and round the High St .We are lucky to have local butcher,bakers and a fishmonger .
Bulk stuff which I can't carry comes online from Sainsburys once a month to six weeks .Then I pootle round Lidl and also use the local market and go to a farmers market about once a month .

[andres]

Why don't you try your local market o fresh fruit and veg.?

[andres]

sorry-----'for' not o.

[excelsior-1]

i only wish there was an aldi or lid-l close enough
i'd do my entire shopping there

[petal54]

I go to co-op,membership pay out 2's a year(get around £100) & waitrose as next to co-op & saves 18mile round trip to tesco or asda

[pastafreak]

I find Sainsbury's price match voucher silly also. As a single person,I never spend huge amounts in there nor do I buy a lot of branded goods. I've gotten 2 vouchers so far and the last was for the grand sum of 20p.....oh wow.

[Mick-Talbot]

annemollie
mick
Are you saying it's not a franchise?




?
I wish I could afford a morrisons store as a franchise opportunity.

dotty..... I'm disappointed, I expected a far greater lecture/rant.....

[jno]

we don't have any four-letter supermarkets nearby... no Asda, Aldi, Co-op, Lidl... so it's Tesco if I'm rushed, Waitrose if I want quality, Sainsbury's for a bit of both. And sometimes M&S if I'm near one.

[woofgang]

waitrose because they deliver for free, marks when i can be bothered to hike there ditto lidl. tesco when i cant avoid it.

[jno]

boxtops, surely the vouchers are to get you shopping there again?

Morrisons didn't do well over Christmas and may have to start delivering.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/jan/06/morrisons-christmas-sales-slump?INTCMP=SRCH

[LoftyLottie]

Can't understand why Dottie finds Morrisons expensive. Tesco in our town is far more expensive and I won't shop at Tesco's anyway. Their meat and deli stuff is just awful compared to Morrisons.

[LoftyLottie]

Must admit though that I spend about 30% of my weekly shopping dosh at Lidls and 70% at Morrisons and the Lidl's percentage is getting higher! I don't shop in local shops/market because I simply can't walk about much these days. We have a good local market though.