Your Favourite Supermarket in the UK? (neighborhood, live, pricing)
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M&S has the highest quality produce but you have to pay for it! We usually shop in Asda (near and cheap), Aldi or Lidle seem the cheapest, we occasionally shop at these stores to save a bit of money. The big one - Tesco's seems to be losing a bit of ground these days.
Marks & Sparks, used to supply great cakes & chocolates a few years back; but they seem to have lost their way just lately.
Not much love for Asda on this thread either; although having said that I only bother during emergencies.
Plus....... you gotta be rich to shop in Sainsbury's. Boy, it's expensive in there. Same with Marks and Sparks. The food section there is full of elderly elites......... I must admit though, Marks make a fine Christmas cake!!
I used to use ASDA, but when new boss Andy Clark took over and said that " Food quality is something ASDA hadn't been as focused on in the past as it should have been" I headed for Sainsbury's and I still shop there.
The problem with these major supermarkets is that they're just like the major banks, major energy suppliers, major broadband providers, major petrol stations et al, is they all appear to work in one big monopoly or cartel.
They offer the customer the perception they compete against one another, but the reality is that they probably set their own prices ever-so-gradually upwards, while we think we're getting a good deal!
Inevitably we never do, and the so-called government watchdogs/quangos, do a lot of barking but never actually bite!
The problem with these major supermarkets is that they're just like the major banks, major energy suppliers, major broadband providers, major petrol stations et al, is they all appear to work in one big monopoly or cartel.
They offer the customer the perception they compete against one another, but the reality is that they probably set their own prices ever-so-gradually upwards, while we think we're getting a good deal!
Inevitably we never do, and the so-called government watchdogs/quangos, do a lot of barking but never actually bite!
Rant over
That's why the major supermarkets squeal about cut price stores like Aldi and Lidl. They don't play by the major's rules, and they don't like it.
For instance a large tub of coleslaw is 59p in Aldi. Same size in ASDA - £1.25p. So how come it's twice the price in ASDA? That's just one item among many. We do our major shopping these days in Aldi, and ASDA for essentials like proper bacardi and vodka.......
For us, it was a question of convenience. Tesco was 100 yards away, Waitrose 300 yards away, Marks & Sparks 200 yards away and Iceland 300 yards away.
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Just a quietly croaked asda....asda.
