Which supermarket do you use?

noonesperfect

Lidl/Aldi

I split my shopping between different stores. Tesco is my nearest, but Asda and Aldi are also regular haunts. Each have items the other doesn't sell! Morrisons occasionally as only they sell Rowntrees cocoa! I often check on a well known supermarket comparison site before I go shopping.

skintas_2

Tesco

i shop in both asda and tesco too, check out online what deals they have first and always make a list.. and always buy half price offers and bog offs

before_hollywood

netto if i can because it is closest, then tesco or asda if i am near the one i worked at, i dont go to the local one now because i used to hang out with a member of their staff and we now dont get on

prettypennies

Other

I use:
www.wellhungmeat.com for most of my meat

https://www.abelandcole.co.uk for veggies and milk and some other groceries
www.Natoora.com when they send me £20 of £50 spend codes:D
www.ocado.com for online general groceries
and my local Sainsburys for top-up items

OrkneyStar

Tesco

Kavanne wrote: »

I now live near an award winning butchers and I would never go back to a supermarket! They even slice our beef for our stir fry for us love em. And they do chilli pork sausages, mmmmm.

I also rarely buy meat from the supermarket (sometimes very rarely sausages, but only certain ones, or turkey steaks) as our local butcher is very good. They also do decent F/V. Supermarket is more for tins, flour, staples

MrsE wrote: »

I don't bother with the yellow stickered stuff much. I find it very unmoneysaving for us as its all stuff you have to eat/use straight away
I like to make sure I get it all as fresh/long-dated as possible so it lasts.

Do others not find this?

Depends on what I am buying.
Fruit and veg I like with a decent date (yes you can blanche and freeze esp veg, but imho they don't taste the same at all once defrosted!)
Bread I generally buy yellow stickered stuff and freeze, although only Hovis, Warburton, Kingsmill generally as other ones don't defrost so well.
Some meats I would buy reduced but then tbh I don't get a lot of meat from supermarket anyway as butcher is nicer.
I hate to see people with a trolley full of reduced stuff that they will never use before it goes off and cannot freeze (maybe some of them are having a party etc but surely not them all).

aless02

Asda

I shop in ASDA (and sometimes Sainsbury's) now after several years of being devoted to Tesco. Tesco just starting peeving me off more and more every week, so I finally got fed up and left them for good. Keep meaning to pop to the farmer's market for some fresh veg/fruit, but never get around to it .

newlywed

I mainly use sainsbugs (after using the comparesupermarket thingy) but also use tesco sometimes and lidl/aldi as well as some bits from co-op and the veg shop.

It depends whether I'm walking in my lunch hour and what direction I want to walk in/what bits I need to buy.


I hate asda so never shop there unless there's no other choice - it didn't work out any cheaper for us anyway for the stuff we buy.

red_devil

I hate these kinds of threads which supermarket do you use as if the supermarket should be your one stop shop for all your groceries.

I use a variety but i also use SMALL shops like a butcher for meat someone who knows his trade and does butchering and other small shops as well.

prettypennies

Other

red_devil wrote: »

I hate these kinds of threads which supermarket do you use as if the supermarket should be your one stop shop for all your groceries.

I use a variety but i also use SMALL shops like a butcher for meat someone who knows his trade and does butchering and other small shops as well.

You are very lucky to have some small shops near you. In the past 15 years in my area we have lost 2 butchers, 2 greengrocers a bakery, a post office and a fishmonger and gained 2 curry houses, a chinese takeaway, a tanning salon a mammoth Tescos and a morrisons.

Our nearest butcher is 5 miles away and fishmonger 18 miles

sweetstudent

Other

Myself and my partner we now go to Waitrose, as they have excellent meat there and from research it is more ethically reared than Asda /Tesco meat - plus looked at a chicken in Asda and i actually felt sorry for the animals.

I also found out they will fillet, and de gut a whole salmon for you, even when you buy it reduced (£10 for 12 large salmon fillets) and they give advice on meats and best way of cooking them.

yes i know thats what you get for the extra you pay but we are happy paying it if we get better quality food!