Morrisons over Tescos etc

halloweenqueen_2

I have started to use sainsburys if I'm going past one as their basic range is pretty good.
I find also that the bogofs are processed foods. I'm using butchers for meat so i'm happy with that - I've got some cracking reduced deals in the butchers!
Morrisons do a lot of freezer offers but thats also stuff i don't buy, I guess they aren't going to please all of us!
I do try and limit the shopping I get in tesco as I don't want them to take over the world.

troll35

I find it quite enlightening why different people use different shops and for what reasons. I usually shop at aldi and morrisons. I buy cereals, fruit juices, crisps, all cleaning stuff, toiletries, tinned stuff, most veg and some fruit and wine at aldi. At morrisons I buy the rest of my fruit and veg, things from the deli counter, fish (agree morrisons is very good for fish), bread and sandwich fillings. I spend a similar amount in each but get far more for my money at aldi. I get nearly all my meat from the butchers.
Our local market has gone downhill over the last few years. There used to be five greengrocers stalls and now there is one and the quality is not great. There are however still 5 butchers stalls, one of which does it's own award winning sausages
I occasionally make a foray into sainsburys but it is usually for non food items that I know are on offer. We also have a netto which I may visit if they have an offer, but I won't buy food there as the store always looks unclean and a right mess (feels a bit snobby putting it into written form)

This week though I decided I would give asda online a go..so saturday's morrison shop will be delivered by asda this week. I don't know yet if this is a good or bad thing. My sister often uses asda online and she's told me to check the best before dates carefully. We'll see..

Gordon_the_Moron

I shop at Morrisons usually because it is more convenient.

Morrisons fruit and veg is better, they have a far better selection than any other supermarket and if you want small quantities they do a lot of stuff in small packs or loose. If they sell out of such a line they will if you ask one of their staff split a pack into loose (if they refuse complain, that is the company policy) if they don't sell a line as loose they can't do that (loose products are listed by product numbers in the till so a line only sold as pre-pack couldn't go through as loose) but they can open a pack and re-wrap it as a smaller pack. The only exceptions on the fruit and veg they can't do that with are prepared salads/vegetables (overpriced anyway, wherever you shop!)

The reductions can be decent if you go late at night but they are cutting right back on them to save money.

In my view the BOGOFs are crap, it is always processed stuff like Coke and crisps. As long as I can remember I have only seen two buy one get one free offers on fruit and veg.

The fish department does appear better (large selection) than the others, I have heard the butchery is better. Being a vegetarian myself I don't use either of these.

The wines and spirits department is cheap, bottle conditioned real ales are pick n mix 4 bottles (mostly 500ml bottles) any 4 bottles for £5. They also do two 'The Best' line (idea nicked from Tesco Finest) on wines and spirits 'The Best' vodka and 'The Best' Gin. I haven't tried the gin (yet) but the vodka is a 70cl bottle at 43% and it is triple distilled and tastes just like Smirnoff (Smirnoff 70cl is about 15% weaker at 37.5 and about £12 per bottle though) both of 'The Best' lines (gin and vodka) are on offer at the moment at £8.99 each, normally they are only £9.99 though so still a bargain.

If I am drinking wine I only ever buy it from the co-op in my village. Firstly they are the only people to list the ingredients on it and secondly at £4.99 a bottle the co-op fairtrade white wines are an absolute steal and supporting fair trade too (they do similar red wines but I don't like red so I don't know what they're like)

My biggest gripes with Morrisons are firstly they don't label the deli cheeses or bakery lines as whether they are suitable for vegetarians. I contacted them about some lines and found out they are, if only they'd label it :rolleyes:

Chriswil

My wife and I usually use Morrisons because it is handy. We generally find that item per item Asda is cheaper, but Morrisons have the better BOGOFs.

We don't usually use Tesco because there isn't one near, and our Sainsburys is a lot more expensive!

calleyw

Also because morrisons have a trained butcher in each shop you get different cuts of meat to you get in other supermarkets.

For example pig skin for crackling, ox tails, pork hocks etc etc.

But I believe that all supermarkets tend to do BOGOFs on what I call rubbish like cakes and biscuits.

What about frozen veg/fruit. Bread is a rare one as well. As well as fish they don't seem to pre-packed plain fillets on offer either.

Mind you saying that went in Asda the other day and they doing Allinsons Wholemeal and Sunflower bread 2 for a £1. They normally cost £1.02 each.


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Calley

tiredwithtwins

this made me chuckle cos i tend to shop in all 3 (morrisons, sainsburys and asda) with tesco for the odd thing if its convenient!!
we have favourites from each, but particularly like morrisons for cold meats/deli/fish.
tend to get cheese/washing powder from sainsburys
fresh fruit/veg is from asda or morrisons



edit to say; calleyw - i stocked my freezer up with 10 loaves allinsons wholemeal, as we get through about 3 loaves a week (5 lots of packed lunches a day!)

Rachie_B

we use tesco every week as i like to shop online, and asda dont deliver this far for us asda is slightly cheaper though & i find it has better choice but its a fair drive away so dont go very often

also im saving up clubcard points too lol so use tesco for that reason too and also for petrol etc aswell

jesster_2

I'm lucky in that i have morrisons, tesco, asda, sainsbury and lidl all within half a mile of my house. I think that means that each supermarket gets its true clientele, because we all have a choice of all of them!

Which is cheapest definitely depends on what you buy.

MORRISONS: YES to FRUIT & VEG, TINNED PULSES. NO to PREPARED FOODS.
I do the bulk of my shopping at morrisons because I'm vege and their fruit and veg are cheapest (except for asda and lidl, but i end up throwing asda or lidl produce out cus it's gone off or is really bruised). BUT - i really object to the excess packaging they use: shrinkwrapping individual peppers and putting single bananas in polystyrene trays - disgusting. Their tinned pulses etc are also nice and cheap. I rarely eat ready meals or prepared puddings or what have you, but most things i've had from morrisons have been a bit grim. AND they put hydrogenated vegetable oil in their fajitas - boooo.

ASDA: YES to BRANDED GOODS, WASHING POWDER. NO to FRUIT & VEG, PREPARED FOODS.
Their BOGOFs and offers tend to be on junk, and I don't massively rate most of their prepared foods, but they tend to work out cheaper on branded things like baked beans or cleaning products.

TESCO: SOMETIMES FRUIT & VEG...
... they stock more of the exotic stuff than morrisons does, but it's definitely more expensive.

LIDL: YES to CHEESE, OLIVE OIL & BEER
... dragged the OH on a price comparison trip a couple of weeks ago. Parmesan cheapest by a couple of quid per kilo, Olive oil a pound cheaper per bottle (and that's Lidl extra virgin compared to morrisons cheapo) and stella: box of bottles that's £11 in morrisons, £12 in tesco and £11 in Asda - a bargainous £7.99 in Lidl!

SAINSBURYS: Definitely more expensive on fruit and veg, and indeed most things... but do good wine offers!

Smiley_Mum

I've noticed recently that the Tesco Express that I've been going to has been cutting back on popular things that I bought. Value beans, kidney beans, leeks, wholewheat pasta etc. They've cut them at the other small store in town too but they have everything at the the massive store on the outskirts of town. So, if there is something that you've bought in the past which gets cut at the smaller store if you really need it or want to get it you have to go to the big store to get it.

I can't really comment on Morrisons yet as I've only just started going there but I'll make a point of going there as I'm a bit sick of Tescos. The Tesco store on the outskirts of town has just been extended and now when I go there which isn't very often, just for bulky things every several weeks or so, I'm knackered after walking around it. It's just TOO big, perhaps they should hand out rollerblades to enable you to get around it. In Luxembourg a supermarket chain there have SAs that go around on rollerblades as the stores are soooo big. Perhaps Tesco should do the same.

We don't have an Asda yet but that's going to be on the outskirts of town so not so handy. Got an Aldi coming soon too and not far away so bit more competition for Tesco which can't be bad. I do buy all of my meat from the local butcher and it's always very good.

LearningToSave.

i always find that morrisons has a bread,a cheese and a butter on bogof......so if you arent brand loyal its fantastic.