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How to avoid the Supermarkets, alternative online food retailers

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  • Edwardia
    Edwardia Posts: 9,170 Forumite
    The fly in the ointment is that a huge supermarket can buy in huge amounts of stuff like Kellogg's Cornflakes and get discount so able to drop prices a bit.
  • wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver
    wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver Posts: 6,150 Forumite
    Yup @Edwardia but..
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  • wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver
    wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver Posts: 6,150 Forumite
    But if we support Independent Businesses and really give them muscle because of excellent products and brilliant Customer Service then at least we support human beings, jobs etc as well as help ourselves.
    People have no qualms about supporting Lakeland.
    They flock to the store, great Products,super Staff and a Business deserving to go places. Enough humans do it-critical mass and continued critical revolutionary mass then those nasty Supermarkets get one hefty well deserved and overdue kick up the !!!!.
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  • wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver
    wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver Posts: 6,150 Forumite
    @Edwardia There are lots of flies and lots of ointments. But if we are to support employment, but that's another topic.
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  • Edwardia
    Edwardia Posts: 9,170 Forumite
    I've been researching food and the junk that gets into our food is just horrific. As a consequence we're going organic but it's really difficult to find in practice even if supermarkets do sell it in theory.

    Now that we're looking for independent shops we're finding that very few exist in our town of 50,000 people. :( We may just have to bypass the local economy altogether and get stuff delivered by courier.
  • wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver
    wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver Posts: 6,150 Forumite
    @Edwardia Online!!!!
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  • Edwardia
    Edwardia Posts: 9,170 Forumite
    No I wouldn't start a mail order food business that sounds like too much hard work !

    Recommend the book The Savvy Shopper by Rose Prince which isn't about saving money but rather about buying great quality and learning about food. At the back it has lists of different online suppliers.
  • sams247
    sams247 Posts: 1,362 Forumite
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    http://www.planetorganic.com/ Love these guys, especially for shampoo, bath products with no additives and chemicals, more expensive than supermarkets but quality so use a lot lot less

    also have to mention gowercottagebrownies .com

    And https://www.formanandfield.com

    https://www.simplesimonspies.co.uk
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          1. wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver
            wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver Posts: 6,150 Forumite
            Good suggestion@sams247
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          2. wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver
            wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver Posts: 6,150 Forumite
            I am always thinking Courier? unless otherwise?
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