How many supermarkets do you visit regularly ?

Edwardia

MSErs seem generally to shop around. So I thought it might be helpful if we shared WHY we go to particular supermarkets and how many we visit to get the job done.

Er if that sounds confusing I'll use mine as an example

Ocado - weekly - bigger Waitrose range than local store and more organic stuff.
Abel & Cole - weekly - small order usually eggs, yogurt (cheaper than supermarket if not on offer) own brand organic Cheddar (cheaper than Cathedral City) organic veg can't get in supermarket
Lidl - weekly for organic tomatoes, cheap milk for dog, cheese for OH's lunches, Prosciutto, Parmigiano reggiano, seeds, plants
Waitrose - every 2 or 3 weeks with mother - YS cheese and if I see something I have on Ocado order I buy and delete off order so I definitely got it.
Sainsbury's - every 2 or 3 weeks with mother same day Organic meat and veg if cheaper than Ocado, offers the same.
Tesco - very occasionally for offers on organic non-fresh stuff
99p Stores - monthly to stock up on kitchen roll
Poundland - to buy offers on tinned food for OH's lunches
ASDA - occasionally to stock up on organic olive oil and tinned tomatoes

Mine is probably a bit more complicated as I eat organic for my health. If Lidl and and ASDA did more organic I would have stayed loyal.

I thought we might pick up some trends if several people go to Sainsburys for meat or Morrisons for fish, say. Also posters might be able to help by saying well IME you can get X at a better price in Aldi.

louby40

Lidl - main shop. Only been shopping there a month but was amazed at how little we spent. OH lost his job (now employed again - phew) but we are going to carry on shopping here as the fruit/veg is fine.

Tesco - top up shop, we used to shop here every week so there are foods we like, but we only spend about 20% of our budget here now as opposed to 100% before.

thats it...:T

meritaten

Aldi - weekly for main shop, and been an Aldi customer for many years now - I think it was 2001 they opened the first shop near me.
Tesco - about every three months for a 'top up' shop (and I only spend about £24 pounds even then).

ariba10

Aldi, Lidl, Morrison's in that order.

LondonDreamer

This is about to change, but right now...

M&S - Main shop, as it's my closest store of a decent size. The bulk of what I buy there is fresh, no ready meals.
Waitrose or health food shop - Mainly for dairy and gluten free things, usually the health food shop since it's nearer.
Tesco - Mid-week top ups and household goods. Sometimes main shop if I have to go near the larger Metro store for errands.
Amazon - Bulk packs of things like nak'd bars for lunchboxes, much cheaper than the health food store.
Whole Foods - Every so often, just for fun

As I don't have a car, I tend to shop locally as it's inconvenient to get to "cheaper" stores. And as I buy almost all fresh food, I won't risk the long journey home (e.g. nearly an hour to nearest Lidl) just to save a few pence. I am moving soon and will have a wider variety of stores nearby, so interested to see how this changes.

lindseykim13

Everywhere and anywhere. I tend to go to where i either have coupons for or where there is a good deal on or where i am just passing. Will pick a few bags of grocerys from each place i pop into which keeps my stores stocked up.
Can't really say what i buy where other than
poundshop for kitchen roll
poundstretcher for loo roll
market or local veg shop for fruit and veg
asda/poundshop for tuna
lidl pasata
t's does some nice cheap cereal

can't think of much else right now

TravellingAbuela

Home Bargains to stock up on Nicky toilet rolls, kitchen rolls, any good cleaning product and food offers (tins, jars & packets), dishwasher tabs.
Poundland supply of Warburtons Thins to put in freezer and anything else I happen to see that's a good price.
B & M for a browse as usually good prices on items approaching sell-by date.
Jack Fulton also for a browse as sometimes selling decent branded chiller food off when approaching sell-by date. This goes in freezer. Any good vegetarian offers I pass on to DD.

The above are visited when time permits, maybe once a month. Following done weekly:

Aldi milk (fresh & packet skimmed), porridge oats, fruit and veg, eggs, cooked meats, fresh chicken fillets and any fresh meat offers, baking ingredients, sweeties for DGD's, frozen peas & fruit, tinned rice pud, chiller fruit rice & yogurts, cheese, Warburtons white loaf, wine, fruit berry tea.
Sainsburys Taste the Difference potatoes & tomatoes and any other fruit veg not got in Aldi. Fresh pasta. Any decent meat/fish offers spotted on deli counter. Onken yogurt. Coffee. Bakery items.
Asda vowed never to darken their doorstep again!

sweetilemon

I normally do the main shop in Tesco or Sainsurys...depending on what direction I am going at the weekend. Wilkinson for napisan (instead of vanish for whites clothes wash). M&S to look at deals...3 for £10 on meat (think the chicken etc is better quality). There is a small morrisons nearby, I like their fresh chicken ready prepared like kiev, sweet chilli etc, 2 for £6. Asda do good wine offers but don't shop there often as I feel they target big families with the multi buy offers and size of packets...with only two of us with a small kitchen its not for me. Lidle and Aldi are both too far out the way to shop there so never go there.

Middy

I don't do a weekly shop - never done such a thing since I moved to my flat in Feb 2010.

I buy things as when I need them (for a recipe), when I run out, bulk buy if its on a good offer, when it has a YS or discontinued.

Apart from Sainsburys (I work there). I visit these places:
. Asda (once every 10-14 days)
. Tesco (once every 10-14 days)
. Iceland (weekly)
. Aldi (twice a week)
. B&M (when I go to a town where there is one - every 2 months or so)
. Lidl (there is one in the same town as one of the B&Ms)

I would like to visit Morrisons more but I find the store near me not good. Its full of students from the college next door, the queues are horrendous, the staff are brain dead (one colleague didn't know what coleslaw was!) and the self scans are the worst of all the supermarkets and other stores that use them.

diluvsdiscounts

Aldi-Super 6,natural yoghurt,banana's,mushrooms
Morrisons-WWmeals at the mo with free coupon's,cheap veg from there green table,steak today because it's only £7kg
Tesco-this week finest wine because they are almost paying me to take it away(haha)
Farm shop-eggs(2 trays for £3),potatoes(sack),cabbages £1 for 3
M&S-low fat sausages bought with credit card points(usually £15 per quarter so I stock the freezer up each time) although they did lure me into 6 bottles of Prossecco last time I was in there!!
I then tend to just shop around between those three as I work in town 4 days a week but I must admit I am a huge bulk buyer. If coffee is on offer I will buy a stack, this week whilst dog food is on offer in tesco I have bought a mountain(14 packs I think) I always have at least 6x4 packs of beans in the cupboard.
I have been buying booze for christmas for the last 3 months as and when I saw it on offer I bought what we needed and I have a stash of 18 bottles of very nice wine put away to see us over the festive season(visitors etc)
I also shop as someone above said according to what coupons I have as I have £7 off £50 for tesco for next week so that will probably be a coffee run as we are down to our last tin:eek:
That's all I can think of at the moment but I'm sure there is more:)

I_luv_cats

Morrisons - Normally shop there as closest to me.

Tesco (online) - Have done 5 shops in a row as tempted by offers / vouchers.

Tesco (store) - Don't go very often, maybe the odd infrequent Metro / Express.

Ocado - Normally tempted with a voucher every so often. This week I got a late free slot n pop candy Advent Calendar and some special offers that made it worth choosing them.

Sainsbury's (store) - Too Far away. (online) Now n again.

I try to stick to ONE grocery shop a week. (very limited occasional top-up shopping)