Price Book

squeaky

My local asda appear to charge the same either way.

LearningToSave.

davidspd wrote:

Bumping, as still wondering about this.

Thanks

they charge exactly the same.

mustafa_say_ving

lil_me wrote:

vfairbrass - My Mum has worked for them for well over 10 years now and does most of her shopping elsewhere as the discount doesn't make it worth shopping there a lot of the time, she's always said it's good for the offers like the choccies over Xmas, but still worth shopping around.


http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/GettingStarted/Home.aspx

There is more than that site but my favourite list has decided not to work tonight!

Thanks for the link lil_me looks very interesting will have a good read through later

eryn_kathleen

AussieLass wrote:

The next price book I will make up will go one step further and calculate how much the product is costing per kg/oz etc? Sometimes it pays to buy in a bigger pkt but other times it's false economy.

I keep track of meat per kg and have found it really useful because I'm now buying most meat from Costco. The one I go to in Edinburgh has a good variety of cuts (lots of brisket and belly pork) and their huge trays nearly always work out much cheaper than the equivalent in supermarkets, but I like to know just in case!

Other than that, I just keep track of branded things that we buy regularly - Fairy liquid and Heinz ketchup.

oldMcDonald

Hi

I use a price book of sorts.

We are on a very set budget and so I have an exersice book with headings such as chilled, dried, drinks etc.

When I do our weekly shop at ASDA I fill in the items I have bought, alongside the price I paid. I also check the price I paid this week with the price I paid last time, changing it to a new price if it has changed.

I have found that this has saved me loads of money. As I said, I am on a very set budget, so I write my shopping list and then check through my price book to see how much my weekly shop should cost (give or take about 50p, its rarely more than that over / under.). If I have gone over my amount available then I can adjust my shopping list to get to the amount I want to spend.

This has given me so much control over our weekly ASDA shop now

thriftmonster

I do one big monthly shop at Tesco - so I have a price book for everything in my larder with the Tesco price - per unit and per 100g. Then if I happen to be anywhere else and see a "bargain" I can check the price against the Tesco price and see if it's worth stocking up.

I found that by going to several different shops regularly I was still spending more - on the frequency/ quantity principle.

spiddy100

I haven't ever kept a price book but this week did some comparison shopping as we are trying to meet the Grocery Challenge and cutting it a bit fine.......

We need to stock up on a variety of things, mainly staples. I normally shop at Tesco or Tesco.com so I used https://www.mysupermarket.co.uk to enter my Tesco shop then compare it to the other big three. Asda was slightly cheaper but only because they substituted my fairtrade coffeee for 'normal'. (I wasn't spending enough to qualify for discount codes with either retailer, which obviously makes a difference). It was interesting that most of the staples cost exactly the same between Asda and Tesco - 19p for squash, 28p for value bread etc. This was true of both branded and own brand items, the only differential seemed to be where one supermarket did not have an own brand and substituted a branded equivalent - however, this didn't always make it more expensive! Asda offered me branded maple syrup which was cheaper than the Tesco own brand one (which was the cheapest one Tesco had).

Rather than put the order through straight away I printed it out and took it along to Lidl today. I could then pick and choose the items that were cheaper. I bought cheese (significantly cheaper per kg at Lidl), tinned tomatoes, bread (same price but nicer), but left on the shelf dried fruit (not sure why I always thought Lidl were cheaper than Tesco, but they aren't), frozen peas (same price, 30% smaller bag - though Lidl ones possibly nicer) and pasta (definitely cheaper at Tesco in the 3kg bag).

I have my Tesco online order saved and can either put it through or pick up the bits when I'm in town tomorrow.

debtworrier

davidspd wrote:

Hi OSers,

My OH got me a copy of the complete Tightwad Gazette for Xmas and Amy D mentions having a price book for price comparison in supermarkets. Does anyone actually do this, or do you just use the internet price comparison sites? They seem to do the same things from what i can see.

Thanks

I've started my own price book (18p value notebook from Mr T) because I got fed up with places that deliberately make it difficult to compare prices - e.g. prepacked veg being quoted by weight, while the loose equivalent is per item. Or one packet size being quoted by weight and a different brand quoted by volume. Now I can just write down all the details and work it out over a cup of tea at home, and then buy whatever it is next trip.

I shop in four different places anyway (Lidl, Aldi, Mr T, Iceland, plus local shops/market) so when I know that I'm running low on, say, frozen chicken portions I'll note down the prices for those when I drop in to a shop for something else. Then when I go out with intent to purchase I arrange to go into that shop last so that I get it home and into the freezer asap. (I'm shopping on foot with a rucksack. Not so much of an issue at this time of year, but important in the summer, you see.)

urg123

Hi,

I'm a bit (okay a lot) obsessed with this site. I have spent all evening reading all sorts of threads and have learned loads - please do keep posting! I've already started to put all sorts of ideas into actions.

Can I ask about the price books people mentioned in the 'Sneaky ways to save pennies' thread?

what are they? how do you use them? what advice can you give me on using them.

Thanks

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Hi urg,

You can find information on making a pricebook on this website: organised home

There's an earlier thread with lots of information and advice that may help so I'll add your post to it to keep the replies together.

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