Who is the best value supermarket?

gerardflanagan

I used mysupermarket and put my tesco basket in and it was cheaper than ocado. However, it had made some silly choices on comparisons. The main issue seemed to be that tesco would beat ocado where I'd taken advantage of a tesco deal. I swapped to ocado and then tweaked it to take advantage of their deals. Lo and behold this slightly different basket was now cheaper 'like for like' than the tesco basket.

So mysupermarket isn't quite telling me who is truly best value. Who is the best value and who do you guys use?

NigeWick

I have to say I find a combination of Aldi and Lidl to be best value for most of our shopping. One can choose individual bananas and some other fruit in Lidl and their veg is generally very good quality. Aldi also have good fruit & veg but often it is pre packaged which is fine if one wants 6 bananas or 4 apples and not one or two. Both have good meat and special offers. I buy Aldi's Greek Yoghurt because the size of container is more convenient for our purposes. I prefer Aldi bratwurst but others say Lidl so there's a lot of which suits which individual involved. Aldi is this year's WHICH? best supermarket overall and Lidl is really not very far behind these days.

If we had Asda and Tesco situated conveniently I would probably end up doing bits and pieces between the four and our Sainsbury's and small M & S (great pickled red cabbage).

I'm a pensioner and therefore have time to walk into town and shop around for a best value & quality combination. My daughters buy on line from Tesco and have it delivered as it is than driving, finding a parking space and taking the children shopping.

bazzyb

gerardflanagan wrote: »

So mysupermarket isn't quite telling me who is truly best value. Who is the best value and who do you guys use?

Sainsburys.

Ilona

If everyone bought the same items, and found the cheapest supermarket to get them, all the other supermarkets would go out of business. But they don't so there is no way to compare like for like. Peanut butter is cheaper in Tesco, 62p, than Aldi, around 90p. Bran flakes are the same price in both, 88p.

Tesco is my first choice because most of my shopping has yellow stickers on it, Aldi don't do reductions they bin their about to go out of date stock, most don't have dates on, they check codes.
Ilona

dlusman

gerardflanagan wrote: »

So mysupermarket isn't quite telling me who is truly best value. Who is the best value and who do you guys use?

Impossible question to answer - Will depend heavily on the mix of things you buy, and will change week-to-week. Also note that your first paragraph talks about "cheapest" , but your question talks about "value" - these are two different things.

Personally I use Sainsburys or Lidl , but only because the only other large nearby choice I have is Waitrose ( no Tesco,Adsa ,Morrisons or Aldi ) - and I buy a large amount of my bread,Meat & Fish on yellow sticker from Sainsburys at 75% off

Stompa

Ilona wrote: »

Aldi don't do reductions they bin their about to go out of date stock

I have had reduced items from them, but it doesn't happen very often. Either that or I'm not visiting at the right time!

Ilona

Stompa wrote: »

I have had reduced items from them, but it doesn't happen very often. Either that or I'm not visiting at the right time!

I saw various items on a trolley last week and was looking through them. An assistant said they're not for sale, they are written off. I took that to mean they were going to be dumped. I have never seen any equivalent yellow stickers in there. Maybe they do mark stuff down, very occasionally.
Ilona

Tiglath

Lidl - I track my receipts and I regularly save over 1/3 compared to the likes of Tesco.

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I usually mix it with Aldi for F&V and yoghurts.Lidl when there is a special offer on.Sainsbugs for reduced stuff,wilkinsons or Family Bargains for cleaning stuff try not to go into MrTs anymore as they are just too silly with their prices.everything goes up by leaps and bounds in there.Morrisons do great YS stuff on a Sunday afternoon. also Waitrose believe it or not.Tuesday morning M&S do some great YS stuff.So I gues its a case of searching out the best time to shop and only buying what you really need

Linda32

As others have said, its hard to say. For example Aldi do not do cheap yoghurts, but we have an allotment so have our own fruit which we mix with value yoghurts from Sainsburys which are 15p

If you have the time to 'shop around', and are strict with yourself to only buy exactly what you need then this could be the way forward.

We go to Aldi fortnightly which we have found works well for us. Weekly I go to Sainsburys for my Mum's shopping where I buy the yoghurts for example.

Stompa

Linda32 wrote: »

For example Aldi do not do cheap yoghurts...

15p seems pretty cheap to me (less if you buy a multi-pack).

https://www.aldi.co.uk/en/product-range/fresh-bakery/yogurts/