Deflation coming to a supermarket near you?

Generali

Which is worst Morrisons or CoOp?

Co Op. Expensive and poor quality. Oh and the service is rubbish. And they shafted their Widows and orphans investors in the most disgraceful way.

username200

I would love it if prices started going down like they have been in japan for decades, but I cant see it myself.

lvader

The local Morrisons was very busy this morning, it looks the price cut publicity is working even though I'm not sure they have cut any prices yet!

Graham_Devon

michaels wrote: »

I think the problem for Morrisons is that with no loyalty scheme they do not know (and thus know how to manipulate) their customers. The reason they have no loyally scheme is they could not afford the IT having over leveraged with the Safeway takeover.

The takeover was also a problem - our local Safeway had just gone all upmarket with lots of deli space when it was taken over by a 'price conscious' Northern retailler - hardly a coherent customer base and since them they seem to have been trying to appeal to both sets of customers simultaneously.

Back to not knowing the customer means they try and get people instore using end of aisle deep discount loss leaders btu they end up with people like us who mostly shop elsewhere but also shop their specials - hardly the route to profitability.

They are going to be starting a loyalty card very soon as part of this "overhaul".

lvader

They do 10p off petrol and £10 off shopping schemes which are much better value than loyalty cards.

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I do my shopping at Tesco. A few years ago Lidl opened a branch in town, so I wrote out a list and took it around Lidl, Tesco and Sainsburys. I'm not walking an extra two miles for every trip, so I just included non-perishables that I could stock up on occasionally.

I couldn't find a lot of what I needed at Lidl, and what I did find was all just as much as Tesco. There were a few items cheaper at Sainsburys, but not consistently. Eggs were 10p cheaper at Lidl, but I'm not walking an extra two miles just for those. A few years later Morrisons opened up in town, so I repeated the whole process again with the same result.

The bugbear with Tesco these days is that they now have three branches in town. They keep messing about with which items are stocked at which store, so instead of buying everything in one place, I now have to traipse between two branches to find what I need.

tomterm8

From a practicality standpoint we shop at tesco, but I do find that they have more problems than they did... the food isn't always as fresh, and sometimes they just randomly stop stocking favourite weekly buys.

I'd say they aren't quite as hot as they once were.

Southend1

Aldi is a godsend, I do all my shopping there now. I hate spending hours in a whole aisle full of pasta shells trying to find the best value brand. Aldi offer local stores with no unnecessary choice and consistently good value for money. The products are generally very good quality and very keenly priced. I like that they pay their staff a decent hourly rate too though I know they also work them very hard. The only problem with my local Aldi is that it's become so popular there is often a queue to get into the car park. The big four lost their way ages ago. Nobody needs the level of "choice" they offer - e.g. Ten different brands of cornflakes. The way forward for the huge out of town stores is to cut the space and choice given to groceries and introduce other services to make them more of a destination. I believe tesco is trialling something like this in certain stores.

dktreesea

purch wrote: »

It is a shame that Morrisons as a group is so poorly managed.

They sell the best fresh meat and fish of all the mainstream supermarkets, certainly better than Tesco, Asda or Sainsbury's, but overall their offering cannot compete with the big guys.

Yes, we go to Morrisons for meat and fish as well. I like some of their frozen foods, like their jalapeno pizza. But they do such stupid things. For example, removing Dandelion and Burdock (cans, sugar free) from their shelves up here in Scotland. No flies on Sainsburys - they hiked their price and stocked up better on their own brand equivalent as soon as they realised! And why is Asda the only one to stock Bells beef sausage rolls?

And they all seem to shoot own goals with imported items,. Like importing San Pellegrino soft drinks - everything but the most popular line they have, chinotto.

grizzly1911

Graham_Devon wrote: »

They are going to be starting a loyalty card very soon as part of this "overhaul".

Loyalty cards are a waste of time. You end up paying for whatever they "give" you.

That said I do have a Morrison's fuel card. I get £5 back to spend in store for every £500 spent - I think.

I only have it because M are usually the cheapest in my nearest big town. Usually get it at Asda if I happen to be passing but that is over 10 miles away.

Closest petrol station is a Coop and diesel has stayed at £1.40/41 throughout the last couple of years. Asda being 8 p/l less at present IIRC.