Are you a BUDGENS shopper? Regular or occasionally.

quoia

Looking for any comments or feedback about BUDGENS please.

What's GOOD to buy? What to avoid? Value for money items?

Do they have "Offers of the week" etc? Own brand?

It just that I've got £100 worth of vouchers to spend there, my nearest store will be a 30 mile round trip and I don't want to "waste" them buying anything that is half the price in ASDA or similar.

TIA

Stompa

Presumably you've looked at their website:

http://www.budgens.co.uk/

which lists a few offers.

quoia

Yes I had previously looked

Sadly not a significant lot on view.

From what I can see it is about 30% to 50% more than the same products in ASDA.

Even the TESCO "Price Match" seems to be a farce ..... unless it isn't fully explained here or shown correctly

eg. Walkers 6 x 25g Multipack Crisps - £1.68 (as they are in Tesco) **

BUT in Tesco they are 3 for £4 - At Budgens 3 packs appear to be £5.04

Perhaps someone can confirm ?

(Wonder if they can be brought to task on this "Price Match" offer with Trading Standards or the ASA ? Seems "dodgy" to me)

On "this basis" my £100 would be worth "under" an £80 shop at Tesco and probably less at ASDA


**Edit update

Just noticed that it says "Tesco price shown is from Tesco website on: 07/04/14"
The 3 for £4 is "valid from 23/4/2014 until 6/5/2014"

... so who knows how much 3 bags will cost :doh:

quoia

ABSOLUTELY POINTLESS

Terms & Conditions

* We match the prices of 100’s of comparable products against Tesco’s (excluding promotions).
Budgens has selected a number of items which are considered to be everyday items.
Tesco price is collected from Tesco website on 07.04.14 unless specified on individual product.
Offer valid 24.04.2014 - 14.05.2014 BUD6.
Terms and conditions apply.

Stompa

I'm afraid you ain't gonna find any great bargains in Budgens, it's a shop of last resort IMO.

surfsister

it's really expensive on a par with waitrose without the basic items. sometimes they have beer for a quid a bottle and wine for a fiver or even less but not much else really! I won $50 a while ago and bought mostly wine/beer and frozen food; with some special offer chocolate. obviously magazines and newspapers are a standard price and maybe they sell stamps/phone top up etc??

surfsister

if you haven't already shopped at budgens i popped in tonight as i was passing and picked up a leaflet of specials and looked around the shop.

best deals:

200g nescafe $4
claymore whisky/beefeater gin $13.50
4 packs baked beans $2 heinz
350g cathedral cheddar $3
choc fingers $1
200g dairy milk $1.50
various veg/fruit $1
2 own brand wash up liquid $1.60
9 roll nouvelle $3
yeo natural yogurt $1.20


I bought myself lighthouse beer 500ml a quid a time ok to bulk out the booze at the bbq

and some lovely wines reduced from $10 or so to a fiver. including tiger horse red shiraz mourvedre 2013 15% south African and very nice!

enjoy!

quoia

Thanks for the info and feedback.

I'm not sure when I'm going to redeem my vouchers but it looks like
:beer: ALCOHOL :beer: ALCOHOL :beer: ALCOHOL :beer: ALCOHOL :beer:

is going to be the order of the day

surfsister

my sentiment entirely!!!

monis

Budgens - only shop there when I am too lazy to travel further afield. Stuff always seems expensive.

whitelabel

surfsister wrote: »

if you haven't already shopped at budgens i popped in tonight as i was passing and picked up a leaflet of specials and looked around the shop.

best deals:

200g nescafe $4
claymore whisky/beefeater gin $13.50
4 packs baked beans $2 heinz
350g cathedral cheddar $3
choc fingers $1
200g dairy milk $1.50
various veg/fruit $1
2 own brand wash up liquid $1.60
9 roll nouvelle $3
yeo natural yogurt $1.20


I bought myself lighthouse beer 500ml a quid a time ok to bulk out the booze at the bbq

and some lovely wines reduced from $10 or so to a fiver. including tiger horse red shiraz mourvedre 2013 15% south African and very nice!

enjoy!

Their prices are in dollars ?