How expensive is sainsbury's??

apga

The quality of fresh fruit & veg at my local Sainsbury's is much better than that from other nearby supermarkets and they have a greater range of soft fruits (at the moment) from local farms.

terra_ferma

Kim_kim wrote: »

I agree I think they are a bit more ethical than the other cheapies, or they lead & the others follow.
I love their basics apples & they are about the cheapest of all.

Their apples are nice, I get the organic ones because my OH eats them with the skin on, except that they are tiny, like Tesco's and W's. Tiny apples in multi-packs really annoy me, sometimes the size is just like children's, but most supermarkets do it.
Never seen any local fruit at my nearest S's, it must be down to each store.
Their frozen section is very sad- looking and in desperate need of defrosting. Once I found some twining tea that was several years out of date... No surprise that I'm not a great fan...;)

PS I have to clarify that I buy very little meat, and hardly any ready made meals, so I can't rally comment on that side of their products. We eat a lot of cheese, mainly foreign, though, and what is on offer at our local S's is limited in choice and not very good.

Callie22

terra_ferma wrote: »

Also the two Sainsburys I've been to, many times, they are not a pleasure to shop in, very crowded, manic at peak hours.
My everyday shopping is from Asda, I'm now doing all of my weekly shopping there because even after upgrading one or two products that are not their strongest point, I'm still saving a lot of money.
Fruits and vegs are a particularly weak area at the S's I visit, very expensive and just OK, while Asda's are much cheaper and overall better quality, at least at the store I go to.

I think it depends very much on your area as my experience is the total opposite to yours. Our local branches of Asda are complete bearpits - always busy, and not pleasant places to shop. However, the closest branch of Sainsbury's is a real pleasure to visit. It's always quiet and always a nice, mellow place to shop in. Also, I don't find Sainsbury's that expensive although I suppose it depends on what you buy - one of my pet hates at Asda is that the vast majority of their offers tend to be for real rubbish. I visit occasionally for cleaning stuff and toiletries (although Wilko's is often cheaper) but that's it.

I've also found Asda fresh fruit and veg to be really, really poor quality. It just doesn't last and I got so fed up of buying stuff that went mouldy after a couple of days. It doesn't matter how cheap it is if you end up throwing half of it away! In contrast, the fresh stuff from my local Sainsbury's lasts for ages, which is a boon for me as we eat loads of fruit and veg and I just don't have time to go to the supermarket twice or more a week. Waitrose is brilliant for fruit and veg that lasts, too. The only good thing about Asda fruit and veg is that the large one near me does have a good selection of more exotic stuff (plantains etc) but again, it does have to be used quickly.

Kim_kim

gs1647 wrote: »

I go to Sainsburys occasionally, to get their TTD multi grain loaf which is the best bread I've ever had from a supermarket. It's slighter more expensive than 'best' loaves at other supermarkets (£1.40), which is typical of JS, but is well worth the extra..

pawsies wrote: »

Oh yes. The tricolour pasta is beautiful! I too wait for the 3 for 2 offer

I like the multigrain bread too.
I like sainsburys own brand high fibre white pasta.

marvin

robin58 wrote: »

And just for a little test on price, I recently priced up a £9.50 shop at Aldi's with the identical products from Sainsbury's.

Can you quote what the identical products were as Sainsburys are unlikely to have too many products in common with Aldi.

The products I have tried from Aldi, mainly processed fresh as I have looked at the contents of the jars and other stuff and found it far less quality than than Sainsburys own brand so left alone, has been very poor, caked in salt (all British processed food is bad for this but Aldi is by far the worst making their products inedible to my taste.

Pinto2013

HI. Still use our v large Sainsburys for most things but beginning to use our local small Lidl a lot more: often cheaper and often better quality.

Also I find Sainsburys pricing odd eg on line it says a certain brand of razor blades are 9.00 for 4. In store it says 9.99 for 4. Swipe price (I asked them to check) it says 10.00.

Well, alright, only a few pence difference but it all adds up - for them as well as for us.

HANDY TIP (WELL NEW TO ME ANYWAY) STAFF SAID IF SOMETHING WAS A SPECIAL ON LINE OFFER (THE BLADES WEREN'T) THEN THE PRICE WOULD BE LESS THAN INSTORE (I SEE THAT) AND THE WAY TO GET THE ON LINE PRICE IS TO GO FOR DELIVERY (FREE) TO STORE THE NEXT DAY.

ANYONE TRIED THIS?

Pinto2013

Oops. Sorry about the shouting. Didn't notice I had hit the caps key.

ianlawn

A._Badger wrote: »

My apologies to Sainsbury's. Their frozen beefburgers were wuthdrawn but tested negative. The surprising results of whose products did and whose didn't can be found here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-21412590

I do not retract a single word of the rest of my comments about this overpriced, overrated store.

This is a good example of how sainsburys has better quality food.

One thing people often do is buy from their supermarket which they buy items on offer at that store and compare the items they bought against another store which has different offers.

Sainsburys is on a whole more expensive for example tined spaghetti asda 13p tesco 20 sainsburys 30p. They seem to have given up price matching value products, though as said their food is better quality.

tallyho88

Sainsburys is a rip off

A._Badger

ianlawn wrote: »

This is a good example of how sainsburys has better quality food.

One thing people often do is buy from their supermarket which they buy items on offer at that store and compare the items they bought against another store which has different offers.

Sainsburys is on a whole more expensive for example tined spaghetti asda 13p tesco 20 sainsburys 30p. They seem to have given up price matching value products, though as said their food is better quality.

I'm afraid I completely disagree. Sainsbury's might once have offered better own brand quality than some others but I do not find that is the case today. Curiously, studying the labels of a couple of own brand lines that I buy, Morrison's quality is noticeably higher. In one case, I'm pretty sure a Morrison's product is identical to one sold by M&S, while the Sainsbury's version is similar to the Tesco equivalent.

I think Sainsbury's has managed to pull-off a clever marketing trick. It has managed to pose as a Waitrose wanabe when, in reality, it is far closer to Tesco, minus the pricing scams.

As someone joked to me recently 'I like Sainsbury's. It keeps the riff-raff out of Waitrose' Beneath the cruelty, I think there's more than a grain of truth in that. Sainsburys cons its customers into feeling a cut above. It does it well, too. Compared to Sainsbury's, my local Asda is like a bear pit.

But quality and value for money? Nope.