Sainsbury's - like shopping overseas?

DCFC79

Dyna4 wrote: »

If Sainsbury's and Morissons are even still here this time next year, I will be very surprised.

Im pretty confident Sainsburys and Morrisons will still be around, we might even see some Netto stores re emerging.

photome

Dyna4 wrote: »

If Sainsbury's and Morissons are even still here this time next year, I will be very surprised.

thats a wild claim...how do you back it up

photome

ukjoel wrote: »

We split our shops now with a weekly shop at Lidl and a Tesco delivery.

Family of five with one dairy free gluten free child means we cant walk away from Tesco completely but by splitting the shop and using points for their delivery saver we have brought our shop down from £120 a week to £80-£90 a week.

Interestingly I pay at lidl with my tesco clubcard credit card and the more I spend at Lidl the more discount vouchers Tesco seems to send through.

The other thing I have noticed which I was really not expecting is that shopping at Tesco at 7am on a Saturday is really busy, but Lidl half a mile down the road at 8am when they open is really quiet. Weekly shop in half an hour door to door.

Why cant you walk away from tesco are they the only supermarket who cater for dairy free, gluten free?

Kitty777

photome wrote: »

Why cant you walk away from tesco are they the only supermarket who cater for dairy free, gluten free?

Exactly - Morrisons and sainbury's also do free from ranges

pollypenny

We get Sainbury's voucher, £4 off a £20 shop, fairly regularly. We go around with a calculator and aim for £20 .

We are usually about that and its a good discount,,then.

wiogs

Cornucopia wrote: »

I haven't been to Sainsbury's (or Tesco's) for some while (could be years), and I went in to JS yesterday for a few bits & pieces because it was the nearest supermarket to where I was.

Normally I shop in Aldi, Asda and Morrisons. I was shocked by the prices. I expected everything to be a few pence dearer, but it was like shopping in a foreign country - the prices were not just higher, but all over the place.

The worst example: I get wafer-thin Roast Chicken from Morrisions (400g for 1.69) - I suspect this is a price match with Lidl (Aldi don't do wafer-thin chicken).

Sainsbury's price for an identical-looking product... £3.

500g Natural Yogurts: Long-term Aldi/Morrisons price 85p. Sainsbury's price £1.20.

If this was matched across the whole store, you could be spending £££s more than necessary.

I know JS are saying that they are going to begin price-matching Asda rather than Tesco's, so hopefully that should improve matters.

Which foreign country was it like shopping in?

Cornucopia

Somewhere with a currency exchange rate of about 1.5 Frank's to the bun.


I was imagining that JS's prices made more sense in Euros.

peachyprice

I guess I must be lucky then, my local Sainsbury's is cheaper than Tesco, by a large margin, and have started dropping prices on staples to match the shiny new Lidl that opened 6 month ago.

Happy days for me, I do 50% of my shopping in Lidl, 50% in Sainsbury's and have shaved £20-£30 of my weekly shop.

As for Sainsbury's not being here in a year, not a chance, they're going from strength to strength.

Money-Saving-King

Cornucopia wrote: »

I was shocked by the prices. I expected everything to be a few pence dearer, but it was like shopping in a foreign country

The "rip off Britain" brigade will not like this post! :rotfl:

LilElvis

Cornucopia wrote: »

Somewhere with a currency exchange rate of about 1.5 Frank's to the bun.


I was imagining that JS's prices made more sense in Euros.

So how much is a pack of wafer-thin roast chicken in France/Germany/Spain/Italy?

Mind you, I doubt they would buy that processed rubbish regardless of price.