Bananas over priced at Asda? 5 October 2014 at 12:13AM in Food shopping & groceries 49 replies 5.2K views

Redvee

Saw this online somewhere earlier in the week.

The bagged and priced bananas in supermarkets are overpriced :eek: Think the SM in question was Asda, it is also the same in Morrisons. Was going to buy a bag of 9 for £1.50 but chose 10 loose bananas for 98p.
Might not be new to some but is for me and something I'll be doing in future, plus I can buy them in differeing colours.

jenniewb

I have a secret to share with you It's normally always cheaper to buy loose fruit and veg than it is to buy boxed or bagged fruit and veg.

Although not a very reliable way to do it (as supermarkets can often lie) if you look just below the price label on the supermarket shelf you will see the price per kilo or per 100grams, you can then use this to compare to what the price is loose per kilo (or do the maths to convert to grams).

E.g, a box of mushrooms is 250g and costs £1 which means that your paying £4 per kilo of mushrooms (the label should tell you this in the small print). If you look at the loose price it's normally around £2.70 per kilo, thus saving you 32p buy buying the same amount loose. Over time it does add up, especially if you do this with all fresh fruit and veg though always double check just in case a special offer or reduced price bucks the trend (it rarely does though).

An even better way to save even more is to either shop at market stalls or to buy at reduced prices if you know your going to use the product within the day/few days following.

David_Aston

68p a kilo in Aldi. Buy them unripe, and take them out of the packaging as soon as you get home

gunsandbanjos

I wasn't aware this wasn't common knowledge?

If something is packaged they need to add in the cost of that, plus any labour/machinery/time costs added by packaging them.

Supermarkets rely on people not paying attention, or not understanding what is going on.

Onions are usually a good example - most supermarkets sell 3 brown onions in a net for £1 ish? Buy them separately and it'll usually cost about 30-40p, yet I regularly see people chucking the netted 3 in their trolleys without a second thought.

All these little savings add up!

gunsandbanjos

Just checked tesco online - 3 onions netted pack is £1 or £2.06 per kilo.

Individual onions are 58p per kilo! Granted that is a special offer but they are usually about 70p/80p a kilo.

I find it crazy that people ignore this:eek:

I pointed it out to a lady in a supermarket once and she looked at me like I was mental:rotfl:

Nada666

Does anyone really not already know this?

gunsandbanjos

Nada666 wrote: »

Does anyone really not already know this?

Apparently not it would seem!

peewhyeff

And, if shopping in T's and you're trying to max out your tes** points, loose bananas are a great way to round up your shopping to the next whole £. That's if your shopping is say £4.66, then throw in 3 or 4 bananas..I usually go for the smaller ones and add up on the basis they're approx 10p each.......and that you will use them of course.

Ken68

Buying bananas is not MSE....you chuck half of it away.

Nada666

Ken68 wrote: »

Buying bananas is not MSE....you chuck half of it away.

And as Danny Baker is fond of pointing out monkeys laugh at us because stupid humans open them upside down.

Nada666

But as to onions I would say bagged are often better (not the three-pack nets). They tend to be of a consistent size and smaller. So unless you are the sort of person who weighs their chopped onion rather than just throwing in one or two onions, you will get more portions from the bagged ones.