Where does everyone do their grocery shop

PasturesNew

It's a personal thing, what each person chooses to do - based on their weekly spend, the products they like - and which of the shops are in their immediate area or on a regular route.

For me, I can walk to Lidl... once in the door I can get a loaf of bread and some eggs... and then I'm looking at 10 meals in the basket, so I'll pick up a few more things and I've enough food to eat.

I'd LIKE to shop at Asda, they've got such fabulous looking food cartons and a huge range... but as it's a 12 mile round trip I can't see the point of doing all of that just to get more variety.

suki1964

OMG I went to asda this week, first time in yonks cos hubby was looking cheap work clothes

Taking his clothes out of the equation I spent £28 and there wasn't a bit of meat to be seen


Ok so I got a few things that lidl didn't stock. However on a whole, I found all the 'deals' we're on cheap foodstuffs like biscuits and crisps etc.

To me ,for the way I cook, asda wasn't cheap

freyasmum

I don't like Asda - my old local seemed to just be full of processed rubbish and had very little in the way of fresh food.

We shop mainly in Aldi; the quality is great, the price is what we like and I don't like we've met a swap (yes, we've even downshifted some in Aldi!) that we didn't like, and it's one of the closest stores. Saying that, I would quite like to take a walk round our co-op as I've found the reductions to be quite good in the past in other branches.

There is pretty much only one thing that we can't get in Aldi - sweet and smokey beetroot, but we can get this in either Sainsburys or Tesco, depending on which we're passing.

PenguinOfDeath

Main shop done in aldi, extras from asda with occasional visits to tesco or morrisons if they're convenient. A quick visit to Waitrose or booths if I'm feeling flush.

Toiletries, cleaning products etc bought at home bargains/B&Ms or body care

kimplus8

I detest our local Asda, all the offers are on convenience / junk foods and to just buy fresh fruit, veg and meat was really expensive, I was told by a staff member that Asda carefully selects what it has in each store for its target market and in the area we live people want the snacks/ convenience/ junk food and don't so much buy fresh produce.
I love Sainsbury's and waitrose but both are expensive, I tend to stick with our local veg man delivering a veg box to us weekly and my meat etc I get from butchers and/ or Sainsbury's.

Sweetpea69

I have Sainsbury's and Aldi across the road from each other, a mile from my home.:j I used to do main shop in Sainsbury's and pop into Aldi for a few bits, now it's the other way round. I find Aldi 's fruit and veg really good, both price and quality. When I visit my family (who don't have Aldi yet) I always ask for a shopping list & let them know what the Super 6 is that week.:D

SP69 xx

catkins

I am lucky that I have a Tesco, Sainsbury, Aldi, Lidl, Farm Foods, M&S and Asda reasonably close by.

The large Tesco is practically on my doorstep and I will go there if I don't need much or run out of something. Not that keen on Tesco though so don't do my large shop there.

I normally do a big shop every 4 to 6 weeks at Sainsbury. I like their store, it's large and clean and they almost always have all the items I want.

In between times I will buy fruit and veg and sometimes bread (if I don't make my own) in M&S or Lidl. I rarely shop in Aldi and even more rarely in Asda as I don't like it.

I buy packs of loo roll in Farm Foods - it's pretty cheap but as good as Andrex. I also buy their frozen veg as it's very good value.

I will often put my shopping list into "mysupermarket" before I go shopping and a lot of the time Sainsbury is the cheapest. Often Tesco and Asda are the dearest, sometimes dearer even than Waitrose.

I do like Waitrose but the nearest one, at the moment, is a bit of a distance away. There is meant to be one opening at some stage in my local town and if that happens I will quite possibly shop there more

nwc389

We shop mainly at lidl now because it's saved us a fortune . I have to buy a few bits at asda or Sainsburys that I can't get ( brown rice and wholemeal pasta seem to be the main ones )
Toiletries I get at eithe home bargains or savers but a huge B&M bargains has just opened opposite the lidl that we use so that will be handy for them.

mrs_motivated

freyasmum wrote: »

There is pretty much only one thing that we can't get in Aldi - sweet and smokey beetroot, but we can get this in either Sainsburys or Tesco, depending on which we're passing.

That is something I wish i could get in aldi too, perhaps we should start a campaign

SailorSam

FarmFoods and Heron. Then Tesco are all within walking distance.
Asda; Lidl and Aldi only a few miles on a regular bus service.
I'll go to whichever is the cheapest for what i want.