Tescos vs Sainsburys. Price and quality.

janbanan

the staff at my local sainsbury's have on several occasions been very rude so i've stopped going. i've been to nearby tesco ten more times and they've never treated me badly. worst was when a senior manager type whistled at me twenty meters away and pointed at the door, as they were closing, like i was some form of cattle.

rebeccaj

I find the vegetables, fruit and bread from Tesco to have an abysmally short life even if well within sell by/use by dates! It's rubbish, in a word. Take it home and it's going off within very short order.

Quality at Tesco sucks big time whereas the fresh stuff from Sains is of a much higher quality and lasts a lot longer. In preference I would shop at Waitrose for better quality than both of them but not unsurprisingly, they are not allowed to build a store in this area because Tesco have domination (and probably the planning councillors in their pockets) :rolleyes:

Doom_and_Gloom

Personally I shop at my local Sainsburry's most as it is the closest, has more range of organic produce I find at a better quality (even though it is a smaller store :rolleyes: ), alot of things I buy get reduced often, I can use my BFs necter card and his discount card (10% or 15% on special holidays). On the other hand in Tescos I have yet to recieve my tesco's club card even though I sent off for it over a YEAR ago :eek:, I do not get a discount, the products I buy is limited and not many are ever reduced either. I do shop at ASDA sometimes but need my ma to go as it's over 2 maybe 3 miles away and I can easily buy more than I can carry in there without realising in the basket as ALOT of the items I buy get reduced there :rotfl: .

Really and truely I think certain areas fair better or worse when it comes to price, quality and the rest of it in stores and indeed local retailers. I would just try to work out what is best to and for you over all.

raeble

I generally shop at Sainsbury's because there is not a Tesco near me and I don't drive. However I've used both for online shopping and Tesco's tends to be cheaper but I find the quality of fruit & veg to be poorer than Sainsbury's. I also had to stop buying ice cream because they were incapable of keeping it frozen, I complained and got a refund when I received water that was meant to be sorbet. That was the final straw with them. Sainsbury's by contrast don't seem to have problems with their onboard freezer but they do have a problem with differentiating between 1 item and 1kg. I'm going to check next time to make sure that it's them and not me making the mistake.

ptyks

Get my vote for Sainsbury's too. I have tried Tesco, Asda, and Somerfield. All is nearby my house. But we choose to shop mainly at SB. Nice stuff, good price, easy to find things, not long queues (worst in Asda & Tesco), and good manner of staff.

I hate the time to wait on the queue, especially there are available tills, but no staff working there.

Sola

I won't use Tesco or Sainsburys. I buy locally and at the market wherever possible; for other stuff that I can't get there, I use Morrisons every once in a while as they are 20% cheaper than Sainsburys for a typical trolley-load.

JasonLVC

Morrisons!!. A terrible store and shopping concept. I've had to return more off, short dated, mouldy, bug ridden food to my local Morrisons more often than I care to remember. They are not as cheap as they say they are imho and they don;t have that much of a range in terms of meats. They may have a butchers/fishmongers serving you it 'fresh' but it's the same meat they also pack and clingfilm up on the shelves during the day - and every other store does that so not buying into that 'con trick' of making you think your buying from a proper butchers.

Sainsburys bake the nicest bread this side of France. We all spend a lot of time at a supermarket (1-2hrs) and so the whole expereince has to be right, not only becuase it makes you feel more relaxed but also becuase you buy more (cunning swines!). Places like Asda and Tesco, I just can't wait to get out off and back to the sanctuary of my car.

markchadwick

JasonLVC wrote: »

Morrisons!!. A terrible store and shopping concept. I've had to return more off, short dated, mouldy, bug ridden food to my local Morrisons more often than I care to remember. They are not as cheap as they say they are imho and they don;t have that much of a range in terms of meats. They may have a butchers/fishmongers serving you it 'fresh' but it's the same meat they also pack and clingfilm up on the shelves during the day - and every other store does that so not buying into that 'con trick' of making you think your buying from a proper butchers.

Sainsburys bake the nicest bread this side of France. We all spend a lot of time at a supermarket (1-2hrs) and so the whole expereince has to be right, not only becuase it makes you feel more relaxed but also becuase you buy more (cunning swines!). Places like Asda and Tesco, I just can't wait to get out off and back to the sanctuary of my car.

Talk about "the whole experience must be right" and their need to make you "feel relaxed". Has anyone else heard that music being pumped out by them LCD screens in Tescos? or is this confined to Leicester?

I thought I was having a massage with sensual music playing in the background or near the ocean on holiday whilst walking down one aisle. Unfortunately for them, this music/ploy didn't encourage me to spend more - it just made me get out of there as I could feel myself getting hypnotised. Soon they'll be pumping out Panpipes through the loud speakers and adding bandit-type flashing lights to store shelving in the hope of encouraging us to part with more money and feel like "must feed flashing lights!"

zappomatic

rebeccaj wrote: »

I find the vegetables, fruit and bread from Tesco to have an abysmally short life even if well within sell by/use by dates! It's rubbish, in a word. Take it home and it's going off within very short order.

Quality at Tesco sucks big time whereas the fresh stuff from Sains is of a much higher quality and lasts a lot longer. In preference I would shop at Waitrose for better quality than both of them but not unsurprisingly, they are not allowed to build a store in this area because Tesco have domination (and probably the planning councillors in their pockets) :rolleyes:

I find Tesco staff in the stores near me have no appreciation of the cold chain so milk frequently goes off days before the use by date whereas if I buy my milk from Iceland (only £1!) or practically anywhere else it can be still drinkable even after the use by date. Likewise Tesco potatoes start turning green and sprouting very quickly but when I get my potatoes from Lidl (cheaper even for varieties like King Edward) they last much longer and feel a lot fresher. It probably doesn't help that their staff don't seem to bother rotating vegetables and just tip fresh carrots on top of the ones that are starting to go bendy! And that's not just in one store.

Locally I find Asda and Lidl veg to be the freshest. Market stalls can be very cheap but the produce normally doesn't keep for very long.

theowl_2

I've found that a lot of Tesco's prices have just rocketed.
Chicken Breast fillets, bread, melons, Flora. . .