Insane soaring wine prices in Watirose

andygb

Nick_C wrote: »

Interestingly, the Louis Latour is being advertised on their web site as "£11.49, 25% off, was £15.49". Some sharp practice perhaps?

I split my shopping between my local farm shop, Aldi, and Waitrose.

I find Waitrose can be extremely good value because they keep sending me 20% discount coupons. Combine those with the special offers and they can be cheaper than Aldi.

I bought 6 bottles of their own brand Port last week. Priced at £7.69 a bottle but with 25% off and a 20% voucher, they come in at £4.61 a bottle.

And I bought President butter recently at £1.20 a pack.

ETA: I have an offer on one of my Amex cards for 10% off every time at Morrisons. So I'll be buying some more John Lewis gift cards to use in Waitrose!

Although I find Waitrose very expensive, the quality is always there, and as you say the coupons make a big difference - we were getting spend £40 get £6 off.
I thyink the wine is way overpriced and I get a lot from France.
The exchange rate is around 1.15 to £ today so that is better than I was getting last year in France.
Lidl and Aldi throw up some real bargains, their basic CdR is great, New World Pinot Noir, bubbly.
Last year in France, I was buying 1er Cru Burgundy for around a tenner from supermarkets and they would put the Louis Latour stuff to shame.
We stayed in the Champagne region - Bouzy - and bought six bottles of Grand Cru Champagne from the grower @ £19 each, whereas the UK list price for the same Champagne is £37 a bottle.

ratechaser

The local Aldi that opened in my town seems absolutely fine.

At least it seems fine observed from a distance, never been in it :rotfl:

MothballsWallet

suki1964 wrote: »

Why the snobbery?

Lidls parmesan is the best I can get ( only have supermarket choices, no cheese specialists unless I go to Belfast) and their Extra mature - well I just can not buy enough of it

Their meat ( over here in NI at least) is excellent and their in store bakery has the best bread out of all the supermarkets

You are lucky, living in Kensington, you have a good selection of specialist shops, not everyone is so lucky. Most of us have to deal with supermarkets ( and we don't have Waitrose here) and lidl gives excellent quality for the price they charge

They also do some very nice wines. Yes they do the bog standards 4'99 a bottle, which is still drinkable, but they also do some lovely wines at the £8/9 mark which would easily cost £12/15 in Waitrose or Sainsburys

A quote from Mrs MbW:

My country can make nuclear weapons, but they can't make a decent cheese.

She and her family prefer our cheese to the ones in her country, so she'll take some from here to there when she goes back to see them.

Ganga

I thought it was just me but everytime we shop at Sainsburys,Asda,M & S etc i have noticed that the price of most wines has gone up a lot in the last few years.