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Which is cheaper - Morrisons or Asda??
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OH moans I have a "inexplicable" aversion to Morrisons, I do refuse to shop there although I will admit their meat is better quality than Asda and so will pop in every now and again for the half price chickens :cool:
I am lucky enough to have everything around, except Lidl , and so share my shopping between them.
I believe Asda is the cheapest though, it is easy to go on their website and have a look at their prices/offers like someone mentioned earlier0 -
Of the "big 4", ASDA is the cheapest - another major plus being that the quality is far better than e.g. Tesco.
Unlike Tesco, ASDA uses no Aspartame (a neurotoxin) in their products, or MSG / hydrolysed vegetable oil (which causes obesity, and other major health problems).
Tesco meat (largely European-sourced) can be assumed to have been fed on GMO meal - unless labelled otherwise.
Unless reduced life-expectancy is part of a long-term money saving plan, then you're definitely better off at ASDA than Tesco. ASDA is cheaper, but not at the expense of quality, and they also store their food correctly (again, unlike Tesco) so that your food stays fresh until the use-by date.
Aldi is cheaper still - and better quality than Lidl - so if you can make an occasional trip to an Aldi store and fill up your freezer, you'll still be quids in.0 -
If you ask four different people which supermarket is the cheapest you will get four different answers, Tesco, Morrisons, Asda, and Sainsbury's. It all depends what you buy. The way to cut your spending to the bone is to study prices, and pick the best buys from all of them. Only buying special offers, own label Value, and yellow stickers 7pm - 9pm. Also ditch your shopping list, forget about what you fancy, go with an open mind and buy on price only. You need to be flexible with your eating. You can still buy decent food if you cook from scratch. No ready meals, no cakes, no crisps, no biscuits, no fizzy pop, no sweets and chocolate. Try having three or four non meat meals every week if you can't cut out meat completely.
Also buy from discounts stores like B & M, Home Bargains, Poundstretcher, and markets. Cherry pick from all of them, and I don't mean rack up extra miles because that would defeat the object. If you are passing any of these places, call in, don't make extra journeys.
IlonaI love skip diving.0 -
You can order online with Asda, so I would dig out an old Morrisons receipt, and go through the motions of ordering the same through the Asda website. That way you can get a realistic idea of which is cheaper based on what you actually buy!
An even simpler idea would be to go to ASDA and do your shopping as per normal and then enter your receipt details into the ASDA Price Guarantee website. If your shopping isn't 10% cheaper than Morrisons they'll refund you the difference.
So of course ASDA is cheaper than Morrisons. It always will be.
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If you ask four different people which supermarket is the cheapest you will get four different answers, Tesco, Morrisons, Asda, and Sainsbury's. It all depends what you buy. The way to cut your spending to the bone is to study prices, and pick the best buys from all of them. Only buying special offers, own label Value, and yellow stickers 7pm - 9pm. Also ditch your shopping list, forget about what you fancy, go with an open mind and buy on price only. You need to be flexible with your eating. You can still buy decent food if you cook from scratch. No ready meals, no cakes, no crisps, no biscuits, no fizzy pop, no sweets and chocolate. Try having three or four non meat meals every week if you can't cut out meat completely.
Also buy from discounts stores like B & M, Home Bargains, Poundstretcher, and markets. Cherry pick from all of them, and I don't mean rack up extra miles because that would defeat the object. If you are passing any of these places, call in, don't make extra journeys.
Ilona
Totally agree with Iiona! to seriously spend less money you will need to spend more time researching and split your shopping between a couple of stores. Often different offers are on at different times at different stores, so 'on average' your shopping could work out more or less the same at any one store, depending what you buy.
So, just buy things which are on offer, Iionas right, be flexible about what you buy depending on offers, and if you find a bargain, and its not perishable or has a long BBD then stock up if you can. (I have hundreds of washing up tabs when they were glitching £2 for a bag of 38 (they are usually around £10) and boxes of washing powder when it was half price too.
Plan your meals around offers, and maybe even start including coupons and vouchers too..its amazing when a manufacturers voucher clashes with a store promotion!! (few and far between, but it does happen!) Also check out the grabbit boards, and also the dark side (HDUK) !
If your cats like whiskas theres an offer for 12 pouches for £2 at the mo in tesco, which I think is a bargain?
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4025411
Good luck!0 -
We live next door to a morrisons, a car ride away to asda and we go to asda every week. When we did shop at morrisons, we found it to be more expensive but things in 'bulk buy' like yogurts, crisps, washing up tablets in the huge boxes/qualities were cheaper. We never have the need for 24 packets of walkers so it was pointless! i do go to morrisons when they have cupboard stuff on offer, like they had pasta pots and packets for 50p which are handy.Now I am employed, lets get rid of this student debt!0
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My wife uses mysupermarket website to do the comparison and Asda always wins,( Morrisons not compared) although we have had deliveries from Tesco and Sainsburys recently as we used the moneysaving vouchers/links from here to get the costs right down :beer:0
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