Are you a supermarket snob?

I try to use Sainsbury more for Nectar, but I'm happy to shop at any. I'd probably prefer Morrisons if there was one a bit closer.

I don't usually shop at middle class ones like Waitrose or M&S as they're just too pricey.
 
I can't stand Aldi. I don't like the disorder of it with everything seemingly bundled randomly into baskets, and I find the customers are the rudest. To be fair, it was probably a nicer place to shop before the middle classes caught on. The car park at my local Aldi looks like a Mercedes garage forecourt.
 
Ocado; free delivery on Wednesday for orders >£75. I avoid actually going into supermarkets as much as I possibly can, not necessarily because of the people, but because it takes so long and is inefficient compared to online shopping.
 
Don't use supermarkets that often.

Veg, cheese and dry goods - Wednesday market
Meat - butchers
Wine - local wine shop
English foods (proper bacon, pies etc) - Saturday market
 
My only issue with home delivery is I'll usually order something I've really been craving for a treat for that evenings dinner and it causes serious irrational anger when it arrives and that items been unavailable or subbed for something that could only be considered a like for like replacement by someone who's never eaten food before.
 
bobbyspangles said:
I can't stand Aldi. I don't like the disorder of it with everything seemingly bundled randomly into baskets, and I find the customers are the rudest. To be fair, it was probably a nicer place to shop before the middle classes caught on. The car park at my local Aldi looks like a Mercedes garage forecourt.
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I went to Berlin and you wanna see the state of their budget supermarkets. Aldi there was like what I imagine the Somme to have looked like...Still fine to shop in just chaotic
 
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I shop at Aldi, Tesco and Asda.

For larger long-term purchases (washing detergent for example) i keep an eye on mysupermarket for when the come on offer and will go shop there.

Otherwise, Aldi if i'm picking up a few bits and pieces as it's within walking distance (car park is always full), but if we're doing a big shop, Tesco is closest, unless we're out and about and there's an Asda around.


I don't get supermarket snobbery either, most of the stuff i tend to buy are branded, so are available from all 4, so it's just a case of wherever is cheapest. Also i tend not to go when it's busy.
 
Sainsburys at the top? its terrible. On all three fronts Quality, price and range. Its also the only one not 24hrs and i hate busy supermarkets people are dumb and stand and chat in isles and door ways etc, plus at night shelfs are restocked.

i like tesco super store, absolutely huge range of items and best bang for buck. World food has like two isles, actually has a&w root beer and may other things which i consider staples that other stores don't have.

Also like ocado for a few items. (especially the packs of Essential Waitrose British Chicken Wings 475g, and who doesnt like making tons of buffallo wings, come cut into parts unlike every other store, could do it myself but cant be bothered. )

Asda i don't mind, cheapest but also shoddy qaulity. But unlike sainsburys at least its dirt cheap.

if i had the freezer space like I used to, I would go back to http://www.turnerandgeorge.co.uk/ for meat.
I generally prefer cheaper cuts of meat, and so i rather get higher qaulity cheap cuts, than poor qaulity expensive cuts.
and i prefer decent animal welfare.

I'm also ordering more and more from amazon
 
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Supermarket snobbery is stupid. I can understand picking your usual one because you know where the stuff you want is though. All in all there is very little difference between supermarkets now.

Staff - The staff there is determined by the individuals employed not by the company name. One Tesco might be full of dosser kids earning a bit on the side while others may be hardworking full timers looking to make ends meet and climb up the ranks there. I have done my part time stint in a supermarket when i was young and saw all sorts of people. That said, its a supermarket, there should be no reason why you require staff to follow you around helping you do your shopping. Getting annoyed at a staff member for not knowing where something is is stupid as aisles change all the time and if it is not within your department, you are hardly going to know where x brand of y is.

Pricing - Most of them price match and overall there is no cheaper supermarket. There maybe cheaper for the things you purchase but they are all more or less the same or within 5% these days on most items of the same quality.

Products - they all stock pretty much the same stuff with variance depending on location and size of the store. When it comes to the essentials, the vast majority of it come from the same places anyway or even delivered from the same truck. It is not even a rare thing for the wrong milk to be delivered to the wrong store and stocked before hitting the till and finding that Sainsbury milk has been delivered to a tesco store.

Special offers - Mostly big offers are not even controlled by the retailers. There is no better supermarket for offers and the offers usually cycle between supermarkets to keep stock moving.
 
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Going to the supermarket gives me the rage in a big way. I get grumpy with the people that abandon their trolley (though I amuse myself and move their trolley around the corner), the people that stand with their trolly at 90 degrees to the shelves and the people that stand chatting and blocking the aisles.

We've done our shopping with Ocado for the last 5 years or so. We both shove stuff into the basket as and when we notice we need something then whoever puses the basket over £40 arranges the delivery.
 
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I go to where ever is either closest or on my route. Not fussed which supermarket it is but the only Lidl near me has pretty much no parking so tend not to go there, which is a shame as I like it.
 
the-evaluator said:
Going to the supermarket gives me the rage in a big way. I get grumpy with the people that abandon their trolly (though I amuse myself and move their trolly around the corer), the people that stand with their trolly at 90 degrees to the shelves and the people that stand chatting and blocking the aisles.

We've done our shopping with Ocado for the last 5 years or so.
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I'm terrible for this. I also HATE (seriously, I'm going to end up in jail for wrapping a trolley / push chair around someone's face) inconsiderate people. People who leave their crap in the middle of aisles are frequently surprised to find the most random crap in their trolley at the tills.

My favourite one was a vegan chick, wearing a vegan shirt (no jokes, full on hippy, "show compassion for animals, that kind of crap) getting to a till and finding a BBQ pack in her trolley. I wish I could've seen her face.
 
the-evaluator said:
Going to the supermarket gives me the rage in a big way. I get grumpy with the people that abandon their trolley (though I amuse myself and move their trolley around the corner), the people that stand with their trolly at 90 degrees to the shelves and the people that stand chatting and blocking the aisles.

We've done our shopping with Ocado for the last 5 years or so. We both shove stuff into the basket as and when we notice we need something then whoever puses the basket over £40 arranges the delivery.
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Diddums said:
I'm terrible for this. I also HATE (seriously, I'm going to end up in jail for wrapping a trolley / push chair around someone's face) inconsiderate people. People who leave their crap in the middle of aisles are frequently surprised to find the most random crap in their trolley at the tills.

My favourite one was a vegan chick, wearing a vegan shirt (no jokes, full on hippy, "show compassion for animals, that kind of crap) getting to a till and finding a BBQ pack in her trolley. I wish I could've seen her face.
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This is exactly why I haven't been to a supermarket for 2+ years!
 
Not a snob, we usually shop at Tesco as we get a 10% staff discount but sometime we'll go to Morrisons or Asda. Sometime we'll even pick up food from Jack Fultons (freezer shop)
 
The time of day you go makes a massive difference as well to the clientele. We've just had an Asda open nearby and I've been there a couple of times quite late in the evening. The car park is deserted and the level of troglodyteness inside is minimal.
 
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