Are you a supermarket snob?

Dj_Jestar said:
I don't do the juices or ready made stuff and whatnot. I'm talking almost exclusively about their meat and veg, so sorry to say you are greatly mistaken that they don't sell fresh produce. It kicks the arse of anything else, frankly. I also get 20% discount because the girlfriend works for them, which means I only need one mortgage for a weekly shop. :)
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Every time I've shopped in there I've struggled for meals (wife is vegetarian so 99% of my shop is) and there is nothing but ready made stuff in their aisles excluding the meat and fresh fruit and veg.

Also I've noticed the prices are ridiculous. For example Greek yogurt with Honey. Asda premium brand or own make is around £1 a large tub. M & S it's around £4. It's also questionable how good the "quality" is as you can get very high quality fresh foods in Morrisons too. Saisnburys is another one seems to be overpriced for no reason.

I shop in whatever is closest but I try and avoid M & S as I've usually struggled to buy stuff and it's cost a fortune too for very little.

ASDA have an Extra Specia (in purple packaging) range. tesco have a similar selection of premium stuff too.

Yes if you go for Smart price then it will be rubbish. However not everything on other stores is.

I dislike aldi the most. M & S I think is just overpriced, their stuff is decent but it's no better than some stuff you get elsewhere at half the price.
 
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Closest shop to me is a Sainsburys, so that's where we get day to day stuff. Quite happy to use Aldi and Lidl though.Online we usually use Morrisons.
Waitrose is just lol, full of people who think they are something special, but usually have the same manners and social skills as the chavs in the local Asda.
 
Ocado because Waitrose deliveries always have half a dozen substitutions/missing items.

Substitutions are usually fine when it's food but less so on light bulbs (completely different lightbulb delivered!) or nappies.
 
We shop at which ever one of the tesco or morrisons has the best offers.

Problem being that the local morrisons is just crap. They dont know how to fill shelves, keep fresh produce. Its a waste of time for at least 50% of the week

Hopefully when the new build aldi comes we can get some decent fresh stuff again.


Before we moved, we used asda and aldi. Then just which ever tesco or morrisons had an offer we might have wanted.
 
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Psycho Sonny said:
Every time I've shopped in there I've struggled for meals (wife is vegetarian so 99% of my shop is) and there is nothing but ready made stuff in their aisles excluding the meat and fresh fruit and veg.

Also I've noticed the prices are ridiculous. For example Greek yogurt with Honey. Asda premium brand or own make is around £1 a large tub. M & S it's around £4. It's also questionable how good the "quality" is as you can get very high quality fresh foods in Morrisons too. Saisnburys is another one seems to be overpriced for no reason.

I shop in whatever is closest but I try and avoid M & S as I've usually struggled to buy stuff and it's cost a fortune too for very little.

ASDA have an Extra Specia (in purple packaging) range. tesco have a similar selection of premium stuff too.

Yes if you go for Smart price then it will be rubbish. However not everything on other stores is.

I dislike aldi the most. M & S I think is just overpriced, their stuff is decent but it's no better than some stuff you get elsewhere at half the price.
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If you aren't looking for fresh veg, but want to avoid ready made meals, I have to ask: as a vegetarian, what do you expect to be able to buy? :)
 
No snobbery here - Asda is the closest so that's where I go. No issues with that. Also tend to pick up some fish/fruit and veg from Aldi.
 
M&S for the main shop, Waitrose for the top up.
Main reasons are that they are the closest ones to me and the Mrs works for M&S and gets 20% off, making them competitive on price.
 
Used to shop at ASDA (the big one on wolstanton retail park) when it first opened but quite a few years ago they changed it inside, including the shelves, and it's just awful now + it seems to be where 90% of the scummy chav people shop now. Now i go to Morrisons (the one down near OCUK HQ). The bread from the "Bakery" isn't as nice + it's still full of scummy chav people, because Knutton, but i tend to go mid to late afternoon so it's usually not too bad (i assume they're all either still in bed or signing on). I used to go to the big Morrisons in Newcastle but they only ever had 3 out of about 20+ tills open :rolleyes: and i got bored of going to the one at Festival park.

*edit. Oh yeah ,Rilot just reminded me, prepacked meats for sarnies comes from M+S as it's a lot nicer than the water laden crud they sell at Morrisons
 
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Psycho Sonny said:
ALDI however I never shop there unless I only need to pick up 1 or 2 things. I can never find a space their car parks are smaller than my driveway and they have 2 checkouts open for their 30 customers in the queue. They also don't let you pack your shopping they want you to unload onto a belt. Unload into your trolley then go to the side and pack your shopping. Terrible service IMO.

Also ALDI is a shocking store overall I find. There was even a dispatches investigation done on them and it was shocking. You probably should watch it as one of the undercover people was undercover in a Glasgow store. Basically no stock rotation. Stuff gets thrown about. No dates on some items. Mouldy food being sold to customers unless they complain. Staff are told to leave mouldy food on the shelves.

Basically I now avoid ALDI at all costs unless I only need to buy 1 or 2 things. But then I wish they had self service so I didn't have to wait 30 mins to be served by a human at the only checkout open.
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That's Aldi's business model though.

Ask you to pack at the window, not the till? Should mean quicker throughput at the till, so less tills needed and therefore fewer staff = lower overheads.

Everything is about making the customer do the work and minimising the number of staff needed to run the place.

Mouldy food being sold to customers unless they complain.
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How can they force you to buy mouldy food? If you can see on the shelf that is mouldy, don't buy that item. Do you put it in your trolley, then complain it's mouldy? :confused:
 
Sainsbury as it's a superstore and within walking distance. Morrison's is a drive but the right side of town.

Tesco & Aldi are wrong side of town and a pitta on busy days to get to/from.

Edit: Just in comparison there is no Waitrose or M&S near me although the misses works on an outlet centre that has M&S food and so if I am picking her up there then I will buy from there.

Further to that before I moved from the flat I lived above an M&S and so used to all my shopping there cause I could walk down without going outside to get food basically.

So really whatever is convenient is what drives me.
 
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Nope, whichever is closest.

However if I'm on lunch looking for a snack I'll walk a bit further as Tesco's sandwich/snack selection is just better.
 
Nope. In fact one of my current favorites, when you're feeling lazy and don't want to cook, is Aldi Fish Pie.

We shop at Tesco out of habbit more then anything else, we never shop instore, it either click-n-collect or delivery, if we go we always spend £50 more than we do if we shop online (those browsing type purchases).

We would save quite a lot if we shopped at Aldi but their range is just too limit
 
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new boy said:
My local Tesco smells like sewers, so I avoid there if I can.
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A bloke I used to work with said the same thing about the Tesco in Saffron Walden. Can't say I've ever noticed it myself and as the owner of a couple of flatulent dogs, I'd like to think I would.

When I'm at home, it's Tesco for us, simply because there's a huge one right in the middle of our village that's a two-minute drive or ten-minute walk from our house - it'd be false economy going anywhere else.

On the issue of snobbery, I'm probably a reverse supermarket snob - Saffron Walden also has a Waitrose and I always feel out of place in there amongst the middle classes and the 'yummy mummies' ...
 
We shop at Lidl.

We changed from Waitrose a few years ago, the quality of the majority is the same. I work near a very very large butchers so buy most of my meat there. The rest is from Lidl.

For 2 of us we spend, on breakfasts, lunches and dinners, £40-£50 a week. I will top it up with a bit of steak from time to time but compared to my mates who spend 150-200 a week, it's an amazing saving, though I do all the cooking and make everything from scratch.
 
I mix it up a bit. But I use Morrisons usually because it's close and easier parking. Also having a proper butchers in-house their meats are usually better (and better priced) :D

Theres also an M&S food hall, but they tend to be horrendously expensive.
 
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