Where do you do your weekly shop? Also: butchers and supermarket prices.

[Edrof]

Has anyone else noticed that their supermarket prices have increased quite a bit recently? I usually shop at Tesco but I'm starting to dislike them, partly for this reason and partly for others. I've noticed some of their products have decreased in size or gone down in quality but retained their original price (or even increased in price), I've also seen quite a few full-price items 'hidden' amid products which are on offer - usually at the end of an aisle (they were probably doing this already, to be fair - sneaky though). Fresh fish also seems to be really pricey now and I'm beginning to omit it from the weekly menu. Our food bill is now about £100 per week (two adults and a four-year-old), yet we seem to receive about half the Clubcard vouchers that we used to about 5-6 years ago.

Is this just Tesco or have food prices gone up everywhere?

Researching this thread revealed that Tesco have actually been voted the worst supermarket in Britain - this is surprising to me as I've always quite liked them as a shopping experience.

Tesco scored just 45 per cent for satisfaction in a Which? survey of 11,000 consumers, with poor grades for its pricing, store environment, quality of fresh produce and customer service.

Waitrose came out on top gaining an 82 per cent approval rate, including full marks for its customer service and standard of fresh goods.

Aldi and Lidl came in narrowly behind Waitrose, scoring highest for their pricing.

Ocado was voted best online service.

So, in wanting to go away from the big supermarkets I'm thinking about trying a butcher. However, I have always assumed that they would be far more expensive - not to mention it would be another thing to do each week. Writing this has reminded me that some of you guys mail order your meat, I'll have to look into that.


So anyway, where does your weekly food shopping take place and are you happy with it?

 

[Edrof]

I do a daily shop in Waitrose (it's 2 minutes walk from my flat) every evening and just buy whatever's reduced, so I have absolutely no idea what food normally costs

I actually started doing something similar this year with Tesco online shopping - I would just buy all of the offers they had on (it's easy to see them all online compared to the shop). It was much cheaper than planning meals out (I tend to cook from scratch every day) and purchasing the ingredients, but it does feel a little bit like you aren't eating very well.