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

I have a tesco metro (or express or whatever they call it) across from work that I will pick food up from during the week. I always feel a little depressed shopping in those stores as the choice is always the same.

My main shop I tend to now get the tube over to Whitechapel where there's a huge sainsburys. They have a fridge section where their in-store butcher places some interesting packs, usually sausages, some great beef burgers, steaks, mince and chicken. The quality in that section to me seems fine and I don't go out of my way to find a local butcher (although there is one close to St. Pauls that I go to for lunch and they seem to have a decent choice...note to self: have a closer look)

I use their nectar points and prefer them much more to Tesco's silly vouchers. One thing I also like is Sainsbury's online store does video rentals which also earn me nectar points (50p cheaper than Film4OD too).
 
We get most of our shopping these days from a local farm shop and just use the supermarkets for essentials that the farm shop doesn't stock. I don't think it's much difference cost wise, but it's nice to keep it local. Plus, the meat is certainly noticeably better quality compared to supermarket meat.
 
It's hardly surprising tesco came out low, budget shop, budget service, budget experience. You get what you pay for, it stands to reason a high end supermarket will be better.

I shop at local indies, get a veg box and do a costco run every so often. So much cheaper, some stuff costs more but on balance a lot of it works out cheaper and the quality is better.

Supermarkets have hit diseconomies of scale terrority now. Local independants are getting stronger and stronger in terms of pricing, they don't have shareholders to please with unrealistic returns, they don't have managers cutting every single thing they can to maxmise bonuses resulting in a **** store environment, they don't have multi mullion marketing budgets, price war strategists and failed business ventures to finance.

The small independant is the way forward, I try to keep as much of my spending local as I can.
 
Other half does tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's Co-op and aldi! She won't have so much time soon so it will be down to an online Asda, once in a while Aldi and Co-op for anything forgotten.
I walk to the local buchers at the weekend and pickup whatever we need meat wise, right now its a few bits for the BBQ and a some chicken for the week but as we move into the winter no doubt it will also be a joint or two. Tried the 3 local butchers in my area and have settled on one that I find good for price, quaility and choice, haven't been let down by his quality yet ether. Did a steak from him last night, was one of the best i've ever done myself :)
 
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Waitrose for everything apart from M&S for fruit and some veg from local hedge-veg stalls.

Used to shop at Co-op only but they've gone down hill rapidly IMO and staff haven't got a clue what they're doing.

I like Waitrose, I like their store layouts, good product range, staff are always helpful and don't find prices too bad considering. Downside to them is they always have far too much stuff laid out to tempt you to spend more. Now I shop there regularly I ignore the temptations when possible (usually until I get to the ales and I generally find a few I haven't tried before!)

The attached John Lewis store to the Waitrose on my way home is a killer... could spend all day in there!
 
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Waitrose has what I would call a humane shopping environment, my one now provides a free takeaway coffee and newspaper if you've got a card, which is very civilised.

I'm a bit of a Co-op fan as well, simply because they're the only supermarkets which bother with places like the Outer Hebrides where I spend quite a lot of time.
 
I won't shop at Tesco as they are directly linked to Satan & the Devils children & know that there produce turns you into a Gremlin after about 4 years.
I shop at the Co-Op as it's like using a time machine to go back to the 70's. :D
 
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