Cambon Posted September 24, 2023 Share Posted September 24, 2023 Got to love Shoprite’s advertising logo. Price Match Plus! Absolutely spot on! 2 1 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolley Posted September 24, 2023 Share Posted September 24, 2023 9 hours ago, Cambon said: Got to love Shoprite’s advertising logo. Price Match Plus! Absolutely spot on! Almost as good as Tourism Department's all time classic "You'll look forward to going back." 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolley Posted September 24, 2023 Share Posted September 24, 2023 13 hours ago, Ďouglas Peel said: My all time shocker ,during the cost of greed crisis,is in a Waitrose 10 miles away ,it was £4.50 for 3 slices of pre packed corned beef. Also Asda,is a ripoff,and their prices are often higher when scanned,Never lower.This has been going on for years,although the new owners get blamed for trying to cover the huge amount borrowed, to take over from Walmart.Iceland supermarkets now, has Marks and Spencer prices without the quality.I Always like going to Shoprite's when over,nice quality goods,spacious shops and good till experiences if a pound or two dearer than shops across. You look like the archetypal Shoprite target customer, all things considered. It can't be so easy being Shoprite now as it was in days gone by, but there is a certain amount of what goes around comes around considering what they did to so many small retail businesses back then. I remember being in Centre House the day the Scottish adventure ended. Long time ago now, and then shortly afterwards Tesco parked their tank on the lawn here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amadeus Posted October 1, 2023 Share Posted October 1, 2023 This topic reminded me to restart the price check thing I did last year. Very unscientific and for information / entertainment only but here's a google sheet with the prices of various items. Meant for a video but good to share it here too to get some feedback. It's really only a rough guide to how much stuff costs in the different stores and how prices have developed over the last year (Sept 22 to latest check done today). For example, the cheapest bread in town is still Tesco. Used to be 39p, now 45p. Clearly a loss leader and full with stuff that's hard to pronounce but still cheap. # Also, we often think of M&S as expensive but on some things they are actually cheaper than others. What concerns me is that Spar to me still seems to be the most expensive when these stores are often in areas where people with less buying power live. So if you don't have a car to do a big shop at Tesco once a week, it seems you have to pay more for the 'convenience' of a small store nearby. On balance, and only my opinion, it feels as if Tesco is cheapest especially if you add the clubcard prices and points (not included in this price comparison). https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fQ0aIY-jw_ycJvyH_hFEH2xQ0JsQhakkbdQV_p2T3AQ/edit?usp=sharing 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolley Posted October 1, 2023 Share Posted October 1, 2023 49 minutes ago, Amadeus said: This topic reminded me to restart the price check thing I did last year. Very unscientific and for information / entertainment only but here's a google sheet with the prices of various items. Meant for a video but good to share it here too to get some feedback. It's really only a rough guide to how much stuff costs in the different stores and how prices have developed over the last year (Sept 22 to latest check done today). For example, the cheapest bread in town is still Tesco. Used to be 39p, now 45p. Clearly a loss leader and full with stuff that's hard to pronounce but still cheap. # Also, we often think of M&S as expensive but on some things they are actually cheaper than others. What concerns me is that Spar to me still seems to be the most expensive when these stores are often in areas where people with less buying power live. So if you don't have a car to do a big shop at Tesco once a week, it seems you have to pay more for the 'convenience' of a small store nearby. On balance, and only my opinion, it feels as if Tesco is cheapest especially if you add the clubcard prices and points (not included in this price comparison). https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fQ0aIY-jw_ycJvyH_hFEH2xQ0JsQhakkbdQV_p2T3AQ/edit?usp=sharing Agree. Tesco is by far the cheapest option. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Passing Time Posted October 1, 2023 Share Posted October 1, 2023 1 hour ago, Amadeus said: This topic reminded me to restart the price check thing I did last year. Very unscientific and for information / entertainment only but here's a google sheet with the prices of various items. Meant for a video but good to share it here too to get some feedback. It's really only a rough guide to how much stuff costs in the different stores and how prices have developed over the last year (Sept 22 to latest check done today). For example, the cheapest bread in town is still Tesco. Used to be 39p, now 45p. Clearly a loss leader and full with stuff that's hard to pronounce but still cheap. Cheapest standard size loaf is 85p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amadeus Posted October 1, 2023 Share Posted October 1, 2023 17 minutes ago, Passing Time said: Cheapest standard size loaf is 85p What’s a standard size loaf? I’ve based it on 800g wholewheat sliced. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolley Posted October 1, 2023 Share Posted October 1, 2023 43 minutes ago, Passing Time said: Cheapest standard size loaf is 85p No it isn't. Amadeus is correct. Tesco 800g is 80p (recently down from 90p) and the Aldi price match one is 45p (Neville's is the tertiary brand name on it, I think. It was 36p before the recent inflation took off.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GD4ELI Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 (edited) 8 hours ago, Amadeus said: This topic reminded me to restart the price check thing I did last year. Very unscientific and for information / entertainment only but here's a google sheet with the prices of various items. Meant for a video but good to share it here too to get some feedback. It's really only a rough guide to how much stuff costs in the different stores and how prices have developed over the last year (Sept 22 to latest check done today). For example, the cheapest bread in town is still Tesco. Used to be 39p, now 45p. Clearly a loss leader and full with stuff that's hard to pronounce but still cheap. # Also, we often think of M&S as expensive but on some things they are actually cheaper than others. What concerns me is that Spar to me still seems to be the most expensive when these stores are often in areas where people with less buying power live. So if you don't have a car to do a big shop at Tesco once a week, it seems you have to pay more for the 'convenience' of a small store nearby. On balance, and only my opinion, it feels as if Tesco is cheapest especially if you add the clubcard prices and points (not included in this price comparison). https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fQ0aIY-jw_ycJvyH_hFEH2xQ0JsQhakkbdQV_p2T3AQ/edit?usp=sharing Did you expect otherwise? Don't forget that Tecso delivers, so your car argument is weak. Very similar situation in rural Cornwall; ASDA, Sainsbury's, Tesco, Waitrose all seen regularly driving around delivering along with lots of fruit and veg, fish, game delivered to your door. Maybe force Shoprite to set up a delivery service? Wake up a few hibernating MHKs and get them to do something useful instead of working out how to spend their undeserved inflated salaries. Edited October 2, 2023 by GD4ELI Punctuation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyDave Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 8 hours ago, Amadeus said: pay more for the 'convenience' of a small store nearby. Wow. Who would have ever though t that a small store with a higher number of staff required to achieve the same turnover as a bigger store, and with less buying power and higher logistical costs would be more expensive. Even a Tesco Express is more expensive than a Tesco do very obvious reasons. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amadeus Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 1 hour ago, GD4ELI said: Did you expect otherwise? Don't forget that Tecso delivers, so your car argument is weak. Very similar situation in rural Cornwall; ASDA, Sainsbury's, Tesco, Waitrose all seen regularly driving around delivering along with lots of fruit and veg, fish, game delivered to your door. Maybe force Shoprite to set up a delivery service? Wake up a few hibernating MHKs and get them to do something useful instead of working out how to spend their undeserved inflated salaries. Delivery spots are hard to get over here but true it’s an option. If Shoprite at least had a loyalty scheme or something (like they used to). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Passing Time Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 7 hours ago, woolley said: No it isn't. Amadeus is correct. Tesco 800g is 80p (recently down from 90p) and the Aldi price match one is 45p (Neville's is the tertiary brand name on it, I think. It was 36p before the recent inflation took off.) Saturday 30th September, the cheapest loaf was 85p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cambon Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 M&S’s cheapest 800G loaf is 75P. Very tasty too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kopek Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 ...........but the cheapest 'decent loaf' is £1.20. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kopek Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 Which? have just done a revue of the Tesco and Sainsbury 'clubcard' pricing. They found that in quite a few cases, the 'Regular price' was increased shortly before the clubcard price was introduced! On some occasions, the clubcard price was higher than the previous regular price. Still a saving it can be argued but a bit deceptive? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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