What is your supermarket of choice?

[comstock]

Not a scientific sample, I grant you...

My Co-op is proberbly non-typical.

For a start here (Derby) is traditional co-op terratory, they were once a *massive* brand here. Secondly it's away from the centre, on the edge of a leafy suburb. And finally it's next door to a Kwik Save. The Co-op is actually quite an 'upmarket' supermarket round here!

The co-op also have a traditional city centre department store...multi-stories featuring clothes, electricals, shoes, furniture, and that is also quite good quality. Just about to have a refurb too

 

[aqua]

I went to Waitrose last night just at the right time, the man with the reducing gun was walking down our ailse

2 packets of organic king prawns - were (each) £3.49 I got them for 65p
mushroom quiche was £2.99 I got it for 45p
beef roasting joint down to 65p (from about £4)

gonna have to try and do that again

 

[strung out]

Aaaahhh! The power of marketing. I tend to judge by the food.

Thats why I said:
"I reckon for all round value for money, Sainsbury's wins it for me. Their prices are exceptionally cheap compared to what they used to be, the quality of food is great (better than anything else of a comparable price)"

I'm not so weak as to be tempted merely by the marketing of a supermarket, just reckon it's nicer to have a brand shiny new store to shop in than some scabby little hole.

 

[PacificOcean]

I went to Waitrose last night just at the right time, the man with the reducing gun was walking down our ailse

2 packets of organic king prawns - were (each) £3.49 I got them for 65p
mushroom quiche was £2.99 I got it for 45p
beef roasting joint down to 65p (from about £4)

gonna have to try and do that again

It's cool being the reduction person! When I worked in Asda I would reduce everything to 5p, thinking sod it - Asda can afford it and the catchment area for the store is mainly council estates.

I was the Robin Hood of Asda Roehampton.

 

[aqua]

the bloke said it was the quickest way to make friends

 

[comstock]

It's cool being the reduction person! When I worked in Asda I would reduce everything to 5p, thinking sod it - Asda can afford it and the catchment area for the store is mainly council estates.

Could you *choose* how much you reduced things too, then??

 

[PacificOcean]

Could you *choose* how much you reduced things too, then??

Yes, in Asda they had these gun things where you scaned the barcode of the product, put in the new price and it printed a new barcode, which when scanned at the till came up with the price you put in.

You could put any price you liked in and no one ever checked.

 

[pogofish]

I will concede that they may have been cheaper for the past four weeks.

They have been getting cheaper for quite some time now.

 

[pinkmonkey]

I went to Waitrose last night just at the right time, the man with the reducing gun was walking down our ailse

2 packets of organic king prawns - were (each) £3.49 I got them for 65p
mushroom quiche was £2.99 I got it for 45p
beef roasting joint down to 65p (from about £4)

gonna have to try and do that again

If you time it well, our local Morrisons reduces everything to 10p about 1/2 an hour before closing time. I buy the ready meals and freeze them ready for for (munt ) emergencies.

 

[aqua]

I'm definately going to try and get to the waitrose again at the same time

maybe next week, I'm fully stocked atm

 

[pinkmonkey]

[tight Yorkshirewoman]I've also noticed if you go to Yo Sushi in Selfridges about 1/2 an hour before the store closes, everything gets reduced to £1 a plate. [/tight Yorkshirewoman]

 

[mr steev]

Have you tried the blue eggs? Can't remember what they are called but they are the best ones I have ever tasted.

Not yet
The ones we got were Braddock Whites (a rare bread apparently) They were my first ever non-hen eggs, but definately not the last.

 

[butterfly child]

Oh blimey - the co-ops down here (IME) are all gungy overpriced hell holes staffed by zombies, and lacking proper checkouts, meaning you all have to queue up at the fag counter. Nasty.

Yeah, there is a nasty Co-op in South Ealing, it really is grim.

We've got a little one here, with a post office in it, which is fairly new (was an alldays or something before) and is quite pleasant... but they don't do goats milk so it's no good for us.

 

[zora]

Yasar Halim in Palmers Green - they have two branches (the other is in Harringey). They just moved to a bigger store with carpark - it's huge for an independant. I hope they take some business off the other local chain supermarkets, because they deserve it.

They have a brilliant Turkish bakery on site plus about thirty varieties of olives displayed in huge barrels and the produce is brilliant and about half the price of what they charge in our local Morrisons.

I try to shop there as much as I can , but unfortunately didn't have time this week due to work comittments. It is quite a schlep to get there, unfortunately.

Where exactly is that then? Sounds brilliant indeed!

One of the best things about living near Green Lanes is the huge number of small 24/7 groceries. And lovely bakeries as well (there is one near me that does these delicious little cinammon and ricotta filled pastries).
And, of course, the Farmers Market in Palmers Green. Always makes me feel so wholesome to shop there (if I make it of a sunday morning, that is.)

Morrison's most redeeming feature I find is its deli-counter where they've got nice cheese, for a fraction of the price of the prepackaged stuff.