Weekly Waitrose shop cost

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If you shop at Waitrose for your main shop, how much do you spend for your family?
I've just received my vouchers and was very excited as they promised to be the best yet and they were for £17 off if I spent £170!! There's 3 sometimes 4 of us and there's no way I'd usually spend that much. I shop for my mum in that shop and at most it's £150 and that's when we are buying in December for Christmas.
I've not done a shop (for me) there for a while for various reason but having done an online shop today I can't believe how much things have gone up. My mum's ready meals (needed due to disability if I can't cook for her that day) have jumped by a pound in the space of a week! Pasta has shot up. Hell, most things have shot up. It will be a once or twice a month order now with top ups from Asda as I pass there daily.

If you have a family of 3 or 4 people how much do you spend approximately? Including household items as we buy those there too. I'd easily spend £120 if I could but try to keep to £80.

I can't afford a weekly shop in Waitrose

But in Aldi I regularly spend £120 for a family of four Before covid it was £90

We spend about £150 per week in Waitrose for our main shop, but that's only two of us! It's fresh meat, fruit and veg that cost a lot. Cupboard essentials too, we do have pets but we get their food from pet shops.

I get vouchers off a £40 shop for Waitrose, can't remember amount or % but can't say I have ever used them because what you can get for £40 there you could get for less elsewhere (different quality but you know what I mean), I do like their weekly vouchers they do now, but I generally try stick to less than £20 and that would be twice a month max. Spent nearly £80 in Lidl yesterday, and that made me want to weep!!

4 adults, 2 dogs, 1 cat.

About £180 per week at Morrisons with a very small top up midweek (fruit and veg).

Waitrose is very expensive, the most expensive supermarket in my opinion.
We shop at Aldi. A weekly food shop for 4 costs about £70 a week and that's for all meals, toiletries, household items etc.

I shop online at waitrose and spend less than my aldi shop because I don't get many household items (just offers or essential range things when it stops me going to the shops so works out cheaper), rarely wine, less junk and much more meal planned. I spend £50 to £120 depending on how much freezer stuff I have in. £80 is a fairly regular amount.

I get household stuff from aldi or quality save for branded.

I rate it for good quality, even in essentials range (not as keen on the veg), reasonable dates (short dated is given free) and sensible substitutions.

If I order loads of exotic store cupboard stuff (which I generally forget to use but which is lovely) then I overspend.

The Holy grail voucher we get is £20 off £100. If they send us those ones, we go. It hardly ever happens though!

I used to love sainsburys but it was costing over £120 every time, so now we are Aldi. Along with pretty much everyone else I know in my town! It's about £75 a week now, if I stay away from the middle aisle.

4 adults in the house, 2 with hollow legs it seems (DH and DD's BF), and we all take lunches to work as well as breakfast so that's 84 meals a week. We spend around £200 on the Waitrose delivery and £20/£25 on the organic veg box.

We eat well, most meals cooked from scratch and I try to buy as much organic produce as is reasonable especially milk and meat.

We spend £180 a week for 3 of us at Waitrose including a lot of gluten free products and no alcohol. That also includes work and school lunches and cleaning products, washing liquid etc etc. I think the fruit and veg is not as good quality as Tesco or M&S but our local delivery is the most reliable from Waitrose so that’s what we use.

We are 2 adults and a DD teen. I think on average I spend around £90-100 if we eat meat 3-4 times a week unless I have also items like washing powder which I try to get when on offer.

Prices definitely went up, I think a year ago it was around £80.

Sainsbury and Tesco are not a lot cheaper I found and it means a longer travel time as the larger stores are not near me.

I spend around £100/week in Lidl. This is topped up for bread, milk and more veggies in the week. We eat well for this: salmon, free range chicken, nice cheeses, steaks, etc. I would say that an equivalent shop in Waitrose would easily be double.

Waitrose send vouchers a bit over your typical shop to encourage you to spend a bit more 'because I've got that voucher'. If your big shop is £150 then a voucher for £170 makes sense - it's effectively a stretch goal for them.

3 adults here,sometimes 4 as ds back at we a lot .average spend about 150.00 per week Inc everything. Sometimes a bit less .9

I spend about £110 every 6 days or so
I find it cheaper than sainsburys

I wouldn’t get a whole weeks shop from Waitrose. I get a Tesco delivery for £110-120 max for 3 of us, but sometimes get a few bits from Waitrose. They do nice good but I have it as a treat not every day

We quite often spend £250+. That includes household stuff and expensive wine though, not just a lot of food. Wish they would send me some vouchers!

I nipped into Waitrose to pick up a branded product and it was double the price of where I usually buy it. I couldn’t believe it. (I’ve never set foot in one before because we don’t have one near by ). I didn’t buy said item because I thought it was daylight robbery.

my friend works in a supermarket and said that Waitrose and her shop get the exact same meat from the same supplier.

i don’t get the buzz with the place? I’m an Aldi/lidls gal myself and what I can’t get from there, I’ll get from either Morrisons/Tesco/Asda.
occasionally will treat ourselves to a M&S food shop if we are having people over

They didn't have my almond croissants today. I was looking forward to one for breakfast. Sad times.

The quality is definitely better on fruit and veg and Dd is the one with the most food sensory issues and she will only eat certain brands. She can tell if her grated mozzarella is not from Waitrose. I do top up at Asda or I go there for some things if I know they are on offer.

First World problems.

I wouldn’t shop there.
I’m not paying 20p more for Heinz beans just because they come from Waitrose.

Exactly this.

We spend 100-150 p/w on an Ocado delivery plus £50ish across Aldi & Waitrose on bits through the week. " adults, 1 child.

I miss Waitrose bits on Ocado. It's not been the same since they switched to M&S.

I agree, really miss Waitrose via ocado.

We spend approx £150 per week on ocado, if we go to Waitrose instead it's fairly similar. Also top up.in Lidl generally around £50.

For context that's 2 adults 4 children

They are sending you that voucher based on your current spend to try and get you to increase your spend. What anyone else spends is irrelevant. The vouchers will be scaled up individually.

You're shopping at THE most expensive national supermarket there is in the country, and then querying the price 😂