Supermarkets are taking the pi$$

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I can’t believe how expensive food is now especially in the likes of Sainsbury’s for the same product. Total P-take, e.g. Organic Milk Sainsbury’s £2 Aldi £1.79.

Why give us ‘nectar’ prices when they are inflated prices in the first place? £5.50 for a Pizza Express Margherita and £2.75 on Nectar. I think actually it’s the fakery with making us think we are getting a good deal that’s pissing me off.

I went to Aldi today (we don’t have one near us) as I was doing a drop off nearby and the price difference is huge!!

In my neck of the woods Sainsbury's is more expensive but the food is of a better quality. Veg and Fruit lasts longer than Aldi.

Like most things, supermarkets are different in different places. The local Aldi is a decent shopping experience and has a reasonable range. It’s years since anyone helped packing in Sainsbury’s or any other supermarket. What they might do, is have more of a chat at the checkout, which I’m really not fussed about. I want to get the shopping, pack, pay and get out.

Most are now smart shop I’d self service, so there’s little actual customer service.

Switched to Aldi for years but have recently gone back to Tesco - fed up of the till situation at Aldi. Just let me pack my fucking shopping. Have found the price difference to be negligible to be honest and if I book an early click and collect slot it’s free versus a fiver for Aldi.

Tesco is the best by far.

I find the fruit and veg from Aldi is fine. Tesco's is not, IME.
I think it might vary from store to store.
Organic food is more expensive.

The loyalty pricing is to encourage you to shop there using the card, and the data is valuable to them.

If Aldi did scan as you shop I’d definitely return to shopping there.

Sainsburys is definitely not a nicer shopping experience- not in my town anyway! No checkouts open except self service, big queues for those. No staff available to help with finding items etc..

At least in Aldi I will get served quickly. The best supermarket experience is M&S by far - and cheaper than Sainsburys!

Any (further) steps towards data invigilation are bad. Privacy is a good, and one fast being eroded. If you can profile shoppers and set up individual profiles based on tracking purchases, this enables you to set personalised pricing and even the Chinese-style social credit system.

All milk is organic. Only some milk is produced to organic standards.

Dairy and meat are too cheap, I’d like to see prices increase considerably. Give farmers decent pay, cut back on consumption. (We eat way too much). Improve animal welfare and quality of the end product.

I've tried both the Aldi & Lidl locally and found them to have a poor range and poor quality. But I don't buy brands or much upf. I tend to cook from scratch.

I prefer Tesco for greengrocery because they have such a fast turnover that products usually last about 10 days, and their own brand flour/pasta/rice/tinned foods/cleaning materials are fine. I buy fresh fish & bread from Waitrose and most meat from the butcher.

I’ve given up on Lidl and Aldi.

The veg goes off, there’s always a horrible stale milk smell in every store l go in. It’s as busy as the M25, and l really didn’t find it that much cheaper.

Get delivery from Sainsbo every week.

Lol. My SIL is like this. As if anyone is actually interested in her life

she still posts most of her mundane days on facebook

No. Organic milk will come from cows that are fed organic only foodstuffs, grown on soil association certified land.

That's one of the reasons why things might cost more at Sainsburys- it costs the supermarket to carry a wider variety of foods. That overhead has to be borne somewhere.

I'm surprised your Aldi is a comparable shopping experience to your Sainsburys.

Same with Tesco club card, I don’t like that they think we fall for it. I use my club card for the tokens and points, but the club card prices are seriously a new addition that gets on my nerves.

Surprised at the pp who thinks all milk is organic! It’s absolutely not. I think you are confusing the term ‘organic’ with processed.
Agree the quality is dire at Aldi Lidl etc.
For those who shop there please read ‘Ultra Processed people’.. will shock you! X

Sainsbury’s is a nice experience - Aldi the food is more stacked I guess and busier, and less produce but it’s quicker to get round! I don’t have to walk past literally 3 aisles of Easter Eggs to start shopping. Yes Sainsbury’s is ‘nicer’ but I can’t be sure that experience is worth that much more money.

So much ageism! 'Poor dears' - what a sneery remark.
Personally, I find the problems with the self-service tills are those people who scan their items, place said items on the packing shelf, pay, and only then do they think about packing items in bags, thus creating an extra step. No to mention those paying with their phones and spend the next 5 minutes waving the phone around, trying to get the codes to work!

OP, this is exactly why Aldi are able to charge less. Budget supermarkets have a much smaller range of products, and it is less expensive to focus on a smaller number of products rather than sourcing a wide variety. This saving can then be passed on to the customer.

@babyproblems , all milk is organic in terms of chemistry but not in terms of food production.

I saw a crime programme where Tesco gave the club card details to the police and the person was tracked to where he was and seen on cctv. It’s a good thing imo to have caught the guy. Most ppl data is irrelevant until they do something dodgy.

I don’t get the love for Aldi. M&S, Sainsbury and Tesco may be a little more expensive but the food is a much higher quality. Plus I can do all my shopping in one store. Aldi fruit and veg don’t last, their “cheap” meat products are full of fat and gristle and end up in the bin because nobody will eat them. Their fresh meat stinks to high Heaven and goes off quickly. Their milk bottles always leak…

I find it false economy to pop to Aldi for a few cheaper things then have to go elsewhere for everything else.

My local Sainsbury has a Costa - bonus!

With self-service, most of the time they do that because self-service tills are often temperamental even if you don't add the extra step of adding your bag, and if you do, it requires staff authorisation and the staff aren't around! You already run the risk of that if the bloody thing thinks your item should weigh 200g, but it's actually 199g this time.

I avoid self-service. Only occasionally use it in Sainsburys, where it accepts cash and is less temperamental. The Lidl ones were simply dreadful.

Agree, there is so much ignorance on not just the type of food but the quality of food! A friend of mine recently thought conventionally grown food was just cleaned with soap, and had no idea about pesticides.

This is also what really gets me in the threads about supermarket price gouging - yes you can switch from 100% organic apple juice to Aldi unbranded juice, but the difference in ingredients between the two means the impact on your health and wellbeing will be drastically different.