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!!

Aldi and Lidl are great when they have their special promotions on like Greek or Polish week. I would highly recommend the Polish mayonnaise, it knocks Hellman's out of the park. Morrisons also sell it in the World Foods section. When they had a French week I bought some glorious French lavender honey. They are also good for speciality cheeses and cured meat

Eh no.

Tesco milk 4 pints £1.45
Creamfields mild cheddar cheese 400g £2.49
Bananas 6pk 75p
Apples 6pk £1.39

All above are Aldi price match at Tesco.

I'm not advertising for Tesco BTW 😄 just I think it's a really common misconception that Aldi is 'loads' cheaper, other supermarkets do a lot of Aldi price match stuff too.

Supermarkets have to do ALDI price match on basics because they were more expensive. It is a marketing ploy.

The price match stuff makes me laugh. Somewhere like Sainsburys will say they price match Aldi on hundreds of products. What about the rest? Aldi price match Aldi on ALL their products!
I believe it's definitely true that you can save at least a third on your food bill by shopping at Aldi.

Me neither.

If anyone is looking at exciting dirt to dig they won’t find it in my trolley. They might spot a bottle of wine about three times a year if that does it for them.

The club card thing is a non issue for me. I can’t imagine why anyone would get stressed out about big brother knowing what they put in their shopping trolley.

I must be missing something but having shopped in Tesco/Sainsbury since they opened, without repercussion, I’m not going to start worrying about it now 🤷‍♀️

No!
Are you confusing organic and free range?

The new pricing system is BS, it's put me off shopping there. They've obviously.done it as they think it'll increase loyalty to their stores. A stupid idea as most people who shop in a certain store do it out of convenience or because of what the shop offers, not because they think they're getting a bargain when in fact they're exchanging their personal data for the normal price and escaping the hyperinflation price.

Damn, I was just about to start a new habit of making a weekly trek to Lidl with my shopping trolley, to save money. I normally shop at Sainsbury's.
Is the fresh meat and fish at Lidl generally okay?

What bags? There are no bloody bags.

@MargeretIntheWood it really does depend on the store you go to. I've shopped at my local Aldi for years and the fruit and veg is fine and lasts fine. But I've been to others ones where it's not good. You have to try your local one and see.

Milk isn't free range.

Same. I currently have £61 worth of Clubcard vouchers, including a £30 voucher I got for taking out a Tesco Mobile sim only contract. I save these up and use them for things like alcohol and snack foods at Christmas, so it saves me a good bit.

Two weeks ago, Tesco sent me full-sized samples of dishwasher tablets, Pears hand soap and a mint Galaxy bar. Plus I get regular double points vouchers and extra points on certain items I buy regularly.

What I don’t understand about those who get all bent out of shape about Tesco using their data, is that they’re using smartphones, laptops and social media, so their data is out there.

It’s pretty impossible to exist today without trading your data, so if Tesco want to use mine to give me 50 extra Clubcard points for buying olives, I’m happy with that 😂🤷🏻‍♀️.

The government probably know more about me than I know about myself.

Well, the experience in my local Aldi is much better than my local Sainsbury's!

In fact, I think the Aldi has more staff! It certainly has more manned check-outs open.

It even has products on the shelves instead of big gaps, like Sainsbury's.

I can’t feed my family from Aldi or Lidl as I don’t like the quality of quite a bit of their fresh food/fruit etc. I do buy some things from there though. Sainsbury’s is nearest us but I opt for a Tesco home delivery to save driving to the supermarket and back. The delivery saver works well for us.

I don’t find that Aldi is that much cheaper tbh. They’re all taking the mick and profiteering.

Nearest Lidl to me is a chaotic mess. Never anywhere to park, stuff piled up everywhere, never the same stuff there the following week and the days of queuing-up are long gone so I'm happy to pay the slight difference and get what I want and then slump down in Starbucks - which is in the same building so I don't have to move my car, which I can park anywhere.

Oh, and I get my milk delivered, by a man at silly o'clock in an electric van.

I’ve two sainsburys and two ALDIs locally.

new sainsburys is horrid compared to the older one. Stock is poor quality, staff leave you for ages if you need help.
the old one is lovely, staff are happy to help and go out of their way for you.

old aldi is manic and an endurance. New aldi is lovely, helpful staff, great quality fruit and veg.

these are all within miles of each other

Totally agree it’s all a bit of a joke. We have always done our weekly shop at Aldi or Asda but a couple of months ago when we were staying in a cottage elsewhere the only option was m&s so we did our shop there and were shocked at how actually similar the prices were. We did a full weekly food shop at m&s after that trip and it’s genuinely the same price as our Aldi/Asda shops used to be and much better quality (especially for fresh fruit and meat). We do our weekly shop there every week now after spending so long thinking m&s was a fortune!

@MerryChristmasToYou in this country - of course it is! We don't keep cows in factory farming facilities here so it's all free range.

Mrsttcno1, interesting, I'll try that myself and they have a cafeteria too.

I think whilst everyone else has been increasing their prices m and s havent, so all of a sudden they look like value. Especially when their quality is generally better

they may have the same meat supplier, but their quality standards etc are different so therefore each process is done differently depending on the customer (Supermarket requirements) so therefore factories charge different and this is passed onto the customer

Not all cows are free ranged. Some are indoors

In the UK? I know they are kept in for winter often - for their own welfare, but I'm not aware that we have any farms where cows are inside year round?