Supermarket or green grocer- which is cheaper?

[mrsflux]

Thinking I might try getting ours fruit/ veg at greengrocer to see if it's cheaper. Certainly looks nice when I pass it.
Does anyone know? I'm going to try to buy in season stuff to keep cost down.
Has anyone else tried it?

I use a greengrocer.
He is cheaper and his fruit is usually ripe (unlike the supermarkets).
It uses less packaging (it's not all in plastic and I take my own carrier bag and compost his brown paper bags).
It keeps him and his wife (who works there part-time) and his staff in a job.
It's at the end of my street.
He chats to me.
He's more likely to have paid a fair price.
He doesn't have stupid quality control standard e.g. on the size and colour of apples.
He can tell me where his cauliflowers have come from.
He gives me free stuff if it's 'on the turn'.
He lets my children press the buttons on his weighing machine.

Thanks lio!
Going out now to test it out- and there's a nice park that ds can play in after nearby. Just a shame I have to drive as there isn't one near us.
Won't be telling ds that you can press the buttons or we'll never leave!

Hope you got some nice ripe fruit

got some lovely stuff!
ds enjoyed it much more than supermarket as he could prod things!
just did a quick comparison with sainsburys online and the greengrocer was cheaper for everything bar 1 item!
sainsburys = £17.81
greengrocer = £13.40

going off on a slight tangent here but i LOVE my local market

a lot of the stuff is local, and many things are grown on local farms which are in the middle of their 5 year conversion to organic, so cant be called organic yet, but no pesticides have been used etc.

I get one of those super strong blue 'tesco' bags. (I think its called "the small green bag", you know?) FULL (and i mean full, cant get anything else in.

I get enough fresh fruit and vegetables and salad for the week for both of us (including at least 20 pieces of fruit, and a big fruit or 2, perhaps melon or pineapple) and half a dozen eggs, and a carrier bag of local potatoes (which i carry seperatly) and i always get change from my £10.

(we eat a LOT of fruit and veg!!!)

i meant to add the eggs are freerange, from the local farm...

they are the best... really yellow yolks, and firm shells, 6 large eggs for £1, from the farm about 10miles away... (or the farm down the road, (my postcode) does 6 large free range eggs for £1.20, (medium £1.10) )

We have the 'apple man'. He has a fruit and veg round which mainly visits the elderly. Including our next door neighbour. DS1 loves him, and he always gives ds1 a free apple. I always try and buy some bits from him (ds1 tells me when he's arrived). He's the same sort of price as the supermarkets. But I'd rather give my money to him.

Like nannyl we also have a great market. HUGE bunch of coriander for 40p! I use what I need, chop the rest and keep it in the freezer, then just add to a stir-fry at a later date. And, as with my greengrocer, the fruit is properly ripe.

definitely cheaper than most supermarkets. though lidl had cucumbers at 35p the other day which is hard to beat.