How is everyone dealing with rising prices?

[jennyjj01]

I was previously getting Asda home delivery, but their prices are high and the online choice limited. You just don't get the instore bargains.
The quality in Lidl has risen dramatically over the years. Lidl is my Go To choice now.
Even if you only save £30 per week,,, that's a £1560 saving per annum.

I do weekly ADSA delivery, but like to buy my veg from the local market and Meat from Lidl. Had some RUBBISH veg delivered by ASDA. Mouldy grapes!

Agreed, that Lidl quality and range has increased dramatically, especially bakery, veg and meat.
I'm close to the point of giving up on the ADSA delivery and doing my main shop at LIDL ( Topping up at the B&M next door )

ALDI SEEM to be embracing UK regular brands but LIDL SEEM to be sticking with their own brands.
Nothing beats my Tesco Extra for range and variety, but at a cost. Sainsburys is getting as silly as Waitrose.


[edit... Not worth bumping the thread]
I just came back from Lidl. I decided to see if they had the regular brands that i buy from ASDA and to do some price research. As I went around, I photographed lots of prices for transcribing later...... I also grabbed some 'When theyre gone theyre gone' bargains: Uncle Ben sauces four for £2.
Will be posting a big list, shortly..

[Frnc]

I decided to see if they had the regular brands that i buy from ASDA and to do some price research. As I went around, I photographed lots of prices for transcribing later......

Why don't you just look online? I know Sainburys and Tescos have most of their products online. You can compare prices and any nutitional info like salt content. Sainsbury's list most stuff in £/kg, so you can get best value. They aren't always the cheapest, but some offers are good, like this week they have smaller bags of Quorn sausages at £1.50 (£4.46/kg), reduced from £2.50.
Kingsmill 50/50 is 99p for 400g or £1.10 for 800, asolutely bonkers to only charge 10% less for half. Cos I'm on a diet, I'm cutting the big loaf slices in 2/3 with scissors!

[jennyjj01]

I decided to see if they had the regular brands that i buy from ASDA and to do some price research. As I went around, I photographed lots of prices for transcribing later......

Why don't you just look online? I know Sainburys and Tescos have most of their products online. You can compare prices and any nutitional info like salt content.

Tesco, Asda and Saisburys excellent websites lend themselves to price comparison. No doubt.
But Lidl's website is RUBBISH for it. Try to find the price of Lidl's Tinned tomatoes or soup or Dolmio or Abbot Ale or Goodfellas Pizza, all of which they sell.
They don't even have a product search feature. Best you can get is something like this...
https://www.lidl.co.uk/c/newgate-baked- ... -sauce/c54

Which is a pity, because they DO have mainstream products at good prices. You'd just never know it.

Aldi's is better, but still pretty rubbish

[jansman]

We have shopped online with Tesco since Day One Online. We dealt with Asda for a while,but the service was AWFUL. Quite frankly,it’s swings and roundabouts with price. I look at online shopping like this- for as long as it lasts; Time. Turnaround at the supermarket is an hour and half, MINIMUM. I can do a lot with that time,productively,and so can Mrs J. Petrol/ diesel. My nearest Aldi/Tesco/ Sainsbury/etc. are 5 miles away. Fuel now is 20p per mile,not accounting for wear and tear. That’s a minimum of two quid.But it’s the time!

[Frnc]

Tesco, Asda and Saisburys excellent websites lend themselves to price comparison. No doubt.
But Lidl's website is RUBBISH for it. Try to find the price of Lidl's Tinned tomatoes or soup or Dolmio or Abbot Ale or Goodfellas Pizza, all of which they sell.
They don't even have a product search feature. Best you can get is something like this...
https://www.lidl.co.uk/c/newgate-baked- ... -sauce/c54

Which is a pity, because they DO have mainstream products at good prices. You'd just never know it.

Aldi's is better, but still pretty rubbish

Ah, I've never been to Lidl, there isn't one here. There is an Aldi but I've not been for ages. I intend to give it a go. Will look online first.

[Frnc]

We have shopped online with Tesco since Day One Online. We dealt with Asda for a while,but the service was AWFUL. Quite frankly,it’s swings and roundabouts with price. I look at online shopping like this- for as long as it lasts; Time. Turnaround at the supermarket is an hour and half, MINIMUM. I can do a lot with that time,productively,and so can Mrs J. Petrol/ diesel. My nearest Aldi/Tesco/ Sainsbury/etc. are 5 miles away. Fuel now is 20p per mile,not accounting for wear and tear. That’s a minimum of two quid.But it’s the time!

Yeah, makes sense if you don't pay much for deliveries. £2 is ok. I can walk to the supermarkets in a few minutes so deliveries is too expensive for me now Covid's hopefully out of the way. With Sainsbury's you get a cheap delivery if you book a 4 hour saver slot. They narrow it down to an hour on the day.

[jansman]

We pay about four quid for delivery as a rule. To us, that’s good value. As I said earlier, it’s all about time. I have a thing about supermarket shopping: You travel there, you walk round and load your trolley. Then you unload it to pay, then you reload it ,walk back to your car, load it in the car, travel home, unload it into your home, then put it away!

With delivery, it goes in through your front door and you put it away. And another advantage is being able to browse prices, and also check what you do or don’t need.

[jennyjj01]

We pay about four quid for delivery as a rule. To us, that’s good value. As I said earlier, it’s all about time. I have a thing about supermarket shopping: You travel there, you walk round and load your trolley. Then you unload it to pay, then you reload it ,walk back to your car, load it in the car, travel home, unload it into your home, then put it away!

With delivery, it goes in through your front door and you put it away. And another advantage is being able to browse prices, and also check what you do or don’t need.

As a timewaster and shopaholic, I quite like bumbling around supermarkets, and Home Bargain Though ASDA kindly carry all the heavy stuff for me, I rather miss the full supermarket trip. I still end up going to the supermarket and market to pick my own meat and veg.

Many weeks we struggle to get the £40 min order value to get free delivery, within our annual £35 subscription.

No denying the ease and value of having Asda guy bringing 2 crates of food and milk to the door, same time every week for about 75p per week. And though we have the odd error or defect, they are excellent at simply refunding any errors or problems, even a few days after the delivery... E.g. mould on grapes.... No quibble refund.

That said, I'm getting close to going back to proper shopping, just to save money., and because lunch in Morrisons used to be an event. Need to get a life

[jansman]

We pay about four quid for delivery as a rule. To us, that’s good value. As I said earlier, it’s all about time. I have a thing about supermarket shopping: You travel there, you walk round and load your trolley. Then you unload it to pay, then you reload it ,walk back to your car, load it in the car, travel home, unload it into your home, then put it away!

With delivery, it goes in through your front door and you put it away. And another advantage is being able to browse prices, and also check what you do or don’t need.

As a timewaster and shopaholic, I quite like bumbling around supermarkets, and Home Bargain Though ASDA kindly carry all the heavy stuff for me, I rather miss the full supermarket trip. I still end up going to the supermarket and market to pick my own meat and veg.

Many weeks we struggle to get the £40 min order value to get free delivery, within our annual £35 subscription.

No denying the ease and value of having Asda guy bringing 2 crates of food and milk to the door, same time every week for about 75p per week. And though we have the odd error or defect, they are excellent at simply refunding any errors or problems, even a few days after the delivery... E.g. mould on grapes.... No quibble refund.

That said, I'm getting close to going back to proper shopping, just to save money., and because lunch in Morrisons used to be an event. Need to get a life

Different folks,different strokes. My days start at 4.30 am,6 days per week. Nor do I have a two day weekend. Sunday is too valuable to my wife and me to waste it doing the Zombie Walk around shops. My ‘Saturday’ on a Tuesday is fishing,shooting or gardening/ maintenance. If time is available to folks,then fair play,but shopping is Zombie- World.

[jennyjj01]

Different folks,different strokes. My days start at 4.30 am,6 days per week. Nor do I have a two day weekend. Sunday is too valuable to my wife and me to waste it doing the Zombie Walk around shops. My ‘Saturday’ on a Tuesday is fishing,shooting or gardening/ maintenance. If time is available to folks,then fair play,but shopping is Zombie- World.