Price Matching In Supermarkets

[securespark]

Panorama has found something that I have long suspected: that many of those products the big supermarkets are matching to Aldi and/ or Lidl prices are not like for like.

One example is the Aldi chicken nuggets containing 60% chicken whereas the Tesco chicken nuggets at the same price contain 39% chicken.

 

[ajohn]

I think Tesco are particularly bad in this area. Sainsbury maybe better in this respect but more expensive. Asda - well their cut price soups put me off yonks ago.

I visit a place now and again where I often have a ready meal for the evening meal. Shopping choice Lidl or Tesco. Comparisons are interesting and guess who is cheapest?

 

[Mrs Ten Names]

I think Tesco are particularly bad in this area.

We don't have a Tesco in this area.

 

[Koolpc]

I hardly ever shop at twescwo's anymore!

 

[Trazor]

Supermarkets really do care.....

TikTok - Make Your Day

 

[ReganAndCarter]

One of the pubs near here started taking Xmas bookings last month and has some decos. up already.

 

[noseall]

One of the pubs near here started taking Xmas bookings last month and has some decos. up already.

 

[foxhole]

I predominantly use Lidl as they give me 10% of my shop once a month and also issue £5 off vouchers ( have two at the moment) as well as giving away free products and discounts on item we buy regularly.
Only tend to use the others with cash back vouchers which also increase discount by a few %.
Have a farm foods nearby who are cheap and short date products like fruit smoothie drinks can be as little as 9p (750ml).

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

One of the pubs near here started taking Xmas bookings last month and has some decos. up already.

Same around here...

What winds me up with supermarkets, is the loyalty card discounts. They could charge the same to all customers, but the ones with the cards get a good discount, or in the case of Lidl - even regular free items. The bulk of our shop is done at Lidl, maybe every two or three days, or we nip next door to Tesco, for anything Lidl don't stock, maybe once per month further afield, to Iceland, to stock up on a Tuesday, with their over 60's discount, and early in the day, so we get a free delivery slot.

We keep the place normally well stocked with the none-perishables, but when we spot any which is specially discounted, at Lidl, we buy much more than needed, as a sort of investment. Sugar is discounted 15p at the moment, so we have the place rammed with sugar, enough to see us to 2025, and some

They had a special deal, on 6x tins of peaches, so we grabbed 6, last time there.

 

[Odds]

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The Garundia

I've become hooked on 'La Espanola' olive oil: it's light for salads but robust for cooking and the bottle fits my hand snugly. Three good reasons for me to pay £10-14 a bottle. You can buy cheaper but i'm picky about olive oil so i don't mind paying so much, especially as it lasts so long.

 

[JohnD]

Price matching is just a trick.

If Aldi carries ten thousand products at low prices, and Tesco (temporarily) matches twenty of them, which is cheaper?

 

[Odds]

I've no idea...and who has time to go around checking these things? - to save a penny or a pound, it's all very convoluted. Those 'loyalty' cards seem to be nothing more than a sleight of hand to keep you coming back.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

I've no idea...and who has time to go around checking these things? - to save a penny or a pound, it's all very convoluted. Those 'loyalty' cards seem to be nothing more than a sleight of hand to keep you coming back.

They rely on you only having one or two, and feeling you must go back to the same store, or pay more at a different store. The best strategy to beat them, is to get a variety of store cards, so you regain the ability to walk into any of the stores, and get the discounts.

 

[JohnD]

Lidl seem to insist you have an app on your phone, which I don't like.

 

[Odds]

They rely on you only having one or two, and feeling you must go back to the same store, or pay more at a different store. The best strategy to beat them, is to get a variety of store cards, so you regain the ability to walk into any of the stores, and get the discounts.

It depends on several factors whether i go back to a store - layout is key: our local Morrisons stack shelves so high it feels like a trek through high rise suburbs, and i don't like the staff much. The co-op is smaller and the folk are friendly, but less choice. So i tend to stick with an online main shop and pick up bits n' bobs from local stores, like our butchers, who stock the only sausages worth a damn for a thousand miles in any direction.