CHEAPEST vs MOST EXPENSIVE SUPERMARKET IN ENGLAND
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- Опубліковано 12 бер 2023
- I need your thoughts, what do you reckon is the best supermarket in England?! As always, let me know any videos you want to see from me!!
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As a mum, I prefer to shop at Aldi or Lidl over any of the other supermarkets because there's usually only 1 or 2 options of things and in bigger supermarkets the vast choice can be quite overwhelming with a screaming toddler in the trolley. I like the fact that Aldi is smaller than the bigger supermarkets because I can nip round the whole shop in no time at all and I'm less likely to forget something because I'm visiting every aisle. 🥰
i relate to every bit of this comment also i personally get overwhelmed and then my children pick up on those vibes aswell.
100% relate to this comment ❤
Our local Lidl has little shopping trollies for the kids! I've not braved it with my toddler yet though
@@meld6279 they are helpful but then their tempted to run off on their own shopping adventures lol
@@meld6279 They are a nightmare!! My gal loves them but she is like a lunatic with them - trapped in your trolley for as long as you possibly can!!!!
anyone see at 7 mins in the woman with a trolley literally full of coke 🤣
I was just going to see if anyone noticed that hahaha she knows what she is in for. No distractions. Love it.
Might be interesting - im an Aldi die hard and also a candle maker- their candles are just not good , they smell great in store (ie the cold throw is good) but if you light them (hot throw) theyre so disappointing, I bulk bought them a year or two ago and ended up just emptying them and pouring my own… and thats when i started my business - thanks aldi!
Yes I saw her!! 😂
We will never know her story
everyone in the uk who shops at Tesco for Christmas will usually have a trolly half full of bottles of coke guarantee 😂
Grace, I worked at Booths during university. They pay their workers only minimum wage despite being the most expensive supermarket in the country. Bullying and 0 hour contracts were just the start. Just a simple Google search of employee feedback will show. My mental health suffered so badly because of Booths and I will never step foot in there again x
Oh no, that sounds awful! Hopefully you have a nice job now!
What's booths
That's awful. I'm sorry to hear that. It was also Booths which was selling meat, labelled as British. But was actually a mixture of South America and other parts of Europe.
@@Gizzy_Jacka supermarket chain in north west England
@@jayp_2023 is it !
never heard of it
and I'm from the North East of England I thought it was a spelling mistake I thought he meant boots lol 😂 (the chemist)
from smoggy land 🇬🇧
Please do the meal series. And perhaps have a blind taste test to see if your family can taste the difference
Yessss! I’d love that!
As a wheelchair user I actively avoid Aldi because it’s so busy and hectic. Stress is not what I’m looking for at the supermarket
Where I live there is a cheaper supermarket chain that everyone loves. The place is a zoo no matter when you go. I will gladly pay a bit extra to not have to fight my way through the store.
Would love if you did a video where you baked something (eg.brownies or cookies) where you buy the most expensive and high quality ingredients and then made the same recipe with the cheapest and see how they compare in taste! I've always wondered this myself and feel like it would make a great video 🥰
You need to visit Barry Lewis' - Cheap vs Steep series 😉
meal deals are always undefeated ngl 😍
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Well done Grace! This was a well thought out comparison shopping vlog...could you do a M&S versus Waitrose or Lidl versus Aldi? Love you loads! xx
I lived by a Waitrose during uni and actually it often turned out cheaper. Probably got lucky that the items I needed were on offer a lot! But it’s worth not writing it off completely
It can be!! It’s such a misconception
Agree, and always good quality
Yes this.
exactly the same! waitrose was the only supermarket within walking distance of me and it really wasn't as expensive as people think. maybe because i was veggie and vegetables are a pretty standard price everywhere, but it ended up costing me more to do online food shops - delivery costs and food not lasting as long. fully vouch for this comment
When I mention that I like to buy beer at Waitrose, someone always claims that shopping there is expensive but it isn't really. I can buy a 4-can pack of a good brand of beer for around £5 in Waitrose. In my local convenience store, a single bottle or can goes for around £2.50.
I'd love to see a branded vs most expensive supermarket unbranded vs cheapest supermarket unbranded taste test. I think it would be more interesting than the usual branded vs unbranded videos since these are usually done using the cheapest supermarkets anyway, I'd like to see how a more expensive supermarket compares with them both.
It would be great to see papa booth in on the action to see what you both think is better.
Check out bald foodie on UA-cam he doesn't just compare the prices he compares the texture and the taste
I love supermarkets ... whenever I visit another country I must go to supermarkets there. We were on a tour in China and stopped at a pearl "factory," but a huge supermarket was at the other end of the parking lot ... I went into the Pearl place for a little while then escaped to the supermarket. The guide was VERY worried I wasn't going to get back to the van in time (I would've) and came looking for me. I bought a variety of snacks not knowing what most of them were and shared them on the van ... we had a great time (there were only 9 people on the tour, it was great!).
In St. Petersburg, Russia we were on a grand tour of the city and one of the stops was a "gift shop" (which, of course gives a kickback to the cruise company we were on - what a lousy selection of cheap souvenirs) and as we loaded back into the bus I saw a supermarket at the corner!!! I was KICKING myself I didn't sneak away!!!!
You are iconic
Okay but I want to know where the lady at Waitrose is going with that full cart of Diet Coke
I was looking for this comment 😄
She's going to clean all the toilets with it!! 🤪🤮😂😂🤣
As someone who worked for Waitrose for 2.5 years, but shops predominately in Aldi, I've never been so invested in a video. Fully agree that Aldi lacks variety but in my opinion the prices mean it undeniably wins. Quality is pretty on par as both have items that are fabulous and some that are pretty disappointing.
I shop with Ocado, ( disabled so have to have delivery) I was surprised recently to find both Aldi and Lidl more expensive on many items.
@@MamaRebelle I shop with ocado for the same reason, I've found I very rarely ever have missing items either with them whereas i used to have a nightmare with other shops before I switched to ocado for most stuff.
They are surprisingly competitive on a lot of stuff and knowing it will actually all turn up is a godsend for me. I can't just pop to the shop if something doesn't turn up, I had an asda order where none of the chicken turned up and I've rarely had an order from the other supermarkets where at least something wasn't missing.
I do miss some of the quality but cheap waitrose fresh stuff. Since the switch to m&s the meat and veg that is branded m&s has been a bit touch and go for me so I've since just stuck to ocado branded stuff which is pretty great and competitive for most stuff.
Definitely have to keep an eye on the prices though as they have of course jumped around a lot for everyone recently.
@@MamaRebelle definitely not I usually spend between 100 125 in Aldi and get 7 to 8 full bags done ocado and was so expensive over 150 for same things and I actually bought less
My closest supermarket is Waitrose and the yellow labels are HUGE bargains. They technically go off in a day or less but that’s never the case and the quality is really good. I often get several expensive loafs that are yellow sticker and freeze them to last me the next month or two 😂
Best reductions are after 6 that's the good time x
There are also a couple of things like fresh deserts that they reduce a few days before and they leave on the normal shelf
You get the pound for your trolley back when you return it. It's just a way to get people to return the carts to the cart location.
Can't get enough of these types of video's! Nobody can do it better than Grace
Living vicariously for British supermarkets here in Canada! 🇨🇦
Also still hoping for an “eating like it’s the 1980s” vid…
She posted on her insta for emails about what everyone ate in the 80s. So hopefully the video is in the making
Watch "Back in time for tea" it's a show that was on BBC; About having a family live the lives of people from decades past primarily focused around the average and popular diets of that decade.
Lidl and Aldi are German though
@@vkdrk they have shops in the UK though, and hold a large part of the market.
In my opinion comparing Waitrose means pretty much anywhere else wins but comparing to M&S would be interesting simply because M&S don't sell brands, it's all their stuff and we all know it's amazing even if it's pricier haha
When I lived in England, Sainsburys was my supermarket of choice, but I did go into Waitrose once or twice and did notice a big difference in the overall ambience. Coming from Australia, I was blown away at the ready meals options and loved a meal deal from any supermarket but I do have to say the fresh produce was really lacking. I absolutely loved going to the Whole Foods near Piccadilly Circus when I was in London and cannot wait to visit the American version and Trader Joe’s in the US.
PLEASE do a making a meal from Aldi and Waitrose taste comparison!! Already so excited for this series :))
Love your videos so comforting and cosy! Been watching for a few years ❤❤ love you!
Grace, I love your videos and they always make me feel cozy and calm. Going through a hard time with weaning my toddler from his milk, and it’s been so lovely to watch your videos at the end of an exhausting day ❤
Surprised Marks & Spencers was not on the list?? It is my favorite place to shop, same prices as sainsburys (sometimes CHEAPER) and the quality is just worlds better than everywhere else. Especially the pre-made meals, 3 single portions of really good readymade pasta is 8 pounds which is well worth it!!! Would love to see you compare m&s ready-meals with sainsbury or tesco!
I think the price has gone up to £9 for 3 now
Go vegan
I worked at Booths for a few years, and they have an agreement with Aldi, whereby they're built right next to each other and share a car park. This means people can buy their essentials and store cupboard bits from Aldi, and fruit/veg/fancies from Booths! It's been going on for years, so clearly successful!
As an American, calling the little bag of oranges "easy peelers" is amazing. We have a brand here called "Cuties", so I'm sure that would be equally hilarious in reverse. Thanks for the video.
Booths is definitely worth a visit. I’ve been to the one in Windermere in the Lake District and had such a good shopping experience. The Booths meal deals are also the best I’ve ever had!
Ocado has such a wide variety of products, whenever I venture to a real supermarket I’m shocked how little they offer.
Also they partnered with M&S which makes finding fresh organic produce easy.
I read recently that while fresh produce in supermarkets usually has plastic packaging, in the long run it actually causes less waste as more produce perishes when the plastic isn’t there.
You could always go to a local farm or just remove plastic packaging right away and wash produce to avoid any further contamination of the food.
Your videos are always so detailed, well planned and well rounded, you are simply the best! Adore any video you create made with such love and passion 🤍
Some guy once told me that they had worked in a dessert factory sticking labels on the desserts and the exact same dessert had two different labels, one label was for a cheap supermarket and the other label was for an expensive one. The dessert in the expensive store was nearly double the price of the dessert in the cheap store.
P.S. why did you not go shop in your pyjamas? I see people do that in my local Sainsbury’s all the time.
heard the same from a friend who works for a juice supplier
I Love this series! So fun! You can def keep doing more with other items and/or other supermarkets.
lovely video!! I'm not from England but I love your supermarkets, they're so fun!! Maybe you could put other supermarkets up against each other and rank them? I know you said it's difficult because they all have their pros and cons but it'd be fun to get some more supermarket content
Your sheer joy over supermarkets makes me so happy! I feel the same way. I think I've liked 95% of the grocery stores I've been in, all for different reasons.
I work near Waitrose and I love it. When they reduce, you can get some good buys...especially on flowers (as a horticulturist they are my weakness). I nearly fainted before Christmas, staff finished my shop and the manager gave me it for free. Another time I wanted marshmallows to make chocolate top hats, the staff member checked an order that had just come in to see for me, and offered to ring me when they did. They maybe more expensive than ALDI/LIDL, but I find staff super helpful, and somethings I get from them too.
Yes yes yes you should explore Booths!! And while you're at it, you could take a lovely Lake District holiday AND check out the best motorway services in the UK: Tebay!! Ooh or a road trip going to the best and worst motorway services!!
Motor way services food could be an entire series. Especially if you put restrictions on it likely trying to find something healthy!
i always enjoy your videos because you go to places near where i used to live, nostalgia
I used to live in England. Loved the nostalgia I got from watching the Waitrose video. I used to shop there quite a bit. I would do most of my weekly shops at Tesco's or Waitrose, depending on what I needed, then top up at Sainsbury's (didn't have a Superstore Sainsbury's near where I lived).
In Canada we had 12$ pasta sauce LOL and it was in regular supermarket, food prices are insane everywhere
I love that you took the camera around the shops with you.
Morrison's best for meat and fish (by some distance imo), Waitrose for fruit and specialty items, Lidl/Aldi for cheap stuff, Tesco/Asda for weekly supplies, Home Bargains/B&M for snacks. I feel like the days of doing a 'big shop' are dying out.
Morrison's is shocking over priced and not great quality tbh I much prefer Aldi and half the price
Ive been down a grackle rabbithole for the part two hours and now i get a new video! I feel spolied🥰
We have a Booths and an Aldi right next door to each other in our small town, so we have the best of both worlds ... and we make good use of both worlds. 😀
Sounds like you’re living the dream
waitrose is so much less expensive than people think, especially in comparison these days to co-op or tescos. idk i find myself surprised by how many things they've kept the same price while the major supermarkets have doubled or tripled prices on basic items in the last year. obviously would not shop there every day, but definitely worth a look
No music in Waitrose is one reason many people chose to go there. It’s a plus plus plus!!!!
People be hating on the north, but the Booth's supermarket Christmas book is a treat to behold (it's basically a hardback version of a supermarket magazine and it's always full of stuff that you would buy if money wasn't an issue and you had a house that could host 50 people)
that sounds glorious
Sainsburys still do a meal deal! They've even upped their game and brought out a £5 version where you can get a posh sandwich and possibly a Costa drink too! X
One of the main reasons I shop at Waitrose is the quality of the fruit and veg. The two shops near me beside Aldi and Lidl are Asda and Co-op, I’ve constantly had issues with fruit going mouldy within a day of purchase from all of these, every time I get fruit or veg from Waitrose it seems to last at least 4-5 days to a week and the taste is where it should be usually. I feel like if you stick to Waitrose essential stuff where possible for most of the shop it doesn’t cost that much.
Honestly Grace your one liners get me all the time! "You can look banging but be a horrible person" LOL, preach tho🙆🏾♀️❤️
I agree with Grace, every supermarket is good in its own way😍
Enjoyed this! I usually shop at the more affordable grocery stores here like Walmart but have wondered if more expensive stores like Whole Foods are worth the hype
I think doing a cheap vs expensive picnic basket would be a great idea. I’d like to see some more obscure items that I wouldn’t necessarily see. Also Sunday dinners. Love these videos ❤
I noticed that Waitrose's own brand orange juice is £1.80 which is pretty good! I paid £1.75 in Asda yesterday (it was previously £1.25 but has gone up). I do prefer tropicana or innocent but they were around £4 in Asda and I just couldnt justify that.
I’ve lived in England over two years now and I still don’t fully understand the supermarket hierarchy. I obviously understand the price things and how some shops excel in certain areas but the breed of certain Waitrose people who would NEVER go to Morrisons or Aldi baffle me. Apparently a bag of white flour is NOT just a bag of flour. 😂
I thought that until i got a bag of m & s flour that seemed like it was full of chalk , it fizzed when you wet it ! Everything came out like a rock.
So I only use the fancy branded stuff now.
so here for loving all supermarkets for their own thing!! VIDEO IDEA: definitely up for an aldi dupes video - 1. metro rolls - subway bread dupe, 2. the garlic & herb & dough ball dip for dominoes/papa johns dips dupe, 2. crisps dupes - pombears, hulahoops, sensations etc, 3. the mcdonalds chicken selects/nuggests dupe! im sure there are many other but those are my fan faves
Aldi is really good. A lot of people say their fresh produce doesn’t last long but my salads have lasted 5 days and I think that’s a win! There shower gels are nice and the ice creams the ready made stuff like pizzas aren’t so good in my opinion. Lidls also good but it’s a different vibe.
Given your love of supermarkets, Grace, I’m surprised that you don’t have a trolley token on your car keys (so that you don’t need to struggle with a basket when you go to places like Lidl/Aldi)!!!
I’m not even sure where you would buy them anymore, but I can vouch for them being super duper useful if you’re going to be supermarket-hopping 😁
You can use a key in a pinch #lifehack
hi grace, love your vids! I’d love to see a comparing meal deals video
Booths is sooo nice. If you ever get the chance to visit, do! The staff are literally so nice and the produce is really good, some of it isn't even that pricey compared to other supermarkets xx
I think meal deals are usually in stores that are around offices like boots/Tesco foods, etc smaller places rather than big random supermarkets
In Aldi you get your pound back from the trolley it’s just so people don’t steal them or leave them all over the car park!
Loved this so much!😍
Aldi’s ‘Specially Selected’ curries (black labels) are THE best supermarket curries out there and I’ve tried them all. They are not just far, far superior to the other curries but they are on par with many a takeaway curry I’ve had.
I went to the lake district the other week and went into booths it was definitely a more luxurious m and s
unironically saved money shopping at waitrose, gotten double the meat for only 20% more than my local tesco. worked out to me being able to make more meals out of it and saving like £4 on the meat. banger. Though, Lidl is still one of the best, if you've got one with a bakery their freshly baked goods are immaculate. Aldi food has given me terrible diarrhoea too many times I'd like to recount.
The waitrose reduced section near closing time is amazing.
I love a good supermarket mooch! As someone who lives in the Lakes where Booths is the nearest supermarket, it’s definitely expensive but it’s basically the northern Waitrose as we don’t have those, so I do prefer Aldi but booths meal deal is TOP TIER
Booths is a great supermarket and most people in south don’t know them
love ur cardigan grace ❤
I have to admit I do like M&S foods - and they do still do meal deals, as do Sainsbury's, Boots, Spar and Superdrug. We've only got one Waitrose in Sheffield and it's at the other side of town for us (but not far from where my OH works), so we don't tend to use it, but maybe will more when he's back in the office full-time. For the supermarket-type shops I like Sainbury's and M&S, because they've both got good bakery sections.
M&S vs Lidl would be a good comparison. Then Sainsburys vs Tesco and Morrisons vs Asda x
This is my idea of perfect content, I LOVED the footage of the supermarkets
very much looking forward to a Lidl and M&S comparison!
I find meal deals really tacky and they are not healthy! each to their own but meal deals really put me off a supermarket
You should do a vs video of all the sit-in cafes, at supermarkets!! I haven't been to one of those in yearsssssss
Loved this, so fascinating 😊
I got an aldi ad on this video 😂 would love to see you continue this series!!
I grew up in the north west and we had a Booths in town... the town now has an Aldi, Waitrose and Sainsburys. I think the population is about 15k so people ought to hopefully be well fed! Booths is needlessly expensive however...
Love the in depth reveiw thabk you xxx
Lovely video Grace !! 💗 as an American , can you explain what a meal deal is? I wasn’t sure what you meant by that !
Live it. More of these please
We have a Waitrose in a town across from us and if I'm ever feeling down at the weekend and I've been out all day I pop by late in the afternoon to see what awesome things I can get reduced 😁 totally get what you mean about supermarkets though, they've all got their own bonuses, I just fricken love going in supermarkets abroad 😍
I live in Lytham St Annes (Lancashire) and have 2 Booths near me! Yes they are expensive! Kind of like a Waitrose for the North! X
i’d like to see a full foodshop and meals made from both supermarkets with prices and quality, it’s hard to know where to shop as a student 🤠
I'm from the US and what is most notable to me is that grocery stores in general seem to be much more affordable in England than here- even converting to dollars
The wages are different though, I've noticed watching cash stuffing/budgeting videos your salaries seem so high. I'm on 24k and work full time in an office x
@@jengetsherlifetogether ah that makes sense!
I absolutely love Booths and look forward to your road trip 'up north' :-)
I will still never get over how cheap supermarkets in the UK are! For around 40 items in my local supermarket is $350
Our wages are much lower keep that in mind!
If you shop organic, like I do, or simply care more about the quality of the food you're consuming and the welfare of the animals from which animal products are derived, Waitrose is really the only supermarket worth shopping at. And the experience of shopping at a Waitrose is just so relaxing.
Please can you to Tesco vs Asda one day? I’d love to see what difference it makes with the point cards in both shops & what’s better value as I only shop in them two 😊
ill never get over the aldi premade cinamon rolls- forever a fav
My favourite supermarkets are Waitrose, Aldi and Sainsburys
Waitrose are more generous with reductions than other supermarket. If you pick the right time with the yellow labels, you can have some delicious Waitrose products for about the same price as Tesco.... they have a day's date left, so because I do small shops daily that's fine for me!
I remember when I was in primary or high school there was a girl that her mum was a bit posh and she always said “I will never shop in Aldi it’s too cheap for me” my parents once saw her and the girl walking out of there and hiding the shopping with Marks and Spencer’s bags to make it look like she never went to Aldi, shocking that people do that ahah
I had no idea booths was only up north! Grace please come to the Chorley booths!! Haha ❤️
Hi Grace, could you do a video where you cook the same meal using ingredients from Waitrose vs Aldi?
If you love the idea of comparing differently priced supermarkets, I think you’d LOVE watching @Barry Lewis’s channel! He and his wife make some awesome-looking food, and they compare “cheap Vs steep” ingredients and then rate which one taste better (they’ve had quite a few surprising results!)
Wow, I think our supermarkets in Oz stack up well. Even good old Woolies and Coles. I'm curious, does the UK have an equivalent if our IGA's?? They're by far our most expensive but you can go to a supermarket and have gin tastings, there will be fromageries, organic milk that you can fill in your own glass bottles all sourced from local farms?? I'm thinking Hill Street in Tassie and Foodland in SA (which has a weekend pianist playing tunes) 🤣.
Grace where is your cardigan from its gorgeous!! Also love these types of videos so please do more xx
Where I live, in the US, all the shops stopped playing music in March 2020, and never started up again. The only other pandemic thing that I think stayed is not doing rain checks anymore.
For me, Waitrose does the best supermarket New York baked Cheesecake. We pop in there about once a month as a treat.
The only thing I buy from Aldi is breakfast cereals - most are under £2 a box which is really reasonable.
Booths is my nearest shop and I love it so you deffo need to try it but yeah wouldn't do a full shop there! Haha xx
The equinox drink is a kombucha, it’s fermented tea. Can have a bit of a vinegar taste haha I love it though
Loved this video! Can you do Tesco vs M&S?