Soz lads, I turned my pre-amps down for this video and forgot to normalise the audio in post so if you find it a bit quiet/compressed... you've got good cans! And soz next one will be fixed :)
Huh, I was wondering if I just imagined it, just turned up the volume and it was fine. Also the on screen and off screen mic were pretty much identical imo
Bru Iceland is great we've done are weekly shop there, it's great for party food and you never mentioned the bakery. Tesco is S its the iconic shop of Britain. (I typed here before realising)
He definitely got lucky if he's never gone home with unbroken eggs without checking them from every other supermarket. I like Asda, it's my first choice usually
I never buy eggs in ASDA. I once bought six eggs and when I cracked them open to make a cake,luckily into a cup ,five of them were bad and it put me off using the one OK one.
In terms of dietary options (Coeliac in my case) Sainsbury's has the best range, and their online store can be set up so that it only shows you gluten free options. An absolute lifesaver when it came to shopping during lockdown.
Morrison’s is quirky I guess. And if you are interested in the restaurant and the butchers then maybe it is more for you. But as someone who has lived all my life as the closest supermarket being Morrison’s I hate the place, as you said never stocked, overpriced, bad range, poor bakery. I’ve often found myself travelling further to avoid it. Also neglecting to mention Lidl bakery is criminal!
My biggest gripe with Morrisons is that they don't have scan and shop. I'm disabled and being able to just pack as I go and only handle everything once is a huge accessibility thing for me. I avoid Morrisons now that every other shop offers it
Farmfoods is actually really popular in the more rural areas of the UK. I'm from Devon and if my family and I need to bulk buy, Farmfoods is usually a good shout. Their whole shtick is that it's locally grown produce which is kinda true to a point because all the vegetables, meat etc is from local UK farms but they also sell branded stuff like Coco-Cola... I dunno 'bout you but I ain't never seen a Coco-Cola farm in the UK before! Lies!! All of it! Lies!!!
I would say Lidl is slightly better than Aldi in terms of quality, plus the bakery is pretty unbeatable. I agree about buying fruit etc at Waitrose, it always lasts a lot longer overall, I think it's products are the best quality if you can afford them !
ofc they are the best quality, its the posh people store. Aldi's baked goods are hugely expansive, i wouldn't think there's anywhere larger other than an actual bakery, i work in Aldi and stocking that aisle is the worst because there is so much stuff!
@@Rachelhappyface you can always save money at Asda the food is just as cheaply produced as possible. If you shop for branded stuff and you don't want to go to a discounter like Home bargains or a Fulton foods then Asda is your shop. If you want own brand do your gut a favour and buy the Aldi and Lidl own brand stuff. The quality of the ingredients is way better and the price is the same or less. And yes, I did work in an Asda for a few years.
My biggest culture shock when I moved to Italy was that SPAR of all things was the S tier supermarket in my city. Completely blew my mind that our petrol station store could be a high-end supermarket. Seems I'm a B tier shopper overall, splitting myself between Lidl & Waitrose based on what I need and how fiscally responsible I feel like being. Waitrose frozen pastries are my absolute guilty pleasure though.
Glad you explained the Spar thing because I was really confused by Evan's comment. 😂 (in Slovenia where I'm from Spar is a really decent supermarket, I imagine same as in Italy)
Aldi is the best because there aren’t enough products to tempt you, so you can do a weekly shop £30. I pop into Tesco or Sainsbury’s for two things and spend £56. (Unless of course you end up leaving with some skis and a new vacuum cleaner)
My local Aldi has the frozen section and what can really only be described as the “miscellaneous section” back-to-back. Either way, you’re walking out of there with at least one impulse buy - it just depends on whether it’s a tub of ice cream or a garden trampoline
I never rated Asda until it became my closest supermarket, but it's great! They have an awesome vegan range and their prices are just as good as Tesco.
I was wondering how he hadn't heard of fultons, heron and farmfoods then "I'm sorry if they're Yorkshire brands" I guess that answers that, cause there's one of each of those near me 😂 Also poundworld was pretty much the same as poundland, but it doesn't exist anymore
@@therealmckoy6772 farmfoods does exist down south but i never saw one growing up in london/surrey, but when i lived in Portsmouth there was one. so i think they pick cheaper areas because of rent costs of buildings. same with you wont find The Range in london, because they wont pay for the london rent (i used to work for the range and the owner is a complete miser 🤣)
I used to shop in Sainsbury's when my children went to Explore Learning, but I hated their fruit and veg. Such poor quality and tasted terrible. I do like Tu clothing though
Ok so some specific things I like from some of these… Aldi - frozen pies are the best around Lidl - a truly enormous selection of baked goods Co Op - the own brand tiger bloomer is literally the best shop-bought bread I’ve ever had Sainsbury’s - the one in my home town has an actual Argos in it Tesco - if you’re in the mood for a chicken kiev go here. Nowhere else Iceland - some delightful frozen desserts and there’s almost always a deal on milk alternatives Poundland and Home Bargains - you’ll get surprisingly low prices on branded stuff Also I once got a single plastic-wrapped croissant from an airport Spar and the smell was so vile I nearly threw up
Tesco is definitely up in S tier IMO. Has everything you need from a supermarket, and is so large that it usually hits all price points with quality you expect at that price. And the Tesco meal deal is the undisputed king of meal deals.
@@perebima Heinz is still in Tesco. At least in London it is. Heinz is overrated anyway. Only Heinz Ketchup is superior to any other brand. Branston Baked Beans FTW
Evan, I'm extremely sorry to burst your bubble on this one, I work in ASDA, and ASDA, Morrisons, Tesco and Sainsburys get all their stock from the same place. They all sell pretty much the same products in their supermarket mainline brand items and budget items. I know this fact because I've seen products from those stores in our boxes.
I mostly agree w you but I don’t find Asda to be that bad. Also the Lidl bakery is unmatched! But my favourite supermarket is Tesco because it has such a good range of vegan products
Walmart actually sold Asda last year to an investment group and some brothers who own petrol stations so I don't think the Walmart/Asda comparison is so relevant anymore.
I also had this weird realisation but the other way around, both for SPAR and Aldi, my boyfriend is from Vienna so it was a huge culture shock for me to find out that they have Aldi but it's called 'Hofer' there, even was shocked that the logo is literally the same as aldi just with the name change.
Co-op are heavily involved in a lot of progressive social programmes - they're based in Manchester and have a very admirable social corporate ethos. It's your duty as a human to love them. mes
The hilarious thing about this is that Aldi and Waitrose share a lot of the same suppliers! I used to work for Aldi and that was the big "in joke" in the company.
I disagreed with virtually all of your rankings 🤣 my local morrisons is shocking and all the fresh meat I've bought has been bad quality. So definitely low down on the ranking list. Asda is A tier, the prices are cheaper and the quality is usually great. I don't know why you were told never to buy meat in there, I've never had issues in Asda. Sainsburys is expensive for what you get. M&S is S tier for quality but price wise not many people can shop there often, it's more of an occasional treat. Iceland should be a lot higher up, lots of people do their full weekly shop there and they do sell fresh meat, fruit and veg as well. Its not all frozen foods.
Man I’m offended. Iceland in F???? I actually do my weekly shop there, I prefer to use frozen veg than fresh. They also have exclusive collections from restaurants and cafes like chiquitos and greggs which are great.
@@csnide6702 Indeed, frozen veg more often that not, is more nutritious than fresh. I've always got peas, brocolli, cauliflower, runner beans and cabbage in the freezer. I will occasionally get fresh broccoli if I want tenderstem.
9:11 depends what you're getting! I get all my broccoli, green beans, cauli, etc from the frozen section because these veggies are flash frozen, so they retain all their good nutrients. sometimes even better than fresh veggies, because they don't get to age at all. a nice bonus is that they're cheap, what sucks is that they come in plastic packaging.
We have a local spar. Nowhere near a petrol station and a lifeline to the elderly who don’t drive. Edited to add, frozen food is often fresher than fresh food. Fish can take days to reach the shelves but is also frozen immediately on catching so is hella fresh, the same for frozen peas.
Frozen food is usually healthier than "fresh" or "chilled". They put extra chemicals in the food and the packaging to keep the food fresh for long enough in the fridge. In the freezer they don't use any chemicals as the freezing does all the preserving. The move away from frozen to chilled has definitely caused more issues with health.
@@onlineo2263 while I generally agree and prefer fresh or frozen veg, the “chemicals” in bagged or packaged salads, pre chopped veg etc are usually nitrogen gas and some carbon dioxide gas (too much oxygen makes veg go bad faster). Any other chemicals are likely to be the exact same as what’s on fresh veg from during production. Of the issues with packaged veg (and there are more than a few) “chemicals” to keep the food from spoiling are probably not the most pressing.
But there's a world of difference between "Frozen Ingredients" and "Frozen meals"... Always frozen peas, frozen fruit gets you through the winter, frozen fish def. But frozen ready meals, sausages, etc... There's much better quality frozen stuff these days, but there's still plenty of cheap, CHEAP crap that's frozen because it won't hold together fresh.
Your missing out B&M, it’s a lot like home bargins. Farm foods is another frozen food shop and heron foods is now owned by B&M so half is frozen food and the other is more like a co-op. There are also Nisa and 1 stop which are cornor shop franchisees like co-op which have been missed out.
I grew up with Asda and then Tesco during my uni days and Ive recently decided that I think I prefer Asda over Tesco. I’m from Yorkshire and farmfoods, spar, heron etc. are all really cheap local shops to me Ps. If I had to say which mic sounded better, I think the ad break mic < the rest of the time
seeing evan approach this from the "i go one place for my weekly shop" perspective threw me off, like if im not going to at least 5 of the places on this list and a arden center to get the things each place does well, then i havent been on a weekly shop.
Sainsbury’s Motto hasn’t been “Live well for less” since about June Last year, It’s now “Helping everyone eat better” Sainsbury’s is generally the same price as Tesco in comparisons. Tesco meal deals are now £3.50, they followed Sainsbury’s by including pastries hot food and Costa drinks.
@@JasperCasper24 yeah I guess, but have you noticed how Tesco no longer do normal offers like other supermarkets? You get the same discount but you need a club card to get that discount, but they trick people into thinking that the club card will actually make it cheaper than everywhere else. They know what they’re doing
I agree with your Tesco thoughts! I don't buy food from M&S, but I never get bras from anywhere else. Their fitters are great and really professional, there's a huge range of styles and sizes, and for the time they last the price is really reasonable. I've never had an uncomfortable bra from them, which is more than I can say for anywhere else. I also like their home section - it is a bit pricier than other places, but things from there will last for ten years. The only thing I don't bother with is clothes - waaaaaay over priced.
Oh my god you're the only other person I've seen who buys bras from m&s! I've been buying my bras from these since i was 15 they last forever and fit me so well the last time i needed to buy a new bra was like 5 years ago!
I do love M&S bras but my fitting experience was not good lol. Had a fitting there and couldn't understand why the bras didn't feel like they fit me at all. Then I tried other places like La Senza (when that still existed) and Bravissimo and found I'm actually a totally different size. As long as I buy the M&S ones in the actual right size then they're great though!
I adore the Aldi middle aisle ❤❤❤I once brought a 6 person inflatable life raft from there and went for a ride down the river with some uni pals in Cardiff
So glad to see a Yorkshire based supermarket make the top of your list. I’m fortunate enough to live near a large Morrison’s located in a historic 200 year old army barracks! It adds so much more to the weekly shop going there than to some modern shed structure!
Yeah the Sheffield one is awesome. It has some great smaller business next to it the butcher was (when I was a kid) the highlight, really friendly staff and great sausages.
As someone who used to work in a Morrisons I've got to agree with your rating - absolutely one of the best supermarkets and really great to employers too (£9.40 an hour at the age of 16, everyone gets paid equally no matter what, awesome staff, full holiday pay and an all-round great employer)
Well I too use to work there(Morrisons) and before them at Safeway too,, as a supermarket I dislike Morrison,s and Tescos and Sainsburys ,, I much prefer Lidl,Aldi, and Asda but my favorite is MS,,, the foods great and the prices are not too shabby...
Ooooo you hornet's nest kicker! I actually don't know anyone who does a weekly show in one supermarket - I tend to get the fresh stuff from M&S, the 'branded' goods from Asda, as they're usually the cheapest and I know that Heinz Ketchup is going to taste like Ketchup, and the Lidl bakery is just perfection!
To be honest, Evan, I think that your London-centric viewpoint hasn't done you any real favours, because there are regional supermarkets you'll not have the chance to try, so rating them is impossible for you, and some others have bigger stores in London and maybe some larger cities, but elsewhere they are little more than glorified corner shops. E.g. Spar is one of the earliest large convenience stores rather than a proper supermarket. It's often found in places where there aren't any of the big supermarkets. In a couple of places I've lived, it was a godsend because it was the only place where we could get every basic need at a reasonable price compared to corner stores - it was the first of its type in my (very large) home village (more a place people commuted from rather than visited, so not really a town despite its size). Where I live now, the Co-op fulfills that role. Mostly larger convenience stores, except that they have "real" supermarkets too, which may have a bunch of different names depending on the region (you have to understand the history of the shop to get why that's the case, but it does make sense). My mum worked in one of the earliest Co-op supermarkets back in the 70s, called "Leo's". It's been through some iterations and last I looked it was "Pioneer". Great shop, btw! The full-scale supermarkets are reasonably priced and have everything you'd expect in a supermarket. But because of the regional/independent nature of the company, the quality is going to vary a bit more than with a single company. Tbh, the majority of the supermarkets are much the same, a lot depends on the people running each one. I'm more than happy with Asda - I have a delivery coming today. In fact they do gluten free dog food at a reasonable price, and for owners of a dog with a gippy stomach, it's a lifesaver (definitely a nose saver lol)! But our main shop, done by Hubby (tl: not explaining why) is done at Tesco's. Neither of us has a problem with either store. I'd definitely rank Asda a _lot_ higher than you. Poundland (along with Home Bargains, B&M and similar) is NOT a supermarket! The name says it all. I don't think you could do a week's shopping there 🤣 You probably get a wider variety of things in London shops, but definitely not outside a big city (and I wouldn't buy food there, beyond a snack if I was desperate). Like I said, a lot of your opinion regarding the quality of the whole shopping experience is based on the people who work there. You'll think a place is better than it is if they're all really helpful, and you'll think a well-stocked, reasonable price place isn't so good if the workers are miserable (btw, if the majority of them are miserable, chances are they've got a total douche of a manager, so be nice!) Food quality is something you have to try yourself because we all have different needs. If you shop v regularly, short "lifespans" for fresh food is irrelevant. If you do a big shop every month, you do it knowing that certain goods will need replacing quicker. I haven't been to all the shops you mention, but I've lived in a number of regions throughout England and Wales, and local quality of the same supermarkets is a real thing. It's best to try out each one when you move to a new area (not all in the same shopping run, of course!) and see which one suits your needs the most. You might find that a store you hated in your last place is now the best in your new. It usually depends on the structure of the company and the nature of the local manager & workers. You _will_ grade a shop higher if the staff are brilliant even if there is no significant difference between it and a competitor nearby where the manager couldn't organise a p!ss up in a brewery and constantly need to have willy measuring competitions with everyone, including his female staff - or hers. Plenty of b!tches in britches. (I'm being metaphorical of course, just in case anyone thinks I'm transphobic or something else shitty like that. I hate having to clear that up... From the perspective of it shouldn't even be a thing! The bigoted sh!t, that is. This is going to go around in circles 🤦🏻♀️ Just DON'T be a douche to ANYONE!)
In the US people in food deserts shop at Dollar stores and in urban settings newer dollar stores are built with refrigeration sections and frozen section and expanded grocery selections. Economic downturns and inflation spur this trend on stateside. I imagine in the UK in a London- centric context a similar happens and Poundland becomes a corner store, convenience store fill in shopping experience for many especially students, immigrants and people on tight budgets.
As someone from South Africa we have a lot of really big Spars and they have really good quality. I go to my local Spar almost every day so it’s funny to see it described as a “gas store”
I can't believe Booths was not on this list - my favourite food shop to just go and look around and not actually buy anything (except at christmas as a treat).
i only know pound world from a tv show on channel 4 where they did a sorta jokey ‘pound shops wars’ where pound land and pound world were both trying to grow their reputation and stuff and honestly it was one of the best shows i’ve ever watched, it was incredibly entertaining
Man this is pretty funny and I’ve never even gone grocery shopping over there across the big blue lol. You GOTTA do one of these for America too bc there’s too much content there 😂🧨
I prefer the off-screen mic, but your visuals and audio are always so much better than literally everybody else I’m subscribed to. You are already killing it 🎙🗡
Also, the shure SM7B has the crispy, professional radio sound- as expected. The other mic gives more atmosphere, making it sound more as if we (viewers) would be if we were in the same room. As an audio engineer, I always love the close, clean mic- but I understand the appeal of it being out of shot
Yeah I think the SM7B sounds nicer due to my room being untreated (it hides it better!) but I've just gotten 2 acoustic panels the hang up on the wall so we'll get some better sound going forward! :D
Farmfoods was a delightful discovery for me last year. They have massive tubs of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream. And lots of other frozen food - very much like Iceland!
SPAR often serves small towns and villages; not common to see them in the city. Still very expensive, but they get supplies out rurally so I guess they get away with it.
As someone that has worked in the bakery section at an Asda, I have 2 things to say; F tier is accurate. I will never buy from the bakery section in an Asda again. 99.9% of things (including the "freshly baked in store extra special" bread comes in frozen, doughnuts are sugared by hand using a tray of sugar that has been sat there for weeks, and, in terms of hygiene.. All I'll say is hands aren't washed frequently enough, and the bakery section is closely tied with the rotisserie section. Read in to that what you will. Edit: Off screen mic actually sounds better with my headset lol
I as a student normally bulk buy my meats at Aldi alongside any dry food (pasta, rice) but then go to tesco for fresher things unless I'm cooking that day
It's so personal and subjective! I have ADHD and grocery shopping is SO hard to focus - Sainsburys gets my money because they don't have in-store music, our local store is spacious and friendly. The local Morrison's is a high street store, and it's SO cramped, low ceiling, and the jangling music and adverts constantly playing bounce around the hard surfaces causing chaos in my ears! It used to be a Safeway when I was a child, and we did our weekly shop there... went to Publix in Florida and had such flashbacks to Safeway! It SMELLED the same! (in a good way :D)
I like the microphone in the shot, I feel like it makes the foreground and background more balanced. As for audio quality, I honestly couldn't tell a difference between the two.
I see your co-op rating and raise you this: their salt and vinegar crisps are literally the best crisps on the planet. (also honestly I think if I had all the money in the world and lived near an M&S food hall I'd shop there all the time!!! all the phizzy tails in the world to eat)
'M&S's prices aren't as bad as some of the other ones' Wtffff are M&S's just on steriods where I live, cos they are on a complete other level compared to Waitrose etc
First: liked the sound on the off screen mic better. Second: THANK YOU for doing this! I'm moving to the UK in September and it's nice to have some info on where to shop for basics. =)
How on earth has this man lived here this long and never heard of farmfoods? Probably a good thing. It's a solid D. Feels like a warehouse full of food rather than a supermarket
i don’t like asda in general but we have a really nice one near us. i don’t like to shop there but i love like the actual building it feels really light and it smells good and i like the electronics section
Sainsbury's are the only shop ive been to that does vegan marshmallows. They also do potted chives and oregano. Not a weekly shop, but maybe monthly/every two months
When I worked in a large office 20 years ago, the supermarkets were very much split by "class". I knew people who would never be seen dead shopping in "common" shops like Tesco and the Co Op. One day I was queueing at the till in the Co Op behind a cat lady, who presented the cashier a pile of coupons for her cat food, and then paid the balance of a couple of pounds by writing a cheque. I get a Farmfoods flyer through my letterbox regularly. They are a frozen food shop, that "piles it high, and sells it cheap". So everything is priced like "3 for £5" etc. You often see people in there with shopping trollies piled high with just milk or bread.
Sainsbury's is in the perfect spot for me in terms of price and quality. It always seemed to me like their products were the same or just a bit more expensive than Tesco, but every penny extra yields significant gains in quality. Also Asda's horseshit, not even that cheap, especially since Aldi and Lidl became a big thing. Maybe it is arguably just smol Walmar, but THAT'S THE MAIN BENEFIT OF WALMART. Poundland and Spar are definitely D tier. Coop is nice expensive stuff. Tesco is mostly alright. Never been to a Morrisons, as far as I'm aware they weren't at all in the South-East until a few years ago. Edit: Tesco meal deal is a true classic
Farmfoods is pretty popular in towns and rural areas. They have good quality frozen food plus pretty cheep name brands. It's a good place to buy bulk from to top up your freezer.
Thank you! I actually found a video I filmed on my photo booth app yesterday that I'd completely forgotten about and that never made it in my vlogs and damn. Really made me appreciate where I am right now. Just a rough watch of watching me die inside on another soul-crushing phone call. Any little stresses I've run into the last couple months (of which there have been many, so it goes) I always try and appreciate that it's something mildly trivial to be stressed about in comparison to most of last year and then... I keep stressing but a lil less upset :')
1:30 they didn't do a collab with Habitat. 🤓 Unless a collab is defined by buying a business and then sticking them in your own supermarket. 😂 They bought Argos and Habitat a few years back. That's why you can now find both Argos and Habitat inside of Sainsbury's.
Spar is a really curious thing, because what it does heavily depends on where you look for them. In Germany, I really only see them as tiny shops at train stations the size of a to-go bakery. I go to Yorma's anyway (you can use their syrup dispensers, vanilla, cinnamon and almond flavours available, to spice up your coffee and their baked goods are amazing). However if you go to South Tyrol, you will have DeSpar (local town shop, has most things, maybe even a butcher stand inside), EuroSpar (proper supermarket) and InterSpar (HUGE supermarket that has EVERYTHING! TVs, bikes, household stuff of all kinds, an entire area dedicated to wine, beer, meat, cheese, other dairy, giant fruit and veggies area etc.) Then in other places around Europe they just have small shops. They seem to pursue different strategies in different places.
I used to live near an M&S foodhall and I miss it, they had great fresh bread, great own brand chocolate and snacks, and the best fresh produce, like idk where they source their fruit but it was top tier, even better than Waitrose
Sainsbury’s and Tesco are the best overall for sheer variety choice and quality at a reasonable price all well presented and with comparison cost per 100g or 100ml. Morrisons is more down market but fairly cheap. Aldi and Lidl some good bargains but overall poor choice and not well presented and without the unit pricing co-op has Aldi choice and presentation but with Waitrose prices. M&S limited range good quality but very expensive. Waitrose a good range and presentation but very expensive. Pretty much you get what you pay for in a competitive free market
I work at Aldi and I can say that our produce/fresh food as you mentioned doesn't sell out too quick, not because its not popular choice, but because when its delivered there is ALOT of it and because of some safety precautions like stacking crates or boxes too high means we can usually only stack things 2 or 3 high depending on the box/crate size/design but since the delivery size is large a lot of it gets backstocked which just winds their use by date down until we have space to put them out. side note, things like watermelons are a bit of an arse cause they are huge and even in the box they come in its hard to restock, and especially since we have to rotate them its a pain to lift a box of super heavy melons to put them underneath the top ones
Lidl is better than Aldi due to its international food week themes, Greece, France, Spain, Italy plus The Alps make it a destination for quest items other supermarkets don’t do!
Aldi has these too, I get the big cans of olive oil, the austrian noodles, a huge spanish ham (half price off after a week, uhhh..) and the very affordable sesame oil when it's "Asia" week ^^. Well I might be biased having had an Aldi directly across from me when I was a kid. Oh and the scandal where Lidl had cameras in their employees changing room took my money away from them.
@@mirabellegoldapfel6256 The Aldi near me is pretty small, they don’t have the weekly items as much, whereas my Lidl is bigger. Aldi does come up with some gems for sure, but I find it more random than Lidls themed weeks in fresh, frozen and dry goods, which are all so good for cured meats and exotic cheeses, as well as the tinned and jar stuff!
My favourite was always just Safeway, because they were our local supermarket. Then they got bought out by Morrisons, of course, and rebranded... But it's still Safeway really. Sainsburys always feels like the kind of place your grandparents shop. Probably because that's where my grandparents shop. Asda and Tesco I always see as basically equivalent; they're pretty much the same as each other.
It's pretty interesting to see what someone else thinks about the different supermarkets. I grew up in a family that only ever bought from the co-op and kinda passively taught us kids that all the other supermarkets were too poor quality to go to - my mum refuses to buy anything non-organic if she at all has the choice, and tried to impress it onto me and my brother that we needed to stick to that standard ourselves when we move out.
Given The Co-Op's socialist foundations, it is very expensive. There is one within walking distance from me, but my small income doesn't go very far in there.
@@eattherich9215 oh, it's definitely expensive. Once I move out I doubt it'll stay as my go-to place to shop because of that. My parents struggle with money, but so far have never started shopping at somewhere cheaper to save money - hence what I meant about my mum being stubborn with where she buys from - but I really don't care about quality like that.
I'd be interested to see you do some blind taste tests on these supermarket genre defining things likes fruits, meats, own brand cereals! Who did this tier list? Evan's tongue or Evan's eyes?
I would say that Farmfoods, Heron Foods, Fulton's and Iceland are sort of similar - every one I've been in has been a smaller shop, with an emphasis on frozen goods. Also, there used to be a Poundworld and a Poundland in the same shopping centre here.... not really sure of the difference!
Personally I would rate Aldi and Asda as the best. Aldi mainly but also as where I live they are very close to each other so incredibly convenient. I rarely shop in our Sainsbury's and have shopped even less in our Morrisons.
This was far more fun than any Supermarket Tier List should be. Whenever Evan claps his hands together, he reminds me of a market trader trying to close a deal.
Home Bargains, Poundland and Spar are very much not places to do your weekly shop. Haaa. I think Poundworld was bought by Poundland a few years ago, who then swapped the branding to their own.
We shop at Lidl, Tesco, Waitrose, Morrison's and Poundland... in that order! Main shop ALWAYS at Lidl, extra stuff at Tesco and Morrison's (depending on which town we shop in), speciality and treats at Waitrose and crap for the kids at Poundland!
My favourite supermarket is a solely online supermarket- Ocado. Can get soooo many things for people with food allergies from Ocado. My mum is gluten intolerant & I’m lactose internet. We find we have saved money shopping on Ocado & got a lot more choices. Also they have some of the cheapest delivered charges as well as giving you money back for returning bags to drivers. Plus I get M&S foods from them.
I've been to Spar and Morrison's, both in the northern quarter of Manchester. Also been to Co-op in Manchester and Redcar, as well. Yes, Sainsbury is more pricy, as is Sainsbury Extra. Lidl in the UK has that nice wall of rolls, flatbread pizzas, freshly baked bread, and various seeded breads. The most grocery shopping that I did in the UK was at ASDA (prior to 2019, when they were owned/ partly owned by Walmart) and then bought most of my fruit and veg from a market stall in the city center. Very low prices from that market stall, and very good fruit and veg !
Soz lads, I turned my pre-amps down for this video and forgot to normalise the audio in post so if you find it a bit quiet/compressed... you've got good cans! And soz next one will be fixed :)
Huh, I was wondering if I just imagined it, just turned up the volume and it was fine. Also the on screen and off screen mic were pretty much identical imo
Bru Iceland is great we've done are weekly shop there, it's great for party food and you never mentioned the bakery. Tesco is S its the iconic shop of Britain. (I typed here before realising)
I would rate Sainsbury’s as s tier cause it’s the best of them all and Morrisons as d tier cause Morrisons isn’t as fresh as it use to
farmfood is goaaattt
Not gonna defend ASDA here, but it's always worth checking the eggs aren't broken before you put them in your trolley
What kind of madman doesn't check his eggs?!
He definitely got lucky if he's never gone home with unbroken eggs without checking them from every other supermarket.
I like Asda, it's my first choice usually
Where I buy groceries the checker even checks the eggs.
Doesn't matter where you shop, need to check the eggs
I never buy eggs in ASDA. I once bought six eggs and when I cracked them open to make a cake,luckily into a cup ,five of them were bad and it put me off using the one OK one.
In terms of dietary options (Coeliac in my case) Sainsbury's has the best range, and their online store can be set up so that it only shows you gluten free options. An absolute lifesaver when it came to shopping during lockdown.
same Sainsburys are so good for gluten free - Aldi for essentials, Sainsburys for everything specific
Same for me with vegan options that aren't just processed frozen food.
One of the directors of Morrisons is supposedly Coeliac and has completely transformed their offering over the last couple of years.
I’m coeliac too! ASDA is pretty good for gluten free so I’d put it higher up the list
Ayooo coeliac gang - I rotate my deliveries between sainsburys, Tesco and Asda to get the widest selection of gluten free products
morrisons s-tier shocked me but then i remembered not everyones local morrisons is in the middle of nowhere and never stocked
Morrison’s is quirky I guess. And if you are interested in the restaurant and the butchers then maybe it is more for you. But as someone who has lived all my life as the closest supermarket being Morrison’s I hate the place, as you said never stocked, overpriced, bad range, poor bakery. I’ve often found myself travelling further to avoid it. Also neglecting to mention Lidl bakery is criminal!
My local Morrisons is dingy and always poorly stocked, even before Covid. I would've rated Sainsbury's a lot higher. I guess it's a regional thing?
@@jwb52z9 I counter with Morrisons is a great supermarket, easily my favourite supermarket which has all my shopping needs.
It's got that BRITISH BRITISH BRITISH thing and he loves Britain. But yeah D-tier for me. Asda repacked as sainsbury.
My biggest gripe with Morrisons is that they don't have scan and shop. I'm disabled and being able to just pack as I go and only handle everything once is a huge accessibility thing for me. I avoid Morrisons now that every other shop offers it
I would rate Lidl above Aldi just because they have more fresh bakery options, like iced chocolate donuts. 😋
Also, they have some really good ready meals for pretty cheap, making them an excellent student option.
Lidl cookies are so good
AND THEIR PRETZELLLLSSSS
@@flappetyflippers Their jam doughnuts are superior to all other doughnuts
Lidl freshly baked cheese twists are yummy 😋😋😋
Farmfoods is actually really popular in the more rural areas of the UK. I'm from Devon and if my family and I need to bulk buy, Farmfoods is usually a good shout. Their whole shtick is that it's locally grown produce which is kinda true to a point because all the vegetables, meat etc is from local UK farms but they also sell branded stuff like Coco-Cola... I dunno 'bout you but I ain't never seen a Coco-Cola farm in the UK before! Lies!! All of it! Lies!!!
I mean, UK Coke-Cola is produced in Yorkshire
@@Inucroft Ahh Yorkshire, my favourite farm
I love farmfoods for doing a proper freezer stock up :) I think Evan needs to find one and have a wee look about lol
I was raised in Lancashire and my family used to shop almost exclusively at Netto and Farmfoods. 😂
Farmfoods is great if you need a lot of something
I would say Lidl is slightly better than Aldi in terms of quality, plus the bakery is pretty unbeatable. I agree about buying fruit etc at Waitrose, it always lasts a lot longer overall, I think it's products are the best quality if you can afford them !
ofc they are the best quality, its the posh people store. Aldi's baked goods are hugely expansive, i wouldn't think there's anywhere larger other than an actual bakery, i work in Aldi and stocking that aisle is the worst because there is so much stuff!
I personally don't mind if the microphone is in frame..
But the off screen one actually sounds significantly better
This is what I noticed as well.
Agreed
Couldn't agree more
Justice for Asda, one of the few places they charge you whole pounds for things and not odd numbers of pennies
i have barnd loyalty to asda bc thats were we used to shop when i was a kid
They’ve also just reintroduced a bunch of smart price products, I’ve just switched back from Morrisons because I can save more money at Asda now!
@@Rachelhappyface you can always save money at Asda the food is just as cheaply produced as possible. If you shop for branded stuff and you don't want to go to a discounter like Home bargains or a Fulton foods then Asda is your shop. If you want own brand do your gut a favour and buy the Aldi and Lidl own brand stuff. The quality of the ingredients is way better and the price is the same or less. And yes, I did work in an Asda for a few years.
And it's not owned by Walmart anymore. It was bought by 2 British guys last year so it's British again - although Walmart still owns a small share.
You pay by card so who cares, oh wait, I do, I want 1p off every item!
My biggest culture shock when I moved to Italy was that SPAR of all things was the S tier supermarket in my city. Completely blew my mind that our petrol station store could be a high-end supermarket.
Seems I'm a B tier shopper overall, splitting myself between Lidl & Waitrose based on what I need and how fiscally responsible I feel like being. Waitrose frozen pastries are my absolute guilty pleasure though.
Glad you explained the Spar thing because I was really confused by Evan's comment. 😂 (in Slovenia where I'm from Spar is a really decent supermarket, I imagine same as in Italy)
Aldis in California seems to be a bit nicer than its British counterparts
@@Shoyren I imagine Americans wouldn't be able to cope with it otherwise, the shopping culture is so different
@@TheCrazyFreak in Croatia as well, its an amazing shop I was so confused when he said it was bad 🤣
Where in Italy because I am from the north and I don't recall seeing any in the cities?
Aldi is the best because there aren’t enough products to tempt you, so you can do a weekly shop £30. I pop into Tesco or Sainsbury’s for two things and spend £56. (Unless of course you end up leaving with some skis and a new vacuum cleaner)
My local Aldi has the frozen section and what can really only be described as the “miscellaneous section” back-to-back. Either way, you’re walking out of there with at least one impulse buy - it just depends on whether it’s a tub of ice cream or a garden trampoline
£30 soon turns to £60 if you loiter too close to the mystery aisle.
🤣🤣
Question, how many ppl are you buying £30 food for? I have 5 ppl in my fam and it’s usually £80-£100 !!!!!!
@@Eliza15151 I live with my dad and we take it turns to drive to the Aldi. It always comes to near enough £60 for the pair of us.
I never rated Asda until it became my closest supermarket, but it's great! They have an awesome vegan range and their prices are just as good as Tesco.
Same, moved to a town that only has Asda, M&S & Tesco, prefer Asda and it's slightly cheaper than Tesco.
I was wondering how he hadn't heard of fultons, heron and farmfoods then "I'm sorry if they're Yorkshire brands" I guess that answers that, cause there's one of each of those near me 😂 Also poundworld was pretty much the same as poundland, but it doesn't exist anymore
I'm a southerner also never heard of any of those but yeah it does make sense
@@therealmckoy6772 farmfoods does exist down south but i never saw one growing up in london/surrey, but when i lived in Portsmouth there was one. so i think they pick cheaper areas because of rent costs of buildings. same with you wont find The Range in london, because they wont pay for the london rent (i used to work for the range and the owner is a complete miser 🤣)
I'm in Wiltshire and have never heard of fultons or heron. We have got a farmfoods though, but it's basically a clone of Iceland.
I remember poundworld from like 10yrs ago but it seems to have died
@@MrDannyDetail heron food owned farm foods
Two shops which I was surprised to not see on this list: Booths, B&M Bargains
Booths is localised to the north west of England, I doubt Evan's ever see one.
B&M sell food but are not a supermarket. Saying that Poundworld was on there and they folded 4 years ago.
@@BrianRonald I live in North Yorkshire and even I have never heard of Booths.
B&M is more of a warehouse full of kinda miscellaneous stuff, no? id say it would be comparable to poundstretcher
i totally disagree about Sainsburys, i think their quality is always great and also for choice.
C tier is ok, it's good quality but for a weekly shop you spend 20% more than Tesco
@@cactus3796 idk if the quality is necessarily worth the extra price tho. In my eyes, the quality is basically the same for most things.
Big Sainsburys are fine, little Sainsburys are both expensive and limited choice.
I've never rated their fruit and veg since I left home and tried elsewhere. Looks good, tastes of nothing. I'm guessing Evan places a lot on that too.
I used to shop in Sainsbury's when my children went to Explore Learning, but I hated their fruit and veg. Such poor quality and tasted terrible. I do like Tu clothing though
Ok so some specific things I like from some of these…
Aldi - frozen pies are the best around
Lidl - a truly enormous selection of baked goods
Co Op - the own brand tiger bloomer is literally the best shop-bought bread I’ve ever had
Sainsbury’s - the one in my home town has an actual Argos in it
Tesco - if you’re in the mood for a chicken kiev go here. Nowhere else
Iceland - some delightful frozen desserts and there’s almost always a deal on milk alternatives
Poundland and Home Bargains - you’ll get surprisingly low prices on branded stuff
Also I once got a single plastic-wrapped croissant from an airport Spar and the smell was so vile I nearly threw up
It’s a chicken Kyiv now 😉
Never a truer word spoken about the state of Kievs in british supermarkets
M&S for chicken kievs hands down! Iceland to get your Greggs fix. Ocado own brand for frozen meat and veg.
Watch out with the branded stuff in Poundland though, they get special size versions which can be more expensive than the regular supermarket ones 🧐
I disagree about the tiger bread, tescos is better
Tesco is definitely up in S tier IMO. Has everything you need from a supermarket, and is so large that it usually hits all price points with quality you expect at that price. And the Tesco meal deal is the undisputed king of meal deals.
But they have been losing brands lately. Tell me if you see any Heinz in Tesco. I guarantee you won’t find any.
@@perebima Heinz is still in Tesco. At least in London it is. Heinz is overrated anyway. Only Heinz Ketchup is superior to any other brand. Branston Baked Beans FTW
@@perebima saw Heinz today in Tesco.
Evan, I'm extremely sorry to burst your bubble on this one, I work in ASDA, and ASDA, Morrisons, Tesco and Sainsburys get all their stock from the same place. They all sell pretty much the same products in their supermarket mainline brand items and budget items.
I know this fact because I've seen products from those stores in our boxes.
I mostly agree w you but I don’t find Asda to be that bad. Also the Lidl bakery is unmatched! But my favourite supermarket is Tesco because it has such a good range of vegan products
Walmart actually sold Asda last year to an investment group and some brothers who own petrol stations so I don't think the Walmart/Asda comparison is so relevant anymore.
Walmart still own part of Asda but they only bought Asda relatively recently, people talk as if Asda is a rebranded Walmart
I feel like Poundland has less stuff for a pound everytime I go there
real especially in 2024
I didn't know SPAR is also in the UK :o It's one of the biggest supermarket chains in Austria (counting Interspar and Eurospar)
Yes, either a village store, gas station store or small convenience store. Mostly for top up shopping
@@julia2jules good to know! Thanks :)
'Spar' means Save in German. In the UK usually just a grocery shop rather than a supermarket
Spar have been in uk for decades. There used to be one opposite my Infant school.
I also had this weird realisation but the other way around, both for SPAR and Aldi, my boyfriend is from Vienna so it was a huge culture shock for me to find out that they have Aldi but it's called 'Hofer' there, even was shocked that the logo is literally the same as aldi just with the name change.
Co-op are heavily involved in a lot of progressive social programmes - they're based in Manchester and have a very admirable social corporate ethos. It's your duty as a human to love them.
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The hilarious thing about this is that Aldi and Waitrose share a lot of the same suppliers! I used to work for Aldi and that was the big "in joke" in the company.
I disagreed with virtually all of your rankings 🤣 my local morrisons is shocking and all the fresh meat I've bought has been bad quality. So definitely low down on the ranking list. Asda is A tier, the prices are cheaper and the quality is usually great. I don't know why you were told never to buy meat in there, I've never had issues in Asda. Sainsburys is expensive for what you get. M&S is S tier for quality but price wise not many people can shop there often, it's more of an occasional treat. Iceland should be a lot higher up, lots of people do their full weekly shop there and they do sell fresh meat, fruit and veg as well. Its not all frozen foods.
Man I’m offended. Iceland in F???? I actually do my weekly shop there, I prefer to use frozen veg than fresh. They also have exclusive collections from restaurants and cafes like chiquitos and greggs which are great.
@@csnide6702
Indeed, frozen veg more often that not, is more nutritious than fresh. I've always got peas, brocolli, cauliflower, runner beans and cabbage in the freezer.
I will occasionally get fresh broccoli if I want tenderstem.
Except prices in Iceland are actually bad compared to most supermarkets. Like it’s expensive when you compare against the others
9:11 depends what you're getting! I get all my broccoli, green beans, cauli, etc from the frozen section because these veggies are flash frozen, so they retain all their good nutrients. sometimes even better than fresh veggies, because they don't get to age at all. a nice bonus is that they're cheap, what sucks is that they come in plastic packaging.
Same here. They cook quicker as well.
I don't know about anything else, but Sainsbury's has an amazing vegetarian range. Tons of options, both in ingredients and ready meals.
We have a local spar. Nowhere near a petrol station and a lifeline to the elderly who don’t drive.
Edited to add, frozen food is often fresher than fresh food. Fish can take days to reach the shelves but is also frozen immediately on catching so is hella fresh, the same for frozen peas.
Frozen food is usually healthier than "fresh" or "chilled". They put extra chemicals in the food and the packaging to keep the food fresh for long enough in the fridge. In the freezer they don't use any chemicals as the freezing does all the preserving. The move away from frozen to chilled has definitely caused more issues with health.
@@onlineo2263 while I generally agree and prefer fresh or frozen veg, the “chemicals” in bagged or packaged salads, pre chopped veg etc are usually nitrogen gas and some carbon dioxide gas (too much oxygen makes veg go bad faster). Any other chemicals are likely to be the exact same as what’s on fresh veg from during production.
Of the issues with packaged veg (and there are more than a few) “chemicals” to keep the food from spoiling are probably not the most pressing.
Frozen spinach is great too and won’t shrink as much (as it’s pre-blanched) 👍
But there's a world of difference between "Frozen Ingredients" and "Frozen meals"... Always frozen peas, frozen fruit gets you through the winter, frozen fish def. But frozen ready meals, sausages, etc... There's much better quality frozen stuff these days, but there's still plenty of cheap, CHEAP crap that's frozen because it won't hold together fresh.
Your missing out B&M, it’s a lot like home bargins. Farm foods is another frozen food shop and heron foods is now owned by B&M so half is frozen food and the other is more like a co-op. There are also Nisa and 1 stop which are cornor shop franchisees like co-op which have been missed out.
I grew up with Asda and then Tesco during my uni days and Ive recently decided that I think I prefer Asda over Tesco.
I’m from Yorkshire and farmfoods, spar, heron etc. are all really cheap local shops to me
Ps. If I had to say which mic sounded better, I think the ad break mic < the rest of the time
seeing evan approach this from the "i go one place for my weekly shop" perspective threw me off, like if im not going to at least 5 of the places on this list and a arden center to get the things each place does well, then i havent been on a weekly shop.
Sainsbury’s Motto hasn’t been “Live well for less” since about June Last year, It’s now “Helping everyone eat better”
Sainsbury’s is generally the same price as Tesco in comparisons.
Tesco meal deals are now £3.50, they followed Sainsbury’s by including pastries hot food and Costa drinks.
tesco meal deals are still £3 with a club card tho lol
unless you have a clubcard then suddenly prices are slashed left and right lmao
@@JasperCasper24 yeah I guess, but have you noticed how Tesco no longer do normal offers like other supermarkets? You get the same discount but you need a club card to get that discount, but they trick people into thinking that the club card will actually make it cheaper than everywhere else. They know what they’re doing
@@Thomashorsman Tesco is waaaaay cheaper than Sainsbury's, not sure where you're shopping mate! Yea you need a clubcard, but obvs why wouldn't you
Not with a club card, and their club card points are useful too, unlike worthless nectar.
I agree with your Tesco thoughts! I don't buy food from M&S, but I never get bras from anywhere else. Their fitters are great and really professional, there's a huge range of styles and sizes, and for the time they last the price is really reasonable. I've never had an uncomfortable bra from them, which is more than I can say for anywhere else. I also like their home section - it is a bit pricier than other places, but things from there will last for ten years. The only thing I don't bother with is clothes - waaaaaay over priced.
@YakuMorisuke I'm not sure if Evan is in the market for bras 😉
Oh my god you're the only other person I've seen who buys bras from m&s! I've been buying my bras from these since i was 15 they last forever and fit me so well the last time i needed to buy a new bra was like 5 years ago!
Yes! My mum always took me to M&S for bras!
@@rhi6798 same here. They're so comfy and last me ages.
I do love M&S bras but my fitting experience was not good lol. Had a fitting there and couldn't understand why the bras didn't feel like they fit me at all. Then I tried other places like La Senza (when that still existed) and Bravissimo and found I'm actually a totally different size. As long as I buy the M&S ones in the actual right size then they're great though!
I adore the Aldi middle aisle ❤❤❤I once brought a 6 person inflatable life raft from there and went for a ride down the river with some uni pals in Cardiff
Why would you buy the eggs if they were broken? Is it not a normal thing to open the carton and check the eggs?
Yeah... my list would be almost completely different from Evan's, Sainsburys would certainly be ranked higher.
Can you please say why you’d give a better ranking? :)
So glad to see a Yorkshire based supermarket make the top of your list. I’m fortunate enough to live near a large Morrison’s located in a historic 200 year old army barracks! It adds so much more to the weekly shop going there than to some modern shed structure!
Yeah the Sheffield one is awesome. It has some great smaller business next to it the butcher was (when I was a kid) the highlight, really friendly staff and great sausages.
As someone who used to work in a Morrisons I've got to agree with your rating - absolutely one of the best supermarkets and really great to employers too (£9.40 an hour at the age of 16, everyone gets paid equally no matter what, awesome staff, full holiday pay and an all-round great employer)
Well I too use to work there(Morrisons) and before them at Safeway too,, as a supermarket I dislike Morrison,s and Tescos and Sainsburys ,, I much prefer Lidl,Aldi, and Asda but my favorite is MS,,, the foods great and the prices are not too shabby...
Ooooo you hornet's nest kicker! I actually don't know anyone who does a weekly show in one supermarket - I tend to get the fresh stuff from M&S, the 'branded' goods from Asda, as they're usually the cheapest and I know that Heinz Ketchup is going to taste like Ketchup, and the Lidl bakery is just perfection!
To be honest, Evan, I think that your London-centric viewpoint hasn't done you any real favours, because there are regional supermarkets you'll not have the chance to try, so rating them is impossible for you, and some others have bigger stores in London and maybe some larger cities, but elsewhere they are little more than glorified corner shops.
E.g. Spar is one of the earliest large convenience stores rather than a proper supermarket. It's often found in places where there aren't any of the big supermarkets. In a couple of places I've lived, it was a godsend because it was the only place where we could get every basic need at a reasonable price compared to corner stores - it was the first of its type in my (very large) home village (more a place people commuted from rather than visited, so not really a town despite its size).
Where I live now, the Co-op fulfills that role. Mostly larger convenience stores, except that they have "real" supermarkets too, which may have a bunch of different names depending on the region (you have to understand the history of the shop to get why that's the case, but it does make sense). My mum worked in one of the earliest Co-op supermarkets back in the 70s, called "Leo's". It's been through some iterations and last I looked it was "Pioneer". Great shop, btw! The full-scale supermarkets are reasonably priced and have everything you'd expect in a supermarket. But because of the regional/independent nature of the company, the quality is going to vary a bit more than with a single company.
Tbh, the majority of the supermarkets are much the same, a lot depends on the people running each one. I'm more than happy with Asda - I have a delivery coming today. In fact they do gluten free dog food at a reasonable price, and for owners of a dog with a gippy stomach, it's a lifesaver (definitely a nose saver lol)! But our main shop, done by Hubby (tl: not explaining why) is done at Tesco's. Neither of us has a problem with either store. I'd definitely rank Asda a _lot_ higher than you.
Poundland (along with Home Bargains, B&M and similar) is NOT a supermarket! The name says it all. I don't think you could do a week's shopping there 🤣 You probably get a wider variety of things in London shops, but definitely not outside a big city (and I wouldn't buy food there, beyond a snack if I was desperate).
Like I said, a lot of your opinion regarding the quality of the whole shopping experience is based on the people who work there. You'll think a place is better than it is if they're all really helpful, and you'll think a well-stocked, reasonable price place isn't so good if the workers are miserable (btw, if the majority of them are miserable, chances are they've got a total douche of a manager, so be nice!) Food quality is something you have to try yourself because we all have different needs. If you shop v regularly, short "lifespans" for fresh food is irrelevant. If you do a big shop every month, you do it knowing that certain goods will need replacing quicker.
I haven't been to all the shops you mention, but I've lived in a number of regions throughout England and Wales, and local quality of the same supermarkets is a real thing. It's best to try out each one when you move to a new area (not all in the same shopping run, of course!) and see which one suits your needs the most. You might find that a store you hated in your last place is now the best in your new. It usually depends on the structure of the company and the nature of the local manager & workers. You _will_ grade a shop higher if the staff are brilliant even if there is no significant difference between it and a competitor nearby where the manager couldn't organise a p!ss up in a brewery and constantly need to have willy measuring competitions with everyone, including his female staff - or hers. Plenty of b!tches in britches.
(I'm being metaphorical of course, just in case anyone thinks I'm transphobic or something else shitty like that. I hate having to clear that up... From the perspective of it shouldn't even be a thing! The bigoted sh!t, that is. This is going to go around in circles 🤦🏻♀️ Just DON'T be a douche to ANYONE!)
In the US people in food deserts shop at Dollar stores and in urban settings newer dollar stores are built with refrigeration sections and frozen section and expanded grocery selections. Economic downturns and inflation spur this trend on stateside. I imagine in the UK in a London- centric context a similar happens and Poundland becomes a corner store, convenience store fill in shopping experience for many especially students, immigrants and people on tight budgets.
The only Spars I've seen in London have been in Petrol Stations. And the food is terrible quality and overpriced
"Most of the Co-ops I've seen have been a bit on the small side." Implying that all Co-ops aren't small.
Sainsbury’s has good clothes. Most of my wardrobe is from there
As someone from South Africa we have a lot of really big Spars and they have really good quality. I go to my local Spar almost every day so it’s funny to see it described as a “gas store”
I can't believe Booths was not on this list - my favourite food shop to just go and look around and not actually buy anything (except at christmas as a treat).
Booths doesn't operate in the South.
Neither does Fulton's foods :)
As someone who used to live in the south, I’m surprised Budgens wasn’t on here….or have they gone belly up since??
Have seen a few budgens recently at petrol stations. Not as stand alone shops though
i only know pound world from a tv show on channel 4 where they did a sorta jokey ‘pound shops wars’ where pound land and pound world were both trying to grow their reputation and stuff and honestly it was one of the best shows i’ve ever watched, it was incredibly entertaining
Man this is pretty funny and I’ve never even gone grocery shopping over there across the big blue lol. You GOTTA do one of these for America too bc there’s too much content there 😂🧨
I prefer the off-screen mic, but your visuals and audio are always so much better than literally everybody else I’m subscribed to. You are already killing it 🎙🗡
From a Sainsbury’s worker:
S: none
A: Tesco, Lidl
B: Aldi, Sainsbury’s, Co-op, Poundland, Iceland
C: none
D: Spar, Morrisons
E: Asda, Farmfoods
F: same as, Home Bargains
Tory: Waitrose, M&S
I'd knock co-op down to c but otherwise Preach says this ex sainsbury's worker guy.
I love how the screen moved with the lil “no no no” finger wag lol
Also, the shure SM7B has the crispy, professional radio sound- as expected. The other mic gives more atmosphere, making it sound more as if we (viewers) would be if we were in the same room. As an audio engineer, I always love the close, clean mic- but I understand the appeal of it being out of shot
Yeah I think the SM7B sounds nicer due to my room being untreated (it hides it better!) but I've just gotten 2 acoustic panels the hang up on the wall so we'll get some better sound going forward! :D
Farmfoods was a delightful discovery for me last year. They have massive tubs of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream. And lots of other frozen food - very much like Iceland!
SPAR often serves small towns and villages; not common to see them in the city. Still very expensive, but they get supplies out rurally so I guess they get away with it.
As someone that has worked in the bakery section at an Asda, I have 2 things to say;
F tier is accurate.
I will never buy from the bakery section in an Asda again.
99.9% of things (including the "freshly baked in store extra special" bread comes in frozen, doughnuts are sugared by hand using a tray of sugar that has been sat there for weeks, and, in terms of hygiene.. All I'll say is hands aren't washed frequently enough, and the bakery section is closely tied with the rotisserie section. Read in to that what you will.
Edit: Off screen mic actually sounds better with my headset lol
It feels so new, yet so familiar… the desk vibes
I as a student normally bulk buy my meats at Aldi alongside any dry food (pasta, rice) but then go to tesco for fresher things unless I'm cooking that day
I wouldn't shop anywhere else but Sainsburys. Their online shopping is brilliant, it's reliable and the prices are brilliant.
It's so personal and subjective! I have ADHD and grocery shopping is SO hard to focus - Sainsburys gets my money because they don't have in-store music, our local store is spacious and friendly. The local Morrison's is a high street store, and it's SO cramped, low ceiling, and the jangling music and adverts constantly playing bounce around the hard surfaces causing chaos in my ears! It used to be a Safeway when I was a child, and we did our weekly shop there... went to Publix in Florida and had such flashbacks to Safeway! It SMELLED the same! (in a good way :D)
Herons, Home Bargains and stuff like that made this tier list but not a B&M?
Man they're everywhere.
I like the microphone in the shot, I feel like it makes the foreground and background more balanced. As for audio quality, I honestly couldn't tell a difference between the two.
I see your co-op rating and raise you this: their salt and vinegar crisps are literally the best crisps on the planet. (also honestly I think if I had all the money in the world and lived near an M&S food hall I'd shop there all the time!!! all the phizzy tails in the world to eat)
I would reccomend you try Aldi's version
Pretty good as well
M&S fruit juices are the best.
A big factor for me is scan and go, it's really relaxing, and means I can pack as I go. Stops the major anxiety of the checkout.
'M&S's prices aren't as bad as some of the other ones'
Wtffff are M&S's just on steriods where I live, cos they are on a complete other level compared to Waitrose etc
First: liked the sound on the off screen mic better.
Second: THANK YOU for doing this! I'm moving to the UK in September and it's nice to have some info on where to shop for basics. =)
Everything will vary depending on where you move too. Also Tesco Express/Sainsburys Local have a price premium compared to Tesco/Sainsbury
How on earth has this man lived here this long and never heard of farmfoods?
Probably a good thing. It's a solid D.
Feels like a warehouse full of food rather than a supermarket
I've lived in the southwest all my life and never heard of any of the shops in the Who TF tier list.
i don’t like asda in general but we have a really nice one near us. i don’t like to shop there but i love like the actual building it feels really light and it smells good and i like the electronics section
Sainsbury's are the only shop ive been to that does vegan marshmallows. They also do potted chives and oregano. Not a weekly shop, but maybe monthly/every two months
m&s do vegan marshmallows!
I think sainsbury’s local aren’t great, but the big sainsbury’s are very good
Asda do vegan marshmallows, but my store is a massive one, so it may not be in all stores
@@jwb52z9 a plant? It is made from egg whites...
@@jwb52z9 Marshmallows are made from egg whites and gelatine. Most marshmallows aren’t even vegetarian!
When I worked in a large office 20 years ago, the supermarkets were very much split by "class". I knew people who would never be seen dead shopping in "common" shops like Tesco and the Co Op. One day I was queueing at the till in the Co Op behind a cat lady, who presented the cashier a pile of coupons for her cat food, and then paid the balance of a couple of pounds by writing a cheque. I get a Farmfoods flyer through my letterbox regularly. They are a frozen food shop, that "piles it high, and sells it cheap". So everything is priced like "3 for £5" etc. You often see people in there with shopping trollies piled high with just milk or bread.
Sainsbury's is in the perfect spot for me in terms of price and quality. It always seemed to me like their products were the same or just a bit more expensive than Tesco, but every penny extra yields significant gains in quality.
Also Asda's horseshit, not even that cheap, especially since Aldi and Lidl became a big thing. Maybe it is arguably just smol Walmar, but THAT'S THE MAIN BENEFIT OF WALMART.
Poundland and Spar are definitely D tier.
Coop is nice expensive stuff.
Tesco is mostly alright.
Never been to a Morrisons, as far as I'm aware they weren't at all in the South-East until a few years ago.
Edit: Tesco meal deal is a true classic
Sainsburys own brand cooking ingredients are far superior to Tesco. Much bigger variety and just an overall better quality.
Farmfoods is pretty popular in towns and rural areas. They have good quality frozen food plus pretty cheep name brands. It's a good place to buy bulk from to top up your freezer.
Evan, I hope your new home is treating you well. After everything you went through, you deserve some peace and relaxation!
Thank you! I actually found a video I filmed on my photo booth app yesterday that I'd completely forgotten about and that never made it in my vlogs and damn. Really made me appreciate where I am right now. Just a rough watch of watching me die inside on another soul-crushing phone call.
Any little stresses I've run into the last couple months (of which there have been many, so it goes) I always try and appreciate that it's something mildly trivial to be stressed about in comparison to most of last year and then... I keep stressing but a lil less upset :')
@@evan I'm glad to hear that you're doing better than last year. Keep up the great work!
1:30 they didn't do a collab with Habitat. 🤓 Unless a collab is defined by buying a business and then sticking them in your own supermarket. 😂
They bought Argos and Habitat a few years back. That's why you can now find both Argos and Habitat inside of Sainsbury's.
M&S is definitely more expensive than Waitrose for a weekly shop
Have I been to some crazy M&S's or some crazy waitroses
@@evan honestly no idea what M&Ss or Waitroses you've found because Waitrose is 100% more affordable than M&S. Waitrose has an essentials range!
M&S is generally higher quality I find. Also I would die for percy pigs.
@@evan No idea, but Waitrose do a 3kg bag of pasta for a fiver! The only thing I go to Waitrose for as a student
Spar is a really curious thing, because what it does heavily depends on where you look for them. In Germany, I really only see them as tiny shops at train stations the size of a to-go bakery. I go to Yorma's anyway (you can use their syrup dispensers, vanilla, cinnamon and almond flavours available, to spice up your coffee and their baked goods are amazing). However if you go to South Tyrol, you will have DeSpar (local town shop, has most things, maybe even a butcher stand inside), EuroSpar (proper supermarket) and InterSpar (HUGE supermarket that has EVERYTHING! TVs, bikes, household stuff of all kinds, an entire area dedicated to wine, beer, meat, cheese, other dairy, giant fruit and veggies area etc.)
Then in other places around Europe they just have small shops. They seem to pursue different strategies in different places.
I used to live near an M&S foodhall and I miss it, they had great fresh bread, great own brand chocolate and snacks, and the best fresh produce, like idk where they source their fruit but it was top tier, even better than Waitrose
Well, this makes me pretty happy that my walking distance shops are M&S, Morrisons and Tesco. Not been to the Morrisons yet, but will have to go now!
Sainsbury’s and Tesco are the best overall for sheer variety choice and quality at a reasonable price all well presented and with comparison cost per 100g or 100ml. Morrisons is more down market but fairly cheap. Aldi and Lidl some good bargains but overall poor choice and not well presented and without the unit pricing co-op has Aldi choice and presentation but with Waitrose prices. M&S limited range good quality but very expensive. Waitrose a good range and presentation but very expensive. Pretty much you get what you pay for in a competitive free market
I work at Aldi and I can say that our produce/fresh food as you mentioned doesn't sell out too quick, not because its not popular choice, but because when its delivered there is ALOT of it and because of some safety precautions like stacking crates or boxes too high means we can usually only stack things 2 or 3 high depending on the box/crate size/design but since the delivery size is large a lot of it gets backstocked which just winds their use by date down until we have space to put them out.
side note, things like watermelons are a bit of an arse cause they are huge and even in the box they come in its hard to restock, and especially since we have to rotate them its a pain to lift a box of super heavy melons to put them underneath the top ones
Lidl is better than Aldi due to its international food week themes, Greece, France, Spain, Italy plus The Alps make it a destination for quest items other supermarkets don’t do!
Aldi has these too, I get the big cans of olive oil, the austrian noodles, a huge spanish ham (half price off after a week, uhhh..) and the very affordable sesame oil when it's "Asia" week ^^. Well I might be biased having had an Aldi directly across from me when I was a kid. Oh and the scandal where Lidl had cameras in their employees changing room took my money away from them.
They have a better meat selection too with fresh bread, something which Aldi no longer have.
@@mirabellegoldapfel6256 The Aldi near me is pretty small, they don’t have the weekly items as much, whereas my Lidl is bigger. Aldi does come up with some gems for sure, but I find it more random than Lidls themed weeks in fresh, frozen and dry goods, which are all so good for cured meats and exotic cheeses, as well as the tinned and jar stuff!
i’m really enjoying how seriously some people are taking this
If you like your supermarket to smell strongly of fish Morrison’s is the one for you!
hahahaha
My favourite was always just Safeway, because they were our local supermarket. Then they got bought out by Morrisons, of course, and rebranded... But it's still Safeway really. Sainsburys always feels like the kind of place your grandparents shop. Probably because that's where my grandparents shop. Asda and Tesco I always see as basically equivalent; they're pretty much the same as each other.
Thanks. I was going to ask what had become of Safeway.
Where booths?
It's pretty interesting to see what someone else thinks about the different supermarkets.
I grew up in a family that only ever bought from the co-op and kinda passively taught us kids that all the other supermarkets were too poor quality to go to - my mum refuses to buy anything non-organic if she at all has the choice, and tried to impress it onto me and my brother that we needed to stick to that standard ourselves when we move out.
Given The Co-Op's socialist foundations, it is very expensive. There is one within walking distance from me, but my small income doesn't go very far in there.
@@eattherich9215 oh, it's definitely expensive. Once I move out I doubt it'll stay as my go-to place to shop because of that. My parents struggle with money, but so far have never started shopping at somewhere cheaper to save money - hence what I meant about my mum being stubborn with where she buys from - but I really don't care about quality like that.
I'd be interested to see you do some blind taste tests on these supermarket genre defining things likes fruits, meats, own brand cereals! Who did this tier list? Evan's tongue or Evan's eyes?
My boyfriend calls that middle aisle at Aldi "Argos has vomitted".
I would say that Farmfoods, Heron Foods, Fulton's and Iceland are sort of similar - every one I've been in has been a smaller shop, with an emphasis on frozen goods. Also, there used to be a Poundworld and a Poundland in the same shopping centre here.... not really sure of the difference!
I like the on screen mic - helps me focus cause it doesn’t sound like you’re just in the background haha
Personally I would rate Aldi and Asda as the best. Aldi mainly but also as where I live they are very close to each other so incredibly convenient. I rarely shop in our Sainsbury's and have shopped even less in our Morrisons.
Evan, please don't take this the wrong way. But... I LOVE the way your microphone is in shot some of the time. Keep it up!
This was far more fun than any Supermarket Tier List should be. Whenever Evan claps his hands together, he reminds me of a market trader trying to close a deal.
I like the studio set up and my pick for the best sound is the off screen mic.(the one on the swing arm.) :)
Justice for Asda!
Genuinely the heron foods in my town looks like it hasn't been renovated since the late 1970s when it opened lmao
Home Bargains, Poundland and Spar are very much not places to do your weekly shop. Haaa.
I think Poundworld was bought by Poundland a few years ago, who then swapped the branding to their own.
We shop at Lidl, Tesco, Waitrose, Morrison's and Poundland... in that order! Main shop ALWAYS at Lidl, extra stuff at Tesco and Morrison's (depending on which town we shop in), speciality and treats at Waitrose and crap for the kids at Poundland!
Iceland in the F tier? For shame Evan
My favourite supermarket is a solely online supermarket- Ocado. Can get soooo many things for people with food allergies from Ocado. My mum is gluten intolerant & I’m lactose internet. We find we have saved money shopping on Ocado & got a lot more choices. Also they have some of the cheapest delivered charges as well as giving you money back for returning bags to drivers. Plus I get M&S foods from them.
Interesting Fact: Tesco has stores in Czech Republic (The first time I went and I saw a Tesco I had to do several double takes!)
Pretty sure that so does Spar.
@@js66613 Can't say I've seen those, but I'll keep an eye out next time I'm over that way!
i was very surprised to see them there too!
@@js66613 Spar went out of business here in Czech years ago. Most of the stores were bought out by Albert
I've been to Spar and Morrison's, both in the northern quarter of Manchester. Also been to Co-op in Manchester and Redcar, as well. Yes, Sainsbury is more pricy, as is Sainsbury Extra. Lidl in the UK has that nice wall of rolls, flatbread pizzas, freshly baked bread, and various seeded breads. The most grocery shopping that I did in the UK was at ASDA (prior to 2019, when they were owned/ partly owned by Walmart) and then bought most of my fruit and veg from a market stall in the city center. Very low prices from that market stall, and very good fruit and veg !