Which Supermarket Is Cheapest For A Basic Shopping List?
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- Опубліковано 15 лют 2020
- In my recent budget challenge videos, a lot of people told me I should be shopping in Aldi or Lidl (or just told me that I shouldn't be shopping in Tesco and Asda)
Let's check out prices by shopping a similar list in every supermarket I can find... - Навчання та стиль
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What did you do after the challenge? Trip back to 11 supermarkets for refunds or did you keep it all and accept you've done 11 week's worth of shopping in one video?
Also fantastic video. I do love to watch your challenges. If you're on the lookout for new ideas, perhaps cheapest possible fakeaways?
I don't think food can be returned for refund unless defective.
I didn't want to talk too much about this, because of the inevitable toxic comments backlash that will come, but lots of people are asking the same (fair) question as you. I'm giving it to a food bank. That's part of the reason the shopping list is a bit weird and basic - it was based on their recommended items list.
Atomic Shrimp
Wait ... let me get this straight:
You bought food.
You are donating it.
People leave toxic comments.
I’m not doubting you but ... what is going on in their heads to even do such a thing?
I generally found your comment section pretty well behaved for youtube standards but you’re seeing another side of it, ofcourse.
Thanks for helping out the less fortunate and being a truly good sport about it. Thanks for your Videos and your time invested in them :).
Yep, most of the comments here are lovely, I agree, and I truly enjoy interacting with them, but there is a very vocal minority of people who seem to like to cry 'Virtue Signalling OMG! f*** you!' - makes me sad; personally, I'd like to see more public figures (that is, the people I want to look up to) setting a conspicuously, purposely good example, more often. I don't even care if they are doing it to make themselves look or feel good.
@@AtomicShrimp Those sort of comments will stick out in your mind. When you get one try and read two more good comments.
😂 😂 😂, you have no clue, all that shopping is now tax free, as expenses for the video fool, no one wasting anything. Win win. I am happy
I always found around me lidl is by far the cheapest, but they often don't have normal stuff in stock - this week there was no dried pasta but several shelves of paper laminator machines.
Now I want to know if I can make pasta in a laminating machine
@@AtomicShrimp could probably fit spaghetti through it if you believed hard enough
I also do find it justifiable for the lidl own brand jam/conserve being so expensive (which isn't even that expensive) as it does taste pretty damn great. The black cherry one is amazing.
For me if I go to Aldi or similar stores (Hofer and Eurospin) they have some things that are cheap but good but then they also have things that are more expensive than in your regular grocery store+ the quality is hit or miss - you can sometimes find great things but other times it's just nice on the outside but it's hot garbage once you bring it home.
@@milkpastasoup8960 I agree - they actually used to do a 'sour cherry' jam that was even better
Less opportunity for impulse buys in Aldi? Try telling that to my chainsaw, quirky bird feeder, 10 piece spanner set, tin of blackboard paint and yoga mat!
those aren't impulse buys. Sometimes you want to go into a forest, do some yoga at 9, feed some birds at 10, go to the kid's cabin at 12 and teach there about fixing euipment using the spanner and blackboard and kill them with the chainsaw at 7
Lol the middle isles alway gets me. You know that it’s not likely to be there when you next go in as well.
I walked out of Aldi with a bloody electric razor I didn't really need so I know exactly what you mean 😤
Carl S Most amusing! 🐨🌷
that $50 inflatable kayak is eyeing me...
As an American what I took from this is that I could save money on groceries if I booked a flight to the UK, did my shopping there, and flew back
It's true food is somewhat cheaper here and as an American living in the UK I sometimes look at the prices and think 'woohoo, this is great' but keep in mind 1) exchange rate, 1GBP is currently 1.42USD, and 2) gas is really expensive here, so if you have to drive to the shop that cuts into your savings and general life expenses.
@Adam We don't have tax on most 'essential' food in the UK. I lived in NZ for over 12 years, been back in the UK for 9 or so, still can't get over how cheap food is here compared to NZ.
@Adam Also worth considering that shipping freight is much cheaper than trucking, nowhere in the UK at all is far from a port, at least not by American standards. Even food we have to import costs less generally than taking something from one side of the states to the other. We're a small country, nothing has to travel very far.
@@daxidol1447 Yeah the tax in the USA is different in every state in my state WA there is no tax on grocery store food items unless it is cooked and ready to go that is taxed like ready to eat Sushi or Pizza or something like that.
go to aldi in america
“How dare you use a trolley!” - Personally those remarks of that nature made no sense to me, trolleys make things easier even if it’s just a few items.
My philosophy exactly. Can't hold it in your hands? Get a trolley. Baskets justs smack your legs lol
Yep, 2nd time tonight a YTer I like is feeling defensive because of crap comments. Hope they can rise above that. Must be kinda hard
@Hacker Killer maybe it's different around the country but where i'm from the big supermarkets near me always have like 10 million trolleys available at all times.
I have back and hip problems that aren't bad enough to use a motorized cart, but I need to be able to lean the trolley occasionally. But I've never not been able to find one.
Trolleys can also be modded with anti tank turrets and land mine detectors to defend yourself against a American army platoon
I love the passive aggressiveness in this vid. Not only in your responding to comments but also spending 80 quid and visiting several different shops just to show people they're wrong
Side note: pay no mind to people telling you how you should make your content. Do whatever you want, it's your channel
Here's the fun thing: critics and haters are actually just giving me free ideas.
Also it's not like it's wasted food. You probably would've bought that same stuff over time anyway.
@@AtomicShrimp #futuretrollbaitingideas
@@AtomicShrimp You should donate some to your local food bank if your get tired of them
@@AtomicShrimp Hmm, I guess we all better find ways to hate this channel harder for more of that sweet, sweet content then
Man, don't sweat the toxic comments. Your channel is right around the size where I've seen most channel owners just go silent. Still, an impressive amount of work went into this 9 minute video.
Sage advice. I appreciate it. I am going to have to make myself a rule about (not) responding to the toxic stuff, then stick to it. This might be tough for me to do, just because it is in my nature to engage in discussion and explain.
Atomic Shrimp at least in this case you made the best out of it. You took it as a basis for an interesting video.
💯
@@AtomicShrimp maybe take regular breaks and take some time before deciding whether or not to respond to stuff?
@@AtomicShrimp I am the same, I like to debate but people who leave comments like that you can't argue with anyway and they are probably not even subscribed to your channel. Not worth losing your sanity over that. (Also, let your subscribers deal with them if they so wish...often you get enough people to back you up)
I think a big part of the reason people thing lidl/aldi are cheaper is the lack of options. Nobody wants to bring themselves to buying "tescos own" digestive biscuits when mcvities are on the shelf next to them (for the sake of pride probably - I'm not poor?) but when the only option you have is the "own brand" (plus the fact they make the packaging mimic "known brands") makes people a lot happier with buying the cheapest option.
I have to say though that Aldi and Lidl own brand stuff still tastes better than that of Tesco's or Asda. They also have less quality ingredients (I am one of those who reads the ingredients list). Strawberry Jam in Asda Vs Lidl Strawberry Jam - there is a massive difference.
@@thesupergreenjudy Especially so for Lidl imo
No I’d happily buy Tesco own version if it’s cheaper their essentially almost exactly the same when you eat them anyway,
Personally I buy whatever brand I think tastes best -- within my budget. For example I've got a few cheese brands I like (Sargento, Tillamook, etc) but when it comes to string cheese my favorite is the store-brand from Walmart.
I know there are people out there who buy the more expensive options just because they don't want to be seen buying the cheap stuff, but that mindset is so alien to me. I want to buy the things I ENJOY?
@@bandlover341 My taste buds might disagree on lidl vs tesco jam but even more so my wallet. While some Tesco own brand stuff might be cheaper (even if I was of the opinion that it tasted the same), unless you have tremendous willpower you are likely to walk out of Tesco with all sorts of stuff which is massively more expensive than in any other shop. If you are one of those disciplined people I salute you.
The cheapest stores are always going to be the ones that sell their own brands of food. It completely eliminates the middle man and saves you money. Actually a lot of the generic stuff is made in the same factory as the name brand stuff ls.
Sometimes the no name contents are consistent. For example, PC Cola is Royal Crown. But often they vary suppliers, using whatever surpluses they want to get rid of. For some products such as tea and coffee, this can make a big difference.
I work in the food industry and can confirm - this is true.
The company I work for supplies into Aldi, Lidl, Morrisons, ASDA, COOP, etc. (you get the gist). We have contracts supplying under their own brand, as we don't sell our products self-branded. Most of the times we will use the same exact product for all of these customers, but the in store price can vary from £0.35 to £1 per unit of THE SAME EXACT product.
ButterBall and Taporzz are making the common mistake of confusing same factory with same quality. The same factory might make 10 brands of sandwiches but if the top end ones have higher standards, requiring better quality ingredients, more likely to reject stuff that doesn't reach a standard etc then arguing they are the same is daft.
If one sandwich is £1 and they are happy with the most basic industrial grade mayo and cheapest possible cuts of tuna with cheapest possible bread, while the other wants Heinz mayo, line caught top grade tuna and freshly baked bread, the fact they're made in the same place doesn't mean they are the same
@@Gobtik You obviously didn't read my comment. As I said, we send THE SAME EXACT product to all the stores most of the time.
And although the same product is sent, you are right about the fact that if there is limited availability for top quality, then the retailers with the least strict quality control may receive the worst product. That being said... It's not the most expensive and top brand stores that have the strictest quality control. Aldi has one of the highest standards, but the lowest retail price. And some top end stores like Morrisons has slightly lower quality requirements.
Although Lidl will accept pretty much anything, so the low price = lack of quality here.
When I say I work in the food industry, I don't mean literally in the warehouse. I know my stuff (and my customers).
Some big brands like Nescafé (coffee) and Kellogg’s (cereal - mainly cornflakeses), in the case of the former, “don’t make coffee for anyone else”, and, in the case of the latter, it says on the box: “If it doesn’t say Kellogg’s on the packet, it isn’t Kellogg’s in the packet” - a lot of supermarket own brands aren’t very nice - supermarket cornflakeses taste horrible - especially when you further cheapen them by putting powdered milk on them and refuse to make it up,in accordance with the instructions on the tin - so you end up with horrible tasting cornflakeses with coloured water on them - not my decision, unfortunately!
Some supermarkets sell only branded products - if you must use that specific supermarket or it’s the only one you can go to that doesn’t necessitate unnecessary travel, you can’t cheapen your shopping by getting own brand stuff - the cheapest between maybe Clover and I Don’t Believe It’s Not Butter - but it seems, according to the uploader, that B & M only do branded products, whereas Lidl and Aldi only do their own brands - and it’s touch and go if it tastes just as good as the branded products!
I have been known to go shopping with - usually for - my family - there was no Lidl or Aldi then - and the shopping list necessitated me going to several different supermarkets all over the place to save 1p on this, 2p on that - totally forgetting that any savings made are subsumed in bus fares and it’s a ten mile round trip between home and town and back and heaven knows how much more between each shop - and there’s the inherent risk that you could be done for shoplifting - although, if you largely only purchase supermarket own brands, like we did - unless one company has a stranglehold on that product and no other company can manufacture their own version - if you have bought supermarket own brands or that big brand is not stocked in whatever, they can’t do you - Asda don’t sell Sainsbury’s cornflakeses!
My sister nearly got done for shoplifting bottles of Newcastle Brown Ale from an Asda branch once - she’d actually bought them from another place - only when they checked, they didn’t do Geordie tea in bottles - only cans!
If you must shop like that, you really need your own car, or access to a car - then you aren’t forced into going into additional supermarkets with stuff bought elsewhere! And, for frozen food, stick to one place - car or no car - or even if it is handy and nearby, it can defrost - as for getting it delivered, the option didn’t exist in those days - but imagine doing multi-shop shopping and (disregarding this Covid-19 nonsense) having loads of delivery vans pulling up outside your door - could cause tailbacks!
LOCAL RADIO TRAFFIC NEWS:
There’s a two mile tailback in the area around such and such a road in such and such a town as the such and such a family have been shopping and delivery vans are queuing up to drop food off!
Easier just to go to one shop for everything, wherever possible! I do my main grocery shopping at Iceland (nice food, and they do home delivery - except that, on the last two occasions - the most recent being yesterday - they sent out the work experience lads and they couldn’t find my address or couldn’t get an answer from the non-functioning entry phone - said he rang, but my phone didn’t ring - I saw the van pulling out of my road - I called the store and he came back again fairly quickly - there’s a bloke who does it regularly who has no issues - has he retired?).
Smaller items like bread, butter, sugar, tea bags and stuff, I get from the local One Stop or the little Tesco down the road - too much trouble going all the way across town for hardly anything!
I lost it at "In order to record videos, I have to hold a camera" ahahahhaha
@Spencer Rees he coulda just built one o 'em butler bots from that there trainsformers movaies
Tripods: am I a joke to you?
@@ReverseBurst yeah and get told to leave the shop or worse, get robbed outside of Tesco.
Didn't they say something about spending a pound for a trolley?
Do shops in the UK make you pay for shopping trolleys?
In my experience, you deposit a coin into the trolley and get it back when you're done shopping.
@@theuncalledfor Yep, I'm American and my first experience with that was at an Aldi's. And cashiers SITTINGIN CHAIRS?!? Why the fuck haven't we adopted that!??!
UA-cam: yo wanna see the cheapest supermarket in the uk.
Me: i live in canada tho.
UA-cam:
Me: ok
Let us distract you with videos of people doing rolly pollies.
In europe theres Aldi nd Lidl tho
Though
Im in the usa but same yo
german bloke here, same
My favorite part about your channel, other than the variety, and your voice, both of which I love and continue to watch for, is exemplified in this video. When people comment something you genuinely become curious and test it out for yourself, within reason. All I mean to say is I think you have a lot of integrity, and I enjoy your content, keep it up.
Thanks. I appreciate that you understood me. A lot of people think I am just being salty when I respond to comments by making videos, but it really is more that there is something curious to be explored around every corner
Just when I thought this video couldn’t get more British, you apologised for the rain on the window 😂
"wheel of politeness"
I imagine someone in switzerland watching this stunned, because he could've bought 1 item for the price of most of the shopping lists
tell me about it. I´m from Slovakia, currently living in Prague, Czech rep. Well, both these countries have the highest tax rates for groceries compared to our salaries. Benefits are a joke also. Quite a challenge for a single parent to cope.
The worst of it is underdevoleped countries that use Euro as a curency. In Greece the prices are nearly the same (15-20E) for this list but the wages are 400-500E and not 2500E like Brits get (Converted). So yeah good luck saving money
Oh yeah in from switzerland its aids
Literally me
@@LintuOfficial You should move to England and meet a guy here, like meee! :D
The £shop is actually very expensive for food, because when everything is at £1 a lot of items are actually marked up from what they are in normal supermarkets, which is sometimes even less than 50p. But people still buy food there because they have the illusion of cheapness.
Me, a Canadian, living in Japan, who's never been to any of those stores: Fascinating!! :o
And now you have a lot of rice pudding to eat.
According to his reply to the pinned comment, he donated them to the food bank. There's no way anyone's eating that much rice pudding in one sitting
Also, I haven't ever stepped foot in UK. Not sure why I keep watching
@@eclecticsoffy how else would you procrastinate?
@@Mrkti I was about to comment something, but the context of the original reply is lost to history
US viewer here. I'm in Mississippi which is supposed to be cheap, that shopping list would've easily been over $20 even at the cheapest stores buying the cheapest brand. I'm just amazed
One more thing regarding the "should've gone to aldi/lidl" comments is that neither of those stores allow you to weigh out your own veg as far as I'm aware. They sell some loose produce but Aldi definitely charge a fixed price per item. The limited budget challenges would've been over before they began if you had no choice but to spend £1.29 on a 2kg bag of potatoes.
Exactly correct
Well, if you are really living on a limited budget instead of just doing some idiotic challenge, buying food in bulk is actually cheaper in the long run. It is kind of "baking mix vs doing it yourself" kind of thing...sure, it is more expensive to buy a package of flour, one with sugar aso, but you can get a LOT of baking mixes out of it.
Potatoes can be kept pretty long if you keep them in a dry and dark place.
But yes, I know the "I am just a single person I can't buy that much" problem. Nowadays Aldi has more products for this group than it used to be.
@Hasiger Hase
Aldi's price for perishable goods does tend to vary significantly by region, for instance in Aachen a 2kg bag of potatoes will cost around 1€, with one kg of onions coming in at 45 cents, whilst things like broccoli and cauliflower are ridiculously expensive (2,50 for one cauliflower, 1,50 for one broccoli. You can get three broccolis at Rewe for that price)
@Hasiger Hase try local farmers!
On the dipping front, remember we are a sea faring nation, even officers dunk their hardtack to soften it to the edible range. The harder the food the longer it lasts. And digestives aren't actually tea biscuits, often we use rich tea biscuits or others which quickly do try to drop in your tea.
So it is a cultural practice to dunk that harks back to our history, and we have biscuits designed especially. Ginger nuts aren't as nice if they take half your teeth out.
But digestives aren't a specific tea biscuit, they are multi purpose. You eat them savoury with cheese, or use them in baking for crumbles or cheesecake. Thus, they are in most everyone's home. So they aren't perfect for tea, but they are a staple for us. The other biscuits get fancy, for afternoon tea, not for a tea break snack.
All i can say is most biscuits are designed to be softened before eating. Not just in tea either.
I keep rediscovering this channel for completely different reasons, it's crazy. First it was a scam video, then a video about an Ecosphere, now this! Keep up the amazing work man, can't wait to forget I know about this channel until another completely random video that will pop up on my feed!
I have just done your price comparison now, in November 2022, for those items on your list. So far, Asda total £16.88, Tesco £16.22, Morrisons £22.40 and Sainsbury's £15.00! Sainsbury's is less now than it was 2 years ago, I'm amazed! I also ran it by Iceland which came out at £30.89. Haven't checked the others yet 🙂
I live in America. This doesn’t affect me at all. Most of these places don’t exist over here. I have no idea why I watched this video but it was good nonetheless. Screw those nagging commenters.
Right? I would love to see an American do the same thing, especially interesting to see if Aldi, a store we do have, ranks similarly. Of course, in the states we would need to try it in each state to hit all the local grocery stores, there is just too much variance. I would check Aldi, Save a Lot, Giant Eagle, Marc's, ACME, Whole Foods, Big Lots, and maybe a Walmart if I were to do this in Ohio.
@@Lord_zeel Yeah each state would be different. I haven't heard of a good chunk of those stores.
Although those shops aren't global, it might open someone's eyes to shop at different places. Even if money is not an issue, it can be fun to safe some cash. And maybe you find a different (cheaper) brand of product you like better :)
@@Lord_zeel I feel like this would be more interesting in a bigger city. All I really have near me is a Walmart and an HEB. Anything else apart from a dollar store would be out of the way.
They got aldi in Minnesota and boy oh boy is stuff cheap there
This man REALLY went out of his way to not only buy the same groceries in different stores, but to also ORGANIZE them so neatly together at the 3 minute mark.
This is the kind of quality I needed, haha.
Do forget the spreadsheet he did showing the prices of everything single item cheapest to expensive at 6:40 quality indeed.
He didn't buy the same food, this video is retarded, no one willingly eats a tin of asda own beans -_- should have done it with all branded not cheap and branded, this video is dumb as fuck
Yea the practicality and legit purchase is so much nicer than some other channels.
@@ZoTacDoesUA-cam Do baked beans really mean that much to you? LOOOOL
@@ZoTacDoesUA-cam shut the fuck up, you're just mad that he's getting more views than your shitty channel
the shock is that coop is more expensive then m and s
They try to flog terry's chocolate oranges for £3 each. bloody criminal.
honestly after shopping in any co op its not really a shock
I live next to one, only shock is that it cost that little, would have thought closer to £20
@@sjmclean0 it does cost £20 in total
It’s because they can get away with it, if you live somewhere rural, the Co-op is your closest option for grocery shopping.
These prices all seem so cheap until I realize its in pounds
add ~40% more for equivalent USD price
I just made a list to compare the stores around my area (Georgia) which have online storefronts. I've included some American substitutions such as graham crackers instead of digestives, .5 gallon of milk instead of 1 litre, chicken noodle soup, canned tomato soup (since not all stores have mug soup mix) and single service rice pudding (since Publix was the only that carried cans.)
Here are my results for ONLY the non-perishable items:
Lidl: $10.61
Aldi: $12.82
Kroger: $14.63
Walmart:$16.30
Target: $16.87
Publix: $19.15
Prices include 2% sales tax, which isn't included on the websites until you're checking out.
Of note: Target and Kroger by far have the best online search feature. Publix and Aldi use instacart, which is lacking but workable, and Walmart and Lidl sit at the bottom in the usability scale. Lidl because it just doesn't work, and Walmart because it tries to throw featured products at you before the ones you actually search for.
Interesting comparison! I live in the midwest, we don't have Publix here, but we do have Meijer. I wonder how prices would compare at the same chain in different parts of the country.
the only two of these we have in virginia are target and walmart :( my family mostly ends up shopping at harris teeter and giant, though we'll occasionally go to wegmans or an international grocery store (like lotte)
Man I wish we had Lidl in CA
Digestives are not like crackers. They are er... digestives.
Holy shit, I can't believe german brands are this cheap in the UK and the US.
Something doesn't seem right there.
I'm Canadian. I've come to the conclusion.. EVERY SINGLE thing you bought is at least 3-4-5-6 times more expensive here..
As an Australian I feel you, mate. How much do you reckon exchange rates figure into the price difference?
Matt Morgan 1 cad = 1.17 ausd
My milk is 8$/4 litres.. you tell me
@@jeremyvalley3623
Being Australian living in the capital here (ACT)
The milk currently is $1.20 per liter of milk.
Milk was about $1 a liter, just that's gone up a few cents recently.
In the U.K you can get 6 pints (3.4 litres) of fresh milk for around £1.50, I’m feeling fortunate!
No Frills seems to have the best prices here in Alberta. Walmart is okay priced however their produce is a little steep.
Safeway is a rip off.
we brits are very proud when it comes to saving money
This has actually helped me with sorting out a shopping list, i started living independently last October and i have found it hard making a shopping list for the week
I love your passive-aggressive remarks on people who criticise you. Not many people on UA-cam have the courage to mock them and make a video about it. Props to you.
A Movie Character that’s not true
There isn't much courage needed to make passive agressive remarks, in fact the opposite is true. Also the internet is full of people mocking each other
Not sure if this is sarcasm, but I find his reply quite entertaining, and it's also helpful for people looking for cheap groceries, even if it's a bit of trolling too.
If you like that kinda comedy, check out ross's game dungeon. Not really the same content, but the comedy will probably be right up your alley.
I absolutely love it!
No surprise to see the Coop as the most expensive. When I was at university I had one pretty much round the corner and the prices at that one seemed extortionate.
baked good are the only decent thing from coop, feel sorry for anyone paying there above average costs.
did you go to Sussex by any chance?
@@mAnIaCSpOt I did! That coop really is terrible when you're living on campus
@@mAnIaCSpOt Why yes I did.
@@camillemaurer9094 which halls were you in?
I’m sorry people tend to be so mean to you, I watch your videos from time to time and only ever see a kind, friendly man (or just his hands). I don’t see what people’s issue is. Have a nice day
i keep telling people asda is more affordable than tesco and the rest!!! i'm not sure if that'll still be the case now that they're not owned by walmart anymore, but asda have really been my saviour. everything from toiletries to the bakery, canned goods to fruit and veg, household items to frozen food - they have everything at an affordable price with good quality, consistent discounts and multi buy offers etc.
I've been finding better yellow sticker deals and hidden discounts/stock clearance sales (meaning they didn't update the price on the shelf, but it's actually much cheaper once scanned) at our ASDA than any other stores lately, so there's that, too.
Thank you! My partner was trying to convince me that we were spending loads more in co-op so need to change but I didn't think there was that much difference, how wrong I was!! From now on we're off to Asda! :) I'm sure he will be very grateful you have helped me see he was right!
@Jaden Kubick what does that mean
@@abg5381 probably an epic joke about how the wife is always right or whatever
Coop burns money. Not all grocers are made equal.
The co-op local to me was turned into another branch of a different more local shop a couple of years ago, the round-the-corner branch continuing to exist. The foods the two sell have some differences, but I feel like the prices are more unified, and I don’t quite remember what the co-op prices were like. Still, I can probably gather that they’re not good, going by this video.
I love how when it came to Sainsbury's you just had no comments. Just like the rest of the UK, we've kind of all just forgotten Sainsbury's even exists.
I sadly had to go to a Sainsbury's on Christmas eve because it was the only shop open. Their prices kind of made me feel better about impulse buying that alcohol in Aldi.
Lol I only shop at Sainsbury's cos it near
I don't know if it's just my local Sainsbury store but they seem to have stopped marking down their fresh fruit and veg when it's near it's best before date to clear it. Also some of their loose fruit and veg is left in the crates until it's rotten. It's the only supermarket guaranteed to disappoint every time I go there.
@@jonfox1919 I hope it's just urs ,😂 mine seems fine
It’s so much nicer to shop in Sainsbury’s than my local Lidl, Asda & Tesco’s. Wider isles so no one bumping into me. Better quality of food and nicer staff. Happy to pay a bit more for it.
I am blown away by how cheap groceries are in the UK! I was looking at the pile and thinking, "That's gotta be almost $20 worth."
So, I just went and added this all to my shopping list for HEB(A Texan grocery store) and my total, before tax, was $17.77. Yep! Almost $20 worth.
That's mostly store brand, too. (I picked the cheapest of every option.)
I like to shop at Aldi when I can because it's so much cheaper than anything else near me. Just seeing things under a quid on your list was like, what? How? There were only two items below a dollar on my list; the pasta and the tomatoes.
This video was very interesting! Thank you for making it! I have been previously shocked by how cheap food was in Germany, now I get to be shocked by the UK, too. Hahaha
Right i've never seen something under 0.50$ even snack 😭
@@nekochadechu I did it again to see how much inflation has changed things, the total is now $21.65. Wow
In the UK they have no added tax to essential food items. I live in a developing country and even my shopping haul would be more than 10 pounds, cause VAT goes brrrrrr.
Pounds have more value than dollars though.
I thought you were angry that OP said “should OF” instead of “should HAVE”. Grinds my gears so much
That's why I clicked on this video lol. I was like "finally someone will show them" :D
Haha! Same!
@@BrotherChad Amen to that!
who cares that much about strangers' grammar
@@mica8701 1 word, betas
The thing with Co-Op is that it's a convenience store, it's more so there for the "Oh shit! I need____" kinda moments
I'd say it spans convenience stores and supermarkets. The smaller ones are undoubtedly convenience stores - the larger ones - they have multiple different varieties of apples, potatoes, etc, they have multiple different brands of white bread, baked beans, tomato soup (as well as own brand) - for me, that's what defines a supermarket
@@AtomicShrimp That's true but, those are rare at least in Wales where I live, they're mostly at the end of the road for me, and they're 6AM-11PM where are traditional supermarkets tend to go 9-9
I just think they are a garage, petrol shop addition that got too big for its boots, with prices to match.
@@AtomicShrimp Not sure if this dynamic is true in the UK, but in the US I'm always shocked at how dumb shoppers are about Unit Pricing. Bigger isn't always better.
@@waynemontpetit8181 Yep. People (often students) who buy those huge 10kg bags of pasta, when the 500g bags are actually better value because the rate of sale supports a slim margin.
"in order to make the videos, i have to carry a camera" lmfao. people really be whinin' 'bout the most inane shite just ta tryin make u look bad.
Yep, funny old world eh?
Yea, like oldest question
Why use a can opener for pull to open cans :D
Yes I know
@@mateuszzimon8216 he said it was because of his fingernails because of his fingernail biting habits made him incapable of doing so(referring to fizzy drinks) and also he doesn't like to pull tabs (referring to canned goods).
welcome to youtube I once uploaded a video years back of a clip from a stream and comments where people raging about me not having a crystal clear mic, and some people getting weirdly mad about me playing VVVVVV not perfect
An extended family level Costco shop once every couple of months for non-perishables, Lidl/Aldi for perishables and Sainsbury's for the occasional luxury item.
My entire family has managed to reduce annual grocery bills by a third.
@Niffy yeah aldi/lidl its widespread in Europe, the others not at all
Usually I find that you get what you pay for :
Get cheap cereals, they will mostly be sugar and finegrain instead of just wholegrain like in a more expensive cereal.
Which ironically makes them more expensive if you think about it, since you have to eat(pay) more to get the same kinda nutrients, and then you get a bunch of sugar on top, nice.
Now it is true that you pay extra for brand names, and save extra for in-house brands.
Which makes buying the premium in-house options, with good ingridients, the best bang for your buck in most cases.
@@andymerrett well, processing takes time, and most ppl trade their time in to get money in the first place(jobs), I think in western society most things have a really good "time to money to time again-ratio".
Im just worried about the quality of foods getting lost in the processing.
As a marketing specialist I can tell you, Aldi and Lidl have an in-store-strategie in place to make it look cheaper to the consumer. There are entire studies out there on things such as lights, shelve height, floors and ceilings. These all impacr desicion making. I found your slread sheet very nice! Would love to try something simular in The Netherlands
I was wondering if this might be a factor. Aldi and Lidl make it a priority to market themselves as the cheapest--maybe that marketing works even better than people think, even if the products are not always cheaper.
Whatever their marketing strategy, I go into Lidl every week with a shopping list and come out paying £10-15 less than anywhere else I go (except Aldi, haven’t tried as there isn’t one near enough)
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
Also, fellow English people, please stop saying “should OF/could OF” it’s embarrassing.
"if you hear that tapping noise in the background, it's pouring with rain outside"
Everyone in Britain: It's okay, boss. We can't hear it over the rain tapping on our own windows.
Haven't watched the whole thing yet, I feel like 99p stores and "discount" supermarkets, poundshops, are oddly deceptive. Things seem cheap, but the value is often worse, especially the ones that sell smaller versions of branded products that are a worse price per 100g.
Yeah, the most important part is the weight to price ratio. Also the quality too. Low quality tuna is most often than not fragments floating in oil than anything else.
Really, it is better to find quality discounted stuff than to buy anything else. Of course, you must check the true price first. Wouldn't want to get a princely discount of 5 cents. ;)
Lol it's actually raining now :) Storm Dennis is hitting and the weather is a bit worse than usual.
Also yeah I try to bulk-buy stuff like cereal wherever I find a good deal. Never trust those cheap stores, they buy much smaller quantities compared to big supermarkets, which means the price is naturally higher.
@@GygasDistruttore Indeed, while there is some stuff in Poundland that is good value, its never safe to simply assume it's cheaper just because its a pound. I'll often google prices when I shop to check if something is good value because that's how sad my life is.
Pineapple road not true there mate, i spent a quid in Iceland for 6 tunnocks wafers
Thank you for being one of the few that sees through the whole "dollar" bullcrap; at the end of the day, the value just isn't there for so much of it -.-
ignore the haters, you're doing a cracking job
This channel is so English and wholesome. I love it.
I'm sick rn and I'm binging your videos and tbh it hurts to laugh but its worth it when you make such clever quips in your videos. Thank you for having such entertaining and informative content
This may sound like a over the top comment but God Shrimp your food related work needs to be made part of the curriculum in schools. The sheer amount of knowledge you possess is going to waste when so many teens should be learning all you have to offer. Quality work as always and I guessed the trolley was to hold the camera glad I was right lol
At school we made pizza and burgers, really fucking helpful school curriculum advisers. In primary school we grew cress and had cress sandwiches, now that was actually good!
@@eskimo4130 Our 'cooking' lessons were mostly things like fairy cakes, rock cakes and the odd lasagne or stir fry. Probably the most complex things we ever got to attempt were meringues or cheeesecakes. Frankly it was more baking than anything else and even more theory besides that - and even then we only really did it for 2 years. Never did anything in primary though.
That's the thing with schools, sure you get an education but they need to start a real life skills class. Things such as foraging, living on a budget, paying bills. Cooking that extends beyond a few basic staples and the odd meal. Call it Atomic Shrimp 101.
@@LJAndrews1986 Agreed. School only really taught me social skills. Everything else i learnt out of school. Sure basic maths and science etc i learnt at school. I think the internet and ambition were really more beneficial to me. But there were really some life choices that could of been made easier with a good life skills class.
Can you imagine organising a foraging class? I don't know where you'd fit that in
As an American, I needed none of this information but I surely enjoyed learning it.
Hey man a bit late to the party but I just gotta say thanks for making videos like this. like it's different and can actually help the lives of some people, I will find this knowledge incredibly helpful this year as I am going to uni. So thank you again your videos truly are life saving.
This is so helpful because I'm going to uni in September. Good to know the cheapest shops and best quality items.
2:14 as a supermarket shelf stacker i can tell you sir, youre a menace. lol
Hahaha
Meh - I am about 20 years removed from working the shelves.. but that kind of set up was just accepted and adjusted as I processed the isle. I'm usually more annoyed when 'overstock' ends up flooding near by locations, removing the room needed to fill it with the proper product.
As a maintenance person, it doesn’t bother me
I got triggered by this haha
My mum worked in Sainsbury's when she was 16 & 17. She still gets annoyed at me when I put shopping away in the pantry with the labels facing the wrong way. She's 51.
*Me, a North American, Unironically* : "Ah yes, United Kingdom supermarket wars. Riveting"
"Un-sarcastically", but I get your point.
@@LeeStoneman unironically is correct smh
Aldi is in the US
@@spoopify5560 You being in the US and watching something about the UK is not irony. Look up what irony actually means in a dictionary.
@@LeeStoneman they never said being in the US and watching something about the UK was ironic. There are many comments on this video from Americans saying stuff like "Me, an American watching this video: Interesting" But they're obviously saying it ironically (as a joke). This person was saying that they actually did find it interesting, unironically. Un-sarcastically would have made sense too though
That is insanely in depth research and I hope that the revenue makes up for your costs!
You are one of the greatest, most comfortable, relaxing, lively and natural youtubers there are. Every video is a little holiday in the Chill Land of Quite Nice Stuff and Pondering
Great video, good to see the comparisons. Although I appreciate how cheap Lidl and Aldi are for certain things (especially junk food, which is actually not a good thing) for the most part the compromise on choice doesn’t outweigh the price difference. I tried for a few weeks to do my main shop in our local Aldi, but found the choice of fresh veg not wide enough, but at the same time the majority of stuff is pre-packed so I ended up with more than I needed. I also found their selection of dry goods to not be extensive enough. The vast majority of my diet is vegetarian and I cook from scratch for 95% of my meals, so I use a wide variety of veg, pulses and grains, and the budget supermarkets just don’t have what I need. I tried for a while combining Aldi with the world food grocer next door to get a better range of veg, but this combination was both more expensive and more time consuming than going to Sainsburys or Tesco for one shop. Personally the time factor is fairly important so I just went back to shopping at Sainsburys and trying to keep cost down by only buying exactly what I need.
As someone else has rightly pointed out in this comments section, Tesco’s has really made a push with the quality of its products, however working there for months now I have seen the prices slightly climb, and sometimes the price was going up faster than the quality
Also one other factor is that smaller stores will have penny higher prices than larger stores, however when you get back to super store size, prices go back up
Those ms molly's biscuits are terrible.
Personally, i've found Tesco's own stuff, including their Finest range quite poor. The Finest range seems to have excessive sugar thrown into it too. Their wholemeal rolls for example, they're like hot cross buns!
Yeah I agree with what both of you have said, but there are some Tesco own brand stuff which is actually pretty good. For example the finest crisps are pretty good, and so are the own brand regular desserts
In the premium private-label sector, I actually really like Taste the Difference in Sainsbos - their cakes for example are well presentable
Tbh the best part of tescos is the pastry section
I almost always grap a cart when I intend to browse, even though I don't carry a camera. Nice with something to lean on, put the jacket in, and stuff like that.
Agreed - it just seems more sensible than hauling a hand basket around
Same here, just likes the feel of lean on a cart
you must be one of them torrie divvy wankers
@Retarco I grab a basket so I don't impulse buy but I do anyway, so by the time i'm ready to checkout my arms are ready to fall off lol :/.
Retarco or put the basket in the cart and carry on shopping
Could do with testing this out again, now that Sainsbury's has "Aldi Price Match" on certain items. :)
This video took a lot of thought, time and work to make, was very comprehensive and informative and benefitted both the viewer and the people who received the donated food. A win win situation. Thank you for posting.
So now you have a pantry filled with different brands of the same ingredients, now we need to know which ones taste best!
That's something *I'd* love to know... and for which items do different brands matter most vs least to the taste?
taste is kinda subjective
He’s donated these items to a food bank. That’s why the list was basic as they’re the items the food bank requested. He’s a good lad 👍🏻
Tesco
@@marhabacarpet8593 u tryna say Tesco own brand meatballs taste better than sainsburys to anyone
That conditional formatting 🤤
Having you is a blessing @Atomicshrimp ❤️❤️
You are like an elder family member who teaches his kids on real life topics and occasionally takes them on walk in nature.
Rarely leave a comment at all, but what a wonderful video. So good to see this being donated for a good cause as well :) keep up the good work!
A good test, it's always good to check these things as I've found in my own country many people believe certain supermarkets to be the cheapest simply because they've always shopped there.
I'm an Aldi employee in the US (Yes, we have them here) and I gotta say the price differences are wild. 4.56 for the dry goods comes out to about 5.90 USD, but here in the states an order like that always runs at least 15 dollars or more. That said, the cheapness still holds true, as an order that size at say Target or Walmart here would easily bring you to 20 dollars or more.
I agree with this. I live in South Florida, and there's an Aldi by my house; the prices are comparable to the Walmart across the street, with some items even being less. I enjoyed shopping there when I could because the layout of the store was interesting.
For context, asda is owned by walmart.
It's also got a lot to do with location I reckon. US is huge so it changes a lot state to state.
I did 2 head-to head comparisons of Aldi and Wal-Mart. Aldi always came out 10-20% cheaper. The only parity is fresh produce, it varied by item but overall they were very close. I'm kind of an Aldi nut since they came to Texas.
@@sallyjune4109 Do Aldi and Lidl pack your shopping for you in the USA? In the UK they go even further in time savings - the space at the end of the checkout is tiny, forcing you to put your loose shopping back in the trolley and bag it at tables behind the checkouts after you pay.
"some bargains" haha, I love this guy.
I'd love to see more of these type of videos. Finding ways to save money is essential in this current situation.
As well can we get this guy more recognition, this benefits anyone shopping in the UK ,and the time and effort put into this video is amazing for the size of this channel
Hear, hear! Poor sod will be eating Cheerios for a decade (not really, he donated it all to a food bank after, God bless him).
Always knew that Co-op were a rip off shop, even their "close to use by date" reduced stuff is more expensive than the competition's.
Co-ops are mostly smaller local shops so you pay for the convenience. They're more expensive because they're less efficient operations overall than larger shops.
@@armadillito ....still doesn't explain why their "reduced" stock is so expensive, one would have thought that they would want to get to get it sold off rather than it going into landfill.
You have to also remember that M&S/Waitrose/co-op all pay their staff more and are much better ethically (check out ethicalconsumer if you’re interested).
@@armadillito So, makes them more expensive then.
The CO-OP are a funny store especially when you consider the roots of the place all being about looking after the working classes etc. It is pretty middle class these days. One thing though is that the welfare standards for animal-based products are pretty much the best in the industry and the general quality is very good regardless of product. They charge you a pretty penny for that though.
Id love to see a video like this again now that the prices have inflated somewhat. It was super informative at the time and I still refer people to it
Great survey. For the most part this matches my experience, and like you said the order will vary depending on the items in the basket. To have a measure of value, rather than cost, it is important to compare the quality of the items. For example, you could have selected only Jam with the same fruit content. I strongly suspect that the 21p jams has very little fruit. I normally shop in two supermarkets. This used to be Aldi & Tesco, but is currently Aldi & Sainsbury's. The main reason for the change was convenience and travel cost, as I changed where I worked last year. I noticed that the Sainsbury's was a little more expensive, but the quality at the same price was higher, and they did not hide all their offers behind a membership scheme. For example, at Christmas Tesco were selling may favorite liqueur at £20 per bottle (With a £5 discount to members). As all the other shops were selling at £15 per bottle this equated to a hidden 33% surcharge to non-members rather than a member discount. This is something I see with many of the Tesco "special offers".
Always though about this, especially the way Aldi advertise their own brand products against branded versions and claim to be cheaper than Tesco etc.
In the last year or so Tesco have done a big push on their own brand products to win back some customers from aldi/lidl, the quality is better now and they branded them differently. IMO asda have the cheapest own brand products (but lowest quality) and charge the most for branded products, at least of the lower end market shops.
magnets1000 true but lidils jam absolutely slaps
Its all in your head. 90% of supermarket product are all made in the same factories, just with a different recipe of flavours, quantity of ingredients ect.
I see M&S scotch eggs make next to Asda basics ones, WITH THE SAME meats and eggs! Aldi and Lidl coleslaw made next to Sainsbury's taste the difference, WITH THE SAME carrot, onion, cabbage ect.
Mc Devvo what makes products prices different is the packaging. For example Sainsbury’s taste the difference will be almost exactly the same as the regular, but the packaging will have thicker packaging will more complex printing processes and depth of photography and colour
The real question is just HOW much different were the name-brands compared to the store-brands? I'm sure some things are significant, but I figure most are generally the same.
look up the supermarket chain "jacks" which is Tesco's version of alid / lidl
Thank you for your work!
People need to relax, I don't think I've seen so many pointlessly aggressive comments just coming out of nowhere, as if left by people who think they're higher up on the brain scale or some crap.
Really peaceful, simple and interesting content, you easily get a sub.
My level of gob-smackedness at the incredibly cheap food prices in the UK continues unabated! Around $10 AUD for the non perishables, CRIKEY! That lot would cost at least$20 to $25 here.
This was a man picking up non brand goods in the cheapest and lowest quaity possible. At any rate, your higher wages make up for groceries costing a bit more.
As someone else said, these are the cheapest possible stuff. I'm sure you could do the same there if you didn't get any brands
@@zily7866 higher wages bloody oath that's joke right. Higher wages even if that was true does not cover the cost of living. Also is Australia that aldi list would be closer to $30
Richard Gibbs Yes, well... I think the major reason for UK prices is competition. And a big market place, esp as part of the EU. Here we are at the mercy of a duopoly/cartel which gouges farmers on the basics and imports dodgy foodstuffs from the world’s poorest countries for their ‘home’ brands, while making a killing. Aldi has done quite well here in recent years, but they are not established where I live. However on my travels I tried them; I found their lack of reliability a pain, tbh. Not everyone here earns megabucks, either. That said a decent weekly shop at Woolworths will cost a single person around $100 minimum. Average loaf of bread costs $4, artisanal $6+. Non home brand milk - my brand $2.30 per litre. Eggs $6 doz. One AUD = approx 50 p
I like how no-one has mentioned that 10GBP is about 20AUD. so it basically is the same. ;/
Who else was waiting for the "should of" rant hinted at in the thumbnail?
I... wasn't? Maybe I _should of_ been but there was a lot going on there!
(and I'm half asleep)
Perhaps one should HAVE gone there... because one can't "of" go there....?
"Should have /of" has always been one of my bugbears. Remember being pulled up by my parents over it. It's probably rubbed off on me.
It's the sole reason I watched the video.
Damn, just seen this now after posting. Should I apologise?! Answers on a postcard....
Thank you for this video. Keen to see a comparison between 2020 and 2021. I feel as though food has become so expensive this year.
I find it super interesting how prices of same thing change in different countries. I compared same stuff (same brands) of multiple shops and aldi came out way more expensive in some cases and way cheaper in others than lidl. Tesco was super high on the list, Kaufland had cheap fresh products but everything packaged was extremely pricey
I mainly shop in lidl, mostly bc if has what I'm looking for 95% of the time, in other 5% there is no basic stuff but there are coffee machines and winter shoes at summer
Small local shops are cheapest, you dont have everything at hand but if you walk around few shops you will find everything you need really cheap
Should have had the soul called Barrister John Warrosa do your shopping for you.
(In Hermiones' voice) it's BArrosa! Not Warrosaa
There's nobody like the soul called mr Barrister John Warosa!!
*“Should of had”
Nathan Tew nah its “should have”
@@nathantew2180 what is this use wtf (i am r/wooshed)
This video is really interesting, especially from the perspective of someone in the US (like I am).
Especially because I don't know any of these stores, and never will
@@spencerervin6312 You dont have an Aldi near you in the US? I have been up and down the east coast and seen them in every state
@@geyotepilkington2892 funny thing is, they're only really on the East coast- with a couple in California.
Not sure if it's the same chain but co-op is in Japan too.
@@AdlerTX Several stores in the midwest.
I am an American.
I will never leave this country.
This video has zero impact on my life.
This was a good video.
Thank you , subbed.
Really enjoyed this- thanks!
I've never heard about these supermarkets neither about brands, probably because I don't live in UK..
But I like spreadsheets, so, yeah.. watched the whole thing xD
Aldi and Lidl are german markets
Asda is part of the Walmart family if you're stateside
Mr Shrimp, you shouldn't pay any mind to "the haters". Strangers on the internet will endlessly criticize you , but for what it's worth me and my mum think you're a principled and upstanding man. Please keep up the good work
I never really thought where I was shopping would be relevant to what I pay (except in the case of going to Sam's club or Costco for bulk buying or whatever) but it's kinda crazy that you can pay over double the price depending on where you go and if they have off-brands or not. Very interesting 🧐 ((I say as I never do the grocery shopping for our household))
It's actually crazy how much prizes differ between stores for the exact same thing, especially if you look for special offers. I always used to make fun of my parents for comparing the advertisements of different stores to find decent offers, but now that it's my own money, I absolutely see the sense in it. Just last week I bought a kilogram of stag meat for 14,90 €, even though it usually costs something north of 30 Euros a kilo, for example.
You can approximately halve your expenses for food if you:
-look through the advertisements once a week and adjust your diet to what's cheap at the moment (which also has the additional benefit of having lots of variation in your diet).
-know where to buy what if there's no special offer right now
-buy non-perishable or freezable goods in bulk. This is especially useful for meat that can be frozen, potatoes, onions etc.
As a United States citizen, I'm not familiar with any of these stores, but I thought your approach was very neat. (The budget challenge videos are also pretty interesting) Thanks for sharing your findings.
This channel contents can be summarized as "random" and "addictive"
This pretty much checks out. When I lived in London, I did my shopping in Aldi and Asda and managed to keep a pretty tight budget. But every time I would have to go to Tesco for some stuff, it would always be at least £5 or more over what I usually paid for in Aldi or Asda.
As an American, this video is kinda strange because I don't recognize a lot of these products and store names. I never realized how different UK brands are from American ones. Very interesting to look at
They aren’t even uk brands lol
Very good , thank you .
Quite a project. Thank you for the effort. Hope you picked up a side opening can opener in your travels.
Bit of trivia, I've never seen a instant cup-o-soup tomato flavor here in the US, Tomato soup is pretty universally sold in cans. Also, some of those prices look to be pretty cheap by American standards. That pasta you panned by would have $1 at even a discount store here, but that 27p converts only $.34 at the current exchange rate.
I live in a quaint Tudor part of the UK and in 1999 there was a big kerfuffle because Tesco wanted to build a modern supermarket on the old livestock auction yard close to the town centre. It went ahead, I worked for them and it regenerated the street and shops between it and the main town centre shops. Now they are building a Sainsburys out on the by-pass (defeats the object of a free flowing by-pass as doubtless there will be pedestrian crossings etc) cutting into farmland with an expensive supermarket who will probably cut their prices for a little while to build a customer base and starve the town centre. Budgens supermarket moved briefly into an old Sommerfield premises in the town and failed due to prices and marketing strategy and that is now a boarded up eyesore. Job hunting again, I find that apart from the specialist jobs, e.g. bakers, the jobs available at the new store are all part time contracts the same as Tesco and One Stop and every other supermarket chain that seem to be being built willy-nilly everywhere. This, together with down graded further education is just a huge temporary fix on the true unemployment figures and lack of practical skills in the workforce. Tell me it isn't madness?
Great channel, really useful ideas/recipes and absolutely free of culinary snobbery. E.g. the recent bangers and mash episode, which warmed the heart of this ex-pat (Finland since 98) not least for its championing of "mid-range" sausages, which, in my experience, often trump the higher-end stuff.)
Just found out about you Atomic glad to find out you're donating it. Screw the people being toxic about you donating it. Keep up the great work man. Subbed. :D
That was quite interesting. You're going to be stocked up for a while. I think you might get sick of cheerios 😁.
When he gets tired of them he could grind them up and use them as pie crusts
I reckon a lot of it will go to a food bank or something
Keep stocked up for when the bat flu hits 😱
He'll have the lowest cholesterol of anybody.
KingFahtah bat flu ?
What a fantastic experiment Shrimp!!!. I always knew the co-op was a rip off with prices. But not more than double. I'm astounded that the co-op was more expensive than m&s and Waitrose.
Because I'm from a built up area Im able to be picky on where I buy things. So I kinda find myself getting certain foods in certain stores. So interesting nice one !!!
Pleaseeeee do this video again AS! I would really love to see this again with our recent price hikes 👍🏼
Wow, thanks for making this video! It was really informative, and I also enjoyed the gentle roasting of your critics 😆
It'll be interesting seeing this from the USA. :D
I know around me, in the Cleveland Ohio area, aldi tends to be lowest on most prices. The produce can be sketchy but the meat is pretty palatable.
That would be really difficult, I think! Store prices change so much depending on the state and the location of the store in the state. I’m not sure if the UK has “food deserts” like we do in the US.
If you have a 99c Only store near you almost everything is 99 cents, even dairy and produce. (although that's not the best deal on every item)
For me cheapest is Kroger with card and taking advantage of the the 10 for X deals. Aldi is cheaper per single item but I've found a few of their own brands and meat offerings near inedible. Savings are wiped out when I have to drive to go get a half dozen basics from another store.
@@revolverboomboom9776 In my experience, Kroger varies widely by location. When I was a broke college student, I tended to eat a lot of chili since my dorm only had a microwave and I couldn't really afford a hotplate or anything, and you can get chili really cheap. The Kroger I worked at near my campus sold a particular brand of chili for $1.49 a can. However, when I drove 30 minutes to visit home, I found that same brand of chili in a different Kroger was $2.49. My suspicion is it has to do with the town I'm from being generally upper-middle class, and my college town was pretty poor. College town Kroger also had to compete with Walmart (which sold that chili for $1.29), while hometown Kroger's only competition was Trader Joes and Publix, which were both more expensive generally.
We need an update when all the stores say ‘priced match Aldi and Lidl’
I dont like in the Uk but I found this one of the most interesting and one of my favorite videos. Good job!
Oops meant live not like. I would so like to live in the UK but I dont yet.