Reply to: Where do you food shop? (poll + opinions)

[Xenophon]

Waitrose cos it is the closest. Plus the nosh is good, as is the wine selection.

[Toffnana]

CostCo

We used to do all our shopping at M&S because it 'just tasted better' and we accepted the cost.

Then a friend told us about CostCo so we thought we'd give it a go.

We have just this weekend spent £300 on shopping for the basics that'll last well over 6 months, with only needing to go out to get our meat and veg once a week at most. Then worked out if we'd bought the equivalent (ie. exactly the same named brands) from Tesco online and it worked out as £420..that's a pretty huge saving for exactly the same foods. Think we're lucky though with a cellar to store all the boxes, looks like a local shop backroom!

Also, gotta say the veg and fruit is really good quality something I wasn't expecting.

Toffnana

[basshead]

Tesco/Waitrose are nearest to home so a lot of the time I go there - Waitrose first then Tesco for anything they don't have.

Then Sainsbury's if I go on my way home from ClientCo.

And Asda if the wife goes on her way home.

And Morrisons if I go at lunchtime.

[portseven]

We use Aldi, good food, clean store and cheap!

[BrilloPad]

gf uses Ocado and highly recommends it

[TykeMerc]

Asda because it's closest. Tesco before we moved house the last time because that was closest. Sainsbury at the house before that because that was closest.

Don't care where I shop as long as I haven't got too far to go and the parking is easy

Pretty much what Diver said except Tesco is my closest.

[Diver]

Asda because it's closest. Tesco before we moved house the last time because that was closest. Sainsbury at the house before that because that was closest.

Don't care where I shop as long as I haven't got too far to go and the parking is easy

[Gonzo]

Then again, M&S don't appear to stock spanners & things for getting boyscouts out of horses' hooves... unlike my favourite Lidl...

So what sort of place is Lidl

There is one not too far from where I live, but based on the general area immediately around it, instinct has told me that I don't want to go in it. Am I wrong about that?

[Gonzo]

M&S was the first to double-wrap vegetables in plastic (when others sold them loose).

M&S was the last to switch to dolphin-friendly tuna (they said it was just a fad).

M&S was just about the last to cotton on to not using BFK food colouring.

M&S was also just about the last to cotton on to not using tartrazine and its ilk in children's drinks. M&S has always been the worst offender from an additives perspective.

M&S was very pro-GM and publicly criticised organic food and good animal husbandry. I'm surprised Twiggy took their blood money.

I can't be arsed to carry on, but from a green perspective, M&S should have gone down the pan ten years ago.

The last clothes [white work shirts] I bought from there started coming to pieces in the first wash. Their product quality became appalling.

Retail has always been cut-throat, but M&S have always had the worst reputation by far amongst their suppliers.

No matter how hard they try to convince the market they have changed, some of us will never forget. I wouldn't cross the road to pee through M&S's letterbox.

You are Jeremy Paxman and I claim my five pairs of M&S Y-fronts.

[RichardCranium]

M&S was the first supermarket to ban transfats...

M&S was the first to double-wrap vegetables in plastic (when others sold them loose).

M&S was the last to switch to dolphin-friendly tuna (they said it was just a fad).

M&S was just about the last to cotton on to not using BFK food colouring.

M&S was also just about the last to cotton on to not using tartrazine and its ilk in children's drinks. M&S has always been the worst offender from an additives perspective.

M&S was very pro-GM and publicly criticised organic food and good animal husbandry. I'm surprised Twiggy took their blood money.

I can't be arsed to carry on, but from a green perspective, M&S should have gone down the pan ten years ago.

The last clothes [white work shirts] I bought from there started coming to pieces in the first wash. Their product quality became appalling.

Retail has always been cut-throat, but M&S have always had the worst reputation by far amongst their suppliers.

No matter how hard they try to convince the market they have changed, some of us will never forget. I wouldn't cross the road to pee through M&S's letterbox.

[PRC1964]

Waitrose for the dull stuff and the local deli/butchers/fish shop for the rest.

M&S smells of old ladies and is stacked high with microwave meals for one.

But that may just be my local one.

[TimberWolf]

M&S was the first supermarket to ban transfats in their products. Banned in the USA and Denmark, they are in almost everything at ASDA and Tesco, including bread.

trans-fats lead to coronary heart disease, infertility and according to some american studies cancer.

http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/articles...articleId=2145

http://www.foodnavigator.com/Science...rogenated-fats

[badger7579]

Tesco all the way but only because its close

[s2budd]

Order of preference:
Waitrose
Sainsburys
Tesco
M&S
Other (Netto/Aldi/SPAR/etc)
ASDA

[s2budd]

Waitrose?

Waitrose?