I'm a strong independent man who don't need no woman...

I've been doing my own shopping for years as well lol.  I tend to use brands when they're on offer and either non branded or go without if they're not.  I do have a pretty strict food budget though. 

1 hour ago, TomsFocus said:

I'm a strong independent man who don't need no woman...

I've been doing my own shopping for years as well lol.  I tend to use brands when they're on offer and either non branded or go without if they're not.  I do have a pretty strict food budget though. 

Lol,good one and same here,when my mom was here i was out a lot but a big career change 10 years ago where i chose to care full time,i have to say its a massive

change in life as no going out just all 24/7 house stuff and shopping being one of them but its day and night work.

You get into a routine and set times etc so shopping is like a ''fit it in'' on a time not so much a day as you don't know whats around the corner.

I have tried a few places but the main thing i would say is choice/selection and getting as much if not all under one roof even if you have to have a different item.

 

I use Sainsburys mainly. There's one right next to the motorway which is usually the way I go to work and all of my clients, so it's easy to stop in for food and fuel. There's a Tesco petrol station nearby which I use very occasionally, but I tend not to. I worked for Tesco for 2 years and hated it - one of the worst companies I've ever worked for. I worked in a nightclub when I was at uni and was treated far better there by staff/management (and probably punters, amazingly) then I was at Tesco. I also got some pretty damning insight into their practices (although it obviously does vary by store, so in fairness I imagine a lot are fine, but my manager was a prize plum who really seemed to be lacking some common decency and sense). So I'm slightly biased when it comes to picking between Tesco and Sainsburys.

Got to say i did a part time job a nice few years ago for M and S and opened my eyes what went on behind closed doors,worked there for a good 2 years.

It was at night like a maintenance/cleaner job as them big freezers and the long green fruit holders we stripped down to the bare shell and checked,there all

the same i think when them doors were shut but i have to say they treated the staff good, restaurant upstairs with pool table as there was no cafe in store.

Wish i had a 24/7 shop close either one...Tesco/asda/Salisbury   i could work round stuff to get just i could go anytime.

The Missus and I do a big shop together once a week or so if we're actually off at the same time but I tend to do a lot of small solo shops (usually on travelling home from a shift in preparation for the next one).

Due to my job usually involving a snatched break in some random car park or lay-by sat in the patrol wagon it tends to be hand made sarnies and various other pre-packed comestibles of some description (plus copious cans of a popular caffeine based, wing inducing drink).

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Agreed I worked with M&S one Christmas, definitely one of the best people to work for.

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3 hours ago, jeebowhite said:

Agreed I worked with M&S one Christmas, definitely one of the best people to work for.

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I was amazed,a person said have a break (when i worked there) and go upstairs there is a free dinner,i thought ok and a full set out s/steal big kitchen just like a

big pub/meal place with a person working behind it and a pool table,big shock.

We started using Aldi about a year ago and am saving around £50 a week when compared to Asda. Asda is our local Supermarket and its a 6 mile drive to Aldi but well worth it. We are happy with the equivalent stuff and there are only a few items we have to get elsewhere. The savings are more than paying for my Wife's new car.

16 hours ago, btmaldon said:

We started using Aldi about a year ago and am saving around £50 a week when compared to Asda. Asda is our local Supermarket and its a 6 mile drive to Aldi but well worth it. We are happy with the equivalent stuff and there are only a few items we have to get elsewhere. The savings are more than paying for my Wife's new car.

There is not a lot of branded names at Aldi and im sorry but i just cant stand the place myself,tried it a few times but like i said not for the money side being a small shopper,to save money there its all there own brands which my dad cant even eat,just my opinion.

At the start of this topic i did think a lot more would shop there but i was wrong but your right as mainly its for money and there own makes and as you said

''the equivalent stuff'',i have tried the main things there like crisps but being i have to look at the fat/sugar/iron etc they are bad,there are loads more stuff.

A £50 shop for people is like a 2 week shop for me,if people know where i come from when they have to look at the package not just eat because

5 or 10p cheaper and this is not having a go at people who do that but its a thing i have to do for my dad but i will say one thing is i do feel better

for it in the health side cutting back on stuff like this as i would eat anything 10 years ago,we all have a budget.

Aldi are spreading like wild fire here Doncaster. Soon there will be an Aldi store in most villages. I remember having to got to Rotherham years back as that was the only Aldi store around. It was new, it was novel.

They must be doing something right.

2 hours ago, Joss max said:

Aldi are spreading like wild fire here Doncaster. Soon there will be an Aldi store in most villages. I remember having to got to Rotherham years back as that was the only Aldi store around. It was new, it was novel.

They must be doing something right.

This is why i asked on here as i get the same here,i just wanted to know why as our 2 by us are bad,i think the big thing why there making so much is a few things.

Not a lot of staff compared to others,they are not massive shops,there big yes but our asda/Salisbury/Tesco you could fit 2 Aldis into it and no 24 hour ones.

No fast pay in any,every other supermarkets have them even the Express ones,not all but more of there own brands which are cheaper if only by a few pence.

This day more are for cheap which is 100% right so a £50 week shop on mostly there brand you would save a nice bit,saving 3 to 30p per item say on a £50shop

you would save a nice bit,its a free world and we all have our own choice like or hate and we all have our own opinion on stuff.

The only thing i ruled Aldi out for is being the speed i can get in and out and Branded makes,10 to 30 mins in a que i just cant do for basket items.