| Cost of living / food shopping 14:35 - Dec 12 with 12682 views | clive_baker |
I've been playing around with buying some supermarket own brand alternatives lately. I shall go full Martin Lewis with you now and reveal my findings:
Tesco Chocolate Digestives. Get on them. Only 55p and bl00dy lovely. Actually better than the branded alternatives, more chocolate to biscuit ratio. Don't buy the Molly's ones though, they're rank.
Tesco Oat Milk. Passable but not as nice as the branded one I get. £1.20 instead of £1.80 doesn't justify the trade IMO.
Marmite - Don't mess with the GOD. Bought a supermarket alternative, had it once on toast and can't see myself eating it again. Absolutely fecking rancid. Literally tasted like salt on toast.
I don't mess about with Mayo or Salad cream, I'm sorry the stakes are far too high with that.
Bran Flakes - Switch. No brainer. No discernible difference. £1.10 instead of £3 for the branded alternative that sounds like Mellogs.
Dry Pasta. Commodity product, who buys branded pasta? 41p for 500g vs. £1.50. No brainer, switch.
Nappies. Fred & Flo absolutely fine (I've always bought these anyway to be fair). Not sure why you would pay twice as much for something that'll get covered in p1ss and sh1t and end up in the bin after a few hours.
Anyone got any more hacks in your shopping basket? |  |
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| Cost of living / food shopping on 17:25 - Dec 14 with 704 views | HARRY10 |
Meanwhile
"Two major health unions in Scotland have called off strike action after narrowly voting for an upgraded pay offer following ministerial intervention.
Unite and Unison, which represent tens of thousands of NHS and Scottish ambulance service staff, said their members had agreed to a fresh offer that would give the lowest-paid staff up to £2,751, up by 11.24%, with most staff paid £2,205, up 7.5%, and a new minimum hourly rate of £11.09.
The deal, brokered by Scottish ministers, raises the prospect that Scotland’s hospitals will escape industrial action this winter and adds to the pressure on UK government ministers to intervene in pay disputes expected to hit the NHS across the rest of the UK this month."
" “Where is [Rishi Sunak’s] big effort to mobilise the country against these greedy union extremists?” — Douglas Murray, the Sun, 8
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"But in this analysis from July, Ashley Kirk sets out Office for National Statistics data that shows real public sector pay has fallen by 4.3% since the 2009 financial crisis. Meanwhile, the IFS says, real private sector pay has risen by 4.3% since 2010.December" |  | | |
| Cost of living / food shopping on 17:30 - Dec 14 with 692 views | chicoazul |
| Cost of living / food shopping on 14:04 - Dec 13 by hype313 |
Bounty's should be banned full stop, awful things, I'd prefer eating my bodyweight in Battenburg. |
Blue ones yes. But red ones are an entirely different thing. |  |
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| Cost of living / food shopping on 17:33 - Dec 14 with 688 views | OldFart71 |
Apparently recent findings show that supermarkets have increased their prices on own brand goods by more percentage wise than the Branded items. Just shows you never win as the people will if they can't get you one way, will get you another. | | | |
| Cost of living / food shopping on 17:58 - Dec 14 with 668 views | chicoazul |
| Cost of living / food shopping on 17:33 - Dec 14 by OldFart71 |
Apparently recent findings show that supermarkets have increased their prices on own brand goods by more percentage wise than the Branded items. Just shows you never win as the people will if they can't get you one way, will get you another. |
Yep. Being poor is really expensive. | |
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| Cost of living / food shopping on 09:30 - Dec 23 with 555 views | WeWereZombies |
| Cost of living / food shopping on 10:16 - Dec 13 by WeWereZombies |
My contribution is a direct quote from the glossy free magazine we get in Skye and Lochalsh and that always has a couple of pages every month from our resident expert:
'My find of 2021 was the German supermarket Aldi's in-house luxury brand single malt: the 12 yo Speyside malt Glen Marnoch. Since then they have released an 18 yo Speyside Glen Marnoch which sells at an unbelievable price of £39.99. When most 18 yo malts sell for around £65 to £100 (Macallan is upward of £300!) this is a real bargain. It is a sweet rounded Speyside malt with vanilla oakiness and malty tones. Its long finish is both mellow and warming. As with the 12 yo last year I can guarantee you won't be disappointed.'
The nearest Aldi is around a hundred miles away... [Post edited 13 Dec 2022 10:18]
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Just a quick heads up on this one - I could find neither hide nor hair of the Glen Marnoch in the Aldi at Fort William where I stopped on the way down on Tuesday. Yesterday I was passing the Aldi in the appropriately named Donald Mackintosh Way as I headed back from a visit to Chantry and needed a leak. Whilst I was there I thought I would forlornly look in the spirits section but was pleasantly surprised to find that they have an empty carton that you can take to the check out and get your bottle of this sought after dram. Now all I have to decide is whether to open it or add it to the investment cellar... |  |
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| Cost of living / food shopping on 13:16 - Dec 23 with 507 views | Ely_Blue |
| Cost of living / food shopping on 15:27 - Dec 12 by HARRY10 |
Most of the products are made in the same factory, they just shut the line down and change the packaging.
Much as with road recovery. I use a company that is around 40%, they don't advertise, and you pay the recovery and they refund the cost. THEY DO.
Huge amounts are spent in marketing, which you pay for
Most of Lidl/Aldi own brand are as good, not all though. |
Your first line is incorrect, coming from someone who has worked in the food manufacturing industry for the last 20 years I can tell you that these products arent “made on the same line with the box and label being changed”. Most of the big brands don’t manufacture own label products, particularly not the big ticket items such as baked beans, cornflakes etc.
What you find is that the supermarkets will say to a cereal manufacturer for example in the case of cornflakes that they want a product that tastes like kelloggs but give the manufacturer a price point to meet, this will usually be met by either “value engineering” the recipe by removing some materials that have minimal impact or by buying cheaper inferior materials (if you ever buy own brand basmati rice for example vs Tilda you will see how many broken grains or dust there is in the bottom of the pack) the other thing that the supermarkets do to these often independent manufacturers is completely screw them on margin, don’t for one minute think that Tesco is reducing their 55% gross margin on products.
When you see items on a bog off or 3 for 2 offer it’s the manufacturers who are TOLD by the retailer that they will be putting an item on promo for a period and that the manufacturer will cover the cost of that. |  |
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