Beer in Sainsburys in NI

Horeb

Was up North Yesterday and there is a Sale on in Sainsburys for Beer all kinds off:

to be more precise:


Two crates of beer for £20 Sterling, now this is Miller,Stella,Grolsch etc.

In bottles and crates of 24 x 330 ML.

Now the beer is slighty less potent that down here I'd 4.0% compared to 4.7%

But is still a Bargain at that as myself and a friend had filled up both our cars for Xmas with nearly 30 crates between us.

£20 @ todays rate is €28.52

So that is 0.59 Cent a Bottle.

Now that is a Bargain

Also Petrolium there (Clothes Shop) have great deals for mens clothes at the moment

jonny68

Sounds like a decent enough offer,remember years ago used to do the yearly Xmas jaunt to Newry with my ma to buy beer,etc,etc,did they have Stella Atrois do you know?thats aboutt he only beer you`ll get in the UK or the North that hasbt got a lower ABV.......

Dr. Dre

They will have Stella, and it will prob be on special. look out for carlsberg export 5%, lovely stuff.

gonker

wine is great value up there too
http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/wine/features/offers/
what I do before I go up is go on to their website check the prices then check with my local tesco or superquinn supervalu see what the price is. Its usually a lot cheaper especially the cheaper :rolleyes: end ie the jacobs creek semmillon chardonay is 8 yoyos in tesco less than 6yoyo in sainsburys

MF2HD

stella is in tesco atm for €23.88, 24 33cl bottles.

okidoki987

Bring EURO's with you if you go to Sainsbury's in Newry.
The exchange rate is the best you will get anywhere.
It's always about 5 cent higher over what the Banks will give you!

gonker

MF2HD wrote:

stella is in tesco atm for €23.88, 24 33cl bottles.

and 28yoyos for 48 a big saving in sainsburys

gazzer

Do any of you know if Sainsburys in Newry is near the train station?? I am bringing my mother up there next week and as i dont drive we are getting the train up

okidoki987

one I went to was just off the Dublin/Belfast Motorway in a big retail park.
Currys, PC World and B&Q were there.
There is also a big Sainsbury's in the Town beside Butterccrane shopping centre.

Horeb

gazzer wrote:

Do any of you know if Sainsburys in Newry is near the train station?? I am bringing my mother up there next week and as i dont drive we are getting the train up

It is a good distance from the Train as the station is a good mile outside the Town.

Best thing is to get a bus instead of a train, bus leaves you 5 mins walk from Quays Shopping Centre.

gonker

http://www.sainsbury.co.uk/storelocator/

MF2HD

gonker wrote:

and 28yoyos for 48 a big saving in sainsburys

D'oh wasn't quite with it there obviously!

eth0_

okidoki987 wrote:

one I went to was just off the Dublin/Belfast Motorway in a big retail park.
Currys, PC World and B&Q were there.
There is also a big Sainsbury's in the Town beside Butterccrane shopping centre.

That's Sprucefield, it's about 12-15 miles outside Belfast. It's fab! Sainsburys there is ENORMOUS compared to the Newry branch. I'd recommend people go there as the off licence in Newry is pretty small.

The Sainsbury's in Newry isn't near the train station at all. There's a free bus into the town but you'd be better off taking a taxi back.

Horeb

Sprucefield is just off the Motorway aswell and has better parking

gonker

horeb-security do you know if the one near belfast take euro or is it just stg?
thanks
gonk

okidoki987

If previous experiences are anything to go by, I'd say the exchange rate is around 0.7250/.7300.

Horeb

gonker wrote:

horeb-security do you know if the one near belfast take euro or is it just stg?
thanks
gonk

The Further North you go the less places take Euro, so for Sprucefield, I am nearly 99% sure they don't

TheWanderer

Sainsburys in Sprucefield does take euro's , the rate offered was 72 cents last weekend.

TW

gonker

Excellent and excellent rate

heffo9

should checkout the off license at fiveways garage near macdonalds and b&q in newry. generally i have found them to be cheaper and have better specials than sainsbury's. this is where most of the locals would buy their beer, so they are hardly goin to rip off there own.
directions:when you reach the roundabout which you have to turn right and head under the bridge to enter newry.
well dont take this turn, carry on through the roundabout, drive for about 5 minutes and you will see macdonalds and across the road will be the garage with the offlicense right beside it.

Horeb

Is that the Off License with the Big Sign on the Roof ??

heffo9

it is part of the fiveways garage, there is a small minimart in the garage as well. you cant miss it, it is right across the road from macdonalds.

Horeb

Ah right down by B&Q I know it now

ct5amr2ig1nfhp

Just to note. I know Marks n Sparks take euro in the North aswell.

Also, the Co-Op shops always have some great deals. (Alcohol and food)

ambrose :cool:

arch20000

Everyone seems to be doing deals on Stella (Wife Beater!) at the mo.
You can't beat the Grolsh though, Also Dunnes in Newry are doing the same deal on Grolsh and wife beater but also are selling this St. Omer beer that's really nice, 5% and works out a lot less than one euro a bottle. Also in Sainsbury's they have great wine deals, check out the Sainsbury's Reserve Malbec (red) Argentina for 4.99. It's a bit pricey but it's a serious quality vino.

Hashbrown

Jesus it was like Christmas eve in Sainsbury's Newry yesterday they were buying the booze by the trolly load. 24 Bottles of Miller for 13.99 (€19.95) bought the same box in tesco last week for €29.99.1 litre Bottle of Baileys Cream 9.99 (€14.25) cost you about €26 down here. good value on wines also. Big tin of roses sweets 5.98 (€8.53) have seen a smaller size tin here for 10.79 . Well worth a trip BTW fill up with petrol down here first as its expensive up north.

gonker

I was just about to post how many boardsies were up there on saturday....It was bedlam was like that from 9 seemingly. I was up yesterday too and it was nearly as bad. Really good bargains to be had. Just drinking a bottle of cab sauv as I type cost me less than £2.99 less than €4.50 and it tastes yummy

heffo9

good stuff!!

Borzoi

Dropped into the Newry one on my way back from Belly to Dublin.

You'd swear they were giving the booze away. You couldn't get a trolley into the off licence section, in fact you had to queue to get in at all. Worse than New Yars in a Molloy's off licence. So I said feck it, and went elsewhere.

Fr Dougal

Was up there in Sainsburys on Saturday
Grolsch - 24 bottles £11.99stg or £16stg for 2 boxes (Think it's 5%)
Stella - 20 bottles £11.99stg or £16stg for 2
Smirnoff Ice 2 boxes of 12, That's 24 bottles for £16stg
Coors Lite - 20 bottles £12.99
Bulmers (Magners) is £55stg for 2 trays (48 cans) That's €79. It costs €96 down here.
Baileys £10stg
WKD Blue, £2.88stg for a 700ml bottle!

Ahhhh, Christmas is all about the kids............

Oral Slang

Just back from Newry - never again.. Got there about 2 and wandered the shops browsing. Last on our list was Sainsburys to buy our drink!
Oh my God! there were queues lined up around the shop just to get into the drink isle. After queues for an age, we finally got in to discover that there was hardly anything left. My dad managed to find 8!!! cans of bud & we got the last case of miller. There was a half case of Carlsberg left but that was soaking wet. There were loads of cases of Baileys so that was ok.
But all in all a big disappointment. Ended up leaving after 10 mins and going to The Drink Link off license.. Prices weren't as good, but at least you could breathe.
Traffic going up was great - 1.5 hours but going back took over 2.5.. Think this was the last year.. Prefer to spend more & keep my sanity!

Irish-trucker

anyone going to newry for shopping - consider going on to belfast; as my uncle was up there 2 weeks ago , and he was in newry on sunday and thought it was crap shopping , there's more in belfast .

but if your going for the beer , newry will be grand

dsab

Just add the extra 25 minutes from Newry, and drive to the huge Sainsbury in Lisburn. Straight on the Motorway. There is a huge Dunnes, huge Sainsbury, a MCD, B&Q and some other shops.

We were there two weeks ago, and it was very pleasant. The Sainsbury is so big, it won`t easily be crowded.

viking

dsab wrote:

Just add the extra 25 minutes from Newry, and drive to the huge Sainsbury in Lisburn. Straight on the Motorway. There is a huge Dunnes, huge Sainsbury, a MCD, B&Q and some other shops.

We were there two weeks ago, and it was very pleasant. The Sainsbury is so big, it won`t easily be crowded.

Does the Sainsbury's in Lisburn take euro and give the same rate 73p->€1??

dsab

They def. take Euro in Lisburn, as someone in front of me paid with them.

I don`t know the exchange rates, as I payed by CC.

okidoki987

Went up to Sainsbury's in Newry yesterday.
NEVER AGAIN!

A tip when you are going into the town 1st roundabout you meet from ROI side, instead of taking the exit (approaching at 6 oclock you take the 3 oclock exit) to Newry City centre, take the one to Belfast (exit at 12 oclock). Go 2.5 miles up here to a roundabout and take the 5pm exit to Newry Town centre (B&Q, McDonald's, DFS, Mfi on your left. this will bring into the town and Sainsbury's from the back and you will avoid the horrendous q's of traffic trying to get into the car parks for both Sainsbury's and Buttercrane centres
from the Dublin side.

It took me 20 minutes to get parking at 1.30pm and over 50% of the cars there were from Dublin! There was a Q for the off-licence but didn't think the saving was worth the wait.
Left at 5pm (big mistake) the tailback until the motorway was terrible, took us an hour to get from Newry City centre to Motorway.

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Fr Dougal
Was up there in Sainsburys on Saturday
Grolsch - 24 bottles £11.99stg or £16stg for 2 boxes (Think it's 5%)
Stella - 20 bottles £11.99stg or £16stg for 2
Smirnoff Ice 2 boxes of 12, That's 24 bottles for £16stg
Coors Lite - 20 bottles £12.99
Bulmers (Magners) is £55stg for 2 trays (48 cans) That's €79. It costs €96 down here.
Baileys £10stg
WKD Blue, £2.88stg for a 700ml bottle!

They must have put the prices UP!
Yesterday it was 20 STG for 2 boxes or 12.99 each
(you could mix and match Grolsch, Bud, Miller, Stella etc).

Yesterday the exchange rate was 0.73 and if you over paid in Euro you got the change back in GBP!

Horeb

Have you tried going in via Carlingford or Omeath, i do that now excatly 4 miles longer, road not the best but you could save up to 45 mins.

Also the B&Q route well did you try parking around by TK max and coming back the same way, i do both and miss all the traffic.

goto the sainsburys website for offers also best for another 45 mins heading to sanisburys in sprucefield a more pleasant experience.

wolfe25

heffo9 wrote:

should checkout the off license at fiveways garage near macdonalds and b&q in newry. generally i have found them to be cheaper and have better specials than sainsbury's. this is where most of the locals would buy their beer, so they are hardly goin to rip off there own.
directions:when you reach the roundabout which you have to turn right and head under the bridge to enter newry.
well dont take this turn, carry on through the roundabout, drive for about 5 minutes and you will see macdonalds and across the road will be the garage with the offlicense right beside it.

heffo
Is that across the road from the business park where B&Q and a load of furniture stores are located? That road would take you back in at the north end of Newry again.
Sainsbury's off licence is an endurance test, especially at weekends this time of year.

ct5amr2ig1nfhp

Hey,
Was in Sainsburys in Newry today. Not really busy at all.
They except euro at a 0.73 rate, which is great. BOI only gave me 0.6715 today.

But I'll know for the next time

ambrose :cool:

heffo9

thats the one wolfe25,