shopping in your local store

cena

Do you shop in local store to buy your veg, bread etc.

I prefer to shop in either tesco or Dunne's. They seem much cheaper then the local central.

Nearly 4 euro for a pizza they I could get cheaper in tesco. A litre of milk is 99 cent but 85 cent in tesco and Dunne's. Not the end of the world but it is just something I seen.

roro1990

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Angry_Mammarys

Depend's on the quality really, with stuff like milk I'd buy it cheaper, but sometimes local shops have really nice stuff that aren't as nice from the larger chains.

Frosty McSnowballs

What if your local store is a Tesco or Dunnes?

**brainmelt**

wazky

Where else would I get my out of date chocolate for half price and cigarettes that are missing the excise stamp?

cena

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

What if your local store is a Tesco or Dunnes?

**brainmelt**

Very good point.

cena

roro1990 wrote: »

Got too distracted by the bad spelling of the word "shopping" and couldn't focus on the rest of the post. Sozzles.

Spelt correct.

Czarcasm

cena wrote: »

Do you shop in local store to buy your veg, bread etc.

I prefer to shop in either tesco or Dunne's. They seem much cheaper then the local central.

Nearly 4 euro for a pizza they I could get cheaper in tesco. A litre of milk is 99 cent but 85 cent in tesco and Dunne's. Not the end of the world but it is just something I seen.

I wouldn't buy vegetables in the local convenience store even if I didn't already get them delivered. The quality is usually sub-standard as their fruit and veg turnover is usually a few days. I'd buy milk and maybe small things like sugar or a pack of biscuits the odd time. You're definitely paying more for the convenience though, but smokes, newspaper and take-away coffee are pretty much the same price no matter where you shop.

Not a store, it's a shop ffs :cool:

rawn

My local shop are extortionate. They are literally 100 feet from my front door but I still walk to Tesco/Aldi/Lidl which are all quite close to me too. Was baking a few weeks back and sent my sister to get baking powder, for some reason she went to the local shop, they charged her nearly a fiver for it when the exact same brand/weight was less than €2 in Tesco. I would prefer to support local shops but when they overcharge so much they do themselves a disservice.

Calibos

Yeah, I've never understood how a small shop isn't able to get big discounts (and thus pass them on to the customer) from the suppliers like Tescos do with their million litre a day orders :rolleyes:

You've got to count the pennies though don't you. I'm more than prepared to use up 40 minutes of my day and use 50c of petrol to drive to the supermarket to save 14c on the milk. Its the principle of the thing isn't it....

ofcork

They don't have the buying power of mutiples.

Sir Arthur Daley

I shop Tesco online and it all gets delivered to the door, very handy indeed, no hassle of in store shopping such as young lads hanging off trolleys and roaring and crying and ould ones all over the place with trolleys buying vino and butter.

cena

Calibos wrote: »

Yeah, I've never understood how a small shop isn't able to get big discounts (and thus pass them on to the customer) from the suppliers like Tescos do with their million litre a day orders :rolleyes:

You've got to count the pennies though don't you. I'm more than prepared to use up 40 minutes of my day and use 50c of petrol to drive to the supermarket to save 14c on the milk. Its the principle of the thing isn't it....

I too would nearly drive to get milk cheaper. Every cent counts.

Sir Osis of Liver.

My local store is an off-licence,so yes I love to shop locally.

cena

Don't Musgrave owen central and super value. Surely they buy by the bulk

The Backwards Man

My local shop is closing down next Thursday. Next nearest is 10 miles away. When that (inevitably) closes, the next nearest will be 18 miles away.

Country stores, like the villages they occupy, just aren't viable any more, it's the way of the future.

rawn

cena wrote: »

I too would nearly drive to get milk cheaper. Every cent counts.

Small differences like that wont bother me if it's just a couple of things I'm picking up. But adding €2 or €3 onto the price would defo send me further afield.

The Backwards Man

cena wrote: »

Don't Musgrave owen central and super value. Surely they buy by the bulk

Supermarkets don't price products according to what the pay for them, they price them according to how much they can get away with charging for them.

Czarcasm

WikiHow wrote: »

I shop Tesco online and it all gets delivered to the door, very handy indeed, no hassle of in store shopping such as young lads hanging off trolleys and roaring and crying and ould ones all over the place with trolleys buying vino and butter.

How reliable is that online grocery shopping anyway in terms of the quality of the goods, delivery times, etc?

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

My local store is an off-licence, so yes I love to shop locally.

Explains the username at least

Sir Arthur Daley

Czarcasm wrote: »

How reliable is that online grocery shopping anyway in terms of the quality of the goods, delivery times, etc?

They are on the ball, do the online shop at lunch time and have it between 6-8pm, supermarkets are death traps.

anncoates

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

What if your local store is a Tesco or Dunnes?

**brainmelt**

My two local shops are a Dunnes and a Tesco Metro, both 5 minutes away.

Mickey H

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

My local store is an off-licence,so yes I love to shop locally.

Apt username!

Beaten to it. Great minds and all that Czarcasm.

fryup

you can't beat shoppin local.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJaVjeB4SE0

stefan idiot jones

cena wrote: »

Don't Musgrave owen central and super value. Surely they buy by the bulk

They do buy in bulk, but the difference in price that they get it for and for example Tescos where they buy in huge huge quantities is vastly different.

Sometimes the little shops have to sell things at a certain price.

Wotsername

Centra for jars, tins, tea and basic dry goods plus, butter, milk and eggs.
Veg shop for fruit, veg, herbs, spices, rice and baking stuff.
Fishmongers for the obvious.
Asian market for some spices and sauces.
Wish i lived nearer to a 2euro shop or the 1.49 shop tho, because some of the everyday bits and bobs, like plasters, wipes, hair bobbins, sellotape and glue etc are really expensive in the Supermarkets and Pharmacies.
Tesco is a rip-off for most things on my list.
Tho I can shop around a bit more nowadays.