Where do you buy your groceries?

snubbleste · 31-05-2015 4:15pm #1

Where do you do the majority of your grocery shopping?
Do you stick to one shop, spread it around or go seeking offers?
Are you swayed by grocery offer?
Do you produce some food yourself?

Mr_Muffin · 31-05-2015 4:18pm

Aldi is the cheapest i find so i go there.

I usually get my spuds and other veg from country fields - they just grow there naturally so i fill up a few sacks every week.

UCDVet · 31-05-2015 4:24pm

We do all our shopping online and have it delivered with Tesco. It's great. Without a car, getting to a shop was always a hassle and we'd spend ~2 hours each weekend shopping/traveling to the shop.

Now we spend ~15 minutes a week places an order.

Sh1tbag OToole · 31-05-2015 4:25pm

Not a NSA agent · 31-05-2015 4:26pm

Tesco, Dunnes and Aldi mostly. Sometimes Lidl and Dealz for snacks.

silverfeather · 31-05-2015 4:40pm

Mostly Lidl sometimes a few other places for bits and pieces though. Tesco or centra but mostly lidl

Saipanne · 31-05-2015 4:41pm

Supervalu. They've great selection and quality.

RayM · 31-05-2015 4:51pm

SuperValu. It pains me to admit this, but my local SuperValu is a vast improvement on the Superquinn that preceded it.

Galwayguy35 · 31-05-2015 5:02pm

Get most of it in Aldi, try to avoid SV like the plague if I can, the cashiers in SV drive me nuts chatting to the people in front about babbies and school and don't care if they hold everyone else up.

Saipanne · 31-05-2015 5:12pm

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

Get most of it in Aldi, try to avoid SV like the plague if I can, the cashiers in SV drive me nuts chatting to the people in front about babbies and school and don't care if they hold everyone else up.

You've really important places to be, I'd imagine.

31-05-2015 5:24pm

It's nice to be nice and connect with your fellow man.

I shop wherever it's most convenient/best value, I'm not concerned with how a store is perceived if they stock what I want and aren't pricing over the odds. There are plenty who don't want to be seen in low cost supermarkets, as if it matters.

blinding · 31-05-2015 5:25pm

Aldi; The best value for me.

Hippo · 31-05-2015 5:29pm

Aldi, I've saved a small fortune shopping there over the last couple of years.

jopax · 31-05-2015 5:32pm

I shop in Aldi, have done so for the past 7 years, only go to Tescos for baby food.

LollipopJimmy · 31-05-2015 5:37pm

Dunnes for me. Having worked in a job that involved calling to shops and supermarkets I have to say the standards in Dunnes with regards to food safety and stock rotation leaves the rest standing.
Tesco being the worst by far.

I buy all of my meats if different butchers going with the 30 euro type deals. Donore meats and Troys butchers being the two I'd use the most

The Backwards Man · 31-05-2015 5:41pm

ALDI mostly for me. Try to support the local shop too as much as I can. Grow a good bit of veg myself also.

Galwayguy35 · 31-05-2015 5:47pm

Saipanne wrote: »

You've really important places to be, I'd imagine.

Yeah I have actually, if people want to bladder let them do it outside work.

Ted_YNWA · 31-05-2015 5:49pm

Usually toss up between Supervalu & Aldi.

Aineoil · 31-05-2015 5:59pm

I shop in my local Supervalu because I like to support the local community. They have a great selection of goods and the shop is spotlessly clean.

They are so obliging as well. There were two products that they didn't stock. I used to have to go to Dunnes to get them. I was chatting casually to

one of the lads that's in charge of the section of the goods I wanted. Lo and behold two weeks later they were on the shelf. Now that's fantastic

customer service.

Summer wind · 31-05-2015 6:01pm

Dunnes almost always but a bit of Tesco too.

tipparetops · 31-05-2015 6:04pm

jopax wrote: »

I shop in Aldi, have done so for the past 7 years, only go to Tescos for baby food.

why tesco for baby food?

boobar · 31-05-2015 6:11pm

Aldi...used to go to Tesco, but have saved a small fortune by shopping in Aldi

Shenshen · 31-05-2015 6:16pm

Mostly Lidl, as most my shopping tends to be for fruit and veg, and their selection is brilliant. Aldi for a few things Lidl doesn't do, baking ingredients mostly.
Everything else I'd get from either the health food shop or Asian shop (spices and pulses, mostly)

I avoid our local SuperValu like the plague. The shop reeks of the butcher's counter in the back, has little enough choice for which it happily charges 3 times as much as Aldi and Lidl, and I don't really fancy spending 10 minutes stuck behind other customers chatting about nothing interesting or just spend absolute ages packing their 3 items into their bags.
Haven't set foot in there since the lottery caught up with times and allows you to buy tickets online.

RobertKK · 31-05-2015 6:19pm

Online with Supervalu, so handy.

Riverireland · 31-05-2015 6:22pm

Aldi, used to be superquinn, don't like shopping in German stores but other than having so few staff they are hard to beat.

demanufactured · 31-05-2015 6:23pm

In lidl.... Or as the locals call it.. "Littles"
It's pronounced "leedle"

harry Bailey esq · 31-05-2015 6:23pm

O Brien's in glasnevin mainly. Occasionally go to aldi for cleaning products. Thing about the German discounters is the impulse buys. I might see an offer for snorkling equipment in aldi,head up just to make that sole purchase and end up walking out laden down with bags of food. For that reason I try to give them a wide berth unless its necessary.

dark crystal · 31-05-2015 6:27pm

Tesco, mainly for the range of stuff they have, but I buy my meat mainly in the local butchers.

Aineoil · 31-05-2015 6:29pm

Shenshen wrote: »

I avoid our local SuperValu like the plague. The shop reeks of the butcher's counter in the back, has little enough choice for which it happily charges 3 times as much as Aldi and Lidl, and I don't really fancy spending 10 minutes stuck behind other customers chatting about nothing interesting or just spend absolute ages packing their 3 items into their bags.
Haven't set foot in there since the lottery caught up with times and allows you to buy tickets online.

It just shows you how different the Supervalus are. I think they are a Musgrave

franchise? Our Supervalu is run by a local family and they are brilliant. I find the

prices competitive enough. If I had to go to my local Dunnes ( 16 miles away) it

would cost on petrol.

I enjoy the chat with the people at the check out.

Aldi and Lidl have at times very long queues to get your groceries checked out.

jonnny68 · 31-05-2015 6:34pm

Tesco more out of laziness as there are 3 Tescos within 10 minutes walk of my house.,other than that it would be Aldi or LIDL.

lazeedaisy · 31-05-2015 6:35pm

We tend to shop in Tesco, it's more convenient to be honest.

We grow most of our veg from now until September, too long to list,

We support a local green grocers who only sell food from within a ten mile radius, I.e. milk with cream, yoghurt, fruit, eggs, mushrooms, butter, strawberries, bread, every week it's different depending on availability. It's great to go back to shops like this, but in a rural area it's fantastic.

I also use subscribe and save on amazon, dry dog food, 25L Eco friendly wash up liquid, Eco friendly toilet cleaner, even though a local supplier sells refills, rip off Ireland means I can still buy them from UK, free delivery, rather than bring my bottles to be filled locally.

I use coupons when I can, got some at Bloom, and make the most of a tenner off €50 spend. But Tesco is the most local shop for me, and I laugh when people say Dunnes I s cheaper, living in a rural area, not a lt of people have the choice STILL in this day and age, so is not particularly a definitive survey as not everyone has a choice,

lazeedaisy · 31-05-2015 6:36pm

Never buy meat in Tesco, have butchers and fishmongers for that,

31-05-2015 6:38pm

Tesco 'cause it's the only one within walking distance of my house.

Cold War Kid · 31-05-2015 6:43pm

First I buy a Lidl, then I buy Aldi rest.

aglending · 31-05-2015 6:46pm

I shop in Aldi. Would love to shop in my local Supervalu but it's way too expensive.

tipparetops · 31-05-2015 6:47pm

Aldi is very good.
they have the right mix of quality and price.
they are unbeatable for me.

tipparetops · 31-05-2015 6:48pm

Aldi is very good.
they have the right mix of quality and price.
they are unbeatable for me.

SMJSF · 31-05-2015 6:51pm

Tesco. I know where everything is, I can check the price of my food list online, know how much I'm going to spend and away I go!

Autosport · 31-05-2015 6:53pm

Mainly Tesco but do pick up a few bits in Aldi and Supervalu

awec · 31-05-2015 6:54pm

Aldi. Know where everything is so can write the list out in order of where ill find things and so the shopping can be done in 15 minutes.

Also it's cheap. Shopping for 2 usually between 30 and 50 quid a week depending on what you have to buy (meat and cleaning products tend to bump the price).

Bret Hart · 31-05-2015 6:54pm

Dunnes Stores.Always better value.

r93kaey5p2izun · 31-05-2015 6:55pm

Supervalu because it's within walking distance and I like the quality and selection. If I was feeding a family I'd certainly make a greater effort to shop around on price but I don't see it as worth the hassle for the amount I'm spending on myself each week.

Lia_lia · 31-05-2015 6:57pm

A mix of everything really! English Market in Cork (few minutes down the road), Tesco, Dunnes, Lidl. Dunnes is the nearest, so we tend to go there most frequently.

31-05-2015 7:02pm

Supervalu have so much handy stuff I mostly go there. The butchers are lovely, they have loads of cool stuff like nut butters, LF milk, quest bars.
They're a little pricey but so handy and they have most everything ...
We go to lidl sometimes. If there was one closer I'd go more often

Greentopia · 31-05-2015 7:17pm

Try to avoid Tesco but dammit they do have a few things I can't find elsewhere.

Shop in Supervalu mainly-love their fresh breads, good quality fresh fruit and veg and that they support a lot of Irish producers. Good customer service.

Aldi I like sometimes too.