I was in Asda, they were bragging about being voted the UK's cheapest supermarket for the 10th year running?

Question

Voted for where, in the in-house Asda magazine? It's not true at all, is it?

Answer 1

Tesco value items are definitely cheaper. Lidl offers are also cheaper. ASDA carries Wal-Mart's name and fame. Their volume is big. They can afford to offer items in cheaper prices.

Answer 2

Balls.

One word... ALDI!

Answer 3

Asda prices seem very fair to me. I don't shop at Tesco because I find the quality poor. I like Sainsbury's because it is always good quality, well, apart from that free range chicken I bought. It was free range all right, I think it had run the London Marathon!. Tough and tasteless it was.

Aldi I like, limited lines but very good quality.

Morrisons, the local store near me is always being prosecuted for hygiene breaches.

I watched one shop assistant fill a display of fresh chickens from the bottom to the top, so she had to stand on the ones at the bottom to reach the top shelves. Yuk!. Who wants to buy a chicken when the shop assistant has stood on it?.

Answer 4

If no details of the "election" were given, then you're probably right.  All independent studies* prove that local shops are actually cheaper than supermarkets.  But simply because they advertise that their prices are low, they keep shoppers away from local shops and markets.

*There was one in the Guardian last year, for example

Answer 5

i dont think its cheap at all i shop at morrisons, couldnt aford to shop at asda or sainsburys.

Answer 6

ASK THEM THEN.....

Answer 7

I think Asda's very similar in prices to Tescos. Places like Netto and Aldi are cheaper but their stock is rubbish and their stores are pig stys.

Answer 8

I think, personally, you cant beat Tesco for prices :) Tesco do price checks against ASDA items and a lot of stuff is cheaper in Tesco than ASDA so I don't know where they got that from. Lol.

Answer 9

I don`t think so, personally I find Tesco cheaper

Answer 10

they are the cheapest but there own food tastes like poo, i prefer morrisons

Answer 11

Proven by independent analysts - it is actually consistently proven to be the cheapest!

http://www.supermarketpricewars.co.uk/dy...

Answer 12

It's 'The Grocer' magazine that have given them this award.

And, no, I'm not too sure how they managed to wangle this either. A few years ago they might have deserved it, but since being taken over by Wal-Mart the prices have gone up and up. In my opinion they have no longer have any right to say they're the cheapest supermarket.

Don't get me wrong, I like Asda, but Tesco is definitely cheaper these days. (Mind you, Asda is still far, far cheaper than J Sainsbury. Who isn't?!)

Answer 13

Who did they vote for 11 years ago?  Bread cheaper from my local bakery, meats cheaper & better from my butcher, beer cheaper from the "beeroff" fruit&veg. market, sundries are as cheap or cheaper localy. People are coned into believing that they are cheaper, but food is playing a smaller & smaller part in all supermarkets and the range of food is shrinking.

The same gose for DIY stores And there price match promise is bullsh*t, (B&Q)

Answer 14

who knows or who really cares other than the staff.

Cheers,

D. Vanderbelt-Rockafella.

Answer 15

This is an interesting way to compare...

www.mysupermarket.com

It allows you to do your shopping in one supermarket and compare what it would have cost elsewhere.