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Thursday, September 27, 2007

For those reading from the UK, a friend at work told me about mysupermarket.com a couple of days ago, and I am really liking it.

It's an online grocery shopping site which compares prices from the four major players (Sainsbury's, Tesco, Waitrose and Asda). It also suggests lower-cost alternatives and (if you want) lower fat or sugar options. You can fill up a virtual trolley at their website, make some swaps to lower prices or healthier options if you want to, and then checkout from the store which offers the best price and options on your particular goods. And, if you've shopped online before, it can import your favourites from that store. I imported mine from both Sainsbury's and Tesco. I'm very impressed - I spent an hour playing with it this morning, and saved £15 on my grocery bill!

It is amazing just how much more expensive Waitrose really is, by the way! I know it's a nicer bricks-and-mortar shopping experience, but really, can that be worth an extra £20 on the week's shopping??? And it's not like they were substituting fancier items, it was £20 more for the exact same things.

4 comments:

Andrea Q said...

What an awesome service. That's a significant savings, too!

madre-terra said...

Would you please add some ginger jam from Tesco to that basket. I just love their ginger jam.

Anonymous said...

We have a new supermarket here called Aldi, I wonder if it's like your Asda? I can save over $50 if I shop there, it's no frills, pack your own bags, one of everything, but a great deal cheaper!

My sister does her shopping online every Thursday and it gets delivered on Saturday morning at around 8.30, not bad when you work full time.

Your online comparison shopping is a great idea

Anonymous said...

So they won't deliver to me? ;-)