Shopping

[brrm]

Hmm, going to have to try harder at this, or maybe not use the Covered Market:

Sainsbury	Covered Market
Loaf bread: £0.69	£1.20
Be good sausages, 8: £1.69	6 pork sausages: £3.18

Comments

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

Covered market is for poshers. Go to Gloucester Green, clearly. Bread and sossidges though, that's stuff that supermarkets do sell really cheap, and I'm not sure what difference in quality you'll notice in bread between a market and an in-store bakery.

It's all about the fruit and veg, basically, and buying in season. I guess the farmers' market is this Thursday too, whatever it's like in January I certainly don't know.

[brrm.livejournal.com]

Bread and sossidges though, that's stuff that supermarkets do sell really cheap

My aim was really to see if I could forego the evil baby-stealing supermarkets as much as possible (and to find out how much this was) in favour of independent small shops. This may prove ludicrously expensive or impractical in the long run, but I thought I'd give it a go.

A bit more expensive I can live with, especially if I'm only getting stuff I need, and not picking random stuff up in the supermarket because I feel like it. A lot more expensive, however, will require harder thought. :)

[lark-ascending.livejournal.com]

What the cat in the daft hat said - things like bread and milk are apparently 'known value items', the ones people judge value-for-money by, so the supermarkets sell them at a deliberate loss to attract trade.