Soz lads, I turned my pre-amps down for this video and forgot to normalise the audio in post so if you find it a bit quiet/compressed... you've got good cans! And soz next one will be fixed :)
Huh, I was wondering if I just imagined it, just turned up the volume and it was fine. Also the on screen and off screen mic were pretty much identical imo
Bru Iceland is great we've done are weekly shop there, it's great for party food and you never mentioned the bakery. Tesco is S its the iconic shop of Britain. (I typed here before realising)
He definitely got lucky if he's never gone home with unbroken eggs without checking them from every other supermarket. I like Asda, it's my first choice usually
I never buy eggs in ASDA. I once bought six eggs and when I cracked them open to make a cake,luckily into a cup ,five of them were bad and it put me off using the one OK one.
Morrison’s is quirky I guess. And if you are interested in the restaurant and the butchers then maybe it is more for you. But as someone who has lived all my life as the closest supermarket being Morrison’s I hate the place, as you said never stocked, overpriced, bad range, poor bakery. I’ve often found myself travelling further to avoid it. Also neglecting to mention Lidl bakery is criminal!
My biggest gripe with Morrisons is that they don't have scan and shop. I'm disabled and being able to just pack as I go and only handle everything once is a huge accessibility thing for me. I avoid Morrisons now that every other shop offers it
In terms of dietary options (Coeliac in my case) Sainsbury's has the best range, and their online store can be set up so that it only shows you gluten free options. An absolute lifesaver when it came to shopping during lockdown.
Farmfoods is actually really popular in the more rural areas of the UK. I'm from Devon and if my family and I need to bulk buy, Farmfoods is usually a good shout. Their whole shtick is that it's locally grown produce which is kinda true to a point because all the vegetables, meat etc is from local UK farms but they also sell branded stuff like Coco-Cola... I dunno 'bout you but I ain't never seen a Coco-Cola farm in the UK before! Lies!! All of it! Lies!!!
I would say Lidl is slightly better than Aldi in terms of quality, plus the bakery is pretty unbeatable. I agree about buying fruit etc at Waitrose, it always lasts a lot longer overall, I think it's products are the best quality if you can afford them !
ofc they are the best quality, its the posh people store. Aldi's baked goods are hugely expansive, i wouldn't think there's anywhere larger other than an actual bakery, i work in Aldi and stocking that aisle is the worst because there is so much stuff!
@@Rachelhappyface you can always save money at Asda the food is just as cheaply produced as possible. If you shop for branded stuff and you don't want to go to a discounter like Home bargains or a Fulton foods then Asda is your shop. If you want own brand do your gut a favour and buy the Aldi and Lidl own brand stuff. The quality of the ingredients is way better and the price is the same or less. And yes, I did work in an Asda for a few years.
I was wondering how he hadn't heard of fultons, heron and farmfoods then "I'm sorry if they're Yorkshire brands" I guess that answers that, cause there's one of each of those near me 😂 Also poundworld was pretty much the same as poundland, but it doesn't exist anymore
@@therealmckoy6772 farmfoods does exist down south but i never saw one growing up in london/surrey, but when i lived in Portsmouth there was one. so i think they pick cheaper areas because of rent costs of buildings. same with you wont find The Range in london, because they wont pay for the london rent (i used to work for the range and the owner is a complete miser 🤣)
My biggest culture shock when I moved to Italy was that SPAR of all things was the S tier supermarket in my city. Completely blew my mind that our petrol station store could be a high-end supermarket. Seems I'm a B tier shopper overall, splitting myself between Lidl & Waitrose based on what I need and how fiscally responsible I feel like being. Waitrose frozen pastries are my absolute guilty pleasure though.
Glad you explained the Spar thing because I was really confused by Evan's comment. 😂 (in Slovenia where I'm from Spar is a really decent supermarket, I imagine same as in Italy)
I never rated Asda until it became my closest supermarket, but it's great! They have an awesome vegan range and their prices are just as good as Tesco.
Ok so some specific things I like from some of these… Aldi - frozen pies are the best around Lidl - a truly enormous selection of baked goods Co Op - the own brand tiger bloomer is literally the best shop-bought bread I’ve ever had Sainsbury’s - the one in my home town has an actual Argos in it Tesco - if you’re in the mood for a chicken kiev go here. Nowhere else Iceland - some delightful frozen desserts and there’s almost always a deal on milk alternatives Poundland and Home Bargains - you’ll get surprisingly low prices on branded stuff Also I once got a single plastic-wrapped croissant from an airport Spar and the smell was so vile I nearly threw up
I used to shop in Sainsbury's when my children went to Explore Learning, but I hated their fruit and veg. Such poor quality and tasted terrible. I do like Tu clothing though
Aldi is the best because there aren’t enough products to tempt you, so you can do a weekly shop £30. I pop into Tesco or Sainsbury’s for two things and spend £56. (Unless of course you end up leaving with some skis and a new vacuum cleaner)
My local Aldi has the frozen section and what can really only be described as the “miscellaneous section” back-to-back. Either way, you’re walking out of there with at least one impulse buy - it just depends on whether it’s a tub of ice cream or a garden trampoline
Evan, I'm extremely sorry to burst your bubble on this one, I work in ASDA, and ASDA, Morrisons, Tesco and Sainsburys get all their stock from the same place. They all sell pretty much the same products in their supermarket mainline brand items and budget items. I know this fact because I've seen products from those stores in our boxes.
I also had this weird realisation but the other way around, both for SPAR and Aldi, my boyfriend is from Vienna so it was a huge culture shock for me to find out that they have Aldi but it's called 'Hofer' there, even was shocked that the logo is literally the same as aldi just with the name change.
I mostly agree w you but I don’t find Asda to be that bad. Also the Lidl bakery is unmatched! But my favourite supermarket is Tesco because it has such a good range of vegan products
Tesco is definitely up in S tier IMO. Has everything you need from a supermarket, and is so large that it usually hits all price points with quality you expect at that price. And the Tesco meal deal is the undisputed king of meal deals.
@@perebima Heinz is still in Tesco. At least in London it is. Heinz is overrated anyway. Only Heinz Ketchup is superior to any other brand. Branston Baked Beans FTW
Walmart actually sold Asda last year to an investment group and some brothers who own petrol stations so I don't think the Walmart/Asda comparison is so relevant anymore.
9:11 depends what you're getting! I get all my broccoli, green beans, cauli, etc from the frozen section because these veggies are flash frozen, so they retain all their good nutrients. sometimes even better than fresh veggies, because they don't get to age at all. a nice bonus is that they're cheap, what sucks is that they come in plastic packaging.
I grew up with Asda and then Tesco during my uni days and Ive recently decided that I think I prefer Asda over Tesco. I’m from Yorkshire and farmfoods, spar, heron etc. are all really cheap local shops to me Ps. If I had to say which mic sounded better, I think the ad break mic < the rest of the time
The hilarious thing about this is that Aldi and Waitrose share a lot of the same suppliers! I used to work for Aldi and that was the big "in joke" in the company.
We have a local spar. Nowhere near a petrol station and a lifeline to the elderly who don’t drive. Edited to add, frozen food is often fresher than fresh food. Fish can take days to reach the shelves but is also frozen immediately on catching so is hella fresh, the same for frozen peas.
Frozen food is usually healthier than "fresh" or "chilled". They put extra chemicals in the food and the packaging to keep the food fresh for long enough in the fridge. In the freezer they don't use any chemicals as the freezing does all the preserving. The move away from frozen to chilled has definitely caused more issues with health.
@@onlineo2263 while I generally agree and prefer fresh or frozen veg, the “chemicals” in bagged or packaged salads, pre chopped veg etc are usually nitrogen gas and some carbon dioxide gas (too much oxygen makes veg go bad faster). Any other chemicals are likely to be the exact same as what’s on fresh veg from during production. Of the issues with packaged veg (and there are more than a few) “chemicals” to keep the food from spoiling are probably not the most pressing.
But there's a world of difference between "Frozen Ingredients" and "Frozen meals"... Always frozen peas, frozen fruit gets you through the winter, frozen fish def. But frozen ready meals, sausages, etc... There's much better quality frozen stuff these days, but there's still plenty of cheap, CHEAP crap that's frozen because it won't hold together fresh.
Man I’m offended. Iceland in F???? I actually do my weekly shop there, I prefer to use frozen veg than fresh. They also have exclusive collections from restaurants and cafes like chiquitos and greggs which are great.
@@csnide6702 Indeed, frozen veg more often that not, is more nutritious than fresh. I've always got peas, brocolli, cauliflower, runner beans and cabbage in the freezer. I will occasionally get fresh broccoli if I want tenderstem.
Co-op are heavily involved in a lot of progressive social programmes - they're based in Manchester and have a very admirable social corporate ethos. It's your duty as a human to love them. mes
I disagreed with virtually all of your rankings 🤣 my local morrisons is shocking and all the fresh meat I've bought has been bad quality. So definitely low down on the ranking list. Asda is A tier, the prices are cheaper and the quality is usually great. I don't know why you were told never to buy meat in there, I've never had issues in Asda. Sainsburys is expensive for what you get. M&S is S tier for quality but price wise not many people can shop there often, it's more of an occasional treat. Iceland should be a lot higher up, lots of people do their full weekly shop there and they do sell fresh meat, fruit and veg as well. Its not all frozen foods.
seeing evan approach this from the "i go one place for my weekly shop" perspective threw me off, like if im not going to at least 5 of the places on this list and a arden center to get the things each place does well, then i havent been on a weekly shop.
I adore the Aldi middle aisle ❤❤❤I once brought a 6 person inflatable life raft from there and went for a ride down the river with some uni pals in Cardiff
Sainsbury’s Motto hasn’t been “Live well for less” since about June Last year, It’s now “Helping everyone eat better” Sainsbury’s is generally the same price as Tesco in comparisons. Tesco meal deals are now £3.50, they followed Sainsbury’s by including pastries hot food and Costa drinks.
@@JasperCasper24 yeah I guess, but have you noticed how Tesco no longer do normal offers like other supermarkets? You get the same discount but you need a club card to get that discount, but they trick people into thinking that the club card will actually make it cheaper than everywhere else. They know what they’re doing
So glad to see a Yorkshire based supermarket make the top of your list. I’m fortunate enough to live near a large Morrison’s located in a historic 200 year old army barracks! It adds so much more to the weekly shop going there than to some modern shed structure!
Yeah the Sheffield one is awesome. It has some great smaller business next to it the butcher was (when I was a kid) the highlight, really friendly staff and great sausages.
As someone from South Africa we have a lot of really big Spars and they have really good quality. I go to my local Spar almost every day so it’s funny to see it described as a “gas store”
SPAR often serves small towns and villages; not common to see them in the city. Still very expensive, but they get supplies out rurally so I guess they get away with it.
To be honest, Evan, I think that your London-centric viewpoint hasn't done you any real favours, because there are regional supermarkets you'll not have the chance to try, so rating them is impossible for you, and some others have bigger stores in London and maybe some larger cities, but elsewhere they are little more than glorified corner shops. E.g. Spar is one of the earliest large convenience stores rather than a proper supermarket. It's often found in places where there aren't any of the big supermarkets. In a couple of places I've lived, it was a godsend because it was the only place where we could get every basic need at a reasonable price compared to corner stores - it was the first of its type in my (very large) home village (more a place people commuted from rather than visited, so not really a town despite its size). Where I live now, the Co-op fulfills that role. Mostly larger convenience stores, except that they have "real" supermarkets too, which may have a bunch of different names depending on the region (you have to understand the history of the shop to get why that's the case, but it does make sense). My mum worked in one of the earliest Co-op supermarkets back in the 70s, called "Leo's". It's been through some iterations and last I looked it was "Pioneer". Great shop, btw! The full-scale supermarkets are reasonably priced and have everything you'd expect in a supermarket. But because of the regional/independent nature of the company, the quality is going to vary a bit more than with a single company. Tbh, the majority of the supermarkets are much the same, a lot depends on the people running each one. I'm more than happy with Asda - I have a delivery coming today. In fact they do gluten free dog food at a reasonable price, and for owners of a dog with a gippy stomach, it's a lifesaver (definitely a nose saver lol)! But our main shop, done by Hubby (tl: not explaining why) is done at Tesco's. Neither of us has a problem with either store. I'd definitely rank Asda a _lot_ higher than you. Poundland (along with Home Bargains, B&M and similar) is NOT a supermarket! The name says it all. I don't think you could do a week's shopping there 🤣 You probably get a wider variety of things in London shops, but definitely not outside a big city (and I wouldn't buy food there, beyond a snack if I was desperate). Like I said, a lot of your opinion regarding the quality of the whole shopping experience is based on the people who work there. You'll think a place is better than it is if they're all really helpful, and you'll think a well-stocked, reasonable price place isn't so good if the workers are miserable (btw, if the majority of them are miserable, chances are they've got a total douche of a manager, so be nice!) Food quality is something you have to try yourself because we all have different needs. If you shop v regularly, short "lifespans" for fresh food is irrelevant. If you do a big shop every month, you do it knowing that certain goods will need replacing quicker. I haven't been to all the shops you mention, but I've lived in a number of regions throughout England and Wales, and local quality of the same supermarkets is a real thing. It's best to try out each one when you move to a new area (not all in the same shopping run, of course!) and see which one suits your needs the most. You might find that a store you hated in your last place is now the best in your new. It usually depends on the structure of the company and the nature of the local manager & workers. You _will_ grade a shop higher if the staff are brilliant even if there is no significant difference between it and a competitor nearby where the manager couldn't organise a p!ss up in a brewery and constantly need to have willy measuring competitions with everyone, including his female staff - or hers. Plenty of b!tches in britches. (I'm being metaphorical of course, just in case anyone thinks I'm transphobic or something else shitty like that. I hate having to clear that up... From the perspective of it shouldn't even be a thing! The bigoted sh!t, that is. This is going to go around in circles 🤦🏻♀️ Just DON'T be a douche to ANYONE!)
In the US people in food deserts shop at Dollar stores and in urban settings newer dollar stores are built with refrigeration sections and frozen section and expanded grocery selections. Economic downturns and inflation spur this trend on stateside. I imagine in the UK in a London- centric context a similar happens and Poundland becomes a corner store, convenience store fill in shopping experience for many especially students, immigrants and people on tight budgets.
As someone who used to work in a Morrisons I've got to agree with your rating - absolutely one of the best supermarkets and really great to employers too (£9.40 an hour at the age of 16, everyone gets paid equally no matter what, awesome staff, full holiday pay and an all-round great employer)
Well I too use to work there(Morrisons) and before them at Safeway too,, as a supermarket I dislike Morrison,s and Tescos and Sainsburys ,, I much prefer Lidl,Aldi, and Asda but my favorite is MS,,, the foods great and the prices are not too shabby...
i only know pound world from a tv show on channel 4 where they did a sorta jokey ‘pound shops wars’ where pound land and pound world were both trying to grow their reputation and stuff and honestly it was one of the best shows i’ve ever watched, it was incredibly entertaining
I agree with your Tesco thoughts! I don't buy food from M&S, but I never get bras from anywhere else. Their fitters are great and really professional, there's a huge range of styles and sizes, and for the time they last the price is really reasonable. I've never had an uncomfortable bra from them, which is more than I can say for anywhere else. I also like their home section - it is a bit pricier than other places, but things from there will last for ten years. The only thing I don't bother with is clothes - waaaaaay over priced.
Oh my god you're the only other person I've seen who buys bras from m&s! I've been buying my bras from these since i was 15 they last forever and fit me so well the last time i needed to buy a new bra was like 5 years ago!
I do love M&S bras but my fitting experience was not good lol. Had a fitting there and couldn't understand why the bras didn't feel like they fit me at all. Then I tried other places like La Senza (when that still existed) and Bravissimo and found I'm actually a totally different size. As long as I buy the M&S ones in the actual right size then they're great though!
'M&S's prices aren't as bad as some of the other ones' Wtffff are M&S's just on steriods where I live, cos they are on a complete other level compared to Waitrose etc
Also, the shure SM7B has the crispy, professional radio sound- as expected. The other mic gives more atmosphere, making it sound more as if we (viewers) would be if we were in the same room. As an audio engineer, I always love the close, clean mic- but I understand the appeal of it being out of shot
Yeah I think the SM7B sounds nicer due to my room being untreated (it hides it better!) but I've just gotten 2 acoustic panels the hang up on the wall so we'll get some better sound going forward! :D
Your missing out B&M, it’s a lot like home bargins. Farm foods is another frozen food shop and heron foods is now owned by B&M so half is frozen food and the other is more like a co-op. There are also Nisa and 1 stop which are cornor shop franchisees like co-op which have been missed out.
I can't believe Booths was not on this list - my favourite food shop to just go and look around and not actually buy anything (except at christmas as a treat).
Sainsbury's are the only shop ive been to that does vegan marshmallows. They also do potted chives and oregano. Not a weekly shop, but maybe monthly/every two months
Sainsbury's is in the perfect spot for me in terms of price and quality. It always seemed to me like their products were the same or just a bit more expensive than Tesco, but every penny extra yields significant gains in quality. Also Asda's horseshit, not even that cheap, especially since Aldi and Lidl became a big thing. Maybe it is arguably just smol Walmar, but THAT'S THE MAIN BENEFIT OF WALMART. Poundland and Spar are definitely D tier. Coop is nice expensive stuff. Tesco is mostly alright. Never been to a Morrisons, as far as I'm aware they weren't at all in the South-East until a few years ago. Edit: Tesco meal deal is a true classic
As someone that has worked in the bakery section at an Asda, I have 2 things to say; F tier is accurate. I will never buy from the bakery section in an Asda again. 99.9% of things (including the "freshly baked in store extra special" bread comes in frozen, doughnuts are sugared by hand using a tray of sugar that has been sat there for weeks, and, in terms of hygiene.. All I'll say is hands aren't washed frequently enough, and the bakery section is closely tied with the rotisserie section. Read in to that what you will. Edit: Off screen mic actually sounds better with my headset lol
I used to live near an M&S foodhall and I miss it, they had great fresh bread, great own brand chocolate and snacks, and the best fresh produce, like idk where they source their fruit but it was top tier, even better than Waitrose
I as a student normally bulk buy my meats at Aldi alongside any dry food (pasta, rice) but then go to tesco for fresher things unless I'm cooking that day
I see your co-op rating and raise you this: their salt and vinegar crisps are literally the best crisps on the planet. (also honestly I think if I had all the money in the world and lived near an M&S food hall I'd shop there all the time!!! all the phizzy tails in the world to eat)
Thank you! I actually found a video I filmed on my photo booth app yesterday that I'd completely forgotten about and that never made it in my vlogs and damn. Really made me appreciate where I am right now. Just a rough watch of watching me die inside on another soul-crushing phone call. Any little stresses I've run into the last couple months (of which there have been many, so it goes) I always try and appreciate that it's something mildly trivial to be stressed about in comparison to most of last year and then... I keep stressing but a lil less upset :')
1:30 they didn't do a collab with Habitat. 🤓 Unless a collab is defined by buying a business and then sticking them in your own supermarket. 😂 They bought Argos and Habitat a few years back. That's why you can now find both Argos and Habitat inside of Sainsbury's.
Farmfoods was a delightful discovery for me last year. They have massive tubs of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream. And lots of other frozen food - very much like Iceland!
Man this is pretty funny and I’ve never even gone grocery shopping over there across the big blue lol. You GOTTA do one of these for America too bc there’s too much content there 😂🧨
When I worked in a large office 20 years ago, the supermarkets were very much split by "class". I knew people who would never be seen dead shopping in "common" shops like Tesco and the Co Op. One day I was queueing at the till in the Co Op behind a cat lady, who presented the cashier a pile of coupons for her cat food, and then paid the balance of a couple of pounds by writing a cheque. I get a Farmfoods flyer through my letterbox regularly. They are a frozen food shop, that "piles it high, and sells it cheap". So everything is priced like "3 for £5" etc. You often see people in there with shopping trollies piled high with just milk or bread.
I would say that Farmfoods, Heron Foods, Fulton's and Iceland are sort of similar - every one I've been in has been a smaller shop, with an emphasis on frozen goods. Also, there used to be a Poundworld and a Poundland in the same shopping centre here.... not really sure of the difference!
Spar is a really curious thing, because what it does heavily depends on where you look for them. In Germany, I really only see them as tiny shops at train stations the size of a to-go bakery. I go to Yorma's anyway (you can use their syrup dispensers, vanilla, cinnamon and almond flavours available, to spice up your coffee and their baked goods are amazing). However if you go to South Tyrol, you will have DeSpar (local town shop, has most things, maybe even a butcher stand inside), EuroSpar (proper supermarket) and InterSpar (HUGE supermarket that has EVERYTHING! TVs, bikes, household stuff of all kinds, an entire area dedicated to wine, beer, meat, cheese, other dairy, giant fruit and veggies area etc.) Then in other places around Europe they just have small shops. They seem to pursue different strategies in different places.
Sainsbury’s and Tesco are the best overall for sheer variety choice and quality at a reasonable price all well presented and with comparison cost per 100g or 100ml. Morrisons is more down market but fairly cheap. Aldi and Lidl some good bargains but overall poor choice and not well presented and without the unit pricing co-op has Aldi choice and presentation but with Waitrose prices. M&S limited range good quality but very expensive. Waitrose a good range and presentation but very expensive. Pretty much you get what you pay for in a competitive free market
i don’t like asda in general but we have a really nice one near us. i don’t like to shop there but i love like the actual building it feels really light and it smells good and i like the electronics section
PoundWorld was a family business that was pretty successful. So much so that they got bought out by a big corporate, who didn't have a clue how to run it, so they lost a huge amount of money and closed. However, the original family owner bought up some of their assets and opened new shops, mostly on the same sites, employing a lot of the previous staff, and branded it as OneBelow.
Lidl is like a better version of Aldi, if only because the veg doesn't go mushy after a couple of days like Aldi's tends to. Plus Lidl's fresh bakery is well above Aldi's in my own town. Main advantage is you don't get trapped in Lidl if you can't find what you're after unlike Aldi where you have to awkwardly squeeze past queuing shoppers to get through the tills
My favourite was always just Safeway, because they were our local supermarket. Then they got bought out by Morrisons, of course, and rebranded... But it's still Safeway really. Sainsburys always feels like the kind of place your grandparents shop. Probably because that's where my grandparents shop. Asda and Tesco I always see as basically equivalent; they're pretty much the same as each other.
This was far more fun than any Supermarket Tier List should be. Whenever Evan claps his hands together, he reminds me of a market trader trying to close a deal.
I live a 5 minute drive from an asda, it's a pretty big one and we've been going there my entire life, even when we didn't live that close to it but I think that's cause my dad worked there during his college years and so that was our go to. There's an aldi not far from it but like you said, fresh produce goes off quicker there and there's not a lot of options. I've started working recently near and m&s and yes the prices are high but the quality is the best I've seen and I was surprised, genuinely by how good quality the products are, not like waitrose selling the same produce as say lidl for 4 times the price.
How on earth has this man lived here this long and never heard of farmfoods? Probably a good thing. It's a solid D. Feels like a warehouse full of food rather than a supermarket
I cannot believe you prefer M&S to Waitrose. I feel like M&S is the snobbier and lower quality than Waitrose. Also, it’s all about the Waitrose Essential range. You could probably do an entire video on some of the wild things they sell in their budget range, but that’s what I would recommend: just but from the essential range and you’ll be the happiest little shopper ever. (Also, always order online. It’s free to collect and they will upgrade your items for free if they’re missing anything. Plus they will give you anything with a short shelf life for free!)
Home Bargains, Poundland and Spar are very much not places to do your weekly shop. Haaa. I think Poundworld was bought by Poundland a few years ago, who then swapped the branding to their own.
I'd be interested to see you do some blind taste tests on these supermarket genre defining things likes fruits, meats, own brand cereals! Who did this tier list? Evan's tongue or Evan's eyes?
I've lived in the UK for 4 years now... and I am fuming from this list... I agree 0%. Arguments: Morrison is TOO expensive, same as M&S. IMO: S: Lidl (You find everything you really need at a reasonable price. A: ALDI, Tesco, ASDA (Convenient and good price range) B: Sainsbury, M&S, Morrison, Waitrose, CO OP (Reason: price) C: Poundland, Iceland F: etc... Obviously, all this is biased, based on my own experience.
Lidl is better than Aldi due to its international food week themes, Greece, France, Spain, Italy plus The Alps make it a destination for quest items other supermarkets don’t do!
Aldi has these too, I get the big cans of olive oil, the austrian noodles, a huge spanish ham (half price off after a week, uhhh..) and the very affordable sesame oil when it's "Asia" week ^^. Well I might be biased having had an Aldi directly across from me when I was a kid. Oh and the scandal where Lidl had cameras in their employees changing room took my money away from them.
@@mirabellegoldapfel6256 The Aldi near me is pretty small, they don’t have the weekly items as much, whereas my Lidl is bigger. Aldi does come up with some gems for sure, but I find it more random than Lidls themed weeks in fresh, frozen and dry goods, which are all so good for cured meats and exotic cheeses, as well as the tinned and jar stuff!
Can you do a tier list with London transport (including the different tube lines, Overground, the Liz line, TfL busses, TfL Rail, DLR, ferries, trams, etc)
I prefer the off-screen mic, but your visuals and audio are always so much better than literally everybody else I’m subscribed to. You are already killing it 🎙🗡
Oh, do you not open the box to check if there is a broken egg before you buy them? I thought everyone did that... Also, now Poundland has a range of prices, not just £1. This is disconcerting.
Yeah, the Poundland thing really annoys me. Like, I hate going in there now. I used to love it, but then suddenly things were more than £1... It really put me off. And I have Autism, which just made the whole thing worse... Haha
@@Dazzlefae omg I'm autistic too and it does my head in that stuff they're selling isn't just a £1 now 😅 it was so much easier to figure out what was good value before...
Farmfoods, Fulton foods and heron are all basically the same as Iceland, basically just a shop filled with freezers for all the beige frozen food you could dream of
It's pretty interesting to see what someone else thinks about the different supermarkets. I grew up in a family that only ever bought from the co-op and kinda passively taught us kids that all the other supermarkets were too poor quality to go to - my mum refuses to buy anything non-organic if she at all has the choice, and tried to impress it onto me and my brother that we needed to stick to that standard ourselves when we move out.
Given The Co-Op's socialist foundations, it is very expensive. There is one within walking distance from me, but my small income doesn't go very far in there.
@@eattherich9215 oh, it's definitely expensive. Once I move out I doubt it'll stay as my go-to place to shop because of that. My parents struggle with money, but so far have never started shopping at somewhere cheaper to save money - hence what I meant about my mum being stubborn with where she buys from - but I really don't care about quality like that.
Personally I would rate Aldi and Asda as the best. Aldi mainly but also as where I live they are very close to each other so incredibly convenient. I rarely shop in our Sainsbury's and have shopped even less in our Morrisons.
Just so you know Asda was an already well established brand and then Walmart brought the company in 1999, so that's probably one of the reasons why they are different to Walmarts in the US, also in 2021 Asda was acquired by new owners. Also, I'm surprised Poundland is on here, as I wouldn't really call them a supermarket, but as they are on the list I would have also included B&M or Costcutter. I agree with you on Co-op it's too expensive, I may buy some snacks or sweets etc in there, but I'd never do a full weekly shop in a Co-op. I work at Co-op and I'm surprised by the amount of customers that will buy most of their shopping in there. For example you have large easter eggs that are like £2 - £3 in Tesco or Asda costing £6 in Co-op, it's ridiculous.
Ooooo you hornet's nest kicker! I actually don't know anyone who does a weekly show in one supermarket - I tend to get the fresh stuff from M&S, the 'branded' goods from Asda, as they're usually the cheapest and I know that Heinz Ketchup is going to taste like Ketchup, and the Lidl bakery is just perfection!
