Well, consider me shocked!
Friend of ours has just returned from SA and said that grocery shopping was so expensive there now...must admit I was a bit skeptical, even though I do know the prices have gone up since we left.
So, today , I did my online Tesco shop, and a virtual shop on the Pick 'n pay online site.
Tesco is comparable to Pick 'n Pay. Asda is like Checkers, and Sainsburys more like Woolies.
I always look for the bargains and the offers, so I have compared them to Pick 'n Pay own brands, and tried to be as fair as I can. It is easy to work on R10 to the £, but actually it is R11ish, to be fair.
This is the shopping list.
Product
SA price UK Price
Marmite 125g R18.49 £1.51
4x soap R28.00 £1.69
Nescafe original R54.89 (200g) £4.00 (300g)
mushrooms 250g R6.00 50p
spaghetti 500g R7.99 18p
Light Marg Spread 500g R25.99 £1.25
Baby tomatoes R7.99 69p
Blueberry Juice 1litre (is good for
preventing alzheimers!) R20.99 £1.00
Aquafresh 3 way toothbrush R38.99 £2.00
3 bean salad 400g R16.99 65p
Dishwasher tabs R55 (for 18) £5.09 (for 33)
Spring Onions bunch R8.99 60p
Pork chops R60 /kg £3.99/kg
Mature cheddar R89.97/kg £9.00/kg
Stuffed Whole chicken R46.99/kg £3.13/kg
sparkling water R5.99 1 liter 17p 2 liter
eggs R1.31each 8p each
'Best of both' bread R10.99 (700g) £1.15 (800g)
Sweetcorn R4 each 50p each
Diet coke cans R36.99 (for 6) £4.89 (for 12)
Loo Roll (9/2 ply) R49.99 £4.00
Lurpack butter 250g R27.99 £1.60
Tampax 20 R31.99 £1.88
Must add Fillet steak....I didn't buy any, everything else on this list I did buy (yes, and the tampax, do you mind??)
Fillet Steak R171.99 £24.99
Ha ha ha ha ha ...we never eat Fillet steak!!
There was more, but I am now exhausted from looking everything up on the Pick 'n pay site which is hard to work with. To be fair, a LOT of stuff is unavailable, but only because they only have online shopping for 6 cities in SA. Also, most prices are quoted in per/kg, and also, you don't get the price on the site, you get the price on the day in the store.
Tesco charges anything from £3.50 to £6 for delivery, depending on the time of day , and how far in advance you book. I usually pay £4.50.
Pick 'n Pay charges a flat rate of R60 for delivery.
This has been a very interesting exercise indeed.
Friend of ours has just returned from SA and said that grocery shopping was so expensive there now...must admit I was a bit skeptical, even though I do know the prices have gone up since we left.
So, today , I did my online Tesco shop, and a virtual shop on the Pick 'n pay online site.
Tesco is comparable to Pick 'n Pay. Asda is like Checkers, and Sainsburys more like Woolies.
I always look for the bargains and the offers, so I have compared them to Pick 'n Pay own brands, and tried to be as fair as I can. It is easy to work on R10 to the £, but actually it is R11ish, to be fair.
This is the shopping list.
Product
SA price UK Price
Marmite 125g R18.49 £1.51
4x soap R28.00 £1.69
Nescafe original R54.89 (200g) £4.00 (300g)
mushrooms 250g R6.00 50p
spaghetti 500g R7.99 18p
Light Marg Spread 500g R25.99 £1.25
Baby tomatoes R7.99 69p
Blueberry Juice 1litre (is good for
preventing alzheimers!) R20.99 £1.00
Aquafresh 3 way toothbrush R38.99 £2.00
3 bean salad 400g R16.99 65p
Dishwasher tabs R55 (for 18) £5.09 (for 33)
Spring Onions bunch R8.99 60p
Pork chops R60 /kg £3.99/kg
Mature cheddar R89.97/kg £9.00/kg
Stuffed Whole chicken R46.99/kg £3.13/kg
sparkling water R5.99 1 liter 17p 2 liter
eggs R1.31each 8p each
'Best of both' bread R10.99 (700g) £1.15 (800g)
Sweetcorn R4 each 50p each
Diet coke cans R36.99 (for 6) £4.89 (for 12)
Loo Roll (9/2 ply) R49.99 £4.00
Lurpack butter 250g R27.99 £1.60
Tampax 20 R31.99 £1.88
Must add Fillet steak....I didn't buy any, everything else on this list I did buy (yes, and the tampax, do you mind??)
Fillet Steak R171.99 £24.99
Ha ha ha ha ha ...we never eat Fillet steak!!
There was more, but I am now exhausted from looking everything up on the Pick 'n pay site which is hard to work with. To be fair, a LOT of stuff is unavailable, but only because they only have online shopping for 6 cities in SA. Also, most prices are quoted in per/kg, and also, you don't get the price on the site, you get the price on the day in the store.
Tesco charges anything from £3.50 to £6 for delivery, depending on the time of day , and how far in advance you book. I usually pay £4.50.
Pick 'n Pay charges a flat rate of R60 for delivery.
This has been a very interesting exercise indeed.
Am shocked by this research. You are obivously very diligent and went to great lengths to publish this info. His highness and I are considering a move to Pomerania ourselves but have been shaken by people by saying how costly food is. Well, bugger that, we are obviously being shafted and happily paying the bill.
ReplyDeleteWill def keep this in mind when doing our Pound Sterling sums in future.
PS. We dont eat meat either. Just too fecking dear if you ask me. Then again his highness does argue that going veggie means we are just eating all of the cow's food and we're not actually helping them are we? (He's a pure carnivore!)
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