From 1st of May Morrisons have brought in new permanent price cuts on over a thousand of their most popular products. They claim that these are not temporary reductions or supermarket smoke and mirrors, but new every day low prices on things you buy every week and say that you'll notice the difference with every shop.
I was looking forward to checking out the prices myself while buying our shopping and seeing whether these claims were actually true. I have shopped at Morrisons previously but found that their prices were creeping up dramatically and we simply couldn't afford to shop there. I usually buy all of our fruit and veg from a local green grocer and buy the rest online with which ever store I have discount vouchers for, or which ever one has the best deals on. I don't really have any loyalty towards one store.
Late on Saturday evening I dragged hubby and The Little Man to our local Morrisons to carry out our shop. Until I saw some of the pictures and posts on Twitter from other bloggers involved in the campaign I hadn't actually realised how small my local store is.
In total we bought 84 items of shopping. It didn't include items such as nappies or baby food as I tend to buy them as and when rather than on a regular basis.
There was nothing particularly exotic or expensive in our shopping selection but the grand total was still £128.82! On a usual shop I spend £15-£20 on a massive amount of fresh fruit and veg from our local green grocers and then do an online shop for the rest of the shopping which tends to total £70 - £80. So looking roughly at those figures Morrisons actually worked out more expensive for us.
On the Bank Holiday Monday we started the day off with some delicious bacon and mushroom sandwiches.
Mushrooms - 76p
Brown buns - 65p
Bacon - £2.18
Cost per person - £1.79
Later in the day we decided to have a Bank Holiday BBQ. Hubby got cracking with some homemade burgers which for any Slimming World dieters were also syn free!
I even bought us a new BBQ from Argos which was half price, it looks good doesn't it?!
We had a nice selection of meat for the BBQ. They were tasty and reasonably priced. The pork chops were particularly tasty.
The salad I bought was fresh and tasty and actually lasted three days once it had been opened.
What did I think?In all honestly, it was ..... Ok. I wasn't blown away like I'd hoped to be.I was rather disappointed by the available choices and large amount of empty shelves in my local store and the fact the that the deli, meat and fish counter were all cleared and closed by 5.30pm on a Saturday night when the store doesn't close until 9pm. Looking at other bloggers posts and pictures it's clear the larger stores do contain a lot more choice and have some unique and exciting ways of storing and displaying items. I was unable to get quite a few of our usual items and our shopping was quite a lot more expensive than normal, though some of that's probably due to the fact I buy all of our fruit and veg from our local green grocers which is MASSIVELY cheaper than ANY supermarket I've ever shopped at. Whilst some of the products were noticeably cheaper I did think others were higher, so in reality this evened out the shop total. Whilst personally I'm not convinced Morrisons is any cheaper for our usual food shopping I had fun checking out their items and was impressed by how long the fruit and veg lasted and also that they stocked Garlic flavoured Fry Light!
*Disclaimer: Although I was compensated with vouchers for shopping at Morrisons, all opinions and experiences are my own*