On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 10:37:45 +0100, Annabel Smyth
wrote:

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 at 21:52:16, Greg Hennessy wrote:

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 20:27:35 +0100, Annabel Smyth
wrote:


Aren't Express/Compact/Meetro stores more expensive?

Sainsbury's are, by miles. I don't go to them if I can help it.

They are a veritable Lidl when compared to Waitrose.

Well, that's true. But Waitrose is *always* expensive, and Sainsbury's
only is in their "Local" format.

But then is *spitefully* expensive. Say 20-25% more expensive than
ASDA.

Mind you, it's dearer than Tesco,

Produce OK. ready meals poorer tha Sainsbury's which themselves are
poorer than Marks's

which in turn is dearer than Lidl (we have both in our street, so I go
to Lidl unless I want stuff which Lidl doesn't sell, like cut flowers,
in which case I go to Tesco. Lidl is nearer and its coleslaw & potato
salad are much nicer!).

Probably due to their German origin, there was a time for 15 years
after the war, when the Germans could not afford to eat fresh meat so
sausages and salads became the order of the day, as the years went by
this morphed into high quality sausages and salads.

AIRI There was no tradition for high quality salads in the UK. My
mother did used to buy radishes and spring onions, but my wife has
been known, whilst walking through the market to buy a lettuce and
then say "Right, I've got me salad".

Nowadays meat in Germany is just as affordable as in .UK .FR or .IT

DG