Supermarket Savings
The cost of living crisis is hitting everyone and now is the time when we should be looking at where we can save some money. Not everyone is entitled to claim benefits, not everyone is able to pick up extra hours or work a second job. Everyone does have to eat though, and I have looked at whether or not it really is possible to make significant savings on a weekly shop. Obviously not everyone will do a big weekly shop so you may not suddenly see £20 knocked off the cost of your groceries, but if you take the small wins it really can build up. There is often a wide gap between branded and supermarket own brand items and often, there is not much of a difference in quality. To see how large the gap was I looked at some common items someone might buy in a weekly shop for a family. You can see the results in the table below. For this I took a common brand and compared it with the supermarket own brand. No other offers or promotions were taken into account and all products were co...