A great review LizzieAnn! I used to do my weekly shop at Sainsburys (I had no car and it was the closest supermarket!) and generally got on well with it- until i started shopping at Morrisons and knocked £20 off my weekly shop! I find Morrisons has a better fresh fish counter also. I still go to Sainsburys for bits and the occasional lunch but i don't think i'd swap back now.

Oooh, Kay, thank you! I am afraid I am not a Morrison's fan as they were here briefly in our town when Somerfield was sold and we had the direct comparison of them to Somerfield and it fell short in so many areas it was appalling!! I thought their own brand was dreadful and although they were cheaper, I never liked the quality. Having said that I have since discovered that they have a high profile No Food Waste policy and specifically lower all their products in price in time for the evening and many pensioners are able to take advantage of this on their meagre pensions and so they are very very popular with them, and with anyone who is on a very tight budget. I object to the quality though not their prices. We do not have one locally now so I can't get to a Morrison's anyway. Saving money is such a huge priority for everyone now that it counts for alot.

My local sainsburys is an absolute joke .Its on a major business park , so we have electrical stores and the like side by side ,yes it has all the bells and whistles , even the in store cafe , but the car park is full constantly , there are no designated pick up points for people who need to get taxis . and the cash machines ..( yes I said Machines there are four of them ) consistently gobble up peoples cards when customer services are informed their stock answer is , it's nothing to do with the store you have to contact the bank.
Inside the store the quality control and stock rotation is the poorest I have ever known .

I tried to purchase some fresh pasta , being who I am I always check the dates ..good job too as it was almost three weeks past the original sell before date .When the management were made aware that not only was it out of date . it wasn't just one pack , the entire pasta section of the chillers was filled with out of date food , he said maybe the staff needed more rotation training .

The worst part of shopping in sainsburys are their unjustified price rises , you can go in there one day and buy an item for £2.99 and go back two days later to see the price has jumped to £3.45 , No explanations or apologies .

The only time it is cost effective to shop in store is if you are an employee , the staff discounts are amazing .Plus you have the added bonus of first dibs of all the sale items .

Sainsburys is a no go for me , I'm going to stick with Tesco they are better value for me .

maybe one day I will learn how to spell properly ...pass me the dikshunry pleeze

Tracey, wonderful fund of information that you are.....I have to say I am appalled at your pasta story...not just a few days, one day or a week but 3 WEEKS is disgusting....I would have had a lot more to say than that...you should have got your pasta free and said "pasta manyana baby" to them!! I agree about Tesco, though, much better value.

I'm afraid we're lumbered with these pre-packaged, plastic monstrosities, gone are the independents where you pick what you want, as little or as much as you want and get it packaged infront of you whilst yo sit on the chair provided.Its all about doing all your shopping in one place unfortunately and having to suffer a price rise of 50p on something like a loaf of bread versus half price offer on red salmon.Welcome to the 21st Century.

I dont mind my Sainsburys, only because it is located in town a 20 min bus ride away. Please be aware that my favourite stores are Tesco, Asda and Iceland, they all out weigh Sansburys by far! PLEASE NOTE: If you ever shop online with Sainsburys (which i have)you need to state extremely clearly what you would like substituted if they do not have it in stock! I ordered 4x packs of frozen butchers choice sausages at 25p per pack (bargain,stock up freezer,you know)end of line i thnk, anyway on delivery, 4x sainsburys butchers choice sausages were delivered at £2.00 per bag!! Mindless!! do they think oh thats ok if you shop here you must be loaded!! Fuming, i sent an e-mail to complain and have never had a reply! Now Asda and Tesco give substitutions at the same price, or as fairly close to as they can, or simply do not supply it if no longer in stock or whatever, NOT SAINSBURYS, SO BEWARE! But saying that another time they were late with delivery and the driver promtly marched back to the van after apologizing and returned with a whole £10.00 off of my next shop online! It was only about 10 mins late as well. I think that if they took a few leaves out of Tesco and Asda,s books they might come into the 21st century a bit, they seem a bit mixed up to me??

Morrisons!! Well, my local large one im always being caught out at the checkout with the wrong offer!!! Im sure they dont label things properly, hate that!! and i always seem to be questioning the price at the checkout!! Drives me Mad!! I can stand there while loading the checkout in any supermarket and know roughly (always) roughly how much i have spent, Not Morrisons?

I will be wary, Serena, about Sainsbury's online - I have not yet taken the plunge....but I love Tesco customer services, you are right, they are brilliant, but I am not sure about Asda....I never shop there for food, but love their non-food items.

John, wouldn't it be nice if we could go back to Arkwright's shop days?

it's gone but not forgotten.

I totally agree, John! We had a local shop called the Well of the seven heads....it stocked everything!! Wonderful!! I won't tell you the gory story that went with it, though!!

When will it be when you won't tell.We all want a gory story.

OK, I will tell...it is not gory about me, though. The Well of the Seven Heads store is built near the site where there were 7 clan chiefs who had their heads cut off and washed in the well....then hung on the top of the monument as a warning to other clans not to defy the authorities.....we used to swear that you could see the blood on the knife still on certain days....as the monument actually has seven heads carved in stone and a knife at the top holding all of them together....I did warn you it was gory!

The idea of the faithful local corner shop has sadly become a thing of the past. My Granma used to live down in Lowestoft, Suffolk and two doors down from her terrace house was a small local shop run by a lovely lady.

My Granma would go in every few days for her essentials like milk, bread and cakes and we often got treated to sweets there when we visited her.

Sadly she got old and became ill and it was the shop owner who got concerned at not seeing her, that resulted in her contacting the police who found her in the house and very seriously ill.

She died of Cancer a few months later but I think my parents should have been much more grateful to that shop owner for being so concerned about her.

Being very ill my self I would very much appreciate having someone who cared like that shop keeper did, near me and do not see that as interfering.

I ftried Sainsbury's twice, as the nearest store is in the next town. The first time I was quite impressed with the cleanliness, layout and prices. The 2nd time, about 6 months later, things were not as good. The store was still clean, but everything had been moved and it was not easy to find my way around and the prices had skyrocketed. I have not been back.