Cornish Food Market

Our latest basket comparison and we’re beating the ‘Big 3’ supermarkets again…

April 18, 2012 in | 0 comments

We've run another price comparison on a pretty standard basket of goods and we've beaten Tesco, Sainsbury's and Asda yet again on a like for like comparison. More details of what was in our basket can be seen below: -

Milk 1ltr Whole
Milk 1Ltr Semi-Skimmed
Free Range Eggs Medium x 6
Loose Baking Potatoes 1.5kg
Loose Carrots 1kg
Loose Broccoli 500g
Loose Large Onions 1kg
Cucumber Whole
Salad Tomatoes 1kg
Iceberg Lettuce
Potatoes 2.5kg bag
Bananas 750g
Large White Loaf
Topside of Beef 1.5kg
Dry Cure Back Bacon 500g
Finest Pork Sausages 454g
Granny Smith Apples x 6
Conference Pears 1kg
Extra Large Oranges x 5

If you wonder how we do it it's actually pretty simple - the supermarkets have a few products that they sell very cheaply - the headline grabbers like bananas and white bread - to be fair we struggle to compete with them on those products (but our Berryman's bakery bread is a far superior product!) On the rest we can compete and more often than not beat them on price and quality. For example, our topside of beef is over £2 per kilo cheaper than Tesco's and ours comes from Cornish beef, hand-picked by butcher Robert Trevarthen and hung properly for twenty-one days to let the full flavour develop. Try finding out how long you supermarket beef has been hung or where it really comes from - you may be surprised. Similarly on eggs - we have free range eggs from St Ewe at £1.39 for six medium, Tesco and Asda equivalents are £1.48 and Sainsbury's are £1.58 - we pay St Ewe a great price and eggs produced locally are sold locally.

This price comparison is on products only and excludes any delivery charges that the supermarkets may apply - delivery charges may also apply to your cornishfoodmarket.co.uk order depending on your location.