11-11-2023, 09:22 AM
I did the shopping yesterday.
For fuel prices, on the way I passed Z at about $2.90 and over $3.00 if you don't subscribe to whatever their deal is (I don't, so I don't know), Gull was $2.847, Waitomo was $2.759 and I filled the car at PaknSave at $2.691 with their shopping voucher. Gull is still the cheapest option in town, but if you have any need to drive the 15kms to the real shopping centre, then fuel is far cheaper.
I had a reason to go to the Warehouse and made a point of checking out grocery prices while there. The 2 litre milk ($3.00) and 500gm butter ($4.30) were good deals but they were the only ones. More than half of what was on offer were products that I would simply never buy at any price (eg biscuits, chips, etc) and for those categories that I do purchase, the items were all 50c to $2 too much. OK if you would have to travel elsewhere to buy them cheaper, but in this case I was on my way to PnS anyway. One thing I noted was odd sizing - the 1.8 litre of laundry liquid was $16, the same as the same-branded product at PnS where $16 buys 2 litres.
So I bought milk and butter then went off to PnS as planned for the rest, before making good use of the fuel discount. So far the Warehouse is not looking promising for competition in the grocery trade.
On another subject, I'm frustrrated by the fact that I would like to buy pastry rather than spend time making it. I don't buy preservative (for health reasons) nor palm oil (for environmental reasons) and those two factors leave me back to having to make it. Pure laziness I know but it seems ridiculous that straight unadulterated pastry seems to be difficult to find.
For fuel prices, on the way I passed Z at about $2.90 and over $3.00 if you don't subscribe to whatever their deal is (I don't, so I don't know), Gull was $2.847, Waitomo was $2.759 and I filled the car at PaknSave at $2.691 with their shopping voucher. Gull is still the cheapest option in town, but if you have any need to drive the 15kms to the real shopping centre, then fuel is far cheaper.
I had a reason to go to the Warehouse and made a point of checking out grocery prices while there. The 2 litre milk ($3.00) and 500gm butter ($4.30) were good deals but they were the only ones. More than half of what was on offer were products that I would simply never buy at any price (eg biscuits, chips, etc) and for those categories that I do purchase, the items were all 50c to $2 too much. OK if you would have to travel elsewhere to buy them cheaper, but in this case I was on my way to PnS anyway. One thing I noted was odd sizing - the 1.8 litre of laundry liquid was $16, the same as the same-branded product at PnS where $16 buys 2 litres.
So I bought milk and butter then went off to PnS as planned for the rest, before making good use of the fuel discount. So far the Warehouse is not looking promising for competition in the grocery trade.
On another subject, I'm frustrrated by the fact that I would like to buy pastry rather than spend time making it. I don't buy preservative (for health reasons) nor palm oil (for environmental reasons) and those two factors leave me back to having to make it. Pure laziness I know but it seems ridiculous that straight unadulterated pastry seems to be difficult to find.