Sainsbury's named cheapest supermarket by The Grocer
Supermarket takes top spot in The Grocer chart for first time in 2015.
Sainsbury’s is the cheapest major supermarket in the UK right now, according to the latest study by The Grocer magazine.
Each week the magazine looks at the cost of 33 items across the big supermarkets.
And for the first time in 2015, Sainsbury’s has taken top spot, with the basket of 33 goods coming to a total cost of £56.40.
It was just a matter of pence ahead of Morrisons (£56.88) and Asda (£56.91). However it was easily ahead of its biggest rival Tesco, where the basket came to £58.62.
The Grocer said that Sainsbury’s came top this week because it had more discounted items than any other store – 12 of the 33 basket items were on offer, compared to nine at Morrisons and Asda.
The Grocer said: “Sainsbury’s has kept saying it’s getting cheaper since the start of the year but there’s been very little evidence in The Grocer 33. All that has changed this week as it recorded its first win of a competition that is in its 47th of 50 weeks.”
It’s worth noting that The Grocer doesn’t include deep discounters Aldi and Lidl in its weekly survey, so they may still work out cheapest.
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