Five super-cheap budget food stores, including Nifties and easyFoodstore
Want super cheap goods? Consider these budget beauties for your next food shop.
Looking for a new budget food store?
In recent years Aldi and Lidl have hogged the headlines when it comes to undercutting the major supermarkets, but there are other places you can shop that make those two look expensive.
Here’s a round-up of the super-discounted stores selling groceries at rock-bottom prices.
Nifties
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In Dover parents Nathanial and Bethanie Richards opened Nifties this week. The pop-up shop sells everyday food essentials for as little as 10p and no more than 70p.
The Richards had previously had to use food banks so wanted to give something back to the community and saw a gap in the market for inexpensive essentials.
“Our approach is really simple; we purchase reduced products, such as short dated or damaged items from supermarkets and other stores, and pass these savings on to our customers,” says Nathanial Richards. “These products are still within their use-by dates, so they are perfectly edible.”
Products available include Kellogg’s cereals, Heinz items, Lloyd Grossman sauces and Old El Paso. Nathanial estimates that a weekly shop for a family could cost as little as £3 from his shop.
The store was originally only meant to be open for one week but the Deputy Mayor of Dover has agreed to pay a month’s rent on the shop, so it will remain open at least until the end of July.
easyFoodstore
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The king of budget airlines, Stelios Haji-Ioannou, launched his first discount grocery story earlier this year. It is in Park Royal in North London and has the slogan ‘No expensive brands. Just food honestly priced.’
It is currently selling everything for 25p each with products including most of your groceries including biscuits, pasta and beans.
“This is another way the easy brand can serve the less well-off,” Haji-Ioannou said when the shop opened in February. “Given my experience in distributing food for free in Greece and Cyprus, this is a more commercial attempt to sell basic food for 25p per item to those unwaged or low waged living around Park Royal.”
The aim is to expand the easyFoodstore brand to more locations in the future.
Online discounts
There are reports that people are travelling hundreds of miles to shop at easyFoodstore but if you can’t get to North London or Dover you can still slash your food shopping bill by using a discounted online store. Here are the big three.
Eatbig
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You’ll need to have plenty of storage to make the most of the deals at EatBig. This online store specialises in selling catering packs and bulk items to ordinary customers.
You can buy long-life items such as coffee, tea, rice, cleaning products and pet food at vastly reduced prices. For example, you can buy 168 Fairy laundry tablets for £26.98; the equivalent would cost £42 at Tesco.
The website offers free delivery nationwide if you spend more than £40. You can also cut your bill further by signing up to the newsletter and getting 5% off your first shop.
ClearanceXL
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This website sells off excess stock for manufacturers so you can pick up some big bargains. Obviously, you can’t guarantee they’ll have everything you need for your weekly shop but it’s worth checking in case they have any of your staples in stock so you can save some money.
Deals at Clearance XL range massively from fizzy drinks to shampoo. But, you could buy a 400g tin of Heinz Carrot and Coriander soup for 59p or two for £1. The same product would cost 99p at Asda.
The website offers nationwide delivery from £3.99.
Approved Food
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Approved Food is the biggest of the discounted grocery websites. It sells short-dated produce or food that has already gone past its best before date. None of the food is past its use by date. Best before means the manufacturer believes it may start to lose its quality after that date, but still be fine to eat.
There is a huge amount of stock here covering all the aisles you’d see in your normal supermarket so you could do a really big shop here – just remember you’ll need to use the stuff pretty quickly.
Some of the discounts I saw included a 450g box of Sugar Puffs for £1.49 (£2.50 for 320g at Sainsbury’s), Foxes Crinkle Ginger Biscuits £1 for two packs (£1 a pack at Tesco, and four bottles of Corona for £3.99 (£5 at Asda).
Nationwide delivery costs £5.99.
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