I don’t know about you but I can spend hours hunting round
the internet for nothing in particular.
In comes my husband one day and asks me what I’m looking
at? I give my standard response of
‘ nothing in particular’ and I can feel him staring at me. I think he’s about to say ‘how much is
it going to cost us this time?’ but instead he kindly suggests that if I insist
on hunting aimlessly round the web
then I might as well be productive about it and buy our groceries online
instead of moaning about having to go to the shops when I’m too busy.
He was
right you know, not a bad idea at all. So off I set to pursue my online
shopping grocery needs, and I knew just where to go. To be honest, we could do
with tightening the purse strings anyway and comparing prices online before you
buy is always a good way to help reduce the bills.
mySupermarket is an online shopping site that allows you to compare prices across Asda, Tesco Sainsbury’s, Waitrose and Ocado. All
you do is choose a store and start shopping. As you go, you can see how much
each product costs across all the supermarkets so it’s easy to make price
comparisons and find special offers. Add products to your basket and if you
decide to switch to a different store because it works out cheaper, your filled
basket follows you so you don’t need to start over again. The site is also full
of other nifty features like ‘swap and save’. This lets you know if there is a
similar product for cheaper within the same store and gives you the option to
switch. They also have a dedicated offer shelf which clearly breaks down all
the different kinds of offers so you can fish through all those bargains more
easily.
Perhaps my most favourite mySupermarket feature is the
‘price alerts’. Take a product that you normally buy or something that you want
to treat yourself to and mySupermarket will notify you when the price drops
significantly so you know it’s a good time to buy and even stock up.
All the comparing prices and finding good deals could not
match my delight at seeing the delivery van pull up aside my house, right on
time and with all my weekly shopping hand picked and delivered right to my
front door. There is definitely something to be said for online grocery
shopping, it takes a lot of stress out of the week and can save money.
Guest post by Sara Flack
