Everyone with a Sainsbury’s Nectar Card has been issued a £1,155 warning compared to shopping at Aldi.
New figures by consumer magazine Which? found that Sainsbury’s shoppers – even those with a Nectar Card – are paying an average of £11.11 more for every shop compared to Aldi customers.
It conducted its monthly supermarket price comparison by looking at the cost of 59 typical food and drink items and comparing them across every supermarket, including discounts for Tesco Clubcard and Sainsbury’s Nectar Card.
Which? found that shoppers with a Sainsbury’s Nectar card were paying an average of £113.79 for their shop, or £119.19 without a Nectar card.
But by comparison, Aldi shoppers only paid £102.68 for the same equivalent items, while Lidl was just behind with £103.86.
Asda was the third cheapest, at £112.19, while Tesco with a Clubcard was just behind with £112.96.
A shopper doing a big shop twice a month would end up paying £1,155 more at Sainsbury’s over the course of a year than they would at Aldi, even if they had a Nectar Card, according to Which?’s figures.
And Which? Also ran a comparison of the traditional supermarkets, sans Aldi and Lidl, looking at a wider basket of goods including items not sold in Aldi or Lidl.
The batch of 164 items showed Asda was the cheapest, clocking in at £418.88, whereas Sainsbury’s without a Nectar card was the most expensive of all, more expensive than Waitrose, coming in at £461.29, compared to £421.16 with a Nectar card, which still ptu it third behind Asda and Tesco with a Clubcard.
