IF you’re looking to save money this Christmas, you might want to head to Morrisons for your Christmas dinner shop. The supermarket has been revealed to be the cheapest place to get all of your festive fare. Online price tracking website Alertr followed 18 popular Christmas dinner items over a four-week period to see which […]
IF you’re looking to save money this Christmas, you might want to head to Morrisons for your Christmas dinner shop.
The supermarket has been revealed to be the cheapest place to get all of your festive fare.
Online price tracking website Alertr followed 18 popular Christmas dinner items over a four-week period to see which store was consistently the cheapest.
The comparison site monitored seven different supermarkets – Asda, Iceland, Morrisons, Ocado, Sainsbury’s, Tesco, and Waitrose.
It did not include discounters Aldi and Lidl as you can’t get all the items tracked online – so bear this in mind before you shop as Aldi was named the cheapest supermarket in a similar test.
In Alertr’s research, Morrisons was consistently the cheapest supermarket, with a basket of Christmas dinner items for eight people coming in at £52.75 on average.
ALERTR tracked 18 popular food items over a period of four weeks to find out where was cheapest. Here's all the items they tracked.
Next cheapest was Asda at £56.61, followed by Iceland at £57.16.
The most expensive supermarket was Waitrose, with the basket coming in at £88.50.
Ocado was only a few pounds cheaper at £85.30.
Tesco was the third most expensive, but cost substantially less at just £65.86.
Despite being the costliest overall, Waitrose had the cheapest gammon at £11.88 and the lowest priced British beef joint at £8.59.
Iceland was cheapest for its honey at £1.
But Morrisons was the cheapest for the widest range of goods including Bisto gravy (£0.75), Paxo Sage & Onion Stuffing (£0.80) a large turkey crown (£7) and 12 pigs in blankets (£2).
Surprisingly, it did have the most expensive price tag for Yorkshire Puddings (£1.50), as well as a medium smoked gammon (£13.50).
To get all of the food at the cheapest online price for each individual item, you’d need to shop at five different supermarkets.
But paying for several lots of delivery fees is likely to make your shop unnecessarily expensive.
Instead you’re better off shopping around to find out which supermarket works out as cheapest overall for your preferred order.
MySupermarket.co.uk lets you compare different supermarkets to see which is cheapest on a specific item.
With Alertr, you can track as many different items as you like across as many different retailers.
Simply enter the URL of the product and you will be notified via email once the price has dropped, either to a cost you decide, or by any amount.
Christmas dinner is set to be more expensive this year as gravy and stuffing prices soar.
But if you’re after a bargain, Iceland’s huge 150 piece party food bundle costs £15 and can feed 15 people.
Plus, we round-up the cheapest Christmas turkeys of 2019 – and Aldi was crowned winner with its £9 bird.
