Cheap Shopping, no frills supermarket basically (Asda)

Member Name: norton501

Product:	Asda
Date:	15/08/09 (72 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Cheap

Disadvantages: Products missing ie certain brands not stocked, sly price rises

Asda was my local supermarket until recently, therefore I have shopped in Asda once or twice a week for the past 5 years. I find Asda the cheapest supermarket and their range of smart price goods very wide.

Often having to walk around the store using the calculator on my phone as I was on a budget, I found their smart price goods decent to buy. In general the store also has discount aisles and if you go around 7pm on a Monday the queue of people in the Bakery section will indicate the arrival of a pallet of 10p loaves and 5p loaves etc - great to fill your freezer.

As reviewing ASDA is quite a huge task as there are so many things I could write about, I have split this into advantages and disadvantages:

Advantages:
Cheap prices in general/ overall (though the beans have gone up from 3p a tin to 29p at one point) so you have to watch carefully for sly price rises.
Selling of almost cash and carry sized boxes of certain items in certain stores
Large stores with lots of product and choice.
In store cafe, over the counter pharmacy, toilets, Photo and CD/DVD section
George clothes range.
Really cheap seasonal things like 12p smart price Xmas cards/ 10p tinsel.
They sell most things like light bulbs, new phones, new home items ie bins.
24 hour stores- great if you need something in the middle of the night- always people in there buying nappies etc!

Disadvantages:
Queues at busy times
Awful around Xmas with the queues and panic buying (the store is closed Xmas day)
George range sizes are HUGE (i'm an 8-10 and George size 6 is like a size 12 on me)
Shelves are stacked around the clock so if you go in, expect there to be shelf stackers clogging up the aisles with pallets at ANY time of the day
Their Ham/ cold meats section products are poor quality overall (compared to Morrisons continental meats) and they are expensive
Freezer sections are limited- they do not stock many vegetarian products ie no Linda McCartney frozen lasagnes
Through night there is often only 1 cashier in the whole store so expect to have to stand around.

So, overall although Asda was my local supermarket, I normally had to go elsewhere to buy cold meats or some frozen products.

On a few occasions I was a few pence short to pay for my shopping and instead of glaring at me and waiting for me to put something back, the cashier produced a ticket to put in the till with the amount I was short on it. So, Asda do have some procedures in place to assist in times of mini personal crisis.

Summary: If you live close to an Asda, its worth using it like a cash and carry