ASDA

Really can’t get on with asda in Sutton I find it really stressful to shop in. There always seems to be some drama going on and the shop always feels a mess. I would always travel that little further to the burgh heath branch as you get all the same great prices but in a nicer shopping environment.

Great value supermarket. The location puts me off as unless I need anything on the High Street I will go to the out of town stores. I can always find enough offers to offset the parking charge £2 free if you keep it under 2 hours and spend more than a tenner in store.

ASDA, which is owned these days by American giant Wal Mart, runs this large supermarket which dominates the southern end of Sutton town centre. I had always thought this was akin to a mega store judging from its size from the outside when I drive past.
Today, I had the opportunity to pop in for a look and quick browse around. Surprisingly, the inside isn’t quite as cavernous as I thought. Taken with the high shelves and slightly muted lighting, this makes for a slightly claustrophobic feel to the place. The range of goods is also not as big as the nearby Tesco and Sainsbury superstores.
However, having said that, what I loved about ASDA are their low prices. The goods I bought today are definitely and substantially cheaper than at nearby Tesco.
By the way, shoppers of the world, beware! In case you haven’t read the Sunday Times expose from 2 weekends ago, Tesco is trying to fool by announcing a cut in price of hundreds of store items. What they’ve really done is to cut these prices by a few pence whilst hiking up the price of a lot of other commonly bought goods by a lot more. This sort of sharp practice and treating customers as mugs is rightly costing them market share.
While not as blown away as I thought I would be, the prices still made me leave a happy shopper