That's cool. I recently tried out our one, it didn't have fresh fruit and veggies but it had bread and milk in addition to grocery shelves. I didn't notice a large price difference though, things seemed to cost about what I'd expect.

[–] Floofah@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Our’s had onions, garlic, which were both very low cost, especially the garlic, compared to the supermarkets, plus oranges, apples and kumaras. Can imagine they’ll have more local produce when it becomes available.

[–] Dave 1 points 1 year ago

Oh we get our produce from a weekend market anyway. I might have to start a spreadsheet if ours gets produce 😆

[–] liv 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's interesting, our one definitely has the cheapest milk in town apart from Reduced To Clear.

[–] Dave 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I didn't actually check the milk. I'm normally happy with anything but when I've had Cowgate in the past for some reason it just didn't taste right.

[–] sortofblue 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Cowgate makes for a terrible coffee.

[–] Dave 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What makes it different? I think of milk as being basically a commodity, where one bottle is the same as another. What makes Cowgate different?

[–] sortofblue 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I honestly have no idea but I've tried three different bottles and each one was terrible - coffee and the rest of the milk both ended up down the drain. It's almost like they leave the bottles in the sun for a bit before delivering them.

[–] Dave 1 points 1 year ago

Well I'm glad I'm not the only one!

[–] liv 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sometimes they do Meadowfresh as well, and sometimes they have cheap butter. My household goes there just for milk lol.

[–] Dave 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Butter was $5 a block but countdown had them at the same price.

Grocer tells me Cowgate is $3 for 2L, compared to $3.70 for the countdown branded milk. The $2 a week we'd save is a drop in the bucket compared to our total spend, not really worth the special trip for us, even if I liked it. We'd have to drink a lot more milk.

[–] liv 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah butter is only good on special, they have had $4 specials in the past and you can freeze it. Bit of a treat food. I tend to go through a lot of milk and cheese though because it's still much cheaper than meat.

I guess it's all relative. $2p/w = $54 p/y. Whether that's an attractive savings depends.

[–] Dave 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not worth it if I don't like the milk 😆

I'd like to keep buying some groceries there though, even if it's only to try to help break the duopoly.

[–] liv 2 points 1 year ago

Hahaha I'm not telling you to buy it, more explaining why I do that. Sorry!

I really hope it does help break the duopoly, I really don't like it. Reduced To Clear are good but you can't really bank on getting any specific thing there.