Which supermarket chain do you support the most?

Which large supermarket chain do you support the most?

  • Woolworths

    Votes: 69 19.5%

  • Pick n Pay

    Votes: 76 21.5%

  • Spar

    Votes: 59 16.7%

  • Checkers

    Votes: 139 39.3%

  • Shoprite

    Votes: 8 2.3%

  • OK Bazaars

    Votes: 3 0.8%
  • Total voters
    354
ShaunSA said:
unfriendly cashiers
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When they have cashiers. For some reason Pick 'n Pay will never have enough cashiers, there will be an entire shop full of people and they'll have 2 cashiers. Drives me nuts so I never go there unless I'm forced to.
 
Spar cause the shop is clean and the cashier's friendly. And they have a nice selection of fresh food.
 
95% Woolies, other 5% is for things Woolies doesn't sell.
 
Pick and Pay, though I am very picky about which ones I go to.

Main reason that it is at a shopping centre with a 1 hour free underground parking.

Other factors are:
I get 25% off on quite a good chunk of my basket because of HealthyFood.
Smartshopper genuinely makes my life easier by emailing me the slip.
 
Checkers in Clubview Centurion is a breath of fresh air compared to what a traditional Checkers would be.
 
I have little loyalty to any particular chain store. I will go wherever the prices are currently the best for what I want.
 
Spar (Spargs Beacon Bay)

Plenty parking space.
NO car guards.
Both the front and back of the building have multiple cashiers, two entrances so hardly ever queue for long.
They often employ students to pack the bags.
They have fishing and building sections.
 
Never really though about it as supporting a brand , its just that the Spar is so much more convenient for me esp the one in Little Falls, always clean and tidy, parking is easy, there are other stores in the vicinity as well like Dischem.

Woolies I go to once a week to get drinking water for the week and indulgences, those little frosted donuts are the devils work and their lamingtons
 
The Checkers in our town is a terrible shopping experience, so my wife usually drive to the next close one about 12km away. Fairly recently revamped, a much better shopping experience. The PnP in town is one of our last options if we do not want to drive to checkers. Rude staff, disorganised queuing system they have in place. Their butchery always have some kind of a stench when you walk past.

Woolies for their niche products, and with their specials items are often much less than at the other usual retailers. You have to be a special kind of stupid or be a government tenderpreneur to do all of you shopping there. We buy there, but selective. Their house brand 1kg of coffee beans always works out much cheaper than the 250g packets of the other brands.

I think my wife does most of her ad-hoc shopping between Checkers and Spar, and the bulk at a non franchised retailer, the President Hyper in Vanderbijlpark.
 
bwana said:
Mine would be the same. We have Checkers, PnP, and Woolies in the same venue. Checkers has the best food, friendliest staff, and best prices. Woolworths also has friendly staff and good produce - the selection is limited though. PnP is just plain over priced and the staff are at best mediocre.
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As my palate has become more sophisticated over the years I find myself buying less and less from Woolies.
Once you find which brands are the best the Woolies Brand stuff are mostly no as offensive tasting as the popular brands or mediocre at best.
 
Spar, only because it's the closest. Would have supported whichever chain was closest.

Second is probably a tie between Checkers and Woollies as they are right next to each other and I frequent both if I go to one or the other.
 
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