Price comparison - strawberries

This is the first of a number of posts for a new project in which I'll compare prices between the supermarket and the high street greengrocer.

I have always assumed that the economies of scale would mean that supermarket prices would be the best.

On Tuesday I bought similar punnets of strawberries from the the local greengrocer and Ashby Co op.

At first glance, they appear to be similar punnets, the first at one pound, the second at two pounds, allegedly half price. Both were on special display near the front door.

I would love to hear from the Co operative exactly where and when these strawberries were on sale at four pounds per punnet.

price

The difference is even greater than it would appear. The supermarket ones weighed in at 419g, the greengrocer ones at 497g making the supermarket ones around two and a quarter times the price of the greengrocer ones.

taste

I have bought two punnets from each of the shops on different days. They do vary, some sharp and some very sweet, even within the same punnet, but it's impossible to say which generally taste best.