How do our prices compare to others?
You may be looking at our prices and thinking that you would never normally spend that much on vegetables when you go to the supermarket.
The first question that needs asking is, ‘Are all your vegetables organic?’
When compared with organic vegetables in local supermarkets, Canalside is consistently cheaper. Like-for-like in the summer would cost almost twice as much from a supermarket, and throughout the year you would make savings compared with buying organic produce from supermarkets. And the savings would be even greater if everything we put in our shares was available in the supermarkets! The price comparison includes some items which are only available in non-organic from the supermarkets, or are not available at all!
Price comparison for a small veg share (£9)
| Month | Supermarket A | Supermarket B |
|---|---|---|
| May 2010 | £11.16 | £14.37 |
| Sept 2010 | £16.96 | £19.30 |
| Dec 2010 | £10.10 | £11.44 |
| Feb 2011 | £7.07 | £9.58 |
Overall across a full year, trying to buy the same as what is in our small veg shares would average out as £9.63 from supermarket A and £11.51 from supermarket B per week, for those items that are available, compared with £9 for a small share from Canalside.
When you take into account that every week some items would be either totally unavailable or unavailable as organic produce in each supermarket, the Canalside veg share represents brilliant value for money for people who want to be sure that all their vegetables have been produced using organic methods of agriculture!
