OK. So every week my mailbox gets stuffed with a huge amount of advertising leaflets, flyers, free newspapers and the like. Normally I flip through them just to see if the phone bill is lost in the pile, then I add them to the mountain of paper in the recycle box that I never get round to emptying. But after pulling the newest pile out of the mailbox I decided to flip through the 'bargains' to see what I was missing. Then I thought it might be interesting to share this week's prices in France with you so you can compare them to where you live.
So here are some of the prices for everyday things being advertised this week from Carrefour (one of the biggest grocery shops - in fact I'm told that their shop in Portet sur Garonne about 20 minutes from my place is the largest shop in Europe and I don't doubt it).
Pampers New Baby Diapers / 35 in the pack = 9€ (US$11 or £7.99UK)
Medium-sized Loaf from their bakery (pain de compagne) = 0.90€ (US$1.13 or £0.80UK)
Packet of sliced ham / 4 slices, 180g = 1.90€ (US$2.39 or £1.69UK)
Six chicken breasts / 720g = 5.80€ (US$7.29 or £5.15UK)
Two dozen large eggs (buy 1 dozen get 50% 2nd dozen) = 3.30€ (US$4.15 or £2.92UK)
Peanut M&Ms / 2 packs 220g each = 3.19€ (US$4.01 or £2.83UK)
Coke 15 pack of 33cl cans = 5.15€ (US$6.47 or £4.57UK)
A pineapple = 1.40€ (US$1.76 or £1.24UK)
A 1kg packet of frozen green beans = 1.83€ (US$2.29 or £1.62UK)
4 x 1 litre cartons of 100% pure orange juice = 4.66€ (US$5.85 or £4.14UK)
Now the good stuff:
75cl red wine Château Jean Guillon Bordeaux = 3.90€ (US$4.90 or £3.46UK)
(I buy my everyday drinking plonk at Lidl's for 1.25€ a litre!!)
70cl bottle of Jack Daniels = 17.95€ (US$22.56 or £15.95UK)
1 litre bottle of William Lawsons Scotch Whisky = 11.24€ (US$14.12 or £9.97UK)
That's obviously just a little selection of prices. How do they compare to what you pay? Anyone want to know the price of anything specific? This week's recycle pile also advertises TVs, Fridges, garden stuff, kids clothes, prams, computers, cat food, furniture, curtains, lawnmowers and yes, even a kitchen sink!
Cheers,
Ronaldo
Thursday, March 5, 2009
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2 comments:
I am going to Paris in about three weeks and this is the FIRST website that I could find something like this. I wanted to know just the average price for stuff so I knew how to gauge how much money I brought...THANKS SO MUCH!!!! LIFESAVER!!!.. AU REVOIR!
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