Is local food cheaper than the supermarket?
Posted by DavidM in Buying green | 17 April 2009
Big Barn champions local food production and encourages people to buy locally rather than from the big supermarkets.
One of the barriers to more people choosing local suppliers is that they believe supermarkets give better value for money.
Big Barn want to challenge this thinking and need your help to prove local can be cheaper. They want all your examples where local outlets are selling a product cheaper than your local supermarket.
They'll highlight those stores on the Big Barn website and use the data to publicise the savings of shopping locally and challenge the misconception that supermarkets are the cheapest place to buy.
In my experience, you may get food cheaper at supermarkets but not of the same quality or taste. Like-for-like I've found you can get more for less on a number of products in local stores, butchers and so on.
Send your list of outlets and products to Big Barn at newsletter@bigbarn.co.uk.
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