Fresh and dried food - price surveys

Notes

Prices in the supermarkets are broadly similar. Carrefour Mi-voix (old Continent) is marginally more expensive but much quieter than Auchan or Carrefour. Auchan has a tremendous range and variety and is easy to get to and parking is easy if you are buying a lot of goods.

Doing surveys and comparing products between countries is often very difficult. Not only do package sizes vary, but content as well sometimes. Special Offers distort prices temporarily. We have used the French sizes as a standard and worked out the English price pro-rata. For example, if a product is sold in 500g boxes in France and costs 1.52 euro (£1.00), and the U.K. price is £1.20 per 450g box (a frequent problem), then the equivalent U.K. price is £1.33. This product is therefore 25% cheaper in France or 1.33 times more expensive in the U.K. Where it is impossible to adjust for differences (size of pineapples for example) we list the U.K. and French prices. We suggest you print these pages and take them with you as a rough guide. In general, French hypermarket labels are more informative and will show you the price per litre or kilogram as well (U.K. prices often just the item price), U.K. products come in smaller sizes, and there is less of a choice.

Whilst every care has been taken to ensure the accuracy of these surveys, and day-tripper.net has carried out considerable in depth research, they should be seen as a guide only and not definitive.

Survey of food prices in Calais supermarkets. U.K. prices converted at the rate of 1.56 euro to the £. Survey carried out in March.