Tag Archives: price comparison surveys

The National Consumer Agency Price Comparison Website – RIP – and just as well

It’s some time ago that the NCA admitted that they had to give up on trying to build a grocery price comparison [...]

Who really is the cheapest supermarket? Don’t expect the NCA to tell you!

Splashed across the Aldi website at the moment is the headline “Ireland’s Best Value Discounter”, while available on many of the Lidl [...]

Price Comparison (comparative advertising) is in the interests of consumers

This interesting e-mail came through recently to ValueIreland.com from a business person who is investigating providing price comparison in their particular market [...]

Survey shocker – groceries still more expensive down south!

The shocker is that people are still spending time and money on this kind of survey. This newspaper report on a report [...]

Positive steps towards a national grocery price comparison website?

According to this article in this mornings Irish Times, the National Consumer Agency are in the process of trying to put together [...]

Grocery Prices – the Australian situation and current controversy

There is an interesting controversy breaking in the consumer affairs / grocery prices area in Australia at the moment. There, the government [...]

NCA Grocery Price Survey – Nothing New

The NCA have launched their new grocery price survey today – their press release is here. The headline of the release is [...]

The good and the bad of shopping in Lidl and Aldi

Thanks to Primal Sneeze for the link in the “Serious Rant” section of the links on the site. Some very interesting comments [...]

Last post on the NCA Grocery Comparison survey

I was checking the National Consumer Agency website today to see if they had any response to our enhancement of their grocery [...]

New Fans of Value Ireland

It seems that our blog has become popular with a certain supermarket chain following our work to update the National Consumer Agency [...]