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Everyone has bought food online! Especially during the epidemic, many people stopped going to the supermarket, so it was quite convenient to buy food online and deliver it to their homes directly. Me too.
But recently I found that buying food is really expensive! When I bought it, it was dozens of times bigger, and I felt that my Engel coefficient rose much faster than the fund.
I’m surprised. Is it so expensive because I buy food online? Would it be cheaper to buy it directly in the supermarket? In other words:
Online shopping and offline shopping
Who is more expensive?
How much is it expensive?

Based on my simple cognition, buying food online needs to be delivered to your door, which is definitely more expensive than buying it myself in the past. However, there are all kinds of full discounts and shopping vouchers for online shopping. After several times of integration, it is hard to say who will be cheaper.
With these doubts, I launched a grand survey. I chose Meituan Shopping APP, Dingdong Shopping APP and wu mart as the research objects, and counted the prices of online and offline common dishes! Today, I will teach you to buy food by hand!

The research method is to select common dishes that are available online and offline, and compare the unit prices. For example, baby dishes are all packed in 3 pieces of 400g, and the US group buys food at 6.49 yuan, Ding Dong 6.5 yuan, and Wumart only needs 5.9 yuan! The gap is as high as 60 cents! Think about the online doll dishes I bought in those years, and this wave feels that I am more delicious.

Including baby dishes, I have counted the prices of 75 kinds of goods in three stores, covering four categories of vegetables, meat, fruits and snacks, which are quite rich. For the sake of statistical fairness, we always adhere to four criteria in this survey:
There are different forms of online and offline pricing. Except for snacks and other commodities with uniform specifications, others are converted into the price per catty for comparison.
Some offline goods are not marked with weight, so the unit price is estimated by weighing.
Try to choose the same variety and brand for fruit and meat comparison, if not, choose the cheapest price comparison.
The price here does not consider special discounts such as membership discount and new group purchase, and all the prices are the most common purchase prices of the public.
Then the following conclusion table is amazing, which is simply shocking to my mother! I suggest that all poor people collect:

What I marked with yellow background in the picture is the lowest price for horizontal comparison. Here again! The prices in the table only represent Bi Dao’s on-the-spot investigation and online statistics during May 9 -10, 2022, and the prices may be different in different cities, regions, branches and time, for reference only!
At first glance, you will find that according to the average price, 42 items are cheaper offline, 30 items are more favorable online and 3 items are flat. But this is not specific enough! I combined the data and summed up five major findings. Let’s share them with you. From then on, I will buy food sideways and never lose money again!
Conclusion 1: It is cheaper to buy vegetables offline as a whole, and the increase of individual vegetables online exceeds 130%.
We have counted 27 kinds of vegetables, and on average, 18 kinds are cheaper offline, more than half! The range of price increase is 0.4%, and the one that is fiercer can increase by 131.5%. The difference is really great:

Unexpectedly, the highest increase turned out to be onion! Moreover, three brothers, onion, ginger and garlic, account for three of the dishes with an increase of top5, with an average of 7.1 pieces of onion, 3.3 pieces of ginger and 2.6 pieces of garlic per catty, which is worthy of being the three treasures of cooking! In addition, cabbage, cauliflower, Pleurotus eryngii and tomatoes have also increased a lot. Those who like to eat these should pay attention to buying them offline. But carrots are so cheap online, no wonder everyone can chew carrots at home. …
In addition to the price gap, I have to remind everyone that offline buying has a huge advantage, so you can choose! You can pick more affordable dishes at the same price. For example, the two packages below are also 2.99 pieces of cucumbers, and the left side is simply blood earned!

Conclusion 2: It is generally cheaper to buy meat offline, but it is more cost-effective to buy cattle online.
Meat is also generally cheaper offline, especially offline chickens, eggs, chicken legs and chicken breasts.
We look at ordinary fresh eggs, which are up to 4 pieces more expensive online than offline boxes, while offline eggs are only 0.83, which is equivalent to five eggs disappearing out of thin air! Some eggs are scattered when walking, which is why eggs are not easy for Mo Wen’s future … but chicken wings are cheaper online, which is amazing:

There are also exclusive meats online. For example, the pork belly of Ding Dong is 2.08 yuan cheaper than the supermarket and the fat beef roll is 8.08 yuan cheaper. Can you not eat it? There is also the beef tendon of Meituan, which is also 11.08 yuan cheaper. Can you not buy it?

Ps: The price of meat is also affected by the way of frozen/chilled preservation. Because some meat here is only frozen online and chilled offline, we can only compare it first … You can compare it according to specific parameters when buying!
Conclusion 3: It is cheaper to buy fruit offline, especially pitaya!
Except apples and pears, other fruits are cheaper in supermarkets. Online increases such as pitaya, bananas and wogan have all exceeded 40%, which is quite expensive! Watermelon has risen by 6.7%, and you can only chew a few more melons and pull them back like this.

Not only is the price low, but there are more varieties of offline fruits, and it is often cheaper to pick! The low-priced Xin Jing watermelon in the supermarket is only 3.19 yuan a catty, but there is no such option online.
In addition, there are also differences in the real things bought online and offline. I compared the bananas that were also marked as imported bananas. As a result, the long bananas bought in the supermarket and the short bananas bought online are like honest bananas. ..

Conclusion 4: It is cheaper to buy snacks online, especially drinks and instant noodles.
Snacks are AMAZING, and drinks, instant noodles and ice cream are mostly cheaper online! I cleaned up all the cheap ones, and then I will go to Meituan Dingdong to buy snacks according to this!

Puffed food and biscuits are more affordable offline. The fun in the supermarket is 50 cents cheaper, and Oreo is 1 yuan cheaper. Although there is not much money, everyone must be very concerned.
Conclusion 5: The so-called special price is often only pulled to the average level.
I have another discovery in this wave of price comparison. Most of the goods marked with special prices are only pulled to the average level, and there is no discount that breaks the bottom line as expected.
For example, when Longweixian made a special offer online, it was 6.2 yuan. In fact, the original price of the supermarket was 6.2 yuan. Wangzai milk, which is promoted in the supermarket, sells for 8.99, but it sells for 8.99 normally online … Each platform has its own advantages and disadvantages, so let’s compare the most cost-effective ones.

It’s a special offer and a promotion, but it’s not all the same in the end!
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The above is my comparison of online and offline food prices, and then sum up: it is cost-effective to buy vegetables and fruits offline, it is cost-effective to buy snacks online, and it is equally divided online and offline.
Of course, everyone’s membership and full discount in APP and offline supermarkets are different, so special price changes are not taken into account. You can make careful calculations according to your personal account! I hope this article has reference value for everyone! What do you think about buying food? Welcome to talk about it in the message area. Let’s save money together!
Original title: "Is online shopping more expensive than supermarkets? Comparing 75 kinds of vegetable prices, I found that I lost a hundred million yuan before …
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