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Cheapest weekly shop in Britain, basket-weighted.
Narrow range, no loyalty card needed, prices that make Tesco's Clubcard 'deals' look thin. The Specialbuys aisle is chaos but sometimes useful for kitchenware and kids' kit.
- Cheapest staples
- No loyalty card
- Specialbuys
Too Good To Go
End-of-day surplus food bags for £3–5.
Bakeries and supermarkets list mystery bags of food they'd otherwise throw away. Reliable for bakery, hit-and-miss for supermarkets. Pay in-app, collect within a window.
- £3–5 mystery bags
- Bakeries best
- Pay in-app
Vinted
Buy and sell clothes with no seller fees.
Took over from eBay for second-hand clothes. Free to list, buyer pays a small protection fee. A bin-bag of unworn clothes is genuinely £80–300 over a couple of months.
- No seller fees
- App-first
- Buyer protection
HotUKDeals
Crowd-voted deal aggregator — the legitimate ones, mostly.
Users post deals, the community votes; the front page is a real-time map of what's actually a bargain right now. Set alerts on specific products and you'll catch the rare 50%-off windows.
- Community-voted
- Deal alerts
- Live discussion
Articles
London cheap eats, organised by postcode
Where to eat well for under £10 in each zone of London — from Tayyabs in E1 to a Vietnamese strip in E8. The actual map, not a listicle.
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