NZ vs UK: Supermarket Prices

In this series, I will discuss regional differences that I can think of between New Zealand and the United Kingdom. There are probably a lot, yet the way my head works I cant think of everything in one go.

I'll start with some leftover photos from my time in NZ, which I find interesting.

In Pac N Save, New Zealand, on a weekly basis in the queue for the till, we would always look at the amazing headlines for the yellow press 'New Idea'. 'Womans Weekly' was there too, but it was always New Idea that would blatantly LIE in their front covers.

Palace "confirms". Sure...
So here we go, Not only did they split up apparently, but Harry is apparently now going out with a new lover.

Meghans baby was born weeks before, you know, the actual birth!

Every week there would be the royal family on the front page of this magazine. And every week it was worth a laugh to see what was happening in the fictionalised soap opera.

Now I have no idea if such fiction would be allowed to be published in the UK. But the UK has very evil newspaper paparazzi. The worst in the world in my opinion. I'm sure though the actual headlines used for such images wouldn't be allowed to be pure fiction.

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Vegetables, meat and dairy products, including anything else that is extensively exported from NZ, has hardly a net worth value for being sold within NZ itself. The farmers get no money for going this route. They get paid good prices for going export. This means things get very pricey in the stores. 

$13 / roughly £6 per kg for mushrooms

$10 / roughly £5 per kg for lemons

Roughly $3.50 / roughly £1.75 for 1 Bell Pepper

$4.30 / roughly £2.10 for 1 yellow Bell Pepper

$10 / roughly £5 per kg for Fennel

$2.50 / roughly £1.25 for 1 cucumber

£3

£3.20 per kg

£6.50 per kg for courgettes

£7.20 / £3.60 for a block of real butter

1kg of a block of cheese in NZ is roughly $11 / £5.50. This is one of the cheap ones! See more prices here: https://www.paknsaveonline.co.nz/category/chilled-frozen-and-desserts/cheese/cheese-blocks?s=sortprice&sd=1

And you can forget the more interesting ranges. NZ only sells different versions of cheddar cheese. Period.

Supermarkets in NZ tend not to sell tubs of fresh fruits such as strawberries, blueberries, raspberries etc. In the UK these usually sell for £1. In season though, farm vendors will have stalls in the town centers, selling tubs of cherries (roughly 10 cherries?) for $7 / £3.50.

Farm markets do exist every weekend in Dunedin at least. Prices would be slightly less expensive than the supermarkets, but not by much.