High street shop you’ve never heard of that’s a rival to Greggs but cheaper
THERE is a little-known high street shop that you have never heard of that is a rival to Greggs but cheaper.
Poundbakery is a bakery chain that has over 107 locations across the UK.
The company was established in 2010 by Sayers, which is the largest independent retailer baker in the North West of England.
It currently has locations across the North East, North West, Midlands and Wales, and this includes cafes as well as takeaway shops.
You can use the store locator tool on the website to find your nearest outlet.
According to the website, there are no locations listed in the South East, South West or Scotland at the moment, but The Sun has asked them if they have any expansion plans, so watch this space.
The full menu can be viewed online and includes all of the items you would expect to see such as sausage rolls, pasties and pies, sweet treats, sandwiches and breakfast items.
We price-checked some of the items against Greggs to see how the prices compared.
A Greggs sausage roll is priced at £1.45 and a sausage roll at Poundbakey is 90p or £1.60 for 2.
A ham and cheese baguette in Greggs is priced at £4 whereas according to the Poundbakery website, you can get the same item for £2.50.
The popular steak bake in Greggs is £2.35, while a Poundbakery jumbo steak slice costs £1.60.
And hot drinks are also available in some bakeries and are very competitive.
The price of a latte is just £1.25 at Poundbakery compared with £2.35 at Greggs, and tea costs £1 compared to Greggs tea which is priced at £1.40.
It is a challenging time for many high-street shops at the moment and bakeries are no exception.
Just recently bakery chain Le Pain Quotidien closed all but one of its stores resulting in the loss of 250 jobs, after it fell into administration.
And Scarborough-based bakery Cooplands, which is the largest family-owned bakery chain in the UK, closed nine of its bakeries without warning.
Meanwhile, Greggs announced earlier this month that it had applied to keep two of its locations open 24-hours a day.
Greggs has already extended opening hours for around 500 shops to 8pm or later.
And earlier in the year it revealed plans to open a 24-hour drive-thru service.
Other ways to save money on your shopping
It is always worth looking for little-known outlets and ways you can save some money on your shopping.
Too Good to Go is an app that allows you to rescue end-of-day food from many popular cafes, restaurants, shops and supermarkets that would otherwise go in the bin.
All you need to do is download and set your location on the Too Good To Go app and you can choose from nearby stores listing their unsold food at a reduced price.
Similar to Too Good To Go, you can search for nearby food to pick up based on your location through the Karma app.
You can then purchase meals at discounted prices.
However, unlike Too Good To Go, Karma will tell you what food you are getting, so there is even less chance of it going to waste.
No Waste is an excellent way to get organised, as you can scan your food and list it by expiry date, name or category.
It makes it easier to see what you are running out of, so you don’t double up on items in your next shop.
Lists can be shared with family so you can give away unwanted food plus you can track how much you are wasting by deleting items you have eaten or that have expired.