We’re delighted to launch our new Price Comparison website.
We stopped updating our previous Price Comparison website at the end of last year and have this year been building a new, in-house site, which we soft launched in the summer and is now fully live. Thank you for bearing with us during this transition period.
Our new site includes weekly fuel and oil prices, fortnightly grocery prices from all the Island’s major supermarkets, and will also include occasional themed seasonal price comparisons, such as at Christmas, Easter, Pancake Day, and certain awareness days.
As ever, our advice is to shop around for the best prices and to vote with your feet if you feel prices at one provider or store are too high.
We hope you’ll find our new site to be a useful tool to help you make informed decisions on where to shop, with categories featured ranging from bakery and dairy products, to tinned, dry and frozen goods, as well as gluten free and baby products.
We worked with Digital Jersey to develop our new site, which we will now operate and run ourselves, in house.
Anthony Dearie, Executive Officer of the Jersey Consumer Council, said: “We’re thrilled to now have our new price comparison site up and running, and we thank consumers for bearing with us during this transition period.
“Featuring the prices of almost 100 grocery products at six local supermarket chains, as well as the unleaded and diesel fuel prices for all 25 Jersey garages, prices.je is your one-stop-shop for prices in Jersey.
“As with our previous site, we hope that this service will help Islanders to make informed choices about where they shop. By highlighting the, often significant, variances in the cost of everyday products, we hope to encourage consumers in Jersey to think about where they spend their money – and whether the places they ‘usually’ do their shopping really provides them with the best value for money.
“We’re very grateful to Digital Jersey for the advice and support that they’ve given us to help us bring this valuable service in-house, at a lower cost to our organisation.’
Sebastian Lawson, Head of Projects at Digital Jersey, said: “We were delighted to work with the Jersey Consumer Council to help them develop a new price comparison service for the Island.
“This has been a great example of partnership working between Government ALOs, and the new site, prices.je, can be run and managed by the Council in-house, at a significantly lower cost than their previous price comparison site.
“We hope that Islanders will benefit greatly from this new site, and will be able to shop around with ease to ensure that they are always getting the best prices.”
Throughout this year, our volunteers have continued going up and down the supermarket aisles every fortnight to gather the latest prices, meaning that our archive of prices won’t have a gap from when our previous site closed to the launch of this new site.
Accessing Prices.je
When accessing our new Price Comparison page on a computer, simply type prices.je into your browser (you must type it into your browser, rather than into a Google search window).
Or click here: Prices.je
If you’re using our new site on your smartphone or tablet, it’ll work most effectively if you use it as a web app on your home screen.
Simply type prices.je into an internet browser, and you will see a message pop-up saying ‘Install Prices.je – Add this app to your home screen for easy access and a better experience’.
It will then prompt you to press the centre button below the browser (a square with an arrow pointing up out of it).
Tab the relevant button below the browser, then scroll down and select the option to ‘Add to Home Screen’.
A screen saying ‘Add to Home Screen’ will then appear. Click the ‘Add’ button and Prices.je will then appear on your device as an App, which you can move to the most suitable folder or screen.
If you still have our old PriceComparison App installed on your phone, please delete it as we will no longer be updating it. Similarly, if you still have our old price comparison website saved as a favourite on your browser, you can now remove it and replace it with our new site, prices.je.
If you have any queries about, or issues with, our new Price Comparison service, please email [email protected]
