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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Aldis for me.They may not have a million types of jam..who cares ..they sell jam ..The big supermarkets(and the banks incidentally) still dont get that customers are no longer loyal...when a weeks savings can pay the utility bill or petrol bill.I prefer Aldis to Lidl incidentally as Lidls dont provide small baskets..just big plastic wheelie things ! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I wandered into Lidl across the road from my gym in Chepstow last week. First time in one, and it was amazing!
It's like a supermarket around the edges, but with a car boot sale in the middle  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I wandered into Lidl across the road from my gym in Chepstow last week. First time in one, and it was amazing!
It's like a supermarket around the edges, but with a car boot sale in the middle "
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I wandered into Lidl across the road from my gym in Chepstow last week. First time in one, and it was amazing!
It's like a supermarket around the edges, but with a car boot sale in the middle "
love that description |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Been a LIDLS shopper for a long time. It's out of necessity, not choice, only.. it has everything you need (pretty much) at much cheaper prices, quality doesnt lack.
I'd still shop there if I wasnt skint. Don't really understand why more people don't. Really dont understand why someone would choose to throw money away at M&S or Waitrose, unless it's an image thing. Or you dont have a nearby Lidl, or Aldi. |
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By *SAchickWoman
over a year ago
Hillside desolate |
I love Aldi and Lidl. Lidl fresh bread section is brilliant, Aldi Stackers I like better than pringles. I used to buy loads of plants and seeds in Lidl when I had a working garden and greenhouse. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"We got loads of Aldi's in Egypt don't sell food though just Suitcases, Bags, Watches, and Souvenirs. Might be fake."
Which- Aldis,the watches or you  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I use Lidls, love it.
I don't buy my meat from there though, alwaysa butcher for meat. But that is not because of Lidls, I wouldn't buy meat from any supermarket.
And despite the bakery section looking fantastic, the produce isn't covered by sneeze guards etc it is all open so I never buy there. |
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There isn’t a Lidl near where I live but there’s an Aldi about a 5 minute drive away.
I use them for some products like loo roll and cleaning stuff and their wine is pretty good too. In common with all supermarkets they have good and bad products, it’s subjective but just because something is sold by M&S or Waitrose it doesn’t automatically mean that the product is better.
I like the convenience of a home delivery so I don’t buy all of my groceries from Aldi. I save money on the products that I buy from Aldi so I’m happy with that.
I have brought some kitchen gadgets from Aldi, their Ambiano range is extremely good value and reliable. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I use Lidls, love it.
I don't buy my meat from there though, alwaysa butcher for meat. But that is not because of Lidls, I wouldn't buy meat from any supermarket.
And despite the bakery section looking fantastic, the produce isn't covered by sneeze guards etc it is all open so I never buy there."
The bakery in my one is covered. |
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I've tried a few times, but they don't stock the things I want and much of their "cheap" stuff is poor quality. Although there are some great value products, the savings made are lost by needing to go to a propper supermarket for the rest of my shopping.
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Lidl, mainly, over Aldi.
Stores vary greatly in what they offer. In some I go to their bakery section settings about four times as big as anywhere else 
But bargains are the too be had, and I love the variety of continental food products.
The beer is very good and choice of wine is much better than the big 4 
And Aldi gin is champion  |
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By *manaWoman
over a year ago
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"If the Lidl fruit isnt rotten on the shelf it will be within 2 days of buying it. The same with their withered veg."
Tesco is guilty of that. I've never had an issue with fruit and veg from lidl myself. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The bakery in Lidl is amazing! There is a big battle brewing in Colchester - Lidl are opening a store OPPOSITE WAITROSE!!! I'm looking forward to people shuffling out of Lidl with shopping in Waitrose bags lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"If the Lidl fruit isnt rotten on the shelf it will be within 2 days of buying it. The same with their withered veg."
I've never had that experience with Lidl. |
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I use both, depending on what way I turn out of my road. Right for Lidl left for Aldi!
Love Lidis doughnuts and there tomatoes...
Aldi washing up liquid is amazing magnum think it is called, and I’m not allergic to it unlike top brand fairy!
Both are fantastic value, ok sometimes they don’t have everything so I have to pop to Sainsbury’s or Tesco’s and fall over at the till!!
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I use both, depending on what way I turn out of my road. Right for Lidl left for Aldi!
Love Lidis doughnuts and there tomatoes...
Aldi washing up liquid is amazing magnum think it is called, and I’m not allergic to it unlike top brand fairy!
Both are fantastic value, ok sometimes they don’t have everything so I have to pop to Sainsbury’s or Tesco’s and fall over at the till!!
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I want to fall over at the tills now too  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"No definitely not.
Cheap rubbish "
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Blackcurrant juice 50% pure blackcurrant 89p at Aldi's .
Ribena..same size , over £2 a bottle,with only 9% pure blackcurrant at big supermarkets.. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"No definitely not.
Cheap rubbish
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Blackcurrant juice 50% pure blackcurrant 89p at Aldi's .
Ribena..same size , over £2 a bottle,with only 9% pure blackcurrant at big supermarkets.."
Things like cordial aren't on my shopping list.
I get it if you have a family - I'm sure it makes sense. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Nope and I've tried both. Unable to get all the things I want so end up having to go to one of the major supermarkets in the end anyway which kinda defeats the object - and costs me more time. I hate shopping as it is and therefore want to spend as little time as possible doing it |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Shopping at Lidl you can eat rib eye steak for the price of minced beef from Tesco. There are a lot of really great products you just can't get elsewhere like reindeer steak and frikadellan meatballs. The icing on the cake is the car boot sale in the middle. Where else can you pop in for a 4 pinter and come out with an inflatable kayak for fourty quid! No, the o/h was not as impressed as I had hoped lmao |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Nope and I've tried both. Unable to get all the things I want so end up having to go to one of the major supermarkets in the end anyway which kinda defeats the object - and costs me more time. I hate shopping as it is and therefore want to spend as little time as possible doing it"
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how long before Aldi's or Lidl's IS a major supermarket! Aldis opening lots more in the next year ! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"If the Lidl fruit isnt rotten on the shelf it will be within 2 days of buying it. The same with their withered veg.
I've never had that experience with Lidl."
Me neither. |
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You've got to love the aisle that sells the crazy sh.t
Chainsaw (tick)
Lycra cycling onesie(tick)
Trumpet(tick)
Tent(tick)
Inflatable kayak (Tick)
Paddling pool (tick)
Duck tape(tick)
Gloves (tick)
Balaclava (tick)
Just need to visit the baby oil, jelly and own brand alcohol aisle and it sounds perfect for a wild weekend   |
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"You've got to love the aisle that sells the crazy sh.t
Chainsaw (tick)
Lycra cycling onesie(tick)
Trumpet(tick)
Tent(tick)
Inflatable kayak (Tick)
Paddling pool (tick)
Duck tape(tick)
Gloves (tick)
Balaclava (tick)
Just need to visit the baby oil, jelly and own brand alcohol aisle and it sounds perfect for a wild weekend "
the psychopath's go to store  |
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Not a convert but in reality the Aldi /lidl brands are only the same price as Morrisons/Tesco/Asda home brands. Some things are but others not I save more in fuel in calling when passing than I would going out of the way to specific stores. |
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Oh yes!
I used to go to the one in the next town, but it had a teeny car park, could rarely get a space.
So I would end up going to Sainsburys & spending a fortune
Then a much bigger one opened, bit further away but easy to get too & plenty of parking.
My food bill almost halved
They also do bloody good gin, which the extra £ savings went on |
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"Aldis for me.They may not have a million types of jam..who cares ..they sell jam ..The big supermarkets(and the banks incidentally) still dont get that customers are no longer loyal...when a weeks savings can pay the utility bill or petrol bill.I prefer Aldis to Lidl incidentally as Lidls dont provide small baskets..just big plastic wheelie things !"
I hate those massive plastic wheelie things. |
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By *hechapMan
over a year ago
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"I haven’t used either for years, I shop at M&S, if you go for the deals I can buy everything I need for £60 a week which suits me fine "
M & S £60 per week???
It would be easy carried home and a small cupboard would hold it.
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"I haven’t used either for years, I shop at M&S, if you go for the deals I can buy everything I need for £60 a week which suits me fine "
£60 a week! I spend £20-£30 a week
Ok I’m feeding one and I batch cook so some weeks it’s even less |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Nope shop and work for Sainsburys, there basic brand is cheap but still tasty and good offers every week to keep up with the competition "
if they reduced prices they wouldn't need 'offers'.
Iceland also make that mistake..trying to tell you points make prizes instead of just lowering prices to beginn with..And before its mentioned.. although Aldi's and Lidl are German companies..a high percentage of their products are British sourced..so brexit not a major problem. |
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Yeah. I love both but if pushed my favourite is Lidl. They do some branded goods (I can't do cheap pepsi max) but a lot of the non recognisable brands are actually better tasting or performing.
It does make me laugh when people complain about the 'foreign' food....a lot of it is made in England at the same factory Tesco's and Morrisons use |
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By *r TriomanMan
over a year ago
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Great big sign outside our Lidl saying how they are no longer providing plastic shopping bags; go inside the store and about 75% of goods are pre-packed in plastic - it's put me right off them. I do love their centre isles and Portugese custard tarts for 49p! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"If the Lidl fruit isnt rotten on the shelf it will be within 2 days of buying it. The same with their withered veg.
I've never had that experience with Lidl.
Me neither.
Nor me  "
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or me .they're very keen on stock rotation |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Great big sign outside our Lidl saying how they are no longer providing plastic shopping bags; go inside the store and about 75% of goods are pre-packed in plastic - it's put me right off them. I do love their centre isles and Portugese custard tarts for 49p!"
well observed.. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I haven’t used either for years, I shop at M&S, if you go for the deals I can buy everything I need for £60 a week which suits me fine
£60 a week! I spend £20-£30 a week
Ok I’m feeding one and I batch cook so some weeks it’s even less "
I spend about £50-£60 a week and I’m only home 2-3 days. I’ve just spent £60 on food for tonight and tomorrow. Argh. It’s only me usually but this shop is for me and my plus one. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I wandered into Lidl across the road from my gym in Chepstow last week. First time in one, and it was amazing!
It's like a supermarket around the edges, but with a car boot sale in the middle "
That is the best description of them! Love that middle bit. |
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"I haven’t used either for years, I shop at M&S, if you go for the deals I can buy everything I need for £60 a week which suits me fine
M & S £60 per week???
It would be easy carried home and a small cupboard would hold it.
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Nope as I am one of those strange women who remembers how to cook and be economical at the same time, I used to feed a family of 4 for £30 a week at one time, believe me I know how to make food go a long way  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I haven’t used either for years, I shop at M&S, if you go for the deals I can buy everything I need for £60 a week which suits me fine
M & S £60 per week???
It would be easy carried home and a small cupboard would hold it.
Nope as I am one of those strange women who remembers how to cook and be economical at the same time, I used to feed a family of 4 for £30 a week at one time, believe me I know how to make food go a long way "
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can you do me some steamed jam roly-poly!
haven't had any for over 30 years  |
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"I haven’t used either for years, I shop at M&S, if you go for the deals I can buy everything I need for £60 a week which suits me fine
M & S £60 per week???
It would be easy carried home and a small cupboard would hold it.
Nope as I am one of those strange women who remembers how to cook and be economical at the same time, I used to feed a family of 4 for £30 a week at one time, believe me I know how to make food go a long way .
can you do me some steamed jam roly-poly!
haven't had any for over 30 years "
Of course my lovely, and I can make real custard to go with it |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"You've got to love the aisle that sells the crazy sh.t
Chainsaw (tick)
Lycra cycling onesie(tick)
Trumpet(tick)
Tent(tick)
Inflatable kayak (Tick)
Paddling pool (tick)
Duck tape(tick)
Gloves (tick)
Balaclava (tick)
Just need to visit the baby oil, jelly and own brand alcohol aisle and it sounds perfect for a wild weekend "
Sounds like a great weekend. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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How many supermarkets do we need selling the same old shit? Tescos closing stores down so Aldi can build a new supermarket up the street, what a waste of energy and resources..... 
Soon Aldi will fall out of favour again when they try to turn a decent profit, eat, sleep, repeat....
(and we're paying for all that as customers yet we think we're getting a bargain smh) |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Like others have said , you cannot do a proper shop there plus there veg n fruit may be cheap but I throw more away than I eat , they go off very quick , I will stick to tescos |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"How many supermarkets do we need selling the same old shit? Tescos closing stores down so Aldi can build a new supermarket up the street, what a waste of energy and resources.....
Soon Aldi will fall out of favour again when they try to turn a decent profit, eat, sleep, repeat....
(and we're paying for all that as customers yet we think we're getting a bargain smh) "
you say Aldi will fall out of favour again when did they fall out of favour wthe first time please give your evidence?..Aldis had consistently low prices.. if not even lower than 15 years ago when I started shopping at one.. if they weren't turning a profit as you call it they wouldn't be opening new stores.. if Tesco's reduce their prices instead of trying to offer' points make prizes ' they wouldn't have had to close their store |
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Weren’t they started by brothers that hate each other or something?"
I think it was an argument about selling cigarettes at the checkout - one wanted to do it and he other didn't.
As neither now sell cigarettes, it was a rather pointless argument... |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Like others have said , you cannot do a proper shop there plus there veg n fruit may be cheap but I throw more away than I eat , they go off very quick , I will stick to tescos "
if you throw more away than you eat your buying too much in the first place.. perfectly good fruit and veg are thrown away at both Aldi's and Lidl's due to sell-by dates.. which is another issue.. it's called the stock rotation.
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Been a LIDLS shopper for a long time. It's out of necessity, not choice, only.. it has everything you need (pretty much) at much cheaper prices, quality doesnt lack.
I'd still shop there if I wasnt skint. Don't really understand why more people don't. Really dont understand why someone would choose to throw money away at M&S or Waitrose, unless it's an image thing. Or you dont have a nearby Lidl, or Aldi."
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Been a LIDLS shopper for a long time. It's out of necessity, not choice, only.. it has everything you need (pretty much) at much cheaper prices, quality doesnt lack.
I'd still shop there if I wasnt skint. Don't really understand why more people don't. Really dont understand why someone would choose to throw money away at M&S or Waitrose, unless it's an image thing. Or you dont have a nearby Lidl, or Aldi.
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It depends what you need to buy.
M+S and Waitrose sell some unique good quality things that you just cant find in the cheaper shops.
If things like condiments and cordial and crisps are on your shopping list then Aldi / Lidl is the way to go.
I shop at the nearest shop to me at the time to be honest. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"How many supermarkets do we need selling the same old shit? Tescos closing stores down so Aldi can build a new supermarket up the street, what a waste of energy and resources.....
Soon Aldi will fall out of favour again when they try to turn a decent profit, eat, sleep, repeat....
(and we're paying for all that as customers yet we think we're getting a bargain smh) you say Aldi will fall out of favour again when did they fall out of favour wthe first time please give your evidence?..Aldis had consistently low prices.. if not even lower than 15 years ago when I started shopping at one.. if they weren't turning a profit as you call it they wouldn't be opening new stores.. if Tesco's reduce their prices instead of trying to offer' points make prizes ' they wouldn't have had to close their store"
I'm glad aldi have better marketing ppl than me....... |
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just reas all the comments,
I am a convert, i am shocked mostly now if i stop in tesco! yes tesco do offer equal cheap brands but far less quality to match the price compaired to aldi standards.
As for Lidl they try to be a posh supermarket at cheap prices, an i find they fail, as overall they are more expensive plus as said, its half a carboot sale inside. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Firstly you must be very careful if you startle f&b you could end up with ring sting
But anyway iceland i go
I'll see you all there xx"
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all flights to Iceland cancelled .A Mr Thomas Cook said. |
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I mix and match, so Lidl isn't off limits for me. I have no Aldi nearby (yet) so it's not an option for me.
The one thing with Aldi bakery, that puts me off them nowadays, is that the 3 I can visit easily always seem to have loads of flies around the area.
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By *andKBCouple
over a year ago
Plymouth |
Prefer Aldi. We occasionally choose Lidl because they give £5 off vouchers.
However, not happy Aldi no longer sell my vegan burgers and such like to make way from Xmas stock!! Meh. But they had candy floss grapes the other day so forgiven slightly haha |
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I've been using Aldi since I was an impoverished student back in 1993. Must have been one of the first in the country.
Use Lidl as well quite happily, and there are subtle differences between the two.
My local Aldi is a pleasant enough environment, but the Lidl is pretty shabby. The new one 10 miles away is lovely, tho, and if I'm over that way anyway I'll use that in preference |
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