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PhilM said:
Aldi's meat and vegetables is usually much better than those of the big four, but as someone mentioned the lack of dates can make it a lottery.

Obviously not the quality of the butchers or local green grocers which I do like going to, although it easily wipes the floor with ASDA et al.

Also, their baby wipes (for all those with younger children) are top notch and much, much cheaper than your Pampers or whatever other brand!
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This! Cannot recommend then enough for this stuff.
 
Soon be infested with WAG wannabies driving 4x4's with sunbed tanned beauts in Hugo boss t shirt with shorts and snide flip flops and sunglasses on their barnets in middle of winter, even though they've started to get an egg in the nest. I liked them better when they were low-key not the place to be but their still miles better value than the other major supermarkets. I'm just grateful they killed Tesco's . Oh and Lidl is for scruffs who wear Patrick trainees.
 
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Brennan said:
To be fair the supermarkets like Tesco don't rip people off at all. Supermarket profits are thin. In fact, all supermarkets lose money on every single home delivery they do. Not many people know that.

Aldi and Lidl have succeeded by offering a much smaller product range which reduces their costs. A large Tesco could have twenty times as many products on sale as a typical Aldi.
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Ummm, sorry, yes they do. Over a course of a year I was surprised that my till bill was consistently higher than I thought it had been. Then over a month or so I added up as I went through the shop, and rounded UP as I went, only to find that my bill was still higher than I'd counted. That day I went back around the shop and found dozens of products charged higher at the till than listed on the shelf. I watched this for weeks before confronting the manager the say I went in solely to buy a frying pan (£20) which I was charged £25 for at the toll. She claimed it was a simple mistake, and they're likely in such a large shop. I pointed out that every single mistake was I Tesco's favour, but that cut no ice. Have since concluded that this was a matter of policy and have never been into a Tescos since.
Other cons the big supermarkets have, like counterintuitively charging more than double for 100g of tea, compared with 50g of tea, or offering a meal deal, eg curry, and planting a food in the middle of the display that isn't in the deal, so you don't qualify at check out.
They rely on the fact that most people either can't add up, or are simply too much in a rush, or worse, they trust a British institution to be honest in their dealings. Yup - you get big by bring clever at ripping people off!
 

Kurt said:
Lidl is much better... pint bottles of Perlenbacher for 89p... Bargain.
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Lidl excellent -the 'deluxe' range has some great food - dead cheap too. Some wine for xmas was reduced from £4.79 to £2.99 - thought it would be iffy but was good stuff. One fella buying 24 bottles of one for his restaurant - he recommended it and knew his stuff, so can only imagine the mark up there.
Like Aldi too - especially those middle aisles with mad things like wheelbarrow wheels etc. Remember once they had 6ft industrial sized drill bits on offer - can only imagine those gadget mad fellas trying to persuade their wives they really needed one for some job or other round their house.
 
chrismpw said:
Ummm, sorry, yes they do. Over a course of a year I was surprised that my till bill was consistently higher than I thought it had been. Then over a month or so I added up as I went through the shop, and rounded UP as I went, only to find that my bill was still higher than I'd counted. That day I went back around the shop and found dozens of products charged higher at the till than listed on the shelf. I watched this for weeks before confronting the manager the say I went in solely to buy a frying pan (£20) which I was charged £25 for at the toll. She claimed it was a simple mistake, and they're likely in such a large shop. I pointed out that every single mistake was I Tesco's favour, but that cut no ice. Have since concluded that this was a matter of policy and have never been into a Tescos since.
Other cons the big supermarkets have, like counterintuitively charging more than double for 100g of tea, compared with 50g of tea, or offering a meal deal, eg curry, and planting a food in the middle of the display that isn't in the deal, so you don't qualify at check out.
They rely on the fact that most people either can't add up, or are simply too much in a rush, or worse, they trust a British institution to be honest in their dealings. Yup - you get big by bring clever at ripping people off!
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Always love it when on the news they report as awful news that Tesco profits have fallen for they quarter/ year as if we should be worried or upset. Err hang on profits fallen?? Does that mean us the cusomers are paying less?? They are charging less and making less profit on the things I buy? Well that's good news to me.
The one thing I would willingly pay more for is milk, shocking the way the supermarkets are driving dairy farmers to the wall by the prices we pay and they make a loss. Dozens packing it in, we will end up importing the stuff, ridiculous.
 
chrismpw said:
Ummm, sorry, yes they do. Over a course of a year I was surprised that my till bill was consistently higher than I thought it had been. Then over a month or so I added up as I went through the shop, and rounded UP as I went, only to find that my bill was still higher than I'd counted. That day I went back around the shop and found dozens of products charged higher at the till than listed on the shelf. I watched this for weeks before confronting the manager the say I went in solely to buy a frying pan (£20) which I was charged £25 for at the toll. She claimed it was a simple mistake, and they're likely in such a large shop. I pointed out that every single mistake was I Tesco's favour, but that cut no ice. Have since concluded that this was a matter of policy and have never been into a Tescos since.
Other cons the big supermarkets have, like counterintuitively charging more than double for 100g of tea, compared with 50g of tea, or offering a meal deal, eg curry, and planting a food in the middle of the display that isn't in the deal, so you don't qualify at check out.
They rely on the fact that most people either can't add up, or are simply too much in a rush, or worse, they trust a British institution to be honest in their dealings. Yup - you get big by bring clever at ripping people off!
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With all due respect mate if you think they're ripping people off on such a massive scale you should be reporting them to Watchdog or the authorities. They're always happy to report on such things.
 

bignev23 said:
Soon be infested with WAG wannabies driving 4x4's with sunbed tanned beauts in Hugo boss t shirt with shorts and snide flip flops and sunglasses on their barnets in middle of winter, even though they've started to get an egg in the nest. I liked them better when they were low-key not the place to be but their still miles better value than the other major supermarkets. I'm just grateful they killed Tesco's . Oh and Lidl is for scruffs who wear Patrick trainees.
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Lol. You've just described the Aldi that opened recently in Gateacre perfectly apart from the fact they drive Audi's ;)
 
big bobs beard said:
Always love it when on the news they report as awful news that Tesco profits have fallen for they quarter/ year as if we should be worried or upset. Err hang on profits fallen?? Does that mean us the cusomers are paying less?? They are charging less and making less profit on the things I buy? Well that's good news to me.
The one thing I would willingly pay more for is milk, shocking the way the supermarkets are driving dairy farmers to the wall by the prices we pay and they make a loss. Dozens packing it in, we will end up importing the stuff, ridiculous.
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Quite my view too.
Oh, so they've collected a profit eh? So after paying for stock, premises, heating, lighting, tax (optional), salaries etc. They've collected a further 8 million by paying too little to the suppliers, charging too much to the public and all so they can hand it to already wealthy shareholders who've had to do nothing other than lift a phone and buy sharea. Well done. Good for them.
Blerts
 

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