I shop at Aldi all the time, they're great for sandwich stuff and seasonal fruit


Totally agree

Those tills are saving the big supermarkets from having to employ sufficient staff

 

I once had to let one of the staff go because her car was parked in an Aldi car park!! It was her day off but still, she should have known better !!

 

I shop at Sellfridges

http://www.briangrimwood.com/blog/wp...9/IMG_2822.jpg

 

I don't think the shopping experience is horrible, I like it. It is like being in a supermarket on holiday. On holiday in Romania, but nevertheless....

 

Went to a Lidl first thing in the morning - big queue at he only "Open" till.

I say "Open" because the only employee in the place was away having a dump while we were all queueing waiting for her to finish.

I've not been back

Mind you the stuff was cheap

 

Worth signing up to both Lidl and Aldi regular emails about what's on special offer for that week. Got a load of clothes for our 18 month old from Lidl the other week, cheap as. Bought other odd bits and pieces over time including the odd power tool which don't seem to bad.

 

Got Parkside drill other week, same factory as bosch

 

There's nothing wrong with a lot of the stuff Aldi sell, both food and non-food.

Home Bargains is also good for branded food items. Always seem to have a box of Yorkshire Tea Bags for around £1 (£2+ in Tesco) and recently they've had 1kg bags of Napolina Rigatoni Pasta for also around a quid (again over £2 in the big supermarkets).

Mind you, now we are out of recession I'll be upgrading to M&S

 

Don't get me started on these types of shops selling Yorkshire Tea Bags.

Back on topic, I quite like going for a look around Aldi. We have one just up the road, so it's not out of the way and you can pick up some decent stuff/bargains. I don't get to Lidl much as there isn't one all that close by, but when I did go, I noticed their breads were very good. Again, some good bargains to be had.

 

Not true this is an urban myth reinforced by the fact there are actually two Aldis in germany (South and North) ran seperatley by the Aldi brothers and the various countries are shared out between the two firms.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldi

 

Self Service tills are great ..... stick a Barcode from a packet of POLO's onto a Leg of Lamb and you are in business!!!

 

Wrong, wrong weight

 

Barecodes sealed in plastic

 

There is not a different barcode for every possible weight of a leg of lamb

 

[QUOTE=DARB;10842427]I once had to let one of the staff go because her car was parked in an Aldi car park!! It was her day off but still, she should have known better !!

Cruel

Only ever been in to aldi to check out the drink, used to get okocim polish beer or something of that name, or was it netto.

 

Not if you plop another bag of around the correct weight onto the plate with the Polo's

 

Are you actually Antony Worrall Thompson? Certainly fits with the poison dwarf image

 

Netto might not be the best for basics any longer, because the only remaining stores are in Denmark!

132 of the UK stores were converted to ASDA's in 2011 and the rest sold off!

 

You must be really penny pinching if you have to worry about which is the best place to buy those items!

Nothing wrong with Lidl's, don't know about Aldi since we don't have one around here.

Les

 

Let me get his right, you are taking the barcode from a packet of polos and sticking it onto a leg of lamb so far so good

Surely then when you scan the polo barcode that is now stuck onto the aforementioned leg of lamb the scanner thinks it is indeed a packet of polos, then in reality you are actually putting the leg of lamb onto the weighing plate and not the packet of polos, so why would you need to "plop another bag" on there too ? The leg of lamb will weigh more than the polos so surely you would need to make the lamb lighter to fool the scales maybe tie a few dozen helium balloons to it

I put it to you sir that not only have you never done anything even remotely like this you also have a limited grasp on reality

The only other option is that maybe your first post was the wrong way around and you actually put a leg of lamb barcode onto a packet of polos so then you would indeed need to plop another bag on to add some weight to the now massively overpriced polos

 

Same reason Tesco sell's car oil, because they have a market!

Do we really need twenty types of tinned sweetcorn/beans/peas?

Limit the choice, multi package the product, cut out a distribution hub, go direct to the outlet, pallet it straight to shelf and pay the minimum wage.

= Cheap.

 

I like lidl for little bits and bobs
I buy my shaver blades from lidl they are actually ok
but do most of my shopping at morisons

when I came accross this thread I was chomping on a Lidl mixed berry yogurt LOL

 

mb

 

it might also stem for the fact that Adidas and Puma were started by German brothers

 

O' really??

I wasn't serious about that story, you know.

 

I don`t use either...I`m not a pikey I seriously wouldn`t be seen dead in any of them.

 

Go to all the supermarkets

Why the snobbery, its not as tho anyone knows where it comes from anyway
If you dont grow your own, it s all old wherever its from

Crabbies Mac in Aldi, nice

 

The snobbery is more to do with the clientele rather than the products