You might be surprised. It's a lot cheaper than Asda, but rather more upmarket.

Isle of Alpen or the Isle of Weetabix?

Sorry, couldn't resist :smile:

never shopped at aldi or lidl, been in, couldn't bring myself to do a shop,

Except the fresh fruit and veg, I've always found they don't last half the time as the 'main' supermarkets fruit and veg. Granted it's cheap but I always end up throwing it out. Asda wonky fruit is superb, roughly same price as lidl and aldi but lasts...

​If you're busy (work life, kids, dependants, etc) you can't just 'nip out'. Plus you're wasting time (cost) and petrol (cost) and car wear (cost)!
Mind you, I don't have one in walking distance (6 miles). Point still stands.

OMG !!!

I actually wasn't joking! Took 25 mins to get through the checkout a couple of weeks ago and the bag of ice I bought was more or less water by the time I got to the till and they tried to be funny when I asked them to change it before I paid for it!!! :confused:

thanks all sharwoods takeaway meals were reduced to 50p if that helps anyone

Thanks OP for letting us know that ASDA are having a clear out. :smile:
Hope everyone can find something good

I thought more ppl would be posting offers but seems like this tread has become a debate about the supermarkets which is good in own way

How many thousand of times have I told you stop exaggerating 'By the time you get through the tills your frozen stuff has defrosted! Not good enough.'

Down to your own opinion, imo ​ASDA is often better quality with same or cheaper price and a wider range...its called choice.

I as a big fan of ready meals and American-style bakery lines think Asda is streets ahead of all the others and always encounter very friendly staff. Their RTC offers are brilliant as are their whoops and I think the quality is great. Use CS a lot and it's brilliant. I used to shop a lot in Aldi in the mid-90s but have never been that thrilled by it!

Or you could have a CS desk with a bell, which you ring when you need service, the rest of the time the CS people do a normal job, when the bell rings, they come to the CS desk, saves the manager doing the work and he must be surely more important than the average worker.
Customers get a CS desk, may have to wait a couple of minutes, but most will understand that.

Stop twisting the debate, no one said that another supermarket won't sell an item that will never go off in a certain time, I'm saying, from my experience and from lots of others on forums, that Aldi/ Lidl veg, (Lidl in my experience) goes off quicker than other supermarkets.
I really don't know why, but it does seem to be the case. If your local Lidl/Aldi is different, then good for you, It's obvious that it will be different from store to store.

Thing is you just still can't get everything you need in a weekly shop in one go in Aldi, so we always need to do a top up shop. For the sake of potentially saving a 1 or 2 quid for what is quite a lot more effort and extra petrol it just doesn't seem worth it. Some of the Aldi stuff is pretty rank too, like the basics chocalate they do, and some of the biscuits. Other things really aren't that much cheaper (if at all) eg filter coffee (bag is smaller), dishwasher tablets (i've found they are virtually the same price per unit as the Basics brand in sainsburys, and seem like identical products anyway..
Main reason we spend less in Aldi is because we buy less (eg no kids clothes or electricals!), the price of the products isn't that different from the own brand or value lines of the majors anyway.

Would shop more in Lidl Aldi but service in my local very very slow ,no staff.

The fruit and veg in Lidls and Aldi have not been radiated, so will not last as long as other major stores. That's why I prefer them, and I just shop little and often to adjust for that.

I used to work on the CS desk for a leading supermarket & while customers like it it's a money pit for the business. Complaints come in peaks and troughs so for about half of your working day you're just waiting for something to happen. A company like aldi or lidl would be losing tens of thousands each day paying someone to stand there like a spare part simply to please customers, personally I prefer cheap prices. That's the sacrifice you have to choose between - nice fluffy service or cold hard cash savings for the customer.

All over the internet? I know for a fact (not hearsay, this is first hand) that they come from the same places at the same time as other UK-grown crops, often with premium labels on exactly the same specification. I also buy from Aldi and Lidl and experience failures at times, but you won't ever convince me that Asda, Tesco, Morrisons, never sell an orange that won't be mouldy within 24 hours. That's how it is with fresh produce.

Wow but I still think Aldi lidl and Morrisons do better but heat added cos people do like ASDA when there is bargains to have

​yes that probably isn't the right industry for them then.

loads of random things reduced to silly prices, alcohol not so silly but decent price got the pack of four echo falls £2.30 and ciroc vodka £12

I find don't find aldi as great value as people say and find there fruit doesn't last that long

Aldi is extremely good value. I had a mate who paid alot for a rare pet spider a couple of years ago. Meanwhile, I paid just a quid for a whole family of them, and got a free bumch of bananas thrown in!

​It's standard supermarket stuff.
The big 'Orange' shop I work for requires me to be at the doors at 6.50am when they open for 1 minute for a 7 shift start.
I don't get paid for that 10 minutes x 5 times a week.
If I get there at 7 when the doors open for customers I can clock in till about 7.02 due to the walk, I'm then classed as late and my pay doesn't start until the next quarter i.e. 7.15.
I also have to move trolleys and rollers out the way in corridors and from across a fire exit on the way to the department I work in. (I'm not a store floor department).
Aldi is no worse than the Orange, green ot blue supermarket!

just testing, will this go into a moderation queue?

A lot of the brands are there, certainly Pepsi is, slightly cheaper aswell.

I think the hardest part is accepting that what you're buying are not name brands. I mean, I couldn't imagine eating any other ketchup than Heinz, or passing up my Pepsi Max for a cheaper alternative.

No it's true about the vegetables anyway, they really don't last as long as other places and it's not just me saying that, you can find it all over the internet.
I don't know why, because I also have heard the stories about them being delivered by the same people that supply other supermarkets.

UKIP voters? I thought we were dissing snobbery here? Elitist idiots read The Guardian to top up on their delusions.

Stigma? None at all - I'd say there's real stigma against being delusional about not shopping somewhere on the grounds that other equally deluded types might *see* you there and think less of you.

Incidentally, the business model that Aldi and Lidl use means that despite charging customers less they are actually able to pay suppliers MORE than the major multiples because they take a much smaller margin. And the freshness allegation is strange, because the fresh produce comes from the many of the same suppliers - e.g. lettuces boxed in the field (yes, really) alongside Tesco, Waitrose, etc. and the stock turnover is usually faster because there are fewer lines on the shelves to choose from. Meanwhile good luck with those sell by dates on the veg, eh? Look again...

ASDA need to reinvent their staff. The grumpiest, unhappiest people in the world.

Stigma surrounding Aldi and Lidl? :neutral_face: I don't think so. :laughing: Not these days. :wink:
If there's any stigma in 2016 it's being seen at Tesco, Morrisons or Asda. Admittedly, there are people still shopping there who haven't got easy access to Aldi or Lidl, but anyone with any funny ideas that they're somehow shopping somewhere 'better' is either blind, daft, or probably both. Or maybe a Daily Express/Mail reading UKIP voter. :laughing:

:neutral_face: But if you shopped like that, of course you wouldn't buy fruit/veg with a use-by of only 2-3 days. Some folk indeed.

Switching to Aldi/Lidl means changing shopping habits, it's not just going to a different store.

not really, it is against idiotic opinionated people who 'can't bring themselves to do a shop'. I really do not understand the stigma that surrounds aldi or lidl.

Talking of daft arguments, yours is up there with the daftest. What if I wanted the fruit/veg to last from one weekly shop until the next one? It's not like you normally use the fruit/veg in one go, is it? Jeez, some folk :man:

But if you don't intend to eat/use the veg till the week after buying it than just buy it the week after. what a daft argument.

Wow, thats quite an insult for the 92% of shoppers who don't shop at Aldi or Lidl!

Tesco, Asda or Morrisons is hardly for the 'well off' or 'snobs'!

Agreed. And they cost money, I guess. We frequently go to a discount grocery store selling short dated products from the supermarkets at often massive discounts and even they have a CS desk! I just think the lack of a CS desk is an indication of how little a supermarket actually values customer service!

I know my wife has done it a couple of times, the difficulty is getting the manager, if it's busy it can be difficult and you always feel a bit weird, as you just stand in the middle of the shop, or at an empty till, with everyone else watching and listening.
I prefer a CS desk

I was specifically talking about taking something back for a refund. Have you ever tried this and how did it go? I DO shop in Aldi, BTW, but I also DO recognise its limitations at the same time.

I love Lidl and Aldi, haven't done a big shop in any of the big four for over two years.

Always cringe when I see Tesco's prices when on the off chance I go in there.

An example is Cathedral City 350g Mature Cheddar. Around the £2.50 mark in Tesco but Lidl's own brand Valley Spire - which tastes exactly the same, is £1.59.
Lidl's 1.136L Organic Milk is like 79p but in Tesco it's well over a quid.

One thing Lidl and Aldi need to introduce is Self Checkouts, though. Although my local Lidl is generally good at managing queues with their automated system 'till number 4 is now opening, please place all items on the till belt', wait times at Aldi are often painful.

never shopped at aldi or lidl, been in, couldn't bring myself to do a shop,

It's been a while since I was in Asda, as we do most of our shopping at Lidl now. Yesterday I happened to be in Waitrose, Asda and Lidl.
Waitrose and Lidl looked similar, but thinner aisles at Lidl and no customer service (as Bellboys says), alot more "specials" to draw you in at Lidl, Waitrose had better date discounting. Asda looked like a warehouse, with warehouse shelving, very stark and unforgiving.
I had a pleasant experience at the till at Waitrose (re a chat, service etc), an almost similar experience at Asda and a grunt when my money was due at Lidl.

At Lidl, I found one worker on the shopfloor, seemed very harried, but he did answer a question I had, no problems, at Waitrose I was tripping over workers doing Waitrosy stuff, at Asda, I can't remember seeing anyone on the shopfloor, although there must have been someone somewhere.

Yeah, that's strange, Lidl & Aldi train the staff that they dictate the speed of packing, not the customer, everything is designed to speed up the procedure, the short packing area etc. You're supposed to lob it in the trolly then go to the shelved area behind to sort it out.
At the other end of the scale, at Waitrose for example, they let the customer dictate the speed, won't rush you at all, but you will probably end up waiting in line longer.

I use the Lidl store in Leyland, Lancs and the Aldi in Bamber Bridge, near Preston. For balance I have to say that the customer service, in these 2 stores, is absolutely 1st class. Friendly staff who actually look like they want to be there and the moment a queue develops other tills are opened straight away.

We started using these stores out of curiosity. bought one thing at a time to check quality and taste etc. Not one thing weve bought has disappointed us at all. Most of our shop is done at these 2 places now.

I'm yet to find out why lidl in germany is so much cheaper than Lidl in UK - perhaps they are making enough £££ here already

Try as they might, nothing short of changing their entire business model (pretty much impossible in reality) will enable them to compete with Aldi and Lidl on price and quality.

They (along with Tesco, Sainsbury, Morrisons and possibly even Waitrose) are in for a long, lean decline now that the pricing cat's out of the bag.

If only Aldi stores weren't so freaking cold! Was like Antarctica this week.

quality that's Aldi .
price that's Aldi .
not enough of stock DIY that's Aldi .

Isle of Alpen or the Isle of Weetabix?

Sorry, couldn't resist :smile:

Thanks, I managed to pick up the red Berry special k boxes for 10p in asda in Leyton. Picked up a box of quakers oats for 27p as well. They had the breakfast pots for 10p too. They haven't marked them down yet, were on the end of the shelf.
If your shopping in Leyton check the best before dates, some of the pots expired 2 weeks ago.

​ditto

​nope your wrong. the romantic notion that some people have about aldi and lidl is sweet. there quality isn't that great on most fruit and veg, I've shopped regularly at both. their production/best before dates is misleading. their customer service at the till is across all Scottish stores that I've visited is unacceptable. Asda and the rest have, you are correct, fighting a loosing battle. lidl in Europe is on the other hand fantastic.

He may have had a breakdown when he entered the store must have saw the Braun 4K tv ! Lol

The BWS are already being discounted, the cereals were 2 weeks ago. Looks like your store is a bit behind.

​I have noticed price hikes of 15% plus in ALDI. Will Lidl be able to resist massive price hikes?

Except the fresh fruit and veg, I've always found they don't last half the time as the 'main' supermarkets fruit and veg. Granted it's cheap but I always end up throwing it out. Asda wonky fruit is superb, roughly same price as lidl and aldi but lasts...

Couldn't agree more - they are taking over as we have another lidl and brand new Aldi being built in Eastbourne and I can't wait!

​C**ps all over the likes of asda and morrisons,for price and quality of food

Missed out on the cereal. Local asda all finished (glasgow)

I've noticed the coffee.tea n hot chocolate is also been reduced at scunny......on Friday there was a end shelf with reduced pricing for cereals but no cereal there so presumed they had all gone

thank you

thank you

what is bws. ????