Why do some idiots not realise when things are sold at a cheap price like this, that the store will not be making a profit, may even be making a loss.It's not that producers are not being paid much, or in the case of the cheap school uniforms that children in sweat shops abroad must be making for next to nothing.
These goods are sold cheaply to encourage people to go to the store and then they are likely to buy other goods.

Great for us but how little are the farmers being paid :disappointed:

Bargain, although i normally find their fruit and veg doesn't last very long.

Brexit = No Brussels.

Wow, that's super cheap! We'll have 8 people to feed over xmas so I'l be stocking up on these. Thanks for the heads up! :smiley:

Bargain, although i normally find their fruit and veg doesn't last very long.

bargain

Great for us but how little are the farmers being paid :disappointed:

'Stinky' broccoli? :smile: I always though such depth of feeling was reserved for Brussels sprouts. :stuck_out_tongue:

When does this begin? I can't seem to find any info on their site!

Brexit = No Brussels.

​ul have to wait after Xmas but u never know it's been 1p for all fresh fruit and vegetables at aldi in I think 2011 or 2012. but u can always try asda late evening they reduce dated stock to as low as 5p a pack sometimes or even 3p

Think I can just about make out that the super 6 is Sun 18 - Sat 24.

Haha! There's barely the room for us 8! Plus 5 of those are kids so I doubt you'd want to be in the room once the sugar hits them. :P

can you make it 12

heat

Why do some idiots not realise when things are sold at a cheap price like this, that the store will not be making a profit, may even be making a loss.It's not that producers are not being paid much, or in the case of the cheap school uniforms that children in sweat shops abroad must be making for next to nothing.
These goods are sold cheaply to encourage people to go to the store and then they are likely to buy other goods.

Maybe add in the detail for those viewing this post on a laptop who cant see which food is included, what weight/number:

Broccoli
Gem lettuce
Maris piper
Parsnips
Carrots
Brussell spouts

these deals usually run from Thurs to Wed for 2weeks and the Xmas Super 6 in the past has been 3 weeks, not saying the op is wrong, but popping in later , shame no satsumas

Wish she'd answer the bloody front door! It's freezing out here.

Christmas has come early at Aldi :smile:

Flame deeeeer

Thanks Op

Crikey! amazing deal. Yummy

​try lidl they got clementines in at 69p for 1kg I think that's if it's still on

Good old Aldi :smiley:

blimey thats cheap!

worried about the staff grabbing all the sprouts, they are windy

That a great deal, at last thanks very much for the Post I will help me save a but for Xmas xxx

You get what you pay for! Enough said.

can't beat some maris pipers for 19p

Super hot, never mind you get what you pay for just how much better is a maris piper spud grown in mud from m+s as opposed to from aldi

Blimey. Didn't think they'd top last years 29p Super 6.

Aldi fresh produce lasts just as long as any other supermarkets in my experience.

Go Aldi. Offers like these can make a big difference to those on a budget.

Great prices

Brussels sprouts should never be boiled and usually over boiled . Try steaming or sliced in a stir fry .
A much maligned vegetable , very good for you if cooked properly .

​well u can make a curry out of it if u want.

I will confirm that they are paid barely anything! Everyone thinks deals like this are great but forgot about all the farmers losing out :-(

No 29p cucumbers :disappointed:

I've never had any problem, same as from other places.

​l would not count on that as the veggies will probably only last two days before going off.

which farmers most get subsidies for leaving some land empty the subsidies are not to sniffed at either. Doubt a week or two of discounted stuff is hardly going to make a difference especially as this year the price of potatoes has been unusally high most years 25kg of potatoes has drop to around 3 quid not this year its been around 5 quid though. plus I don't think the farmer's will be paid any less than the usual market rate it's probably sold at cost price to get more people to shop there.

I wouldn't feel too bad for the poor old farmers.
For example one farmer local to me gets 250k a year even though he sold up retired early and lives abroad now.
Another just got 1.1 million payment fir just one of her farms. Figures are out there and were also in our local paper for all to see.
So when your "poor" farmer drives past you in his 40grand pickup don't be a muppet and feel sorry for his hardships.

Hi Ku66 I'm a farmer (top fruit) and actually the "cost" of most promotions are borne by the supplier. The farmers group together sometimes to try and share the cost as if it hits one person it can wipe them out.

last time I bought Maris piper's from Aldi they were rotten inside. Never again!

what about subsides do u get any of them and why don't farmers sell stuff themselves. I wouldn't mind buying my milk and fruit and vegetables from a farm. most of the stuff comes from abroad does it not. apart from potatoes and few other crops. One of my relatives has fruit and vegetables business he's just sold half of it as the cost of importing is getting too much due to brexit shannings.

that happened to me aswell but they were from asda I think that maybe due to time of year I never get when that season is as we usually buy onions 8/9 kg bags in bulk and sometimes potatoes 25kg bags and every year I get caught out in that season it's something to do with the changes in weather I think.

Are you a farmer then? Maybe if you were you would understand that we are paid a minimal amount for our produce!

Wheres your proof instead of a wide assumption.

are you for real? do you actually know any farmers? they lead the high life these days

Cracking price!

​agreed! :smile:

when will it end?

These will never last a week, they'll be mouldy by christmas!

Great price, thank you for the heads up

Go Aldi , offers like these make a big difference to bowel movements.... Sprouts for that really Good "Stinky Bum Thunder!":smirk:

From experience I can say Aldi produce is often of better quality than other supermarkets the savings come from less staff working faster and less spent on displays lighting etc...food should actually be fresher as it is their policy to remove dated stock before last date whereas I often see discoloured meat being sold in my local Asda late on the last day it can be used.

An Aldi Maris piper is still a Maris piper they're not grown in cheap soil or something

I've never had that problem with their veg. Then again it doesn't need to last very long in our house; we get through loads of it!

Lol! So many people keep saying this, but I don't find them any worse than any other supermarket as long as it's all stored properly. We get through so much veg in our house it doesn't last beyond a few days anyway. Besides, the deal STARTS on the 18th, so as long as you buy it a few days after this it won't need to last a whole week to make it 'til xmas day!

Broccoli is good for you.

Crazy, crazy prices and Aldi 'throw down the gauntlet'
Maris Piper for 19? Cheap as chips!

I wish Aldi did a Super 6 beers. :stuck_out_tongue:

...apologies: I like using this photo.

Now I need to find an Aldi with parking. Thanks OP

IKEA call it the hot dog effect. Sell a product that you make little to no margin on and then the customer believes they are getting an excellent deal elsewhere in the shop. Even if this isn't the case. Very clever and enticing.

Aldi haven't all of a sudden paid less for produce they are just taking advantage of people doing their big Christmas food shop.

Not as many preservatives - good!

Exactly. It's called "loss leader".

Yeah, Aldi might lose a few pence on the basic veg. But if it lures people into the store to do their full Christmas shop, they will end up making a lot of money.

awesome price, too bad it will be off within 2 days of buying...that has been my personal experience of aldi veg

Veg is Veg, some goes off sooner than later, we have a Sainsbury's and Aldi right next to each other and would always pay Aldi's prices and eat with in a timescale, that would also apply to Sainsbury's

Aldi all day for me

​it's not strawberries it's potatoes carrots and the like that stuff won't go off in 2 days unless u keep it at a optimum temperature for it to go off unless it already has if that's the case it's ur own fault for picking up a pack of mushed slosh in the first place. u could always return it I suppose.

Not many people will go to aldi to only buy these discounted products and aldi know this. It's a loss leader and Other retailers do the same. So why oh why the sob stories about farmers getting paid so little? That is really old news now and farmers get subsidies etc so are more well off than the average person.
The narrow minded mentality of some people on here is just shocking

or add it yourself

To be honest with you I couldn't read the detail on the photo, I searched online to get it but I couldnt find it additionally I can't edit the original post so obviously otherwise I would!! Thanks for your worthless suggestion. The post has since been edited by someone else who actually has editor rights.

Too late to get the sprouts on for xmas - maybe ready for the new year

all those vegetables and candles though - Hope the fire service aren't having a strike

When they first opened here the quality was way worse than everywhere else. Now hugely improved . I find broccoli never lasts for more than a couple of days regardless of where I buy it. Also re fruit, you really have to look carefully at the bags of citrus as often, 1 or 2 might be squished/mouldy. Excellent prices for these essentials

​it was edited a long time ago ur moans been pointless think u just trying pick on the other person.

any farmers want sell me a farm for a a fair price around Staffordshire willing pay around upto 200k. it seems u guys are losing out and not making much seems odd I been saving up to buy a farm for last 10 years and the prices keep going up. o wait u get subsidies and stuff so Joe public pays farmers moan and then won't sell up either so land not been used pushes up prices both on produce and farm land.

I'm not sure what exactly you're arguing for here but your assumption that people are idiots who don't know this when they go in the shop is pretty arrogant.

cut them in half and oven bake them sprinkled with a little salt and pepper , little dried chilli too. Thinly slice, fry with bacon or make a gratin. Just don't boil them.

especialy when eaten ;-)
I agree though.

You do realise the very big ones are cabbages. The Brussel sprouts are the small ones.​

​Who cares! ....

Show me a poor farmer and I'll show my a#@* in Morrisons window
:stuck_out_tongue:

Don't eat it so fast then.

Ah, at last. Someone who can spell! Correct... it's Brussels and Brussels sprouts.
Change that pic of the dopey Merkel and put oh sh it in German to make it more authentic.

Here you are. Just copy and paste it in. I'm in too much of a rush to get the bargains.

Oh Scheiße

Brexit bells, Brexit bells, Brexit all the way, oh what fun it is to deride that silly ol moo. :smile:

Which mans less chemicals on them and thus closer to organic and non gmo.

Wow, amazing price! HOT from me :smiley:

It depends what it is. If it is root veg they keep for a long time past their best before. I currently have their mangoes for 59p and they are actually really nice. I bought like 20, each day i try to select a softer and more ripe one but most of them are like rocks and i suspect they will last into January.

I don't think there is necessarily a correlation. Some fruit and veg were traditionally bred to be able to last for months eg. root veg, onions, squash, apples etc.

Quite correct, the producers have contracts with wholesalers, retail prices on loss leaders like this have no effect on supplier prices. No matter how many "farmers" on here state otherwise.
For every loss leader like this, there is an increase in footfall. It does not mean the supplier is being paid less, it simply means that someone somewhere has the economic sense to realise that by taking a loss here you can increase profit there.
I tell you what though, I'll claim to be a farmer to give my post some validity. Oooh aarghh.

Bork, I would never buy my fresh food this early and would rather pay full price to have the freshest veg. And yes I am on a low budget and purchase as many items I can that wont rot early, leaving only the fresh stuff to purchase.

You would not be purchasing them THIS early as they are not yet available at the price stated. They are available from the 18th December to the 24th December so if you purchase around Christmas Eve then they are very likely to be okay!

You do need to be careful with what you select though. There are some dodgy produce in Aldi. I have stated this before, the Red onions frequently have what looks like mould on them so you do need to check the bags. ~With the fruit, the staff throw them around and bruise, dropping pallets on them. I hate bruised apples and bananas. So you do need to check them before putting into your basket/trolley.

I am in for the carrots. I love sliced raw carrots and eat piles of them, buying 7 to 8 Kg at a time. They last me around a couple of weeks if I soak them in water when I get them home to rehydrate them. They do tend to get slightly soft towards the end and could do with rehydrating a second time. I do intend spraying with colloidal silver to help preserve them when I finish a colloidal silver generator. Colloidal silver makes everything last for many weeks and destroys bacteria and fungi.

I am sure people do realise it, and what is the problem with it anyway?

By the sound of it, you do not get out enough.......

Listen to politicians some time and you will hear far stranger things. Think of what I said as a recommendation on how to make things last longer. I do not go shopping every week so have to make things last as long as I can.

Sorry, it was meant as a weird compliment! Rehdydrating carrots, colloidal silver generator...sounds like the future.

The reason vegetables don't last is primarily because we don't keep them correctly. Sprouts, parsnips, potatoes, carrots, swedes, turnips, apples, onions etc will all keep for weeks if kept in a cool place (not a fridge), best place is a garden shed. Keep them in a centrally heated house and they'll rot and become a breeding site for tiny fruit flies. I buy reduced price vegetables from Morrisons and they can last up to a week AFTER their sell-by-date. I'm using celery that I bought for 9p last Monday (sell-by-date of 12th Dec), sweetheart cabbage, tomatoes, plums, apricots that I bought Tuesday for between 5p-9p, and I've frozen bluberries and raspberries to use over Christmas, again 9p per punnet. The 19p veg deal at Aldi is really good, so voted hot.

great offers all nice vegetables apart from sprouts :smile:

I can't speak for this specific promotion of course but I do know that the cost of many promotions are burdened by the supplier. I thought I'd mention it here because I've found people are often surprised by this.

I work in the produce industry and see how hard everyone works to produce good quality safe fresh produce and these prices make a mockery of the hard work, skill and dedication that goes into their production. Yes on this promotion the supermarket will take a hit just to get footfall but in the long term it gives the general public the wrong perception when pricing is a milloin miles below the cost of production.All this whilst we are being asked for ever higher standards of quality and traceability. What will happen when the industry becomes unviable and the supermarkets have to rely on produce coming from abroad from sources that do not have our high standards of production and if they do then the end consumer will pick up the cost as prices will be pushed up because of lack of supply.

cheap as chips

When is this offer for? Was in Aldi today and all super 6 ofers 59p. Thanks!

It states tomorrow, 18th December, in the OP.

Did anyone manage to buy any of the super 6 for 19p? Was actually 29p when I went in today and a lot of angry customers but they didn't budge!! False advertising??

Judging by your post time, it looks like you went in on Sunday and they should of been available at 19p. I just checked their Super 6 on the Aldi website and it does show them listed at 19p so maybe your local Aldi had not changed the pricing appropriately from the usual prices.

You could of asked them to speak to head office and get the correct pricing.

​chips ain't cheap these days

Thank you got mine this morning had some of the lettuce for lunch loverly
the broccoli looks nice as well the spuds a bit less so
sprouts,parsnips look a bit tatty will use them up for my tea :smile:

In my local all 19p including the maris piper & plenty of stock even at 5.30pm...!

The Potatoes on Aldi website say 18th - 31st
https://www.aldi.co.uk/maris-piper-potatoes/p/068097007231400

I even heard a radio advert for this today so if the Aldi staff still do not know about it then there is little hope for that store.

Theses are the prices with the supermarket making a profit doh....dont u get it.they wouldnt be on the shelf if they werent

the food is very good and it last along a long time the fruit and veg are very good too last along time and the staff are very help ful to good luck aldi keep the good work up on ampthill rd bedford