Great What/What Not to Buy at Lidl, Aldi and Netto Hunt

tosca5

Love Lidl Pancakes, yummy!
Anyway what i wanted to say was, why doesn't Lidl introduce a clubcard like most of the other supermarkets?

Schamansky

tosca5 wrote: »

Love Lidl Pancakes, yummy!
Anyway what i wanted to say was, why doesn't Lidl introduce a clubcard like most of the other supermarkets?

Burn the heretic!!! :eek::eek::eek:;)

That would be against everything the hard discount way of retail, as invented in Germany by the Brothers Albrecht of Aldi and later shamelessly and successfully copied by Lidl's Dieter Schwarz and others, is all about:

Cost leadership through radical reduction of all operational policies to the bare minimum. This entails stores, staff, management, logistics, product range (mostly own brands) and sourcing, minimal marketing and services, down to speed-optimised till procedures and no free carrier bags. Through minimising cost all across the business, hard discounters are able to significantly undercut all competition whilst retaining higher margins than "classical" retailers.

"No frills or gimmicks" is a dogma. A clubcard scheme would imply management, staff and administrative cost, in clear contradiction to the minimal cost strategy that hard discount stands for.

I'm convinced that Tesco get the cost caused through their clubcard scheme back from their shoppers, through an elaborately fine-tuned pricing policy over their product segments. In other words, in aggregation, Tesco shoppers have already paid for their clubcard points and "free" carrier bags at the till, believe it or not.

Hard discount retailers reject all policies that result in additional cost, which they would then have to retrieve from customers through higher prices.

Square deal, after all.

tosca5

:eek:
Jeepers!! Thanks for that..;)

Schamansky

By the way,

LIDL: avoid the 800g cans of meatballs with pasta and veg. Tastes like smelly feet.

Indulge, however, in their lentil soup with sausages and their large tins of chicken soup.

All from Buss GmbH & Co KG near Bremen, Germany, wholly owned by Heristo AG, formerly Stockmeyer. They also supply Aldi (their canned American or Asia soups, for example.)

www.buss.de

charlies_mum

Try the Soupreme soup from Aldi. It's in the chiller cabinet, the vegetable and leek and potato are lovely.

Peartree

Schamansky wrote: »

Burn the heretic!!! :eek::eek::eek:;)

That would be against everything the hard discount way of retail, as invented in Germany by the Brothers Albrecht of Aldi and later shamelessly and successfully copied by Lidl's Dieter Schwarz and others, is all about:

Cost leadership through radical reduction of all operational policies to the bare minimum. This entails stores, staff, management, logistics, product range (mostly own brands) and sourcing, minimal marketing and services, down to speed-optimised till procedures and no free carrier bags. Through minimising cost all across the business, hard discounters are able to significantly undercut all competition whilst retaining higher margins than "classical" retailers.

"No frills or gimmicks" is a dogma. A clubcard scheme would imply management, staff and administrative cost, in clear contradiction to the minimal cost strategy that hard discount stands for.

I'm convinced that Tesco get the cost caused through their clubcard scheme back from their shoppers, through an elaborately fine-tuned pricing policy over their product segments. In other words, in aggregation, Tesco shoppers have already paid for their clubcard points and "free" carrier bags at the till, believe it or not.

Hard discount retailers reject all policies that result in additional cost, which they would then have to retrieve from customers through higher prices.

Square deal, after all.

Scary response but quite, self evidently, true. There is an old saying in my neck of the woods, "you don't get owt for nowt". If a retailer has a loyalty scheme, it is paid for by its customers one way or another. At the end of the day, it is all 'frills'. If Lidl introduced a loyalty scheme, you'd pay for it elsewhere - that's business.

At the end of the day, you decide whether you want hyped branded products at over the odds, cheap, low quality products at a cheap price, a whole pile of smoke and mirrors with loyalty schemes, pretend 'offers' and the like, or just good quality products at a fair price. It is surprising how many people go for the first three and think they are getting a good deal - even on this site! The last one is good, but outwitting the system and getting the best mix of all the above is the trick and that is real 'moneysaving'.

Peartree

Schamansky

If you play it right, you can get a lot more than your money's worth out of Tesco's clubcard. There are quite a few ways enough to make sure they don't short change you on clubcard points, but that belongs into other threads.

They also, justice be done, have genuine offers which are not mere monetary fairy tales. Such as today's "half price Carlsberg". Boils down to 8*300ml for 3.99 instead of 7.99. That's 1.66 per litre, some half price, :mad:, a***holes.

stamford

Schamansky wrote: »

Such as today's "half price Carlsberg". Boils down to 8*300ml for 3.99 instead of 7.99. That's 1.66 per litre, some half price, :mad:, a***holes.

The mugs queue up to fall for it though no wonder Tesco & Co are laughing all the way to the bank

FannyHill

tosca5 wrote: »

Love Lidl Pancakes, yummy!
Anyway what i wanted to say was, why doesn't Lidl introduce a clubcard like most of the other supermarkets?

I want value for money food I've never been interested in these loyalty cards.

BexTech

FannyHill wrote: »

I want value for money food I've never been interested in these loyalty cards.

Same here, why should I pay extra on the products I buy to pay for the loyalty cards, I'd rather have the saving on my shopping.