Aldi or Lidl? Which is better?

sukysue

yes and the shoes make a terrible mess of the sheets too!haha!

C_Ronaldo

all the aldi stores are having a refit, has yours been done yet ?

deanos

C_Ronaldo wrote:

all the aldi stores are having a refit, has yours been done yet ?

Ours is being extended , only been open 2 years

flufff

can highly recommend aldi....staff are always friendly but worked hard but nevertheless stay polite.
Tinned plum tomatoes are lovely in tomatoe puree unlike storees value brands.
Cats adore the tinned food only one they will eat consistently.
Cold meats and yoghurts and sauces are superb.
Just upsets me when we get to like something and they stop doing it.They do a tinned tropical fruit with mango etc on its lovely and reasonable also low sugar jam and fresh breads are excellent.Frozen potatoe products and barbecue products are superb as are their jarred bockwurst.
Bit gutted I sussed barrier stayed up if you stayed close enoughto car in front so I gained extended parking rofl.Now theyve installed this darn dvla security camera thing makes me panic over time.
Lidl has been good when fruit n veg on half price.Dont know if my local store is just shoddy but I wont buy meat chilled or fresh as fridges look a mess.

sukysue

The tinned tropical fruit is nice but the banana in it is horrible I always scoop it out fore eating.

Lord_Gardener

I always find Lidl very convenient and much less hassle than Tesco/Waitrose. Just picked up some refill kits for those expensive Dell cartridges for £1.99 a piece!

sjcjd

Hi all,

We are lucky to have both stores in our town, and I have just signed up for the weekly newsletter (which I got the link from here to do this) so you get to know what the offers are before they are in the shops.

I tend to shop more in Aldi over Lidl, only as its across the roundabout from Tesco and they do brand names cheaper than the main stores. But I found both stores about the same on own brand quality.

Both have kids treats really cheap, which during the hols is a god send.

I quickly found out what not to buy from either (eg beans-like some others here I am a heinz only girly; and unfortunately my kids have been spoilt by this and wont eat anything less either!!)

I still shop in Asda/Tesco for the normal basics but found I have knocked over a third of the weekly food bill and that includes treats! Iceland too comes in handy once a month but only for the decent offers.

Thanks everyone,

SJ

rog2

My daughter has just spent a year in Italy, as part of her uni. She did not visit LIDL until she had been there for six months.
What did she buy? BAKED BEANS!!!

Kate_Smiley

Lidl Jaffa cakes are nicer than McVites! I think they might be made by McVites anyway, but are more orangey.

There is no need to be snobby because lots of the big brands made 'white label' stuff for the other supermarkets, sometimes the ingredients and taste are the same, sometimes deliberately different. I always check my ingredients now anyway, try to get less E numbers etc.

Lidl also to great chocolate digestives, strawberry crunch cereal, luzury cold meats and loads of different cheeses (ridiculously cheap compared to Tesco, and often higher quality). The thin pizzas (mozerella and cheese particularly) are fantastic. Tinned soups, chopped tomatotes, frozen fish and veg... The wines are really good too and very good value. Oh and I like luzury 4 ply quilted loo roll so buy it in packs of 10 from Lidl and save a fortune on the main brands. Oh and anti wrinkle moisturiser soooo cheap, and it suits my skin perfectly. Their W5 bath cleaning foam spray can is better than than any brand I can get anywhere else, and so cheap...

I used to work by a Lidl so tried lots of their stuff, and it is very good. I have to make a special trip now and then to stock up on my favourites as it is a bit further away now. I am always amazed how much cheaper my shopping trolley full is at Lidl, as I choose what I like, including luxury goods, and still cannot spend as much as I can on a tiny shop at Tesco.

My friends have a local Aldi now and swear its fresh meat is so much better, not pumped full of water, fresh and tasty british meat apparently.

So buy what you like, but if you like the quality and variety of cold meats and pates with much higher meat content then give Lidl, or Aldi a go - have a bit of luzury and probably save money at the same time!

Schamansky

Being German and from a family of convinced Aldi shoppers in the third generation, I'd say definitely Aldi.

From the Motherland of both:

Aldi have been around since the 60s. Dieter Schwarz, founder and owner of Lidl, successfully started copying Aldi's hard discount concept in the 90s by cutting costs even more rigorously, especially on store equipment and staff wages, both areas where Aldi don't believe in stinginess.

The German independent consumer watchdog "Stiftung Warentest" (Product test foundation) have been giving Aldi products good ratings for years. The foundation rates consumer products on the scale of "very good", "good", "satisfacory", "not satisfactory", "insufficient." Aldi are said to rigorously list out products that fall below "satisfactory". Most Aldi products hit "very good" or "good"; this is something that Lidl cannot boast with. This has, of course, helped to create great consumer confidence in Aldi's merchandise. Lidl's product quality is sometimes rumoured to leave to wish. Personally, I've found the Lidl products that I bought ok. I regularly shop at Lidl for their German food.

In Germany, Aldi is no longer regarded as the poor people's store, although that used to be the case up until the mid-eighties. Today, Aldi is the smart shopper's store. The simple idea is, why pay something like €3.99 for a brand shampoo with a "very good" rating, when you can have a "very good" rated shampoo at Aldi for €0.89? That sure makes sense to me, and snobbery, as far as I'm concerned, is something fined directly: at the till.