Are you too snobbish to shop at Lidl ? You might be giving your money away !

Jewel_2

I am going to LIDL for the first time tomorrow to see what it's like. I will give it marks out of 10 for quality, customer service and car parking :rotfl:

jembie

I am not too snobbish to shop at Lidl. I buy a few things there but overall I don't see that it is cheaper than anywhere else.
I can get cheaper items if I shop around at Somerfield/Iceland and my local market.

I do like to get their big tins of Catfood though at 59p a time which lasts 2 days.

funky-footprints

Willsnarf1983 wrote:

am i the only one that found the OP post's a bit preachist and 'look at me?'



Will

not at all becasue we are all on this board for one reason only, to save money in one way or another, there are things which i like spending money on, but using this boards i have learned to save elsewhere meaning we can still have the things we like.

Sally14

I love Netto! :j

missysx

3 or 4 years ago when we live in northamptonshire we used to shop at lidl and aldi when we were short of money...

but where i live now, the nearest lidl is 18 miles away. i don't drive and my oh doesn't like shopping on his day off (and i don't blame him).
i like to do the food shop on my own... whenever the oh or my boys go with me it ends up costing more than i would normally spend and i get really stressed out...
i go to either tesco's or sainsburys and normally walk there and taxi back whilst he's at work and the kids are at school.

i have gone to morrison's a few times, but i don't like some of their food and i find that the person on the checkout is quite abrupt and chucks the shopping down the belt, not giving me a chance to catch up....

but that's just my personal experiences

DKLS

I am a Lidl/Aldi Snob and proud of it, The only supermarket for me is M & S, and to me it IS moneysaving, as I dont waste any food, if i shopped elsewhere food would be wasted

raq

I had funny smelling chicken from asda and tesco in the past.

I now fine most of my shopping is now in lidl and when you are saving £20.00-£25.00 a week I will continue to go there.

As a lot of people now there is good and bad with all of them.

lynzpower

lots of ethical reasons not to shop there in terms of employment rights

http://www.checkout.ie/News-print.asp?id=592

http://www.billybragg.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=3901

http://www.redpepper.org.uk/KYE/x-kye-Mar2005.htm

gallygirl

Love Nettos, like Aldi & Lidl, draw the line at Kwiksave, too many winos:o !!!!

Nettos cheap for bottled water, cooked meats, potatoes.

KittyKate

I am not a snob (far from it!) but I find Lidl disgusting. When I used to live in Bradford I experimented shopping there when I was a student and it was just foul.

The shop itself stank of BO, urine, mould..it was awful. The car park was filthy and full of glass. The staff might as well be replaced by inflatable dolls for their charisma, intelligence and helpfulness. The food is piled higher than I can reach and often dented where it has obviously fallen off and been put back (obviously this is just the Bradford branch I am talking about).

The food. Yuck. Tinned things - full of water. Often they only had large tins @ 45p (like ravioli etc) rather than Tesco normal tins @ 24p. The veg was OK but no cheaper than anywhere else (especially my brilliant local market in Leeds). The meat was cheap, stringy, fatty and occasionally tinged with green. The washing powder was cheap and gave me a rash. Everything to me truly felt like the cheapest of the cheap when in reality paying a few pence more meant decent food I was willing to eat.

I learnt that by planning, making food to freeze, soups to take to work etc that costs fell anyway. I'm happy to spend £60 a month for me and the OH (minus an extra few breads and milks!) at Tesco, delivered. If other people are happy to shop in Lidl, cool, but I am not a snob for not doing so, I have my reasons