Good and bad buys from Aldi and Lidl

VfM4meplse

JIL wrote: »

225 g. It was in the fridge with the weekly offers. Don't think it will be regularly stocked.

Excellent price! Hope you stocked up.

TheRed

Peggybabcot wrote: »

Sadly I have to report a bad buy from Aldi admittedly not something I'd say very often. We've been using the Magnum, Good Housekeeping Approved, washing up liquid for ages and indeed found it comparable to Fairy so when we noticed the larger bottle of Magnum washing up liquid we assumed it was the same stuff just in a bigger bottle (although I did question the lack of the GHK logo on the bottle) Sadly not true. This stuff is like watered down cheap stuff with very little foaming. We didn't like it at all and have gone back to the smaller bottles. Lesson learned

I made the same mistake last year

sharond101

TheRed wrote: »

I made the same mistake last year

I have found the small green one the only one to be of good quality. The other colours (blue, pink) are all watery and poor quality.

Peggybabcot

Popped into our local Aldi today and they're completely rearranging the layout. Very confusing. I'm assuming as they use near identical formats across all their stores it must be happening nationwide. Anyone else found changes in their stores too? Couldn't find a blessed thing!

~Chameleon~

Peggybabcot wrote: »

Popped into our local Aldi today and they're completely rearranging the layout. Very confusing. I'm assuming as they use near identical formats across all their stores it must be happening nationwide. Anyone else found changes in their stores too? Couldn't find a blessed thing!

Nope, the store I use most frequently was still exactly the same this evening, as was a new one (as in new to me and also newly built) so I assume is a flagship store and they all appear to adopt the same layout. Maybe yours is an old store attempting to catch up?

Peggybabcot

No fairly new (2 years old) and was identical to the other local store that only opened a couple of months ago. Strange? Be warned it's only a matter of time lol

~Chameleon~

Peggybabcot wrote: »

No fairly new (2 years old) and was identical to the other local store that only opened a couple of months ago. Strange? Be warned it's only a matter of time lol

So, what exactly were they re-arranging?

pamsdish

Store lay outs are changed in all stores every few years, if you have to look for something you may spot something you don`t regularily buy and give it a try. It does increase sales.

Happygreen

pamsdish wrote: »

Store lay outs are changed in all stores every few years, if you have to look for something you may spot something you don`t regularily buy and give it a try. It does increase sales.

each time it drives me nuts! :mad:

Happygreen

sharond101 wrote: »

I have found the small green one the only one to be of good quality. The other colours (blue, pink) are all watery and poor quality.

Within the large Magnum bottles , has anyone seen the cloudy light green Bamboo yet? I've been waiting for it for months and don't want to miss it, I think it's a special once a year....I really don't like the scents of any other washing up liquid and now have to get Ecovers non-fragranced one, so expensive!