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Good and bad buys from Aldi and Lidl

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  • VfM4meplse
    VfM4meplse Posts: 34,269 Forumite
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    Scritti wrote: »
    And I would suggest that the Aldi brand is about a million times stronger than "Belmont" or whatever forgettable names they come up with. The Aldi logo is clear as day on most of the back of boxes and packets anyway. I definitely agree that they should dump these made up "brands" and just put their own logo big and bold on everything instead.
    Unfortunately any change is likely to cost money - I'm happy with the status quo if prices do not increase.
    Value-for-money-for-me-puhleeze!

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  • Doc_N
    Doc_N Posts: 8,543 Forumite
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    Scritti wrote: »
    And I would suggest that the Aldi brand is about a million times stronger than "Belmont" or whatever forgettable names they come up with. The Aldi logo is clear as day on most of the back of boxes and packets anyway. I definitely agree that they should dump these made up "brands" and just put their own logo big and bold on everything instead.
    VfM4meplse wrote: »
    Unfortunately any change is likely to cost money - I'm happy with the status quo if prices do not increase.

    It would cost hardly anything at all - just a matter of changing the pack design to ditch the silly made up 'brand' and replace it with the infinitely stronger 'Aldi' brand.

    The daft fabricated 'brands' were created at a time when some customers might have been bothered about having the word 'Aldi' on display, but surely those days are well past now. In fact amongst the targeted middle class chatterati the Aldi brand is now a badge of honour!
  • Happygreen
    Happygreen Posts: 2,949 Forumite
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    I honestly can't complain about any f & v . I always stock up on the super 6 when at Aldis . Lidl's are usually very good, can't wait for the cheap peppers and aubergines coming this Thursday!
    First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win - Gandhi
  • PenguinOfDeath
    PenguinOfDeath Posts: 1,863 Forumite
    The five nearest Aldis from me and their car parks. These stores in different directions
    . The one 10 min walk from me - cannot get a space as its tiny (30 spaces!) and idiots parking anywhere causing people to be blocked in. I wonder how do people challenge Parking Eye if they cannot leave because of an idiot blocking them in? If I go there, I walk. Though there is a free council car park behind the sore over the road.
    . 2.5 from here - nice and large car park. There is a car park area to the side of the store which customers don't use..
    . 3.5 miles - in a retail park with 7 shops - 1 empty. No issue with parking Though the roundabout outside the park is daunting
    . 4.5 miles - if I cannot get into the car park which is shared by the flats above, then there are two car parks charging 20p for 3 hours
    . 6 mies - nice car park

    Just don't park near a loading bay :eek:
    http://metro.co.uk/2014/06/10/supermarket-staff-break-into-womans-car-because-it-was-obstructing-delivery-van-4756600/
  • daveyjp
    daveyjp Posts: 13,530 Forumite
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    Good to see the police doing nothing, when they could quite easily have had it removed and charged the keeper for the costs.
  • meritaten
    meritaten Posts: 24,158 Forumite
    EycplUK wrote: »
    Had the Aldi Cheese & Bacon ( or was it Bacon & Cheese ) ? Pasta Bake with some Shell Pasta for tea and it was absolutely Brilliant ! Creamy sauce with chunks of bacon went well :)
    Now for the next flavour ..... :)
    Try some !


    I did, when it was first stocked by Aldi - and to my absolute disgust OH pronounced it far better than my homemade version! so now I don't get the pleasure of taking twenty minutes to make a cheese sauce, frying the bacon ............:D
    to be honest it IS lovely and creamy and with the chilled Focaccia bread just out of the oven, bit of green salad, makes a gorgeous supper. with very little effort from Moi!
  • sharond101
    sharond101 Posts: 833 Forumite
    Unless Aldi install straps in their trolleys to keep toddlers strapped in we will not be back. It isn't worth the hassle, even if they pay me to shop there!
  • meritaten
    meritaten Posts: 24,158 Forumite
    sharond101 wrote: »
    Unless Aldi install straps in their trolleys to keep toddlers strapped in we will not be back. It isn't worth the hassle, even if they pay me to shop there!

    haven't you heard of 'child reins'? buy some and then you can save some money.
    for chrissakes - as a parent YOU are responsible for your childs safety. Why should a store fit straps to all trolleys for the sake of less than twenty per cent of its customers? why should they fit them at all? just because some supermarkets do?
  • buglawton
    buglawton Posts: 9,246 Forumite
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    Regarding the branding. Poundland et al already researched and found that customer reaction is always better with their ersatz 'brands' rather than using a 'Poundland' brand.
  • mcculloch29
    mcculloch29 Posts: 4,972 Forumite
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    Re Aldi trolleys not having child safety straps.
    Long before child safety straps in trolleys were thought of, I used to clip my children into supermarket trolleys with the clips that attach to reins, the same as you would on a high chair. A bit fiddly but they were both very lively, and leaving them at home was rarely an option.

    Someone mentioned the Aldi pulled pork... seconded, and reduced ATM. Especially tasty in a warm baguette, like one of Aldi's part-baked ones. Yummy.
    Erma Bombeck, American writer: "If I had my life to live over again... I would have burned the pink candle, sculptured like a rose, that melted in storage." Don't keep things 'for best' - that day never comes. Use them and enjoy them now.
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