Good and bad buys from Aldi and Lidl

Doc_N

ScarletMarble wrote: »

Multi varieties means poor stock control as if one flavour does sell more than the others what happens is more cases are delivered with the poorer selling varieties.

Not really, in the longer term. They can just adjust the packet 'mix' to match sales. Past sales won't always predict future sales wholly accurately, but by and large the Aldi (and Lidl) system works better than the alternatives.

meer53

ScarletMarble wrote: »

Not too sure if I have mentioned this before. My tomatoes which I bought in Aldi two days before when I opened the packet, within 30 seconds, they turned black and furry.

You must seen on the TV, food going mouldy filmed on a high speed camera over 2-3 weeks. It was like that but in real life speed! It made me lose my appetite.

That's another f&v I refuse to buy in Aldi!

I check all fruit and veg as soon as i get home and before i put it in the fridge.

You only need one little tomato to split and it will affect the whole lot if you leave it in the pack. I've not had a problem with any f & v from Aldi. I've used up a Romaine lettuce this evening which i bought two weeks ago !

System

dlusman wrote: »

Makes perfect business sense , and keeps cost down. Packaged seperately
you need 2 or 3 times the warehouse storage space , extra transport delivery cost and more display space in store.

Not necessarily as say for.example, a product has two flavours and there are 40 in a case, the cases will have 20 in and take the same space from warehouse to shelf.

dlusman

ScarletMarble wrote: »

Not necessarily as say for.example, a product has two flavours and there are 40 in a case, the cases will have 20 in and take the same space from warehouse to shelf.

the way most things work these days is for each product to take a "unit" of shelf space. If you package them seperately you need 2 "units" of space rather than one if they are packaged together

Asya86

The Manchego cheese which is currently on sale at Lidl as part of their Spanish week (2.99) is absolutely delicious! Hope it will still be around the next time I pop in for a shop but afraid today might have been the last day of Spanish Week...

Doc_N

In case anyone's interested, there are some vouchers in the papers today:

Daily Star: £5 off £40 at Lidl voucher on page 30

Daily Express: £5 off £40 at Lidl voucher on page 43

Daily Mirror: £5 off £45 at Aldi voucher (8 page pullout)

tomtombeanie

Aldi vouchers in the Daily Mirror...

£5 off £45 spend, valid until Thurs 31/7/14


50% off...
French brie, now 49p
Specially selected venison burgers, now £1.24
Mamia strawberries & apples baby food pouch, now 29p
Mamia apples & bananas baby food pouch, now 29p
Forest fruits juice drinks, now 44p
Seeded burger buns, now 32p
Jaffa cakes, now 47p
British mustard ham, now 64p


30% off...
Benefit original cereal, now £1.01
Italian stonebaked pizza, now £1.29

happy shopping! get one for this week & one for next

(also posted in newspaper thread for today & next aldi voucher thread - i'm not going mad, people look in all sorts of places!)

Doc_N

Lidl vouchers in two of today's papers for anyone interested:

£5 off £40 at Lidl - page 28 of the Express
£5 off £40 at Lidl - page 26 of the Star

Doc_N

More Lidl vouchers today (Saturday):


£5 off £40 at Lidl voucher in the Star (P32 but excludes Northern Ireland)


£5 off £40 at Lidl voucher in the Express (P34 but excludes Northern Ireland)

VfM4meplse

Why has this thread been moved to "Gone Off!"?

Popped into the Romford branch on the A12 on my way down to Essex earlier this morning and witnessed 3 acts of dangerous driving in the space of 60 seconds:
- a driver reversed out of his space and squeezed past my route whilst I was waiting to reverse into an adjacent space without even noticing my vehicle (my rear parking sensor was screeching like hell).
- another driver helpfully reversed to allow another car out, nearly running over a lady who was returning her trolley over in the process. She didn't even look before she put the car into reverse, and had no concept of the near miss much less asking if the poor woman was ok.
- the driver that was given way by the driver above reversed straight into a row of stationary trolleys.

The common factor? All 3 were geriatrics

But I bought some lovely planters of fuschias and petunias (alive and well albeit requiring a little TLC) for [STRIKE]£3.99 [/STRIKE]£1.49, so it worked out ok in the end