Good and bad buys from Aldi and Lidl

Eliza_2

Hmm maybe - I have no experience of Lidl, I was just thinking of other supermarkets where you often hear of bogofs not going through as such, shelf labels misrepresenting what's behind them, special offers with very specific conditions that catch you out and so on.

If you just assume that all supermarkets are out to get you and not help you, then you will protect yourself as best you can. Some of the old people I visit still believe the Co-op is a community service rather than a commercial enterprise like any other so don't check their bills or special offers etc. Worrying.

Stompa

Doc_N wrote: »

This really is becoming a serious issue at Aldi - yet I've never found it happen at Lidl.

Perhaps it's store dependent? I'd estimate I've made at least 1500 visits to Aldi over the years, and I've never had it happen to me.

The idea that barcodes merge sounds like a myth to me.

TravellingAbuela

Stompa wrote: »

Perhaps it's store dependent? I'd estimate I've made at least 1500 visits to Aldi over the years, and I've never had it happen to me.

Up to just recently I would have agreed with you Stompa but in the last few weeks I have had to go back to the till in my store a couple of times. It's well worth taking the time to check the bill before leaving the store. I'm fortunate in that DH shops with me and thinks me incapable of packing all the bags (:rotfl:) leaving me free to check the bill carefully. Unfortunately, when you are fraught watching kids as well as packing, it's not that easy.

I agree, if they reduced the speed at which they whizzed items over the scanner, these mistakes would be reduced.

hollie.weimeraner

We started using Aldi Lavamat washing powder last year after reading a Which report. Although at times it's difficult to find stock in the stores. At £2.98 a box it's less than half the price of the likes of Aerial and washes better than most.

Fishingtime

The only things that I have bought from Aldi that I have not liked has been their sasauges

Chris25

Stompa wrote: »

Perhaps it's store dependent? I'd estimate I've made at least 1500 visits to Aldi over the years, and I've never had it happen to me.

The idea that barcodes merge sounds like a myth to me.

I bought a stepper machine & when got home, realised that, on the receipt, it showed as a lawnmower. I've also 'acquired' an extra item on the receipt that I never bought.

The manager told me that often for 'specials' they keep a sheet beside the till for the barcodes as it's easier to scan that, rather than the items & sometimes it's accidentally scanned, so the wrong goods are shown or items are added.

Stompa

Chris25 wrote: »

The manager told me that often for 'specials' they keep a sheet beside the till for the barcodes as it's easier to scan that, rather than the items & sometimes it's accidentally scanned, so the wrong goods are shown or items are added.

That sounds much more plausible than the merged barcodes theory to me.

Edwardia

My mother tries to time her visits to me to coincide with her week on the flower rota at her local church. That way she can go into Lidl, get loads of flowers cheaply and look generous.

Before I went low carb then organic used to lurve the big Cornish pasties for lunch on a Saturday. The premium potato salad in creme fraiche in the 1kg tubs is amazing.

The farmed Scottish mussels are the ONLY mussels I've had from a supermarket which haven't given me food poisoning even once. The smoked salmon is dirt cheap but both the Scottish and Norwegian are kinda greasy - okay for sandwiches but not for a starter or buffet.

OH used to like the Boczek pork joints before we went organic also the slicing salamis and sliced Krakowska sausage.

Lidl is pretty good for bottled beer - certainly more unusual stuff than local ASDA. Wine is mostly miss though.

My mother likes to nip in to Lidl to pick up Goodfella's pizzas on offer and the Lidl vanilla ice cream.

renegade

Aldi or whoever bakes for them, uses far too much salt, who has ever heard of or tasted biscuits, choc covered at that, taste of salt? Salt is used in overload in all their sweet desserts, cakes, buns, sugary foods should be SWEET not SALTY. And don't get me on their Soups, they are overloaded with pepper completely spoils it.

Having got that off my chest, I would not go back to Tesco/Sainsburys I could not afford their prices anymore and Tesco quality? forget it, they do cheap,nasty leader foods and damn well expensive other foods.

MysteryMe

I don't find their sweet food salty.