Good and bad buys from Aldi and Lidl

Scritti

Nada666 wrote: »

c.f. the funny "ooh, I couldn't spend £40" comments on this thread.

I agree. They seem to be saying that they couldn't find £40 worth of stuff they'd like to buy in Aldi.

Really?? That is mental. I popped in yesterday for "a couple of things" and ended up half-filling my trolley (still only cost £36, would have been around double that in the big supermarkets).

I would LOVE vouchers for money off at Aldi. I know that they don't work like the big supermarkets, but I'd also really love an Aldi reward card.

I don't have any reward cards. They're a massive con. If you use the points in-shop for money off your groceries, you save about 1% on average! If they stuck great big "Bargains - 1% off!!" signs in the window, people would laugh them out of business.

I know people will say "well I shop there anyway, at least it's something off". I say, stop being a sheep. It's a con to use your shopping habits for cheap market research. You could buy half (at least) of what's in your trolley at Aldi and get basically the same stuff for 30 or 40% cheaper, not 1%.

Ah well. Probably for the best. The Aldi word is spreading fast and the shops are getting busier. I love it and want Aldi to succeed but not to the point where the shops are as busy and stressful as other supermarkets. Hopefully, they'll just keep opening more and more branches. One within walking distance of my house please, Aldi!!

paulineb_2

Nada666 wrote: »

c.f. the funny "ooh, I couldn't spend £40" comments on this thread.

Id struggle to spend £40 at aldi. Particularly as Im not a driver and that would be a fair amount of shopping to carry home.

If I use one of the £5 off vouchers, I'll split a shop with my mum but at the moment Im using B and M and home bargains more and just shopping at aldi for the super six.

fionajbanana

Moggins wrote: »

Bad aldi buys:
Frozen chips and wedges
Milk
Potatoes

Aldi is the only supermarket milk I have bought where it goes off 2 days before the UB date! I rather go to Iceland or Sainsburys (for their 1% milk).

I have no idea what they do with the milk to make it go off quicker.

paulineb_2

Scritti wrote: »

I agree. They seem to be saying that they couldn't find £40 worth of stuff they'd like to buy in Aldi.

Really?? That is mental. I popped in yesterday for "a couple of things" and ended up half-filling my trolley (still only cost £36, would have been around double that in the big supermarkets).

I would LOVE vouchers for money off at Aldi. I know that they don't work like the big supermarkets, but I'd also really love an Aldi reward card.

I don't have any reward cards. They're a massive con. If you use the points in-shop for money off your groceries, you save about 1% on average! If they stuck great big "Bargains - 1% off!!" signs in the window, people would laugh them out of business.

I know people will say "well I shop there anyway, at least it's something off". I say, stop being a sheep. It's a con to use your shopping habits for cheap market research. You could buy half (at least) of what's in your trolley at Aldi and get basically the same stuff for 30 or 40% cheaper, not 1%.

Ah well. Probably for the best. The Aldi word is spreading fast and the shops are getting busier. I love it and want Aldi to succeed but not to the point where the shops are as busy and stressful as other supermarkets. Hopefully, they'll just keep opening more and more branches. One within walking distance of my house please, Aldi!!

Theres a £5 money off voucher every month at the end of the month in the daily mirror or the scottish daily record.

I could find £40 of food Id buy, I just rarely buy that much in one shop, as I said, I dont drive and getting it home would be a problem without a taxi.

fionajbanana

Scritti wrote: »

Ah well. Probably for the best. The Aldi word is spreading fast and the shops are getting busier. I love it and want Aldi to succeed but not to the point where the shops are as busy and stressful as other supermarkets. Hopefully, they'll just keep opening more and more branches. One within walking distance of my house please, Aldi!!

I refuse to use the Aldi which is 20 mins walking distance (uphill to home) from me, unless I am planning to buy lightish stuff as the car park is TINY! Plus get one idiot that parks in an area which is not marked with a bay and blocks everyone. I do hope Parking Eye ticket this idiot, not the innocent people that gone over 1.5 hours due to the idiot....

I have three others within 5 miles from me. One is in a retail park with 6 other shops. The other two are on their own and the car parks are huge! Even going on a Saturday morning in Sept and the car park was half full! How I decide which one I go to is based on where I am coming from or going to and the roadworks as one was inaccessible for me for months.

Though if Aldi continue with their success, they need to seriously consider employing a 3-4 more staff per store.

Scritti

fionajbanana wrote: »

I know its a thread about Aldi/Lidl, but I know people that are buying Sainsburys cream of tomato soup and they are converted. Try one for 59p.

Yeah, I've read that and it's one of the few I haven't tried so will give it a go. Not in Sains that often. I hate them even more than I hate Tesco for personal reasons. They're also generally even more expensive and don't sell ANYTHING exclusive that I like enough to make a trip there especially for.

Maybe that would make a better thread. Most of us know that there are loads of brilliant things in Aldi & Lidl. But, what can you buy exclusively in Tesco or Sains that you can't buy anywhere else??

I guess not much except own brands and I doubt they're any better or even as good as Aldi. Hmm. Think I might indeed start a new thread about this and see if anyone has any thoughts about it.

Scritti

paulineb wrote: »

Theres a £5 money off voucher every month at the end of the month in the daily mirror or the scottish daily record.

I could find £40 of food Id buy, I just rarely buy that much in one shop, as I said, I dont drive and getting it home would be a problem without a taxi.

Thanks for the heads up.

Anyone know what actual day this is usually on??

I don't buy newspapers because I get all I need from the internet, don't have time to read them and think they are, generally, written by scumbags. Especially the tabloids.

duchy

I'm really lucky that Aldi is five minutes walk from my house.
I used to use Somerfield but when it became a Co-op iit got expensive -My MIL to be has just moved into the area and uses it. Drives me crazy that she only goes to Aldi under protest and crazier still that she'd rather use her Co-op card for points rather than my NUS plus 10% off food discount at the Co-op which is a bigger saving. Useful tip for anyone who is a student/has student kids though.

The only thing that I don't like about Aldi is the vanishing lines - you find something you really like and suddenly it is discontinued but the ranges are good-I've never had any issues with freshness and the staff are friendly. Biggest problem is it's getting busier so perhaps we should make life easier for ourselves and stop trying to convince the naysayers to switch

Anoneemoose

I so wish I could do all my shopping at Aldi. I really rated it when my local one first opened but I keep going back to Sainsbury's for more and more.

I do prefer Aldi's biscuits, FR eggs, crisps, milk, flour, sugar, warburtons bread and kitchen roll but I can't get away with much else.

Kids used to like their cereals but won't eat them now - even when I decant them into a branded box. I used to get their frozen fish in breadcrumbs but had a bad experience one time. Their meat seems to go off quickly, as does the fruit and veg.

My local asda are doing heinz soups for 50p a can (the biggish one). I just wish I could enjoy the stuff but a lot of it is just yuk! :-(

candygirl

Scritti wrote: »

Thanks for the heads up.

Anyone know what actual day this is usually on??

I don't buy newspapers because I get all I need from the internet, don't have time to read them and think they are, generally, written by scumbags. Especially the tabloids.

Thursday:beer::beer:
I find it easy to spend £40, as I stock up on stuff I don't buy every week, like washing up liquid, loo rolls etc:D
Has anyone tried the cheese and onion baked twisty sticks , and dip?:p:p:p