Aldi snobbery

Mrs_Arcanum

sparrer wrote: »

I drive to the next county to Lidl but only because there isn't one closer, it's a 20 mile round trip so can't go very often. Aldi has not long opened in my nearest town but that's a 12 mile round trip so still not really cost effective if for no other reason that when I go there I spend too much! Fortunately we have a Mr M in my small town, (and a Mr T extra on the bypass but I refuse to shop there). If that was the only choice I'd much rather drive to Aldi or Lidl.

Re bags, I've got Mr A, Mr S, Mr M etc. I keep them in the boot, stored in an Intermarche (French hypermarket) bag rather than using it to put shopping in cos I don't want people to think I'm a snob!! :rotfl:

Used to do just the same for Aldi when our nearest was in the next county (and fuel was cheaper). Now we have Lidl in town and an Aldi due next year in a neighbouring town. Wonderful.

Shove my Tesco, Sainsbury, Morrison & Co-op bags inside the huge Lidl one.

Esoog

I don't find Aldi or Lidl any cheaper than Asda personally, occasionally they have good random one off items, much like Netto used to do when I was a student and it was 100m from my house

On a side note, to the "snobs" pretty much 100% of supermarkets in Germany are carbon copies of Aldi/Lidl regardless of price. (excep it's cheaper there...2 euros for wine? I'll fill the staff car up with that thank-you! ) Infact the only supermarket I found like the UK ones in Germany was....the NAAFI heh

kiwi07

Esoog wrote: »

I don't find Aldi or Lidl any cheaper than Asda personally, occasionally they have good random one off items, much like Netto used to do when I was a student and it was 100m from my house

On a side note, to the "snobs" pretty much 100% of supermarkets in Germany are carbon copies of Aldi/Lidl regardless of price. (excep it's cheaper there...2 euros for wine? I'll fill the staff car up with that thank-you! ) Infact the only supermarket I found like the UK ones in Germany was....the NAAFI heh

I agree that Aldi and Lidl are not cheaper than Asda or any other big supermarkets anymore...

Ich_2

We're fortunate in having Aldi. Lidl, Tesco, Asda (local), Morrisons, Co-op, Iceland & Heron Foods (low cost version of Iceland) & Nisa all within about 4 miles of us, so will shop at a number of them for choice/cost

Callie22

daisiegg wrote: »

Oohhh, I am so out of place on this board but I can't bear Lidl it's my biggest OS shame! Can't comment on Aldi as there isn't one near me. It's nothing to do with snobbery as I have eagerly gone there a few times, desperate for all the fab bargains I hear about, but the one near me is just a horrid, horrid place. I never find a single thing there that I want to buy. It's a really unpleasant environment and seems to be just full of jumbled up cr*p. And no, it's not that I haven't given it a chance or looked properly - every time I've been it's been with my grandmother who is the slowest person on earth and has to walk up and down EVERY aisle and examine everything in detail - so I've spent plenty of time looking!

A friend when I was at uni used to say Aldi and Lidl were like 'a third world country'....actually the one near me is pretty similar to some of the worse supermarkets I've been to in Bulgaria. Sorry!! I'm NOT a snob and I so want to love it like everyone else does.......as I said, it's my biggest hidden shame and makes me feel like a fraud every time I visit this board! (I'm only half joking...)

I'll stand by you and say I feel the same. I've tried Lidl a good few times but I just can't 'get' it - when I went a lot of things were dearer than Asda? And it only seemed like a place to bag a bargain if all you wanted to buy was mushy veg, wine, and Continental biscuits and chocolates (not that I have a problem with those last two, but I really shouldn't be making those central to my daily diet lol).

I'm not a shop snob - I'll go anywhere and I one of the things I miss from living in London are the great ethnic supermarkets (used to love my local branch of TFC), but my overwhelming impression of Lidl was just lots of cheap junk food - cakes, sugary cereals, chocolate, crisps and fizzy drinks.

I haven't been in an Aldi for years but we do have a new one which has opened in town, so I am going to try it - I seem to remember from years back that it was a good place for baking ingredients. I'll give it a go but I remain to be convinced ...

toejumper

meritaten wrote: »

my SIL wont set foot in Aldi, Lidl, Asda, Tesco or Morrisons - she will condescend to a Sainsbury shop - but mostly shops in M&S. sadly, she thinks that Aldi and Lidl must have substandard food - and when I tell her that its equal or better in quality than most supermarkets, she doesnt believe me! but then I do call her Princess Ann! (behind her back that is).

btw - did an Aldi shop today - and the car park was full of very nice, fairly new cars!

we must shop at the same store LOL, I only commented to dh the other week about the BMWs and Jaggs parked in my local.

sile001

In Austria Hofer is an Aldi-alike even to the logo. I suspect they're one and the same. Last year in Innsbruck I noticed prices had gone up quite a lot

laurel7172

We have two Aldis-one localish, one on the other side of town.

I've seen more people from my slightly snooty suburb in the Aldi on the far side of town (that I don't go into often) than in the local one-where I shop regularly.:rotfl:

But I have an enormous orange Le Creuset bag for life. and another from Ka De We (swanky department store in Berlin). Do I win the (slightly sad) snobby bag prize??? I didn't pay for either of them. Honest.:D

BitterAndTwisted

In my last job I admitted to shopping at Lidl. Why wouldn't I, it's the nearest one to me and I can walk there. The reception I got for my shameful admission was very embarrassing. I got my own back by taking in Lidl's sweets, biscuits and cakes. They soon changed their tunes.

I do find Lidl cheaper than the other supermarket near to me, that's Tesco. But I'm a restricted sort of shopper so I don't have money to buy exotic, luxurious things. Cheap dried pasta is usually cheaper at Tesco but I only go down there to stock up with the odd thing I need that Lidl don't carry and get my pasta stocks then. Lidl's ground coffee is the cheapest that I can find anywhere and it's very good as you would expect. The Germans don't drink rubbish coffee. The prices have shot up in the last few months but in Lidl it's £7 a kilo.

Missconduct

As with everything, each store is better priced for certain things. We get our chocolate and biscuits at Aldi (and their free range whole chickens) as they taste lovely, and are cheaper than other stores.