All I want for Christmas is an Aldi and a Home Bargains

fizz

This thread has made me giggle. Got all the supermarkets from A to T by me, plus HB, B&M and loads of 'pound' and charity shops....but this means that when I pop to the shops I end up spending loads so it's not all good.
Be careful what you wish for.....lol.

meritaten

If you want an Aldi in YOUR area - why not contact Aldi via the website? invite them in.............and if you could suggest a nice just outside town location and stress how the locals would welcome them.........well you never know!

daska

We almost got an Aldi, but the NIMBYs didn't like the idea so it never got through planning.

ilikewatch

I must say that I have always been really disappointed by Aldi - the fruit and veg is always tired looking and I find it little cheaper than Asda or Tesco - especially as my local conveniently forgets to put out the SEL's so you never know the price till you get to the till. Lidl on the other hand always has lovely fresh fruit and veg.

Zekko

I've got 2 Aldi within 4.39m of my house. :shhh: </runs>

Callie22

We've lots of Aldis - I think there's about three in town and they've just opened another big one. We have all the other stores too, but I'd really love a Waitrose and an Ikea. Last time I went to Ikea they were surveying the customers to see where they had come from and I put in a huge vote for my town. It'll never happen though, we were going to get a Lakeland but the council wouldn't give them permission

kingfisherblue

I wonder where you all live? I'm in St. Helens and we have two Aldi, two Home Bargain, two Morrisons, Asda, B&M, Dunelm Mill, The Range (opened last month ). We also have Poundland, two Poundworld, Poundstretcher, 99p store, another pound shop whose name I don't know. We also have Wilkinsons.

Nearby in Widnes is a much larger B&M, as well as Wilkinsons with easy parking. Warrington has Ikea. Both are within ten or fifteen minutes drive from where I live.

We don't have Sainsbury's, but a new one has opened in Warrington. I'm not sure whether it is this side or the far side though.

In Runcorn, there is a scrap store that I use for Brownies and Rainbows. I also use most of the above shops for guiding resources, depending on what we want.

Although St. Helens is a decent size town, I live on the edge, near farmers fields, so I get the best of both worlds

lostinrates

Well, we recently got a home bargains.

I was deeply excited and went and......was profoundly disappointed. For all these MSE years I have felt I was missing an Acadians cave of goodies for next to no money and instead it's.......slightly cheaper stuff most of which I don't buy. There were good rices on dishwasher tablets, but I stocked up on a supermarket deal recently and so .....it would be more hassle to store than is worth it.

Aldi.....I drop in four times a year to buy washing up liquid mainly, and fruit trees. . It's fine, but I am not sure of the Origen of theanimal products so don't buy them and tbh, things like veg is better by far at my local greengrocers.

pixo

We've *JUST* got a B&M and it was great to go in there the other day (although it was absolutley packed!). I'm popping in again tomorrow!!

balletshoes

since the demise of Woolworths, just about every store which was a Woolies is now either a Home Bargains, and B&M bargains, a Family Bargains, or a pound shop near me.

We have Aldi and Lidl coming out our ears, I passed a huge Iceland shop somewhere nearby recently which wasn't there before, and round the corner from the house is a very handy Heron foods store (their unbranded stuff is pretty rank, but they do sell branded grocery items very cheap). In the centre of town there is a Poundworld, Poundland, and a 99p shop all within about 50 paces of each other.

I don't know - Aldi and Lidl always look really disorganised to me, again, not somewhere I could do a full shop I don't think.

We do have a Waitrose, but I'm not posh enough to shop there :rotfl: Tesco is my nearest supermarket (I don't count the Co-op because I can't do a full shop in there, although we have about 3 of them within a mile of the house). But Asda, Morrisons and Sainsburys are a short drive away too.

Ikea is 10 minutes away from my house - and on my way to work .