A Bleak Christmas for Tesco ?

stephen77

Nada666 wrote: »

Seriously? You are citing Sainsbury's? (And citing carrots? You cannot use 500g of carrots?) Sainsbury's is the absolute worst for forcing multiple buys on the customer - you may be able to buy some fruit or vegetables* but by your own theory you can't purchase bread, meat, fish, dairy, fruit juice, tins, packets, ninety-nine percent of what one wants.

* very few, though, other than apples, onions, carrots, potatoes and bananas. Pretty much nothing else in fruit and veg is available singly.

Lidl give me a choice of 1kg of carrots for 69p.
I can buy oose carrots in JS for 80p a kg.


lidl do 500g bags of carrots but they are chatney carrots.


SO yes I can use 500g of carrots but that is a about 40p in JS. Hence cheaper than lidl.


I can use Asda for bread. There value line is pretty much the same price as Lidl give or take a penny or two.


As you do not my portion size you can assume I can not eat the larger portions of other products.
JS will do 1 pints of milk where my lidl does not. Though I buy 4 pints which is often a £1 on certain fat % or two for £2 which I will always use up.

geordie_joe

Nada666 wrote: »

What about people who don't live near an Asda? What about people who don't live near a Sainsbury's? What about people who don't live near...

What about them? I have not seen any asda/sainsbury customers saying that anyone who doesn't shop in asda/sainsburys is a fool and wasting money, so why bring them into it?

Nada666 wrote: »

How many coaches/trains/cities does it take you to travel to an Aldi?

Just the one, but it is a 55 minute journey and last time I went to the city it is in it cost £7.45 each way. The bus only runs every 2 hours and it leaves 10 minutes after it arrives. So if you can't run 200 yards to Aldi, get your shopping and run back to the bus stop in 10 minutes you have to wait another 2 hours for the next bus home.

There is absolutely no other reason for me to go to that city, so there's no point in saying "combine the trip with something else". Well I suppose I could combine the trip with standing reading a book at a bus stop for about 1.5 hours!

Nada666 wrote: »

How long does it take to walk there?

I don't know, I've never tried to walk there.

Nada666 wrote: »

I simply do not believe that you live somewhere that is close enough to five or six other supermarkets but Aldi is magically absent.

You are right not to believe I live close to 5 or 6 other supermarkets and aldi is magically missing, because it is simply not true, it's just something you have made up in your own head.

I live in a small town that has a small Morrisons, a quite small Tesco and a small co-op and that's it. You are quite welcome to look through my post history and see that I have mentioned this several times.

Nada666

geordie_joe wrote: »

I live in a small town that has a small Morrisons, a quite small Tesco and a small co-op and that's it. You are quite welcome to look through my post history and see that I have mentioned this several times.

So there are no supermarkets where you live. There is no reason for you to single out Aldi.

stephen77

Nada666 wrote: »

So there are no supermarkets where you live. There is no reason for you to single out Aldi.

Did he not state 3 supermarkets where he lives?


The other poster brought up Aldi and said your being a fool for not shopping there as its so much better and cheaper. Geordie was saying this is not always the case.

Nada666

stephen77 wrote: »

Did he not state 3 supermarkets where he lives?


The other poster brought up Aldi and said your being a fool for not shopping there as its so much better and cheaper. Geordie was saying this is not always the case.

No. He stated 'small', 'quite small' and 'small' - so not supermarkets as currently understood.

As to 'being a fool' I am pretty sure that that poster would only limit that to those who obstinately choose to do so where they have a choice.

geordie_joe

Originally Posted by geordie joe
I live in a small town that has a small Morrisons, a quite small Tesco and a small co-op and that's it. You are quite welcome to look through my post history and see that I have mentioned this several times.

Nada666 wrote: »

So there are no supermarkets where you live.

No, not if you don't count Tesco, Morrisons and the co-op there's not.

Nada666 wrote: »

There is no reason for you to single out Aldi.

I didn't single aldi out, I replied to scritti who said the following

but anyone who doesn't give Aldi a chance and try their food is missing out and wasting money on products which are identical or sometimes worse just because they come in a more familiar box or packet. More fool them.

I was defending those (including me) who can't shop at aldi from being accused of wasting money and being fools. I would have done the same if it were any other supermarket, as I know not everyone lives near a branch of every supermarket.

geordie_joe

Nada666 wrote: »

No. He stated 'small', 'quite small' and 'small' - so not supermarkets as currently understood.

No, they may be small for supermarkets, but they are still supermarkets as defined by any dictionary.

Or are you making up your own definition of supermarket, as you did about the number I live close to?

Nada666 wrote: »

As to 'being a fool' I am pretty sure that that poster would only limit that to those who obstinately choose to do so where they have a choice.

But the poster didn't say that, they said "anyone".

geordie_joe

A supermarket, a large form of the traditional grocery store, is a self-service shop offering a wide variety of food and household products, organized into aisles. It is larger in size and has a wider selection than a traditional grocery store, but is smaller and more limited in the range of merchandise than a hypermarket or big-box market.

Yep, they fit the accepted definition of a supermarket, so they must be supermarkets.

Unlike the description of aldi which I read earlier, that was more like the accepted definition of a jumble sale!

catkins

I live a 5 minute drive from a large Tesco, a 10 minute drive from Lidl, a 15 minute drive from Asda and a 20 minute drive from Sainsbury and Aldi.

I mainly shop in Sainsbury because I like the store, I like their own brand and I like being able to use shop and scan which makes the whole awful process of shopping so much easier and quicker.

I do also shop in Aldi and Lidl about every 6 weeks.

I don't shop in Asda because I don't like them. There are 2 stores fairly close to me and they both seem dirty, the customers seem to be real pains and their fruit and veg don't last.

Tesco, although the closest to me, I refuse to use. Within a fairly small area there are 3 large Tesco stores and 7 Express stores - are they intent on taking over this country?

Almost every time I go shopping I put my list into Mysupermarket to see who is the cheapest. Most times it is Sainsbury. Tesco is often the dearest, dearer even than Waitrose

A._Badger

RHYSDAD wrote: »

But the crux of your post Badger is that you don't mind paying 20/30% more just because Sainsbury's/Waitrose have pretty plinths etc etc. I don't want to pay that premium and Lidl/Aldi quality is easily on a par with those supermarkets so why should I give a toss how glamorous the display is....

No, that is not the crux of my post. It's a misrepresentation of it - not least because your claimed 20-30 per cent saving is nonsense.

If you don't give a hoot about where you shop, I'm sure you could find even cheaper prices in a chilly, damp street market selling knock-off products.

Clearly, the environment matters and, personally, I find Aldi and Lidl pretty cheerless and inhospitable. Asda, too, for that matter. Will I pay more to shop somewhere more congenial? A little, yes - and many would do the same.

I also dispute your claim that the product quality is 'easily on a par'. I suppose there is room for debate about what you mean by 'quality' but when I have delved into Aldi/Lidl's knock-offs and replicas, I've rarely found them the same, certainly no more so than the own brand lines of the majors. On the branded products I like, product for product, Morrisons, to cite one example, tends to be cheaper.