Tesco Value snobbery??

Stephen_Leak

MrsE wrote: »

I HATE cheap coffee.

I like (& buy) Twinings, but would rather drink cheap tea than cheap coffee.

200g jars of Nescafe. £1.89 in Wilkinsons. £1.99 in InStore.

Contains_Mild_Peril

I don't like tea at all, but have heard it said that the difference between cheap and expensive coffee is more dramatic than with tea. I'm not a fan of very cheap coffee (e.g. Tesco Value instant coffee which is revolting) but find Tesco Classic (66p/ 100g) quite acceptable.

maypole wrote: »

I was just reading this in my newspaper, that those stores are just "normal" in Germany, It's only over here that we call them "Budget" .

Are the things that deter some people from shopping in Lidl also normal in Germany? E.g. no shopping baskets, prices hidden above and behind products where they're hard for short people to see instead of being on shelf edges, uncomfortably bright lights dangling not far above head height instead of being on or near the ceiling where they belong?
I do like some of the bargains available in Lidl, but I find the whole shopping experience somewhat unpleasant.

Contains_Mild_Peril

Stephen_Leak wrote: »

200g jars of Nescafe. £1.89 in Wilkinsons. £1.99 in InStore.

I think Poundstretcher does them about £1.89 too, Farmfoods £1.95 or Maxwell House 100g for 95p. Farmfoods also do nice soft loo roll (I forget the brand) £2 for 9 rolls.

MrsE_2

I don't have ANY of them stores

Wilkinsons

Instore

Poundstretcher

Farmfoods

Near me, my nearest proper food shop is Waitrose, very nice, but far from cheap!

Olliebeak

I can't drink Nescafe (gives me heartburn) but my daughter buys it all the time. Take my own when I to to her house lol!

You have my deepest sympathy MrsE. We are so lucky here in Huyton with shops. Right in the centre of the town we have a huge Asda-Walmart (24 hour), Poundstretcher, B&M Bargains, Poundland, Wilkinsons, HomeBargains, Peacocks, Ethel Austins (recently saved from closure), Heron Frozen Foods, Iceland plus about 7 charity shops. About a mile away on the outskirts there's Aldi, Lidl, FarmFoods and 24 Hour Tescos in two different directions!

moanymoany

I wonder how large the credit card bills and debts are of those people who sneer and shudder at the thought of value products and supermarkets like Lidl and Aldi (how I wish we had some here!)

If someone switched from branded to value/cheap supermarket goods it would free up a lot of money. For me and dh it would cost about £100 more a month - thats £1,200 a year - now that's worth having.

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

juliapenguin wrote: »

What on earth does he do with it??? He claims to only use a 'normal amount'. I try to persuade him to 'go' at work...

You have this problem too,I thought it was only my husband.What is it with these men.

weezl74

hi,

thought I'd add my thoughts on decanting. I don't mind value label food. But somehow feel a bit deprived when my shampoo, conditioner and bubble bath are 'value! So we use these jars from the ikea sale, which somehow makes me feel better than the alternative!

Daft eh?



But I feel better about them than the alternative:





Weezl x

NemoToad

Contains_Mild_Peril wrote: »

Are the things that deter some people from shopping in Lidl also normal in Germany? E.g. no shopping baskets, prices hidden above and behind products where they're hard for short people to see instead of being on shelf edges, uncomfortably bright lights dangling not far above head height instead of being on or near the ceiling where they belong?
I do like some of the bargains available in Lidl, but I find the whole shopping experience somewhat unpleasant.

I've never noticed the lights thing, but the prices are almost always above the product in all German supermarkets, so it's just the norm. As for no shopping baskets, that's also the norm, only the upper-end supermarkets have baskets. It took some getting used to as a Brit living abroad but I'm sure it's just normal for the Germans. I've not done a big shop in Lidl or Aldi in the UK so I don't know if it's the same, but in Germany in supermarkets they leave big boxes (banana boxes, etc) in a dump by the door and people usually use these to do there shopping, and then once it's gone through the check-out you pack your things back into them and carry them to your car like that. They do have trollies though.

They also have cardboard recycling where you can leave your excess packaging, and big machines to take back your bottles to, and then you get a receipt to take to the till where you'll get the money, or money off your shopping (although it's only the deposit "pfand" you've already paid for the bottle).

The only thing I don't like about the supermarkets is that the people on the tills are so efficient that you hardly have time at all to pack your bags (and I'm quite fast at packing bags as I worked in Iceland during my sixth form days where it was store policy to pack the bags for the customers as we scanned the items). I guess it just means you put it all into your trolly and sort it out later, and also that you're not queueing for so long, but it is quite scary when you're faced with it the first few times. But then the Germans are all used to that too as it's the norm.

mum2many

weezl74 wrote: »

hi,

thought I'd add my thoughts on decanting. I don't mind value label food. But somehow feel a bit deprived when my shampoo, conditioner and bubble bath are 'value! So we use these jars from the ikea sale, which somehow makes me feel better than the alternative!

Daft eh?



But I feel better about them than the alternative:





Weezl x

Much nicer.