Good and Bad Buys from Aldi & Lidl *Do NOT Expire Please*

candygirl

The Strachan's honeycomb icecream from ALDI is lush 😍😍😍

firefox1956

buglawton wrote: »

Aldi honeycomb - may look attractive in its transparent bag but avoid, it's like eating a large lump of rock solid sticky sugar.

Also has anyone noticed how easy it is for a £10+ bottle of wine to slip in among the £4.99 ones, only to be noticed when you read your till receipt at home? I do believe Aldi does the shelf and label arrangements with confusion in mind.

I certainly agree with the comments regarding shelf & labelling.
I think both Aldi & Lidl are guilty of 'evasive' & 'misleading' labeling on the shelves.
They have been at it for years.
Sailing very close to the wind with some of their practises I think.

VfM4meplse

firefox1956 wrote: »

I certainly agree with the comments regarding shelf & labelling.
I think both Aldi & Lidl are guilty of 'evasive' & 'misleading' labeling on the shelves.
They have been at it for years.
Sailing very close to the wind with some of their practises I think.

I’ve not noticed this. Perhaps because I consider myself to be a reasonably savvy shopper, one that knows the price of everything as well as it’s value.

Stompa

VfM4meplse wrote: »

I’ve not noticed this. Perhaps because I consider myself to be a reasonably savvy shopper, one that knows the price of everything as well as it’s value.

I've only noticed it once in Aldi, and that's not too bad given that I must have shopped there for at least 15 years.

mcculloch29

I've noticed plenty of instances of customers leaving items on the wrong shelves at both Aldi and Lidl, when they pick up a more acceptable-to-them alternative, or decide they don't want something. Quite often I rehome the item myself.
I certainly haven't noticed many instances of Aldi staff placing items under the wrong labels.
I think I did notice this once, some years ago with two very similar items, something like mixed fruit and raisins, for example.

MysteryMe

I've used the ham and other meat trimmings for sandwiches and freeze them. Makes an economical lunch to take to work.

Doc_N

Stompa wrote: »

I've only noticed it once in Aldi, and that's not too bad given that I must have shopped there for at least 15 years.

Likewise. And the last time I saw this practice it was a couple of weeks ago in M&S where they'd sold out of the size of biscuits on offer and substituted a different size. The shelf label remained the same,showing the offer price, but everyone who bought the almost identical 600g pack, instead of the 500g pack that was on offer, paid a much higher price.

They knew exactly what they were doing when they filled the gap with a near-identical product and it's sharp practice.

Cornucopia

Doc_N wrote: »

Likewise. And the last time I saw this practice it was a couple of weeks ago in M&S where they'd sold out of the size of biscuits on offer and substituted a different size. The shelf label remained the same,showing the offer price, but everyone who bought the almost identical 600g pack, instead of the 500g pack that was on offer, paid a much higher price.

They knew exactly what they were doing when they filled the gap with a near-identical product and it's sharp practice.

I had quite a detailed discussion with my local Aldi manager about stock pricing issues when they were selling two versions of the Moser Roth Dark Chocolate beside each other and had mixed up the price labelling. In other supermarkets, it is possible to definitively identify products and find the correct price label by reference to the bar code number, but this is not possible with L & A bar codes that do not generally have a number in plain text. (I wonder if the bar code app on my phone could read them?)

He said that the staff did not understand the low level detail of the issue (and I can believe that). He suggested that the issue was made worse by having similar products next to each other (to which my reply was that even more care was required in such circumstances).

I've not seen any evidence to suggest that it is deliberate - I just think that they don't have the pricing specialists that an alternative, larger supermarket probably has. Certainly, mis-pricing at L & A is way less frequent than when I used to shop at Tescos, where I was overcharged or undercharged virtually every week (their "preferred" failure mode being to advertise a multi-buy offer and then not apply it at the till).

maman

firefox1956 wrote: »

I certainly agree with the comments regarding shelf & labelling.
I think both Aldi & Lidl are guilty of 'evasive' & 'misleading' labeling on the shelves.
They have been at it for years.
Sailing very close to the wind with some of their practices I think.

The only time I've been 'caught' is with organic broccoli but I think that was my fault for not looking carefully enough at the labels.


Surely, customers would expect similar items to be found near to each other but I agree the M&S biscuit example does sound iffy.

A._Badger

Oh dear, another addition to the 'Aldi's misses' list. They may have made their Choceur Classic Mint Collection look like a clone of Bendick's Mint Collection but that's about as close as it gets. Someone was a bit mean with the mint oil, I'm afraid.

Avoid, unless they are knocked down to a few pence in the sales.