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

Lucyjoanne

I went to lidl especially to get their dairy free chocolate pots (I’m an aldi girl normally) and they had all sold out! 1.99 for 4 is a bargain!

Anyone know if they restock the special buys at all or am I out of luck?

robin58

Lucyjoanne wrote: »

I went to lidl especially to get their dairy free chocolate pots (I’m an aldi girl normally) and they had all sold out! 1.99 for 4 is a bargain!

Anyone know if they restock the special buys at all or am I out of luck?

Special buys are just that, usually one offs but they sometime comeback.

robin58

Heads up. Lidl are doing XXL on thier standard butter from 6th September.

Price will be £2.49 for a 500 gram block.

VfM4meplse

Jewels1207 wrote: »

I've just spent hours looking through the Aldi special buys onkine after reading a few posts here saying it was really good but was disappointed as everything I wanted was sold out!

Because if you snooze, you lose

robin58 wrote: »

Heads up. Lidl are doing XXL on thier standard butter from 6th September.

Price will be £2.49 for a 500 gram block.

Compared to £1.45 for a 250g block, so yes a saving of 82p/kg.

Cornucopia

This snooze/lose thing for limited stock offers always amuses me.

It's like when the TV Shopping channels say "call now, there's only 20% of the stock left". That makes no sense from their perspective - they don't care which of their viewers they sell to, they just want it sold - so why pretend that they do?

Jewels1207

I like Aldi nappies/pull ups and especially their baby wipes. Far better and thicker than Tesco's and Johnson's for that matter for a fraction of the price but can't get these online.
I used to only shop in Aldi but it was quite a bit away from me to travel to and started noticing dates on their meat getting shorter and shorter. However I'd go back if it was closer to home or they did a full online/ delivery service. I just don't have the time to go to the shop working full time so end up getting Tesco online for convenience

Jewels1207

There's a Lidl a few mins along the road that's just been given a refurb. I always preferred Aldi before but might give Lidl a go again.
Is there anyone here that can recommend if Lidl is just as good as Aldi?

Cornucopia

Jewels1207 wrote: »

There's a Lidl a few mins along the road that's just been given a refurb. I always preferred Aldi before but might give Lidl a go again.
Is there anyone here that can recommend if Lidl is just as good as Aldi?

Personally, I marginally prefer Lidl over Aldi, although they are neck-and-neck most of the time.

I think that Lidl has a marginally more exotic range, and the weekly events for different foods is always interesting. I think Lidl is possibly very slightly more expensive than Aldi overall, although most of the time they have the same prices for similar products.

We've had a lot of accounts of quality issues with Aldi fresh fruit & veg, and I don't recall hearing the same consistent reports from Lidl.

Doc_N

Jewels1207 wrote: »

There's a Lidl a few mins along the road that's just been given a refurb. I always preferred Aldi before but might give Lidl a go again.
Is there anyone here that can recommend if Lidl is just as good as Aldi?

Personal choice really, and very much dependent on individual stores and store managers.

We have a lovely new Lidl near to a much older and smaller Aldi. Since most of the prices are much the same I fully expected to switch to Lidl for a better shopping experience and a nicer car park but actually the customer service is so bad and the queues so long that we’ve now switched back again.

The Aldi is also kept very cool where the fruit and veg are displayed, unlike Lidl, and it’s reflected in the poorer quality at Lidl.

robin58

VfM4meplse wrote: »

Compared to £1.45 for a 250g block, so yes a saving of 82p/kg.

Actually the instore price for this type of Lidl 250 grams butter is now £1.49.

I know only 4p extra but 4p is 4p.:D

So a saving of 98p/kg.