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

Feral_Moon

abby1234519 wrote: »

Aldi has just opened in my town, really happy as I've been waiting for 3 years! Loving their versions of actimels etc.

So now I have Lidl AND Aldi. What would one advise to avoid at Aldi?

Nothing really. Can't think of anything I've bought that I've been particularly disappointed in. I don't buy ready meals, cereals, bakery (other than wraps) or snack foods. I prefer to cook my own meals so I tend to buy a lot of fresh produce, meat, poultry, fish, delicatessen, dairy, eggs etc. Then general store cupboard items, toiletries and cleaning products. Oh, and alcohol lol

I'm not keen on their dishwasher tablets, they seem to leave my glasses streaky. But other than that can't really fault anything.

abby1234519

Feral_Moon wrote: »

Nothing really. Can't think of anything I've bought that I've been particularly disappointed in. I don't buy ready meals, cereals, bakery (other than wraps) or snack foods. I prefer to cook my own meals so I tend to buy a lot of fresh produce, meat, poultry, fish, delicatessen, dairy, eggs etc. Then general store cupboard items, toiletries and cleaning products. Oh, and alcohol lol

I'm not keen on their dishwasher tablets, they seem to leave my glasses streaky. But other than that can't really fault anything.

I just bought a big box of dishwasher tablets from Aldi, no doubt the OH will complain if they don't clean properly.

I was pretty impressed with the selection, I think I will still visit lidl as OH likes their chocolate yoghurts but I can't see us going back to ASDA again now we have both.

Only problem is that it gets so busy, 9am on Saturday was heaving!

ariba10

Our Aldi closes at 10.00pm. From about 9.00pm the store is busy with staff restocking shelves but very few customers.

That is when I like to go shopping. Room to walk about and the staff as polite and helpful as ever.

Feral_Moon

I think almost all Aldi stores are open 8am-10pm so I prefer to go as they open during the week because most of the shelves, especially fresh produce, has been re-stocked and there are not many shoppers at that time. People are either getting kids ready for school or getting ready to go off to work.

Similarly, I find mid afternoon (2:30-3:30pm) to be fairly quiet as people are either doing school runs or haven't yet finished work. Or, as the poster above says, between 8pm and 10pm in the evening.

I used to pass an Aldi on the way home from work/gym so loved wandering around the store around 8pm but I don't have a local store so don't fancy trekking out in the evenings. I never go at the weekend lol

robin58

Happygreen wrote: »

what a whole load of nonsense. Any other stores can stock it all year round. Bread (nor the flour used to bake it) is a seasonal product any longer, not for a century or so?

Trouble is Aldi is not really a full blown supermarket.

To be honest a lot of people use more flour during the winter period than the summer.

So that shelf space can be better used to sell a summer product which in financial terms will give a better return.

Which is what the selling business is all about.

maman

The only thing I've not liked in Aldi was pickled red cabbage as it wasn't crisp and crunchy the way I like it. I could have just been unlucky with a batch but never bought it since.

just_trying

Right, first bad thing at lidl they need to have covers over the fresh bakery stuff....loads of blue bottles hovering and people buying it, boke.

PLRFD

Got a bag of carrots from Lidl yesterday they were sweating like a !!!!! in church picked the best looking bag because I needed them,when home I opened them and half were covered in black spots and mushy on the ends,ended up with about 5 from the bag.

Cornucopia

I got some fresh raspberries from Aldi yesterday, and they were some of the best raspberries I have ever had.

suki1964

PLRFD wrote: »

Got a bag of carrots from Lidl yesterday they were sweating like a !!!!! in church picked the best looking bag because I needed them,when home I opened them and half were covered in black spots and mushy on the ends,ended up with about 5 from the bag.

I've stopped buying carrots from lidls. The last three bags I bought went black and slimy within a day

Their onions can be pretty iffy as well