Good and Bad Buying at Lidl and Aldi (***Please don't expire***)

od244051

A Lidl won't buy again
Their Purio bin liners - 25 litre with pink wrapper. They are clear and don't fit my bin. I opened the first of two packs this morning and wasn't impressed. Its a good job my council still do weekly bin collections. These won't be suitable for those who have bin collections every 2-3 weeks.

scrummy-mummy

The LIDL Caramel Wafers (79p) and licquorice allsorts (59p) are really nice! 

Rosa_Damascena

scrummy-mummy said:

The LIDL Caramel Wafers (79p) and licquorice allsorts (59p) are really nice! 

Enjoy them whilst you can! You get to a certain age and don't want to subject your teeth to the extraction properties of toffee / chewy sweets.

od244051

scrummy-mummy said:

The LIDL Caramel Wafers (79p) and licquorice allsorts (59p) are really nice! 

Miles better than Tunnocks

robrymond

Brian2510 said:

Hi, does Aldi still do 50% reductions on out of date stuff? Just lately I've only seen 30% off stickers on the day of the display until date.

No, I mentioned this a while back but they just stopped doing 50% off one week and now it's all 30% and you only see stuff generally going off the same day whereas before you could get stuff with a day left at 50% off. Don't bother hunting for red labels anymore pointless!

charlies_mum

I bought two packs of Hunters Chicken from Lidl with 30% off to be used by the next day.    Both had gone off and went in the bin.

Ken68

For the last two weeks, Clear Honey is coming up on the till at 89p...SEL says £1.05. Maybe a local thing and also noticed a new range Simple honey though at a higher unit price per gr.

calleyw

robrymond said:

Brian2510 said:

Hi, does Aldi still do 50% reductions on out of date stuff? Just lately I've only seen 30% off stickers on the day of the display until date.

No, I mentioned this a while back but they just stopped doing 50% off one week and now it's all 30% and you only see stuff generally going off the same day whereas before you could get stuff with a day left at 50% off. Don't bother hunting for red labels anymore pointless!

Wrong. Depends on the manager.  My store does 30%, 50% and 75% off.  Got 75% off something only last night.

Yours

Calley x

Nick_C

Never seen any items reduced on my local Aldi.  No one checks dates.  I've seen plenty of out of date items on the shelves.

Cornucopia

od244051 said:

A Lidl won't buy again
Their Purio bin liners - 25 litre with pink wrapper. They are clear and don't fit my bin. I opened the first of two packs this morning and wasn't impressed. Its a good job my council still do weekly bin collections. These won't be suitable for those who have bin collections every 2-3 weeks.

The pink label bags are "Pedal Bin liners" - as you say, a bit flimsy, but they are intended to be.

Try the dark blue "Swing Bin Liners" - they are much heftier, and I prefer them to other black or white bin bags.