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

Doc_N

Tesco delivery yesterday, 14 April.  Two packs of grapes with a Best Before date 14 April and various other produce with a much shorter date than shown as the minimum on the website. Grapes going mouldy, and other stuff looks trampled on.

Aldi click and collect next week instead of Tesco - if anyone’s still in any doubt about the quality of their produce, as against Tesco’s, forget it. Tesco are trying to match Aldi on price, but failing to match the quality.

PLRFD

I thought mouldy grapes and stamped on veg was Aldi quality.

Doc_N

PLRFD said:

I thought mouldy grapes and stamped on veg was Aldi quality.

Rather more Tesco than Aldi these days - hence the post.

harz99

PLRFD said:

I thought mouldy grapes and stamped on veg was Aldi quality.

not as long as you look at what your buying! 

Katiehound

just to point out that in the Aldi magazine on the fruit & veg offers it states- at the top of the page:

"Aldi fruit  and veg. 100% fresh. Guaranteed.

and a little rosette says:
Fresh Guarantee. 100% HAPPY OR YOUR MONEY BACK"

I note they are showing FPC Fresh awards 2022- retailer of the year for fresh fruit & veg
FPC= Fresh Produce Consortium

When I have had the odd thing still in date and past it's best I have taken it back and it has been replaced or refunded without a quibble.
Handy that the store is local- if it was Tesco I would mutter as that is a 30 mile round trip

thriftytracey

Bought 2 lemons in Tesco on Thursday (in Lidl you have to buy a net full) and one was rotten.

Katiehound

thriftytracey said:

Bought 2 lemons in Tesco on Thursday (in Lidl you have to buy a net full) and one was rotten.

Hope you phoned them up! It's a free call- or took it back, if it was convenient for you.

thriftytracey

Katiehound said:

thriftytracey said:

Bought 2 lemons in Tesco on Thursday (in Lidl you have to buy a net full) and one was rotten.

Hope you phoned them up! It's a free call- or took it back, if it was convenient for you.

Its a 10 mile round trip so I wouldn't bother for a 30p lemon, unless I needed to go to town for other reason.  I am interested to know what happens if you call?

Katiehound

thriftytracey said:

Katiehound said:

thriftytracey said:

Bought 2 lemons in Tesco on Thursday (in Lidl you have to buy a net full) and one was rotten.

Hope you phoned them up! It's a free call- or took it back, if it was convenient for you.

Its a 10 mile round trip so I wouldn't bother for a 30p lemon, unless I needed to go to town for other reason.  I am interested to know what happens if you call?

well, worth a try. I've had loyalty points in the past. 
 "As a loyal customer I don't expect to buy rotten items and I'm so disappointed.......so on..... you get the gist!"

Okay, it's only 30 pence... but it's your 30 pence... and the phone call is free

I think in the past they've told me to take the label back and the till receipt and when I have said that won't be for a month..... fine it's in the book

Cornucopia

Since prices have increased at L & A it's been a question for me as to whether they have somewhat caught up with the Big Stores, or whether there remains clear, blue water between them.

So, when I got a Sainsbury's voucher I thought it would be an opportunity to find out, and the result was quite interesting. 

Overall, JS prices remain significantly higher than much of L & A produce.  Where there are Aldi price match items, those are generally JS's off-brands versions of products although these are pretty good from what I've seen before.   If there isn't an off-brand item or you don't fancy it, then prices are significantly higher - in some cases twice as much.   

The worst thing is where JS doesn't have an own-brand version, where L & A do.  In those cases, virtually identical products are over twice as much.  (e.g.  Ryvita and other cracker products).