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

Katiehound

Don't know if it happens in 'my' Aldi as I always take a small trolley  & as I am using up the gift cards have to go to a 'normal' till whereas I would usually choose the self service- much quicker.

there are always grumbles at my local store as only 1/4 are small trolleys, the rest are the big ones and at a busy time all the small ones are in use.

maman

Ironically @Katiehound, there were masses of brand new large trolleys in my Aldi today and very few small ones. Seems an odd thing to do if they're banned from self checkout. Only two staffed tills too. 🤔☹️

Sea_Shell

Anyone else got the new grey plastic Aldi trolleys?

They're ever so light, but they seem very deep with higher sides.   You need to be Mr Tickle to get your shopping back out again 😲🤣

Longwalker

Went into my local Lidl today and mightily impressed

The veg has been moved to market style gondolas - fruit on one, salad another, veg another, looks so much more inviting then the table style they had, plus a fresh orange machine - not seen one of those since the 80;s and said so, and the manager was like this ia all new It all comes around again

Bought a lot of fruit and veg as it happens. Maybe not all was cheaper then Tesco, I had been there just before, but the quality was much better , Tesco's looked like it had been sat a while and picked over - tbh there was very little but thats been the case here in NI since Brexit/Covid - depending on the narrative 

Rosa_Damascena

harz99 said:

Rosa_Damascena said:

Aldi strawberries "Ella" variety are tasteless. Avoid.

From where, size of pack please?

600g box of "Nature's Pick" grown in Lincs I think. Good sized strawberries (not huge) and looked flawless but tasted of nothing, straight from the fridge or room temperature. Even cream could not rescue them.

YoungBlueEyes

Our Lidl has just done the same as Longwalker's. Reminded me of Morries Market Street. I quite liked it actually  

MDMD

YoungBlueEyes said:

Our Lidl has just done the same as Longwalker's. Reminded me of Morries Market Street. I quite liked it actually  

Maybe they  could copy the “Morrisons Mist”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2950102/amp/Morrisons-fade-fruit-veg-mist-machine-bid-basics-introduction-new-management-team.html

YoungBlueEyes

Maybe thru could cooy... ?! Can we have that in English please?  

dealyboy

Maybe they could copy ... ?!

Rosa_Damascena

YoungBlueEyes said:

Our Lidl has just done the same as Longwalker's. Reminded me of Morries Market Street. I quite liked it actually  

I wish mine would. Currently its run down and also running on minimal staff it would seem. I popped in for a jar of coffee early yesterday evening, and emerged with plenty of impulse buys including some ice-cream cones to find one till open and eight ahead of me in the queue. Luckily the SA responded to moans and asked a colleague to jump onto another till. Had they not, my ice-cream would have melted before I left the shop.

Speaking of which, these have now gone up to nearly 30p a cone. They didn't have my preferred plain vanilla / nut and I found the caramel crunch alternative I selected to be a bit "meh, whatever". This link tells me the same product was £1.49 in summer 2020 yesterday they were £1.95 (not that they were labelled in the freezer). I won't be rushing to buy these again.