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

MrsStepford

Jute bags - Ocado (2), Lidl, Waitrose, Fortnum & Mason (2), RNLI, Rick Stein, Seasalt
Canvas bags - Lidl, Hunter Gather, John Lewis, Lov Organics
Recycled bags - Yeo Valley, Sainsbury's, Iceland

I wouldn't buy designer supermarket bags as I have actual vintage designer bags e.g. Mulberry Gucci, Longchamps, Coach, Fendi which I couldn't afford new. 

maman

The bags I use for the weekly shop are from Carrefour, which I bought on a holiday in France many years ago. They're much bigger and better than the usual supermarket bags for life, more like the blue IKEA bags.

I also have some Tesco and Aldi bags for life from Welsh stores with Welsh writing. ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Cornucopia

I just use free boxes, which you can usually pick up from the shop floor in A&L, or sometimes they have collected them into a cage.

YoungBlueEyes

I've a box in the boot of my car too, a big old banana box. It sits in the little supermarket trolley rightly and makes packing a doddle. I've a couple of those fold-up nylon bags in my handbag and that does me. 

DigForVictory

i love a designer named supermarket bag - it makes Christmas gift wrapping even easier than furoshiki & my family do love a brand (while I love the relative peace.) Not wholly sold the croissant bag will lure me as not a handbag type of gal, more a further bottles of washing up liquid in the Aldi fried egg bag storage gal….

maman

I do the same @DigForVictory. I bought numerous Orla Kiely jute bags from Home Bargains for IIRC £2 each and used them for gift bags.

I was delighted when DD1 brought me the Tesco and Aldi bags for life after visiting family in South Wales. ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Brie

I buy bags of life to use as "wrapping paper" for presents.  Cheap, reusable, fun.  I've got 2 bee bags from a charity shop for my brothers C-word presents as we all have names starting with B.  

Rosa_Damascena

Brie said:

I buy bags of life to use as "wrapping paper" for presents.  Cheap, reusable, fun.  I've got 2 bee bags from a charity shop for my brothers C-word presents as we all have names starting with B.  

And a bargain for just 20p! I bought a large paper shopping bag from M&S the other day (I hadn't planned to do any shopping so was unprepared) for 40p. I'll be lucky if it lasts another shop.

Doc_N

Brie said:

I buy bags of life to use as "wrapping paper" for presents.  Cheap, reusable, fun.  I've got 2 bee bags from a charity shop for my brothers C-word presents as we all have names starting with B.  

For some years my son and I used to use newspaper to wrap presents. Very green, absolutely free, and remarkably stylish with the right pages from the right newspapers. Never could convince my wife to follow suit though.

Then we switched to online subscriptions, and that came to an end.

wild666

maman said:

mikb said:

Cornucopia said:

The only thing really is that it's next door to an existing Morrisons, so I hope there's plenty of business for them both.

I suspect that a sign outside Morrisons saying "ALDI Price Match, this way >>>>" may be more than enough to divert people from Morrisons to ALDI. If they are that close, it's Morrisons that should be worried, not ALDI

I agree. What Aldi and Lidl have succeeded in doing is forcing the big supermarkets to price match on a range of goods. Of course, they hope that people will be lured by the price matched items and do their full shop there. I can't imagine any mse shopper doing that! 🤣

What they price match is ttheir own branded products not the manufacturers like Heinz. The supermarkets price match will match the budget products and the other stores own brand products so if you prefer Heinz or another branded product they won't price match them.