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

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Rosa_Damascena said:

Rosa_Damascena said:

Brie said:

@Rosa_Damascena
was it you that commented last year about coffee creams in Iceland?  Well whomever it was, they're back!! (the coffee creams I mean) £2.50 Whittakers.

Credit to someone else for that find - but I do love a coffee cream 

Lidl has increased the price of their shortbread fingers from 85p to 95p  . If I were an optimist I would expect this is just for Christmas but somehow I doubt it.

Redeemed myself by visiting Aldi and buying my favourite shortbread fingers at 85p . I also bought a nice winter candle (510g jar) found in the middle aisle for £2.99, and 2 packs of their extra special mince pies whilst on offer (a just-about-tolerable £1.49/6 rather than the usual £2.49). Shortbread aside, it went to my parents and I was able to serve them a pie each without even thinking about warming one up for myself.

Of note I overheard an elderly couple instore saying that Lidl had become too expensive. I hadn't actually noticed until I fancied a shortbread finger

Interesting point that, and you can certainly see where they're coming from. I used to reckon that the 'gap' between Aldi/Lidl prices and Tesco's was around 20-25% overall, and around 35% against Waitrose. Probably still right for Waitrose, but I'm not so sure about Tesco. Competition has brought main supermarket prices down, and I suspect their new popularity has allowed Aldi and Lidl to increase their margins.