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

Cornucopia

S_uk said:

I noticed in an in-store Lidl Plus leaflet today: between 1/4/22 and 31/8/22 get a free in-store bakery item coupon when you spend £50 a month (max 1 per month).

I think they must have started this in the middle of the March promo month, because I got the free item after I'd spent £50.   I got some very nice posh bread.    

harz99

Went to one of my local Aldi's on Friday, no frozen chicken breasts, went to the other Aldi near me today, same no chicken, also holes on the fresh produce racks, tried the nearby Lidl and got 3 packs out of the 11 on sale plus a pack of tomatoes from the half box of those, again big gaps on the fresh produce shelves. 

maman

Tomatoes very low at my Aldi last weekend but plenty of fresh chicken(didn't look for frozen). 🤔

njm123

maman said:

Tomatoes very low at my Aldi last weekend but plenty of fresh chicken(didn't look for frozen). 🤔

Plenty of fresh products will be in short supply - Spanish lorry drivers have been striking  since March 14th over their Governments response to the fuel price hikes,    the action was suspended on Saturday/Sunday but could restart anytime - "to strike a second blow".    Lots of fresh produce comes from Spain.   

I think we'll see a lot more unions flexing their muscle - just like the companies exploiting the situation to rise prices they'll use it to improve pay and conditions at the expense of everyone else. 

harz99

That of course explains the lack of tomatoes and dearth of Spanish fruit, I won't buy Egyptian, Morrocan etc. as the fruit is never good quality. South African grapes are good (just avoid Eastern Cape), as are Cyprus oranges and of course British apples...
 

Rosa_Damascena

njm123 said:

maman said:

Tomatoes very low at my Aldi last weekend but plenty of fresh chicken(didn't look for frozen). 🤔

Plenty of fresh products will be in short supply - Spanish lorry drivers have been striking  since March 14th over their Governments response to the fuel price hikes,    the action was suspended on Saturday/Sunday but could restart anytime - "to strike a second blow".    Lots of fresh produce comes from Spain.   

I think we'll see a lot more unions flexing their muscle - just like the companies exploiting the situation to rise prices they'll use it to improve pay and conditions at the expense of everyone else. 

It should be at the expense of their own bottom line. Or perhaps the consumer has felt the benefit of artificially low prices and this now requires redress? Whatever the source of the problem, I have no objection to people being remunerated at an appropriate level.

Lidl has won the basic shopping basket of the month comp, closely followed by Aldi.

S_uk

I mentioned a few pages back about not seeing sardines in tomato sauce in my Lidl for for a while, well I still haven't and it must be well over a month now. I know some other posters said they hadn't had any trouble getting them. I don't even know why my store still has the shelf label still there when clearly they're not getting the product delivered for whatever reason. Doesn't matter what time I go shopping either.

There's been discussion on a one of the Lidl facebook groups about products that have been unavailable for a while, and going  back to the sardines example some others mentioned they haven't had it them in their stores either. Some mentioned that they think it's issues in the regional distribution centres with some areas getting some products and some not. 

Maybe Lidl doesn't think people in my region likes sardines!

mikb

S_uk said:

I mentioned a few pages back about not seeing sardines in tomato sauce in my Lidl for for a while

Try ALDI, 35p "The Fishmonger" in Sunflower Oil (for now!) and also Tomato Sauce.

S_uk

mikb said:

S_uk said:

I mentioned a few pages back about not seeing sardines in tomato sauce in my Lidl for for a while

Try ALDI, 35p "The Fishmonger" in Sunflower Oil (for now!) and also Tomato Sauce.

I've only shopped at Aldi a few times, mostly because Lidl is very slightly closer to me where I live, plus the Lidl app and bakery. I guess I might try Aldi one week for my shop and if the stock is better in that store then I might as well switch.

Brie

S_uk said:

I've only shopped at Aldi a few times, mostly because Lidl is very slightly closer to me where I live, plus the Lidl app and bakery. I guess I might try Aldi one week for my shop and if the stock is better in that store then I might as well switch.

The Lidl bakery is rather alluring.  We use both as we've discovered things in each that we like - Lidl coffee, Aldi wine etc.