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

briskbeats

Wish the media would not show photos of empty shelves. Noticed most of these photos in the past couple of days have been salads, soft drinks and ice cream.

These are among the biggest sellers during hot weather- pandemic or no pandemic. 

The colleague at Lidl earlier today agreed with me and he has worked for Lidl for 7 years- at a different store at the beginning as the one he works in now has been open 4-5 years.

Though this time, it will take 2-4 days longer for stocks to fully recover as driver shortages due to being pinged.

Apart from the above categories, Lidl had 99.5% availability in other sections.

I have been told by the management at my work (different supermarket) that for the next 10-12 days, we just get forecasted delivery on frozen products. So if we normally sell 100 packs of something per week, we only get 100 packs per week. Even though we might have sold 140 packs in the previous week. So freezers will look a bit depleted for 1.5 weeks.

maman

briskbeats said:

Wish the media would not show photos of empty shelves. Noticed most of these photos in the past couple of days have been salads, soft drinks and ice cream.

These are among the biggest sellers during hot weather- pandemic or no pandemic. 

The colleague at Lidl earlier today agreed with me and he has worked for Lidl for 7 years- at a different store at the beginning as the one he works in now has been open 4-5 years.

Though this time, it will take 2-4 days longer for stocks to fully recover as driver shortages due to being pinged.

Apart from the above categories, Lidl had 99.5% availability in other sections.

I have been told by the management at my work (different supermarket) that for the next 10-12 days, we just get forecasted delivery on frozen products. So if we normally sell 100 packs of something per week, we only get 100 packs per week. Even though we might have sold 140 packs in the previous week. So freezers will look a bit depleted for 1.5 weeks.

I'm not disagreeing with you about the response to hot weather. That always happens when we have a few days of sun. It's been the same with garden furniture for a while. 

The only reason I can think of for perhaps not advertising the food shortages would be to prevent panic buying and the wastage then caused with fresh foods. 

Or perhaps you think there isn't an issue with rapidly rising infection and therefore 'pinging' on top of the existing shortages of lorry drivers and fruit/veg pickers? 

redfox

while it’s easy to wander off-topic that could stop newbies finding the information they want quickly and easily (please see the forum rule) so please keep this thread on topic. To ask a different MoneySaving subject please start your own thread (if you're not a member join the forum to do it). If you have any questions about this policy please email forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com.

Doc_N

redfox said:

while it’s easy to wander off-topic that could stop newbies finding the information they want quickly and easily (please see the forum rule) so please keep this thread on topic. To ask a different MoneySaving subject please start your own thread (if you're not a member join the forum to do it). If you have any questions about this policy please email forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com.

Does it really do any harm to stray a little from the topic?  It's all related, and all relevant.  Sometimes I wonder about the moderation of these forums........

Rosa_Damascena

Doc_N said:

redfox said:

while it’s easy to wander off-topic that could stop newbies finding the information they want quickly and easily (please see the forum rule) so please keep this thread on topic. To ask a different MoneySaving subject please start your own thread (if you're not a member join the forum to do it). If you have any questions about this policy please email forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com.

Does it really do any harm to stray a little from the topic?  It's all related, and all relevant.  Sometimes I wonder about the moderation of these forums........

red is a board guide, not a mod.

maman

It's not the first time we've had to point out that this thread is titled Good and Bad Buying. 

That title was deliberately chosen so that we could discuss things like customer service or in this case shortages as well as the products sold in Aldi and Lidl. 

Doc_N

Rosa_Damascena said:

Doc_N said:

redfox said:

while it’s easy to wander off-topic that could stop newbies finding the information they want quickly and easily (please see the forum rule) so please keep this thread on topic. To ask a different MoneySaving subject please start your own thread (if you're not a member join the forum to do it). If you have any questions about this policy please email forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com.

Does it really do any harm to stray a little from the topic?  It's all related, and all relevant.  Sometimes I wonder about the moderation of these forums........

red is a board guide, not a mod.

It amounts to the same thing when a perfectly reasonable and relevant discussion is curtailed for no good reason. It’s pointless.

redfox

I am only doing what I have been asked to do. The phrases used are provided by MSE for us to insert in the relevant situations. If you have any questions about this policy please email forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com.

Doc_N

redfox said:

I am only doing what I have been asked to do. The phrases used are provided by MSE for us to insert in the relevant situations. If you have any questions about this policy please email forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com.

It’s not the policy that’s wrong. It’s the interpretation of it, I’m sorry to say. There have been no irrelevant posts, given the thread title.

maman

redfox said:

I am only doing what I have been asked to do. The phrases used are provided by MSE for us to insert in the relevant situations. If you have any questions about this policy please email forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com.

Thanks for explaining that. I'm unsure who decides which threads/posts appear to be straying off topic. 🤔 If it's mse, are you able to feed back when they've got it wrong. There was a thread about 'Buys' originally but it changed some considerable time ago.