Examples of surprising prices

Rosa_Damascena

flipflopflo said:

@TimSynths, we’re having the opposite experience here. The shelves in Ald!/Lid! are well stocked and our Tesc@ shelves are empty. 

That has to be a small store? The planograms do not usually put fresh f&v and meat products adjacent to each other, where there is space there is demarcation.  It may account for why stock had gone.

sheilavw

My local Lidl the same. I went in a couple of weeks ago.  I picked up a big tub of greek yoghurt. It was 2 weeks out of date, the whole tray was. I couldn't see a jar of curry sauce so asked where they was. The lady said the one's with the spice section in the lid, I said yes. She replied we don't sell them anymore. I said ok, just any, and she said we don't have sell any jars of curry sauce anymore.

YoungBlueEyes

Do you know if that's just your store @sheilavw or a whole of lidl thing? Himself likes the butter chicken sauce... I'll have to stock up if they're discontinuing it.

TimSynths

flipflopflo said:

@TimSynths, we’re having the opposite experience here. The shelves in Ald!/Lid! are well stocked and our Tesc@ shelves are empty. 

Wow! I did hear through the grapevine that Lidl has warehouses full of stock, but their issue is not enough drivers to get it to the stores, so they concentrate on perishables leaving canned and dried goods so hence the gaps on the shelves. The drivers were all self-contractors and simply went to other supermarkets that were paying more in the driver shortage.

OrkneyStar

Rosa_Damascena said:

flipflopflo said:

@TimSynths, we’re having the opposite experience here. The shelves in Ald!/Lid! are well stocked and our Tesc@ shelves are empty. 

That has to be a small store? The planograms do not usually put fresh f&v and meat products adjacent to each other, where there is space there is demarcation.  It may account for why stock had gone.

That looks exactly like our Tesco, only in reverse in terms of what side the meat/veg is at! It's the biggest shop we have on the island (Lidl has quite a lot of floor space but a lot of it is middle aisle items, not groceries). We have never had access to some of the cheaper ranges that many of you describe (eg someone said there used to be a 50pish Mozzarella ball). If our boats are cancelled for a day or so our shelves often look like that!

YoungBlueEyes

Not sure I'd fancy buying fruit+veg from those shelves. Could you expect it to last when it's been basking in the heat from the back of those fridges for however long....?

tooldle

These photos pretty much reflect how things have been in our local shops for a good while. I went to Lidl last week, my first visit to a larger supermarket since November last year. They also had large gaps on the shelves, no hot chocolate and very limited coffee, for example. We have two Coops locally, and both now seem to have their full range in stock all be it in small quantity’s. For a good while large sections of shelving were empty. The local Tesco is very hit and miss.

RobM99

Morrison - Heinz tomato soup £1.40.
Iceland - 4 for £4 with 10%discount for 60+ folk (age, not quantity!) ...  £3.60, 90p each. 

peewhyeff

Looks like sugar price is on the up.....even Fsrmfoods now 75p,  though 2 = £1.40 !!

freyasmum

@peewhyeff That's the same as Aldi - I got a few 2kg bags from asda instead, which worked out a little cheaper.

5kg bags can currently be got for £3.20 or 64p/kg in tesco or sainsburys.