Aldi prices creeping up

robin58 wrote: »

No I'm not. I used to work for a conglomerate once. I could predict with certainly when the barstewards would put up thier prices to make the most out of a period of high demand.

It's just that I have been shopping more regularly at Aldi in the last 4 years and for awhile prices were going down. But I rarely saw anybody on the Lidl/Aldi thread mention them.

Agree that Aldi and Lidl have done alot to keep prices low. I do all my basic food shops at both. Then I get the bits and bobs I can't get there, elsewhere.

Yes, but it really is just bits and bobs or brands that you really love. I think that's been a very welcome change. It's now quite possible to do a full shop in Aldi.

I shop in Lidl and Aldi, am lucky enough to have both within 5 minutes walk - they are literally across a junction from each other.

I buy Lidl own tea and coffee, both are cheap and fine. I changed from PG Tips to Sainsbury, then when Sainsbury's basics went up to 50p for 40 bags I went over to Knightsbridge tea (currently £1.49 for 160) and find it quite nice.

I am still amazed when I look through some of the reductions in Asda fruit and veg and they are more expensive than the normal prices in Lidl/Aldi, but I vary which one I shop in anyway. The other day I wanted some spring onions, the ones in Aldi were rather skinny and 49p a bunch, the ones in Lidl were 56p a bunch but were nice and plump so went for those. I tend to get my milk in Lidl though, just because the label on the Aldi one makes it difficult to tell what level the milk is at as it goes right round, but I get my squirty cream in Aldi because the squirter on the Lidl one is too big.

On the whole I very rarely shop in the other supermarkets now, the one thing that gets me there is peanut butter which is considerably cheaper in Tesco/Asda than it is in either Lidl or Aldi (I use the value crunchy).

On the whole, the things I buy have tended to be fairly steady price-wise or have gone down (tea has at the moment), the chips mentioned previously have always been marked at 57p in my Lidl, have simply gone through at 50p, I have tended towards the crinkle cut ones recently though.

As for the price of eggs, the difference between Lidl and, say, Tesco is massive. I get 10 large eggs in Lidl for about 75p, the equivalent in Tesco is twice that price. Their packs of 15 "mixed-size" value eggs for £1.25 tend to be mixed in the smaller range and we use larger eggs in this house, if I get small eggs OH uses two in his omelette!

On the whole I cant see myself changing back to Tesco in a hurry - and one of the biggest ones in the country is 15 minutes walk from us.

I have a Tesco metro three minutes from my house yet my Aldi and Lidl's is 5 miles away and even with the price of diesel its still worth my while to drive there twice a month to get my shopping. Never use Tesco's anymore or Sainsburys and I detest Adsa's . Even if the cheaper supermarkets prices have risen slightly its nothing like the prices of the big ones.a penny or two in aldis and lidls is a cheap price to pay whereas in tesco's, s'burys 'asdas etc it goes up in leaps and bounds.Our local Tecos superstore always looks half empty when I drive past

Lidl thick bread now £1.