Aldi and Lidl

[MissGull]

It's a health and safety risk, and no one can argus with that. Not only is is unhygienic, if a child was to fall out and hurt themselves, the parents would be the first to sue.

 

[Lincoln Imp]

Fading? Not the burgess hill branch for sure. It takes a million plus pounds a week through the checkouts and probably doubles the turnover of all the other supermarkets in burgess hill combined excluding the petrol filling station! Tesco is a beast. Huge compared to sainsbury and asda in the uk. Sales may be down recently as a company but not this branch. They also have the little metro/extra store in burgess hill.

Ex tesco employee here... Still have a little love for the company and some share options! :0)

I've no idea if the store's sales are holding up but the quality is going down the pan.

Pompous to quote yourself I know, but this is an extract from a letter I wrote to Tesco's Dundee customer care department this week about the derisory £5 they had offered me after I returned a fetid chicken to the Burgess Hill store:

In recent months we have noticed a general drift in quality at Burgess Hill Tesco.

Yes, I know that check-out staff are simply following instructions when they greet customers but too often lately it has been clear that some can only just be bothered to do so. There are some lovely staff but there are a few too many surly ones, especially among the resentful young on a Saturday evening. I expect that in my village Co-op, but Tesco?

Yes, I wouldn’t expect the shelves to be full at 8pm on Saturday, but no pork pies? And how can a Tesco shelf actually run out of mango chutney?
Customers are untidy people but it wouldn’t take much just to straighten the shelves a bit towards the end of the working day. If every member of staff saw it as part of ‘their job’ to pick up litter or an empty merchandising box when they walked past, then problem solved. It’s down to attitude and that comes from the top.

And it’s sensible that you start restocking the shelves during the last few hours of Saturday opening but why do staff walk away leaving their industrial trolleys in front of shelves rather than in the middle of aisles? And why did I see a superviser/manager walk past a woman trying to squeeze behind a trolley to reach something three Saturdays ago? Why did it have to be me who moved the trolley?

 

[Nibble]

Not content with unabated edge/out of town development for 25 years, aided by copious inducements to local authorities to ensure that a smooth planning process took place, the larger operators then decided that garage forecourts were the next way forward. Not content with that, they then decided that online shopping was the way forward and then they decided that local convenience stores, on every ex-pub site etc was also the way forward. Within their larger stores almost every non-food service is available and larger pack sizes are creeping in such as 5kg/10kg units to encourage the catering trade to pick up as well. Throw in the discount operators, who are growing like wildfire and the warning signs are loud and clear for the independent trade. The discounter is regarded as the top up outlet now, not the independent.
One stop shopping is now so ingrained in our national psyche that most of the population regard independents as expensive. and that is the tragedy. Specialist operators such as master butchers, craft bakers, fruit and veg people who can talk to you about seasonality, the odd fish merchant ( my god there are few around ) and delicatessens that offer food and drink from all over the world, all cast aside with that glib statement..." Oh, I wouldn't go there, its too expensive " The truth is, most can't be bothered and thats how the big boys win. They highlight their special offers but they are not necessarily that cheap on a lot of lines. Most are happy to pick up £30 of prepacked ( and previously frozen meat ) from the supermarket shelf and have no idea that the same meat ( more likely better quality ) is available at the local butcher for £5-£6 less.
We sold our souls to the big food retailers a long time ago. No one at local council level gave much thought to local traders. They were seduced by numbers...1500 new jobs in Worthing etc...and by all the other bits and pieces on offer....landscaping, new road layouts, new community centres/ public libraries etc. The French resisted rapid change and curbed large store development and have managed to retain a successful independent, artisan base. We lap up every new Tesco, Sainburys, Asda, Morrisons, Waitrose, Aldi and Lidl but don't forget, the size of the food market is static, so every new store takes business from someone else and eventually something has to give. Independents close and some others reduce staffing. So new jobs aren't created, they just replace those lost elsewhere.

I agree but you took a lot of time explaining something that everybody already knows.

 

[Vegas Seagull]

Lidl approved for Shoreham coast road between B&Q and Travis Perkins

 

[Vegas Seagull]

Buffalo mozarella shouldn't be used for pizzas, the cow stuff should be used for the "stringyness". Buffalo mozarella should be used for salads.

Only the poor or ignorant would agree

 

[Vegas Seagull]

Hate to be pedantic, but there's 3 Co-Op's in Shoreham.

One on the high street, one by the police station and one up by the Holmbush centre.

High st is a bit common, Procession Street is preferable

 

[surrey jim]

But why is a child in a trolley unhygienic?

Child treads in dog s**t then walks around the trolley?

*make the assumption that they are in the trolley as opposed to being in the child seat part

 

[knocky1]

Child treads in dog s**t then walks around the trolley?

*make the assumption that they are in the trolley as opposed to being in the child seat part

Exactly. Try telling the new Hove gushy mummies that dog shit in a shopping trolley is hardly healthy. It's why I walk round supermarkets with my Beagle's poo bag in the trolley. It's cleaner than the soles of shoes being in there.

 

[Matrix10]

I go quite often use Aldi in Bexhill and have found their products in the main equal or better than a number of "main supermarkets". I did buy a large punet of blueberries, and they are plump and full of juice. However I have a question, the label states they are a product of Poland. Where on earth did they find enough Eastern Europians to pick them?

 

[Hiney]

We regularly use the Lidl in Eastleigh. It's brilliant. Their basic cooked meats are way better than the Taste the Difference stuff in Sainos, and half the price. A couple of weeks ago we spent £130 in there. Like a sad ******* I went online and priced up the same stuff at Sainos - it came out at £227.

 

[Colossal Squid]

Aldi is great for fruit and veg, especially the weekly "super 6" - 6 different items for 69p or less each.

I did my weekly shop in there yesterday for £11. But then I don't eat meat and I'm only cooking for myself.

Awww. Don't you live in my 'hood too? We should totally buddy up on the shopping. Cooking for two is even cheaper you know.

I like my dinner on the table around 8pm

 

[clapham_gull]

Bought a rice cooker tonight for a tenner.

 

[Hyperion]

Bought a rice cooker tonight for a tenner.

That won't last as long as the metal ones

 

[clapham_gull]

That won't last as long as the metal ones

It's metal and electric.

I eat a lot of rice. If I get 12 months out of it, a bargain.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Not content with unabated edge/out of town development for 25 years, aided by copious inducements to local authorities to ensure that a smooth planning process took place, the larger operators then decided that garage forecourts were the next way forward. Not content with that, they then decided that online shopping was the way forward and then they decided that local convenience stores, on every ex-pub site etc was also the way forward. Within their larger stores almost every non-food service is available and larger pack sizes are creeping in such as 5kg/10kg units to encourage the catering trade to pick up as well. Throw in the discount operators, who are growing like wildfire and the warning signs are loud and clear for the independent trade. The discounter is regarded as the top up outlet now, not the independent.
One stop shopping is now so ingrained in our national psyche that most of the population regard independents as expensive. and that is the tragedy. Specialist operators such as master butchers, craft bakers, fruit and veg people who can talk to you about seasonality, the odd fish merchant ( my god there are few around ) and delicatessens that offer food and drink from all over the world, all cast aside with that glib statement..." Oh, I wouldn't go there, its too expensive " The truth is, most can't be bothered and thats how the big boys win. They highlight their special offers but they are not necessarily that cheap on a lot of lines. Most are happy to pick up £30 of prepacked ( and previously frozen meat ) from the supermarket shelf and have no idea that the same meat ( more likely better quality ) is available at the local butcher for £5-£6 less.
We sold our souls to the big food retailers a long time ago. No one at local council level gave much thought to local traders. They were seduced by numbers...1500 new jobs in Worthing etc...and by all the other bits and pieces on offer....landscaping, new road layouts, new community centres/ public libraries etc. The French resisted rapid change and curbed large store development and have managed to retain a successful independent, artisan base. We lap up every new Tesco, Sainburys, Asda, Morrisons, Waitrose, Aldi and Lidl but don't forget, the size of the food market is static, so every new store takes business from someone else and eventually something has to give. Independents close and some others reduce staffing. So new jobs aren't created, they just replace those lost elsewhere.

Ironically I missed this thread the first time around because I was in France. I take it you haven't noticed that virtually every city, town and village with a population greater than three in France has a Super U ?

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Bought a rice cooker tonight for a tenner.

Threw mine away after one use. Realised it was easier to use a saucepan !

 

[Norman Potting]

Ironically I missed this thread the first time around because I was in France. I take it you haven't noticed that virtually every city, town and village with a population greater than three in France has a Super U ?

.....Or an Intermarche, many of which still shut for lunch! ..and there are a growing number of Lidl.
C

 

[MissGull]

In Spain the ratio of Netto : people = 2 : 1.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

It's a health and safety risk, and no one can argus with that. Not only is is unhygienic, if a child was to fall out and hurt themselves, the parents would be the first to sue.

Are you serious?

 

[MissGull]

Are you serious?

yes.