[Food] Aldi/Lidl Blindness

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Anyone else suffer from this affliction? Got one or other budget supermarket just down the road from me, it's been there for years now, no idea which one it is,they just seem totally interchangeable

 

[banjo]

Every Lidl helps.

 

[Justice]

WTF

 

[Westdene Seagull]

No blindness here - Lidl have far less variety than Aldi and are slightly more expensive. That said, both are very good supermarkets for getting your shopping at a very reasonable price. I use Aldi and then for a very few bits go to Sainsburys - three bags of goods at Aldi cost ~£60, less than one bag at Sainsburys ~£30. Why people use the Sainsburys and Tescos of the world to do their main shop is beyond me. Even more so Waitrose ! More money than sense.

 

[Dick Swiveller]

Yep - still don't know which is which around us until I go there.

 

[schmunk]

We have all our shopping delivered, so would never go near one, but I have just had a lovely sit outside in the Aldi egg chair I bought (online) last week.

 

[knocky1]

This is a great song about Lidl and Aldi.

 

[Bold Seagull]

No blindness here - Lidl have far less variety than Aldi and are slightly more expensive. That said, both are very good supermarkets for getting your shopping at a very reasonable price. I use Aldi and then for a very few bits go to Sainsburys - three bags of goods at Aldi cost ~£60, less than one bag at Sainsburys ~£30. Why people use the Sainsburys and Tescos of the world to do their main shop is beyond me. Even more so Waitrose ! More money than sense.

I like the fact there’s less choice at Aldi, keeps you focused on what you need rather than trying to entice you to buy all sorts with shelf strategy product placement. A shop also takes twice as long as well as costs twice as much in Tesco/Sainburys

 

[Biscuit Barrel]

Anyone else suffer from this affliction? Got one or other budget supermarket just down the road from me, it's been there for years now, no idea which one it is,they just seem totally interchangeable

I am exactly the same. No idea which one is which.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Who?

 

[mikeyjh]

I like them, great for larder stuff, tins etc, knock off the normal brands, love it. - Fruit and veg is largely shite though there's usually someone who will pipe up that his mate who's a chef gets there stuff there....

To add - If you need anything other than about the main 3 or 4 most popular herbs and spices, you're going somewhere else....

 

[bluenitsuj]

Lidl wins hands down. Aldi is crap. IMHO

 

[Pevenseagull]

Lidl tend to have better telescopic hedge trimmers.

 

[Dorset Seagull]

Didn’t 2 brothers start Lidl and fell out so one left and started Aldi? Would probably explain why they are so similar if true

 

[Papak]

Lidl tend to have better telescopic hedge trimmers.

and welding masks...

 

[Me and my Monkey]

Never go to Aldi/Lidl with a shopping list, you'll inevitably be disappointed. However, you'll also definitely come home with something VERY exciting and unexpected.

 

[jonny.rainbow]

 

[Is it PotG?]

By no means perfect, but well worth the punt.

 

[BNthree]

Not only do I not have “blindness” I even know which each of them stocks that the other doesn’t so know which to go to for certain things.

Aldi’s version of Aperol is less than half the price of Aperol and actually beat Aperol in a Which magazine taste test recently.

Given the cost of living crisis looming these supermarkets are going to be getting a lot more business.

 

[Wrong-Direction]

Aldi produce really not that bad

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