The Aldi Experience

[seagullsovergrimsby]

Surely it won't last if Tesco get their way and open this ENORMOUS store on London Road that's being threatened.

I read it was planned to be FIVE times the size of Sainsbury's! That's some floorspace

A Tesco Extra store is going to be massive and they normally have an upstairs rather than just on one level.

 

[NF9]

LIDL & ALDI Are for scumbags, END OF
One thing I did find comical is when that aldi opened recently there was a cue of around 100 people just waiting the get into the store for the first team I didnt see any come out so I prosume they all died of food poisoning

 

[Timbo]

Most of the food in Aldi's comes from European ranges which tend to be far higher quality and a good deal cheaper than our equivalent.

 

[Bluejuice]

Bloody hell, where on Earth are they going to put that? It'll be traffic chaos, New England Road is already a nightmare.

I believe they want to cram it in on the North side, presumably where the Co-Op was and beyond.

There're already campaigns against it but to be honest I don't think it matters for London Road. The place is a dump and could do with some revitalisation, it's hardly like this new Tesco will cripple lots of olde time family run shops and the like, the place is a ghost town aside from discount shops, bookies and grotty pubs.

Leave North Laine and St James' Street alone but London Road? They can have it

anotherlondonroad - Another London Road 

 

[Emily's Mum]

Aldi is the nearest supermarket to where I live and I use it almost every day.

Excellent value fruit and veg and cooked meats

But what he's not saying is that he goes in there as the checkout birds are FIT

But seriously, we do a month's worth of grocery shopping there and get change out of £80. I've never had to complain about anything I've bought there.

 

[Barnham Seagull]

LIDL & ALDI Are for scumbags, END OF
One thing I did find comical is when that aldi opened recently there was a cue of around 100 people just waiting the get into the store for the first team I didnt see any come out so I prosume they all died of food poisoning

Or people who are a bit savvy and not influenced by the sterotype you seem to peddle.

 

[Barnham Seagull]

Stepped into an Aldi for the first time ever today (London Road) and all I can say is, what a pile of gash, how does that shop make money? You've got masses of floor space really badly used, and cluttered with things like bike saddle bags and torches. What food they do have is overpriced and very few brands you would recognise. It was lunchtime and they had one! till open, no basket tills. I always assumed Aldi was a slightly upmarket Lidl, but it's not really. All in all a very strange experience, and one not to be repeated.

The concept takes a bit of getting used to but I can say that their products compare with the main supermarkets mid range own brand products not value.

The brands are all their own label, the idea is too have one of everything rather than six varieties of every product line. As stated above the products are on a level with branded and supermarket own brand products. Tesco and co are very worried about the likes of Aldi and Lidl eating into their market share. Just look at Tesco launching there own discount brands and comparing the prices to Aldi on point of sale lables.

You might be interested to know that Aldi and Lidl are huge global brands and considerably bigger than the likes of Tesco. They both would see their competition globally as Walmart.

I agree that Lidl is shite though. I've never got over seeing them position condoms next to an aftershave called Eruption!

 

[Bluejuice]

Bigger than Tesco?

Aldi revenue 2008 - £37.9bn
Lidl revenue 2005 - £29.5bn

Tesco revenue 2009 - £54.3bn

Tesco are pretty f***ing huge

 

[Cian]

Aldi seem to try to be the Marks & Spencer of discount euro retailers. It doesn't work. I can't do a weeks shopping there as they're missing very common foods yet have f***ing QUAILS EGGS. Even their off licence has a surreal range.

I do have a box in the car full of their tools and use one of their PCs however - but its Lidl that get most of my weekly shopping.

Lidl here also have a large range of 'known' brands, I had a look at the one in Holyhead (as its right by the port, was early driving back from Brighton) and they've comparatively very very few big brands in the UK. Can get Mars, McVities, Weetabix, Coke, Pepsi, etc products here. However that might just be cause Holyhead is very very skint, their other supermarkets are a Netto and a closed Kwiksave!

 

[Gwylan]

I've been shopping at Aldi since it opened and it's pretty good. I'm told the cooked meats are first class (I don't eat meat but Mrs Gwylan says Aldi meats are good stuff). They have a fantastic range of own brand chocolate and a good selection of beer at decent prices.

Their own brand cereals and breads are pretty good too - the brioche are particularly excellent.

It's a continental store so the quality is going to be higher than most British supermarkets, the prices are a nice bonus though.

The one till looks a bit weird but they're the fastest operators I've ever seen. Strangely for a supermarket, all the staff appear to be male. I think I've only seen one woman in there in about 10 visits.

 

[Billy the Fish]

their other supermarkets are a Netto and a closed Kwiksave!

I really want to go in a Netto. My mate's family are scouse and he said the ones up there are more scummy than any iceland or Lidl shop that you get down here

 

[Cian]

I really want to go in a Netto. My mate's family are scouse and he said the ones up there are more scummy than any iceland or Lidl shop that you get down here

I can only compare them to a brand of shop we had here and in NI that Tesco bought over called Crazy Prices - even Kwiksave weren't quite as bad. It felt like I was walking around the shops store room when I went in to one. Filled a trolley with contraband (Irn Bru, virtually unavailable in my town) and left before the jaundiced, narrow eyed, wizened other customers could steal my soul...

Carpark had an insane maximum time requirement on it like 30 mins - but you wouldn't want to stay any longer anyway!

 

[murraymints4brighton]

I really want to go in a Netto. My mate's family are scouse and he said the ones up there are more scummy than any iceland or Lidl shop that you get down here

I am Scouse and yes they are more scummy than Iceland or Lidl only all the products are counterfeit and you are lucky to get what was advertised on the packaging.

For instance you can buy a toaster, open the box and find a years supply of toothpicks mixed with saliva and the scrapings of someones tomb stone, Or you can buy something totally shit like a solar powered shoe polisher and find that it is actually rather good.

They are just a quirk to the great north of this country.

 

[Bluejuice]

They are just a quirk to the great north of this country.

Actually London has some and there is one in Scumhampton too

 

[csider]

bought a few bits from the one in p/slade last year, some pasta/ravioli and was very nice, thay had lovely fudge as well............yummy!!

 

[murraymints4brighton]

I can only compare them to a brand of shop we had here and in NI that Tesco bought over called Crazy Prices - even Kwiksave weren't quite as bad. It felt like I was walking around the shops store room when I went in to one. Filled a trolley with contraband (Irn Bru, virtually unavailable in my town) and left before the jaundiced, narrow eyed, wizened other customers could steal my soul...

Carpark had an insane maximum time requirement on it like 30 mins - but you wouldn't want to stay any longer anyway!

Oh yes and i forgot all about Quick Save. The managers of the store actually burnt the one down by were i used to live and framed some unsuspecting youths.

I ventured in there a week before it burnt down and wondered why they were selling nothing but Tampons, Ethanol and Coal...

 

[murraymints4brighton]

Actually London has some and there is one in Scumhampton too

Seriously? I bet they are nowhere near as shabby as the northern ones.

 

[Bluejuice]

Few things in the south are as shabby as their northern counterparts.

Mind you Gillingham could give many run down northern holes a run for their money

 

[m20gull]

Aldi's fine. You just need to go in with your eyes open. I have found their continental stuff to be excellent quality and value. Their British stuff (pasties and such like) is not so good.

 

[Norman Potting]

Lidl and Aldi are both German, aren't they? People are so het up about brands, doesn't mean the stuff's not any good!

Quite true, I like Lidl and I know some committed Waitrose shoppers who are not ashamed to be seen in thier as a lot of their non branded stuff is v.good - check out the 2.5L vanilla ice cream f'rinstance, superb.

However I would draw the line at buying one of their products. T'tother day I was browsing the coffee that was on special offer. They also had some little plastic pots of liqueur cream to put in coffee, presumably a German brand. Not sure what the translation is but there for all to see on the pack was the name.

"Minges" !!!!


Wish my phone had a camera so I could provide evidence for you all!