The Latest Deals mobile app has a supermarket comparison on its tools useful for checking the prices of a specific item, the store you think is the cheapest often turns out to be far from it.
Having a food allergy it is a case of visiting them all to get some semblance of variety and as such I often think ouch how much (typically in Morrisons) I use the app for checking things like J2O, yoghurts, frozen peas etc as there is often a huge range in prices.Fair enough for specific items - and if you've the time to trot from one shop to another. I'm talking about the cost of a full shop.
We don't have an Aldi, but that's what I found with Lidl. When they opened here, I took a list round Tesco, Sainsburys & Lidl and priced everything up, and there was next to nothing cheaper at Lidl. Aldi was given planning permission for a new store here in January 2021, but it hasn't materialised yet.
That reminds me of Frinton, where they succeeded in keeping fish & chip shops out of the town until 1992, and pubs out until 2000, on the grounds that they lower the tone of the neighbourhood.
Thankfully a good number of non free from labelled products are appropriately free from but nevertheless monthly there seems to be a plummeting choice of available products often not helped by empty shelves of what is still alledgly stocked.
Due to working on the basis of a rapid shift of goods so slower selling items get the boot. Cornflower is one that Aldi cannot seem to make their mind up about selling; think it is currently out of favour but Lidl do sell it.
That used to puzzle me as well but they're not really staff free are they? In our local Tesco there's ten SS tills but always at least one member of staff to sort out the inevitable errors, Aldi staffing levels and floor space probably couldn't cope with that.
