Aldi...........pahhhh

[Dangermouse]

After seeing all the adverts over the years, and Aldi selling top brands at lower prices.....we decided to see if they were as good as the ads make them out to be, so instead of our usual shop in Asda we went 5 miles to our nearest store

what an absolute waste of time, it was horrible, full of chavs all pushing and shoving, mums barging through people with buggies.............very uncivilised, we bought a loaf of bread and bolted for the door, whoever made those ads wants stringing up

10 Minutes later we back in the tranquillity of Asda


Never again

 

[Dangermouse]

[QUOTE 2990559, member: 259"]Asda? [/QUOTE]

Yep...........our supermarket of choice, well Tesco during the week as its only a minute away

 

[Cycleops]

I think you need to upgrade to Waitrose, very civilised. Mind you they don't do cycling stuff.

 

[welsh dragon]

I like morrisons and tesco. Can't beat them.

 

[Dangermouse]

I think you need to upgrade to Waitrose, very civilised. Mind you they don't do cycling stuff.

We don't have any near us, we had a M&S which shut down 3 years ago...........BUT they are building a new one about 1 minute away...........yaaaaaaayyyyyy I love M&S food

 

[ColinJ]

If Asda is tranquil and Aldi is busy then that should probably tell you that Aldi is better value than Asda! Of course, if you are happy to spend more money to avoid having to mix with 'plebs', that is up to you! I suppose you wouldn't like public transport either, and would prefer to drive everywhere?

I think Aldi and Lidl are great and I wish we had one or other here. There is a Lidl about 5 miles away in Todmorden, and an Aldi 8 miles away in Halifax, but those distances are too great to be carrying heavy bags of shopping, and bargains are not such big bargains when you have to add £2-3 in fares every time, and waste an hour travelling to get them.

 

[Dangermouse]

If Asda is tranquil and Aldi is busy then that should probably tell you that Aldi is better value than Asda! Of course, if you are happy to spend more money to avoid having to mix with 'plebs', that is up to you! I suppose you wouldn't like public transport either, and would prefer to drive everywhere?

I think Aldi and Lidl are great and I wish we had one or other here. There is a Lidl about 5 miles away in Todmorden, and an Aldi 8 miles away in Halifax, but those distances are too great to be carrying heavy bags of shopping, and bargains are not such big bargains when you have to add £2-3 in fares every time, and waste an hour travelling to get them.

The prices are about the same, so nothing in it that way, our local Asda store is massive so it could have 10 times the amount of shoppers as Aldi and still no pushing or shoving, the Warburtons we bought was exactly the same price as in Asda so I really don't think there are bargains to be had in Aldi unless you buy brands you have never heard of, we normally buy Asda brands which are better than most top brands, so really I would be wasting fuel driving to Aldi, past Asda

 

[welsh dragon]

Locally we have spar or the co-op. Lidl is 25 miles away. I tend to use own brand products whenever I can in morrisons and tesco.

 

[ASC1951]

I think you need to upgrade to Waitrose, very civilised. ..

Overpackaged and overpriced.
I'll admit to being a regular Lidl shopper for food and basics. The quality is perfectly acceptable and the prices are kept low by restricting the range, never over-stocking and having transport and display in the same custom packaging.
I don't rate their cycling stuff, but cheap kit is generally pants no matter where you get it. And Lidl's workshop gloves make brilliant winter/MTB gloves.

 

[Dangermouse]

Locally we have spar or the co-op. Lidl is 25 miles away. I tend to use own brand products whenever I can in morrisons and tesco.

We called into Lidl a few days ago, that was a nice store, bought a few bits in there but same as Aldi, the store isn't big enough for all the products and the aisles are narrow, but still much nicer than Aldi

 

[gavroche]

You can also buy in Aldi/Lidle, continental food you can't get in other stores.

 

[welsh dragon]

Morrisons were like that. The isles were too narrow. I always hated it, but they seem to have made the isles bigger, more like those in tesco. Thank god. Because we have a journey of 25 miles to shop, I like the bigger stores, so I can get everything I need for at least a couple of weeks.

 

[Dangermouse]

We shop every day WD but that's through choice, we prefer fresh meat and bread and veg daily, don't like any frozen or processed foods, sounds a bit extreme but we do shop every day, even at xmas we call daily.

 

[cyberknight]

I like morrisons and tesco. Can't beat them.

we shop there as well because MrsCK works there we get 10 % discount on everything.

 

[welsh dragon]

we shop there as well because MrsCK works there we get 10 % discount on everything.

In that case you would be stupid not to. Lucky you.