Asda price hikes

[Mike_P]

Having a food allergy (Gluten) I have to trawl all of them to get a range of goods as some are only available in one.
In terms of those wider stocked or not gluten affected anyway I use the Trolley app to see where the best prices are. Typically most products are on offer somewhere e,g, currently a 4 pack of Activia yoghurts is cheapest in Asda @ £1.75. Then their are the the various mobile app offers which mean every fortnight currently a bottle of milk (two pints) is 75p at Waitrose and around 20-27p more at Sainbsburys for as many as I want. At Asda last night I got a £1 off 2 £1.75 packs of yoghurts.

 

[gbb]

Well I had an unexpected bargain today in Asda....
Usual shopping, what to have for Sunday dinner ?
Beef is half price £5.68 per kilo so a big joint, £11, I have already cut it in two, £5.50 per joint then...cheaper than chicken, yay.

But...the lady on the till said something about it being a good price and manually put it in. Didn't think too much about it...got home, looked at the receipt...she's charged £5.68 for it she's looked at the promo label haha

Happy days, that's £2.50 a joint then...

 

[MontyVeda]

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Aldi - mostly for things like nuts, their fresh produce is ok, but doesn't last, not sure about their fish and cheese tends to be very short dated. Limited choice often. Chocolate is disappointing! I like their jelly and custard pots
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I'll buy the trout, salmon and basa fillets, but not the maceral (often bony and it's better from sainsbury's). I'll buy haloumi or stilton from Aldi, but all their cheddar type cheeses are a disappointment. I'd rather pay twice the price at M&S for a good strong cheddar. I like the thick sliced Tiger bloomer, but Iceland tends to have much longer dates (7 days often) and I'm certain it's the same bread from the same bakery.

 

[Jameshow]

Brought a load of 8p veg.

Half price kettle for £12 and microwave for £26!

 

[PaulSB]

Chocolate is disappointing! I

Have you tried the Moser Roth milk chocolate?

 

[IanSmithCSE]

Good morning,

I went into the local Asda last weekend and got annoyed that they are running facial recognition and doing who knows what with that data so left and went to Aldi just over the road.

These are town centre branches, not smaller ones on the edge of a housing estate and I was quite surprised by just how much the Aldi food section had shrunk and how much their prices had gone up. There were still some of the old Aldi bargains, the imitation labels of major brands and good products inside the packaging, but there was also a lot more "M&S" type food presentation and prices.

Certainly in the past there was a hierarchy amongst at least some food distributors for fresh produce that went from M&S downwards pretty much as you might expect with Aldi/Lidl pretty much at the bottom of the supermarket list with only corner shops and market stalls lower.

In the past and for me, it was not worth the effort of going to Aldi to buy a few items and then still go somewhere else for the main shop, after this visit I will definitely be leaving Aldi on the last resost list. Sadly over the last few years my experience with the centre aisle stuff is that it is worth what you paid for it, rather than in the past when it was brilliant.

In the end I had to go back to Asda!

Bye

Ian

 

[kingrollo]

Not quite sure what's going on at ASDA.

Certainly the one by me is very poorly managed - the quality and durability of the fruit and veg has gone through the floor.

There's never any staff around to ask where items are -

I was in there yesterday and for some reason they had created a huge isle of cans of pepsi max.

It's in trouble for sure

 

[craigwend]

Bargain bags of potatoes...

 

[MontyVeda]

Bargain bags of potatoes...

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same at Aldi, we've got a mountain of spuds at 8p a bag.

 

[alicat]

Slightly off topic but I went into Aldi yesterday and the card reader had a survey question before I could pay. Something like "were you happy with the products in store today?" The cashier went to click "yes" without asking me. I told her to insert "no" since I dislike enforced surveys/questions at checkout. She complained that my answer would affect their store rating.

 

[PaulSB]

Not quite sure what's going on at ASDA.

Certainly the one by me is very poorly managed - the quality and durability of the fruit and veg has gone through the floor.

There's never any staff around to ask where items are -

I was in there yesterday and for some reason they had created a huge isle of cans of pepsi max.

It's in trouble for sure

This is what has gone on at ASDA. Add to this the company is spending hard on discounts and you can see where it's going. I've always felt ASDA, along with Morrison's, is bottom of the pile.

https://www.theguardian.com/busines...l-in-the-boardroom?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other


I'm rather surprised by @IanSmithCSE remarks about Aldi as it doesn't reflect our two local stores. In terms of stock it may be a regional difference between Worcestershire and Lancashire.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Slightly off topic but I went into Aldi yesterday and the card reader had a survey question before I could pay. Something like "were you happy with the products in store today?" The cashier went to click "yes" without asking me. I told her to insert "no" since I dislike enforced surveys/questions at checkout. She complained that my answer would affect their store rating.

That just makes the whole survey pointless if the staff have the ability to answer it themselves and it affects them!

which is the fault of the person who designed the survey - not the store

 

[IanSmithCSE]

Good morning,

.......I'm rather surprised by @IanSmithCSE remarks about Aldi as it doesn't reflect our two local stores. In terms of stock it may be a regional difference between Worcestershire and Lancashire.

Although it sounds a bit ridiculous I get the impression that this Aldi has been trying to go upmarket.

A couple of years back a Staples (office stationary) branch became a Farm Foods branch and as it is around 100 yards from Aldi I wonder if that was the reason for the changes.

Bye

Ian

 

[PaulSB]

Good morning,

Although it sounds a bit ridiculous I get the impression that this Aldi has been trying to go upmarket.

A couple of years back a Staples (office stationary) branch became a Farm Foods branch and as it is around 100 yards from Aldi I wonder if that was the reason for the changes.

Bye

Ian

I think this is quite likely. I use three different Aldis, two local to me and one in north Manchester. In each the range varies as does the volume of individual products. The north Manchester store has a far wider range and greater volume of ready meals than the other two. Up and coming area, young professionals, higher disposable income. Whether it works or not is, I suppose, largely a matter of taste. I've never had reason to complain but then I rarely buy ready meals anywhere. The Aldi roast pork is very good, the salmon Wellington quite dreadful!!

I don't know if it is still true today but my understanding is Aldi once had a policy of opening as close as possible to an M&S, Waitrose or other major competitor to catch the passing trade. Based purely on cars in the car park that works. I do bump into people I wouldn't expect to see in our Aldi, the joke is always "I've got my Waitrose bag with me."

Food snobbery is terrible. Decades ago, as a child, my eldest was furious with his mother for coming home with an Iceland bag. He was genuinely concerned his mates might notice!!!!!

 

[Mike_P]

Aldi's Shepherds Pie has degraded IMO - far more potato and less actual filling that it use to have. Limited because of a food allergy currently only to theres and the M&S one I use to rate the Aldi the better of two but not any longer.