Aldi charging full price for 30% reduced items

pauly58

Has anyone been charged the full price at Aldi for anything that has a 30% reduced label on ?
Every time we go , they say it is just an error but it is happening so often now it makes me wonder. A friend of my wife's says it happens to her as well. I can imagine people saying check yourself, but the speed your shopping is thrown at you it's next to impossible, it only can be checked when you get the receipt. The manager at our local store said to put everything reduced at the front, makes no difference.
Never happens at Lidl , incidentally.

paddy147

pauly58 wrote: »

Has anyone been charged the full price at Aldi for anything that has a 30% reduced label on ?
Every time we go , they say it is just an error but it is happening so often now it makes me wonder. A friend of my wife's says it happens to her as well. I can imagine people saying check yourself, but the speed your shopping is thrown at you it's next to impossible, it only can be checked when you get the receipt. The manager at our local store said to put everything reduced at the front, makes no difference.
Never happens at Lidl , incidentally.

Its shocking Joe,totally shocking .

NuckingFacker

So you're saying they make lidl mistakes aldi time in their favour?
I suppose they reckon every little helps.

The Backwards Man

Maybe the label is harder to see if it is 30% reduced?

paddy147

NuckingFacker wrote: »

So you're saying they make lidl mistakes aldi time in their favour?
I suppose they reckon every little helps.

Could be the Lidl brother sneaking in to fcuk up the other brothers Aldi shop...:pac::pac::D

2 german brothers own Lidl and Aldi

One owns Lidl and the other own Aldi.

jake is right

paddy147 wrote: »

Could be the Lidl brother sneaking in to fcuk up the other brothers Aldi shop...:pac::pac::D

2 german brothers own Lidl and Aldi

One owns Lidl and the other own Aldi.

I think this is un-true.

shopaholic01

I didn't know Aldi sold items with a 30% discount, I've never seen any. It's so cheap already without discounts.

The scanner probably isn't reading the discounted label, or the database hasn't been updated. I doubt they're deliberately trying to scam you, they just have minimal staff rostered.

Frosty McSnowballs

Well fcuk Aldi anyway!

€2 shop all the way for me now!

paddy147

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

Well fcuk Aldi anyway!

€2 shop all the way for me now!

Fcuk them.

Dealz all the way.......1 euro 49 cents...:pac::D

Frosty McSnowballs

paddy147 wrote: »

Fcuk them.

Dealz all the way.......1 euro 49 cents...:pac::D

I was just trying to sound posh!

paddy147

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

I was just trying to sound posh!

Fcuk posh....(no not posh spice)....all about the dosh...:pac::pac::D

maringo

Have to say I've never encountered overcharging in Aldi when I bought 30% off stuff. Why dont you keep all your 30% stuff together so its easier to check.

NuckingFacker

paddy147 wrote: »

Could be the Lidl brother sneaking in to fcuk up the other brothers Aldi shop...:pac::pac::D

2 german brothers own Lidl and Aldi

One owns Lidl and the other own Aldi.

Aldi is divided geographically into two entities, Nord and sud that's the brothers bit. Aldi is the Albrecht concern - Albrecht Discount - hence Aldi, Lidl is a totally seperate company.

scudzilla

pauly58 wrote: »

Has anyone been charged the full price at Aldi for anything that has a 30% reduced label on ?
Every time we go , they say it is just an error but it is happening so often now it makes me wonder. A friend of my wife's says it happens to her as well. I can imagine people saying check yourself, but the speed your shopping is thrown at you it's next to impossible, it only can be checked when you get the receipt. The manager at our local store said to put everything reduced at the front, makes no difference.
Never happens at Lidl , incidentally.

So go to Lidl then!!!

Gran Hermano

paddy147 wrote: »

You think so??



Karl Albrecht and Theo Albrecht

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldi

You mentioned the brother from Lidl.

pauly58

In Aldi, the 30% reduced is marked by a red sticker about 4cm in diameter, this is not scanned, it has to be noted manually & a button pressed. In Dunnes & Tesco it is done by bar code.
If no one else has noticed then the staff at my local must just need more training & maybe slow down a bit.

paddy147

Lidl had a smaller sub shop in Santry called Bargain Base.

It has since closesd as all of the Lidl overstock and unsold stock was sold off through that shop.




It was a great place though.

A drill would cost you 50 euro in Lidl.

4-5 weeks later in Bargain Base you would get if for half price...25 euro.


The amount of bargains I got in Bargain Base was unreal.

SCOOP 64

Whats the difference between Aldi and Lidl price/shopping wise?

shopaholic01

SCOOP 64 wrote: »

Whats the difference between Aldi and Lidl price/shopping wise?

The quality in Aldi is much higher, don't know about prices because I never shop in Lidl anymore, but I have heard their bakery is good.

Skill Magill

paddy147 wrote: »

Fcuk them.

Dealz all the way.......1 euro 49 cents...:pac::D

Dealz are a rip off. Poundland up north own them and I just checked that £1stg = €1.19
Jaysis Joe, its terrible

Burn them down Paddy, they're laughin at ye

paddy147

shopaholic01 wrote: »

The quality in Aldi is much higher, don't know about prices because I never shop in Lidl anymore, but I have heard their bakery is good.

Big freshly baked instore choccy donuts for 49 cents each.

Yummy.:D

wil

NuckingFacker wrote: »

Lidl is divided geographically into two entities, Nord and sud that's the brothers bit. Aldi is the Albrecht concern - Albrecht Discount - hence Aldi, and a totally seperate company.

Yes but no apparently. The other way around

Aldi North and Aldi South founded by 2 Albrecht brothers.

Aldi Sud by Karl Albrecht - Germanys richest man
Aldi Nord by Theo (RIP) sons Berthold Albrecht (RIP) and Theo Jr Albrecht

Lidl owned by Dieter Schwarz

Aldi Sud is the one we have here

paddy147

Skill Magill wrote: »

Dealz are a rip off. Poundland up north own them and I just checked that £1stg = €1.19
Jaysis Joe, its terrible

Burn them down Paddy, they're laughin at ye

Dealz is all of 5 minutes away from me.


Poundland up north.....well its "up north"..:pac:




"The cost of Diesel these days Joe.....its shocking"

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

paddy147 wrote: »

Could be the Lidl brother sneaking in to fcuk up the other brothers Aldi shop...:pac::pac::D

2 german brothers own Lidl and Aldi

One owns Lidl and the other own Aldi.

Lidl is the last name of Ludwig Lidl, a retired teacher. In 1930, Josef Schwarz became a partner in Südfrüchte Grosshandel Lidl & Co., a fruit wholesaler, and he developed the company into a general food wholesaler. In 1977, under his son Dieter Schwarz, Lidl&Schwarz began to focus on discount markets, larger supermarkets, and cash and carry wholesale markets. The first Lidl discount store was opened in 1973, copying the Aldi model.

In 1946, the Albrecht brothers took over their mother’s small shop and soon opened another retail outlet nearby. By 1950, the Albrecht brothers owned 13 stores in the Ruhr Valley.

When the brothers split the company in 1960 over a dispute whether they should sell cigarettes at the till, they owned 300 shops with a cash flow of DM90 million yearly. In 1962, they introduced the name Aldi—short for Albrecht-Diskount. Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd have been financially and legally separate since 1966. The Aldi stores in Ireland are Aldi Sud.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Gran Hermano wrote: »

You mentioned the brother from Lidl.

How dare you! Don't you realise Paddy is never wrong?

K-9

Got some lovely steaks from Lidl that were reduced, was still 4 days before the expiry date as well, normally is 1 or 2 days.

ScumLord

If you believe your being ripped off, you've brought it up with management and it's still happening shouldn't you just stop shopping there?

maringo

I've been shopping at Lidl and Aldi since they opened. Have NEVER been overcharged in either of them. Can't say the same about Tesco, Supervalu, Woodies. Have been overcharged in all these but now I check my receipt before I leave the shop. It's BUYER BEWARE and check before you leave the shop. I try to do that although with a big shop it can be a bit of a hassle.