Lidl Brussels Sprouts for 12c

magicmonkeys

Lidl are advertising brussels sprouts for 18c/kg. Don't let this turn into a discussion of how awful brussels sprouts taste.

snubbleste

That is very expensive.

johnf26

already posted
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057104331

CH3OH

They should be 8 .......in moderation

OREGATO

They're 8 cent in Aldi - as are potatoes, melons, pineapples carrots and clementines

Dozen Wicked Words

I love sprouts. That is all.

snubbleste

They are awful to look at and feel

Dozen Wicked Words

snubbleste wrote: »

They are awful to look at and feel

I don't fondle them, least not since the court order, I just eat them.

snubbleste

Dozen Wicked Words wrote: »

I don't fondle them, least not since the court order, I just eat them.

No four play?

maringo

Great offer tbh. Love sprouts

Tazz T

Got them today. They're now down to 9c as are the onions, baby pots, turnips and parsnips.

All of which I had for Sunday lunch.

Pang

Sprouts fried with cranberry sauce amazing!

vicwatson

Rip off 2c or else....

tantipie

how the hell am I supposed to spend €100 to get my €20 off with these prices??:oops thought this was Aldi. 8c now btw

loki7777

We bought 17kg of carrots:)

Greenmachine

loki7777 wrote: »

We bought 17kg of carrots:)

Guess Rudolf might not make it to everyones house then. We were happy with our 49c per kg carrots. Will make sure to check with aldi and lidl online next time we shop.

johndaman66

Pang wrote: »

Sprouts fried with cranberry sauce amazing!

Eek, I thought I had issues...

Twitter

At the risk of being considered a tool, I just have to get this off my chest...if we get theses veg for almost nothing, are we helping Aldi/Lidl etc-by dint of huge purchase power-to ride roughshod over farmers/growers/suppliers. Like, how much do they pay for kg of potatoes if they sell them at such a ridiculously low price? I know this is the bargain alert forum, and I'm not trying to be a sanctimonious git, I suppose I just want someone to appease my guilty conscience!

irish_goat

Twitter wrote: »

At the risk of being considered a tool, I just have to get this off my chest...if we get theses veg for almost nothing, are we helping Aldi/Lidl etc-by dint of huge purchase power-to ride roughshod over farmers/growers/suppliers. Like, how much do they pay for kg of potatoes if they sell them at such a ridiculously low price? I know this is the bargain alert forum, and I'm not trying to be a sanctimonious git, I suppose I just want someone to appease my guilty conscience!

I'd assume they are a loss leader.

Twitter

Hope so! I have visions of some disgruntled supplier wishing we all (lidl/aldi customers) choke on our roast veg on Christmas day :-)

hfallada

Brussel sprouts are actually nice when corrected in certain way eg with fatty bacon bits. I know everyone is on about how little farmers are getting. But I seen an article in the nytimes were US tomatoe farmers only get 1/2 cent a lb of tomatoes and they are still profitable.

uck51js9zml2yt

The farmers get a fair price no matter what the veg is sold at.
Know someone whose brother supplies mushrooms to one of them.

Amirani

Agricultural prices are generally guaranteed by the Common Agricultural Policy no?

omicron

Aden Screeching Macaw wrote: »

The farmers get a fair price no matter what the veg is sold at.
Know someone whose brother supplies mushrooms to one of them.

Suppliers generally take a hit when the supermarket uses a product as a loss leader. One story of one supplier doesn't change that.

NiallSparky wrote: »

Agricultural prices are generally guaranteed by the Common Agricultural Policy no?

One payment that only applies depending on what yo were farming years ago. Lots of farmers get little or nothing.

Nanazolie

12 cents in Aldi, not 8 (still, I am SO getting the pineapple and the melon and clementines)

https://www.aldi.ie/en/product-range/super-6/

9cents in Lidl:
http://www.lidl.ie/cps/rde/SID-1D4DC042-254EA143/www_lidl_ie/hs.xsl/3472.htm

snubbleste

It's 8c in Aldi, the website has not been updated

Nanazolie

pineapple for 8 cents? Sorry kids, Xmas dinner will be sprouts, carrots, potatoes and pineapple.

Cantona's Collars

Lidl have a food processor for €99 today,perfect for making soups/smoothies from all the cheap fruit & veg.

witnessmenow

zerks wrote: »

Lidl have a food processor for €99 today,perfect for making soups/smoothies from all the cheap fruit & veg.

Thats how they get ya

vicwatson

Twitter wrote: »

At the risk of being considered a tool, I just have to get this off my chest...if we get theses veg for almost nothing, are we helping Aldi/Lidl etc-by dint of huge purchase power-to ride roughshod over farmers/growers/suppliers. Like, how much do they pay for kg of potatoes if they sell them at such a ridiculously low price? I know this is the bargain alert forum, and I'm not trying to be a sanctimonious git, I suppose I just want someone to appease my guilty conscience!

Clementines were Spanish, Pineapple Costa Rica, Carrots French, Potatoes and Sprouts Irish - all are loss leaders for Aldi and Lidl

Capt'n Midnight

Twitter wrote: »

At the risk of being considered a tool, I just have to get this off my chest...if we get theses veg for almost nothing, are we helping Aldi/Lidl etc-by dint of huge purchase power-to ride roughshod over farmers/growers/suppliers. Like, how much do they pay for kg of potatoes if they sell them at such a ridiculously low price? I know this is the bargain alert forum, and I'm not trying to be a sanctimonious git, I suppose I just want someone to appease my guilty conscience!

Other supermarkets would be paying the same prices and keeping the difference.

When prices go up doesn't mean the farmer gets a cut of that, look at the way milk prices went during the boom

homemadecider

After work I went to the Lidl in Dundrum; sadly all the parsnips and sprouts were gone. I got 3 kg of carrots for 27 cents. 2 kg have been chopped and are boiling away, they will be mashed and put into portions and frozen. The other kg will be made into soup in the slow cooker tomorrow. Bargain!

vicwatson

homemadecider wrote: »

I got 3 kg of carrots for 27 cents. Bargain!

You were robbed :eek:

Same 3kgs would have cost you on 24c in Aldi !! :P:P

snubbleste

He woz wobbed

ct5amr2ig1nfhp

17kg?? Do you own a horse?? :eek:

loki7777 wrote: »

We bought 17kg of carrots

homemadecider

There's no Aldi in Dundrum unfortunately!

snubbleste

homemadecider wrote: »

There's no Aldi in Dundrum unfortunately!

Oh, diddums

brian_gall85

Not all the carrots in Letterkenny were French just some of them.

one shot bang bang

hi,anyone know if lidl have special offers with beer/crates , no info on website, get some info before i go there

omicron

one shot bang bang wrote: »

hi,anyone know if lidl have special offers with beer/crates , no info on website, get some info before i go there

24 cans for €24 on guinness, bud and heineken at the moment. (edit:actually 2x12 packs).

one shot bang bang

thanks that sounds good,guinness for me for x-mas

wait4me

omicron wrote: »

24 cans for €24 on guinness, bud and heineken at the moment. (3x8 packs).

Its actually two 12-packs which are each priced at €16.99. And if you have one of the Indo €10 off vouchers a €50 spend, buy four packs and two packs of peanuts or something all for €40.

loki7777

Bexley Glamorous Seismograph wrote: »

17kg?? Do you own a horse?? :eek:

No we are making juice (carrots, beetroot, apples) as my gf is pregnant:)

2moreMinutes

Been looking forward to the annual sprouts race to the bottom on price.:)

A question I've been wondering today.....can I freeze sprouts? Do I need to do anything before freezing them? I love me some sprouts but wouldn't be able to eat all that I'd like to buy over the next week.

vicwatson

2moreMinutes wrote: »

Been looking forward to the annual sprouts race to the bottom on price.:)

A question I've been wondering today.....can I freeze sprouts? Do I need to do anything before freezing them? I love me some sprouts but wouldn't be able to eat all that I'd like to buy over the next week.

I'd say freeze them individually and when frozen bag em up. Should be fine.

wonski

omicron wrote: »

Suppliers generally take a hit when the supermarket uses a product as a loss leader. One story of one supplier doesn't change that.

I don't believe that farmers/suppliers got hit by this. Aldi/Lidl are not leaders in sales yet (they own about 7-8% of the Irish market each) so they have no power to force suppliers to sell them Pineapples for 8c. Even if they were leaders, no supermarket can force anyone to sell at that price.
The practice of selling below the original purchase price is forbidden in some countries - at least the one I come from - as this led to unfair competition when some German and French chains tried to kill the competitors by doing this when starting their business in Poland.
This is allowed in Ireland - luckily for us, customers. But the cost is covered by Aldi and Lidl. The supplier would not survive this, just think about this - they have super6 every week - they would kill their supply chain in a matter of few weeks if the cost of the offer was passed onto suppliers, or - even worse - the farmer.

CR 7

As far as I remember from last year's discussion of this, it was established that they work out a deal for supply for a full year at a time or something, and absorb the losses for these few weeks over the entire year. So no need to feel as guilty about ripping off farmers.

Nanazolie

2moreMinutes wrote: »

Been looking forward to the annual sprouts race to the bottom on price.:)
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It's started: Dunnes has them for 6 cents :eek:. Also carrots, melons, clementines, parsnips, pineapples. Don't bother with the melon, it's tasteless, but the clems are nice enough and the pineapples too

Caliden

I bought a pineapple in Lidl 3 weeks for €1.50...

ROY RACE

i went in to aldis for the spuds I know they were only 8 cent but they looked ****e and I left them

uli84

Has Lidl got any fruit on offer?