Thank you Lidl, thank you Aldi

Unknown Soldier

You have done more for the safety of runners and cyclist and in some ways motorists, than the various quangos for road safety in this county put together.

You have people "lit up" in bright yellow and all that jazz.

The various deal you do on that gear is to be commended.

Or maybe that is just me?

Anyone else think they have done us all a favour making people running/walking/cycling take a more visible and safer look?

They also do cheap, strong and tasty polish beer too, which is nice.

kneemos

Now that you mention it I'd agree.

MidlandsM

The german wimen in their bras look hot when they flog cheap undies. Thank u lidl x

Karl Stein

*Goes in to ALDI/LIDL to save money - leaves with a €40 hammer-action power drill that'll be used once*

Cantremember

Great that the usual rip off merchants have been shown up

Guy:Incognito

Are the people that are alive today only because their lives were worth protecting to them when the hi-viz stuff dropped below a certain price point the ones we really want to save?:)

beano345

I'd like to thank them for the robot vacuum cleaner on sale last week,hours of fun getting stoned and laugh At it going around bumping into things

Sir Arthur Daley

Their bicycles lights are not the greatest though.

The One Doctor

Thank you Lidl and Aldi for saving me and my girlfriend about €6000 on shopping in the last 3 years.

PS: Fcuk you, Tesco!

randy hickey

I'd like to say a final thank you for the length of rope that I sourced there......










http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=82208415

CarrickMcJoe

And to all the wealthy Irish skiers on the piste dressed head to toe in ALDI.

efb

randy hickey wrote: »

I'd like to say a final thank you for the length of rope that I sourced there......










http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=82208415

have you used it yet?

Mrs Garth Brooks

Thank you Aldi for having cheap food and helping me save.

Unknown Soldier

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Are the people that are alive today only because their lives were worth protecting to them when the hi-viz stuff dropped below a certain price point the ones we really want to save?:)

Can you do that in a proper sentence? you hurt my head

LostBoy101

Indeed, hail our German overlords!

Stavros Murphy

Thank you Lidl for having a huge range of Mothers Day appropriate stuff for the Missus, sparing her from the usual battered bunch of Petrol station flowers.

Especially when it's 7.45pm, you're covered in oil, have just finished work and looking for mammies day stuff is effort.

maryishere

WikiHow wrote: »

Their bicycles lights are not the greatest though.

+1.

and their sports clothing is very poor material too. what do ye expect for the price I suppose.

131spanner

Thanks Lidl for giving me the opportunity to have 2 dinners worth of fish fingers and baked beans for under €2.50.

From a lowly student.

Sir Arthur Daley

maryishere wrote: »

+1.

and their sports clothing is very poor material too. what do ye expect for the price I suppose.

Buy cheap buy twice.

No Pants

Indeed. Thanks for supporting the high-vis=safety fallacy.

tomwaterford

No Pants wrote: »

Indeed. Thanks for supporting the high-vis=safety fallacy.

yes because walking on country roads at nighttime in dark clothes trying to avoid being run over by drunk drivers is safer than doing it in high-vis:pac:

Frank Lee Midere

Unknown Soldier wrote: »

Can you do that in a proper sentence?

He did.

Frank Lee Midere

No Pants wrote: »

Indeed. Thanks for supporting the high-vis=safety fallacy.

Ok- dokie.

Mariasofia

Thanks because now I can afford a lovely sparkly pink Irish dancing costume for the 45 euro a week I save.....






The son isnt talking to me though!!

hfallada

According to my German lecturer in college. Germans aim for at least 2 foreign holidays a year. To do this they live save during the year by shopping in places like lidl and also( there is also stores cheaper in Germany that make lidl look like superquinn).

Lidl and aldi have completely changed how must Irish shop now. Most Irish people only brought expensive branded stuff. Now we have no problem buying no name stuff as they are cheap and good

Stavros Murphy

hfallada wrote: »

According to my German lecturer in college. Germans aim for at least 2 foreign holidays a year. To do this they live save during the year by shopping in places like lidl and also( there is also stores cheaper in Germany that make lidl look like superquinn).

Lidl and aldi have completely changed how must Irish shop now. Most Irish people only brought expensive branded stuff. Now we have no problem buying no name stuff as they are cheap and good

Huh. I'll have you know, Suddenly Diamond is where it is at, currently. No name. The cheek.

Tropheus

Karl Stein wrote: »

*Goes in to ALDI/LIDL to save money - leaves with a €40 hammer-action power drill that'll be used once*

Used once? I've found stuff in the garage I don't even remember buying.

Lou.m

I shop for groceries at Lidl because now I feel ripped off if I shop for them anywhere else.

Would not buy their running gear though.

Sir Arthur Daley

Lou.m wrote: »

Would not buy their running gear though.

+1 Ann Summers have better racing gear.

Spanish Eyes

Love them both to bits! All the branded stuff is in there under different names anyway.

But I do get afraid that they will end up just a dear as the usual rip off multiples sooner or later....

The Narrator

Thank you Aldi for your delicious €0.75 red sauce.

Now get to work on a proper BBQ one..

My name is URL

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

Love them both to bits! All the branded stuff is in there under different names anyway.

But I do get afraid that they will end up just a dear as the usual rip off multiples sooner or later....

That'll only happen if / because the others are forced to lower their prices.

tippspur

Thank you for that sander I have out in the shed that I bought 3 years ago and it's still in the box.

Lou.m

WikiHow wrote: »

+1 Ann Summers have better racing gear.

Lol tempted to run in something like that now! I have seen wild things at races!

RobbingBandit

Pity their mystery meat is so mysterious.

Stavros Murphy

tippspur wrote: »

Thank you for that sander I have out in the shed that I bought 3 years ago and it's still in the box.

You had it in mind to sand somthing that needed sanding, then inertia overcame optimism and it ended up in the shed. Sand that wood Brother Man, you owe it to yourself. Also, sanding is dull. You'll realise that once you start. At least then though, you can say you tried. And feck it back into the shed..

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

I wouldn't use most of their running/cycling/walking stuff as it's terrible quality. It serves if you are looking to use it very rarely, or once off, but for seasoned runners/cyclists/walkers, you wouldn't shop in aldi.

cerastes

RobbingBandit wrote: »

Pity their mystery meat is so mysterious.

Mystery meat??
Im presuming its not horse like tesco
maybe its the stuff swept up off the factory floor? pigs ears and snouts.

No Pants

tomwaterford wrote: »

yes because walking on country roads at nighttime in dark clothes trying to avoid being run over by drunk drivers is safer than doing it in high-vis:pac:

Do some research on the effectiveness of lights versus high-vis. Or maybe just read some that someone else has already done.

Sir Arthur Daley

I can see now how people come out of Penneys with 35 shopping bags of €1 tops and other trash when they buy power tools in lidl or aldi and never use them.

Stavros Murphy

Viviana Crooked Tribe wrote: »

I wouldn't use most of their running/cycling/walking stuff as it's terrible quality. It serves if you are looking to use it very rarely, or once off, but for seasoned runners/cyclists/walkers, you wouldn't shop in aldi.

Noo, you'd need "Pro Gear". The "Pro" bit is important. Like a carbon fiber bike. I have a middle aged, pot bellied mate. He took up cycling and decided he needed a carbon fiber bike. Truth be told, he needed a fcuking BMX to suit his level of fitness, but noo, a 2k CF bike was purchased. "Pro" Gear, gotta love it.

IvySlayer

Thank you for having a nice, spacious layout, and everything exactly the same in every shop!

Stavros Murphy

IvySlayer wrote: »

Thank you for having a nice, spacious layout, and everything exactly the same in every shop!

Not so. Each store places an order to the central DC. This varies from store to store. Next time you need a 12V Oil sucker and your local Lidl has none - go to the next one and Voila.

Spanish Eyes

IvySlayer wrote: »

Thank you for having a nice, spacious layout, and everything exactly the same in every shop!

Exactly, and no Musak either!

Jam, peanut butter, coffee tea....on the right.

Cereal, porridge, on the left.

Bread on the right.

Jeez you could do a shop in there blindfold! Aldi that is.

Lidl only opened recently, just getting the hang of it there!

Karl Stein

Tropheus wrote: »

Used once? I've found stuff in the garage I don't even remember buying.

Yeah when you get it home you have a go off it just to make sure it can make a hole in an old concrete block that was happily minding its own business at the back of the shed before having a big hole drilled in it the poor thing.

Off into the shed then to rest in peace.

marozz

Thanks for the cheap beer.

sligoface

I also bought a sander from there at least a year ago and used it for the first time yesterday. Have to say I was impressed, and now I feel bad for neglecting it. Maybe I'll get the mitre saw they have now to keep it company.

Dr Turk Turkelton

No Pants wrote: »

Do some research on the effectiveness of lights versus high-vis. Or maybe just read some that someone else has already done.

Hmm you posted this in AH and expect to be taken seriously?
Anything that alerts a motorist to a cyclist has to be applauded.
Also since this is AH-go pay road tax for your vehicle.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

Stavros Murphy wrote: »

Noo, you'd need "Pro Gear". The "Pro" bit is important. Like a carbon fiber bike. I have a middle aged, pot bellied mate. He took up cycling and decided he needed a carbon fiber bike. Truth be told, he needed a fcuking BMX to suit his level of fitness, but noo, a 2k CF bike was purchased. "Pro" Gear, gotta love it.

Who said anything about pro gear? Or carbon fiber? Nobody I believe. I have walking/cycling and running gear from aldi/lidl. I also have gear I bought elsewhere and the gear form aldi is generally crapy bottom of the ladder stuff. If you are testing out a new hobbie, perfect place for cheap gear for start off, but don't buy their hiking shoes and expect anything from them.

Buy their "one size fits all" premium running shoe, see how far it gets you, lol :rolleyes:

WilyCoyote

This is our local Aldi in Brattleboro, Vermont. The meat is always excellent.

https://www.aldi.us/en/weekly-specials/fresh-meat-special-buy/

mikemac1

hfallada wrote: »

Lidl and aldi have completely changed how must Irish shop now. Most Irish people only brought expensive branded stuff. Now we have no problem buying no name stuff as they are cheap and good

You don't remember yellow pack?