LIDL plus app

Escapees

While the thread title is quite general, I'd say it's safe enough to suggest that it's gone off topic...

zell12

So eh, what's today's surprise kickstart coupon? Is it nice?

Mary-O-Burke

Yeah I always feel bad there giving in a ton of 15c ones and making them scan through, I used just stack them on the last thing to scan but one morning one of them fell off and got stuck in the conveyor belt and the poor teen in the Aldi across from the shopping centre spent 5 minutes trying to fish it out.

Nowadays I just get them done at Tesco's or Dunnes so I can just scan them myself at the self checkouts.

Now that I think about it, I wonder if I can actually just take pictures of the bar codes and scan them myself, would be far handier than keeping a wad of them in the back of my phone case 😂

smallgarden

Thought they had watermelon for €1 but think it must have been per kg the feckers as scanned over €3. Hopefully it's nice now , knew it was too good to be true.

Mary-O-Burke

Ive definitely fallen for that one before, picked the biggest one ended up paying 4.50

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122636652#Comment_122636652

caviardreams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122636548#Comment_122636548

20% off fancy ice cream - looks nice but a small tub mind

TheChrisD

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122636751#Comment_122636751

oof, 360ml
Small indeed.

smallgarden

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122636666#Comment_122636666

In fairness it was lovely and good cutting as they say.

Snow Crash

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122636159#Comment_122636159

You know you've got "Trump Derangement Syndrome" pretty bad when your babbling about him in a Lidl+ app thread on an Irish website😅

Dr Karl

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122636597#Comment_122636597

No need to feel bad. The supermarkets and drink companies were involved with the design and operation of the scheme, I do not recall the public being asked for their input. Plus they put up their prices and reduced their sizes (eg Coke from 20 cans to 18 and Coke Zero from 24 to 18) even before the deposit is accounted for.

A picture might work in Dunnes as they don't ask for the return receipt at the self checkout but Tesco do request it to proceed.

Mary-O-Burke

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122637121#Comment_122637121

Do they request the deposit return at Tesco's? Any time I've gone I just scan it and throw it in the bin?

gussieg

Overpricing or pricing errors always been a thing and yes, lidl are divils for doing it, as are some other shops too. Try to relax and enjoy life. if it stresses you out too much, it's not worth it , join a community garden and/or grow your own . Should save a fortune and get fresh air and exercise at the same time.

okidoki987

I was in Tesco yesterday evening and grabbed a few things. Got a box of Kellogg's corn flakes, were €4.50 reduced to €3 with a big yellow sticker. Checked my receipt which I always get and ask for. 90% of people don't get receipts these days.

Got charged th full kwack. So went and got the price label for them and got my €1.50 back.

Tesco do "Double the difference" if you get overcharged but most staff/customers don't even know about it!

Some shops have a notice behind the desk but not all shops do.

If you get overcharged, take your receipt up to the customer desk and mention the "DTD" if they only give you your money back and ask for a manager and say it to them.

If you don't get the DTD, take a picture of the receipt and contact them on Twitter/Facebook.

You have to pay for the item and have the receipt, saying it at the till before you pay is no use.

RCSATELLITES

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122637519#Comment_122637519

I didn't know that, thanks for the heads up and I will definitely request it if there is a next time they overcharge me. Good to know that one 👍👍

Dr Karl

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122637142#Comment_122637142

Any time I've used a deposit return voucher in Tesco the self scan checkout has requested the paper receipt. Maybe the shop I go to has older machines. Every voucher has a unique barcode so likes Dunnes there shouldn't be a need for a physical copy to be deposited.

crayon80

Today's kickstart is 20% off a dozen connemara oysters, €13.43

sharofru

Today's kickstart - 20 % off Overnight oats in flavours like choconut, caramel biscuit and peanut butter!

go4it

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122632113#Comment_122632113

Hopefully will be physically similar to the gift cards - a piece of plastic with a barcode at the bottom ; barcode is essentially a picture of black lines, that can be stored on the pic's folder, same like the Lidlplus app QR code

A bit of extra hassle for retailers with the DRS, since they need to source, stock and handle ( end of day counting, shift handover etc ) the little coins of 5c, 10c 20c..Took a few years to clear them from retail/banks , but they came back now

Currently is not clear what type of card will be, since the Gift cards cannot be topped up with cash, and the DRS receipts are mostly under €4 value for a regular user.

We know that retailers want to use our DRS receipts as part of the payment process, but i hope this Savings card will offer a choice for in-store spending OR a cash-out of say. €20 if i deposited enough DRS to build up that amount -

I'd have more success to outsource the bottle collection/redeeming to one of the kids and give him the card to built up a 'savings fund' and i can add 50% more as bonus, if he keeps the accumulated credit for 1-every-6 months cash-out ( old piggy bank, adapted to modern tech)

uli84

why are those kickstart products so expensive?

zell12

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122637121#Comment_122637121

Public were asked for views in 2021 - you can read the interesting submissions

zell12

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122642035#Comment_122642035

Because they don't have the mass production facilities, distribution channels.., and have some niche ingredients

SourSessions

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122642075#Comment_122642075

Also as someone who worked with a kickstarter product a few years ago, they wanted 10,000 units and this was a one-woman show. The labour that went into it was insane. I worked for free, up until 4am a lot of nights packing products. A lot of these businesses might have never gotten orders that large before.

yagan

There's a demand for more EU based products since Brexit, so this kickstarter drive is a good way to promote fresh replacement products for those UK producers who can't meet the EU origin requirements.

It's a massive displacement opportunity for small irish producers to get their products into the EU supply chain and beyond.

zell12

Agree. Lidl need to commended for this programme. They literally are doing Enterprise Ireland's work

crayon80

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122642394#Comment_122642394

Not really. EI is for bigger companies but the local enterprise boards hand out grants to loads of those start up companies. I was at the ploughing this week and there were local enterprise aided food companies there.

And it's not just Lidl. Most supermarkets do something similar and it's not out of the goodness of their hearts. There's Grow with Aldi, Supervalu food academy, Tesco support Love Irish Food (maybe another one too?), lots of Dunnes Simply Better premium range products are made by artisan food producers and Blas na hEireann winners.

If anything Lidl aren't as good as some of the others because it's a once or twice a year promo whereas Food Academy for example is all year round.

HGVRHKYY

I find a lot of the Kickstarter items overpriced but still commend the supermarkets and the businesses for trying to bring more variety into the shops

Escapees

I don't mind the Kickstarter products being priced a bit higher, but I personally find most of them are disappointingly unoriginal. E.g. jam, hummus, energy balls, sausages, overnight oats, scone mix etc. I can't understand the logic in launching a new but unoriginal product into a market that's already quite busy or saturated. Now granted, there are some exceptions like the cod lasagne but generally any of the more 'creative' Kickstarter products are just based on a small variation of something that folk were already making or doing themselves at home.

zell12

pallet of C****** kitchen rolls in my local 🤐 🤐

Nollog

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122644478#Comment_122644478

Cod lasagne?!

They're aimed at people who only buy things with the guaranteed irish logo in my mind.

Mary-O-Burke

They posted a video of it on Instagram, you just hands in your return deposits receipts and they transfer it to the card, seems redundant imo, I was saying they should just add a barcode scanner to the Lidl plus app and it gets added to your discounts section.