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LIDL plus app

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,044 ✭✭✭geographica


    Yes 30% off those frozen chicken things they sell



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,707 ✭✭✭Nollog


    Oh, so like clubcard prices but less bad because tesco got rid of every other special offer price and rolled them all into clubcard prices, and so reductions are now based on full prices making them bad value compared to clubcard priced non-reduced items ?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 93 ✭✭Mary-O-Burke


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    Saving the drs to a card will be nice, but I just wish they'd use the app, which means you wouldn't have to carry a purse or wallet



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,219 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    Thursday kickstart coupon - 20% off Dae ice cream tubs



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,369 ✭✭✭Thephantomsmask


    When they opened directly across the road from Aldi in Wilton, Cork, they put a sign up saying how is the view from over there?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,317 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭SourSessions


    Was at my local lidl before 9am for kickstart things…apparently they only got the fridge stuff and the things I actually wanted were nowhere to be seen.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 724 ✭✭✭Moving2017




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭SourSessions




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 678 ✭✭✭EarWig


    Anyone got an opinion of the red wine on the app this week?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,378 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    The Chianti red? Very nice. Only reason I'm not buying it this time is I stocked up on 6 bottles last time round. Its nice on first opening, gets even better next day.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 793 ✭✭✭Slightly Kwackers


    I have no idea what Tesco do now.

    Getting ripped off once is bad, but attempting to take me for a fool twice was a step too far.

    Tesco's favourite trick used to be placing similar items on a sale offer shelf, which needless to say were a different price at the till.

    My last ever visit was to a Tesco near Picketts Lock in London where I was overcharged for an item of cleaning equipment. I had a catastrophe on the plant an needed an urgent clear up.

    I trundled quite a quantity of stuff to the till and happened to notice that the first item was not the price marked in the display.

    The manager accompanied me to the display as I was not going to let them get away with the scam. The price ticket at the display was whisked into his pocket, no explanation or apology.

    Anyway I resent being made a fool of and if Lidl don't want to clearly mark the price to me, I will and now do go elsewhere.

    I see no point in loading my tablet with their programs to keep their marketing teams abreast of what I buy.

    I shop for goods, not to support those that "rattle the stick in the swill bucket".



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭Rocket_GD




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 695 ✭✭✭ECookie13


    Sorry, but do you know what an Invitation to Treat is and how this is the case for all good sales? Stores are under no obligation to sell for price mistakes, and you are under no obligation to buy.

    Remember back in the day, people would be posting about "legal contract" for pricing errors on websites? 🤣



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,707 ✭✭✭Nollog


    I've had similar here, some managers aren't happy to do the work. When I worked in a supermarket they kept on at us about being fined if a price was wrong, looking around these days I guess that isn't a thing anymore.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 793 ✭✭✭Slightly Kwackers


    Now I consider myself pretty honest on the whole. In fact the last time I was dishonest in a supermarket was Sainsbury's Birmingham, near Erdington/ Jaguar where I was undercharged for a snack.

    I felt the prices were so extortionate that I said nothing and pocketed the difference.

    I still don't feel happy about that!

    But really that was the only time a mistake was made in my favour in any supermarket.

    Tesco far and away outstripped anyone else for pricing errors and the funny thing was that they were all in Tescos favour.

    Now genuine mistakes you would expect to be 50/ 50, or maybe I'm just cynical!

    In the UK or in Ireland, they can make mistakes with others, they will never get another chance with me.

    Lidl and Aldi occasion the need to do a bit of barcode number investigation as details are deceiving on product descriptions, but Lidl are rip off merchants. The Lidl plus game is simply fraudulent deception.

    The first time I found the scam meant I paid a higher than marked price, when I complained and demanded a refund the manager excused their stunt by saying others do the same thing.

    Not a problem anyway, Aldi give out a price and what they state is what you pay, without looking for blue borders or the small print on the price tags.

    I have not missed Tesco in the slightest and doubt if Lidl will be much of a loss.

    I could tell they were up to no good, nobody with any degree of decency treats plants the way Lidl do :-)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 836 ✭✭✭bored_newbie


    I feel a bit that way about Tesco. I'm out of the loop because I don't carry a tesco card so I just refuse to pay more for the same items if I happen to be in there(rare occasion).

    Lidl have fewer items with double pricing IMO and I've had the Lidl app from the beginning so I'm in the loop and know how it all works. Most people in this thread will probably praise Lidl for the reductions they've gotten over the years, particularly the free stuff they used to give you.

    TLDR - Get with the progaramme Kwackers



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 793 ✭✭✭Slightly Kwackers


    I do not think they are price mistakes at Tesco, and Lidl's display of misleading pricing can be called whatever you wish. I call the pair of them scammers.

    Personally I don't give a damn about the legal process, I would not be inclined to risk the cash or time in trying to assert my legal rights against a large organisation anyway. I will not be taken for a fool though and any attempt to charge me one cent over the displayed price will certainly not be a success.

    I notice Lidl are below Tesco on Trustpilot and Lidl overcharging is a common factor in consumer reports

    At least Aldi seem less inclined to rob people, they seem to find other ways to upset them.

    I'm happy with Aldi actually, my main reason to choose Lidl was the trolleys that take a range of coins as opposed to aldi's two euro only ones. My ducks used to like Lidl cardboard boxes too, they will have to "rough it" now.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 679 ✭✭✭RCSATELLITES


    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.

    Was in England recently and all shops are given receipts not asking do you want one or have to say yes on the screen. Here it's becoming more and more difficult to get a receipt. When I say yes they hear the usual no and crumple the receipt up in front of me 🤣



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,475 ✭✭✭Invincible


    @bored_newbie if you have the Lidl app on phone, isn't the Tesco app handy to install for Clubcard ?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 793 ✭✭✭Slightly Kwackers


    Personally I found Tesco's practices unacceptable. You can write these issues off as a genuine mistake, but if it were the other way around and them failing to apply an increased duty on booze or up the price of coffee during a blip in the international markets, would you expect to see any errors in your favour due to the odd mistake in pricing modification?

    It's their approach that I will not tolerate, their attitude that ripping off customers is fine if they don't notice. Their practice of treating people like numpties to be fleeced at will.

    Apparently Lidl now see them as a role model to base their trading standards on.

    The other problems with Tesco over the years were selling poor quality out of date food and using their clubcard pricing to mislead customers into actually paying more for a product by hiding the unit cost and thus fooling their punters into paying a higher clubcard price.

    In the UK supermarkets are a bit like politicians in some respects. People know that they are being screwed, well all those that are potty trained and have a spare brain cell or two do anyway, but they still go back time and time again queuing up for more of the same.

    Can anyone blame those that take advantage of those that keep coming back for more of the same?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 93 ✭✭Mary-O-Burke


    https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_vid9vNT0h/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

    Guess the card for DRS isn't as good as I thought xD

    You'd think they'd actually get a lot more people on the Lidl plus app if they made the drs go on the app, like scan the bar code on the deposit return, then it gets added to your coupon section.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,707 ✭✭✭Nollog


    My tesco had some chips yesterday on reduction what said 1.10 on the shelf but did a 0.55 scan. Definitely rarer that for sure.

    The aldi on neiltblainey had printed signs up a while back saying to put the re-turn on the card there, its a good idea but we never do it because it's always busy and meh giving them extra work when we just hand em over at the end of the transaction anyway.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 793 ✭✭✭Slightly Kwackers


    You may not be aware of it, but nothing is free. There is a lot of competition in mainstream supermarkets and the price competition means people look for an edge.

    Aldi and Lidl were no frills retailers that found a secure niche, that niche is declining and the very reasons they were cheap, the low overheads are disappearing. Marketing is now a major expense and it all has to be paid for by the customer.

    People are generally pretty dim when going out shopping, I think they just switch off. When you see them at the checkouts it's a classic indication of the intelligence of most shoppers.

    Faced with a busy checkout, the person being served will carefully sort their goods out into a variety of bags taking at least five times the time to be served that I require on a per item basis. This takes the cashiers time up and the time of those waiting also.

    Then despite the serving of those ahead of one in the queue taking forever and the belt being a classic FIFO "register", the numpty behind me starts to load the belt often before I have finished my leisurely placement. They do not seem to quite understand that everything has to go through the bottleneck by the till.

    Like lambs to the slaughter!

    It's no wonder they are in a panic to dish out their personal data for a few worthless "bargains".



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭Rocket_GD


    I think you need to start your own thread about your personal grievances with shops and people in general.

    These long winded rants about how everyone else in the shops are dim, lambs to slaughter, lack intelligence, too slow for your liking etc. are getting very tiresome and furthering my belief that you are indeed Kwackers.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 695 ✭✭✭ECookie13


    What is with these big essays that are completely irrelevant to the lidl plus app?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 793 ✭✭✭Slightly Kwackers


    But don't you see that a little like Trumps MAGA crowd, the gullible are being scammed.

    People download this application to give Lidl every right to spy and con them.

    When I challenged the manager about their ripoff practices, she justified it by stating others do it also.

    People that cannot do a simple act like shop efficiently are of low intelligence, it's a simple fact. Supermarkets have been in place for most peoples lifetimes so you would assume that they have the basics worked out would you not?

    Is this thread only for those fans of the "Lidl plus app" apologies it wasn't clear.

    My grievances are not with shops and people in general. What gave you that idea?

    I have used Supermarkets worldwide and the only two chains I go out of my way to avoid are Lidl and Tesco.

    I have been overcharged at Waitrose, Sainsbury's and a multitude of smaller outlets, but at least they are up front with their extortionate pricing, so I still use them.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 206 ✭✭randomuser02125




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 793 ✭✭✭Slightly Kwackers


    You need to follow the thread.

    The application is totally relevant.

    It's what Lidl used to justify their incorrect pricing scam.

    When I pointed out that I did not have the application or the POS equipment they used to verify the marked store price their statement was that "others do it".

    I then looked at the Trustpilot site, it say's everything really.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭Rocket_GD


    What gave me the idea that you have grievances with people?

    "People are generally pretty dim" "the numpty behind me" "People that cannot do a simple act like shop efficiently are of low intelligence, it's a simple fact." "Like lambs to the slaughter!

    I'm really not sure what gave me that Kwackers idea.



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