dark crystal wrote: » I've barely a pot to p!ss in, truth be told,
dark crystal wrote: » Princess perfect? lol. I struggle financially every day like everybody else and hold down 2 part time jobs, none of which pay well. I never got a sniff of the celtic tiger, so was hardly stung by it. Also wtf has Ryanair got to do with anything? I haven't had a holiday since 1997 so I'd hardly need their services any time soon. I've barely a pot to p!ss in, truth be told, so whatever perception you have of me as some middle class princess is completely off the wall.
ScumLord wrote: » Shouldn't have stormed out they where on sale that day.http://www.aldi.ie/ie/html/offers/special_buys3_20152.htm
Thargor wrote: » And yet one claims to have never before partaken of the Lidl? Pish-posh I say!
dark crystal wrote: » Tesco value FTW!
patneve2 wrote: » I definitely think that in Ireland some people look down at people who shop in LIDL or ALDI, ridiculous but has nothing to do with this thread so i won't say more
Thargor wrote: » Seriously? You should have gone to Lidl a long time ago then if you've been eating that range of dogfood. I dont think Ive ever had a single Tesco Value item that Ive thought was good value for the money, even the sugar has a weird smell off it.
mark17j wrote: » MY mother shops in Aldi but brings Dunnes and Superquin carrier bags with her, so the neighbours won't think we're hard up haha
The-Rigger wrote: » Tesco, where everybody knows your name.
MistyCheese wrote: » Ha, ha, yeah, LOL. This one time I painted my nails with a cherry colour... I stroked the brush over my nails, filling them with colour. Until they were fully covered. At this point I painted no more. My nails were fully covered with the cherry colour. So I painted no more, Following this, I allowed my nails to dry.
dark crystal wrote: » So due to being stoney broke, I decided this week to forgo my usual weekly shop in Tesco and decided to save a few quid and shop at LIDL instead for the first time. After filling up the trolly, I went up to the checkout and started putting the stuff on the conveyer. A few people then started lining up behind me and it was then the muttering started. Some auld hag said loudly: "Your wan is taking her time" and huffed. Then another woman said "Jesus, how much shopping has she at all?" (I had a weeks worth of groceries, about 3/4 of a trolly full). They all just stood there and glared at me like I was the anti-Christ.I looked at the checkout girl who was just throwing the groceries into the trolly with a miserable head on her. I said to her, "Er, why is everyone staring at me like I've just murdered someone?" to which she just shrugged and carried on throwing the shopping into the trolly. Eventually, sick of the people staring and tutting I just said "Fu*k this, I'll just get out of ye're way will I?" and walked out, leaving the shopping behind in the trolley. Seriously, are people who shop and work in LIDL usually this ignorant or am I just totally unaware of some secret LIDL code of conduct that's supposed to be adhered to? It's a bad bad place....
surime wrote: » check the price of goats cheese
robbie7730 wrote: » dark crystal wrote: » So due to being stoney broke, I decided this week to forgo my usual weekly shop in Tesco and decided to save a few quid and shop at LIDL instead for the first time. After filling up the trolly, I went up to the checkout and started putting the stuff on the conveyer. A few people then started lining up behind me and it was then the muttering started. Some auld hag said loudly: "Your wan is taking her time" and huffed. Then another woman said "Jesus, how much shopping has she at all?" (I had a weeks worth of groceries, about 3/4 of a trolly full). They all just stood there and glared at me like I was the anti-Christ.I looked at the checkout girl who was just throwing the groceries into the trolly with a miserable head on her. I said to her, "Er, why is everyone staring at me like I've just murdered someone?" to which she just shrugged and carried on throwing the shopping into the trolly. Eventually, sick of the people staring and tutting I just said "Fu*k this, I'll just get out of ye're way will I?" and walked out, leaving the shopping behind in the trolley. Seriously, are people who shop and work in LIDL usually this ignorant or am I just totally unaware of some secret LIDL code of conduct that's supposed to be adhered to? It's a bad bad place.... Putting the items into the trolley yourself might be the code of conduct your looking for.
paddy147 wrote: » Alot of the people who work in Lidl are eastern european,and quite a few of them dont have the lingo or abilty to chat to a customer,like you might get in you're local fruit and veg shop or the local post office. Im my opinion and experience,alot of eastern europeans who work in supermarkets,dont have the skills or abilites to be human with other irish people/customers. Thats just the way they are.
paddy147 wrote: » Im my opinion and experience,alot of eastern europeans who work in supermarkets,dont have the skills or abilites to be human with other irish people/customers. Thats just the way they are.
surime wrote: » :eek: Only because you are able to do stupid small talks all day long it doesnt mean you are more human then someone who doesn't! I am polish and I know we are different, we are more european and you are more american in a way, but it doesnt mean better! I personally find small talks stupid and I dont feel like I need to chat to everybody around me about the weather! :mad: -you are a real "paddy".. paddy!
darokane wrote: » I'm Irish and agree with you 100% about small talk I feckin hate it!
xclw wrote: » i love tesco, no matter what time it is you always see someone you know when you go there
surime wrote: » :eek: Only because you are able to do stupid small talks all day long it doesnt mean you are more human then someone who doesn't! I am polish and I know we are different, we are more european and you are more american in a way, but it doesnt mean better! I personally find small talks stupid and I dont feel like I need to chat to everybody around me about the weather! :mad: -you are a real "paddy".. paddy! -oh and in my local lidl there is a great polish lad working, everybody loves him, he is handsome polite and chats to everyone, so don't generalize!
paddy147 wrote: » Some people like some interaction between themselves and the person who is serving them. When you do a public retail job,you should be capable of talking to and looking at the customer too,not just have a long bored face and look down at the ground constantly,and then mumble out the price to the customer. Most of the stafff in the 2 Lidls and also the Aldi and Eurospar close to where I live are like this,and are eastern european too.They have no ability to communicate with the customers. The 2 girls and the 1 lad who are Irish and work in one of the Lidls are very nice,polite and can actually look at you,smile hold a brief chat with you,while they are scaning the items through the checkout. Ive also noted the same with quite a good few of the eastern europeans who I worked with on various construction sites around the country.They do not know how to talk to anyone in a canteen or on the site.They do not mingle with any Irish and all they do is talk in Polish.Even when they are encouraged to mingle and try to be wellcomed on site and made feel part of a team by the rest of us,they avoid any chat and friendlyness. Thats very polite and nice interaction,isnt it???:(
