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Aldi and Lidl

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Are they really good value?

The food sold by Aldi and Lidl is safe I never known anybody to have a problem that way and the few times I have used them I never seen any out of date produce on display.

However the texture and taste of large amounts of produce on sale in these outlets is less than mouth watering.

Own brand Cereals bread and soft drinks are what I would call rubbish.

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kneemos

Daveysil15 wrote: »

They are generally good value. I don't really like their meat, but they have some great bread and produce. Their condoms, lubes, baby oil and baby wipes are competitively priced too.

Their steaks are quite good the rest of it I agree is not great.Are you sure the condoms are good value considering you're buying baby wipes.

Chop Chop

snubbleste wrote: »

Well Tesco has 141 stores and Dunnes have 116 stores and Supervale have ~190 stores.
But you'd think that Aldi & Lidl market share would be much higher. Their car parks are full every weekend.

Full of the white knuckle brigade pretending to be looking for tools, then getting a few "bits" while their at it. All I see these days is posh cars and people pretending to be looking for tools, all dressed up getting their shopping.

snubbleste

Deleted User wrote: »

How many stores do Dunnes, Tesco etc have, that "huge" number of stores may account for about 10% of the retail space taken up by supermarkets. Their stores are smaller than those of the leaders as well.

Well Tesco has 141 stores and Dunnes have 116 stores and Supervale have ~190 stores.
But you'd think that Aldi & Lidl market share would be much higher. Their car parks are full every weekend.

Daveysil15

They are generally good value. I don't really like their meat, but they have some great bread and produce. Their condoms, lubes, baby oil and baby wipes are competitively priced too.

kneemos

snubbleste wrote: »

Aldi have ~100 stores & Lidl have ~125 stores in the country.
That's a huge amount of stores! Yet their market share of the grocery market is only about 12% combined. Go figure.

Can't go figure unless I know how many other stores there are and their share of the market.

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snubbleste wrote: »

Aldi have ~100 stores & Lidl have ~125 stores in the country.
That's a huge amount of stores! Yet their market share of the grocery market is only about 12% combined. Go figure.

How many stores do Dunnes, Tesco etc have, that "huge" number of stores may account for about 10% of the retail space taken up by supermarkets. Their stores are smaller than those of the leaders as well.

snubbleste

Aldi have ~100 stores & Lidl have ~125 stores in the country.
That's a huge amount of stores! Yet their market share of the grocery market is only about 12% combined. Go figure.

gurramok

Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »

I bought 2 steaks in Aldi today thanks to this thread, I will give my verdict later

Thats if you cook them properly!

Aldi fish is quite delicious and quite cheap compared to what Tesco\Dunnes sell.

bnt

Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »

I love how they give you 8 seconds to pack up and pay

And that's why the queues move quicker than Tesco's. Keep your box/basket/trolley, just use it to get your groceries to the packing bench, and then you can take your time to pack your stuff properly. :cool:

dodderangler

murpho999 wrote: »

This comment about 'Brennans' made me smile.

As if it's high quality bread.

Brennan's bread is still soft after a week which is very worrying, and shows how full of preservatives it is.

The Lidl own bakery bread, that you already mention is much better.

Standard of bread in Ireland compared to what you can get in Europe is very poor.

Really should avoid all that pre-packaged stuff like Brennans, Pat the Baker etc....all poor quality and unhealthy.

As a person that actually works for Brennan's bread and so does some members of my family I'd like to know can you back up your comment about Brennan's bread not being healthy?!

tomdublin

Supervalu in Dun Laoghaire is nearly empty most of the time. What customers it has seem either very old or on social welfare, which is strange given the prices that place charges. The place is crying out for an Aldi.

Where To

Boombastic wrote: »

You get your money back when you lave back the trolley

Yeah, I've started doing this since the local scrapyard won't accept them any more.

Boombastic

LooksLikeRain wrote: »

Aldi is more expensive than Lidl, € 2 for trolley in Aldi only € 1 in lidl. But neither seems to have trolleys with the broken coin mech, which are free, that Dunnes have. Also better than tesco who charge €1 for a trolley but many of the trolleys are like something from only fools and horses with three working wheels and one wheel on auto pilot!

You get your money back when you lave back the trolley

LooksLikeRain

Aldi is more expensive than Lidl, € 2 for trolley in Aldi only € 1 in lidl. But neither seems to have trolleys with the broken coin mech, which are free, that Dunnes have. Also better than tesco who charge €1 for a trolley but many of the trolleys are like something from only fools and horses with three working wheels and one wheel on auto pilot!

3ndahalfof6

Oranage2 wrote: »

Made homemade burgers, bought all the ingredients from superQuinn, next week made same burgers but went to lidl and cost half the price.

also I love walking around lidl and aldi you don't know what you'll find, tomatoes beside con saws, car seats in the ice cream section total madness.

You noticed them so something must be working.

Galwayguy35

The milk is a lot cheaper in Aldi as well and just as good, branded milk like Avonmore is a lot more expensive and they both come out of a cows tit so no reason to pay more.

ScumLord

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

I must be just unlucky then because I ofton get stuck behind someone who starts talking to the till operator about a school play or some other shíte.

It does happen but less and less these days.

Tipsy McSwagger

I bought 2 steaks in Aldi today thanks to this thread, I will give my verdict later

Fighting Irish

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Your opinion is ****e.

You'd swear Aldi was a back street stall dealer. Aldi,and Lidl, have thousands of stores in Germany, let alone then rest of Europe, and Ireland.

Their 'own brand'....well, almost everything bar fresh meat, is miles ahead of the likes of Tesco or Dunnes.

I don't shop in Aldi/Lidl that much - but to be fair, aside from meat, at the same price point, their produce destroys tesco, dunnes, and whatever other retailers are out there.

Both Aldi and Lidl are huge - and I mean HUGE - companies on par or exceeding Tesco. I love how people, often without having even shopped in either place, dismiss them like they were some discount local pound shop offloading food several months out of date.

aldi burgers, dunno what they're called are easily the best i'v ever bought

Fighting Irish

dodderangler wrote: »

I stopped going because there'd be 8 people queuing up to be served and 5 tills but only one till open and girl rings the bell for assistance yet no one arrives and another 6 members of staff stand around doing sweet fcuk all and never take notice

you still get through the tills quicker than tesco though

whatdoicare

ScumLord wrote: »

Supervalu have the best steaks I've come across. They do Angus steaks, you don't get a huge steak for the money but you get a nice steak. The last day I has in there I got two steaks for €8, typically it's €5-€6 for one.

I usually do my shopping in Supervalu, the Lidl is a bitch to get out of.

You should try the medallions in Aldi, it's local beef (My husbands uncle supplies the beef near me) huge thick cuts, no bone, no fat usually selling at two for 4 or 5 euro. Beautiful meat.

Galwayguy35

ScumLord wrote: »

They've all started shopping in Lidl, there's feck all people in Supervalu now so you can breeze through as even if there is someone in front of you they more than likely don't have two shopping trolleys full to the brim.

I must be just unlucky then because I ofton get stuck behind someone who starts talking to the till operator about a school play or some other shíte.

Galwayguy35

krudler wrote: »

They seriously need self service checkouts, unless you're doing a pretty big shop there its a pain in the hole queuing behind people with massive trolleys of stuff when you've only got a few things

anytime I've been behind someone who has a trolley full of stuff they always let me jump ahead of them, I would have thought most people would do this.

MidlandsM

Lidl is for poor people....

so is Aldi..........

...so i shop there all the time.......

ScumLord

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

I buy as much as I can in Aldi, and one good point is the slow joes are moved along quickly in the queue unlike places such as Supervalu where some people decide to have an aul chat with the cashier or others who can't seem to pack their groceries in an organised fashion and take another 5 minutes to pay for them.

They've all started shopping in Lidl, there's feck all people in Supervalu now so you can breeze through as even if there is someone in front of you they more than likely don't have two shopping trolleys full to the brim.

Galwayguy35

I buy as much as I can in Aldi, and one good point is the slow joes are moved along quickly in the queue unlike places such as Supervalu where some people decide to have an aul chat with the cashier or others who can't seem to pack their groceries in an organised fashion and take another 5 minutes to pay for them.

ncmc

I love Aldi; I am a recent convert since a new shop opened in my town. I had always been a bit snobby before as my local Lidl is a bit grim. But the Aldi is lovely and shiny and we are saving a fortune on groceries now.

As people have previously mentioned, the veg, ketchups/sauces, bread, pizzas, biccies, meat, dairy and alcohol is top notch. Far better than any other supermarket in the country IMHO.

There is only a handful of things I don’t buy there, I am not a fan of their curry sauces, porridge and fajita kit and for some reason, they don’t do a Sheppard’s pie mix!

I never find a delay at the tills, they are always super fast at opening another till and even if the queue looks long, it tends to move very quickly.

I am embarrassed by my former snobbery now and can’t believe I used to waste so much money on groceries!

seenitall

My local Lidl started supplying the shopping baskets recently. But I'm so used to grabbing the first empty box that's lying around for shopping in both Aldi and Lidl now, that I don't even use them!

Aldi and Lidl are like my personal altars of cheap and cheerful shopping experience. I bow before my benevolent gods of Good Value and Completely Wacky Weekly Offers! :pac:

johnwest288

sOME BASKETS TO PUT THE SHOPPING IN WOULD BE NICE:mad::rolleyes:

ScumLord

SamHall wrote: »

Not sure about Lidl, but Aldi's 'specially selected' meats are superior to any thing the other big super markets produce, and indeed many local butchers too.

Aldi have a pack of two, in sirloin, striploin and fillet steaks for example on sale, with the steaks being almost an inch and a half thick, almost fat free and priced 7-9€ for two!

IMO, the nicest steaks on sale in any supermarket.

Supervalu have the best steaks I've come across. They do Angus steaks, you don't get a huge steak for the money but you get a nice steak. The last day I has in there I got two steaks for €8, typically it's €5-€6 for one.

I usually do my shopping in Supervalu, the Lidl is a bitch to get out of.