Aldi and Lidl

0ph0rce0 · 14-04-2013 11:27AM

Chop Chop wrote: »

I could 100% guarantee to you that galtee sausages are of less quality than aldi's own brand... 100% Also the steaks, chickens, Bacon and pork are the very same as what you buy in Dunnes, Tesco and Supervalue. As I said before Jacobs had the contract for their biscuits and crackers. As kellogs do for cereal. There is no change with the ingredients. Aldi pay them a contract to supply and they re-brand it

I am talking about the fresh food not the chopped and shaped rubbish, we all know that's cat.

But i'm telling you this is where i work, they are not the same. If you don't want to believe that then fine.

I'm not talking about just the processed stuff, I've seen it with many factories that supplied to own brands in the north, it goes from everything from crisps to sweets, from cereal to bread. Everything you buy at a fraction of the cost, there is a reason, because they use cheaper ingredients.

And like i said it may not taste any different or be in any bad for you, but they skimp out on the product, no matter what factory it comes from.

Chop Chop · 14-04-2013 11:29AM

0ph0rce0 wrote: »

But i'm telling you this is where i work, they are not the same. If you don't want to believe that then fine.

I'm not talking about just the processed stuff, I've seen it with many factories that supplied to own brands in the north, it goes from everything from crisps to sweets, from cereal to bread. Everything you buy at a fraction of the cost, there is a reason, because they use cheaper ingredients.

And like i said it may not taste any different or be in any bad for you, but they skimp out on the product, no matter what factory it comes from.

But the point is that fresh meat, is fresh meat.... No other ingredients other than meat. Same stuff.

Pumpkinseeds · 14-04-2013 11:30AM

Chop Chop wrote: »

That's down to pesticides and genetic modification not the quality, I have had that issue for years myself. It seems to be something that has only cropped up in the last few years.

Yeah, my husband loves pears but we've to buy them a week in advance from Dunnes as they're as hard as rocks when you first get them. I think fruit and veg is picked far too early.

0ph0rce0 · 14-04-2013 11:31AM

Chop Chop wrote: »

But the point is that fresh meat, is fresh meat.... No other ingredients other than meat. Same stuff.

Nothing like a fresh irish chicken breast from thailand pumped with water and sodium and pig skin :pac:

I'm hungry now, off for some breakfast

Chop Chop · 14-04-2013 11:33AM

0ph0rce0 wrote: »

Nothing like a fresh chicken breast from thailand pumped with water and sodium :pac:

I'm hungry now, off for some breakfast

Same as dunnes and Tesco so...... High volume chicken production is shíte we all know that.

ANMHI · 14-04-2013 11:36AM

Went up early Sunday to get Topiary Balls. None in stock. Never even got a delivery. Sign up in the shop showing price but no stock. Asked staff and they said no delivery and dont know when they will get them. You cant telephone another store because Aldi do not have individual store numbers. Otherwise, drive 10 or 20 kilometres and find the same - no delivery. Not great suppliers then!! Instore magazines, adverts and tv adverts all advising you that specials are coming and when you go to the store - nothing. In a major town like Navan it should be getting deliveries.

Chop Chop · 14-04-2013 11:39AM

One thing I will say is that the bread is shíte. Definitely brennans leftover loafs, It's practically stale when you buy it. I never buy bread out of Aldi.

paddy147 · 14-04-2013 11:52AM

Chop Chop wrote: »

One thing I will say is that the bread is shíte. Definitely brennans leftover loafs, It's practically stale when you buy it. I never buy bread out of Aldi.

You couldnt be any more wrong there.

Lovely bread,lovely and fresh and nice price.:)

MurdyWurdy · 14-04-2013 12:00PM

I did a shop in Lidl recently to see if it was cheaper. When I got home I took my receipt and did the same shop online with Tesco. I saved €4 going to Lidl and that's actually probably lower because it was hard to compare weights on fruit and veg. Lidl is further away from me and I had to go to Tesco anyway because there was stuff Lidl didn 't have so I'll be sticking with Tesco and finding other ways to save a few bob on my weekly shop. Imo, Lidl wasn't really cheaper for what we buy and the selection wasn't great. No Aldi near us.

Also usually get a good bit of money off with club card vouchers with Tesco which is a plus.

donegal_road · 14-04-2013 12:06PM

Just after Christmas I bought a bottle of wine in Lidl (Cepe Lebrel 2007, one with the black label) and it was absolutely rancid.. there was a very synthetic taste off it.
About a month later I picked up some green pesto from Lidl, used half of it, and put the jar in the fridge and forgot about it. A few weeks later, I opened the jar to find it had gone off, but the smell was exactly the same as the dodgy bottle of wine. They must put the same preservative in some of their stuff.

Chop Chop · 14-04-2013 12:10PM

donegal_road wrote: »

Just after Christmas I bought a bottle of wine in Lidl (Cepe Lebrel 2007, one with the black label) and it was absolutely rancid.. there was a very synthetic taste off it.
About a month later I picked up some green pesto from Lidl, used half of it, and put the jar in the fridge and forgot about it. A few weeks later, I opened the jar to find it had gone off, but the smell was exactly the same as the dodgy bottle of wine. They must put the same preservative in some of their stuff.

You do know the wine, beer and spirits are from the same people that bring you Jacobs Creek, Carlsberg and smirnoff?

paddy147 · 14-04-2013 12:10PM

ANMHI wrote: »

Went up early Sunday to get Topiary Balls. None in stock. Never even got a delivery. Sign up in the shop showing price but no stock. Asked staff and they said no delivery and dont know when they will get them. You cant telephone another store because Aldi do not have individual store numbers. Otherwise, drive 10 or 20 kilometres and find the same - no delivery. Not great suppliers then!! Instore magazines, adverts and tv adverts all advising you that specials are coming and when you go to the store - nothing. In a major town like Navan it should be getting deliveries.

Why not buy the real thing and look after it.:)

Some lovely real ones in Ikea at the moment for 15 euro.:)

http://www.ikea.com/ie/en/catalog/products/00243094/

ANMHI · 14-04-2013 12:41PM

I have tried the real thing!!! Hanging baskets a disaster every year. Rest of garden fine . Just want to brighten up house all year round!!:) Issue was no stock available in Aldi Store Navan. However, friend got them for me in Aldi Store Kells. Why? Kells a much smaller town than Navan.

paddy147 · 14-04-2013 12:44PM

ANMHI wrote: »

I have tried the real thing!!! Hanging baskets a disaster every year. Rest of garden fine . Just want to brighten up house all year round!!:) Issue was no stock available in Aldi Store Navan. However, friend got them for me in Aldi Store Kells. Why? Kells a much smaller town than Navan.

tell me more so.

snubbleste · 14-04-2013 12:48PM

There are no balls in Navan. We get it!

April O Neill · 14-04-2013 03:08PM

Mr Benevolent wrote: »

What do you want instead? It's a supermarket, not Brown Thomas.

To not have my groceries fired at me? Seriously, there's no middle ground between this and BT? Really?

shopaholic01 · 14-04-2013 03:14PM

April O Neill wrote: »

To not have my groceries fired at me? Seriously, there's no middle ground between this and BT? Really?

I leave my shopping bags open in the trolley in Aldi and put shopping directly into them. It takes as much time to put them into bags as it does into the trolley. Stack everything onto the conveyor belt in order - cleaning products, frozen food, non-fragile items etc., they can be put into bags without too much care. I leave fragile items unti last and pack them while my card payment is processed.

Chop Chop · 14-04-2013 03:15PM

April O Neill wrote: »

To not have my groceries fired at me? Seriously, there's no middle ground between this and BT? Really?

Have you not gone in for the food fight on a Thursday? It's quite good.

Irish Guitarist · 14-04-2013 03:44PM

I saw a USB turntable in Aldi recently. I wouldn't trust anything like that not to destroy my precious records.

donegal_road · 15-04-2013 12:21AM

Chop Chop wrote: »

You do know the wine, beer and spirits are from the same people that bring you Jacobs Creek, Carlsberg and smirnoff?

I didn't know this, I went off Jacobs Creek years ago. Smirnoff would be once in a blue moon for me also, Ive had a few Carlsberg lately in Denmark only because I was there etc.
The wine tasted so bad I thought it may have frozen somewhere in transit, and thawed on the shelf in Lidl. I have tasted booze that had thawed after been frozen, way back in the day.

meeeeh · 15-04-2013 12:47AM

April O Neill wrote: »

To not have my groceries fired at me? Seriously, there's no middle ground between this and BT? Really?

Hehe. I don't go to Dunnes because people working at cashiers and half of their customers are so slow. You are easily stuck in line for twenty minutes. Tesco is a little bit better. I love speedy cashiers in Aldi and I almost always manage to pack into the bag at the cashier, I really don't understand why people complain about them.

true · 15-04-2013 12:52AM

I got a garment in lidl once for painting in, it was total c**p, the zip broke on it first time it was used. Got a mak and snorkel and it leaked. A neighbour got a few odds and ends and sometimes they are ok, but I'm reminded of the old adage: "buy cheap, buy twice"

M three · 15-04-2013 01:03AM

Chop Chop wrote: »

One thing I will say is that the bread is shíte. Definitely brennans leftover loafs, It's practically stale when you buy it. I never buy bread out of Aldi.

You are talking through your hole.
I buy the brown soda bread in there all the time - the 2 brands they stock are great. They do great pitta bread and bagels too.

ScumLord · 14-07-2015 10:37PM

April O Neill wrote: »

To not have my groceries fired at me? Seriously, there's no middle ground between this and BT? Really?

I love Lidl and Aldis way. When I'm shopping I'm on a mission and time is critical. I like the speed, they fire it through I move it into shopping trolley arranging stuff by weight for repack at the bench. It's like a game.

seenitall · 14-07-2015 10:52PM

Yup, I could have written your post. I find that shopping there is so quick compared to Dunnes, it's practically enjoyable!

Of the two German retailers, I prefer Lidl because I generally find their discount, middle isle stuff more appealing, and the layout of my local Lidl is so... cosy somehow. Plus it never seems to be crowded in there no matter what time of day I go in.

14-07-2015 10:56PM

I once bought a 2-euro bottle of wine in Lidl, drank it, and successfully survived.

Links234 · 14-07-2015 10:57PM

Hell of a bump there, but I love Aldi and Lidl

fleet_admiral · 14-07-2015 11:01PM

Links234 wrote: »

Hell of a bump there, but I love Aldi and Lidl

Im steadily shifting all of my shopping to them. I still get all of my meat in SV but im tempted to try adld meat

ben.schlomo · 14-07-2015 11:01PM

Lidl fresh Pretzels, that is all.

ScumLord · 14-07-2015 11:09PM

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

I once bought a 2-euro bottle of wine in Lidl, drank it, and successfully survived.

Me too, had to send a night in hospital though. Them staff can give a fair old beating when you just walk in and start drinking the alcohol off the shelf.

Aldi and Lidl

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