Are you embarrassed where you shop

uch · 10-08-2015 12:11AM #1

I've seen a lot of people recently trying their one man up manship about where they shop, but could you really give a shít, it's all about price for me. Is the Celtic Tiger back. Does it matter if it's Tesco, Aldi, Lidl or wherever suits best, or are we back to the days of shíteing on about how great you are because you paid €5 for a pound of butter in some fancy shop

Fat Christy · 10-08-2015 12:15AM

I shop in Aldi. I don't care what other people think or where they shop or what they stick their dick in.

JeffK88 · 10-08-2015 12:17AM

Nope not in the slightest bit embarrassed about where I shop .... Lidl all the way. Even if the magical tiger makes a return.

Sir Osis of Liver. · 10-08-2015 12:18AM

I bring a Dunnes bag to Aldi to make the other shoppers jealous.

ArtyC · 10-08-2015 12:18AM

Been shopping in aldi and link since they opened here... Aldi has become the only place I will do I proper shop.

More embarrassed if I was wasting my money elsewhere tbh

conorh91 · 10-08-2015 12:18AM

I take my used Lidl bags to Superquinn to carry home cheap stuff I find on sale as well as Superquinn sausages.

I'm brazen like that.

Nib · 10-08-2015 12:20AM

I'm embarrassed at your spelling.

NotCominBack · 10-08-2015 12:20AM

Celtic tiger is back ladies and gentlemen, M&S and Brooks Thomas is where it's at

johnnyskeleton · 10-08-2015 12:20AM

29c for a bag of kale? Hoe can you beat that? Granted, it looks like inedible jungleweed and i hadd never before heard of it but still, 29c!

Bongalongherb · 10-08-2015 12:21AM

Lidl all the way, but I would feel embarrassed shopping in Dunnes Stores.

Fat Christy · 10-08-2015 12:21AM

NotCominBack wrote: »

Celtic tiger is back ladies and gentlemen, M&S and Brooks Thomas is where it's at

Brooks Thomas?

I never even heard of it!! It must be seriously exclusive!!

freshpopcorn · 10-08-2015 12:24AM

We generally go to Tesco, Aldi and Lidl. Our Supervalu is disappointing. Up until recently we were doing the majority of our shopping at Aldi but we seem to be getting more at Tesco lately.

NotCominBack · 10-08-2015 12:24AM

Fat Christy wrote: »

Brooks Thomas?

I never even heard of it!! It must be seriously exclusive!!

Yea, it's a builders providers, for those of us who live in D4

SpaceTime · 10-08-2015 12:25AM

Where you shop doesn't matter what shocks me is when you get the the parent & kids in the queue with the trolley loaded with chips, coke, crisps, bad quality pizza, chocolate, sweets and a side of bacon & ten packs of sausages.

Whether you're in Aldi, SuperValu or Harrods Food Hall, that looks very bad.

I'm kinda judgemental tho.

uch · 10-08-2015 12:26AM

Nib wrote: »

I'm embarrassed at your spelling.

Sorry Aonghus

djflawless · 10-08-2015 12:28AM

Dont give a fcuk what others think...im happy with Irish products i buy in a foreign brand of supermarket...if i only wanted Irish owners i would'nt have many choices!!

NachoBusiness · 10-08-2015 12:32AM

Not at all. I shop in Lidl and Aldi all the time and couldn't care less who knows.

Edit: Crap, thought I was signed in on one of trolling accounts. Look, I only go in there for their 75c chopping boards. Nobody could pass them up, right? I'm M&S through and through. Honest. You gotta believe me.

efb · 10-08-2015 12:34AM

I love Sainsbury's- keeps the scum out of Waitrose

DivingDuck · 10-08-2015 12:36AM

I shop mainly between Lidl and Tesco. I can't imagine being embarrassed by this. I don't judge anyone else by where they shop, either: if someone feels M&S or Cavistons or wherever gives them the quality they prefer at a price they are happy to pay, that's their call, since it's their money.

I did, however, once mention to someone that I had bought such-and-such in Lidl, and her horror was visceral and intense. She said she only ever shopped in M&S or Dunnes and sneered at the notion of Lidl.

I pitied her. Considering that she had in fact been complimenting the thing in question (before discovering its origin), I found it sad that she was disgusted to learn it came from a store she did not value rather than being pleasantly surprised.

That said, reverse snobbery ("You'd have to be stupid to waste your money in there") is, in my view, as odious as the "I wouldn't touch anything out of Aldi" brigade. Is it really so difficult to do as suits you and accept that others will do the same?

SpaceTime · 10-08-2015 12:37AM

Just don't bring your Ann Summers frequent shopper eco bags to the local SuperValu and you'll be grand!

Duckworth_Luas · 10-08-2015 12:40AM

I bring my Aldi bag to Lidl

Ich bin ein gangster

Cold War Kid · 10-08-2015 12:41AM

DivingDuck wrote: »

She said she only ever shopped in M&S or Dunnes and sneered at the notion of Lidl.

LOL, because Dunnes just screams the height of sophistication.

Not so much now, but Dunnes was once viewed with serious snobbery - it's not as gloomy now, but it's hardly Harrods food hall.

M&S is fancier (waste of money shopping for basics in there IMO) but the rest of them are pretty much the same overall IMO.

Eugene Norman · 10-08-2015 12:43AM

Cold War Kid wrote: »

LOL, because Dunnes just screams the height of sophistication.

Not so much now, but Dunnes was once viewed with serious snobbery - it's not as gloomy now, but it's hardly Harrods food hall.

M&S is fancier (waste of money shopping for basics in there IMO) but the rest of them are pretty much the same overall IMO.

Yeh. He was probably joking.

Why would anybody be embarrassed by where they shop? Who even talks about this.

corner of hells · 10-08-2015 12:44AM

I send the servant out on weekly shop , dunno where she goes.

Actually I do I have to drive her and push the trolley and pay.

lulu1 · 10-08-2015 12:46AM

was in Aldi last week ans was just about to lift a few packs of mushrooms at 29c a pack when these three lads came in and lifted what was left of them about 5 boxes and away they went to the till

That ended me and the mushrooms

LETHAL LADY · 10-08-2015 12:50AM

How would the hoi polloi know where you shop unless they too shopped there? Think about that when you're rushing for the latest Super 6 deal with dribble coming from the side of your mouth :eek:

Ruu · 10-08-2015 12:53AM

I run out of Londis with my coat over my head into my car with blacked out windows and speed off.

freshpopcorn · 10-08-2015 12:53AM

Apart from the odd thing I actually find M&S disappointing. I think it used be better back in the 1990s when their was less competition. Most of their stuff is over priced and isn't Irish at least the other supermarkets make some effort to use Irish suppliers.

Arsemageddon · 10-08-2015 12:54AM

Ruu wrote: »

I run out of Londis with my coat over my head into my car with blacked out windows and speed off.

You been buying ladies tights again?

Sir Osis of Liver. · 10-08-2015 12:54AM

lulu1 wrote: »

was in Aldi last week ans was just about to lift a few packs of mushrooms at 29c a pack when these three lads came in and lifted what was left of them about 5 boxes and away they went to the till

That ended me and the mushrooms

Why were you and the other lads stealing mushrooms?

DivingDuck · 10-08-2015 12:55AM

Cold War Kid wrote: »

LOL, because Dunnes just screams the height of sophistication.

Not so much now, but Dunnes was once viewed with serious snobbery - it's not as gloomy now, but it's hardly Harrods food hall.

Ironically, I did shop in Harrods for a while. I really enjoyed the buzz and the service and the quality of the produce. However, I always found that the food needed to be used within a day or two of purchase, and that irked me enough that I went elsewhere soon enough. (The prices didn't hurt in discouraging me, either, being honest.) I don't personally value food enough to spend over the odds for it.

Eugene Norman wrote: »

Yeh. He was probably joking.

Why would anybody be embarrassed by where they shop? Who even talks about this.

The person in question wasn't joking. At all. (This is someone I see fairly often in a business context, so it wasn't our first or last conversation. I can tell when she's joking: this wasn't it.) And while "Is Dunnes fancy now?" was my internal response, I didn't bother saying anything on the matter and changed the topic of conversation.

Perhaps she was simply passionate about only using Irish retailers? That's definitely not how it came across, though.

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