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Lidl Brussels Sprouts for 12c

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  • 15-12-2013 9:10pm
    #1
    magicmonkeys
    Registered Users Posts: 59 ✭✭


    Lidl are advertising brussels sprouts for 18c/kg. Don't let this turn into a discussion of how awful brussels sprouts taste.


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    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    That is very expensive.


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    #3
    johnf26
    Registered Users Posts: 641 ✭✭✭johnf26


    already posted
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057104331


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    CH3OH
    Registered Users Posts: 7,269 ✭✭✭CH3OH


    They should be 8 .......in moderation


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    OREGATO
    Registered Users Posts: 898 ✭✭✭OREGATO


    They're 8 cent in Aldi - as are potatoes, melons, pineapples carrots and clementines :)


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    Dozen Wicked Words
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,325 ✭✭✭✭Dozen Wicked Words


    I love sprouts. That is all.


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    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    They are awful to look at and feel


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    Dozen Wicked Words
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,325 ✭✭✭✭Dozen Wicked Words


    snubbleste wrote: »
    They are awful to look at and feel

    I don't fondle them, least not since the court order, I just eat them.


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    snubbleste
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    Dozen Wicked Words wrote: »
    I don't fondle them, least not since the court order, I just eat them.
    No four play?


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    maringo
    Registered Users Posts: 959 ✭✭✭maringo


    Great offer tbh. Love sprouts :D


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    Tazz T
    Registered Users Posts: 3,200 ✭✭✭Tazz T


    Got them today. They're now down to 9c as are the onions, baby pots, turnips and parsnips.

    All of which I had for Sunday lunch.


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    Pang
    Registered Users Posts: 2,251 ✭✭✭Pang


    Sprouts fried with cranberry sauce amazing!


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    #13
    vicwatson
    Registered Users Posts: 28,403 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    Rip off 2c or else....


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    tantipie
    Registered Users Posts: 846 ✭✭✭tantipie


    how the hell am I supposed to spend €100 to get my €20 off with these prices??:oops thought this was Aldi. 8c now btw


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    loki7777
    Registered Users Posts: 1,156 ✭✭✭loki7777


    We bought 17kg of carrots:)


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    Greenmachine
    Registered Users Posts: 5,063 ✭✭✭Greenmachine


    loki7777 wrote: »
    We bought 17kg of carrots:)

    Guess Rudolf might not make it to everyones house then. We were happy with our 49c per kg carrots. Will make sure to check with aldi and lidl online next time we shop.


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    johndaman66
    Registered Users Posts: 4,095 ✭✭✭johndaman66


    Pang wrote: »
    Sprouts fried with cranberry sauce amazing!

    Eek, I thought I had issues...


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    Twitter
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    At the risk of being considered a tool, I just have to get this off my chest...if we get theses veg for almost nothing, are we helping Aldi/Lidl etc-by dint of huge purchase power-to ride roughshod over farmers/growers/suppliers. Like, how much do they pay for kg of potatoes if they sell them at such a ridiculously low price? I know this is the bargain alert forum, and I'm not trying to be a sanctimonious git, I suppose I just want someone to appease my guilty conscience!


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    irish_goat
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 5,770 Mod ✭✭✭✭irish_goat


    Twitter wrote: »
    At the risk of being considered a tool, I just have to get this off my chest...if we get theses veg for almost nothing, are we helping Aldi/Lidl etc-by dint of huge purchase power-to ride roughshod over farmers/growers/suppliers. Like, how much do they pay for kg of potatoes if they sell them at such a ridiculously low price? I know this is the bargain alert forum, and I'm not trying to be a sanctimonious git, I suppose I just want someone to appease my guilty conscience!


    I'd assume they are a loss leader.


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    Twitter
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    Hope so! I have visions of some disgruntled supplier wishing we all (lidl/aldi customers) choke on our roast veg on Christmas day :-)


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    hfallada
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,180 ✭✭✭hfallada


    Brussel sprouts are actually nice when corrected in certain way eg with fatty bacon bits. I know everyone is on about how little farmers are getting. But I seen an article in the nytimes were US tomatoe farmers only get 1/2 cent a lb of tomatoes and they are still profitable.


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    uck51js9zml2yt
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    The farmers get a fair price no matter what the veg is sold at.
    Know someone whose brother supplies mushrooms to one of them.


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    Amirani
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,521 Mod ✭✭✭✭Amirani


    Agricultural prices are generally guaranteed by the Common Agricultural Policy no?


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    omicron
    Registered Users Posts: 818 ✭✭✭omicron


    Aden Screeching Macaw wrote: »
    The farmers get a fair price no matter what the veg is sold at.
    Know someone whose brother supplies mushrooms to one of them.

    Suppliers generally take a hit when the supermarket uses a product as a loss leader. One story of one supplier doesn't change that.
    NiallSparky wrote: »
    Agricultural prices are generally guaranteed by the Common Agricultural Policy no?

    One payment that only applies depending on what yo were farming years ago. Lots of farmers get little or nothing.


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    Nanazolie
    Registered Users Posts: 867 ✭✭✭Nanazolie


    12 cents in Aldi, not 8 (still, I am SO getting the pineapple and the melon and clementines)

    https://www.aldi.ie/en/product-range/super-6/

    9cents in Lidl:
    http://www.lidl.ie/cps/rde/SID-1D4DC042-254EA143/www_lidl_ie/hs.xsl/3472.htm


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    snubbleste
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    It's 8c in Aldi, the website has not been updated


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    Nanazolie
    Registered Users Posts: 867 ✭✭✭Nanazolie


    pineapple for 8 cents? Sorry kids, Xmas dinner will be sprouts, carrots, potatoes and pineapple. :D


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    Cantona's Collars
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    Lidl have a food processor for €99 today,perfect for making soups/smoothies from all the cheap fruit & veg.


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    witnessmenow
    Registered Users Posts: 7,016 ✭✭✭witnessmenow


    zerks wrote: »
    Lidl have a food processor for €99 today,perfect for making soups/smoothies from all the cheap fruit & veg.

    Thats how they get ya


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    vicwatson
    Registered Users Posts: 28,403 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    Twitter wrote: »
    At the risk of being considered a tool, I just have to get this off my chest...if we get theses veg for almost nothing, are we helping Aldi/Lidl etc-by dint of huge purchase power-to ride roughshod over farmers/growers/suppliers. Like, how much do they pay for kg of potatoes if they sell them at such a ridiculously low price? I know this is the bargain alert forum, and I'm not trying to be a sanctimonious git, I suppose I just want someone to appease my guilty conscience!


    Clementines were Spanish, Pineapple Costa Rica, Carrots French, Potatoes and Sprouts Irish - all are loss leaders for Aldi and Lidl


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    Capt'n Midnight
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    Twitter wrote: »
    At the risk of being considered a tool, I just have to get this off my chest...if we get theses veg for almost nothing, are we helping Aldi/Lidl etc-by dint of huge purchase power-to ride roughshod over farmers/growers/suppliers. Like, how much do they pay for kg of potatoes if they sell them at such a ridiculously low price? I know this is the bargain alert forum, and I'm not trying to be a sanctimonious git, I suppose I just want someone to appease my guilty conscience!
    Other supermarkets would be paying the same prices and keeping the difference.

    When prices go up doesn't mean the farmer gets a cut of that, look at the way milk prices went during the boom


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