for those who DON'T shop at Aldi and Lidl

Perhaps it just isn't worth selling them. With the internet and the tv news, fewer people are bothering with newspapers. I buy one on a Friday because it has puzzles in it.

Our Lidl never has a good selection anyway.

Also, we prefer to support our local newsagent's, which is a family business.

Now I only buy a newspaper on Saturday as I get the TV guide with it for the following week.

I rarely buy magazines, but picked one up recently to take to a friend who was unwell, and was astonished at the price - £5.99!!

I also only buy Saturdays paper for the tv guide.

My local aldis have never sold newspapers.

Well yes, things have changed a great deal since we were young. People aren't buying papers like they did. Even the Daily Mail sells well below a million paper copies these days and the Sun barely more. When did you last see a newspaper stand by the station? Commuters get a free Metro these days.

As the supermarkets took custom away from newsagents , (remember them?) I shed no tears for that aisle’s disappearance.
Yet another case perhaps of supermarkets cornering the market in one area or squeezing out the smaller shop and then pulling the plug. Fresh fish and meat counters went that way some time ago.
I read my newspaper online now anyway !

A bit puzzled by this thread. Why is the news that Aldi & Lidl no longer sell newspapers and magazines of interest to those that do not shop there.

I volunteer at a small shop in the outpatients dept at our local hospital - and the wholesalers in town (Menzies) won't supply us with newspapers because we don't sell enough of them.

I don't think there is anyone in Germany who doesn't shop at Aldi. I wouldn't think to buy a paper or magazine there though.

When I first came here as an au pair in 1973, the lady of the house showed me round the shops so that I could do the odd bit of weekday shopping. One of the shops was Aldi, where she said I could get staples like long life milk (the default milk to this day here). In those days, it wasn't very nice to look at, with just boxes stacked up and ripped open as needed. Only sold very basic stuff. My point is, that everyone went there - even the very rich, and there is no snobbery involved.

I am wondering why this thread is for the attention of people who don’t shop at Aldi or Lidl. If you don’t shop there how would you know what they sell?

We don’t have a Aldi or Lidl near us, but I know the price of the Telegraph has really reached the heights! DH loves the cryptic crossword though, so will continue to fork out the dosh.
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I’m glad it’s not only me Monica 😀

I honestly can’t remember when I last bought a newspaper or magazine, at least 17 years.
I occasionally pick up a free magazine in Waitrose if there is anything of interest in it.

My sons who are in their mid twenties have never bought one to my knowledge.

My MIL recently told one of my sons that she had tried to subscribe him to a golfing magazine for his birthday but had failed. The look of bafflement on his face was a picture!

I read on the internet, no physical newspapers or magazines.

I don’t shop at Aldi and Lidl……...so thanks for the info, but I wouldn’t have popped in for a paper anyway 😀

I don't have an Aldi near me, but haven't seen newspapers in any Lidl or Iceland branch at all. These shops don't sell cigarettes or lottery tickets either. They have always been known as selling a smaller number of lines than other supermarkets so it makes sense.
The only time I buy a newspaper is occasionally on a train journey and purchase it from W H Smith on the station.

When the Saturday Telegraph went up to £3.50 I think, I stopped buying it.

I tried the DM, but it was awful, their tv guide was good though.

I now buy a cheap tv guide and just read the news online or watch it on tv.

I do miss the Saturday paper though.

In recent years the only times I've bought a newspaper (the I) have been for long train journeys, as I normally read the news on line or listen to it on the radio. The Aldi branch I used to shop in had newspapers for a short time a few years ago but these vanished when Christmas goods took up the space and they never returned.

I never buy newspapers or magazines. I look online for news. I also use online for the tv guide. The Radio Times tv guide is online and so look there each day to see what’s on television.

I buy an I if I come upon it. I did yesterday in Lidl

M0nica

A bit puzzled by this thread. Why is the news that Aldi & Lidl no longer sell newspapers and magazines of interest to those that do not shop there.

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We buy lots of newspapers. I find online news far too restricted and limited in what it tells you. All pictures and 2 paragraphs and tailored to my known interests - algorithms - I would ban the lot.

When I read a paper, I read the bits that interest me but then get drawn into reading about all sorts of other subjects because an article headline has caught my eye. I have even ended up reading articles on the sports page.

The same with magazines, long detailed articles on subjects I didn't know I was interested in until I read it. I come out the other end knowing a lot and fascinated by a subject that i never realised would interest me.

Online is OK for headlines and deep research, but for the serendipity of coming across, by chance, something you had never given any thought and then find absolutely entrancing, a newspaper beats online, any time.

As for Aldi and Lidl. There was none within 15 miles until very recently. I have never driven 5 miles to look at the new local branches because my experience of their products has been being gained by eating them, either in a meal or a present, that I thought tasted really not very nice, only to have the donor sing the item's praise because they were so delicious.

Years ago I was given some Aldi chocolate and told it was the best ever. I thought it was horrible!