Aldi expansion

Also, Lidl make the best quality ice cream and Aldi’s chocolate is superb. I think the Aldi chocolate is really Lilly O’Briens repackaged. ?
Maybe the food standards are higher in Ireland? They certainly will be after Brexit.

I’m in Ireland and used to only shop at Waitrose in the U.K. but much prefer my local SuperValu. I also buy a few bits and bobs from Aldi and Lidl. I like that every SuperValu is independently owned. They’re also very good at supporting our local food producers who are often very small starter companies. The wide variety of brands stocked is brilliant. My 36yr old DS was very impressed when visiting us recently. He bought a few bottles of beer in our local SuperValu saying that he would only get a similar range of quality bottled beers in the specialist shops in London and definitely not in his local supermarkets.

We have a new by-pass nearing completion and then we will have an out of town Lidl which will be great as our Aldi is small and parking a nightmare.

We've lived here since 1975. Tesco had the monopoly for decades and then thanks to extensive house building and general expansion we now have Sainsburys, Waitrose and Aldi as well.

I just don't get this fascination with Aldi/Lidl. I have tried both & have been very unhappy with the stores themselves- all so cramped- packing facilities stressful & TBH the food just was not great quality. Don't even mention the parking!!!
The only thing I have bought & loved was a sun lounger but I went back for another & it broke the first time we used it & it & we had a real battle to get a refund from them.
I bought food for a charity lunch we were organising to keep costs down & I was very disappointed with bland cold meats & tasteless cheese.
We are about to get one in our town but I think I'll stick with Sainsburys' for main shop & things on offer in Waitrose & my free coffee thank you.
Not for me.

Our nearest Aldi and Waitrose are within 100 feet of each other! Aldi carpark usually full, Waitrose, not so much. Anything I can’t get in Aldi I just pop across the way and get in Waitrose.
New Lidl should be coming soon even closer to me, if it gets through the Planning Process.

I was going to go to Aldi this morning but needed to pop into TU at our local Sainsburys to get a top if seen online. I decided to do my food shopping as I was already there - wish I hadn’t, it’s cost me at least £20 more than it would have done in Aldi!!!

The lack of choice/brands in the German stores is great. It makes shopping fast and easy for me. For example- marmalade, thin or chunky is about as complicated as it gets, who needs rows of jars of different makes on offer in the large supermarkets.

I think we're already flocking to Aldi and Lidl too, judging by the car parks at our local stores & by the fact we've now got a 2nd Lidl with a 2nd Aldi on the way to our Marches county town. Since retiring, I've become a convert to Lidl in particular, now I have more time. Why pay more than you have to, particularly with things like butter, cheese and other dairy products which taste exactly the same whether you've paid a lot or just half as much? My friend is a self- confessed Waitrose snob but I've converted her to various Lidl products, in particular their de luxe muesli which is the best you can buy IMO & she agrees. No parking restrictions at ours & the car parks have their fair share of luxury cars in them. It's undoubtedly a different way of shopping to the aisles of Waitrose & M&S & I appreciate there are those who would die rather than be seen to shop anywhere else, but those of us who do can reap the benefits. Creme brulee ice cream anyone? ?

I don't shop in Aldi or Lidl. I support British businesses. Use them or lose them and then don't complain if they disappear!

We have a lovely brand new Lidl in Welling Kent.
My h and I are going to try it out in the week.

I used to love Lidl's, but don't go any more because the car park is just a joke. You have to get a ticket inside, maximum one hour, then race round trying to get shopping, then can't get through the tills because of the ques! You then get a £70 fine for being three minutes over the hour!! How can that work for any length of time, it's crazy. Our Aldi has the same system. They'll have to sort this out!

All the girls at work now shop at aldi and we all eat really well! And save!!

My first experience of Aldi was in a German town I was visiting in the early nineties. Was thrilled when not one but two of these fantastic stores opened in my area of the UK.

Interesting : we have more Lidls than Aldis hereabouts.
However just across the border [17kms from here in Switzerland] there is an Aldi and a Lidl within 500 meters of each other. Fierce competition between them, but with the effect that they are taking away much of the custom from the other well-known Swiss supermarkets. We sometimes go over the border and shop between the two supermarkets.

Plans have been passed to build a new Aldi within a mile from our village. Will definitely give it a try, bound to be cheaper than Tesco!

I've never been in or ordered from an Aldi, Lidl or Iceland...or Argos, come to think of it.
There are none of those stores within 20 miles anyway.

Sainsburys is my weekly shop. I am not too fussed about which shop, just one that delivers to my door.

There's an Aldi being built not too far from here. I'm looking forward to trying it.

There is a new Aldi just opened where my sister lives and she is so pleased as she has been long envious of me having one where I live. She rang a few weeks ago to tell me she had bought a high chair for her young grandchild to have at her house for when he eats there and it only cost £24. She says it is sturdy and easy to clean. My daughter uses their nappies for my grandson. She likes them and good price. I used to do big shop at Morrison's now use Aldi and just buy fruit and milk, bread mid week at Morrison's now.

What's the hurry, Nonnie?

Why do we expect everything to be done at superspeed? What about friendly chats with shop assistants and actually communicating with people we come into contact with in our lives?

I live in the Cotswolds and have both Lidl and Aldi nearby. Interestingly neither of them are as good as their stores where my daughter lives in the Midlands. In the Midlands the stores are bigger and have far more variety than our local ones do. Yet there are as many ‘prestige’ cars in our local Aldi and Lidl as there are in the nearby Waitrose, which must say something!

Aldi staff seem to have been trained to be much quicker at the checkout which suits me. My shopping is always on the conveyor belt in the right order so I can quickly pack like with like. I have never understood why some checkout staff are so slow.

Tesco do not always treat their suppliers well - and I think the same goes for other supermarket chains too.
Aldi in Australia treat their suppliers better than other supermarkets as far as I am aware.

The customer may benefit from their low prices - but what about their suppliers - and staff?

Aldi staff are some of the best paid staff, per hour, of any retailer. Currently £8.53 per hour at entry level, with a London weighting of £9.75 per hour. This is as opposed to Tesco who pay only £8.42.

Aldis pay more than any of the other supermarkets, as far as I know.