ALDI? LIDL? are we posh or not?

[stuhaynes]

We all know that we're loaded.... Don't we????

Actually, to quote another forumite, I think I best get my cloak!

 

[dhippey]

Que?

 

[fergie_mac66]

Que?

+1

 

[2Tizwoz]

We all know that we're loaded.... Don't we????

Actually, to quote another forumite, I think I best get my cloak!

Some self delusional people seem to think so

But actually Lidl food is rather posh

 

[monkfish24]

I love Lidl's and I've been lucky enough to have gone to some nice restaurants (not out of my pocket luckily)

I don't understand why people think that because something is cheap, it is nasty.

It's really not, the lobster is a bargain for £10 for a full cooked lobster and perfect for thawing out in the cool box with the milk!

 

[ianj99]

If either were bought by Marks & Sparks and the name on the products and outside of the stores changed, there would be queues to get into their car parks.

Pure snobbery.

 

[saltylegs]

I love Lidl's and I've been lucky enough to have gone to some nice restaurants (not out of my pocket luckily)

I don't understand why people think that because something is cheap, it is nasty.

It's really not, the lobster is a bargain for £10 for a full cooked lobster and perfect for thawing out in the cool box with the milk!

£10 ??? I wait until they are 3.99 about November and stock the freezer

 

[PhilipF]

I love Lidl's

Aldi's are classier in our opinion, just wish there where as many branches of these as there is of Lidl.

 

[monkfish24]

£10 ??? I wait until they are 3.99 about November and stock the freezer

Missed out on a.trick there!

 

[stuey_two]

Went on a LIDL tour one summer - 7 branches between Calais and Belgian border - sad or what?

 

[Lakesailor]

My housekeeper complains about the sort of people she has to contend with in these places and the chauffeur doesn't like leaving the shooting brake unattended whilst she is in there.

 

[Heckler]

We all know that we're loaded.... Don't we????

Actually, to quote another forumite, I think I best get my cloak!

I shop there regularly, rooster potatoes £1 this week, tesco £1.94, the crash helmets for £39.99 superb value, everything is spot on. My posh mates turned their noses up at first but now I see them in there, i ask them where their disguises are when I see them !
Stu

 

[padge]

bought 2 x fire extingushers @ £7.99 each

local swindlery £15.99 each

exactly the same item .

shame the branch is a bit too far away.

always pop in to look for bargains when passing .

 

[VicMallows]

I shop there regularly, rooster potatoes £1 this week,

Yes, and aren't they good!...stocked up. (If you like shellfish, the frozen clams (in shells) are excellent. )

More interestingly, customer service beats anything I have come across elsewhere. Today we had trolley on which the wheel brake had activated. Asked the first person I saw stacking shelves and it was sorted within minutes.

 

[stuhaynes]

Referring to my earlier comment, I'd best get my cloak. It's a perception thing, completely misplaced of course.

I'll put the horse hair shirt back on!!

 

[Bilgediver]

Missed out on a.trick there!

Oh dear....I was stung...I paid £4.99

 

[Searush]

My housekeeper complains about the sort of people she has to contend with in these places and the chauffeur doesn't like leaving the shooting brake unattended whilst she is in there.

Your chauffeur could be right, a lot of the old codgers can't see very well.

 

[Tranona]

Your chauffeur could be right, a lot of the old codgers can't see very well.

Thats 'cos they have paper bags over their heads so nobody sees them!

Branston baked beans £2 a 4 pack in Lidl, £1.28 in Tesco (important when the ravenous grandchilren come to stay)

 

[maby]

Sorry, but the few times I've bought food from either, it was horrible! Their toold and technology is another matter - I drive past a Lidl on my way to the office and make a point of scanning the non-food shelves most weeks.

On the Lidl topic, I managed to get one of their Fein-alike cutters a couple of months ago - saved me a whole lot of work yesterday. I was fitting extra 13A sockets in the boat and needed to cut holes in the panel behind the nav table to take them. Would have been a slow, horrid job drilling multiple holes, then joining them up with a thin blade - the £30 Lidl oscillating saw went through like a knife through butter.

 

[greenalien]

the £30 Lidl oscillating saw went through like a knife through butter.

+1 for this multitool - I have just recut the access to my heads seacocks with one, able to cut flush with the top edge of the shower grill, with minimal clearance behind - I can't think of anything else that would have done the job.