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Post by Terry on Feb 28, 2017 12:16:54 GMT
Ingrown toenail....don't forget your red silk dressing gown and have your Minder guard you so Wendys thug doesn't get at you.... All the best
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Post by Terry on Dec 31, 2017 8:04:16 GMT
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Post by jno on Jan 1, 2018 6:52:53 GMT
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Post by ace5150 on Jan 1, 2018 10:46:45 GMT
Well, we now have our local Lidl operating and it knocks spots off the new Aldi that was built a few months earlier. Very impressive. Excellent selection of a variety of foods. Their fresh bakery section is very good as well.
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Post by plasticpenguin on Jan 3, 2018 3:11:34 GMT
Have to say that Lidl, based on recent experience, is crummy and okay in equal measure. Some produce is fine, especially chickens. The rest goes from mediocre to s###e.
Never been to Aldi. Personally prefer BMW. Oops, that should be Audi. Oh well, it's only one letter out.
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Post by jno on Jan 6, 2018 16:52:43 GMT
So while Lidl ran out of their multi-bird roasts, Aldi in South Wales had a stack of these three bird roast crisps for sale yesterday ...
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Post by Arch Stanton on Jan 6, 2018 17:13:05 GMT
So while Lidl ran out of their multi-bird roasts, Aldi in South Wales had a stack of these three bird roast crisps for sale yesterday ... I ate some this week! They were actually okay. I saw the packet and thought I had to try them out. I'm not sure I tasted the 3 different birds in there, and mostly they were just like meaty crisps but they weren't unpleasant.
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Post by ltd on Jan 6, 2018 18:15:39 GMT
Aldi next to where I work so convenient to drop in and do the weekly shop. The beer is cr*p though. Lidl is the other side of town from where I live but worth the jaunt sometimes. Their meat is better and they do a few bitters that I like, including Rhymney and Brains Skull Attack in a can.
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Post by jno on Jan 6, 2018 22:23:53 GMT
@arch: Chicken broth, cooked duck powder, cooked turkey meat. I checked the small print.
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Post by jno on Jan 13, 2018 17:32:00 GMT
At Aldi in Vienna today, or 'Hofer' as it is called here. I noticed this presentation of products, done with such decorum and properness:
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Post by daz on Jan 13, 2018 20:44:38 GMT
At Aldi in Vienna today, or 'Hofer' as it is called here. I noticed this presentation of products, done with such decorum and properness: The Aberdeen ones are the same, the dump the leftover weekly offer items and dump them in these bins. Lidl never seem to have their offer stuff left after a few days.
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Post by Arch Stanton on Jan 14, 2018 9:00:19 GMT
Notice the seemingly empty pallet behind?
It's Health and Safety Not Gone Mad.
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Post by jno on Jan 14, 2018 11:42:42 GMT
Notice the seemingly empty pallet behind? It's Health and Safety Not Gone Mad.I reckon they put them there pallets there so the when the stuff drops off the top, it lands on the other side.
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Post by Terry on Jan 15, 2018 12:40:37 GMT
On childrens clothes day at Aldi it only takes from 7 am to 7.05 am until everything looks like a bomb has gone off ... everything ripped open and thrown back in .... Idiots.
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Post by jno on Jan 16, 2018 6:54:10 GMT
On childrens clothes day at Aldi it only takes from 7 am to 7.05 am until everything looks like a bomb has gone off ... everything ripped open and thrown back in .... Idiots. Aldi are open at 7AM in Deutschland? Incredible! Here in the Austrian Schluchtenscheißer it is 0740 - the staff arriving at 0730 and the customers having to respect the fact that they need 10 minutes to turn the lights on, log the tills on and fire up the bargain bins. They probably have a team of hamsters running in wheels round the back for the heating. Seriously, who opens at 0740?! 0740 is possibly the least customer focused opening time you will ever see, which just about sums up customer service where I live i.e. non-existent.
Meanwhile in other Discounter news, Lidl UK are now offering pre-peeled onions - just when you thought you'd seen it all - oh lord, please time travel me back to the 80s to escape this madness.
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Post by Arch Stanton on Jan 16, 2018 10:53:46 GMT
Pre-peeled garlic I get. Man, that bugs me! Especially when the garlic is really fresh. That's a massive faff. But pre-peeled onions..... Stop the world I wanna get off!
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Post by daz on Jan 16, 2018 12:55:14 GMT
COuld they possibly be grown like that?? I only ask as I watched a TV programme last year, which had a Professor of Onions on it who has developed an onion which doesn't kill your eyes when you chop it up. Seems rather pointless, but it must be a cheap thing to do if Lidl are offering them for sale.
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Post by Arch Stanton on Jan 16, 2018 15:17:24 GMT
COuld they possibly be grown like that?? I only ask as I watched a TV programme last year, which had a Professor of Onions on it who has developed an onion which doesn't kill your eyes when you chop it up. Seems rather pointless, but it must be a cheap thing to do if Lidl are offering them for sale. Why not make everything genetically pre-peeled? Since you say it like that Daz and we have a Professor on board what's to not embrace? After all it only involves genetically tampering with mother nature, so I'm sure it'll be fine.. I cannot remember a single instance when man's tampering with nature has ever caused a problem, ever. Has it?! Pre-peeled bananas, pre-peeled potatoes, pre-peeled carrots, pre-peeled Kit-Kats; so I don't have to drive all the way over to Maninasuitcase's drum and throw my empty wrappers in his front garden (see, I told you that those teenagers were innocent and that you shouldn't have chased them down the road with that cricket bat ). I totally see the Professor of Onions' point now. Let's go pre-peel crazy!
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Post by barrythebook on Jan 21, 2018 23:40:17 GMT
COuld they possibly be grown like that?? I only ask as I watched a TV programme last year, which had a Professor of Onions on it who has developed an onion which doesn't kill your eyes when you chop it up. Seems rather pointless, but it must be a cheap thing to do if Lidl are offering them for sale. Why not make everything genetically pre-peeled? Since you say it like that Daz and we have a Professor on board what's to not embrace? After all it only involves genetically tampering with mother nature, so I'm sure it'll be fine.. I cannot remember a single instance when man's tampering with nature has ever caused a problem, ever. Has it?! Pre-peeled bananas, pre-peeled potatoes, pre-peeled carrots, pre-peeled Kit-Kats Let's go pre-peel crazy! Not pre-peeled BUT I did hear on the news a couple of weeks ago that a variety of Banana has been developed of which the skin is edible so you don't have to peel it.
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Post by Arch Stanton on Jan 21, 2018 23:48:40 GMT
Why not make everything genetically pre-peeled? Since you say it like that Daz and we have a Professor on board what's to not embrace? After all it only involves genetically tampering with mother nature, so I'm sure it'll be fine.. I cannot remember a single instance when man's tampering with nature has ever caused a problem, ever. Has it?! Pre-peeled bananas, pre-peeled potatoes, pre-peeled carrots, pre-peeled Kit-Kats Let's go pre-peel crazy! Not pre-peeled BUT I did hear on the news a couple of weeks ago that a variety of Banana has been developed of which the skin is edible so you don't have to peel it. Genuinely amazed. .... Wait, what are the new edible skins like for smoking Baz? Is the word out on that yet? Until it is I'm holding my judgement.
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Post by barrythebook on Jan 22, 2018 19:39:15 GMT
Not pre-peeled BUT I did hear on the news a couple of weeks ago that a variety of Banana has been developed of which the skin is edible so you don't have to peel it. Genuinely amazed. .... Wait, what are the new edible skins like for smoking Baz? Is the word out on that yet? Until it is I'm holding my judgement. A business proposition in the making there Arch In the right circles obviously
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Post by Arch Stanton on Jan 22, 2018 19:43:44 GMT
Genuinely amazed. .... Wait, what are the new edible skins like for smoking Baz? Is the word out on that yet? Until it is I'm holding my judgement. A business proposition in the making there Arch In the right circles obviously I always move in the right circles Baz, you know that.
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Post by jno on Jan 23, 2018 4:54:15 GMT
Yeah, magic circles. Meanwhile down at Lidl this week, we picked up a roast chicken for Sunday lunch for 2.50 EUR - without wanting to sound cruel, gawd knows what life it had before it ended up in Lidl. I must confess, the whole affair did make me think about the value of an animal's life, poor thing clucking about aimlessly on some dodgy farm, with probably zero quality of life, no friends, just so Lidl can make 2.50 earner - the whole thing funded by me. The food chain is sadly pretty shocking depending where you find yourself positioned in it.
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Post by Arch Stanton on Jan 24, 2018 17:55:32 GMT
Yeah, magic circles. Meanwhile down at Lidl this week, we picked up a roast chicken for Sunday lunch for 2.50 EUR - without wanting to sound cruel, gawd knows what life it had before it ended up in Lidl. I must confess, the whole affair did make me think about the value of an animal's life, poor thing clucking about aimlessly on some dodgy farm, with probably zero quality of life, no friends, just so Lidl can make 2.50 earner - the whole thing funded by me. The food chain is sadly pretty shocking depending where you find yourself positioned in it. I bet it wasn't one of those new pre-peeled chickens, not at that price.
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Post by jno on Jan 1, 2019 12:56:49 GMT
Christmas special in Lidl in Austria... WC Splash! I would do it far cheaper after a few sherbets.
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Post by ltd on Jan 1, 2019 16:31:19 GMT
Aldi's meat, fruit and veg is generally inferior to Lidl. Their beer is also cr*p. Lidl's is occasionally better. Here in the midlands they seem to have some kind of distribution deal with the ever dismal Banks's. However, cross over into the south west region at Evesham and they have the rather good, if unfortunately named, Butcombe bitter at £1.25 a bottle - bargain!
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Post by jno on Aug 18, 2019 6:57:54 GMT
From German discounter 'Netto', I wish Aldi and Lidl would stock this stuff, superb ...
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Post by Portland Road on Aug 19, 2019 21:05:04 GMT
Aldi haven't had the bratwurst or schnitzel that I like, in stock lately....
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Post by jno on Aug 20, 2019 8:55:48 GMT
Aldi haven't had the bratwurst or schnitzel that I like, in stock lately.... I wonder why that could be .... I contacted Gutfried and asked them where I could find Corned Turkey where I live - they said they don't sell it there and it is unavailable.
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Post by daz on Aug 20, 2019 11:26:44 GMT
Aldi haven't had the bratwurst or schnitzel that I like, in stock lately.... I wonder why that could be .... I contacted Gutfried and asked them where I could find Corned Turkey where I live - they said they don't sell it there and it is unavailable. Despite the answer appearing to be obvious, the problem for Lidl and Aldi, along with other supermarkets, is getting their suppliers to provide items at the price they want it at and food items being especaially vulnerable due to weather/crop yeilds/demand and the like. Hence the reason you sometimes see even the basics, like beans, ketchup and corn flakes not on their shelves as they are stuggling to get supplies due to their aggressive pricing policies. There is only so much margin the grocers can make by ensuring their shops are geared with the right amount of staff and products available at the right time to keep waste to a minimum, like Aldi/Lidl do, their main margins are in squeezing producers and more often than not if a producer gets a better offer for their products then the discounters are first in the line when being told where to poke it and trust me the producers hate the discounters and sometimes with very good reason.
The deal stuff they bring in, whether sports equipment or DIY stuff, etc are items made in factories with spare capacity, where they will churn our products once or twice a year at a cheaper rate which keeps the factories working and ensuring their products are being sold for at least the cost price and why marketed as goods 'exclusive' for whoever is selling them, but don't usually have the manufacturer/brand name on them. The poundshops do the same also, approach a manufacturer, mainly in the food or beauty items to see if they have spare capacity and if so that is why you sometimes see items in these shops far cheaper than in a normal shop, but usually the pack sizes are that little bit smaller.
It's all interesting stuff really if you are a sad ******* like me.
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