Aldi

[The People's Hero]

So yeah. I'm a bit of a snob but I've switched to Aldi and its alright.

Most of their staff seem like actual people too, not the idiot drones you get in our local Tesco.

Anyway else tried it?

The German bits and pieces they do are unsurprisingly excellent.

[jonthefox]

I go a fair bit. It always seems to get a bad press and that's unjustified.

 

Someone said to me its only Germanys version of Asda, so i went . Food was good and you can fill a trolley for £60. 

[Bellend Sebastian]

I've been toying with going for ages, but have an entirely irrational and unjustified fear that it will be a terrible experience that will end with me lashing out at people

[Bob Weasel Fox]

So yeah. I'm a bit of a snob but I've switched to Aldi and its alright.

Most of their staff seem like actual people too, not the idiot drones you get in our local Tesco.

Anyway else tried it?

The German bits and pieces they do are unsurprisingly excellent.

It's great generally TPH

Although only go there occasionally personally due to various other factors

Can definately get the odd bargain etc

[jonthefox]

The only bad thing i could pick on, is they do seem to waste space trying to flog non food items. 

[Haydos]

Only thing I don't like is that their tills are shit. The cashiers smash everything through the scanner then try and shove you away whilst starting on the next persons shopping. Where the **** am I meant to put all my shit?

[davieG]

Only thing I don't like is that their tills are shit. The cashiers smash everything through the scanner then try and shove you away whilst starting on the next persons shopping. Where the **** am I meant to put all my shit?

In your trolley, I love the fast tills and in spite of that they staff do acknowledge your existence. I've also bought some decent tools for day that I otherwise couldn't afford and they've saved me getting someone in.

My only problem is some of the fresh veg come in large quantities for the two of us but is considerably cheaper although I do tend to waste some of it.

I tend to try to use all the supermarkets as they all have their plus an minus points but tesco is the worst and certainly not inexpensive, I've even ventured into a Lidl.

[Mack]

Only thing I don't like is that their tills are shit. The cashiers smash everything through the scanner then try and shove you away whilst starting on the next persons shopping. Where the **** am I meant to put all my shit?

 

You are supposed to just put in straight back in the trolley then go to the back of the tills to bag it up.

Schoolboy error!

[jonthefox]

In your trolley, I love the fast tills and in spite of that they staff do acknowledge your existence. I've also bought some decent tools for day that I otherwise couldn't afford and they've saved me getting someone in.

My only problem is some of the fresh veg come in large quantities for the two of us but is considerably cheaper although I do tend to waste some of it.

I tend to try to use all the supermarkets as they all have their plus an minus points but tesco is the worst and certainly not inexpensive, I've even ventured into a Lidl.

 

There's a line davieG, and thats stepping over it.

[SystonFox]

i recently converted to Aldi as i was "curious". last week me and the mrs did a big shop for £51! the same big shop at asda can sometimes cost £100 and we usually buy the same rubbish week in week out.

 

when my mrs proceded to cook a lasagne using Aldi ingredients i was suprised to say its genuinely the best she has ever done it. really tasty. 

 

the only thing i dont like is the one i use (Syston) the aisles are way too thin and any more than 3 trolleys down it and it begins to feel like a section of road in Kent.

[indierich06]

There's definitely a stigma surrounding it - people seem to get very snobbish about it, but at the end of the day they do really good stuff and it ends up being a lot cheaper than shopping in the bigger supermarkets.

 

My old man was a bit skeptical when one of them opened up in Aylestone, but he won't go anywhere else to do his main shopping now. Great value. I live in London now and there isn't one around my house for miles, so I end up having to go to Asda/Sainsburys/Tesco all the time. I'd definitely go to Aldi if there was one nearby though.

[The People's Hero]

Excellent. A joke about a 130 vehicle crash. Bravo.

[Fox92]

I use it when I'm at uni... Can get a full weeks meal for the same price as a couple of days at one of the major supermarkets. I mean, £1.99 for 6 chicken drumsticks, rice is about £0.90 a bag, bread at £1.00. Can't really argue, especially when I'm on a tighter budget. 

[The People's Hero]

I do my main grocery shopping there. We do have to go elsewhere for other bits, but generally it's brilliant.

[Finnegan]

Aldi is excellent,if you refuse to go entirely on the grounds its cheaper then I despair!

[Jace]

Yeah the whole point regarding the tills is so you can put the items straight back in the trolley and then move away to the space behind to bag them up, when you think about it its not a bad idea because then the process is quicker and you spend less time queueing. Isn't as popular with the British public apparently as many like to take 10 minutes to do what should take 2 minutes and stand around chatting nonsense to the cashier. 1 of my best mates works at Aldi and he likes it the pay isn't too bad either £8/9 an hour

[davieG]

Their barcode readers seem far superior to other supermarkets with some places taking two or three attempts to scan, Widow's it's a very quick swipe.

[SystonFox]

Excellent. A joke about a 130 vehicle crash. Bravo.

 

i forgot you're a kent lad. apologies

[RobHawk]

In my experience Lidl is just as good as Aldi! both of em are great!

 

If your too stuck up to go into one of them? Don't bother! Stick to Tescos! We don't want your sort in our budget German  supermarkets anyway! 

[Simmo86]

I've dabbled with Lidi, never Aldi though.

 

Lidi is excellent, the mrs kept bugging me to use it and I was sceptical to begin with. But have to say even though the products are cheap they taste just as good as Asda, Tesco etc.

[MooseBreath]

Peasants. In fairness, I'm happy to buy the likes of bread, milk and eggs from the aldi's and the Ludl's and often do, but whenever I've bought meat there it has been of quite poor quality and in the case of chicken thighs for example, you get so much less meat that it's no longer good value. Plus it just seems to taste of deprivation somehow.

[SystonFox]

it tastes of deprivation. i love that quote. does it smell like poverty too?

[The People's Hero]

Peasants. In fairness, I'm happy to buy the likes of bread, milk and eggs from the aldi's and the Ludl's and often do, but whenever I've bought meat there it has been of quite poor quality and in the case of chicken thighs for example, you get so much less meat that it's no longer good value. Plus it just seems to taste of deprivation somehow.

Meat is something I don't tend to buy in their apart from the bratwurst which are excellent. I have a fantastic local butcher in the village. Very lucky on that score.

[The People's Hero]

i forgot you're a kent lad. apologies

No worries. Pretty major thing down here and I was worried sick people I knew would have been involved. Was relieved to hear no fatalities.

[Ric Flair]

Not seen many down the smoke so I have to put up with endless fookin Tesco Metro's or Waitrose. There's only about 4 bastard Asda's in the whole of London as well.