Tesco

[sphericalfox]

A great deal of the products sold in Aldi/Lidl are made by the brands anyways, some of the factories are in the UK. Aldi are hardly filling our cupboards with German made muck, and our food industries are collapsing because of it.

[absolutelegend]

A great deal of the products sold in Aldi/Lidl are made by the brands anyways, some of the factories are in the UK. Aldi are hardly filling our cupboards with German made muck, and our food industries are collapsing because of it.

Can you provide maybe ten examples of where their German/foreign sounding processed goods are actually made in the UK?

I say processed as I don't mean eggs, milk etc.

[sphericalfox]

Can you provide maybe ten examples of where their German/foreign sounding processed goods are actually made in the UK?

I say processed as I don't mean eggs, milk etc.

All the standard items you'll find in any supermarket. Bread, UK canned goods, snack foods, biscuits, crisps, toilet paper, cereals, alcohol, pop. So all the basics.

 

Items like cured meats/ german sausages, or very specific Euro items etc are obviously from germany, anything from Germany or elsewhere says so. If it's made in the UK/Ireland it'll say made/produced in the UK for Aldi on it, a great deal of those are on the shelves.

[Vicki Vixen]

Can you provide maybe ten examples of where their German/foreign sounding processed goods are actually made in the UK?

I say processed as I don't mean eggs, milk etc.

I'm guessing you don't buy clothes that were stitched in Bangladesh then, or electronics made in Taiwan, or an LCFC season ticket because it was made in Israel?

[FoxesAreBlue]

I'm guessing you don't buy clothes that were stitched in Bangladesh then, or electronics made in Taiwan, or an LCFC season ticket because it was made in Israel?

.........or cars from Germany, furniture from Switzerland, Coffee from Italy, or TVs from the Far East.

[Carl the Llama]

.........or cars from Germany, furniture from Switzerland, Coffee from Italy, or TVs from the Far East.

Sweden.

[Jon the Hat]

There's a big difference between taking risks and manipulating the company's income statement for personal gain.

Yes - hence the rest of my comment.

[Guest ttfn]

I much prefer Tesco to Sainsburys. Do most of our food shopping stuff at Lidl though.

In a small town like Bedford, there are 2 huge Tesco's within 5 minutes of each other ::

There are at least 6 or 7 Tescos (incl. Metro, Express). Ridiculous. One has even been boycotted by local residents because it put a store in place of a pub which had been there for years and was part of the community. Local residents signed petitions and tried to stop it as much as possible but Tesco obviously did enough overpower them.

Nice waitrose in bedford too now if you want a free coffee.

[StanSP]

Nice waitrose in bedford too now if you want a free coffee.

Yeah it's a fairly big Waitrose but it's out the way for where we are. The one in Ampthill is closer.

I think Lidl is fairly underrated. We do our weekly shop there and I could get the same stuff I'd get in Tesco for more than half the price. A weekly shop at Lidl can be about 15 quid but for very much the similar things in Tesco it'd be 30+ quid.

[Julian Joachim Jr Shabadoo]

Lidl sells a gallon of quality ice tea for about 60p, and really good baked stuff. But a lot of their best stock is time limited. I had a nice Mexican pizza from there, went back the next week - gone. Same with baklava, some of the cured meats, not just the homeware offers. The last time I went they had a power cut - after standing in line for 15 minutes with no word of anyone coming to sort the issue and no generator on site to fire up I f**ked off and haven't been back since, that was ridiculous

[StanSP]

There are 2 Lidl's in the Bedford area. They both used to do a delightful cappuccino ice cream but it's not been sold for ages. I don't know if Lidl scrapped it or it's just not sold in those stores any more

[Goddard]

All the big supermarkets force prices down.

The margins on groceries are always small, they make their money through volume.

Tescos is a British company paying it's taxes that employs thousands in this country. This isn't good news for Britain.

You are 100% incorrect with regards to gross margin. Lidl and Aldi will operate on half of the margin that tesco do. The margin that tesco operate on will be greater than that of their suppliers. They need it because of the size of their overheads. I think they will start to seriously have a look internally at cutting costs.

[FoxesAreBlue]

Sweden.

Ah yes, correctamundo

[Strokes]

I prefer to use lidl or aldi, they are quick, cheap and convenient and I think the quality is understated. I buy my basic groceries here, I tend to get my meat from the local butchers and my veg from the green grocer in syston.

I can't remember the last time I did a 'big shop'.

[Webbo]

I prefer to use lidl or aldi, they are quick, cheap and convenient and I think the quality is understated. I buy my basic groceries here, I tend to get my meat from the local butchers and my veg from the green grocer in syston.

I can't remember the last time I did a 'big shop'.

My missus works at Asda so we get most of our groceries there but you're right the butcher in Syston is great.

[Babylon]

Check the salt and fat content of stuff from the budget places. Always seems to have a load of salts and fats the others don't!!

[ithuriel]

There were two butchers on the Saffron lane in Leicester but one has vanished, the other converted to providing sandwiches and hot snacks plus catering for events and is doing quite well, they often have a full shop.

As butchers they just could not compete with the bigger stores.

[DB11]

Tesco do the nicest meal deal sandwiches.

[Raj]

we mainly use tesco cos its convenient!!.On sundays it opens at 9.30 and i can get outbefore the masses.i use the germans too and sainsburys pizzas are nice.

like others state as tescos is ftse we all indirectlt need it to do well but they have taken the others for granted and got abit over confident...abit like city!!!

[AyewJoking]

Used to be an avid sainsburys fan but now do my weekly shop at Lidl.

 

We do a monthly shop at sainsburys for a few branded stuff that I can't get a lidl. A friend of mine own a large Pig farming business and taught me a few tricks when it comes to supermarkets.

 

He supplies Waitrose, Tesco's, lidl and tesco. He said that the food standards in the UK are so high, compared to the ROW and some european countiries that you can't really fault for going into any supermarket to buy your fresh veg and Meat. His pigs are all fed the same, all the same weight etc yet are shipped to 4 large retailers all sold at different price, the trick the retailers use is public perception of the supermarket and packaging.  

Same with Veg, a supplier wont have a filed of carrots, with the back left corner for M&S and the front of the field for Aldi, its all the same. I have found if I choose carefully at lidl I can buy just as much quality as sainsburys (Meat and Veg actually better and last longer) and saves us about £70 a month. over a year you can round that up to £850.

 

We live in burbage and there is a fantastic lidl on the outskirts of Hinckley, many people will have the perception that its cheap and I did before I went in, but you look around the car park and the amount of audi's beemers, range rovers etc shows the tide is changing.

 

 

 

 

rich tossers are taking advantage of the free parking?

[Rincewind]

Small shop owners are buying in stock the reselling to people that cannot get to Aldi at a profit. (obviously)

[MooseBreath]

I quite often rock up at lidl after work wearing three grands worth of business attire. Ain't paying no mind to nobody who expects me to pass up an opportunity to save 12p on milk just because I can afford to shop elsewhere. Look after the pennies, you know what I mean ken?

[Trav Le Bleu]

I ****ing love Waitrose.

 

WAITROSE ESSENTIALS : POMEGRANATE AND ELDERFLOWER JELLY CUBES

 

Yup, where would we be without pomegranate and elderflower jelly.

[Rincewind]

I quite often rock up at lidl after work wearing three grands worth of business attire. Ain't paying no mind to nobody who expects me to pass up an opportunity to save 12p on milk just because I can afford to shop elsewhere. Look after the pennies, you know what I mean ken?

I know exactly what you mean. A lot of people that have money are misers. I do not mean that in a derogatory way. They are just careful about what they buy which is why they have become rich.

I'm a cautionary live for today kind of person. I once worked with someone who when he went out for a pint knew exactly how much he needed for the night and spent no more. He read other peoples papers during the day and saved most of his wages. He died at the age of 65. We used to say he'd be the richest man in the graveyard. Before he died he was off work and had to pack in but hardly left the house or had a night out.

[Vicki Vixen]

You are 100% incorrect with regards to gross margin. Lidl and Aldi will operate on half of the margin that tesco do. The margin that tesco operate on will be greater than that of their suppliers. They need it because of the size of their overheads. I think they will start to seriously have a look internally at cutting costs.

Good post.

The margins at Tesco are also greater because that's what shareholders have been used to in the past, and the board's ultimate goal is to protect Earnings per Share to keep its major shareholders happy. Lidl/Aldi do not have those pressures as they are privately owned companies.

The fact Tesco still has an open defined benefit pension plan for staff just highlights that it is still living in the past century.