To think I might be missing something to have totally had my head turned to Aldi?!

I shop in aldi, buy most of my food there. But never buy the fruit and veg as its appalling.

wherever I buy fruit and veg it gets treated the same. Lidl just doesn't last as well.

What are people doing to their fruit and veg to make it go off so quickly?! No matter where I shop nothing goes off before it’s made it through the door…
The majority of food products supplied in the UK come from the same manufacturers, regardless of which supermarket you get it in. Supermarkets will have their own specifications and recipes for certain products (hence why own brand versions often contain less salt and/or sugar - cheaper to produce) which is why we can sometimes tell the difference but 9 times out of 10, it’s marketing and nothing else!

It seems so variable everywhere
my friend said she hated Morrisons then went to the one near me and loved it. I didn’t like Aldi, then our new one opened, but our Lidl isn’t great

the staff are amazing, I went in for some plasters/antiseptic after helping at a car accident, one of them who I see every week asked if I was ok and then gave me a huge bunch of flowers

I like Dunnes.

I enjoy buying what I can from Aldi (usually get the organic or specially selected veg where possible) and then top up on bits they don’t sell in Waitrose. Tried doing it all in Sainsbury’s instead but I think the Aldi Waitrose combination is better and the same price. I find the veg in Aldi is fine but some fruit I do prefer in Waitrose (grapes, apples).

It varies. In our town the Aldi is way better. Can’t do a main shop in the Lidl.

This fruits and vegetables donot last unless you have a large family and eat them quickly, household stuff ok, dairy ok but can't do a complete week shop there.

Picked these up today from Aldi! Can’t believe the size of them

TBH, everywhere has got more expensive recently!

Can't get enough of their raspberries in the last few weeks! I don't know if they pack them differently or handle them differently in shipment or what but from every other supermarket they're a mushy mess in a day or two or even on the shelf. The Aldi ones are delicious, not beat up and will last several days.

Aldi does seem to have got more expensive in the last 6 months or so though. We used to figure it was a good 30-50% less than when we'd do a shop at Sainsbury's, now it's maybe 10% less.

Our isn't great to be honest. Seems to be mainly ready meals and processed foods. Fruit does not really last. Veg is a bit better. I have never bought meat there but have heard it can be hit or miss. They rarely seem to get in what is advertised in the leaflet. The staff are lovely though.

Our local Lidl is much better.

I really dislike Aldi. Have been to a few different ones in different areas and, in every case, the fruit and veg were awful.

The only time I opened a pack of mushrooms to find the underneath ones were mouldy and slimy was when I bought them from Aldi. I have been buying mushrooms every week for at least 20 years from just about all the supermarkets.

It is also impossible to do a full shop there. We eat lots of lentils, chickpeas, different beans etc and Aldi either don't sell what we want or only sell silly small packs of them. They also have a stupidly small range of herbs and spices

I have been shopping in Aldi for a while and have noticed the prices creeping up every time and not just a few pence. Done a home delivery from Asda last weekend as I was working and it came to near enough the same price, Aldi just isn’t that cheap anymore as much as I like it

I’m surprised you think the wine is poor - I can assure you that the drinks/wine industry doesn’t agree with you!

https://www.thedrinker.co.uk/aldi.html

See this year’s recommendation from The Drinker

Yeah, sounds lovely but just not affordable, such a shame 🫩

That's interesting, I didn't really enjoy their Christmas stuff last year. Disappointed as I used to love their stollen!

There's a Lidl on my doorstep which beats out the further away Aldi for convenience and a non postage stamp sized car park so I can only really comment on Lidl. I really like it BUT I couldn't do a full shop there. I tend to go once every couple of months with my mum to buy stuff on my "Lidl stock up list" like big bottles of cheap squeezy honey for DHs tea, naice biscuits, jams, big boxes of microwave porridge, olive oil plus maybe a couple of treats like deli meats and fruit /veg/meat if I know we will use it immediately. Their cakes and chocolate etc is lovely and I like their dry pasta. But I don't find their fresh to be lasting and I can taste the difference with some stuff from there and don't buy it twice. I also randomly don't rate their tea light candles. Overall Lidl good but not as cheap as they once were.

I also find them very unreliable with continued stocking and prone to suddenly discontinuing things - I had some good Duc D'Or freezer fillets from them - never seen them again, lovely hot chocolate discontinued etc. We're really busy and we meal plan and don't have time for such grand-scale fuckery, frankly. We also shop online bar the odd item I pick up at the supermarkets near my station - I know we're still tied to a weekly shop but the time saved to-ing, fro-ing and shopping is much appreciated. If Aldi and Lidl work for weekly shops for others though, that's great! Both deserve to do well.

I did the quality of fruit, vegetables, and meat at Aldi and Lidl is really poor compared with Waitrose, Ocado, M&S, and sainsburys. Like others have said, I couldn’t do a full week’s shop at Aldi, and I don’t think they are necessarily cheaper. They also sell virtually no organic food.

We have a lovely organic shop in the village thst sells gorgeous vegetables bundled together in twine. Five quid for carrots, nine for a bunch of asparagus, six quid for small strawberries. It all looks amazing but there’s no way I can possibly afford it.

Our farm shop has lovely fruit & veg & always SO tempting, but it's not just 'a little more expensive' it's extortionate!! £4.50 for a cauli for example (£1.19 at Tesco for a lovely one) I occasionally cave in & buy something unusual & sometimes the Brussels on stalks in season.

Our Aldi is pretty good - they’ve just put a bakery in! We tend to go there first and go across the road to the Sainsbury’s superstore for any branded goods or stuff we can’t get in Aldi. Aldi’s prices have been going up though, and like others I’m finding their fruit and veg isn’t lasting as long. I’ve also taken to going to our local farm shop where they’ve got a meat counter, shellfish stall outside and they have freezers where you can get frozen fruits, frozen vegetables etc by the weight (you just fill a bag with as much or as little as you want and they weigh it at the till). The farm shop is a bit more expensive but the quality is great.

Aldi fruit & veg is second rate don’t waste your money, no comparison to M&S Sainsbury's or Tesco.

I can’t get a full shop from Aldi. I also think bread products taste weird from there as they’re made to last longer and have an artificial taste. I like popping in for a few bits, though.

I tend to shop at my local supermarket for fresh main meal things, but was going to Aldi for a
monthly shop of store cupboard items.

I’m having a break from Aldi though as I started to find a lot of items I was buying had the same synthetic sweetener taste (cereal, biscuits, snack bars, crisps, protein yoghurts, drinks). No one else I know has this issue so might be a me issue and not an Aldi issue 🤣