To think that Lidl are taking the piss?

Oh, fgs, shop around then

I dont think lidl is even that cheap anymore!! My sister swears by it but I spend way more if I shop there (especially if we go down the middle.aisle lol).
Instead I shop online and im always getting vouchers sent. At the moment im bouncing between morrisons and asda, asda regularly sends me £10 off £60, morrisons is usually £12 off £70.
I also had a 20 off 60 from ocado the other week and sainsburys keep sending me £12 off 120 which i havent been using as ive had better from the others to use.
Even before the change the lidl rewards werw quite rubbish and they rarely send me a decent money off voucher, once in a blue moon i get £5 off so we will pop in for a few bits.

My daughter’s a deputy manager at Lidl, they do still get their 10% staff discount which goes up to 20% if you spend over a certain amount. They do pay above minimum wage, but you earn it! I do miss the free veg items like they did last year or year before. Look out for the too good to go fruit n veg boxes they’re a right bargain at £1.50 though some stores are better than others for these!

Either that or prices go up even more 🤔

I think they will lose a lot of business to Aldi and maybe have a rethink. The Aldis in my area are far superior- the only thing Lidl wins on is their bakery - our local Aldis don’t have them.
I will now shop guilt free at Aldi knowing that I’m not missing out on anything much from lldl’s reward scheme!

shop somewhere else if you don't like it 🤷‍♀️

I have mentioned the amount of profits in two posts, you just refuse to accept the answer.

And I see now that you object to the difference between Lidl's 1.3% and Tesco's 4.5% being used to build new Lidl stores in areas that currently don't have access to one.

Don't tell me, you're a hard left socialist and you think all food stores should be nationalised so nobody makes a profit?

I see you haven’t mentioned again the amount of profits.

I never said they could give profits to customers. No business would do that. But they are making a lot of profit and doing well in general. They are choosing to put some of that profit in new branches. The rest? Huge dividends and bonuses, banking what’s left. A tiny downturn means closing some branches or (more likely) reducing headcount at head office, it wouldn’t be a big deal for them so no idea why you bothered to mention it.

Lidl is making "a lot of profit" because Lidl has a huge turnover.

Lidl has a percentage profit of under 1.5%, which is very small. A tiny downturn in their business would send them into a loss.

Market share growth is not "making a lot of profit" in the sense that they can give it away to customers, it just means they have opened more shops.

Did we seriously have the OP saying up thread that it doesn't cost them any money to give away vegetables?

Does she want farmers paid, or not?

If you believe that then you'll believe anything. That's marketing hype if ever I heard it. I've swapped to Aldi now.

They are not a charity at the end of the day. Their donuts are shite too. All these reward cards are becoming less generous. Brexshit innnit! In Spain last week a coffee and donut sat in a cafe was £3.75. Here it’s double!

They only get to rip you off if you buy from them.

They are a private company, if you don't like their value for money shop elsewhere.

You have an inflated sense of entitlement if you think they are 'taking the piss'

Lidl is making a lot of profit:

https://corporate.lidl.co.uk/media-centre/pressreleases/2025/lidl-financial-results-2025

Every retailer is ripping you off. That’s what happened when corporations decided a 50 percent mark-up was crazy and it should be a 500% mark-up.

🤣🤣

I live in a country that doesn't have a Lidl but do spend a couple of months where they do exist.

I can't download the app due to a google issue with regions.

The prices you pay in Lidl are far better than what I pay the other ten months of the year.

They don't have to give you anything.
Lidl are hardly ripping you off.

Aww, poor supermarkets. What garbage.

They changed it for the worse, yet play it like we wanted it. You asked, we listened is the phrase I think they use. A con dressed up as something better.

I often popped in there for milk etc especially if I was near to my £10 so I’d get my free croissant.
Doesn’t seem much point now. I will go in for certain things but probably not as much.

They can’t be that badly off as they are still trying to build multiple new stores.

I used to love green shield stamps - Tesco gave double stamps on Tuesdays!

Asda changed their system- or tinkered with it. I stopped scanning. My data is worth more to them than a few pence off something I don’t buy to me .
If people stopped using it, they don’t get anything

This - Lidl is very cheap they're in business to make money, compare their prices to Waitrose or other super markets.