to not understand why people go to Aldi & Lidl...

[TheBeautifulVisit]

… it's such a horrible shopping experience.

It reminded me of being in a co-op in my very small hometown circa 1977. And then when you've got a trolley full of their stuff and queue up to pay there's that humiliating bit at the end where they don't give you sufficient time to pack your groceries. They just expect you to very quickly remove your groceries and go and pack them elsewhere, with no bags.

I feel assaulted.

Can you please tell me

1. how far away is your Aldi or Lidl & why do you go?

2. what do you miss about your old supermarket? (which one was it)

3. how much do you spend there each time you go

It was cheaper than my normal shopping but actually I didn't buy my normal shopping: no fresh chives, no fresh ginger, no butternut squash, no purple sprouting broccoli, no green peppercorns, no little tubs of anchovies & olives from the Waitrose deli. I travelled much further to get there.

And there's no delivery.

Why why why?

I'm starting to think it's very important for supermarket customers to vote with their feet.

The big five supermarkets have been taking the piss with their food prices for years now.

I hope the rise of ALDI and LIDL shocks them.

Perhaps Morloth is in Australia if she goes to Woolworths.

The recent drop in milk prices by sainsburys and tesco in line with aldi and lidl to £1 for 4 pints instead of 1.45 just goes to show how inflated the prices have been if they can just drop 50% of the price overnight. Although it does make me wonder if it is the farmers that have taken the hit on this.

The recent drop in milk prices by sainsburys and tesco in line with aldi and lidl to £1 for 4 pints instead of 1.45 just goes to show how inflated the prices have been if they can just drop 50% of the price overnight. Although it does make me wonder if it is the farmers that have taken the hit on this.

Always the farmers who will take the hit

Farmers should set up milk banks all over the country. You fill up with petrol. You fill up with milk at the same time.

Obviously that's just pie in sky stuff but there has to be a fairer way.

Cut out those supermarkets. Dairy farmers would make a decent margin and we would pay decent prices. Well, milk is relatively cheap for me at the moment but the supermarkets are still making a lot on it.

Certainly the big four as in Tesco, Sainsburys etc will pass it on to the farmers , to be honest to does worry me with the discounters how they make their money , it seems it can only be by hammering their suppliers .

We have our milk delivered by a local dairy, it's a little more expensive but feels fairer , more local and frankly if big consumers like us have deliveries that enables the older people who can't get out of the village to still get deliveries too.

I assu with budget supermarkets though the suppliers knew what they were getting before anything was signed. With tesco etc they probably risk losing the contract or taking an even smaller cut.

That is a fab idea re the milk pumps!

When I used to have a milk delivery it was always being nicked from the front door step .
Got so fed up, that stopped having a "Milkie"