To think you don't need shops like Lidl/Aldi

[PisforPeter]

If you can buy a chicken to serve 5-6 in Waitrose for £2.94??
I also get 450g minced beef for £2.20. They have lots of special offers on at the moment.
I honestly think if you take advantage of offers and cook mostly from first principals you can still be very frugal in Waitrose/Sainsburys.

I think the best paid graduate salaries this year are also with Lidl/Aldi >

Ethically sourced or not, palm oil is really bad for you. It's basically an anti-nutrient.

£2.94 for a chicken? Poor chicken, is that all it's worth? :( And poor farmer to be paid that little for it.

I don't go to Waitrose because the nearest one is 60 miles away. I still wouldn't go even if it was one mile away. What's wrong with Lidl? Do you think we should all aspire to Waitrose because it will make us naicer people?

Re the palm oil, you can check the ingredients and find out. Personally I don't trust anything which tells us it's sustainable e.g Sainsbury's "dolphin friendly" tinned fish which doesn't mention the enormous bycatch of sharks and birds.

I shop at Waitrose - and that's my choice. But I'm also happy to shop in Tesco or Sainsburys.

What annoys me though up is threads like this, that mean when I say I shop at Waitrose I get grief and I get called a snob. Quite what is has to do with anyone else where the hell I shop is beyond me.

If someone wants to shop at Aldi / Lidl that is up to them, as is where I shop.

Isn't that the definition of having a choice?

Palm oil is usually labelled as vegetable fat. It's also found in a lot of chocolate , but not in Aldi's Moser Roth .

I love Aldi and Lidl, Waitrose is a ridiculous shop.
Asda is really shit; Today I was unfortunate enough to go there and went to the fresh fish counter. I chose 2 sea bass and asked for them to be filleted. The charming fish lady informed me she was no good a filleting fish (wtf?). I asked her to go and find someone who was good at it. She reluctantly said she would " give it a go' 15 minutes and several lost customers later she hands me my fish.
No offer of butter or asking how I wanted cook it.
She was shit and so is the shop.

www.j-sainsbury.co.uk/media/latest-stories/2010/20100214-sainsburys-is-the-worlds-largest-retailer-of-fairtrade-products/

Sainsbury is the world's largest retailer of fairtrade products (article out of date but was in the news recently too).

I do get fed up of the Aldi and lidl bores who only care about price and not ethics

See previous post about Aldi UK and their move to sustainable palm oil.

If people are that bothered about ethics then stop buying any form of meat, eggs or dairy from any of the supermarket chains.

My nearest shops are Aldi and Lidl and I'm more than happy with quality and range if products. Much cheaper too. And nearest waitrrose would be at least two buses each way and over two hours travelling, so it does not feature in my shopping arrangements.

Aldi and Lidl don't have fewer ethics than for example Tesco's or Asda or Morrison's. It's all very well congratulating yourself on being all ethical because you shop at a more expensive and higher class supermarket, but actually if you were that concerned about ethics you would do all your meat shopping from the butcher, do all your fish shopping straight off the boat (line caught only of course), buy your milk from the milkman/woman and buy all your fruit and veg from an organic, local shop. Supermarkets wouldn't feature.

Nobody's mentioned M&S in all this slagging off of various supermarkets, I quite like their food also. They aren't very near me but I do pick up a few things with my click and collect clothes shopping when convenient.

I wish I could shop in Waitrose but I can't. I have 5 to feed, 3 DCs are teenagers so eat a lot! Asda basics chicken breasts are better quality than Sainsbury's normal ones. Fact. The Sainsbury's ones are as tough as old boots. The 5 pack from asda cost about £4-5, has made 12 enchiladas, 2 of which are now freezer surprises. The asda Irish mince is £3, has made chilli for 5 of us tomorrow plus another for a freezer surprise. These surprises are DPs lunches as he has a microwave at work. Asda 50p pasta is as good as the Aldi 30p bags and the Sainsbury's 95p ones. Why would I want to pay more for something exactly the same? Even if I had the money to spend at Waitrose I'd be furious at paying almost double for the same item. A loaf of Warbutons in asda is £1, in Sainsbury's the exact same loaf is £1.45. I'd rather buy 2 from Asda and use the £1 I'd saved in Poundland on a fuck off Toblerone for me

I'm all for ethical this, that and the other but my priorities right here and now is feeding a family NOT saving orangoutangs. Sorry if that's unreasonable.

I don't like Aldi and Lidl much. I can never do a full shop there so end up going elsewhere and spending more doing two shops and last time I looked a lot of stuff with nut traces so no good for DS2.

I like Morrisons, the Match and More thing has given my £60 back since November.

I do find shops like Home Bargains etc great for branded stuff like shampoo etc, which I wouldn't buy at Lidl/Aldi nor would I pay Tesco prices for -such as Pantene.
I do like to do lots of shopping in lots of shops :)

I am a recent lidl convert, it's just an interesting shop. I find all sorts of new products to try and love their chocolate.

I also manage to get so much for my money. Last week I spent about £22 on a whole basket of food in Lidl, only got milk and a few other bits in Sainsburys (I like their milk) it came to £30!

I shop in Lidle and Aldi and I am far from being poor. Their Salmon is wonderful.

The only reason anyone is getting any cheap offers from the likes of Waitrose etc, is because of the competition from Aldi and Lidle.

It is a well known fact that Supermarkets in the UK are ripping us off. Now they are running scared from the competition.

YABU post.

I quite like Lidl, not keen on Aldi but both are at least 10 miles for me so I stick with nearer farm shops , butchers etc

Why do you give a shiny where the rest of us shop?

We don't have waitrose, we do have Lidl and Aldi. Which I would shop in anyway. What's it to ya?

I have saved a small fortune shopping in Lidl the past 6 months. The food is fabulous, not quite the range of other stores but nonetheless we are very happy indeed shopping there. Once you get used to the fantastic prices you can't imagine going back.

I make it my policy to come on all Aldi threads to slag it off as our local one is far too busy these days. Here I go:

Down with Aldi
Never go there
Stay at Waitrose
Up the Asda

I've come to the conclusion thst the OP is fabricated Stealth Market Research.

This thread confirms what I've thought for years and one of the reasons the large supermarkets are losing customers; lots of choice isn't what everyone is looking for.

Shopping shouldn't be so difficult. Trying to work out which pack size and brand of coffee is the best value is exhausting. Times that for every single item you purchase and I'm a wreck at the end of it.

In, get what you need and out in under half an hour. No cringey small talk at the checkout with an assistant who has to ask you certain questions, no deliberating over 15 variants on weetabix and navigating a shop bigger than Buckingham palace where it's impossible to keep up with the offers. The price of one item can double and half in price one week to the next (I'm looking at you, Sensations)

They (the supermarkets) thought we wanted shops to be bigger, brighter, open all the tome with shelves rammed with options. We just want consistently decent products and clear prices.

Puppy I'm with you there! I get ragey at the amount of.newbies at my aldi. I've been going for 10 years! Surely i should get a fast track pass or priority entry? You can always spot someone on their first trip, trying to figure out if seal bars are penguins and trying to pack their bags as the stiff is scanned.

I have been shopping at aldi and lidl since the 1990s just prefer it asda for pop for dh and razors everyone is different