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 most supermarkets work out as much of a muchness if you get to know the stock and are prepared to be flexible with your meals so you can take advantage of special offers. You also need to be a regular so you can spot the fake special offers and take them with a pinch of salt (come off it, like when have Pringles ever sold for £2 a tin?)...

I shop mostly very locally at the nearby Tesco Express, only because I know when they are taking the piss and when something is genuinely good value. I supplement it with toiletries from Home Bargains, more exotic stuff from the Aldi a mile away, and meat and veg from the independent small shops.

The worst places, I find, are the aircraft hangar supermarkets a drive away which sap your will to live by making you trawl the entire place for a full shop and feel like the warehouse that the Ark Of The Covenant gets shelved in at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark. You end up paying a ransom just to get out of the place.

I would totally convert to Aldi but their coffee tastes like smokey bacon crisps and the cats only eat Felix. They had the right hump with me over Aldi cat food.

Kitty, my family completely converted two years ago now - all apart from the cat food. Mine won't touch Aldi's, I have to get Iams or Go Kat from Tesco. Bleddy fussy felines.

Love Lidl. I'm in and out in 20 minutes, I buy whatever I fancy without looking at the prices, it's about £40 a week cheaper than Tescos and means I don't feel bad nipping across the road to M&S for a few top up bits if I fancy

Puppy, I had a week of them on hunger strike and giving me evils. Never again!

I for one will make no apology for caring infinitely, infinitely more about the needs of fellow humans than animal welfare standards

I don't think the two are mutually exclusive and you can care about both.

Lovely.

Sainsburys is so over priced for the quality.

ASDA chick me.

If you could see the conditions that your £2.94 chicken lived in you would cry.... No kidding, you really would.
YABVU for buying that chicken and supporting animal cruelty....
I'm no vegetarian, in fact I am a farmer but come on, the animals we rear to feed ourselves deserve to have a decent life while they're here!

Totally unjustified. How the fuck do you know how we feel about staff wages?

Feeling defensive?

Waitrose say the chicken is half the normal price, so it should have been raised in Waitrose's normal conditions for a £6 chicken.

If not, that's either because waitrose are substituting chickens reared in inferior conditions, ie not actually half price as not the same product, or waitrose are paying their supplier less than normal, or waitrose are making less profit themselves on the chicken.

I suspect it is a combination of the last two factors, and I would be extremely disappointed in waitrose if it was the chickens that have suffered for their offer, as it gives against their 'we're better than all the other supermarkets' image.

I'm the one with the moral high ground here.

Er...ok

I thought you were saying how wonderful Lidl were because they pay their staff well, on a thread in which lots of people, including me, have said they shop at Lidl. The reason I mentioned the meat is because the OP was extolling the virtues of a £2.94 chicken from Waitrose which apparently is a thing to be applauded in her eyes. People then said that a £2.94 chicken will be on sale because something has been squeezed somewhere: this will either be the welfare of the animal itself or the welfare of the supplier. Hence my comment about when you care about one you generally care about the other, to which you replied "fuck chickens." Hope the view is good from the "moral high ground."

Silly me here I am popping in Aldi which I drive past on my way home from work when I could be driving into the centre of Newcastle, finding somewhere to park and paying £4 parking charge, making my way through the shopping centre to get to the Waitrose which is half the size and twice the price.

What am I like!!

and the bog roll in Lidl? What's it like? Anyone? I asked a couple pages ago.

^ asking as I have found that the quality of a store's loo roll is a reflection of the quality in their other goods. and I ain't wiping my parts on rough thin paper

My local town has an Aldi and a Waitrose, that's it.

I shop almost entirely in Aldi. Why would I pay 50% more for no better quality in Waitrose? The free range chooks in Aldi are ace.

I just use Waitrose for the odd bit I can't get in Aldi, like gluten free ranges.

Aldi also has very naice ham....

loo roll at Lidl is excellent.

^ asking as I have found that the quality of a store's loo roll is a reflection of the quality in their other goods.

Well I unfortunately had the misfortune of buying Waitrose loo roll. Wasted most of it trying to unroll it and get it to roll off a complete sheet without it splitting and only 1/2 the side unrolling. Really annoying.

Aldi does a brilliant Shea Butter loo roll which feels lovely and had the added advantage of making the bathroom smell very nice indeed. At a bargain £3.49 for 9 rolls.

Come on Waitrose shoppers tell me that hasn't swayed you