To hate Aldi!

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I've tried to like it, I mean it's cheap as anything but, every single time I buy meat specifically chicken it smells vile! Like it's gone off and it's rubbery 😷
This isn't just the one Aldi I've been to lots around my area and out of it and it's all the fucking same! That's another load straight in the bin and I'm off to Sainsbury's tomorrow.

So AIBU and picky or has anybody else experienced this?

There's not much in aldi that I do like, And I've tried most things in there, Also I don't see the need of all the weird ingredients in the crisps.

I love Aldi. So there.

The rest of you buy the same muck elsewhere, just has a nicer name over the door.

FFS Don't GO then if it's THAT bad.

WTF is wrong with people?

I think Waitrose is an overpriced, over-rated shithole, so guess what? I don't GO to the place. I don't start threads about how shit it is.

I'm not going anymore..
don't participate in the tread that's fine same as me not shopping in Aldi anymore

complimints fake smints

DH loves these. He offers one, you take it and he says "I've just given you a complimint" doesn't get tiresome at all

Bought chicken fillets on special and they went off the next day. Bit wary now prefer Lidl for chicken.

I think it depends which Aldi you go to.

E.g. If I go to Town 1 then Aldi is shite. The town is known for being quite poor and run down. Their Aldi doesn't stock half the stuff of my local one. It's all junk food, limited fruit and veg and lots of ready meals and reconstituted meat and frozen food.

My local one I can save around £25-30 a week shopping there vs Tesco and I get everything I want (except Tesco do wine stock pots and curry paste pots so I do a Tesco trip once a month for the things Aldi doesn't do). Lots of fruit and veg, good range of their meats etc too. Mix of mid range and finest food.

The one near to where I work is amazing. They've just spent quite a bit I assume doing it up. That's near 2 private schools and in a very middle class area. It stocks almost exclusively their Aldi finest ranges and is great.

The crap you get in the junk aisle seems to vary too store to store.

I think Waitrose is an overpriced, over-rated shithole, so guess what? I don't GO to the place. I don't start threads about how shit it is

A shit hole?? Really??

And you have kind of the lost the point you were trying to make by saying how shit Waitrose is after telling someone not to post how they find Aldi shit...

I've realised since we've been on a tight budget that I am not fussy at all about food and am quite happy to shop at Lidl and Aldi. I don't eat meat so can't comment, but to me most things taste the same as more expensive brands. The only thing I'm fussy about is clothes washing liquid and skin creams due to sensitive skin. You do get a much better shopping 'experience' from other supermarkets, but that had to be saved as a 'treat' at the moment!! But if you can afford to shop elsewhere then just don't go.

Oh and Aldi don't have all this loyalty card shite either, where others hoover up your personal details and shopping faves and bombard you with so called "offers".

Just get in and get out. Brilliant.

I do not hate the products in Aldi, but I do hate the tills, how busy my local store always is, the aisle in the middle full of random bits and the fact that I cannot get everything in aldi, so end up going to another supermarket as well.

Their fruit and veg goes off quickly, I cannot comment on their meat, as I buy from the butcher, but when I tried their washing powder it left a white residue on dark clothes _ never have that with persil.

The limited range of free from and organic dairy pisses me off too.

Good buys, baby wipes/ nappies, body lotion, rip off John Frieda frizz ease and brunette/blonde shampoo, their cavier moisturizer (I usually use clinique), mens shower gel, mens deo/ body spray, natural greek yoghurt, cereals (not corn flakes or rice krispies), cheese, frozen fish, microwavable rice and chocolate.

When my mat leave money dropped I tried to tighten our purse strings, so I gave Aldi a go. I bought the food on my list and then worked out how much the same food would have been in our normal supermarket. Aldi was about £2.50 cheaper (out of a £50 shop).

But the biggest difference was what I bought: if I'd have gone to another supermarket I would have spent at least £10-£20 on non-list impulse buys. Whereas in Aldi I just buy what I go in for (aside from the occasional item from the aisle of random).

Slimthistime 30 bottles of maple syrup will last us for at least a year - dcs love it on pancakes and porridge but at £6 a bottle it's an expensive luxury.
Can confirm that the Fit You red wine for £4.50 is well worth the price!

We buy meat in the shop of our nearby abattoir and I can assure you aldi, Sainsbury's, Ocado and Tesco all use the same chickens. We get cut price products in all sorts of packaging just because its surplus to the order. Same chickens. Same age. Different packaging

Today in my local Aldi this happened ......... the Aldi chap was stocking the super six deals, one of which was potatoes when one bag looked different. Turned out it was labelled for Sainsbury's. An elderly man asked him why and he laughed and said it's all the same stuff from the same factory! I love Aldi :D

I'm not debating it's the same meat but it definitely smells from Aldi maybe they have storage issues?

And the checkouts are fab - goes through so quickly and they always open up others if a queue is starting to form. Apart from Lidl, who have similar checkouts, all other checkouts in supermarkets drive me nuts because the conveyor belt is never long enough and it seems to take ages.

I find their meat just fine, but I haven't bought chicken from there as far as I can remember.

Their frying steak is lovely and cheaper than anywhere else.

Except tomatoes and chantenay , fruit and veg has been fine.

Love Aldi. Am pescetarian so can't comment on the chicken.
I tend to buy all the stuff I can there, especially vegetables, cheese, bread etc, then buy the more unusual things in Morrisons or similar. Cuts the shopping bill by around ten or fifteen pounds at least (unless I spot some random bit of child equipment in Aldi like the bathroom step I had to have the other day.)

Veg should go off in a few days, especially if out of season. That's real life. Buy frozen if an issue.

Lots of lovely stuff, ( but no non-choice wasting space) non watery tinned tomatoes and the checkout farters-about get scared off. Yes, you, sweetybumps, the one who is surprised that shopping has to be paid for and only then rummages in her giant bag for her ghastly flowered wallet.

Also no music, seasonal crap kept to one aisle so easily avoided for the next three months and no stupid loyalty cards.

I would shop there if they were more expensive.

I think Aldi is a really good shop not only is it cheap but also a good quality. i think most of us don't like to shop at Aldi because it is an orginally German shop and most of us don't trust foreign shops.

I think the Aldi in your area id just really bad

Actually it is cheaper. I decided to do my big food shop in asda this time. Looked at 3 items and thought they were horrendously over priced so left and went to Aldi instead. For example: graham's butter 250g was £2 in asda but it was £1.30 in Aldi. That's a massive Mark up in asda!

Personally I much prefer Lidl, I find the taste and quality better in general.

Waitrose a shithole.....lol you wish.

Genrally there is a far lower tolerance for poor quality products in Germany. I think that why in general Aldi and Lidl despite being cheap provide great quality for the price.