AIBU to think I will save money by going to aldi??

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A new aldi has opened near my work and I am really looking forward to shopping there and saving money on my weekly food shop.
I already have a lidl near my work but I just cannot bear going there as the queues are so long and also I don't find it to be much cheaper than tescos?
I normally spend about 250 pounds a month on groceries in tescos / sainsburys
To any one that shops in aldi, are the queues aa bad as lidl? In my lidl they only have about four tills open at a time, hence the queues? Is aldi the same?
Also what foods are good to buy from aldi and what should I avoid???

Go in for milk, come out with a canoe.

Yes would make a great ad campaign!

ive been told they throw your shopping at you in aldi to get you through as quickly as possible. for that reason ive never been in

The idea is that your purchases go back into a trolley or basket, you pay and remove them to the side shelf to pack as slowly as you wish, it's worked that way in Germany for as long as I remember.
A pesky woman in Aldi today slowly packed her stuff onto a variety of bags then decided to look for her card to pay.

Anyone want a sprocket set or a massive bottle of caravan toilet cleaner?

Don't knock it, we have lots of household bits and pieces from when we lived in Germany, left in '87, silly but indispensable stuff, boxes of little hooks, picture hooks, fuses and so on Never needed caravan toilet cleaner though.
My £3.99 'crocs' are still going strong after 8 years of hammer too. Oddly we don't buy much food there, or Lidl, just some of our favourite German stuff and apparently the gazpacho is to die for when the Spanish week's on at one of them.

We didn’t really save money. Most of what we brought we didn’t like the taste of even compared to Tesco value so it went into the bin and we had to go out and buy it all over again.

Another Aldi fan here! We do a big weekly shop and it definitely saves us money, with two teenage DS’ it’s worth it, I find the staff in our local store very nice and friendly.

Most of what we brought we didn’t like the taste of even compared to Tesco value so it went into the bin

What on earth did you buy? I don't understand this at all, I find their quality to be miles above Tesco.

I'm in Ireland, which probably makes some difference, but I can't imagine it would be that extreme.

I can't imagine putting food in the bin either. If I buy something new to try and aren't that keen, it means I don't buy that thing next time I shop. I wouldn't throw it in the bin!!

I used to shop in Sainsbury, not Tesco, but really do find the quality compares well. Some items (the dishwasher tablets I think are one, IIRC) come out top in quality testing from Which, so to write off everything in Aldi as being poor quality is just odd.

Don't get me wrong, I'm quite happy if lots more people don't start going to Aldi - it's getting difficult to park at ours it is so popular. I preferred it when fewer people were converts

Aldi and especially Lidl's quality is way above Tesco value. I'd also love to know what you bought.