To think that Lidl are taking the piss?

[mumofoneAloneandwell]

So under the old system, if you spent £10, you got a bakery treat, £50 free veg etc, plus the scratch cards giving you 15% off of something youve typically bought before

It wasnt good but it was fine

Now, you get 1 point per pound

And one donut costs 40 points

So I need to spend £40 now to get a free donut? Plus no scratchcard rewards?!

Nonsense

I'm not loyal to one supermarket but I did enjoy getting a free pink donut. However you are being a tight arse because the pink donuts are what? 39p and bloody delicious.

Lidl UK makes a pre tax profit of under 1.5%

Most organisations would not consider this a safe margin. Just a slight downturn in business will take them into a loss.

Many companies making profits that low would be closed down.

Their recent email said "You asked, we listened" so it's apparently what we wanted! I'll still shop at Lidl but just not every week now.

Yip. We were Asda shoppers and the blue light discount (both health care professionals) made it a bit cheaper.

Fast forward to a few years ago …..shelves empty, floors disgusting (eg eggs spilled and no one cleaning up for hours), no real discounts, less choice than others….its Tesco all the way for me now 😁

We had a Lidl close to us but their business model (v few staff on the floor, mega queuing at the till, packing at bionic speed) didn’t suit us so I stopped doing my big shop there.

where I live, Tesco is the only big SM offering pay at the till/help packing a big shop.

Go Tesco!

This is hilarious. You do get the concept of business existing to make money ?

I laughed at that - no customer is going to be happy with this change!

All it did was piss me off and make me vow to go back to Aldi, where I shopped before I discovered the Lidl app was actually decent. If they can't afford my sack of spuds for spending 50 quid or a bar of cheap chocolate for spending £100, they can manage without my grocery shopping at all apart from when the specialbuys tempt me back in

And you do understand that customers who enjoyed a decent loyalty program (yes we understand it was to harvest our data really) are entitled to be pissed off when they make that program significantly more shit whilst at the same time claiming that it's what we wanted?

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You get a free biscuit anyway. Enjoy.

I was loyal to Lidl, but am increasingly buying less and less there due to the quality - fruit goes off too quickly, or stays like a rock.
Spuds have too many block spots.
Tea bags too hard to split apart.

The 10% off your shop was pretty good, though I don't think I spend enough there now so I wasn't earning it.

I buy staples in lidl and cheese. I wouldn't touch their meat. I bought meat twice well within date at it was rotten. Never again. I have bought veg and their sourdough which was fine too.
But I would never risk their meat again.🤢

My ASDA coupon currently is £2 off Sally Hansen Miracle gel nail polish. Only 1 usage though so don't be greedy. Morrisons double points on F&V and I have a total of 0.43. Nectar discounts I can't be bothered with. This is all too faffy for small gains.

I think retailers offer generous schemes to encourage you to sign up. Then once they’ve got a big database they cut it back. Tesco used to quadruple your points for partner stuff and lots of generous clubcard points now they charge inflated prices for stuff and discount it back when you use a clubcard. Co-op used to give 2p per pound when you bought own brand now it’s just discounts.

£50 of free veg? Surprised they are not bankrupt.

Points? I didn’t even realise you collected points….I just get the money off things and the free bag of potatoes….

For goodness sake. They’ve changed it. Sorry I’m so slow 🤦🏻‍♀️😆

I’m sad about the change. I used to do a £200 shop at the end of the month and get £20 off with my voucher. The points won’t add up to anything like that.

I worked for Central England Co-op during covid and our favourite weekend of the month was payday weekend as we got double discount. So it was a really good discount. But when they changed their "loyalty" card recently, the staff all lost their double discount. They are already struggling to recruit and keep staff, this isnt helping.

ETA it used to be double discount all through December too, which makes a massive difference when you are working a NMW job....thats gone too.

I remember buying loads of baby stuff- little tikes stuff for the garden plus a Maclaren pushchair- with Tesco points!

This

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2026/05/lidl-loyalty-shakeup/

I wonder if this is partly about funding new stores?

Going to Lidl is always a slightly grim experience. The fruit and veg are particularly shit, the queues are always long. Sainsbury’s do the best loyalty card and do everything else better.

I loved the free doughnuts. It's really not the same getting cash off because I would never actually buy a doughnut even if you got the same amount.

Theres not a lidl near me anyway

There is an aldi and a sainsburys - will make the switch, with going to asda (far away for us) to stock up when they've got sales on

Sainsbury's is like a Chinese prison camp (complete with Chinese owners and austere anti shoplifting measures) and the fruit is always half rotten.

I remember lidl being known for paying well above minimum wage as well, back in the good old days

Wonder what they pay now 🤔

Asda do really good 'reduced to clear' sales on meat at times, which keeps me going there

And with lidl, agree i wont make the journey. If I pass by one maybe bit I'll pop in