ALDI & LIDL Food and Drink Worth Trying?
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technodup said:
l354uge said:
Hence the graduate scheme starts at £42k and goes up to £72k in 3 years! Plus an "audi A4 company car" which would probably be bottom spec, but non car people don't care about that!
Many moons ago I applied for that. Went to an assessment centre/interview at their main place in Livingston, f
k me, their commitment to frugality isn't reserved just for the stores.Never seen such a bland, tatty, no frills 'head office' in my life.
As it was I remember them saying even at that stage you'd be grafting for your cash. Store managers are/were key holders and had to open and close for a start, and expected to pretty much do anything, anytime. So you start looking at the effective hourly rate... I gather at least at that time they had a significant management turnover.
Load them up with a serious workload, tolerate the high turn-over, and know that the calibre of management staff who are still with you after 3-5 years is going to be very high indeed. Switched-on, hard-working, diligent people.
Then these are the people who will become your area managers, trainers, store-openers, trouble-shooters and higher, and what a great corps of 'been there, seen it, done it all' people they will be.
technodup said:
any moons ago I applied for that. Went to an assessment centre/interview at their main place in Livingston, fk me, their commitment to frugality isn't reserved just for the stores.
Never seen such a bland, tatty, no frills 'head office' in my life.
The Aldi head office in Atherstone is quite nice, much more pleasant than several of their competitors k me, their commitment to frugality isn't reserved just for the stores.Never seen such a bland, tatty, no frills 'head office' in my life.
SpeckledJim said:
technodup said:
l354uge said:
Hence the graduate scheme starts at £42k and goes up to £72k in 3 years! Plus an "audi A4 company car" which would probably be bottom spec, but non car people don't care about that!
Many moons ago I applied for that. Went to an assessment centre/interview at their main place in Livingston, fk me, their commitment to frugality isn't reserved just for the stores.Never seen such a bland, tatty, no frills 'head office' in my life.
As it was I remember them saying even at that stage you'd be grafting for your cash. Store managers are/were key holders and had to open and close for a start, and expected to pretty much do anything, anytime. So you start looking at the effective hourly rate... I gather at least at that time they had a significant management turnover.
Load them up with a serious workload, tolerate the high turn-over, and know that the calibre of management staff who are still with you after 3-5 years is going to be very high indeed. Switched-on, hard-working, diligent people.
Then these are the people who will become your area managers, trainers, store-openers, trouble-shooters and higher, and what a great corps of 'been there, seen it, done it all' people they will be.
Oh yes, and the car park has more interesting cars
FredericRobinson said:
technodup said:
any moons ago I applied for that. Went to an assessment centre/interview at their main place in Livingston, fk me, their commitment to frugality isn't reserved just for the stores.
Never seen such a bland, tatty, no frills 'head office' in my life.
The Aldi head office in Atherstone is quite nice, much more pleasant than several of their competitors k me, their commitment to frugality isn't reserved just for the stores.Never seen such a bland, tatty, no frills 'head office' in my life.
handpaper said:
HarryW said:
At under £18 from Aldi most acceptable....
I'm normally quite the fan of Aldi's whiskies, but that one didn't impress. Some smoke, not much else.I've got the current 28-year-old "Christmas Special", anyone tried it yet?
battered said:
handpaper said:
HarryW said:
At under £18 from Aldi most acceptable....
I'm normally quite the fan of Aldi's whiskies, but that one didn't impress. Some smoke, not much else.I've got the current 28-year-old "Christmas Special", anyone tried it yet?
HarryW said:
battered said:
handpaper said:
HarryW said:
At under £18 from Aldi most acceptable....
I'm normally quite the fan of Aldi's whiskies, but that one didn't impress. Some smoke, not much else.I've got the current 28-year-old "Christmas Special", anyone tried it yet?
I went into Aldi today for a top-up shop. I haven't been for a month or so, as I'm working away and living on crap food in a Holiday Inn in some sh*thole in SE London. I digress.
Aldi have really raised their game of late. Not only do they now have plain couscous, preserve of the middle classes if ever there was one, they are the first supermarket I have seen to stock large couscous. I will be stocking up, they won't sell enough to keep it on the shelves permanently. I've been looking for the stuff for a while having first had it this summer in an extremely delicious meal in Lichfield. While dodging the crowds, Saturday morning a week before Christmas, who thought it might be busy? I spotted all sorts of upmarket new stuff. Not only Greek style yogurt (that's actually made in Shropshire, I know one of the sites that they use) but also real Greek yogurt made in Greece, I suspect by Fage. The meat shelves were groaning with nice looking meat, and they had displaced spme of their central aisle of cheap plastic tat for an end gondola of fresh food for the lunchtime market. It was at the wrong end of the shop, but you can't have everything. Way to go, Aldi, crack on.
Aldi have really raised their game of late. Not only do they now have plain couscous, preserve of the middle classes if ever there was one, they are the first supermarket I have seen to stock large couscous. I will be stocking up, they won't sell enough to keep it on the shelves permanently. I've been looking for the stuff for a while having first had it this summer in an extremely delicious meal in Lichfield. While dodging the crowds, Saturday morning a week before Christmas, who thought it might be busy? I spotted all sorts of upmarket new stuff. Not only Greek style yogurt (that's actually made in Shropshire, I know one of the sites that they use) but also real Greek yogurt made in Greece, I suspect by Fage. The meat shelves were groaning with nice looking meat, and they had displaced spme of their central aisle of cheap plastic tat for an end gondola of fresh food for the lunchtime market. It was at the wrong end of the shop, but you can't have everything. Way to go, Aldi, crack on.
Yep, the giant cous cous is good.
My local is definitely stocking more of their premium ranges. I'm heading down there tomorrow for the duck feather pillows and the manager had promised to put a bottle of the decent Brandy aside for me when its back in stock.
Staff are friendly, stock is half decent and prices are good.
Apart for £8.99 for 4 large prawns! (okay massive prawns but lobster would be cheaper by weight!)
My local is definitely stocking more of their premium ranges. I'm heading down there tomorrow for the duck feather pillows and the manager had promised to put a bottle of the decent Brandy aside for me when its back in stock.
Staff are friendly, stock is half decent and prices are good.
Apart for £8.99 for 4 large prawns! (okay massive prawns but lobster would be cheaper by weight!)
battered said:
I went into Aldi today for a top-up shop. I haven't been for a month or so, as I'm working away and living on crap food in a Holiday Inn in some sh*thole in SE London. I digress.
Aldi have really raised their game of late. Not only do they now have plain couscous, preserve of the middle classes if ever there was one, they are the first supermarket I have seen to stock large couscous.
Bit confused, as all supermarkets sell the Giant Couscous, either own brand or Merchant Gourmet.Aldi have really raised their game of late. Not only do they now have plain couscous, preserve of the middle classes if ever there was one, they are the first supermarket I have seen to stock large couscous.
hyphen said:
Attention any Lidl shoppers
BBC site is reporting that a Paint thinning chemical has been found in Lidl gravy by Food Standards Agency, Lidl is doing a recall.
BBC site is reporting that a Paint thinning chemical has been found in Lidl gravy by Food Standards Agency, Lidl is doing a recall.
BBC said:
"The contaminant levels in this [gravy granules] product exceed those set to minimise this risk and the product is therefore being recalled as a precaution," the FSA said.
Xylene is a petrochemical used as a solvent in products such as paints and inks.
Exposure can cause irritation of the mouth, throat, nose and lungs and in severe cases lead to heart problems, liver and kidney damage and coma, according to Public Health England.
The products affected are 300g packets of Kania Gravy Granules for meat and for chicken with best before dates of October and November 2017.
Xylene is a petrochemical used as a solvent in products such as paints and inks.
Exposure can cause irritation of the mouth, throat, nose and lungs and in severe cases lead to heart problems, liver and kidney damage and coma, according to Public Health England.
The products affected are 300g packets of Kania Gravy Granules for meat and for chicken with best before dates of October and November 2017.
HotJambalaya said:
21TonyK said:
My local is definitely stocking more of their premium ranges. I'm heading down there tomorrow for the duck feather pillows
would appreciate your thoughts on the pillows when you get themA word of warning to anyone who has bought the 2kg off-the-bone Aberdeen Angus for oven roasting.
We had one for Christmas lunch yesterday and it was an utter disaster. We like meat on the bloody side of rare. The instructions said 35min/500g @ 150C non-fan. It was taken out 15mins before time and rested.
What we got was a roasting pan of blood coloured water and a dried-out chunk of beef that looked as apertising as a slice of Pumpernickel.
If we had gone to the butcher and bought beef, rather than a product, it would have been cooked at a much higher temperature for a much shorter time and checked with the meat thermometer.
We had one for Christmas lunch yesterday and it was an utter disaster. We like meat on the bloody side of rare. The instructions said 35min/500g @ 150C non-fan. It was taken out 15mins before time and rested.
What we got was a roasting pan of blood coloured water and a dried-out chunk of beef that looked as apertising as a slice of Pumpernickel.
If we had gone to the butcher and bought beef, rather than a product, it would have been cooked at a much higher temperature for a much shorter time and checked with the meat thermometer.
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