Shopping at Aldi compared to others. £42 saving.

[rich12]

I went to Aldi to do a weekly food shop for the first time today.
We normally get a delivery from ocado or morrisons.

I've done a like for like after my shop as close as I can and the only difference I can see is the fact aldi charged me £6.79 for something I didn't buy.
This included me selecting everything own brand that wasn't branded from aldi.

I am now officially converted. (if I can be bothered to go)

All in all.
£112. 39 at Aldi.
£155.37 at Ocado. (not including my amazing new thermal t shirt either)

That's a pretty big difference no matter what and the food I have tried so far from Aldi seems to be pretty decent.
That's a circa £40 saving every week!!!

[rich12]

anonymous said:

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I'll be honest, I went just after 10am this morning and I had a bit of a chat with 2 women walking round and didn't really notice any of them. A few polish but nothing horrific.

[rich12]

It is very weird on your first visit.

I had to ask the woman next to me in the car park where to put the trolley as I couldn't see the place you normally put them and she said I have to take it back to the entrance and they do it to save money on employees.

The guy at the checkout said they have targets of 1,000 items every hour. No idea if that's a lot but the way they do it is very off putting at first.

I don't like the way it is but then again I haven't done an actual food shop for years.

[rich12]

BoRED S2upid said:

You will soon be back to Ocado. Once the neighbours start talking “have you noticed it’s not Ocado anymore he’s lugging it in himself from Aldi” your wife won’t stand for it.

Ha!
Thankfully we're probably the only food snobs on our road that we know.
Someone even shops at Iceland!!!

[rich12]

£2k a year saving is pretty impressive for just shopping at a shop is pretty decent.
That's a decent night out in London.

[rich12]

moanthebairns said:

See I don't get this, you made a £42 saving by buying own brand gear. What would you save buying own brand in Tesco or Asda. People always go on about the savings but they're eating cheesy puffs instead of wotsits and drinking iron brew instead of irn bru. It's not a like for like comparison.

I nip in occasionally on the way home to see if they have any Guinness crisps. One person on the check out, hoaching with scum, st layout, looks like something out of the 90's.

I used to live across from one and as others have said it was great for picking up certain stuff but i'd bloody struggle with a weeks shop in there. I had to nip over to the Co-op for branded stuff (you need a bding lottery win in there).

TBH, I only use Asda because they rarely change the layout and I know exactly where everything is.

If you read my post...
I've done a like for like after my shop as close as I can and the only difference I can see is the fact aldi charged me £6.79 for something I didn't buy.
This included me selecting everything own brand that wasn't branded from aldi.

Everything that was Aldi's own, I selected the same at Ocado.
Most of the packaged stuff, was branded.