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thanetspeedshop said:
Can only guess that people who would never think of buying Tesco/Aldi value brands buy into the Aldi unknown brands which are generally within 1 or 2p of the value items.
This is all it is. In Aldi/Lidl you are offered 17p lemonade. In Tesco you are offered 17p value lemonade, 50p own-brand lemonade and 80p famous brand lemonade.The value range is packaged to look cheap so you buy the more expensive one. It's the people who are influenced by the branding and packaging that find their shopping cheaper at these stores.
alock said:
thanetspeedshop said:
Can only guess that people who would never think of buying Tesco/Aldi value brands buy into the Aldi unknown brands which are generally within 1 or 2p of the value items.
This is all it is. In Aldi/Lidl you are offered 17p lemonade. In Tesco you are offered 17p value lemonade, 50p own-brand lemonade and 80p famous brand lemonade.The value range is packaged to look cheap so you buy the more expensive one. It's the people who are influenced by the branding and packaging that find their shopping cheaper at these stores.
Look at fruit and veg prices, what will Tesco sell you for 49p? Tescos coconuts are 69p, yet they're 49p in Aldi, which is a huge percentage difference. Pretty much every line of fruit and veg is the same. Tescos don't even sell yogurts as nice as Aldi's yogurts, and nothing for the few pence Aldi charge for them. Cheese. Beer in Aldi is £1.25 a bottle, Tescos is 3 for £4.50, so more expensive and you have to buy three times as many to get the more expensive price. San Miguel 660ml bottles are £1.49 in Aldi and £2 in Tesco. Same brands, same bottle sizes, significant differences in price.
Aldi's bread is crap and they have issues keeping chicken fresh in my local store, so I won't buy either of those there, but for pretty much everything else they're loads cheaper.
A one and a half litre bottle of Tesco Gin, in Dubai, for 18aed- just less than 4 quid.
Produced and bottled in the uk, shipped here, and on sale for 4 quid including profit does lead me to believe its likely only fit for cleaning paintbrushes, but it will suffice for the Mrs recent obsession with Rhubarb gin.
Possibly.
Produced and bottled in the uk, shipped here, and on sale for 4 quid including profit does lead me to believe its likely only fit for cleaning paintbrushes, but it will suffice for the Mrs recent obsession with Rhubarb gin.
Possibly.
Café near work does 2 eggs, bacon, sausage, beans, hash brown, mushrooms, toast and a half decent latte (with little biscuit) for £3.50 and it’s pretty good.
The sausage, which is the benchmark for the quality of a breakfast, isn’t bad and much better than the standard café fare. When a Tesco meal deal is £3.00, there is no competition!
The sausage, which is the benchmark for the quality of a breakfast, isn’t bad and much better than the standard café fare. When a Tesco meal deal is £3.00, there is no competition!
alock said:
This is all it is. In Aldi/Lidl you are offered 17p lemonade. In Tesco you are offered 17p value lemonade, 50p own-brand lemonade and 80p famous brand lemonade.
The value range is packaged to look cheap so you buy the more expensive one. It's the people who are influenced by the branding and packaging that find their shopping cheaper at these stores.
For at least some soda there is a clear difference though, the cheap value stuff tastes a lot different from store brand cola or coca cola. I can deal with store brand or "first choice" or pepsi, but the really cheap coke just tastes bad.The value range is packaged to look cheap so you buy the more expensive one. It's the people who are influenced by the branding and packaging that find their shopping cheaper at these stores.
I buy packets of biscuits, crisps, cereal bars, noodles, soups etc to keep in my desk at work for lunch for the occasions that morning kid dramas prevents me making a packed lunch.
Last time I went to Aldi, I filled a large tote bag with enough stuff for two weeks worth of lunch for £9 something.
Last time I went to Aldi, I filled a large tote bag with enough stuff for two weeks worth of lunch for £9 something.
I buy the Lemonade to keep my kids away from my stash of Diet Coke which is my guilty pleasure (instead of Beer), when all three are at home I have plonked an 18 pack in my spot in the garage and two days later there were two cans left, I had taken one, so they had average 5 each in the two days, so they are banned from that and the compromise is the occasional six bottle pack of that from Lidl.
The gym I go to is next to lidl, previously I was going to Aldi near work, have to say Lidl isnt as good as Aldi and there is councilness at this Lidl that doesnt help, Waynetta parks the heap in a disabled spot to go and get cider and oven chips in her Ugg boots and Pyjamas, higher than average incidence of Obesicles and Dole Poles, a lot of customers wheeze with the effort of just moving round a supermarket, then next door to get some fags.
The gym I go to is next to lidl, previously I was going to Aldi near work, have to say Lidl isnt as good as Aldi and there is councilness at this Lidl that doesnt help, Waynetta parks the heap in a disabled spot to go and get cider and oven chips in her Ugg boots and Pyjamas, higher than average incidence of Obesicles and Dole Poles, a lot of customers wheeze with the effort of just moving round a supermarket, then next door to get some fags.
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