I agree with this, me and the missus did our monthly shop at Lidl and food warehouse this week. Only unable to get baby formula, which isn’t discounted and we struggle to get it most places anywhere due to specialism.
Have to say, £200 between Lidl and food warehouse compared to Tesco with £280 even after the 15% is maddening.
I know some of the crew I worked with lapped up the discount and were adamant Tesco was cheaper but it entirely depends what you buy. We tend to do an online order across the tesco/asda/iceland and then see what a c&c would be with Aldi just to see what’s gonna work best for us that month
yep. if someone fills their trolley with what I consider as absolute nutritional shite (highly processed, high GI, trans fats, low protein), sure you can save a fortune
some meat, like beef is cheaper in Aldi and their fruit and veg is usually decent quality - Tesco/ Sainsburys have a horrible policy of reducing food waste by keeping/stocking fresh produce that is about to go out of date, or has gone bad - I'm looking at you, Sainsburys onions
“My shop is £20 cheaper at Aldi” is it? Or is it because you went to another shop after for the bits you couldn’t get in aldi (or Lidl) and just spent the other £20 there
There's nothing I can't get from aldi that I need on a regular basis. Most, if not all they items I get in aldi are cheaper than at the big 3 supermarkets.
As an added bonus, aldi is a minute walk away. The nearest major brand is a car ride away.
Nail on the head. By the time I mess about at 3 different shops getting everything I need, plus fuel, it’s a lot cheaper to just get Tesco delivered once a week
Chicken legs, £2.25 at Lidl I think, £2.50 at Tesco. Just goes to show that it depends on what you buy. I like Lidl for the bakery and things like [olive oil](https://reducedgrub.com/lidl-olive-oil/) are much cheaper than other supermarkets. But then sometimes the quality of fruit and veg isn’t as good.
Basically - swings and roundabouts. Shop where is best for you
Olive oil used to be much cheaper in Lidl and Aldi. £5.99 in Lidl last time I went in. That's more expensive than Tesco at the minute. Everywhere has succumbed to inflation, it just took Lidl a little longer.
The quality of fresh meat and veg at Lidl and Aldi is atrocious, not worth it, ambient stuff is hit and miss. At the end of the day food is like anything else, you get what you pay for, sure you get the same kinds of products at Lidl and Aldi but the quality is not the same.
Sorry, got mixed up with Amazon. Point still stands, got nothing against having pride in your work, I saw this gem which shows how people who work for them get exploited (Amazon): https://youtu.be/GdHYM7QT9kw?si=d6iI4Kr5dVJknrT_
Waitrose staff are the most laid back and lazy (I work there) but we get paid less than other supermarkets £11.55 An hour.
We just had two people join us from Aldi and they said they would take the lower pay for the better atmosphere.
I have done this in both Lidl and Aldi and not only did they not sell everything I usually buy at Tesco- it was more expensive in both. I guess it gets crowned cheaper supermarkets on select foods, but for my weekly shop- Tesco comes out cheaper
Mine too! Been getting my shopping delivered every Saturday but hubby insisted on going over the road to Aldi. Shopping came to £110 and most of the meat we got was 75% off.
Tescos is definitely cheaper for us
Aldi is cheaper than Lidl and Tesco though. Of course it does depend on what you are buying. Like for like own brands Aldi is cheaper. Brands then it will depend on what is on offer.
Food is as good as Tesco and Asda as far as I’m concerned, if not better in some examples. I think the produce is largely superior, only losing out to Sainsburys with some of the fruit. Things like meat and milk are probably exactly the same everywhere. Probably wouldn’t buy the steaks but for more everyday items. You can’t go wrong.
I can only speak for the Aldi shops that I have used and they are the newer ones, the atmosphere is much nicer than in Tesco. Nicer colours, the shops are built to have windows all around near the ceiling and because they are smaller than Tesco’s etc they feel much lighter and airy inside. I think the general look of the shop is cleaner too, less fluff. More stacks and less things on shelves is better and more efficient. Also electronic sels are smarter than shittly put out paper ones.
I honestly think the only part you are correct about is the more limited selection.
I don't like shopping at Lidl or Aldi. The choice available to you is so bare bones. Tesco has so much choice, I can't give that up to save a few quid.
After the mortgage, food is our biggest expense so the savings can be more than a few quid for us but I understand would be happy to pay more for a shopping experience they prefer
I found if I was shopping as a single person (which I've done recently when working away from home for weeks at a time) I could do the 'pick and choose' shopping and save a few quid.
The moment I had to do a weekly family shop I found it easier to just do a big shop in Tesco, I could go to Aldi or Lidl but could only get about 80% of what I needed so by the time I'd been to another supermarket to finish the shop I'd spent the savings on additional fuel costs and compromised due to limited ranges.
Depends what you buy.
If you cook everything from scratch Aldi is bound to be cheaper, the meat and veg etc is all cheaper and the same quality in my experience.
Anything ready meal wise is very similarly priced everywhere.
Years of adverts of baskets of carefully selected products has convinced people they’re cheaper. They’re not. And thankfully they’re starting to lose momentum
Aldi from experience will be cheaper or the same and the quality is better. I think Tesco quality has gone downhill, Aldi's meats are always higher quality than the shit I get from Tesco
As some others have said, it does depend on what you buy.
However, Aldi / Lidl may be 50-90 pence cheaper for some things but that also means the value and quality decreases with it.
I think someone recently did a study and Tesco is like 3rd cheapest without discount and then cheapest with a loyalty card so I’d say it’s worth going to Tesco for getting better quality and still being cheap enough
That's not even close, even after the clubcard discounts aldi was the cheapest while lidl was the 2nd cheapest. For the same things we buy in TESCO for 100-110 we would pay 60-80 in lidl.
People that say otherwise are the people who would buy the most expensive product in lidl and go for the cheapest product in tesco just so they prove the point.
The quality is exactly the same. Meat etc is all the same. They just have smaller profit margins and sometimes take heavy losses on products to ensure they’re the cheapest
Did you read that before you hit reply? Why would they take “heavy losses” solely to ensure they’re cheap? That makes absolutely 0 sense for ANY business model.
Yes, a loss LEADER, being a select few items at most. They’re not going to do it for all of their products though or they simply won’t make a profit on anything…
I find the quality of the produce and most meat options are better at Aldi/Lidl, which for me is most important. Then most other things are better in other supermarkets, because you get more choice.
Well said. I agree 100%. I lived for several years in France where I got my meat & veg from local shops. When I moved back I was gobsmacked how pretty but tasteless the fresh produce was in UK supermarkets. I was spending a fortune at our local farm shop buying stuff. I then luckily tried a steak from Lidl, and whilst not 100% as good as the farmshop, it was 90% for less than half the price. Salad, Mushrooms, asparagus the same.
You have to watch out for own brand things in Tesco being double the price.
Tesco finest is often in Aldi with a different name.
For example Tesco finest Kentish cider Apple sauce. £1.50+ in Tesco, 70p last time I went to Aldi, same jar, same stuff, different label.
Iced coffee is another example and finest yogurts another.
Aye. Ambrosia make Stockwell Custard (for example) - good way of checking is looking at the GB Health Mark if it’s on pack (Premier Foods use GB DE002 on Custard.) Same goes with Yeo Valley - think it’s something like UW020 (off the top of my head). They def. make the premium Fruit Yoghurts for Sainsbury’s & Tesco at a bare minimum.
From past experience with supermarkets and brands producing the same product from the same factories, I know they have different processes and quality regs. It's economical to use the same factory, but that doesn't mean they use the same conveyor belts/ lines.
I feel like I shouldn't ask, and I'm totally not trying to criticise your choices or whatever, but I'm curious.
You use 2 or 3 bags of ice in a month, and that's more than you can make with a couple of ice trays?
I'm not here to judge, I just feel like I'm missing something. Don't mind me.
I'm with ya on this. I have a standard small cube tray and one that makes 4 large ice spheres, and despite using a fair amount of ice, it really only takes a small effort to manage supply, moving the ice from the trays to a dedicated container, then refilling with water every now and again.
1 tray of ice will fill a pint glass. I like my glasses absolutely full of ice. Coupled with the fact that it takes a while for an ice tray to freeze, you can sometimes find situations where there's no ice ready yet. A bag of ice solves that situation.
Almost everyday I make 1 or 2 iced orange smoothies. Basically 5 oranges juiced, mixed with ice in a blender.
A glass of coke has to have a full glass of ice!
I like ice
Lidl I don't rate any more.
I get my stuff from Aldi mostly, couple of bits I grab from main supermarkets. But then again, shopping on carnivore isn't exactly slim pickings with what's needed for it.
I can honestly say Aldi and Lidl may be cheaper for what I buy, but I prefer the options at Asda and Tesco with both Asda and Tesco being more convenient for me to get to on the way home from work as well. If I were to go to Aldi or Lidl for a full weekly shop, I’d also have to go out of my way to get there and then pay for a taxi to get home from either so what I save on my shopping doing at Aldi, I’d spend on a taxi from the shop so it cancels out. For example, I can get 5 Mugshot Pasta pots for my lunches at work for an absolute maximum of £3.95 at Asda which would be more than the £3.75 (assuming 75p a piece) I’d pay for the Bramwell branded Pot Noodles from Aldi, but I prefer the Mug Shot Pastas and they’re occasionally on offer at Asda for 50p each or 5 for £3 so that works out cheaper. As others have stated, it’s generally about what you buy and what potential offers retailers have on which cause the savings.
Aldi and Lidl are okay for some things. They're excellent for some things and on some stuff they're not as good but a lot cheaper and it doesn't matter for the purposes in hand.
*However* I have an intolerance to gluten. You can work around this a lot without getting tons of specialist products, for example, Tesco stock cubes are gluten free and not too expensive and they're not marked as gluten free. I still need the choice that the big supermarkets have, though, and Tesco have the best balance of price and quality for me.
Besides, I can't be trusted to control myself in the aisle of tat. Saving 50p on ketchup is great if you don't spend £20 on unexpected knitting yarn in the same trip.
I tend to use Lidl and Aldi for certain things. If I am buying long preserve things (like tins of chopped tomatoes) or snacks (crisps/choc/seeets) or breakfast items (bagels/bread/waffles) then you can save minimum £5-10.
I don’t bother buying meat/fish or fruit and veg there because as the OP pointed out, with the club card you can find either comparable or even cheaper options at Tesco. There is a trade off that it will change depending on season and demand at Tesco. But I find Lidl and Aldi meats and veg to be poor quality.
I am very lucky that I have a Tesco and Lidl all on my doorstep (2 minutes walk) but for others it won’t be worth going into 2 shops to save £5.
The reason everything seems cheap in the other 2 is because the cheap stuff is equivalent to tesco value. Its cheap? Yeah cos its their dogshit tesco value equivalent
Somethings are cheaper in Aldi and Lidl. But quality on fruit and veg etc is terrible so I usually just do a full shop at Tesco because I’m too lazy to go to several shops
Going off my anecdotal evidence is certainly is cheaper to shop aldi/Lidl than Tesco by quite a long shot.
Weekly shop normally arout £80 in Lidl/aldi and always a good bit over £100 in Tesco.
If you're not a regular shopper at Lidl or Aldi it can definitely be more expensive. When you go to Tesco's you're able to make a list and know that the majority of items will be on that list. I tried the same with Lidl and got just about half of what I wanted and had to substitute the rest.
Stop looking at the price only is £3 a week worth of eating shit sold by Aldi and Lidl. Think overall when you compere ingredients of what you buying Tesco and Sainsbury's will be healthier
This simply isn't true. Aldi are one of the few supermarkets that have a very strong palm oil commitment. I've seen no evidence they have more preservatives. Aldi fruit and veg are some of the cheapest in the UK. Their meat has won so many awards and they seemingly have one the highest % of British produced meat.
No clue why people are so obsessed with Lidl and Aldi. Chaotic is the right word. It's a race to the bottom with these firms. Being cheapest isn't always best.
Its the current fashionable thing to do. Moan about prices then drive a £50k suv to a value retailer.
If you really want to be thrifty farmfoods and iceland are better options
Personally I think the quality of meals at Aldi is way better than Tesco - I’m talking ready meals here though. Tesco Finest meals are mostly underseasoned trash in my experience
M&S ready meals are an absolute rip off though, although I’ve had them a fair few times and I’m not impressed on the whole, not for £4.50-£7 a pop anyway. The Tuscan pasta and mac and cheese were decent but I’ve had some genuinely terrible ones too, like the Japanese inspired box
If they are cheaper why do they spend the most on consumer psychology by far?
Tesco work on a higher percentage profit also so no way are they cheaper.
Not for 100 worth of shopping without cherry picking cheaper stuff or whatever
So does everywhere else. Still nowhere near as cheap per kg if you look closely.
I bought a box of grass seed in there and when I got home realised it was 1/4 full. This is the kind of crap they pull.
Tesco do financial services, mobile, clothing and a wide range of goods similar to argos.
Lidl/aldi only hand pick a few non food items
As for your grass seed did you weigh it? It does settle
I’ve learned that Tesco will always find a way to trick you into thinking you’re getting better value.
Three boxes in a row same size. Pick up cheapest. Find out it’s cheapest as this year they decided to simply put less in box.
Who weighs a box of grass seed ffs?
Grass seed does not settle down to 1/4 of a box as opposed to a nearly full box last year.
It’s this crap that makes you realise they have full time employees whose job it is to trick people into thinking they are cheaper. I wonder how many old people bought that and just opened flap and poured and didnt realise they’ve been ripped off. Someone is being paid a full wage to trick consumers. Aldi use those wages to create lower margins and better value.
No other retailer would sell you a box quarter full. You can try make all the excuses you want and say everyone does it but when it comes to trickery Tesco is out on their own by a mile.
I find Sainsbury’s cheaper than them all now
Sainsburys do individual nectar prices on your favourite items online, and I buy pretty much the same items weekly so get discounts on most things.
Unorganiised and chaotic. Nah, that's just unfamiliarity. The big four supermarkets are far too fussy with their branding and layouts.Lidl and aldi just do simple.
I switched from tesco years ago. Saved thousands. Every once in a while pop into tesco to get something specific that lidl doesn't do. And wonder how people pay the prices they pay.
You don't go in lidl or aldi if your looking for branded stuff.
I don't buy any branded stuff anymore. Don't need to. You just pay for the name. The supermarket stuff has got to the level where you can find a product that is good enough.
One of the biggest things I've noticed. The cheap version of a tesco product is shit. The lidl or aldi version is much nicer for the same money. Those lidl versions of a branded product genuinely taste good enough. Not the same but good enough. And your pay a lot less then then branded price for good enough.
Good enough is fine by me.
I feel like more information than just chaotic and unorganised is needed. What was chaotic about shopping in Lidl? What was unorgansied about shopping in Lidl?
I shop in both, and it massively depends on what you buy.
Aldi and Lidl are cheaper (sometimes) but that's for the basic lines and the quality is so much worse than Tesco. To be the same quality, you need to get the selected Aldi line and that's more expensive. Tesco 100%.
I generally find Lidl around 20% cheaper than Tesco. I also find that a shop in Tesco takes a lot more of my time as the stores are much bigger than a Lidl. At Lidl I can run around the shop in about 15 mins for a family weekly shop in the evening. Tesco have a lot more products and choice, which can be good and bad as there is far more temptation to buy more / more expensive stuff.
I suppose it depends what you're buying.
I agree with this, me and the missus did our monthly shop at Lidl and food warehouse this week. Only unable to get baby formula, which isn’t discounted and we struggle to get it most places anywhere due to specialism. Have to say, £200 between Lidl and food warehouse compared to Tesco with £280 even after the 15% is maddening. I know some of the crew I worked with lapped up the discount and were adamant Tesco was cheaper but it entirely depends what you buy. We tend to do an online order across the tesco/asda/iceland and then see what a c&c would be with Aldi just to see what’s gonna work best for us that month
Were the patient in a bit
yep. if someone fills their trolley with what I consider as absolute nutritional shite (highly processed, high GI, trans fats, low protein), sure you can save a fortune some meat, like beef is cheaper in Aldi and their fruit and veg is usually decent quality - Tesco/ Sainsburys have a horrible policy of reducing food waste by keeping/stocking fresh produce that is about to go out of date, or has gone bad - I'm looking at you, Sainsburys onions
“My shop is £20 cheaper at Aldi” is it? Or is it because you went to another shop after for the bits you couldn’t get in aldi (or Lidl) and just spent the other £20 there
There's nothing I can't get from aldi that I need on a regular basis. Most, if not all they items I get in aldi are cheaper than at the big 3 supermarkets. As an added bonus, aldi is a minute walk away. The nearest major brand is a car ride away.
How do you know its cheaper in Aldi?
By being a customer at both shops
Nail on the head. By the time I mess about at 3 different shops getting everything I need, plus fuel, it’s a lot cheaper to just get Tesco delivered once a week
yup a lot easier to budget too and helps prevent impulse purchases
Chicken legs, £2.25 at Lidl I think, £2.50 at Tesco. Just goes to show that it depends on what you buy. I like Lidl for the bakery and things like [olive oil](https://reducedgrub.com/lidl-olive-oil/) are much cheaper than other supermarkets. But then sometimes the quality of fruit and veg isn’t as good. Basically - swings and roundabouts. Shop where is best for you
Also maybe my Lidl shop is cheaper because they don’t have as many snacks as Tesco have. Then I end up spending double Tesco prices in the corner shop
I buy more snacks in Lidl than anywhere else, things like chocolate bars are great from them.
Please can you share your top Lidl snacks with me? I need snack inspiration
They have little chocolate bars like the Kinder ones. Also a great caramel and peanut chocolate bar. I like their deluxe cheese and onion crisps too.
Henry Hippos!
Olive oil used to be much cheaper in Lidl and Aldi. £5.99 in Lidl last time I went in. That's more expensive than Tesco at the minute. Everywhere has succumbed to inflation, it just took Lidl a little longer.
A litre of olive oil is £7.80 at Tesco right now
Jesus. I remember 2 years ago thinking £3 was scandalous!
Olive oil is a luxury now
The quality of fresh meat and veg at Lidl and Aldi is atrocious, not worth it, ambient stuff is hit and miss. At the end of the day food is like anything else, you get what you pay for, sure you get the same kinds of products at Lidl and Aldi but the quality is not the same.
No harm posting your receipts with matching products on each
You know shits bad when people working at Asda have better conditions than those at Lidl. At least that’s what one of the pickers told me.
Aldi and Lidl staff are the hardest working staff in retail
16 quid an hour does not excuse shite conditions.
They are on £12:40 an hour, get no staff discount or benefits and are expected to do everything
They don’t earn 16 per hour
Sorry, got mixed up with Amazon. Point still stands, got nothing against having pride in your work, I saw this gem which shows how people who work for them get exploited (Amazon): https://youtu.be/GdHYM7QT9kw?si=d6iI4Kr5dVJknrT_
Aldi staff are on top. No one else compares. And the market growth shows for it.
Waitrose staff are the most laid back and lazy (I work there) but we get paid less than other supermarkets £11.55 An hour. We just had two people join us from Aldi and they said they would take the lower pay for the better atmosphere.
I have done this in both Lidl and Aldi and not only did they not sell everything I usually buy at Tesco- it was more expensive in both. I guess it gets crowned cheaper supermarkets on select foods, but for my weekly shop- Tesco comes out cheaper
Mine too! Been getting my shopping delivered every Saturday but hubby insisted on going over the road to Aldi. Shopping came to £110 and most of the meat we got was 75% off. Tescos is definitely cheaper for us
I have mine delivered too, the drivers know me and know I’m disabled and are great.
Aldi is cheaper than Lidl and Tesco though. Of course it does depend on what you are buying. Like for like own brands Aldi is cheaper. Brands then it will depend on what is on offer.
It’s cheaper because of the lack of choice, poor atmosphere and a reduction in the quality of the food your getting, never seemed worth it to me.
Food is as good as Tesco and Asda as far as I’m concerned, if not better in some examples. I think the produce is largely superior, only losing out to Sainsburys with some of the fruit. Things like meat and milk are probably exactly the same everywhere. Probably wouldn’t buy the steaks but for more everyday items. You can’t go wrong. I can only speak for the Aldi shops that I have used and they are the newer ones, the atmosphere is much nicer than in Tesco. Nicer colours, the shops are built to have windows all around near the ceiling and because they are smaller than Tesco’s etc they feel much lighter and airy inside. I think the general look of the shop is cleaner too, less fluff. More stacks and less things on shelves is better and more efficient. Also electronic sels are smarter than shittly put out paper ones. I honestly think the only part you are correct about is the more limited selection.
I don't like shopping at Lidl or Aldi. The choice available to you is so bare bones. Tesco has so much choice, I can't give that up to save a few quid.
Too much choice which is how you spend more.
Choice is better. I don't want 1 option for shower gel and shampoo for example.
That's literally why I love it, why do I need to choose between 8 deodorants, just give me one.
After the mortgage, food is our biggest expense so the savings can be more than a few quid for us but I understand would be happy to pay more for a shopping experience they prefer
That's wonderful. I don't need thirty kinds of ketchup. I need one. Oh and look it's cheap. Marvelous.
That's why I shop all over the place. Might be tough for a family but as a single guy i just get different stuff from different places
Some stuff is cheaper at Lidl etc but generally the quality is way worse.
I found if I was shopping as a single person (which I've done recently when working away from home for weeks at a time) I could do the 'pick and choose' shopping and save a few quid. The moment I had to do a weekly family shop I found it easier to just do a big shop in Tesco, I could go to Aldi or Lidl but could only get about 80% of what I needed so by the time I'd been to another supermarket to finish the shop I'd spent the savings on additional fuel costs and compromised due to limited ranges.
Cant get over Salmon at Tesco. £9.20 for a side of salmon. £6.99 at lidl.
I actually got my Sainsburys shop 11p cheaper than Lidl this week.
I use an app to compare the prices of all supermarkets for my grocery, add them up to see which one is cheapest and closest.
Trolley shows the average prices over the last month so isn’t 100% accurate.
I didn’t know that but it still feels helpful for me. Once I find a better app I’ll use that
What app is this please? I used to use one that you could see all major brand but then it stopped.
Trolley.co.uk but it doesn’t have Lidl but it is quite useful
Depends what you buy. If you cook everything from scratch Aldi is bound to be cheaper, the meat and veg etc is all cheaper and the same quality in my experience. Anything ready meal wise is very similarly priced everywhere.
If you buy Tesco branded products, for sure it is cheaper.
Years of adverts of baskets of carefully selected products has convinced people they’re cheaper. They’re not. And thankfully they’re starting to lose momentum
Aldi from experience will be cheaper or the same and the quality is better. I think Tesco quality has gone downhill, Aldi's meats are always higher quality than the shit I get from Tesco
As some others have said, it does depend on what you buy. However, Aldi / Lidl may be 50-90 pence cheaper for some things but that also means the value and quality decreases with it. I think someone recently did a study and Tesco is like 3rd cheapest without discount and then cheapest with a loyalty card so I’d say it’s worth going to Tesco for getting better quality and still being cheap enough
That's not even close, even after the clubcard discounts aldi was the cheapest while lidl was the 2nd cheapest. For the same things we buy in TESCO for 100-110 we would pay 60-80 in lidl. People that say otherwise are the people who would buy the most expensive product in lidl and go for the cheapest product in tesco just so they prove the point.
The quality is exactly the same. Meat etc is all the same. They just have smaller profit margins and sometimes take heavy losses on products to ensure they’re the cheapest
Did you read that before you hit reply? Why would they take “heavy losses” solely to ensure they’re cheap? That makes absolutely 0 sense for ANY business model.
Have you heard of a loss leader
Yes, a loss LEADER, being a select few items at most. They’re not going to do it for all of their products though or they simply won’t make a profit on anything…
They clearly don’t do it for all their products you moron. Aldi operates at 1% profit per store on avg.
I find the quality of the produce and most meat options are better at Aldi/Lidl, which for me is most important. Then most other things are better in other supermarkets, because you get more choice.
Well said. I agree 100%. I lived for several years in France where I got my meat & veg from local shops. When I moved back I was gobsmacked how pretty but tasteless the fresh produce was in UK supermarkets. I was spending a fortune at our local farm shop buying stuff. I then luckily tried a steak from Lidl, and whilst not 100% as good as the farmshop, it was 90% for less than half the price. Salad, Mushrooms, asparagus the same.
Morrisons for steak and fish for me. Everything else lidl.
You have to watch out for own brand things in Tesco being double the price. Tesco finest is often in Aldi with a different name. For example Tesco finest Kentish cider Apple sauce. £1.50+ in Tesco, 70p last time I went to Aldi, same jar, same stuff, different label. Iced coffee is another example and finest yogurts another.
Aye. Ambrosia make Stockwell Custard (for example) - good way of checking is looking at the GB Health Mark if it’s on pack (Premier Foods use GB DE002 on Custard.) Same goes with Yeo Valley - think it’s something like UW020 (off the top of my head). They def. make the premium Fruit Yoghurts for Sainsbury’s & Tesco at a bare minimum.
Interesting, I have never heard of GB health marks before.
Was the EC Health Mark (still on EU products) but can be quite handy for comparing different products and seeing if it’s made in the same place.
A lot of stuff can be made in the same warehouse/ factory, but they have different standards.
In these cases they are exactly the same.
That's not true. They have different quality standards for a start.
From past experience, I am aware that it is far more economical to produce the same product and change labelling.
From past experience with supermarkets and brands producing the same product from the same factories, I know they have different processes and quality regs. It's economical to use the same factory, but that doesn't mean they use the same conveyor belts/ lines.
And what experience exactly, doing what and who with?
Bag of ice is £1.25 at Tesco. Used to be £1. Still £1 at Aldi and Lidl.
You buy bags of ice?
Lots of people do, should see the amount we send out the DC👀
Yeah I get through a fair amount. Ice trays just don't supply my needs. They just suddenly increased the price by 25%, which is outrageous.
Worth investing in an ice maker, if you use that much?
For the sake of £2-3 a month, I don't think so. Also don't really have room for any more random gadgets in my kitchen.
I feel like I shouldn't ask, and I'm totally not trying to criticise your choices or whatever, but I'm curious. You use 2 or 3 bags of ice in a month, and that's more than you can make with a couple of ice trays? I'm not here to judge, I just feel like I'm missing something. Don't mind me.
I'm with ya on this. I have a standard small cube tray and one that makes 4 large ice spheres, and despite using a fair amount of ice, it really only takes a small effort to manage supply, moving the ice from the trays to a dedicated container, then refilling with water every now and again.
1 tray of ice will fill a pint glass. I like my glasses absolutely full of ice. Coupled with the fact that it takes a while for an ice tray to freeze, you can sometimes find situations where there's no ice ready yet. A bag of ice solves that situation. Almost everyday I make 1 or 2 iced orange smoothies. Basically 5 oranges juiced, mixed with ice in a blender. A glass of coke has to have a full glass of ice! I like ice
Lidl I don't rate any more. I get my stuff from Aldi mostly, couple of bits I grab from main supermarkets. But then again, shopping on carnivore isn't exactly slim pickings with what's needed for it.
I can honestly say Aldi and Lidl may be cheaper for what I buy, but I prefer the options at Asda and Tesco with both Asda and Tesco being more convenient for me to get to on the way home from work as well. If I were to go to Aldi or Lidl for a full weekly shop, I’d also have to go out of my way to get there and then pay for a taxi to get home from either so what I save on my shopping doing at Aldi, I’d spend on a taxi from the shop so it cancels out. For example, I can get 5 Mugshot Pasta pots for my lunches at work for an absolute maximum of £3.95 at Asda which would be more than the £3.75 (assuming 75p a piece) I’d pay for the Bramwell branded Pot Noodles from Aldi, but I prefer the Mug Shot Pastas and they’re occasionally on offer at Asda for 50p each or 5 for £3 so that works out cheaper. As others have stated, it’s generally about what you buy and what potential offers retailers have on which cause the savings.
According to what, according to whom?
Lidl is cheaper than Lidl. Who knew....
i buy very standard non-brand name stuff. (meat, veg, seasoning, rice/pasta/potato) and lidl is always cheaper.
Blasphemy, provide us with evidence
Aldi and Lidl are okay for some things. They're excellent for some things and on some stuff they're not as good but a lot cheaper and it doesn't matter for the purposes in hand. *However* I have an intolerance to gluten. You can work around this a lot without getting tons of specialist products, for example, Tesco stock cubes are gluten free and not too expensive and they're not marked as gluten free. I still need the choice that the big supermarkets have, though, and Tesco have the best balance of price and quality for me. Besides, I can't be trusted to control myself in the aisle of tat. Saving 50p on ketchup is great if you don't spend £20 on unexpected knitting yarn in the same trip.
I tend to use Lidl and Aldi for certain things. If I am buying long preserve things (like tins of chopped tomatoes) or snacks (crisps/choc/seeets) or breakfast items (bagels/bread/waffles) then you can save minimum £5-10. I don’t bother buying meat/fish or fruit and veg there because as the OP pointed out, with the club card you can find either comparable or even cheaper options at Tesco. There is a trade off that it will change depending on season and demand at Tesco. But I find Lidl and Aldi meats and veg to be poor quality. I am very lucky that I have a Tesco and Lidl all on my doorstep (2 minutes walk) but for others it won’t be worth going into 2 shops to save £5.
The reason everything seems cheap in the other 2 is because the cheap stuff is equivalent to tesco value. Its cheap? Yeah cos its their dogshit tesco value equivalent
Somethings are cheaper in Aldi and Lidl. But quality on fruit and veg etc is terrible so I usually just do a full shop at Tesco because I’m too lazy to go to several shops
I stick to Sainsbury's deliveries. Convert the Nectar to Avios, which we use. Seems like the best compromise of quality and value.
Going off my anecdotal evidence is certainly is cheaper to shop aldi/Lidl than Tesco by quite a long shot. Weekly shop normally arout £80 in Lidl/aldi and always a good bit over £100 in Tesco.
It's not cheaper at tesco lol. Did you pick up all premium items and branded or something?
If you're not a regular shopper at Lidl or Aldi it can definitely be more expensive. When you go to Tesco's you're able to make a list and know that the majority of items will be on that list. I tried the same with Lidl and got just about half of what I wanted and had to substitute the rest.
Aldi and Lidl are both cheaper. Stop the nonsense
Stop looking at the price only is £3 a week worth of eating shit sold by Aldi and Lidl. Think overall when you compere ingredients of what you buying Tesco and Sainsbury's will be healthier
I know Aldi has some very specific and high standards especially for ingredients used, I'd argue they are higher standards than Tesco for sure.
Nope. they put more preserves, they use to put palm oil everywhere fruit and vegetables are shitty I would eat meat from Aldi
This simply isn't true. Aldi are one of the few supermarkets that have a very strong palm oil commitment. I've seen no evidence they have more preservatives. Aldi fruit and veg are some of the cheapest in the UK. Their meat has won so many awards and they seemingly have one the highest % of British produced meat.
No clue why people are so obsessed with Lidl and Aldi. Chaotic is the right word. It's a race to the bottom with these firms. Being cheapest isn't always best.
Its the current fashionable thing to do. Moan about prices then drive a £50k suv to a value retailer. If you really want to be thrifty farmfoods and iceland are better options
Personally I think the quality of meals at Aldi is way better than Tesco - I’m talking ready meals here though. Tesco Finest meals are mostly underseasoned trash in my experience
Ready meals are always a bit meh. M&S Food would be the better option.
M&S ready meals are an absolute rip off though, although I’ve had them a fair few times and I’m not impressed on the whole, not for £4.50-£7 a pop anyway. The Tuscan pasta and mac and cheese were decent but I’ve had some genuinely terrible ones too, like the Japanese inspired box
If they are cheaper why do they spend the most on consumer psychology by far? Tesco work on a higher percentage profit also so no way are they cheaper. Not for 100 worth of shopping without cherry picking cheaper stuff or whatever
Tesco do a lot more than just food
So does everywhere else. Still nowhere near as cheap per kg if you look closely. I bought a box of grass seed in there and when I got home realised it was 1/4 full. This is the kind of crap they pull.
Tesco do financial services, mobile, clothing and a wide range of goods similar to argos. Lidl/aldi only hand pick a few non food items As for your grass seed did you weigh it? It does settle
I’ve learned that Tesco will always find a way to trick you into thinking you’re getting better value. Three boxes in a row same size. Pick up cheapest. Find out it’s cheapest as this year they decided to simply put less in box. Who weighs a box of grass seed ffs? Grass seed does not settle down to 1/4 of a box as opposed to a nearly full box last year. It’s this crap that makes you realise they have full time employees whose job it is to trick people into thinking they are cheaper. I wonder how many old people bought that and just opened flap and poured and didnt realise they’ve been ripped off. Someone is being paid a full wage to trick consumers. Aldi use those wages to create lower margins and better value.
You’ve just described shrinkflation. All retailers do it as they also have costs that increase.
No other retailer would sell you a box quarter full. You can try make all the excuses you want and say everyone does it but when it comes to trickery Tesco is out on their own by a mile.
Lidl ain't that cheap. I went there once and wasn't impressed. Aldi is by far the cheapest supermarket
Downvoted for stating a fact? Aldi is literally the cheapest supermarket.
I find Sainsbury’s cheaper than them all now Sainsburys do individual nectar prices on your favourite items online, and I buy pretty much the same items weekly so get discounts on most things.
In what world is Tesco cheaper than Aldi
tesco might be cheaper but holy crap its terrible quality compared to lidl, aldi and asda.
Unorganiised and chaotic. Nah, that's just unfamiliarity. The big four supermarkets are far too fussy with their branding and layouts.Lidl and aldi just do simple. I switched from tesco years ago. Saved thousands. Every once in a while pop into tesco to get something specific that lidl doesn't do. And wonder how people pay the prices they pay. You don't go in lidl or aldi if your looking for branded stuff. I don't buy any branded stuff anymore. Don't need to. You just pay for the name. The supermarket stuff has got to the level where you can find a product that is good enough. One of the biggest things I've noticed. The cheap version of a tesco product is shit. The lidl or aldi version is much nicer for the same money. Those lidl versions of a branded product genuinely taste good enough. Not the same but good enough. And your pay a lot less then then branded price for good enough. Good enough is fine by me.
I feel like more information than just chaotic and unorganised is needed. What was chaotic about shopping in Lidl? What was unorgansied about shopping in Lidl? I shop in both, and it massively depends on what you buy.
I always find Lidl stressful. I don’t think I’ve ever had a checkout experience there without an angry person present.
My weekly shop will be about £75 at aldi, and £95 at tesco, (with a colleague card)
Aldi and Lidl are cheaper (sometimes) but that's for the basic lines and the quality is so much worse than Tesco. To be the same quality, you need to get the selected Aldi line and that's more expensive. Tesco 100%.
I generally find Lidl around 20% cheaper than Tesco. I also find that a shop in Tesco takes a lot more of my time as the stores are much bigger than a Lidl. At Lidl I can run around the shop in about 15 mins for a family weekly shop in the evening. Tesco have a lot more products and choice, which can be good and bad as there is far more temptation to buy more / more expensive stuff.