Originally Posted by barbeler:
“Their wine selection is particularly poor and they still use those horrible plastic 'corks'.”
Not my experience at all. Lidl's wine is much better than Aldi's and I've only ever got either a screw cap or proper cork.
Perhaps you are confusing the two's budget wines. Aldi's £4 wine is much better than Lidl's. But there's nothing anywhere on the shelves of Aldi that's as good as the average £10 (ish) bottle from Lidl. About a year ago, the most expensive wine in Aldi was about £7, now I'm starting to see them occasionally peaking over £10, so they clearly know they need to follow Lidl's lead.
Aldi are weak when it comes to better wines.
Lidl's potatoes are also better than Lidl's, along with their ice cream, apple pie, New York cheesecake, concentrated blackcurrant and orange juices (everything in Aldi contains horrible sweeteners), in-store bakery, ketchup & pickle, tinned peas, cauliflowers and red peppers. And then there are numerous items that are equally good to Aldi's equivalents but simply cost less.
There is no one supermarket that has all the best products.
Also, both Aldi and Lidl products change over time. There are some things in my original 'good' list on page 1 that I no longer buy because they've become rubbish and some on my 'bad' list that I now love (potatoes, ketchup and their newer, more up-market wines being prime examples). There are other things they've stopped doing all together.
By the same token, some things in Aldi have changed for better or worse.