Again like kidspud, you're sticking your fingers in your ears and not listening. You have a pre conceived bias based on what Lidl's food was like 10 years ago. It was bad back then. It's now on the whole very good or excellent even. It wouldn't be winning awards if it wasn't. Yes, the supermarkets themselves are a bit more downmarket looking than Tesco or Sainsbury's but the food isn't.

It's not a shambles. And the majority of people who voted did want it. That's why leave won. God you remoaners are so boring.

There is a guarantee. We had a vote. You lost. We're going. The government wouldn't dare keep us in. There would be riots if they tried that. Just stop remoaning and grow up.

The Lidl's here are starting to be built like the ones in Spain, which are excellent.
They offer excellent value and quality staple food items.
Sainsbury's and Tesco try to cover too many bases.

I'm not a remoaner 😡

Apologies. Perhaps I read your post wrongly. But you came across as one in it.

Thanks, what I'm saying is the party or rather the cabinet in power didn't expect the result, and so those trying to implement it didn't all want it or expect it. The will of the 17 million must be implemented or there will be trouble.

Would you like to hear Mrs May say it again, 'we are leaving the EU'


http://www.msn.com/en-gb/foodanddrin...les/vi-AAlBDAP

I visited one on Wednesday and purchased some butter and olive oil.

The 'popular with middle class' makes a good story, but if you go in them as much as you claim you can see with your own eyes that isn't true.

It's truly amazing that remoaners have got it into their head that we could stay isn't it?

Oh for fook sake. I'm sticking you on ignore. If the sky were blue you'd argue it was teal with purple and green polkadots in it.

Well, yes, but then again remoaners seem to like living in hope

I'm gutted. Bye.

So where are your complaints about the UK car industry all being foreign owned now? as are our utility and some transport companies? Or is that ok because it doesn't affect you personally and has been happening long before Brexit was thought of? Plus all the multi-nationals using EU laws to register or offshore their profits (some to other EU countries like Luxembourg) using shell companies in the Netherlands to transfer money to the IOM etc.

How pompous. At least I can tell you type out of your arse now.
And still no explanation for what your expertise in this area is. Tinned WUM from the BOGOF section, I think.

Why would Brexiters like Lidl anyway- German supermarket, coming over here, taking jobs away from British supermarkets, probably working to Merkel's words etc. BRITISH SUPERMARKETS FOR BRITISH PEOPLE!

I'm a brexiter and I like Lidl. So your theory is utter nonsense.

You really don't get it, do you? People are not simply defined by how they voted back in June, Remain or Brexit, in The Real World.

The hypocrisy from some remoaners in this thread is astounding - here they're complaining about a foreign owned company doing more business in the UK, and in other threads they're complaining about the possibility of foreign owned companies leaving the UK - make up your frigging mind, and some of them have the audacity to call brexiters buffoons and stupid...


What a stupid comment, Lidl (and Aldi) have been here for years long before Brexit was even mooted, and although I voted for leaving I will still use them as I always have here and in Germany.


And Tesco and Morrisons do? Since they opened new stores in and near my village, traditional stores and two garages that have been here for generations, have ended up going out of business and been shut to the point that now apart from them, a few take-aways and hairdressers, there is nothing left of the high street with most of the shops now houses or flats, and the two main shopping high streets on teh island now contain not much more than mobile phone, betting and pound shops since the large companies opened their stores just outside town (Sainsburys and Morrisons in Newport and Tesco in Ryde, with an Asda currently being built outside Newport).


Like I said in another post, its no different to our car, utility and transport companies being foreign owned, yet you haven't been whinging about that, and actually aren't you a tory suporter so must have supported our British industries being sold off to foreigners?


You really don't have a clue do you? A lot of what Lidl sells is branded food, and those that aren't dosen't mean because they're cheap or you don't recognise the brand that they're poor, in fact a lot of the brands you don't recognise are imported from Germany and are the exact same products that are on sale in Germany - I know as I have some here and have had it in Germany as well, and when my family were over two years ago, they thought it was great being able to buy some of the same food here as they bought at home.

I've been raising issues about our governments selling off our public sector abroad on the cheap for years.

In particular some of our rail services being part German & French owned, but the British taxpayer subsidizing these businesses to the tune of £4bn a year, while they pay out hundreds of millions each year in dividends.

I also pointed out how the fall in sterling has allowed overseas businesses to buy out UK businesses on the cheap. In particular the worldworld's leading semiconductor intellectual property supplier ARM Holdings being bought by Japanese firm Softbank.

Britain is being sold off to the lowest bidder by our governments, and Brexit is the catalyst to allow areas such as the privatised NHS and other public sector areas to be sold, meaning higher costs for the public.

Meanwhile the private sector will see further takeovers and relocations, and the impact of falling demand due low pay and less disposable income. Hence a shift to low cost shops such as Lidl.

ARM was purchased before the recent fall in Sterling.

You're right Shaun. I have family members who feel the same having served with the British Army in Germany (their favourite base and very that we are pulling out of Germany over next 2 years or so). In Germany Lidl is moving into middle market territory and about to launch online click and collect shopping.

Lidl is showing great faith in Britain after Brexit. It knows that, in the years AFTER Brexit finally occurs, the ensuing economic disaster will have people shopping there in droves. After all, where else will people be able to afford to shop? Lidl and the pound shop will seem like an extravagance!

I broadly agree with you, although I don't think Brexit can be totally blamed seeing as a lot of things you mention have been going on since Thatcher in the 1980's, as has the fall in the value of currency for example in 1992 I went to Germany and at the exchange rate then a £15 CD in the UK was about £6 in Germany (exchange rate was DM3 to £1, when the Euro came in, the prices in Germany rocketed), last year when I looked to buy a CD from Germamy it's cost was almost the same as in the UK.

My point is you obviously don't know what the word usually means. As you think food is usually VAT free contradicts almost all food is VAT free.


Fruit &Veg
Aldi, Lidl NFU Fruit & Veg pledge signatories.
Tesco not a signatory of the NFU pledge, when in season carrots, celeriac, onions, parsnips, swede, turnips UK

Eggs, Chicken, Milk, Cream, Butter
Aldi, Lidl, Tesco 100% UK

Cheese
Aldi 100% UK
Lidl ? & UK
Tesco Ireland & UK

Yoghurt
Aldi 67% UK 33% France
Lidl ?
Tesco Germany & UK

Pork
Aldi 100% UK
Lidl 96% UK
Tesco 63% UK

Sausage
Aldi, Lidl 100% UK
Tesco 77% UK

Bacon
Lidl 53% UK,
Aldi 44% UK
Tesco 36% UK

Ham
Tesco 62% UK
Aldi 47% UK
Lidl 36% UK

Beef
Aldi, Lidl 100% UK
Tesco Ireland & UK

Lamb
Aldi 100% UK,
Lidl, Tesco UK & New Zealand,

Source NFU


If you think the UK is not going to leave the EU and that it is not going to enable changes in UK tax law the UK government has repeatedly attempted, then you are living in denial.


I already provide figures in a earlier post. And told you what they pay their workers is available online. Since you are unable to look at an earlier post in this thread and unable to manage using Google here are some figures.
Hourly pay of store assistants.
Lidl £8.45
Tesco £7.39 (£7.24 new employee)


No I don't disagree that other supermarkets like Tesco losing customers to Lidl are likely to cut back on staff. But, its not bad for the UK as Lidl pays its workers more, sources more of its food from UK farms and sells food cheaper than Tesco.


Shopping comparison sites will show you Lidl is cheaper than Tesco, for example mysupermarket.co.uk
Lidl and Tesco both give their pay rates so you can see Lidl pays their workers higher wages.
Seriously are you incapable of using Google?


retail-week.com


More £s worth of sales per member of staff in retail equates to more productivity per member of staff.


You think its a matter of opinion that getting paid more is good for workers!
I guess you ask your employer to pay you less.


You think its not necessarily true that lower prices are good for consumers!
I guess when you go shopping you ask the checkout to charge you more.


That higher pay reduces eligibility to in work benefits is a fact.
That higher pay can increase the amount of income tax and national insurance paid is also a fact.
I guess you have never claimed means tested benefits and have never worked.


Obviously Lidl disagree as they are expanding.


How is Lidl expanding bad news?