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Old 29-12-2016, 15:35
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Agree 100%. No one can spend more than 1 hour max in Lidl they don't stock enough lines to spend any longer. Anyone who is spending longer than this needs to take a good hard look at their life.

We do our weekly shop at Lidl - in and out within 20 minutes tops. They offer great value for money and the stuff they sell is excellent quality. All the meat they sell is sourced from Red Tractor UK farms too.

What people aren't saying in this thread and perhaps there's a touch of dishonesty here, is that many people I have seen our in our local store will pack their cars then walk off into town to do some more shopping elsewhere. I expect that is what the poster is doing if truth be told hence why they want more time.
I used to use the Tesco car park in Alfreton like that. I'd park in the far corner, nip in and buy something cheap so I became a customer then went in to town to do my shopping. I think you get 2 hours free so why should I pay elsewhere, especially as I spend so much money with them as they have a small store near me and a One Stop up the road.
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Old 29-12-2016, 15:38
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Not true, I get my shopping and go home
I wouldn't want to leave frozen food in the car while shopping somewhere else
Some of us like to look at what we're buying, not do a trolley dash
Well perhaps you go into town first to do the other shopping and Lidl the last. That way your frozen food will be fine. Research shows most people tend to stick with the same or similar items each shop so no need to look is there?
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Old 29-12-2016, 15:40
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I used to use the Tesco car park in Alfreton like that. I'd park in the far corner, nip in and buy something cheap so I became a customer then went in to town to do my shopping. I think you get 2 hours free so why should I pay elsewhere, especially as I spend so much money with them as they have a small store near me and a One Stop up the road.
See, you are being honest about your intent. We often do the same. I can be in and out of Lidl in no time. We then nip round to some other stores and get other bits and bats. Even then we are back at the car within the hour.
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Old 29-12-2016, 15:41
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Why do people not understand the concept of Lidl and Aldi ? You get cheap food and cut price items BECAUSE they can cut back on staff . You cant have your cake and eat it .Either you go elsewhere and pay more for your shopping and have it packed for you and a free car park .Or you go to Lidl and get cheaper shopping and do the work yourself .Its not rocket science to figure this out .You have a choice where you go and if you choose to want cheaper items then you suck it up and pack your own shopping from the filled trolly over by the counter . Simple
None of the supermarket's pack your shopping though, no matter where you go. I once asked the cashier (in Saintsbury's) if they could help me put things into bags to speed things up for the others waiting. I had a lot of back and arm / wrist pain after a fall and couldn't move quickly. The look on her face was priceless, you would think I'd just kicked her dog!
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Old 29-12-2016, 15:41
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Why do people not understand the concept of Lidl and Aldi ? You get cheap food and cut price items BECAUSE they can cut back on staff . You cant have your cake and eat it .Either you go elsewhere and pay more for your shopping and have it packed for you and a free car park .Or you go to Lidl and get cheaper shopping and do the work yourself .Its not rocket science to figure this out .You have a choice where you go and if you choose to want cheaper items then you suck it up and pack your own shopping from the filled trolly over by the counter . Simple
Where do you get the idea that the other supermarkets do the work for you?
I've never been to a supermarket where my shopping has been packed for me!
Other supermarkets have parking limitations 2-3 hours, so obviously they think that amount of time is reasonable in order not to feel pressured, and enjoy looking round.
I just don't like being rushed through the till.
I didn't get the impression that Lidl are cutting back on staff either.
There are plenty around from what I've seen
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Old 29-12-2016, 15:45
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Well perhaps you go into town first to do the other shopping and Lidl the last. That way your frozen food will be fine. Research shows most people tend to stick with the same or similar items each shop so no need to look is there?
No , when I get food shopping , I just get that and go home
I don't abuse free parking- that's one of the reasons these restrictions are in place now!
Selfish people have made it bad for others
Yes, I do look round, even if I buy the same basic items!
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Old 29-12-2016, 15:47
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Where do you get the idea that the other supermarkets do the work for you?
I've never been to a supermarket where my shopping has been packed for me!
Other supermarkets have parking limitations 2-3 hours, so obviously they think that amount of time is reasonable in order not to feel pressured, and enjoy looking round.
I just don't like being rushed through the till.
I didn't get the impression that Lidl are cutting back on staff either.
There are plenty around from what I've seen

You are missing the whole concept of cheap shopping
.You get what you pay for .You cant have your cake and eat it .You go the Lidl because its cheap so you suck it up and understand that cheaps means doing some of the work yourself .
The more expensive supermarkets I go to always offer to help me p[ack my shopping .The cashier will take the cash and then turn to help me .( I live in Ireland )
I go the Lidl for my cheap fruit and veg and know full well I have to put it in my trolly and thenmove over to the ledge .Its very easy and I am well aware that my fruit is cheap and why
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Old 29-12-2016, 15:49
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How on earth is it possible to spend 90 minutes on a single shop in Lidl? Surely, you would need to be pushing a convoy of ten trolleys to take anywhere near as much time as that?
I wondered that too, an hour even at the busiest of times should be ample. It is not as they have coffee shops where one can lounge about in that would take up time. If I tried to spend 90 minutes in their shop I would be arrested for loitering with intent
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Old 29-12-2016, 15:53
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I mostly have my shopping delivered after I have ordered it online from Sainsbury.

I am fortunate that I can have mine delivered on a day and at a time when I can have it delivered free.

Aside from an occasional couple of items which have been substituted (for my approval), I usually find my order is complete and in good condition, with most items bearing a long date.

The delivery drivers are very friendly and helpful and I find this to be far more convenient than the misery of trailing around the supermarket myself.
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Old 29-12-2016, 16:02
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Never been in one. I would, but there isn't one convenient for me.

Thread title reminded me of this parody song - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg7-RPLB5LU
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Old 29-12-2016, 16:06
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None of the supermarket's pack your shopping though, no matter where you go. I once asked the cashier (in Saintsbury's) if they could help me put things into bags to speed things up for the others waiting. I had a lot of back and arm / wrist pain after a fall and couldn't move quickly. The look on her face was priceless, you would think I'd just kicked her dog!
Well certainly our local Sainsbury and Asda always ask if we need any assistance in packing, so your response has me mystified.
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Old 29-12-2016, 16:08
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I mostly have my shopping delivered after I have ordered it online from Sainsbury.

I am fortunate that I can have mine delivered on a day and at a time when I can have it delivered free.

Aside from an occasional couple of items which have been substituted (for my approval), I usually find my order is complete and in good condition, with most items bearing a long date.

The delivery drivers are very friendly and helpful and I find this to be far more convenient than the misery of trailing around the supermarket myself.
We gave up with online shopping after we received 'Tampax' as a substitute item for Kiwi fruit. A bit dry and unappetising for my taste buds.
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Old 29-12-2016, 16:10
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We gave up with online shopping after we received 'Tampax' as a substitute item for Kiwi fruit. A bit dry and unappetising for my taste buds.


An acquired taste, perhaps!
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Old 29-12-2016, 16:15
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I really don't know why more supermarkets don't provide scan as you shop facilities, my local Tesco has this and it's fantastic, everything packed as you shop then whiz through the till at the end. Only 1 member of staff manning 4 scan as you shop tills and 8 self service tills, so much less resource intensive than manned tills.
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Old 29-12-2016, 16:25
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Our Lidl has a smallish car park and they had to an impose a time limit because people were parking there and going into town. You now have to give your car reg number at check out.

Can't imagine anyone needing more than 90mins for a grocery shop tbh.
If you slower due to being elderly I also doubt you are doing a big laborious family shop so that's not an issue.
It's not just about how long it takes to shop - it's how long it takes to get through the 3 tills they have open because there are so many self-service tills, which people using a trolley don't want to use (and couldn't all fit in the space if they all decided to use the self-service till with trolleys!).

Anybody doing a family shop takes at least an hour - there's getting your bags out of the car, getting the trolley - finding the coin for that trolley, browsing, comparing prices, looking for items, getting past other shoppers, getting through the minimal number of tills with large queues and others doing large shops, packing your bags, getting back to the car, emptying your bags into the car, getting the trolley back to a trolley bay and retrieving your coin. Time goes very quickly inside and outside a supermarket, it's always surprising.

Our Sainsbury's has a number-plate recognition doohickey at the entrance now, you see it list your numberplate and then the time. If you go over the 90 minutes by a minute, it knows. Considering the local farmer's market and other vendors are also sharing this car park, it's likely that anybody doing their shop and also browsing the market/vendors is going to take longer than 90 minutes, but the car park is 90 minutes max.

I've no objection to a time limit, but make it a realistic one. Surely they want people to browse, spend more time in the supermarket, buy more?
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Old 29-12-2016, 16:26
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We gave up with online shopping after we received 'Tampax' as a substitute item for Kiwi fruit. A bit dry and unappetising for my taste buds.
Haha!

I use online delivery sometimes - have a pass for the year - but find it much better to do a click and collect so that I can go into the shop and quickly get the items they didn't have. Our delivery comes from a small ASDA that runs out of stock and closes at night, so any early morning delivery means they sometimes don't even have milk when the shopping's picked at 3am. My nearest ASDA is huge - but apparently in the wrong county to be used for our delivery - and has much more stock, so C&C works better for me.
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Old 29-12-2016, 16:31
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It's not just about how long it takes to shop - it's how long it takes to get through the 3 tills they have open because there are so many self-service tills, which people using a trolley don't want to use (and couldn't all fit in the space if they all decided to use the self-service till with trolleys!).

Anybody doing a family shop takes at least an hour - there's getting your bags out of the car, getting the trolley - finding the coin for that trolley, browsing, comparing prices, looking for items, getting past other shoppers, getting through the minimal number of tills with large queues and others doing large shops, packing your bags, getting back to the car, emptying your bags into the car, getting the trolley back to a trolley bay and retrieving your coin. Time goes very quickly inside and outside a supermarket, it's always surprising.

Our Sainsbury's has a number-plate recognition doohickey at the entrance now, you see it list your numberplate and then the time. If you go over the 90 minutes by a minute, it knows. Considering the local farmer's market and other vendors are also sharing this car park, it's likely that anybody doing their shop and also browsing the market/vendors is going to take longer than 90 minutes, but the car park is 90 minutes max.

I've no objection to a time limit, but make it a realistic one. Surely they want people to browse, spend more time in the supermarket, buy more?
What happens if it's full and you are just driving around looking for somewhere to park without actually parking?
I remember someone saying here a little while ago, there was a hospital car park with number recognition and they dropped someone off for day surgery it took their number plate, they came back a few hours later to pick them up and it hadn't recorded that they had left so got a massive fine for non payment of parking fee even though they hadn't actually parked just dropped off and picked up.
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Old 29-12-2016, 16:34
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We do most of our shopping at Aldi, despite practically living on Asda's doorstep. I'm beginning to hate Asda with a passion. They do offer to help you pack though, which drives me a bit nuts. Not that they offer to help pack, but the automatic and almost robotic way they do it. 'Are you alright with your packing?', even when you're standing there buying just a loaf of bread and a lettuce. And, yes, before anyone says anything, people really do buy so little in big places like Asda. At least they do if they live almost on top of the store and it's killed every corner shop for a quarter of a mile.

Our closest Lidl doesn't carry a wide enough range for me to want to do our weekly shopping there, but I can get everything we need in Aldi. Originally the prices were the biggest draw, but I find the quality to be a lot better than what you get at Asda too, and I absolutely love how they don't play music at you while you shop. The only thing that annoys a bit is my husband's habit of spending what feels like forever methodically browsing The Aisle Of Uncertainty for the latest bargain. Even then, I don't think we've ever been in there for longer than forty minutes, shopping for a family of four.
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Old 29-12-2016, 16:41
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I'd cry if I had to spend 90 mins in a supermarket which is why I love Aldi, in and out in less than 30 mins with a weeks shop and superfast queues, no dawdlers and aisle hoggers. I guess Lidl is similar.
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Old 29-12-2016, 16:49
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Well certainly our local Sainsbury and Asda always ask if we need any assistance in packing, so your response has me mystified.
They may well ask you if you want help with packing, but the vast majority do it themselves, as others are are not going to pack it as you would yourself, and may even take longer.
No need to be mystified
Your post implied that other supermarkets did the "work"- what do you mean?
They do nothing, you walk round, pick your goods , put them on the conveyor belt, pay and pack them
Even in a pound shop you are not rushed through the till!
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Old 29-12-2016, 16:49
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I'd cry if I had to spend 90 mins in a supermarket which is why I love Aldi, in and out in less than 30 mins with a weeks shop and superfast queues, no dawdlers and aisle hoggers. I guess Lidl is similar.
I dont think I have ever been 90 mins in a supermarket ! Even this year last friday I hit the Christmas shopping black spot . It was packed and busy and queues of trollies and I still was in and out in 65 minutes !!
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Old 29-12-2016, 16:52
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What happens if it's full and you are just driving around looking for somewhere to park without actually parking?
I remember someone saying here a little while ago, there was a hospital car park with number recognition and they dropped someone off for day surgery it took their number plate, they came back a few hours later to pick them up and it hadn't recorded that they had left so got a massive fine for non payment of parking fee even though they hadn't actually parked just dropped off and picked up.
I don't use the Sainsbury's at holiday times at all now - I was stuck in the car park trying to get out a few years ago at Christmas time (several days before Christmas!) and was there for over an hour in non-moving traffic trying to exit. The exit goes onto a very busy junction and nobody could get onto it to let people out of the car park as it was rush hour!

Well, I try not to use Sainsbury's at all to be honest - their prices are terrible, but I do pop in for a milk occasionally or to go to the market.
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Old 29-12-2016, 16:54
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Why do you choose to call it "Lidls" instead of "Lidl"?

I've noticed that many people of, shall we say, sub-prime intelligence often add an extra "s" to the names of retail outlets...

For example

Tescos - Tesco
Asdas - Asda
Lidls - Lidl
Aldis - Aldi

You never hear well educated people saying that they are "popping along to Waitroses"
Think it may be an accent thing - i say Tescos becuase of my accent more than most things - its really common round here and im certainly not sub prime.

Also why assume that ust because your clever you shop at Waitrose and if your not you shop at Lidl??
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Old 29-12-2016, 16:57
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I dont think I have ever been 90 mins in a supermarket ! Even this year last friday I hit the Christmas shopping black spot . It was packed and busy and queues of trollies and I still was in and out in 65 minutes !!
Blimey! I spent 2 hours in Asda last Friday, I'm sure 20 minutes of that was spent searching for some Brie, as the cheese shelves were empty I also browsed the clothing section and kitchen section - where I struggled to find the last remaining paper serviettes - so that took some time. The queue/paying took at least 30 minutes. I then has to go to Tesco to get the items that Asda's bare shelves didn't have.

It's a huge Asda, it takes at least an hour to get around on a quiet day, let alone getting through crowded aisles trolley-bashing everybody 2 evenings before Xmas.
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Old 29-12-2016, 16:59
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Think it may be an accent thing - i say Tescos becuase of my accent more than most things - its really common round here and im certainly not sub prime.

Also why assume that ust because your clever you shop at Waitrose and if your not you shop at Lidl??
bib - I agree with you on that one! I don't see how clever it is to pay so much more in Waitrose for things you can get for less elsewhere
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