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90 minutes for a large supermarket is pushing it. I have on occasions spent over 2 hours in ours, trying on clothes, general browsing before buying some items. I think most of ours round here are 3 hours which is more reasonable. I know some not too far away differ though. I guess it depends on the location, if it's out of town in the middle of nowhere then they may not have a limit, close to town and it's likely to.
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Rubbish. My mum always at least gets the offer of her shopping being packed for her, and I don't always, but mostly do at Sainsbury's if anywhere.
Perhaps they look at me and see a man in his 30's and assume I'm quite capable of doing it myself. The only place that asks every time is Morrison's. I was shopping in ASDA and wanted to buy a case of beer, the 12 pack being the best value. But because of my back and arms I couldn't lift it from the shelf or in and out of the trolly easily. Both assistants thought I was taking the Mick by asking for help. Just because some shops ask doesn't mean it happens to every customer. |
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Quite a few snobs on here and in real life are quite boastful about how they have never demeaned themselves to shop at Lidls. It's Supermarket of the Year from The Good Housekeeping Int, you know those people who rate your M&S/Sainsurys/Waitrose products you spend a fortune on. It's also this year alone won catagories in
Bacon Butter Coffee Chocolate Cheese Cooking sauces Crackers Smoked Salmon Fruit Juice, Muesli and on and on beating out the main brands including those mentioned above.. the list is here for those who doubt it: https://www.thegrocerownlabel.co.uk/2016-winners/ So I'll continue shopping there happily knowing I'm not likely to bump into any snobs. ![]() Your example from Good Housekeeping dosent really prove much, as it was only readers of that particular magazine, that voted for their supermarket of the year. How many readers are there? A small minority of the population I would guess. The winners of Grocer of the year 2016 were actually Asda & Aldi. ![]() I have been to Lidl once or twice, I bought some fresh meat there but can honestly say I would not do my weekly shop there as their range isn't that great & they don't sell the brands I would buy. |
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Quite a few snobs on here and in real life are quite boastful about how they have never demeaned themselves to shop at Lidls. It's Supermarket of the Year from The Good Housekeeping Int, you know those people who rate your M&S/Sainsurys/Waitrose products you spend a fortune on. It's also this year alone won catagories in
Bacon Butter Coffee Chocolate Cheese Cooking sauces Crackers Smoked Salmon Fruit Juice, Muesli and on and on beating out the main brands including those mentioned above.. the list is here for those who doubt it: https://www.thegrocerownlabel.co.uk/2016-winners/ So I'll continue shopping there happily knowing I'm not likely to bump into any snobs. ![]() ![]()
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I've just realised that I have something new to add to 'trivial things which really annoy you": supermarkets where they offer to pack your shopping for you. It's usually supplied by the local scouts and they always get it completely wrong, never having the common sense to put the heaviest things at the bottom of the bag and often putting frozen products next to the bread. I'd much rather do it myself and I hate them been allowed to stand there begging.
Incidentally, I have one of the brand new Lidl shops where I live and I managed a Christmas shop in about half an hour. Ninety minutes?!! That's the length of a football match! It's almost ten minutes longer than being subjected to Tales of Topographical Oceans in its entirety! |
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90 minutes for a large supermarket is pushing it. I have on occasions spent over 2 hours in ours, trying on clothes, general browsing before buying some items. I think most of ours round here are 3 hours which is more reasonable. I know some not too far away differ though. I guess it depends on the location, if it's out of town in the middle of nowhere then they may not have a limit, close to town and it's likely to.
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I've just realised that I have something new to add to 'trivial things which really annoy you": supermarkets where they offer to pack your shopping for you. It's usually supplied by the local scouts and they always get it completely wrong, never having the common sense to put the heaviest things at the bottom of the bag and often putting frozen products next to the bread. I'd much rather do it myself and I hate them been allowed to stand there begging.
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bib - I've never seen the bucket of Greek Yoghurt in Asda and I shop there every week. Only the Ł1 containers (500g) that most supermarkets have, not the 1kg bucket with handle that Lidl do.
They in a small bucket with a handle like the ones in Lidl. Don't have one at the moment but they are made by Lancashire Farms. https://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/asda...ogurt_1Kg.html |
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We have 3 branches of Lidl near us here on Rhodes.
Tried them a couple times but as in the UK you cannot do a complete shop in Lidl.So you have to go somewhere else afterwards. What is the point ? Plus we did not find the prices that good. |
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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" |
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I would have thought 90mins was fine. We shop in the 2nd biggest uk lidls store and even a big shop doesn't take 90mins.
The car park spaces are very generous in size as well. |
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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" but I doubt that it is a matter of 'sub-prime intelligence' More like the unconscious preservation of the possessive apostrophe that originated as a contraction in the form of XXXX'S Department Stores, Supermarkets and so on. And still retained by ; Sainsbury's Lewis's (not John Lewis) And without the apostrophe, in the cases of; Harrods Selfridges Halfords Debenhams |
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There is no reason why Lidls staff should be pressured to move customers along faster, nether should they have to work harder than staff in other supermarkets, or work unpaid hours
Go to Tesco instead. Problem solved. Quote:
Our large Sainsbury's also has a 90 minute restriction on parking.
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How on earth is it possible to spend 90 minutes on a single shop in Lidl?
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Why do people not understand the concept of Lidl and Aldi ?
Get in, get out, get the job done. It's not Asda (whose profits have been falling for years. Let's see what their Christmas figures are like next month.) or any other 'big' supermarket with costly airs and graces... |
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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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I only ever shop at Fortnum & Mason - anywhere else is full of hideous lice-ridden proles.
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Nor have I heard anyone in J Sainsbury say "I'm in Sainsburys".
Conversely always say Lidl ,Aldi , waitrose. We don't do Asda. Oh and it's Tescos. |
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In other parts of the country they would say something like 'Our Norma went to Asda with our Eva and our Ida'. Here in Bristol they'd say 'Our Normal went to Asdal with our Evil and our Idle'.
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I just wish other supermarkets adopted the Lidl practice of getting you through checkout in lightning speed by having you pack your groceries away from the till. It's an excellent system and much preferable to the likes of Sainbury's (sorry Sainsbury) where the checkout operator indulge in inane banter with customers and slows the whole thing down to a crawl. Is it just me who always get stuck behind people who have no concept of time and think it's perfectly OK to shoot the breeze with said operator and then are visibally surprised that they need to pay for stuff, warranting another epic faff to find money/debit card. Some people just need to acccept that Lidl is not for them I guess.
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Nor have I heard anyone in J Sainsbury say "I'm in Sainsburys".
"J Sainsbury" has long gone as a name for their stores. "Sainsbury's" probably started when Sainsbury's Savercentres were introduced and the company decided to keep the contraction, complete with apostrophe after the Savercentre name disappeared. |
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You're not supposed to pack at the till, that's what the long ledge behind the tills is for. You can do it at your own pace there and not hold up the other customers.
Lidl typically don't have the parking space of bigger supermarkets, so they need to move people along. If they did everything the same as the others, they wouldn't be Lidl, with Lidl prices. Lidl wanted to demolish an old branch once, and build a new one that was entirely on a raised first floor so that more ground space could be freed up for parking, but the local council refused planning permission on the stupid grounds that they thought some of the (private) land should be used for housing instead. So the old building remains and no housing was built either way. You'll also notice the staff in Aldi and Lidl work much harder, and the tills monitor the time between customers. If they don't move customers along fast enough, they get told off by the management. They also work hours they don't get paid for, unlike the big supermarkets. I don't find the shopping experience in Poundland or Savers very nice. I'm free to go to big supermarkets and buy the same stuff for twice the price, but I don't. The Lidl website tells you all about their weekly bargains. You can browse that, saving time walking around the store. If I am wrong about this now, perhaps current employees could correct me. |
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I think there should be a limit. i shop in LIDL and it annoys me when people 'dont get it' at the till. We are getting more fuddy duddies who demand to have a chat and carefully pack away all their stuff as the queue grows longer. Hey lady why don't you get in a Taxi and go to Waitrose?
Also I walk to do my shopping with a rucksack, saves money and I get a bit of exercise and there are no worries about parking. |
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Our large Sainsbury's also has a 90 minute restriction on parking. I wonder how many fines they handed out of the Christmas period. It takes longer than 90 minutes to do a Christmas food shop and get through the queue at the till, even if you are able-bodied.
No parking restrictions at Asda. I don't use Lidl often because they don't stock half of what I want to purchase so I still have to go to another shop, which defeats the object slightly. I agree about Lidl not stocking everything one needs so have to go to both shops some weeks which does defeat the object as invariably I spend more money than I intended to. |
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The only thing that surprises me in this thread is how everyone thinks everyone else and every shop is the same as them,/theirs
Some people are slow shoppers some fast, some Lidl have paid car parks some don't. Some are huge some are small Some have good self service machines others have crap (mine) ones My lidl is one of the new huge ones where they knocked the large one down to rebuild , so yes you could spend a lot of time in there, it has two very long isle of specials like clothing or tools and kitchen gadgets. We don't pay for parking there nor do the other supermarkets there. as there is nothing else other than shops.. but the next lot of shops you do have to pay as its right in town and right near the station and other places where people took the pee and parked all day and so now we all have to pay. I have never yet been in any other supermarket where they have NOT asked if I want help with packing.. its very robotic and drives me mad.. So seems very odd that one person here no mater the shop has never been offered help . I like lidl as the meat and veg are always tastier than the other shops. The veg is always local if they are in season. The only thing I dislike about my local lidl is, no white lines on the roadways ( they have them on the spaces) Its really scary as no one seems to have any idea how to drive without the white lines telling them. I did hear the local governments were going to do away with the white lines on roads to save money. I hope they never do this as I can see death in the 1000s everyday as so many have no idea how to drive without them. ![]()
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So how do they know how long you've been parked?
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The only thing that surprises me in this thread is how everyone thinks everyone else and every shop is the same as them,/theirs
We often do our shopping wherever we happen to be or when we are going somewhere for a different purpose. But among the various Sainsbury's we use is Thetford and although the staff (including the café) are invariably most pleasant and helpful, it's the only store where I've noticed that some of the staff have extended chats in the aisles - usually in the non-food aisles and sometimes oblivious to customers wanting to pass through. I don't know why this should be so. Probably because the culture of any organisation (in this case, a store) is set by just a very few individuals. |
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