Lidl (Shop)

"Did you say Lidl -I wouldn’t be seen dead in the place!" I've found that's a typical reaction whenever the "L" word is mentioned in the company of the non-cognoscenti. I counter that this Company (and a couple of their Continent inspired cousins) is a retail phenomena that even the most cynical can't afford to ignore for much longer. Then I go on some. To confess, I'm an "outed" Lidl fanatic! We're talking shopping here. Basic shopping. That's ...
...tablets by the armful. Lidl is "shopping on the seriously cheap". Not a few coppers here and there -we're talking about, gop-smacking, drop-dead bargains in foodstuffs, clothing, tools and household items, every day and every time. That's what you can expect once one makes the crossover from the old ways of razzmatazz, image -and yes, downright snobbery! Just don't forget, this is real-time, "no-frills" retailing with the knobs taken off so the ...

JohnButler 14.04.2004 · Read full review
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...opinion of the German supermarket lidl has never been very high and as an influential teenager I would have never been caught dead in my local branch. My first experience of Lidl was in 1995 when a new store opened in Frome, Somerset. My parents were never poor but we loved a bargain and Lidl’s looked like the place we would get this. I wasn’t very impressed initially as I could see no big names like walkers or Cadbury’s and the ...
...Lidl, formally known as Lidl & Schwarz Grocery Wholesale was founded in Germany in the 1930’s. Ever since then Lidl’s has not stopped growing. Lidl has divided into hypermarkets known as ‘Kaufland’ and discount food stores known as ‘Lidl’ Germany had its first taste of Lidl’s in 1973 when the first stores opened. Ever since then Lidl’s has become a major household name in Germany and has continued ...

spoilt_little_br 26.05.2005 · Read full review
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LIDL SUPERMARKET. Lidl, a 'low price' supermarket has two branches in my area, a town centre shop and an out of town superstore. The company began in the UK back in the mid 1990's and now has several hundred stores across the country. The Lidl concept is a 'stack 'em high, sell 'em low' one. The shops tend to be rather warehouse-like with goods stacked high either side of the aisles. The Lidl logo is a little wacky, a yellow banner with the name ...
...is Cheaper' Most of the Lidl own brand goods seem to originate in Europe, the quality is consistently good. I find their fruit and vegetables exceptionally good value for money and their cheeses likewise. Prices tend to be fairly reasonable across the board, with own brand digestive biscuits at 22p for a huge pack, 100g own brand coffee at 99p and a truly delicious cheese and chive quiche for £1.09, who's complaining? The own brand tinned and packeted ...

brittle1906 16.01.2008 · Read full review
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...good as branded stuff! When Lidl opened a store on Stockport Road in Longsight Manchester I felt I had to see if Lidl was as good as Aldi! Lidl is a German owned store who first arrived in Britain in 1994 and now has over 330 branches in this country. Their philosophy is to sell their products in as near as possible a wholesale setting thus keeping overhead costs down to a minimum and giving us the customer cheap prices. This makes a lot of sense ...
...the reasons to go to Lidl is for the extra cheap fruit and vegetables. At full price they are priced very competitively but both times I have visited there has been a half price sale. Strawberries are 60 pence a punnet whilst you can get mangos for a very reasonable price. This is great, with prices like these people can not argue that fresh fruit and vegetables are too expensive. The quality of the fresh produce is not too bad although I did pick ...

duskmaiden 05.04.2004 · Read full review
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...the alternatives offered by the Lidl store in Newlyn. They are a good for the basics and the prices are low enough to be worth a punt on things that you would normally pay that bit extra for. An example of this was the Corn Flakes. At less than 75p for a 500 gram box branded as 'Crownfield' I was impressed, both by the taste and the crunchy texture, in fact I think I prefer them to Kelloggs. Their washing liquid was less than a pound for a bottle ...
...and pasty stains from my wide range of T shirts. There was also a very good Aloe Vera toilet roll for about £1.25 for 4 rolls. Bargain of the week was the pack of cheese spread slices in the style of Laughing Cow, 24 portions for about £1.40. Lidls are the epitome of no frills retailing, there are few staff in store and they do work very hard, their pay is substantially better than most supermarkets but they earn it. I particularly like their ...

JeffFromPoole 16.11.2008 · Read full review
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...saving money by venturing into Lidl and buying loads of their products waned. To be honest none of the tinned foods that I tried really stood up and said “I AM TASTY”, there was nothing wrong with the food they were offering. Its just the overall flavours did not impress me. The displays were poor and the wholesale approach did nothing for me. Add the fact that I had to buy the carrier bags and I vowed never to go there again. I stuck to that up ...
...they charge you for theirs. Lidl say about charging for carrier bags, they have no hidden charges, well I suppose that is a valid point, I doubt other supermarkets really give them away without them being incorporated into their profit margin somewhere. Even so it does bug me, especially if I forget to bring my own. Second they only have trolleys, the ones with the usual £1 deposit, they do not have baskets, so if you only want a few items you ...

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...good move as after visiting Lidl a few times I really enjoyed it as an alternative to the mainstream run of supermarkets. In my opinion Lidl has seemed to have achieved its low cost status by cutting costs to the core as I witnessed : Low staffing levels – they always seem to be busy in a number of roles going from stacking shelves one minute to serving on a checkout the next. Products are simply stacked on minimal or no shelfing. This gives Lidl ...
...Nestle, Kelloggs. They mostly have Lidl labelled brands available of which I’ve never heard of before ! No separately staffed counters e.g. customer service, meat, delicatessen. No customer toilets. POSITIVE FEATURES I was pleased to find quite a few of these and they include the following : Adequate parking. Polite staff (when you can get hold of them !). Very good value for a wide range of food and non-food products. If you can get past ...

zallin 21.08.2007 · Read full review
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...are heaving with goods. Lidl are a German company and a lot of the goods they sell are more “European” than those that we are used to seeing on our supermarket shelves. If you are into proper pickled cucumbers (which are sweet, not vinegary) or vacuum- packed salami or iced gingerbread biscuits this is the place to come. Many supermarkets would classify such items as “deli” goods and charge accordingly. At Lidl they, and almost everything else they ...
...that I have bought from Lidl have been as good as named brands or other supermarket brands - the difference is that they are cheaper. I have managed to wean my dogs onto Lidl’s own-brand take on Winalot biscuits at 69p a box compared to over £1.00 for the “real” thing. Admittedly they look a bit “rough” (the biscuits, not the dogs) compared to the genuine article but they have definitely had the Jack Russell seal of approval from my two. I’ve bought ...

weenawoo 06.01.2005 · Read full review
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...bit sniffy about Netto or Lidl and preferred to shop at Sainsbury ('good food costs less' was a very catchy marketing ploy!) or Safeway (now Morrison's). In recent years, my outgoing budget has been desperate to exceed my incoming budget, and so it has been of paramount importance to try and find a new way of shopping. This is to enable us to have enough disposable income to continue to go out once in a while and to shop at Bluewater for clothes ...
...is quite high. And, Lidl is not just for people on a budget. They offer a great range of food and goods at realistic prices and I know of various professionals who swear by shopping at Lidls for the freshness of the produce and selection of other items. Lidl is a strange shop. Our local one is the size of an average supermarket, but smaller than a superstore. It stocks food, groceries, and flip flops. It has suitcases, garden equipment, children's ...

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Anyone who’s used a Lidl supermarket will know what to expect even before they read this; those who haven’t may find it a surprising experience for a number of reasons. Lidl is a German-owned company with supermarkets all over Europe; its philosophy is of the Pile-It-High, Sell-It-Cheap, Keep-‘Em-Waiting variety. And there we could leave it – but that would be only half the story and anyway, Ciao expects so much more than that for an op! The company’s ...
...list goes on. A Lidl word of warning: make sure you check whether the items you want are to be sold on the following Monday or Thursday. Twice recently I turned up on the wrong days and found that they’d sold out of the things I wanted. While you’re in Lidl you can play Spot The Assistants (not counting the harassed-looking girl on the checkout). To be fair, I did once spot one and gave her a mini-breakdown by asking her a question. All I said ...

Floon 19.10.2003 (20.10.2003) · Read full review
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...were founded in Germany by Lidl & Schwarz Grocery and at the time under a different name had a lot of discount stores. The first actual Lidl store was opened in 1973 and as it progressed by the 1980’s it was a well known name. They then thought about branching further outside of Germany and can now be found almost everywhere in Europe. They aim to sell high quality products at really low prices and I have to agree that so far they succeed. Inside ...
...The shop consists of the Lidl colours as decoration with the blue, yellow and red and everything is pretty much easy to find in here. Usually you will have a small fridge/freezer section and then a lot of bakery, drinks, crisps, chocolates, meats and so on. They pretty much have everything and sell foods from all over Europe from places like Sweden, Italy, Switzerland you name it, of course Germany too so in one place you are getting a variety and ...

ms19 01.08.2007 · Read full review
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...shopping now and again at Lidl and I always used to laugh at her and used to say something along the lines of 'ha i'm not shopping in there etc etc you get the picture! Anyway since getting my own place and having to do the shopping myself I have realised just how expensive grocery shopping can be. I am now a converted Lidl shopper and shop there at least a couple of times a month as I honestly believe that it saves me somewhere between 10 and 15 ...
...I couldn't do a weeks shop there as they simply do not have everything. I would say it is good for about 75% of my shop and saves me a reasonable amount of money each visit. I will definately continue to shop at Lidl in the future. ...

little_miss_sunshine1982 21.04.2004 · Read full review
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...I used to think of LIDL with some amoutn of disdain. Although we never had one locally to me as a child, visits to stores near friends houses always left me with a bad impression. However, when one opened up not five minutes from my house, in the interests of fairness, I had to give it a try . Actually, to hell with fairness. There was one reason, and one reason only why i entered the store that day. Bratwurst! I feel a little backstory is in order ...
...prepared for the more experience LIDL shopper to glare angrily at you as they clutch their single carton of milk. LIDL in Carrington, Nottingham, has an ample sized carpark, and a freephone to order taxis . Its also on main bus routes in and out of the city, so getting there and getting back isn't too tricky . Overall, I really do like LIDL . I LOVE being able to get hold of some continental foods that I would otherwise pay through the nose for at ...

Thehonesttruth 16.04.2009 · Read full review
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...I had heard of Lidl and how good the prices were, and I thought you buy cheap you get cheap inferior products. WRONG. I was with a pal the other day (who swears by Lidl) he wanted to pop to Lidl for a few things and asked me to drive him there, save waiting in the car I thought lets go and look at this so called miracle store, I ended up coming from there £93.00 lighter in my pocket, but with a boot full of goodies to compensate. I will now always ...
...I only spent £93.00 in Lidl and came away with tons more shopping. Lidl’s a German store, if it’s a German store it’s going to sell German brands. The thing with the British is, they do not like change, and are unwilling to try anything new. I’ll tell you what I heard as I was going round the store, eaves dropping on new customers. I only eat Heinz beans/ketchup. I only drink Gordon’s gin. I’d never buy foreign sausages, I could carry on but I ...

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I discovered Lidl a few years ago when they built a new store close by. I don't use it all the time but quite often. Location: There are 2 stores within 10 minutes drive from my home. One I can reach by a non congested back street route and the other is in close proximity on a retail park. Both are on direct bus routes from the town Centre. Parking: I've never had a problem. There is ample parking at the retail park including disabled spaces close ...
...car park is smallish but there are always spaces. It is usually easy to get off both carparks when shopping is completed,no long queues of traffic. Trollies: You need a pound coin for these and there is only one type. There are no handbaskets. Trollies don't seem to have a mind of their own and are big enough for a large shop. Prices: Everything is really cheap here. Their fruit and vegetables are especially cheap, often a quarter of the price ...

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