Lidl

Advantages: cheap
Disadvantages: none

...A little bit of Lidl history Lidl is the last name of the man who founded the store, Ludwig Lidl. The company was founded in the 1930's by a member of the Schwarz family. In 1973 Lidl opened their first discount store but then in 1977 the opened another 30. The right to use the Lidl name had to be bought and was bought from Ludwig for 1000 deutsche mark. There is some confusion about the way Lidl is pronounced, most comonly people pronounce it lid-ell but this is wrong. It is actually pronounced Lee-dell which is the german pronunciation. Personally i have always pronounced it lid-ell. I live across the road from a lidl store and it is so handy. I do not go there to do my weekly shopping but i go for the basics, bread, milk etc. I also love the special offers and great deals that they offer. Deals they have had recently include...

kristinaw857 25.04.2008 · Read review
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Lidl leaving the brands behind

Advantages: Cheap and cheerful, easy parking
Disadvantages: Mainly own branded goods

...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 in blue, apart from the ' I' which is offset and red. The store's motto is 'Where Quality 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...

brittle1906 16.01.2008 · Read review
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A lidl cash goes a long way

Advantages: great prices and no frills
Disadvantages: some unknown brands

...In this current climate of feeling the pinch we are told that people are abandoning their preferences for brands and going for cheaper options. No retailer embodies this trend more than Lidl. If you have time, and we seldom do, as we all work 60+ hours a week and tend to try to get the shopping done in a single visit once a month, it is nice to cherry pick the best deals from a variety of shops. We have recently returned from a fortnight's break in Cornwall, spent in a delightful holiday cottage near Penzance and whilst there we tried some of 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...

JeffFromPoole 16.11.2008 · Read review
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A LIDL money goes a long way

Advantages: Cheap.......very, very, cheap. And a great range of foods
Disadvantages: Haphazard storage on occasion, manky veg

...I have to confess, 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 here. I grew up an army brat. Whenever my dad got posted, so did we. We moved between England and Germany pretty much constantly for the first ten years of my life, and I got used to the diet over there. As I grew older, most of the foods i'd eaten vanished from my memory, but one particular food was etched in my memory- Bratwurst, a large, slightly spiced german sausage...

Thehonesttruth 16.04.2009 · Read review
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Lidl by Lidl they they are getting worse.

Advantages: See text.
Disadvantages: See text.

...I would just like to write a review on Lidl, for my sins I admit to actually having shopped there before now - I am still receiving couonselling for it! But in all fairness though, there are a small number of advantages to this wonderful German shop, although they possibly get outweighed by the disadvantages. However, whatever your feelings and thoughts (or whatsoever else they may be) on this shop I intend to break from my usual style of writing in order to criticallyl review this one. Advantages: The shop is usually much smaller, therefore you don't spend quite so much time as you actually would do elsewhere in looking for what you want. There are no added frills such as toilets; restaurants and/ or clothes departments in order to make you spend more money. But with that said, they do usually in fact have a small section...

dynamicnurse 21.04.2009 · Read review
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So cheap it should be fashionable. LIDL.

Advantages: Save ££££££££'s
Disadvantages: Limited on range

...I have known the supermarket chain ever since they first arrived to England, when the built one of the first stores 5 minutes away from my house when i was barely a teenager. At a young age, i didn't really take much notice, after all why would a young girl living at home really care. Although i did know the "Stigma" cast over the store. It was the supermarket version of Primark and Nicks Trainers (Although Primark is now the height of fashion and it's cool to be money savvy). My mum was always a fan and still is all these years later. It's actually become a event of checking their website for the up and coming offers. When i left home nearly 3 years ago and had my daughter, I'll be honest, I steered clear of LIDL because of the stigma and shopped at ASDA and Morrisons instead. When times starting getting tough with the "Credit...

supermumtochloe 23.10.2009 · Read review
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I want a Lidl of that !!

Advantages: Cheap
Disadvantages: pay for bag's, untidy stores

...I bet for many of you on here, when you hear the name ‘Lidl’ think cheap food, bad quality, for poor people, and until recently I would have fully agreed with you. My 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 sound of baked beans costing as little as 4 pence sounded far from intriguing. However my opinion changed dramatically last year when I found a very respectable Management job at…yes you guesses it- Lidl...

spoilt_little_br 26.05.2005 · Read review
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Lidl vrs Mainstream Supermarkets.

Advantages: Cheap honest prices.
Disadvantages: Dont offer everything you may need.

...Lidl Supermarket Newton Road 173 TQ2 7AJ Torquay/Torbay The general concensus is that when times are hard we reduce the quality of produce we buy from a Supermarket. I personally dont agree with this. In my opinion people tend to change where they buy it from in the main. Lets be honest, most people a few years ago would never admit to shopping in Lidl. Perish the thought. Actually once you have braved the taboo you will find that it has a lot to offer. The prices for the majority of the items are cheaper than the mainstream chains. The quality in generally the same. I would reiterate that all teh main players have their "Own" brands, which i have found in general not to be as good as the brands on offer in Lidl. Tesco value products in the main are of a low quality. Its food name snobbery basically. Lidl uses...

livelylad 31.10.2009 · Read review
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Lidl - Worth a second look

Advantages: Cheap and surprisingly cheerful!
Disadvantages: No baskets

...I used to live in London and we were surrounded by supermarkets and food shops: Tesco, Sainsbury, Safeway, Waitrose, M&S - you name them; we had them. Our nearest supermarket was Lidl. I only ever went there on about two or three occasions. It was awful! It was a fairly new store but seemed so run-down and badly managed that the times I didshop there I left feeling depressed. OK, so it was cheap - but it was definitely not cheerful! These days I live on the west coast of Scotland, we have a Tesco, a Co-op - and a newly-opened branch of Lidl. When word first got out that ?some funny sounding supermarket? was going to open here I did my best to spread the word. ?Oh, no? I said, in my best Frankie Howerd voice, ?you won?t want to shop there? I assured everyone that I would certainly never step foot in the place....... .....well...

weenawoo 06.01.2005 · Read review
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You get a lot for a Lidl

Advantages: Very functional, great value, lovely chocolate
Disadvantages: Limited range of items

...Our Germanic friends have invaded these shores with various no-frills, budget-tastic supermarkets. One of these, Lidl, sprouted a brand new branch near me so I decided to investigate it after getting fatigued with the usual fare from Tesco. This was a 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 a ?pile it high, sell it cheap? feel. I guess their plan is to sell a high volume of products on wafer thin profit margins. A more...

zallin 21.08.2007 · Read review
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