Aldi/Lidl middle aisle offers and recommendations.

[Northernstorirs]

Awful quality - buy cheap, buy twice.

Aldi/Lidl buyers would normally approach a factory and request a ridiculously high volume for production with the factory making little margin hence you end up with a below standard product.

They also rip off branded items by replicating said products but without the quality and innovation.

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

Awful quality - buy cheap, buy twice.

Aldi/Lidl buyers would normally approach a factory and request a ridiculously high volume for production with the factory making little margin hence you end up with a below standard product.

They also rip off branded items by replicating said products but without the quality and innovation.

Sometimes certainly true, but often with branded stuff it is just that brand you are paying for rather than any difference in quality. Fool and his money etc....

 

[Northernstorirs]

Sometimes certainly true, but often with branded stuff it is just that brand you are paying for rather than any difference in quality. Fool and his money etc....

It all depends on the product but there's a reason they can provide such low prices, they cut out a lot of the costly quality materials and run on fine margins as they bully suppliers/factories to produce ridiculous volume.

 

[MikeF]

Tape digitiser that allowed me to convert my old Stu Allan tapes.

 

[Invisible Man's Bandage]

This is not a shit thread btw; )

Surely that is for each individual poster to decide?

 

[dickie davies]

Awful quality - buy cheap, buy twice.

Aldi/Lidl buyers would normally approach a factory and request a ridiculously high volume for production with the factory making little margin hence you end up with a below standard product.

They also rip off branded items by replicating said products but without the quality and innovation.

A manufacturer doesn't have to supply them. They make a commercial decision unlike manufacturers that supply Tesco, Asda etc, who are threatened with delistings if they refuse to subsidise offers

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

Surely that is for each individual poster to decide?

Fair point.

 

[Invisible Man's Bandage]

Sometimes certainly true, but often with branded stuff it is just that brand you are paying for rather than any difference in quality. Fool and his money etc....

I supply products into the print market and my big customers produce packaging for supermarkets etc. I can tell you for instance that all own label 'Weetabix' are exactly the same as the branded product as they had their own in house printing operation producing the cartons until the Chinese bought the company and sold the print side off.

Apart from Kelloggs, most food manufacturers supply own label versions of their products and it is more efficient to keep them the same rather than making cheaper versions.

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

Awful quality - buy cheap, buy twice.

Aldi/Lidl buyers would normally approach a factory and request a ridiculously high volume for production with the factory making little margin hence you end up with a below standard product.

They also rip off branded items by replicating said products but without the quality and innovation.

Brand snob are we?

If you said that a few years ago I'd have agreed but not anymore. Some of their Hand/power tools are good quality for the money. I'm not talking tradesman tools quality, although some are bordering being. Aldi offer a 3 year guarantee on their power tools, and they wouldn't if they were fall to bits bobbins quality.

Aldi's 3 year warranties & the SOGA?

As much a general question as advice I guess.

forums.digitalspy.com

 

[Northernstorirs]

A manufacturer doesn't have to supply them. They make a commercial decision unlike manufacturers that supply Tesco, Asda etc, who are threatened with delistings if they refuse to subsidise offers

You are exactly right.

Some suppliers can't supply them as like you say, other customers such as Tesco will threaten to delist the supplier's items.

I know suppliers who won't touch them simply due to the low price their willing to pay combined with the volume they're requesting being humongous.

Some of the recognised brands that do work with Aldi provide a lower quality spec'd product or are just offloading their SLOBs. A lot of the commodity items (branded food) is the same price per kg as the supermarkets, the lower priced smaller packs just make it look like it's a cheaper product.