Supermarkets

It's amazing how shopping habits change. Home delivery of course, but also I seem to remember 15 years ago Aldi and Lidl were basically for tramps and students unless they had a specific deal on. Now full of middle class/middle income forme Tesco Sainsbury's customers.
 
Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese said:
It's amazing how shopping habits change. Home delivery of course, but also I seem to remember 15 years ago Aldi and Lidl were basically for tramps and students unless they had a specific deal on. Now full of middle class/middle income forme Tesco Sainsbury's customers.
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The Aldi model is interesting. You can go in one here and you could be in Hyde or Santa Monica. It obviously works the world over.
It's a clever model, blokes don't mind so much going due to the special buys. You can buy a set of trowels and a new telly.
 
Rarely go into big supermarkets, if I do it's for bits & bobs, maybe something specialist etc.

The way forward if it can be done is to get into a Lidl 10 mins after it opens both to miss the scrum around the bakery items and the group walk round the isles.

That 10 mins affords you the illusion of being in on your own.

Just need a little trial and error when you make the jump to find out which items are good & which not etc.
 
These yellow stickers showing price reductions are a pretty good deal. You can get quite a bit off your weekly shopping bill if you time it right. Sundays 30 minutes before 4.00 closing usually decent pickings. Midweek evenings too. Mainly stuff near sell by date but okay in freeze.
 
Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese said:
It's amazing how shopping habits change. Home delivery of course, but also I seem to remember 15 years ago Aldi and Lidl were basically for tramps and students unless they had a specific deal on. Now full of middle class/middle income forme Tesco Sainsbury's customers.
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I remember the first Aldi near me opening on aston old road, just lines of pallets and sgelving with a check out.
snide versions of kitkats, german washing up liquid and other stuff.

I used it from the start, having used cash n carries before and also lived abroad it was quite familiar a set up, but most mates would call me a peasant for it

now all the cunts swear by them ;-)
 
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Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese said:
It's amazing how shopping habits change. Home delivery of course,
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What goes around comes around though. When I first got married around 60 yrs ago I would nip into the greengrocers for my fresh food a couple of times a week but I would write out a shopping list, drop it into the grocers and they would deliver either Thursday or Friday whichever was convenient.
They didn’t charge for this service either, not like the supermarkets do today!
I’d shop almost daily for bread at the bakery and it would be baked on the premises and fresh.
Ah nostalgia… it’s a wonderful thing. Costs nowt and brings back memories. :-)
 
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