moonsi til
worked it out now!
Not tried it myself but Aldi gin scored high in recent blind testing taste awards.
Things to look out for in Lidl and Aldi
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Hoss
...It was the blurst of times...
Is that the little glass bottles of Italian aperitif? I can't remember the name...
FFS, just reread your post. Cans, bottles. Ignore me [emoji55]
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
Trying to wean myself off Aldi's very nice £9.99 "Terasses du Larzac" - the slightly cheaper Malbec is not bad - plenty of tannin - as is the pinot noir... I find the really cheap Pinot and Malbec too characterless these days - the Cotes du Rhone isn't bad, but it only works with food - not that I actually drink wine without food ...
They had a modestly-priced Chateau Bordeaux a while back that was rather nice - I should have bought some extras ...
They had a modestly-priced Chateau Bordeaux a while back that was rather nice - I should have bought some extras ...
weltweit
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I have taken a bit against my local Lidl.
They have no concept of customer service. Yesterday they only had two tills open with about 20 people queued up, with varying amounts of shopping, waiting to get on with their lives.
We were all expected just to - wait our turn, a process that seemed to take a long long time.
They have no concept of customer service. Yesterday they only had two tills open with about 20 people queued up, with varying amounts of shopping, waiting to get on with their lives.
We were all expected just to - wait our turn, a process that seemed to take a long long time.
Ms T
Honey-coloured ramparts
There were no tills open at all in my local Lidl the other day. I was told to use the self-service checkout with a full trolley of stuff. Luckily someone saw sense and a till was opened. But ffs. The check-out lady was telling me they'd all had their hours cut and were chronically short staffed. 
polly
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A friend of mine works at Lidl. They seem to just work their staff really, really hard. She says she's often all alone all day, shifting huge boxes or running the bakery single handed. They pay so much better than most similar employers round here that I'd always assumed they were a good employer, but doesn't really sound like it.
Eta or what maomao said much more succinctly
Eta or what maomao said much more succinctly
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
My local Aldi has a weird automated voice announcement system that is often out of sync with the staff - I swear several times it has opened a till, then promptly closed it.
izz
Increased Leisure Citizen
Maybe it's developed a sense of humour, probably streams the cctv ...
gaijingirl
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My brother worked for a while at Lidl and ended up leaving on the verge of a breakdown. They worked him like a dog and treated him very badly. He went on to Tesco who were much better.
purenarcotic
Conveniently Pocket Sized
The fruit crush flavoured water in Lidl is excellent - tastes delicious and it's only 15 calories for the litre.
cybershot
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Hmm, well Aldi have the banners up for best employer 2017 (probably just in the supermarket arena, didn't really pay that much attention) so I hope for their sake they treat their staff better than this thread suggests Lidl do, and if so, perhaps Lidl could learn something.
T & P
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And they didn't even have the common courtesy to throw out some freebies? When I was a wee lad such promotional aircraft would always drop beach balls and parachuting little action man figures. Haven't seen it happen for at least three decades though. Health and Safety I guess...
friendofdorothy
Solidarity against neoliberalism!
Was this recently? Sorry to hear this. I thought at least Lidl paid LLW.
clicker
nanook rubs it....
that's exactly what i remember....all the
kids would swim out to the freebies....I clearly remember little plastic bags with even littler packets of Tuc crackers
like you said, probably a health and safety issue now 
eta - and nivea beach balls.
1927
Funnier than he thinks he is.
Lidl pay well I think, all the staff in my local lidl are excellent and love working for the company. I guess its down to local management .
Casually Red
tomorrow belongs to me
Is that Lidl or Aldi ?
Aldi Margarita cans and their Cosmopolitan's are good. I usually lob a few in the freezer for 15 minutes when I get home and it saves on messing about with ice cubes.
Yes these are very moorish and have the added advantage of coming in little wraps of 4 cookies to save you from having to eat the whole pack to stop them going soft.Buy these. Now.
Iirc someone already mentioned Aldi's cashew crunch bars; I think the brownie bars might be even better. Just tried one of the peanut & choc drop ones - was way more chocolatey than I'd expected, thought it would be like one of those nakd bars but it was more like proper chocolate brownie 
They have pretty much the same macros as the cashew bars as well, if anyone else cares about that stuff.
They have pretty much the same macros as the cashew bars as well, if anyone else cares about that stuff.gaijingirl
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no it was a while ago now - and the pay wasn't bad at all iirc but they definitely wanted their pound of flesh - any my brother is a real grafter - past jobs have included fruit and veg market and an early doors greasy spoon. He just works really hard.
Hellsbells
World's best procrastinator
I no longer have a lidl. Or an Aldi 
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
I just cleaned Super U out of 2014 Château Poujade. Different supermarket, same sense of achievementJust cleaned Peckham Lidl out of frozen calamariStill waiting for the return of Bitterol
aqua
made of cheese and gin
I'm sure ours had some of that in. Or maybe it was another aperitif. But whenever I see it I think of urban peopleJust cleaned Peckham Lidl out of frozen calamari
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