Lidl and Aldi are doing a better job of re-stocking shelves for whatever reason. Perhaps it's a Euro thing. Empty shelves - good preparation for us Brits come January 2021.
You'll be screwed then, you're already too skinny
Panic buying Sainsburys vs lidle & the Co-op
- Thread starter gasbanni
- Start date
You'll be screwed then, you're already too skinny
Sponsored Links
- Joined
- 7 Jan 2010
- Messages
- 13,044
- Reaction score
- 3,000
- Country
Lidl veg is manky, won't last more than 2 or 3 days, their red onions nearly always have bad bits you have to cut out, sometimes nearly a quarter you lose. Their meat, on the other hand, is spot on.
yeah its not so good in my experience, its a bit variable.
Sainsburys have internal supply chain issues and a lack of staff to restock the shelves that existed prior to the panic buying problem. Higher demand has made things worse.
By contrast, in my small market town we have sainsburys, waitrose, aldi and lidl all adjacent to each other. Sainsburys has shelves that are bare of fresh meat, fruit, veg, tinned goods, and toilet paper. Aldi and lidl were out of toilet paper and handwash but most other things were ok. Waitrose had no toilet paper but was the best stocked of the lot.
By contrast, in my small market town we have sainsburys, waitrose, aldi and lidl all adjacent to each other. Sainsburys has shelves that are bare of fresh meat, fruit, veg, tinned goods, and toilet paper. Aldi and lidl were out of toilet paper and handwash but most other things were ok. Waitrose had no toilet paper but was the best stocked of the lot.
Last edited:
Sponsored Links
Agree. I was sceptical at first, but thought what is there to lose. All the other big chain's chicken was woolly rubbish so we have hit a pop. Excellent bit if poultry.
- Joined
- 17 May 2012
- Messages
- 10,781
- Reaction score
- 849
- Country
Overhead the manager of Sainsburys saying the same - he's seen people come in and spend £500 on food, toiletries and medicine.
Not an option for poor people.
The issue is obviously demand not supply. The supply chain will adapt to the demand (it already is in my world) and unless there's a huge increase in deaths and/or a major shutdown in the trade and transport networks, we should be fine.
We haven't stock-piled anything at all. We've struggled to get eggs (?), toilet roll obviously and a few long-life items but mainly everything has been fine just busy.
IF we do go into a lockdown like Italy and others, we're still allowed to go out to the shops -- just don't expect every single item to be in stock.
Sick of the panicking and stressing. Our parents and grandparents endured far worse than this. Calmness, civility and politeness is needed.
We haven't stock-piled anything at all. We've struggled to get eggs (?), toilet roll obviously and a few long-life items but mainly everything has been fine just busy.
IF we do go into a lockdown like Italy and others, we're still allowed to go out to the shops -- just don't expect every single item to be in stock.
Sick of the panicking and stressing. Our parents and grandparents endured far worse than this. Calmness, civility and politeness is needed.
Our Tesco delivery driver told my wife that when this all kicked off, one customer ordered just short of a thousand pounds worth of shopping.
Apparently they used to have signs near the motorways somewhere saying something along the lines of "You're not stuck in traffic, you are traffic".
We did a large shop when this started to kick off, not absurd but we will have contributed to things running low.
We did a large shop when this started to kick off, not absurd but we will have contributed to things running low.
How much of this is the demise of "the big shop "?
We tend to shop almost meal by meal nowadays, especially since the advent of mobile phones and hands - free..... "I'm passing aldi: what do you fancy for tea?" sort of thing.
We tend to shop almost meal by meal nowadays, especially since the advent of mobile phones and hands - free..... "I'm passing aldi: what do you fancy for tea?" sort of thing.
My wife does a meal plan for 7 days, then she does a list of every single item required for the meals, deducting off everything we have in the cupboard.
I wouldnt have the patience, but to be fair, we throw away virtually nil food. And we never visit the supermarket at all in the week.
It sounds overly regimented, but actually it means we dont have to think about what we will be having to eat plus it allows more fancy meals than would otherwise be possible.
Not knocking either approach, just wondering whether off the cuff shopping makes panic buying more likely, in that one's cupboards are bare most of the time, as opposed to just before "the big shop".
no I want the best trading deal we can get where we are not under the control of any EU institutions, I am a libertarian, where we should have small government, not layer after layer of government the top layer being the EU who are able to select their leaders without a democratic vote , the problem in here is there are a few who can’t accept a democratic vote that they lost ,and now just post mainly negative comments and running our country down, and I suspect that they are hoping for the worst so they can gloat , I don’t see you as a pragmatist with the majority of your posts on this forum I would put you down as a defeatist.
You must be awfully relieved we have the unelected Dominic Cummings running the country boyo.
Sponsored Links
