Aldi, the German discounter

if it's less than a fiver

tim

Yep

I quite happily buy cheap supermarket freeze dried coffee

but the Aldi variant was awful

tim

It what keeps the costs down

tim

I think the one full-caff he bought was Lidl rather than Aldi (searching for Bellarom seems to confirm it) I suppose my colleague wanted to like it and I didn't expect to, but we both hated it, enough to throw it away.

I know it's tempting to respond to these sig file 'humerous' aphorisms but there's little point, even though the embedded humour 'gets old real fast' after you've seen the 'same old same old' dozens of times before.

I have, in the past, felt impelled to pick apart the faulty logic of some of the more absurdly irritating ones and accept that, like advertising bill boards, they're just another of life's little irritations best ignored as much as such things possibly can be.

It's such an irritation of certain posters, it's a wonder there isn't a variation of the killfile that allows you to suppress all but the first line of a sig on a poster by poster basis.

Alternatively, an anti-aphorism sig filter might be a more effective method using an aggregation of all the aphorism databases such auto -sig file aphorism generators rely upon plus manual entries using the offending content of actual signatures to completely sanitise the worse excesses by habitual offenders (they surely *must* know who they are).

I bet that's humongous

The guy in front of me before Christmas had a trolley load that he could not get on the standard conveyer and he was struggling to find space for the final one third so that the operator could start to scan the items.

The idea that there might be conveyers twice as long is staggering

(Fortunately whilst I was watching they opened up a new till and I got pole position)

They won't let you refill a basket. They have this fear that you will steal it

tim

which makes the piddly small table bigger, how?

tim

It is clear that Huge does

tim

tim... explained :

Or our local Tesco too.

I get a lot of stuff at Aldi (it's only a short walk away, and I get a discount on some purchases). I tried the instant coffee, and decided...no. I am going to try their beans. We shall see.

Bob Eager was thinking very hard :

I don't like everything they sell, certainly not there no name cereals. We buy the gold Aldi instant coffee, a friend who normally buys the big brands tasted that, liked it and asked what coffee it was and now makes a special trip just to buy their coffee.

Yes, my son likes that. The only cereal I buy is Shredded Wheat, and they stock that.

I very much doubt that you can pack in the real time that the checkout staff at a good Aldi/Lidl can scan. I note in places like Asda the staff actually slow right down to the rate of the person packing hence making people in the queue wait even longer.

Irrespective of where you shop you will always find the women who has packed all of the shopping on top of the purse.

But that area is now filled up with terminals for customers to put their receipt in to scan its barcode, and then enter their numberplate info to avoid paying parking charges. At one Lidl I went to recently, there were

you bring a bag with a big mouth so that it's easier to put things straight in.

I don't like the "own brand" instant coffee from Lidl or Aldi but that hasn't stopped me from trying a lot of their other offerings in the way of food and drink and finding it more than acceptable.

does any supermarket use bags with the handles aligned correctly?

One of the ways they keep their costs down. One of the reasons Lidl and Waitrose have a somewhat different demographic.

No idea whether self-service checkouts are cheaper or not, when you look at the capital costs and the fact that you need one person per few tills to sort out the problems.