Lidl extension lead. This can't be safe...

Polythene plug tops. There was a neon version which suffered the same flexibility problem too when pulled out of a socket. Too flexible a material for this application TBH.

You should probably tell Lidl and Trading Standards.

First thing Monday morning get on the blower to your local Trading Standards office about the flexible cover. The other stuff is just marketing puff and arse covering.

Graham. submitted this idea :

Report it ASAP to the authorities. Don't waste your time telling the Lidl sales droids, they will just offer you a replacement/refund.

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I didn't buy it. Photos taken in the store whilst food hunter-gathering.

Included in my post for the sake of the narrative.

What does this cost? Might you be worrying too much? Can you really get fingers in there?

You could get a table knife in there.

Bill

You could probably get a table knife between the plug and the faceplate, assuming that you are a candidate for the Darwin Awards. PJ

PJ wibbled on Sunday 18 October 2009 04:07

The sleeved pins tend to mitigate that nonsense.

However, the plugtop looks poor - clearly not fit for purpose.

Tsssk, how dare you suggest that a Lidl product could be crap? They are sacrosanct in this news group and no one may point out the many defects in their product range which result from Lidl's penny-pinching.

Ha ha! You don't think he's annoyed because he can't compete with Lidl's olive oil prices do you?

I believe they have reduced the price recently.

When was it on sale?

In message , Bill Wright writes

Never, the double-decker bus would get in the way

But Steve Firth's olive oil company no longer seems to have a web site.

Adam

Bury New Road, Prestwich store. Taken at 10/10/2009 1141, but very likley still on sale.

In message , ARWadsworth wrote

Possibly because the Australians have cornered the market

They can reduce the price as much as they like. The current market price for Italian EVOO is EUR 9 per litre. That's for bulk sales to the agricultural co-operative. If Lidl sell "Italian" EVOO for less than that price then you have to ask "how?"

As to the Medway Pratt's ludicrous suggestion about being unable to compete with Lidl, why would an Italian farmer bother? There's no need to compete, simply sell in bulk to the co-op, receive a nice cheque for the sale. If there were downward pressure on wholesale prices as a result of Lidl cost-cutting then perhaps there would be some point, but there is no such pressure.

All the Medway Pratt achieves when he blathers about something he doesn't understand is to highlight that he fails to understand the issue.