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Tim Watts wrote:
Frank Erskine
wibbled on Thursday 22 July 2010 22:50


Go during the afternoon and you'd swear they'd been playing football
with the veggies and the fans had swarmed the pitch.

Surely that depends on the individual store and its associated
customer base?


I suppose if the demographics are such that the "five a day" comprise:

Booze
Fags

Of course Lidl doesn't sell fags - or at least none of them round here do.

Cola
Deep frying oil
and Baked beans for the "vegetables"

then the fresh produce will be bought in once a week and will sit there
for most of the week ;-

I've only really noticed it with fruit and veg in Lidl. Milk and bread etc
seems ok.

Oh, and in that demographic the little chavites probably *have* been
playing football with the veg!

Last time I was in Bexhill ALDI, for a tool, the fresh stuff wasn't bad
(I had some fruits), though nothing to write home about. But it's too
far to go for a few things. Round here, the farm shops have some pretty
good stuff and surprisingly, less than the regular supermarkets (I took
an old reciept in from Sainsburies and costed it out). I'd been
thinking that the farm shops would add a premium for the countrified
gentry class, but it seems not so.

It's a fallacy that you always get the cheapest produce in the
supermarkets. Only when you compare them to the corner shop. Specialist
places like farm shops or market stalls will usually better them in both
quality and price. Neither has the overheads.

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Dave Plowman London SW
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