On Thursday, 4 January 2018 13:20:07 UTC, jim wrote:
whisky-dave Wrote in message:
On Thursday, 4 January 2018 10:40:09 UTC, tim... wrote:
"stuart noble" wrote in message
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Why do the media insist on calling Aldi a discount store?

because its MO is to sell exclusively no-name "discount" products.

Which is what in Germany is exactly what it does

but here, the UK obsession with "brands" means that they have to stock some
of them.

I went to aldi to get some bisto but they didn;t have any, only their own brand so I left and went to the local corner shop.

Bisto sends hugs.

Well they do put the ingredients on the label, because having a veggie cooking for you means they don't like to use meat products and the bisto gravy actually says on the tin(made from carboard) that it is vegatarian even the red version rather than just the green vegatable gravy which IMHO isn't as tastey as the red.
When I went to check on whether or not the aldi equivalant was Veggie or not there was no symbol so I tried reading the list of ingredients but unfortunatly I'd left my pocket electron microscope in my other coat, so gave up and the local shop was closer than me going home to collect my microscope and returning.

The aldi verion was about twice the size and 85p compared to the £1.29 or so I paid for the bisto.