On Jul 21, 1:02*pm, Derek Geldard wrote:

You're right - I should have moved years ago, the city has expanded
and is now too close for comfort, *but I haven't been able to find
another house further out I can afford with room on the drive for 9
cars.

You've got parking for nine cars while poor John is driving his
Reliant from car park to car park like Dennis Weaver in Duel, unable
to take his foot off the gas for a second? That's just morally
bankrupt. Can't you put a ticket machine on your driveway, impose
some draconian conditions and employ some ex-cons?

I don't think they do pay them at Lidl, I think they just get a free
meal of a trough of baked beans garnished with a couple of dead dogs.

I wouldn't pay them in washers and I 'm certain you wouldn't either.

As it happens the staff in Lidls are the most helpful and courteous of
all the supermarkets round here.

Thanks but no thanks if the one in Milton Keynes is typical, (we don't
have one) it reminded me of a supermarket behind the iron curtain in
1969. IE stock levels of tinned fruit in single digit quantities.

Is tinned fruit the benchmark? Gawd help us.

On Jul 21, 1:39*pm, Derek Geldard wrote:


Parking one Saturday afternoon outside Leeds Parish Church I was
agrieved because there was only 3 hours parking time left and I could
only purchase a minimum of four hours parking. On buying a ticket
under protest I found I was issued with a ticket valid for what
remained of Saturday, all day Sunday, and the first hour of Monday
morning.

That's quite common where overnight parking is allowed but the
overnight period is free.

MBQ

On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:06:27 +0100, stuart noble
wrote:


I don't think they do pay them at Lidl, I think they just get a free
meal of a trough of baked beans garnished with a couple of dead dogs.

I wouldn't pay them in washers and I 'm certain you wouldn't either.

As it happens the staff in Lidls are the most helpful and courteous of
all the supermarkets round here.


Definitely not the case here, but then we have all the supermarkets
except Waitrose (not yet built - recession) within 3 or so miles and 2
of the head offices within about 5.

Thanks but no thanks if the one in Milton Keynes is typical, (we don't
have one) it reminded me of a supermarket behind the iron curtain in
1969. IE stock levels of tinned fruit in single digit quantities.

Is tinned fruit the benchmark?

No it's just one example. (I meant to say Eg.)

Gawd help us.

It happens to suit my dietary needs but anyway It's a good measure.
They could easily stock it if they could be arsed.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Derek Geldard
saying something like:


Yes, third rate fruit and veg, miniscule portions in their frozen
ready meals, packed in rubbish without the benefit of being re-cycled.

Utter cock. Lidl f&v is the freshest, the meal portions are fine and
packaging is ok.

Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Derek Geldard
saying something like:

Yes, third rate fruit and veg, miniscule portions in their frozen
ready meals, packed in rubbish without the benefit of being re-cycled.

Utter cock. Lidl f&v is the freshest, the meal portions are fine and
packaging is ok.

I'm guessing it's fresh because it goes straight on to the shelves
without any intermediate storage/refrigeration, and that kind of
presentation isn't acceptable in the bigger supermarkets.
They had no oranges last time I was there. I took that to mean it was a
bad time for oranges, borne out by those I subsequently bought from
Sainsburys, which were expensive, and truly awful.

In article ,
Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
Utter cock. Lidl f&v is the freshest, the meal portions are fine and
packaging is ok.

Fresh fruit and veg is one thing I don't buy at Lidl - it simply isn't as
fresh as other supermarkets round here. I'm told it's because they don't
have deliveries every day.

Dunno about 'meal' portions. I make my own. ;-)

--
*What do little birdies see when they get knocked unconscious? *

Dave Plowman London SW
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On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 01:29:29 +0100, Grimly Curmudgeon
wrote:

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Derek Geldard
saying something like:


Yes, third rate fruit and veg, miniscule portions in their frozen
ready meals, packed in rubbish without the benefit of being re-cycled.

Utter cock. Lidl f&v is the freshest,

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

the meal portions are fine and
packaging is ok.

In the same sense that Gordon mac ****e-Features was a "Fine"
politician who saved the country from economic meltdown.

Frozen ready meals (roast dinners) are significantly smaller than
Birds Eye.

Derek

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Derek Geldard
saying something like:

Utter cock. Lidl f&v is the freshest,

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

Not in the stores I've been in.

the meal portions are fine and
packaging is ok.

In the same sense that Gordon mac ****e-Features was a "Fine"
politician who saved the country from economic meltdown.

Wtf are you on?

Frozen ready meals (roast dinners) are significantly smaller than
Birds Eye.

And the price difference is?

You're just a store snob.

On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:42:36 +0100, Derek Geldard
wrote:

On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 01:29:29 +0100, Grimly Curmudgeon
wrote:

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Derek Geldard
saying something like:


Yes, third rate fruit and veg, miniscule portions in their frozen
ready meals, packed in rubbish without the benefit of being re-cycled.

Utter cock. Lidl f&v is the freshest,

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?

--
Frank Erskine

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
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 ;-

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.

--
Tim Watts

Managers, politicians and environmentalists: Nature's carbon buffer.

On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:46:55 +0100, 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
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 ;-

TBH, I don't know. On occasion I look into a semi-local Aldi (I think)
for interesting toys/"tools"/playthings.
If the queues aren't too long I might stock up on local bakery
products such as cheese scones which are exactly the same as from the
bakery's own outlets at around the same price.

Parking there is free; their car park is very convenient for a local
"Metro" rail service to/from all over the place :-;

--
Frank Erskine

On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:46:55 +0100, Tim Watts wrote:



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

Booze
Fags
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 ;-

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),

Earlier this year for months ours demosnstrated the odd syndrome of
fruits being half unripe and the other half rotten, at one and the
same time. One got the distinct impression that the properly ripened
stuff had been sold on to Sainsers / Marks's for a better price.

though nothing to write home about.

It's posh is Bexhill - my sister owns a jewellery store there.

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.

They are happy to "Trouser" all the cash that otherwise would go on
overheads and middlemens margins and commissions.

It can be up to 80%.

Derek

In article ,
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.

--
*Money isn't everything, but it sure keeps the kids in touch.

Dave Plowman London SW
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In message , Tim Watts
writes

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.

You probably know my wife's cousin, Di:-)

Fetching blonde of a certain age!

regards


--
Tim Lamb

On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 05:42:39 -0700 (PDT), mike
wrote:

On Jul 21, 1:02*pm, Derek Geldard wrote:

You're right - I should have moved years ago, the city has expanded
and is now too close for comfort, *but I haven't been able to find
another house further out I can afford with room on the drive for 9
cars.

You've got parking for nine cars while poor John is driving his
Reliant from car park to car park like Dennis Weaver in Duel, unable
to take his foot off the gas for a second? That's just morally
bankrupt. Can't you put a ticket machine on your driveway, impose
some draconian conditions and employ some ex-cons?

Why? to make him feel at home ?

All this talk of Reliant Robin's getting his bobbin throbbin' ;-)

Derek