Come on, that’s not the situation in the Irish grocery market, and this blog should know it.
Anyone who goes to an established supermarket when there is a German retailer within reach is failing to “shop around” and deserves to lose whatever mark-up they pay. There’s an Aldi in Celbridge. If your hypothetical person wants to shop in Eurospar or Tesco instead, that’s their problem.
Aldi and Lidl are brilliant, and we talk about them here all the time, but you can’t get everything you need for your weekly shopping in them. I don’t know anyone who solely shops in the discounters, there’s just some brands and products that they don’t stock.
Do you really think it’s all down to consumers? Didn’t you ever smell a rat when Dunnes, Superquinn and Tesco all had signs up proudly stating that they all charged exactly the same price for branded goods?
“Where on earth is the understanding of what ordinary people’s lives are like?”
that sums up the entire political class in Ireland, and pretty much everything that is wrong with our political system. The government (and the Oireachtas in general) is full of career politicians, and very few of them have ever been PAYE workers. They literally have no understanding or empathy with ordinary people. This is why they see no problem with being chauffeured around in limos and helicopters while the country’s economy is on its knees.
I’d agree with Jean on the Lidl/Aldi thing – I shop in a nearby Lidl for certain items but a lot of items I usually need aren’t stocked there. Doing a ‘full’ shop there is impossible for me. I’ve also found that my branch is really unreliable for restocking shelves, fruit and veg being particularly difficult to get at times. (Recently I went in for onions and spinach and could get neither).
I have to say our local Lidl is fantastic for Veg..its always very seasonal & exceptionally fresh.. we also find it does tend to stock alot of Veg that the “mainstreem supermarkets dont”.. We get our fruit from a little shop in Dun Laoghaire Shopping Centre, which always has great offers. We would get all our meat from Thomas’s butchers in Foxrock who we have been using for years , he carries a great range of produce of exceptional quality..
So we have to go to 3 different places to stock up on food for the wk
Friday 3 July, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Come on, that’s not the situation in the Irish grocery market, and this blog should know it.
Anyone who goes to an established supermarket when there is a German retailer within reach is failing to “shop around” and deserves to lose whatever mark-up they pay. There’s an Aldi in Celbridge. If your hypothetical person wants to shop in Eurospar or Tesco instead, that’s their problem.
Friday 3 July, 2009 at 1:39 pm
Aldi and Lidl are brilliant, and we talk about them here all the time, but you can’t get everything you need for your weekly shopping in them. I don’t know anyone who solely shops in the discounters, there’s just some brands and products that they don’t stock.
Do you really think it’s all down to consumers? Didn’t you ever smell a rat when Dunnes, Superquinn and Tesco all had signs up proudly stating that they all charged exactly the same price for branded goods?
Friday 3 July, 2009 at 1:46 pm
“Where on earth is the understanding of what ordinary people’s lives are like?”
that sums up the entire political class in Ireland, and pretty much everything that is wrong with our political system. The government (and the Oireachtas in general) is full of career politicians, and very few of them have ever been PAYE workers. They literally have no understanding or empathy with ordinary people. This is why they see no problem with being chauffeured around in limos and helicopters while the country’s economy is on its knees.
er, sorry, rant over (for now…).
Friday 3 July, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Rant on Liam. I completely agree. 🙂
Redmum had a particularly good example of That Kind of Thing on her blog last year:
http://redmum.blogspot.com/2008/10/calling-all-single-parents-in-dublin.html
Friday 3 July, 2009 at 2:30 pm
I’d agree with Jean on the Lidl/Aldi thing – I shop in a nearby Lidl for certain items but a lot of items I usually need aren’t stocked there. Doing a ‘full’ shop there is impossible for me. I’ve also found that my branch is really unreliable for restocking shelves, fruit and veg being particularly difficult to get at times. (Recently I went in for onions and spinach and could get neither).
Friday 3 July, 2009 at 3:29 pm
I agree you can get some stuff but not all in LIDL so fresh meat etc you have to go elsewhere
Saturday 4 July, 2009 at 3:45 pm
I have to say our local Lidl is fantastic for Veg..its always very seasonal & exceptionally fresh.. we also find it does tend to stock alot of Veg that the “mainstreem supermarkets dont”.. We get our fruit from a little shop in Dun Laoghaire Shopping Centre, which always has great offers. We would get all our meat from Thomas’s butchers in Foxrock who we have been using for years , he carries a great range of produce of exceptional quality..
So we have to go to 3 different places to stock up on food for the wk