Supermarket Prices January 2024 Analysis

BonzoBanana there’s always those people who harp on about Aldi being cheapest…and in the same breath they say “but then I have to nip to so & so for what I couldn’t buy”!?? lol

BonzoBanana the lack of vouchers or loyalty scheme is a good thing though, it means you don't have to jump through hoops, answer these questions three, and/or have your data mined and sold on just to get a comparable price of another shop. Keep doing what you do Aldi, it's working for a lot of us!

Stoie To be honest I did just make use of a 3% cashback at Halifax for shopping at Aldi which is probably the first discount I've ever had there but my bill only came to £8.25 so only getting back about 24p in cashback. I have bought from the Aldi site with I think 20% off for some mainly DIY products. I take your point if you just want simple shopping without loyalty discounts etc Aldi is the only supermarket to offer that nowadays it seems. I'm currently using £4.50 off £30 vouchers at Sainsburys. I bought a iceberg lettuce in Sainsburys it was about 3x the weight of the Aldi one for the same price. It will do 3 to 5 salads rather than the 2 of the Aldi one. I say same price but of course I had close to 15% extra discount at Sainsburys as only just went over the £30. I also got nectar points and made use of some nectar prices which were heavily discounted items which don't even exist in Aldi.

One thing that was equally bad about Aldi and Sainsburys and I was in both within a day of each other, Thursday for Sainsburys and Friday was Aldi was both had absolutely garbage bananas I refused to buy. Most were small and the Aldi especially had a lot of partially black bananas. I bought some recently in Tesco (last week) and they were fantastic quality. To be honest both Aldi and Sainsburys seemed poor value for fruit and veg overall compared to Tesco. However we have a huge Tesco in Yeovil with a fantastic range of fruit and veg and that means there is always the value options available. It's just brilliant for fruit and veg which I can't say the same for Tesco Metro stores i.e. the nearby Weymouth store that just isn't the same value, it has half the range of fruit and veg and stocks more of the higher price items rather than value items.

As you can guess I'm probably more of a Tesco fan but tend to shop where I have vouchers for.

Mango4 I can't find up to date information but back in 2016 the most any supermarket carried appeared to be 32,000 and at the time Lidl was 1600 and Aldi was 900. A more recent Guardian article from 2019 said Aldi stocked 600 regular items and I guess the others are middle section items and other special weekly items for example when they do Greek food or French food just for a week.

This is why I think a random selection of items would be a much better comparison because the Latestdeals comparison doesn't factor in the inconvenience of limited choice or the fact Lidl and Aldi charge much more for slow moving items.

That's why both Lidl and Aldi can be frustrating for me as I can't find what I want or what they are selling is poor quality as only one choice plus slower moving items often appear to be poor value in those stores so can't buy them there. My cat won't eat anything from Aldi or Lidl. In fact my very first experience of Lidl many years ago was buying cheap cat food and it hadn't been processed correctly so inside was unminced and didn't have the brown dye so there was an eye ball still formed in the tin partially and other parts of veins/organs or something all in its originally colour except cooked. I think the tin came from Spain or Italy. At the bottom of the tin it was minced and dyed though so some sort of blip at the factory. This probably gave me a core opinion of Lidl quality that has been difficult to shake. I do like some Lidl products though.