Aldi advert getting on my t#ts

[Ian_Bristol]

What is it with Aldi do they think we are thick. They keep saying Oh look i saved 40% on my shopping this week, thats a bit like Ping saying shop with us and save 40% on your golf clubs and then getting a set of Dunlop sports direct specials. The products they are saying you can save money on are not even the same brand so how can they get away with saying you can save money when they are not the same product. I find myself switching over to another channel for 30 seconds just so I dont have to watch it.

 

[GB72]

Not sure about Aldi but Lidl products are the equal of most other thing I have tried

 

[bigslice]

Im no expert but as i get my food delivered from Harrods, i suspect that their advertising is saying is try cheaper it tastes the same. It doesnt concern me but if aldis does ostrich eggs then im interested

 

[Smiffy]

What is it with Aldi do they think we are thick.

We must be.
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jul/29/aldi-catching-up-with-waitrose-market-share

 

[Sweep]

A lot of adverts wind me up, but usually by continuous repeating of the same advert, often for months on end.
eg. Trivago "A hotel in Barcelona" (thankfully, it seems they have finally changed that one)
Halifax "Mark Watts!" Like they are going to give some bloke who runs a school football team a better deal on his mortgage.
Nationwide with some soppy bloke in a high voice singing "I'll keeeeeep you safe..."

I really do think these companies are ill advised to just keep playing the same thing over and over. I just switch channels and it actually makes me dislike the companies for annoying me.

 

[Blue in Munich]

Not sure about Aldi but Lidl products are the equal of most other thing I have tried

I'll second that. We hosted a meeting at work, provided the tea and biscuits and part-way through said "So what do you think of the cheap biscuits then?" The guests initially thought we were winding the up because the packaging looks so similar, when they looked closer they admitted they'd never have realised if we hadn't told them.

 

[Smiffy]

A lot of adverts wind me up, but usually by continuous repeating of the same advert, often for months on end.
eg. Trivago "A hotel in Barcelona" (thankfully, it seems they have finally changed that one)
Halifax "Mark Watts!" Like they are going to give some bloke who runs a school football team a better deal on his mortgage.
Nationwide with some soppy bloke in a high voice singing "I'll keeeeeep you safe..."

I really do think these companies are ill advised to just keep playing the same thing over and over. I just switch channels and it actually makes me dislike the companies for annoying me.

So what if I mentioned Gladstone Brookes?

 

[Deleted member 15717]

And the companies are doing well with the advertising, as you're talking about them

 

[Rooter]

I'll second that. We hosted a meeting at work, provided the tea and biscuits and part-way through said "So what do you think of the cheap biscuits then?" The guests initially thought we were winding the up because the packaging looks so similar, when they looked closer they admitted they'd never have realised if we hadn't told them.

We did the whole brand swapping years ago and saved a fortune on shopping, only a very small handful of product do we buy branded (Heinz beans, actually that's the only one I can think of!) Some own brand, some value range. Drop to the lowest version and try it, if you don't like value, try own brand.

We use value dishwasher tablets for example, tesco own washing gel saves a small fortune. To put the whole thing in perspective, I feed a family of 6 and 6 nights out of 7 is cooked from scratch, plus cleaning products etc for under £100 a week. (Not inc booze!)

Some of the best savings/finds.. Tesco value choc chip cookies, tesco gold coffee. Both as good if not better than Maryland and golf blend and well over half the price. Th dishwasher tablets are £1.50 for 30 I think, that's 3 times less than finish and my plates are still clean.

 

[chellie]

We did the whole brand swapping years ago and saved a fortune on shopping, only a very small handful of product do we buy branded (Heinz beans, actually that's the only one I can think of!) Some own brand, some value range. Drop to the lowest version and try it, if you don't like value, try own brand.

We use value dishwasher tablets for example, tesco own washing gel saves a small fortune. To put the whole thing in perspective, I feed a family of 6 and 6 nights out of 7 is cooked from scratch, plus cleaning products etc for under £100 a week. (Not inc booze!)

Some of the best savings/finds.. Tesco value choc chip cookies, tesco gold coffee. Both as good if not better than Maryland and golf blend and well over half the price. Th dishwasher tablets are £1.50 for 30 I think, that's 3 times less than finish and my plates are still clean.

Do you have Home Bargains down your way? Brilliant store. Oh, and Sainburys really cheap basic range tea bags are as good as PG, Tetley etc

 

[Rooter]

Do you have Home Bargains down your way? Brilliant store. Oh, and Sainburys really cheap basic range tea bags are as good as PG, Tetley etc

no we don't, but we do have tesco value tea, 20p for a bag of 40 tea bags and not once has any visitor said anything, as good as tetley in my eyes (i am no tea expert, but tastes like tea to me!)

 

[Tashyboy]

To be honest I find Aldi excellent, did me Friday big shop there er yesterday.
An eggs an egg. Only aldis eggs are cheaper, don't know if they have found cheaper chickens. Aldi Wagyu burgers they are the best burger money can buy. Re there steaks, Lordy Lordy.

San Miguel lager, £1.69 in home bargains £1.25 in aldi for the same 660ml bottle. How's that a cheaper alternative. Same lager in pubs £3.50 plus a pint.

i have a feeling the bigger supermarkets are having my pants down.

PS, Mansfield is on the up and up, they are building a mahoosive B & M right near Aldi. And building another Aldi 4 mins by car from my humble abode.

 

[Beezerk]

no we don't, but we do have tesco value tea, 20p for a bag of 40 tea bags and not once has any visitor said anything, as good as tetley in my eyes (i am no tea expert, but tastes like tea to me!)

But nowhere near as good as Yorkshire tea ☕

 

[garyinderry]

Love a bit of aldi shopping.

Never gets old being told the cheap as chips grand total for all your items. How much? You are kidding !!

Few things like tea bags and brown sauce have to be branded. The rest I couldn't care less.


As far as ads go I am loving the just eat ones. Chicken madras was inspired. They should just keep rattling them out.agreed they can get really repetitive and begin to grate.

 

[bluewolf]

We switched to Lidl about 2 years ago and I haven't noticed any real drop in quality.. In fact, in some areas (fruit and veg), I think they are quite a bit better than some of the bigger Supermarkets.. The wine, spirits and beer are also very good value also.. I'd go so far as to say that I wouldn't even consider switching back now.. Oh, and we save over £100 a month as well...

 

[rosecott]

A lot of adverts wind me up, but usually by continuous repeating of the same advert, often for months on end.
eg. Trivago "A hotel in Barcelona" (thankfully, it seems they have finally changed that one)
Halifax "Mark Watts!" Like they are going to give some bloke who runs a school football team a better deal on his mortgage.
Nationwide with some soppy bloke in a high voice singing "I'll keeeeeep you safe..."

I really do think these companies are ill advised to just keep playing the same thing over and over. I just switch channels and it actually makes me dislike the companies for annoying me.

The one that really gets me spitting feathers is "We Buy Any Car".

Do they really think that all these jobbing actors on their different sofas are real families talking about real car deals?

 

[Khamelion]

So what if I mentioned Gladstone Brookes?

You'd have to swing your hips to play your driver . It's not just that PPI advert it's all of them, along with the where there's a blame there's a claim advert, ban them ban them all. Put society back to where people said sorry for accidents, not can you give my your solicitors name.

 

[Khamelion]

And the companies are doing well with the advertising, as you're talking about them

On the contrary, just because we are discussing them in a closed forum, doesn't mean any one will be buying the or taking them up on what they are advertising.

 

[Khamelion]

lidl do really good fruit and veg and better prices than the big supermarkets and if you talking like for like, then a potato, tomato, lettuce, pear, avocado, lime, lemon, apple, cabbage etc are all the same, unless your local sells blue tomatoes and pink lemons.

Lidl also do really good fresh baked bread and in a taste test, my other half bought some Aldi, may have been Lidl tomato sauce, stuck it in a Heinz bottle and my daughter didn't know the difference.

 

[Hobbit]

OMG, I've chuckled through this thread. The vast, vast, vast majority of adverts people have posted about I don't ever remember seeing.there might be the odd tag line that rings a distant bell, but other than that, I haven't got a scooby what the product is.