Lidl - Quality Really Is Cheaper (Lidl)

Member Name: f18nfz

Product:	Lidl
Date:	30/07/07 (174 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Great Prices, Items are good too, some unique sellers like croissants

Disadvantages: no free carrier bags on exit

Lidl 'Where quality is cheaper' - they arent kidding!
(pronounced LEE-DULL not lidl)
At the moment a 400gb External hard drive is going for £69.99!!

Lidl don't only sell household items but now sell toys and electronics as well as clothes.
Every week through the post I receive a lidl leaflet where they show what is coming on offer the following Monday and Thursday.
Just to show you the variety of the things lidl sell I'll give you a little list of things I buy/bought:
Bought a sit up bench with free dumbbells (£15)(a year ago)
Buy Croissants - they have a huge variety, normal ones, mini ones with jam in the middle, some lovely croissants individually packed perfect for taking out with cream white chocolate/milk chocolate in the middle!
MY BONSAI TREE (only £3.99 and the tree is 4 years old already!, also bought mini cactus for £1.00 and other plants, have great Japanese plants every so often.)

Everything is also dead cheap - eg. at the moment they have an 8 in one remote control going for £3.99
150g pack of salad 0.69p
400g roast dinner £1.00
18 packs of skips for £1.29
The list of incredible prices goes on. You can get bread for 17p.

Basically Lidl is a European discount supermarket chain of German origin that operates 5,000 stores.
In Germany it is Aldi's main competitor. (thus most of the products are German+cheap)
Founded in 1930
How it got its name: Lidl is not an abbreviation, but the last name of Ludwig Lidl, a retired teacher

Dieter Schwarz, is the chairman and CEO (i,e, boss)

45.9 billion dollars was the companies revenue in 2005
Lidl is all over Europe and its main competitors are: Aldi, Netto, Kwiksave & Penny Market.

Lidl now have thier own website which is pretty good, it shows the latest offers for every week, you just enter your post code and it shows what offers are available to you.
It now also has a lidl recipe website where it provides recipes. They even have an online newsletter with the latest offers than you can get free.
They have a careers section on their website, however I have read a lot of negative things about working for lidl, as they apparently do not treat staff well and pay very little.

Overall Lidl is excellent, brings out some great useful gadgets for the cheapest prices. It always has great food cheaply priced and most of the cereals and companies they sell you would never have heard of, but they're all good!
I recommend the Croissant section, the jam, tinned milk - for making tea and whatever electrical stuff they have on offer!
I also buy pocket tissues called Cien (10 quality tissues) packs are 99p.

Thinking back I have never had a problem with anything I have purchased, only negative thing is they do not provide carrier bags for your shopping, they sell them from 3p or you can bring your own, or use their trolleys. If you buy something with instructions, like an inflatable pool there's a good chance that instructions will be in German (they usually have an English set as well, but not always)

Summary: Lidl is great, every so often they bring out some really useful things at low prices. Great quality