When I moved to the area a little over a year ago, I made a couple of visits to the Lidl supermarket in Bestwood Street. I wasn’t impressed. But yesterday I decided to give it another chance.
Everything about Lidl yells ‘cheap and cheerful’. Unlike Tesco’s carefully-arranged and well-lit shelves, Lidl’s produce seems to be a little haphazard with fewer product lines, stacked higher. It’s budget brands galore as you wander along the aisles. Some bargain beans and sausages caught my eye, as well as some very cheap oriental microwave meals.
On reaching the check-out, I remembered one of the things that grated with me on my previous visits: plastic bags are not provided free. This time round though, I guess I’d been more heavily influenced by all the anti-plastic-bag campaigns as luckily enough I’d brought my own recycled bags with me.
The best thing about my trip, though, was the price of it all. A mere £20.33 for a full, as-much-as-I-can-stumble-down-the-road-with load. Not bad, Lidl.
Given that my trusty Shell petrol station Sainsbury’s is no more, and Tesco is annoying far for someone with no car and a penchant for heavy groceries, Lidl may just have won itself a customer.
