Little did they imagine they’d end up in Leitrim and Romania.
Here we go.
God bless you Gemma for staying the course.
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Who are the Ryan family, what did she say about them?
I’m just back from Lidl and it’s a very good supermarket. It’s selection of meats is better than Tesco and it’s also cheaper. The vegetables are much fresher than at Tesco. The only thing I don’t like is that all their honey is English.
Dunnes is a nicer supermarket since its move to target the upwardly mobile classes. David McWilliams did an excellent article about it a few months ago and how it shows that the Irish economy is going well for middle Ireland compared to crappy post-industrial Brexit England with crappy Tesco and Aldi. Dunnes and Lidl are both good and have very focused target markets but Tesco is now caught in the middle and is pointless. Aldi is fucking horrendous, you may as well go to Dealz.
I assume that there’s a supermarket thread somewhere but I couldn’t be bothered looking for it.
Mr Ryan must have taken his wife’s name
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I’ve heard of Germans doing it.
Gemtrails should have asked her late German husband about this practice
Tesco has always been a very unpleasant environment. Even the branding is drab and unwelcoming.
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Dunnes m.o. is completely different to any other main street supermarket out there. Each store operates independently and orders are done directly with the suppliers with every store having it’s own delivery schedule. All other mainstream supermarkets operate under what’s called a central distribution system where all suppliers deliver to one warehouse and stores order directly from there.
Therefore any promotions/offers tend to run out of stock quicker than Dunnes as a lot of them operate under the “when it’s gone it’s gone system” Dunnes therefore have the opportunity to restock at any stage.
AFAIK Tesco are the only supermarket who get their deliveries directly from a UK warehouse. Lidl , Aldi and Supervalu all have depots in Ireland which each store orders off.
Dunnes have made a significant effort to attract the old Superquinn customers into their stores while at the same time trying to appease your “average shopper”
They’ve done pretty well but Lidl and Aldi have blown the market wide open. It was a general rule of thumb that discounters would command no more then 8% of the market during a recession. Both of them together are in or around 22/23% which is unheard of.
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I’m giving that an 
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Id be a bigger fan of lidl also. But I believe Aldi is thought to be the more ‘upmarket’ of the two german discounters
They’re all inferior in comparison to Asda.
Quisling
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Huh?