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> Brutal competition from discounters Aldi and Lidl is making life very uncomfortable for the big British grocers I don't really get this paragraph. On a recen
by wink 9y ago
> Brutal competition from discounters Aldi and Lidl is making life very uncomfortable for the big British grocers
I don't really get this paragraph. On a recent vacation in Scotland I found Tesco to not be very top-end (that's also how I remember it from the 90s) - so unlike Sainsbury it feels like a pretty low-end supermarket (or maybe mixed? full-spectrum) and we have some of these "nearly discounter" chains in Germany as well. FTR, I only visited Lidl once in Scotland, so can't comment. And I also didn't really buy typical groceries, not cooking,e tc. Just random stuff.
TLDR: I'm very confused about which chain is supposed to be upscale or close to being labelled a discounter.
Also, in Munich I tend to see a lot more normal supermarkets anywhere near the city center than exactly Aldi and Lidl, because they tend to have bigger stores, which are not so easy to come by.