Melba's Jammin' > writes:

>What do you know about them?

>The one in Savage on County 42 is now open and I stopped yesterday to
>have a look and perhaps pick up a couple items. It was an interesting
>experience.

In the U.K. we have both Aldi and Lidl both are German supermarket
chains and the produce can be better or worse than stuff in other
supermarket chains. In fact it's generally held that German's are used to
higher quality produce in their stores so the stuff is usually of a
higher quality and cheaper than stuff in an equivalent British owned
chain (Tesco, Sainsbury or Asda (latter owned now by WalMart). Lot of
the stuff in U.K. stores are based on brands available in Germany so are
sourced outwith the U.K. i.e the same produce you get on German shelves.
They also have non-food stuff from clothing to computers (of which you
pick up some pretty good deals for high spec portables, etc.) but these
are usually limited to a particular week or until stock runs out.

I must say I have a penchant for the chocolate which is usually very
high quality with cocoa butter rather than vegetable oil as you get in
cheaper U.K. chocolate.

Graham