Aldi goodies

[Clocky]

Toby Ponsenby wrote:

On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 21:49:06 +0800, Clocky wrote:

Toby Ponsenby wrote:
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 10:47:46 +0800, Clocky wrote:

"John McKenzie" <j_m_a_c@bigpond.com> wrote in message
news:4D39D8C9.7F33@bigpond.com...
Clocky wrote:

Noddy wrote:
"Trevor Wilson" <trevor@rageaudio.com.au> wrote in message
news:8prop5Fb42U1@mid.individual.net...

**Two weeks ago, Aldi advertised a scientific calculator that
is identical (except for brand name) to the one I use on my
bench. I paid $27.00 for it about 18 months ago. I note that
the same calculator is 'on special' at my local Coles for
$25.00.

Aldi had it for $1.99.

I bought one of those on Wednesday just for having a spare
around. Works a treat.

Wish we had an Aldi here, but we still haven't.


You want me to mail you one of the calculators?


Thanks for the offer, but I'm OK for calculators ;-)
Their prices are very good though, could use the extra competition
here in WA.

The trick is that Aldi is not a Calculator, Computer,TV or Hardware
store. It's supposedly a grocery chain-store.

Actually, they're not only a grocery store and in Europe they sell
all sorts of stuff including electronics and they are hugely popular
for their cheap prices on all sorts of items, and they have a
reputation for value for money.

In Australia, they advertise as a grocery store.
I know what they do in Europe. I know the history of the two brothers
that run/ran the organisation, and how they got it to where it is
today. Not a pretty sight at all if you refer to'consumers' as you do
later5.

The specials on Calculators (in this instance) is there to get us
into the store.
I suspect the marketing ploy is to bait the males with tools etc, so
they drag their grocery shoppers into Aldi, the rest is easy.

Good on them if it works for them. I know they have massive buying
power and as such can pass the savings onto their customers.

Any what's your point here?
Any grocery chain has 'massive buying power'
Aldi has a broader market as a buyer, is all.

I not with some interest here in HickBrisville that when Aldi puts
up a 'special' on an item where Big W, Target etc stocks
equivalents, then the Big W prices are dropped to match for the
duration of the Aldi speshuls.


So consumers win.
Bullshit.
Consumers don't win. Ever.
That's why they're called consumers, you twonk.

If you can save $25 on a calculator you need for school, then what ALDI does
is good for consumers - or not, dickhead?

So, you get to choose which 'brand' to buy and where to buy it.
Natch, in either case the only way to avoid expenditure you don't
need it to only pick up the speshuls. At either place)

Aldi has ONE good point. They blinked first, and 'introduced' unit
pricing to Australian shoppers. More accurately, they used that to
claim high gound - a s they knew absolutely that Coles and Wollies
would never do that unless they were forced to do so by GovCo. and
that wasn't happening any time soon, no matter how much we all
bleated about trick packaging games and having to take calculators
shopping with us.

But, truth be know ALL the supermakets are doing us over by not
placing prices actually on items. Unless you're a true zealot, and
mark every item you buy with the price, looking for faded dockets
are year down the track, or possessing an exceptional memory, are
the only way you'll twig to the constant price increases going on.

But of course, Colour TV's are cheaper - more affordable even - yeah
- like we buy one of those and eat it every week.

Quit whining and grow your own food, you are welcome to do so.

I do.
So should you.

I do you fucking twonk.

In Europe somewhere, since everything's better there. Of course.

What the fuck are you on about now, loon?

 

[Albm&ctd]

In article <qh0%o.8386$MF5.306@viwinnwfe02.internal.bigpond.com>,
georgewfrost@gmail.com says...

"Albm&ctd" <alb_mandctdNOWMD@connexus.net.au> wrote in message
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In article <Vq.8561$gM3.5088@viwinnwfe01.internal.bigpond.com>,
georgewfrost@gmail.com says...
Taking bread, Aldi have it for $1.09 a loaf every week

Why don't you buy or make some decent bread.. ya cheapskate.

Al
--


Al di's cheaper $1.09 bread is the same loaf you get from Woolworth's
that they sell for $2.69, it is baked in the same bakery but comes in a
different wrapper and that is all.

I don't eat much bread, but the grain stuff from the local health food shop

ain't bad.
Other than that I make some with sultanas apricot and sometimes even muesli.
I really laugh at people that think milk and bread shortages are the end of the
earth
Some people couldn't even make a fuck*ng pancake.

Al
--
I don't take sides.
It's more fun to insult everyone.
http://kwakakid.cjb.net/insult.html

 

[Albm&ctd]

In article <w83%o.8402$MF5.3701@viwinnwfe02.internal.bigpond.com>, me@home.com
says...

"Toby Ponsenby" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:lco8pvq8e4qm$.1lmej08gxku3u.dlg@40tude.net...

In Australia, they advertise as a grocery store.

Kinda. Their weekly brochures are more like those from BigW or K-Mart than
those of coles or Safeway.

I love 'em. I think there's something *really* funky about a place where you
can go do your regular weekly shop and buy a trumpet or violin at the same
time

A trumpet to accentuate your arse music but what's the violin for?

tip: You'll need a banjo and a green frog to make me or feral your
imaginary friend.

Al
--
I don't take sides.
It's more fun to insult everyone.
http://kwakakid.cjb.net/insult.html

 

[Albm&ctd]

In article <2011012414322416807-mike@nomailcom>, mike@nomail.com says...

On 2011-01-24 14:09:27 +1100, Bernd Felsche
berfel@innovative.iinet.net.au> said:


Just don't expect the in-store staff to be competent or able to
provide advice in those things.

And don't expect too much of their meat products. On the several
occasions over the years I have bought mince steak from them I have
noticed a peculiar faint odor reminiscent of mildew given off whilst it
was cooking. It was enough to turn me off buying any more meat from
them.


eeewww

Maybe just do like we do. Buy a whole blade from a real butcher, trim the fat
and mince that.
Yeah I know, old hand mincers are getting a bit scarce on the ground.
Lean pork and beef mince rissoles packed with lots of basil and onion,
yummeee

Al
--
I don't take sides.
It's more fun to insult everyone.
http://kwakakid.cjb.net/insult.html

 

[Toby Ponsenby]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:34:43 +0800, Clocky wrote:

Toby Ponsenby wrote:
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 21:49:06 +0800, Clocky wrote:

Toby Ponsenby wrote:
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 10:47:46 +0800, Clocky wrote:

"John McKenzie" <j_m_a_c@bigpond.com> wrote in message
news:4D39D8C9.7F33@bigpond.com...
Clocky wrote:

Noddy wrote:
"Trevor Wilson" <trevor@rageaudio.com.au> wrote in message
news:8prop5Fb42U1@mid.individual.net...

**Two weeks ago, Aldi advertised a scientific calculator that
is identical (except for brand name) to the one I use on my
bench. I paid $27.00 for it about 18 months ago. I note that
the same calculator is 'on special' at my local Coles for
$25.00.

Aldi had it for $1.99.

I bought one of those on Wednesday just for having a spare
around. Works a treat.

Wish we had an Aldi here, but we still haven't.


You want me to mail you one of the calculators?


Thanks for the offer, but I'm OK for calculators ;-)
Their prices are very good though, could use the extra competition
here in WA.

The trick is that Aldi is not a Calculator, Computer,TV or Hardware
store. It's supposedly a grocery chain-store.

Actually, they're not only a grocery store and in Europe they sell
all sorts of stuff including electronics and they are hugely popular
for their cheap prices on all sorts of items, and they have a
reputation for value for money.

In Australia, they advertise as a grocery store.
I know what they do in Europe. I know the history of the two brothers
that run/ran the organisation, and how they got it to where it is
today. Not a pretty sight at all if you refer to'consumers' as you do
later5.

The specials on Calculators (in this instance) is there to get us
into the store.
I suspect the marketing ploy is to bait the males with tools etc, so
they drag their grocery shoppers into Aldi, the rest is easy.

Good on them if it works for them. I know they have massive buying
power and as such can pass the savings onto their customers.

Any what's your point here?
Any grocery chain has 'massive buying power'
Aldi has a broader market as a buyer, is all.




I not with some interest here in HickBrisville that when Aldi puts
up a 'special' on an item where Big W, Target etc stocks
equivalents, then the Big W prices are dropped to match for the
duration of the Aldi speshuls.


So consumers win.
Bullshit.
Consumers don't win. Ever.
That's why they're called consumers, you twonk.


If you can save $25 on a calculator you need for school, then what ALDI does
is good for consumers - or not, dickhead?


So, you get to choose which 'brand' to buy and where to buy it.
Natch, in either case the only way to avoid expenditure you don't
need it to only pick up the speshuls. At either place)

Aldi has ONE good point. They blinked first, and 'introduced' unit
pricing to Australian shoppers. More accurately, they used that to
claim high gound - a s they knew absolutely that Coles and Wollies
would never do that unless they were forced to do so by GovCo. and
that wasn't happening any time soon, no matter how much we all
bleated about trick packaging games and having to take calculators
shopping with us.

But, truth be know ALL the supermakets are doing us over by not
placing prices actually on items. Unless you're a true zealot, and
mark every item you buy with the price, looking for faded dockets
are year down the track, or possessing an exceptional memory, are
the only way you'll twig to the constant price increases going on.

But of course, Colour TV's are cheaper - more affordable even - yeah
- like we buy one of those and eat it every week.

Quit whining and grow your own food, you are welcome to do so.

I do.
So should you.

I do you fucking twonk.

In Europe somewhere, since everything's better there. Of course.

What the fuck are you on about now, loon?

Nothing more than proving that stupidity is bearable.
As is arrogance.
But you're doubly blessed and indeed proof that the combination is toxic.
--
Your childish, witless, stupid and repetitive.
There arent one post on this whole forum that looks like it came from
anyone who has more IQ points than there teeth.

A demented Peter Lucas Impersonator - November 2010 .

 

[fritz]

"Bernd Felsche" <berfel@innovative.iinet.net.au> wrote in message news:747v08xmk8.ln2@innovative.iinet.net.au...

"fritz" <yaputya@microsoft.com> wrote:
"Noddy" <me@home.com> wrote:
"Toby Ponsenby" <me@privacy.net> wrote:

In Australia, they advertise as a grocery store.

Kinda. Their weekly brochures are more like those from BigW or
K-Mart than those of coles or Safeway.

I love 'em. I think there's something *really* funky about a
place where you can go do your regular weekly shop and buy a
trumpet or violin at the same time

And if you want to compare Aldi OZ (which is run by Aldi-South) to
Aldi-North of Germany, click on the catalog in the link. It's an
animation of the current real catalogue.
http://www.kaufda.de/Aldi-Nord-Prospekte/b-r43

http://www.aldi-nord.de/ has current offers.

The link I gave is the same as the flyer/catalogue that I pick up
from Aldi. (I live in Hamburg.) It also has the flyers from all the other
supermarkets, hardware stores, discounters etc in the region.
http://www.kaufda.de/Aldi-Nord-Prospekte/b-r43

They sell everything from food, through hardware, appliances through
to holidays and mobile phone services.

Plus clothes, shoes, garden stuff inc. plants, cameras, binoculars etc.
Only a delection is ever in the store at any one time though. I don't think
the stores ever send anything back to the warehouse either, if the specials
haven't sold after a few weeks they start reducing the price until they are sold.

Just don't expect the in-store staff to be competent or able to
provide advice in those things.

They are always too busy in my local Aldi to help anyway. Even the store
manager is stocking shelves or at the register a lot of the time.

--
/"\ Bernd Felsche - Innovative Reckoning, Perth, Western Australia
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X against HTML mail | answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
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[kreed]

On Jan 24, 10:28 pm, Albm&ctd <alb_mandctdNO...@connexus.net.au>
wrote:

In article <2011012414322416807-mike@nomailcom>, m...@nomail.com says...> On 2011-01-24 14:09:27 +1100, Bernd Felsche
ber...@innovative.iinet.net.au> said:

Just don't expect the in-store staff to be competent or able to
provide advice in those things.

And don't expect too much  of their meat products.  On the several
occasions over the years I have bought mince steak from them I have
noticed a peculiar faint odor reminiscent of mildew given off whilst it
was cooking.  It was enough to turn me off buying any more meat from
them.

eeewww
Maybe just do like we do. Buy a whole blade from a real butcher, trim the fat
and mince that.
Yeah I know, old hand mincers are getting a bit scarce on the ground.
Lean pork and beef mince rissoles packed with lots of basil and onion,
yummeee

Al
--
I don't take sides.
It's more fun to insult everyone.http://kwakakid.cjb.net/insult.html

Can still get them in some of the kitchen shops, we got a nice one for
about $40 2 years back.

 

[F Murtz]

kreed wrote:

On Jan 24, 10:28 pm, Albm&ctd<alb_mandctdNO...@connexus.net.au
wrote:
In article<2011012414322416807-mike@nomailcom>, m...@nomail.com says...> On 2011-01-24 14:09:27 +1100, Bernd Felsche
ber...@innovative.iinet.net.au> said:

Just don't expect the in-store staff to be competent or able to
provide advice in those things.

And don't expect too much of their meat products. On the several
occasions over the years I have bought mince steak from them I have
noticed a peculiar faint odor reminiscent of mildew given off whilst it
was cooking. It was enough to turn me off buying any more meat from
them.

eeewww
Maybe just do like we do. Buy a whole blade from a real butcher, trim the fat
and mince that.
Yeah I know, old hand mincers are getting a bit scarce on the ground.
Lean pork and beef mince rissoles packed with lots of basil and onion,
yummeee

Al
--
I don't take sides.
It's more fun to insult everyone.http://kwakakid.cjb.net/insult.html

Can still get them in some of the kitchen shops, we got a nice one for
about $40 2 years back.

Get heaps of brand new ones at weekend markets like paddies etc.

 

[Tom]

On 24/01/2011 11:02 PM, kreed wrote:

On Jan 24, 10:28 pm, Albm&ctd<alb_mandctdNO...@connexus.net.au
wrote:
In article<2011012414322416807-mike@nomailcom>, m...@nomail.com says...> On 2011-01-24 14:09:27 +1100, Bernd Felsche
ber...@innovative.iinet.net.au> said:

Just don't expect the in-store staff to be competent or able to
provide advice in those things.

And don't expect too much of their meat products. On the several
occasions over the years I have bought mince steak from them I have
noticed a peculiar faint odor reminiscent of mildew given off whilst it
was cooking. It was enough to turn me off buying any more meat from
them.

eeewww
Maybe just do like we do. Buy a whole blade from a real butcher, trim the fat
and mince that.
Yeah I know, old hand mincers are getting a bit scarce on the ground.
Lean pork and beef mince rissoles packed with lots of basil and onion,
yummeee

Al
--
I don't take sides.
It's more fun to insult everyone.http://kwakakid.cjb.net/insult.html

Can still get them in some of the kitchen shops, we got a nice one for
about $40 2 years back.

Aldi had them for $14 a while back.

Tom

 

[Mike]

On 2011-01-24 23:28:17 +1100, Albm&ctd <alb_mandctdNOWMD@connexus.net.au> said:

And don't expect too much of their meat products. On the several
occasions over the years I have bought mince steak from them I have
noticed a peculiar faint odor reminiscent of mildew given off whilst it
was cooking. It was enough to turn me off buying any more meat from
them.


eeewww
Maybe just do like we do. Buy a whole blade from a real butcher, trim the fat
and mince that.
Yeah I know, old hand mincers are getting a bit scarce on the ground.
Lean pork and beef mince rissoles packed with lots of basil and onion,
yummeee

Al

Making me salivate just reading this, but too lazy/insufficient time to
do that. Easier to get the mince from the local (real) butcher.

 

[kreed]

On Jan 24, 11:22 pm, "fritz" <yapu...@microsoft.com> wrote:

"Bernd Felsche" <ber...@innovative.iinet.net.au> wrote in messagenews:747v08xmk8.ln2@innovative.iinet.net.au...
"fritz" <yapu...@microsoft.com> wrote:
"Noddy" <m...@home.com> wrote:
"Toby Ponsenby" <m...@privacy.net> wrote:

In Australia, they advertise as a grocery store.

Kinda. Their weekly brochures are more like those from BigW or
K-Mart than those of coles or Safeway.

I love 'em. I think there's something *really* funky about a
place where you can go do your regular weekly shop and buy a
trumpet or violin at the same time

And if you want to compare Aldi OZ (which is run by Aldi-South) to
Aldi-North of Germany, click on the catalog in the link. It's an
animation of the current real catalogue.
http://www.kaufda.de/Aldi-Nord-Prospekte/b-r43

http://www.aldi-nord.de/has current offers.

The link I gave is the same as the flyer/catalogue that I pick up
from Aldi. (I live in Hamburg.)  It also has the flyers from all the other
supermarkets, hardware stores, discounters etc in the region.http://www.kaufda.de/Aldi-Nord-Prospekte/b-r43



They sell everything from food, through hardware, appliances through
to holidays and mobile phone services.

Plus clothes, shoes, garden stuff inc. plants, cameras, binoculars etc.
Only a delection is ever in the store at any one time though. I don't think
the stores ever send anything back to the warehouse either, if the specials
haven't sold after a few weeks they start reducing the price until they are sold.

Same in our local Aldi, unsold items just keep dropping week after

week until they leave the shelves.

Just don't expect the in-store staff to be competent or able to
provide advice in those things.

They have that 90 day return guarantee on pretty much everything,
that is probably how they cover themselves selling items without
knowing anything about them
you buy it, if you can't figure it out or it
doesn't do what you want it to do, bring it back for a no-hassle
refund, and buy another model or go elsewhere.
AFAIK DSE and Big W do much the same thing.

The other problem is with Aldi is that they don't stock the same
(electrical and variety) products all the time.
they might have a bulk lot of Tevion Set Top Boxes or whatever, that
are sold in a week or two - it wouldnt
be worth the time to train all the staff on the fine details of a
"temporary" item like that.

They are always too busy in my local Aldi to help anyway. Even the store
manager is stocking shelves or at the register a lot of the time.

They do the same here, you can see literally anyone in that shop doing
everything from mopping the floor, to stacking shelves, to working the
register.

Good system in my opinion, at least everyone knows every aspect of
what is going on in the store rather than having some wank management
sitting in an ivory tower trying to tell everyone else how to do a job
that they have never done themselves and don't know the details of to
understand it fully. I think that staff have more respect for someone
who is telling them to do a job - if the person telling them is not
above doing that job themselves at times.

--
/"\ Bernd Felsche - Innovative Reckoning, Perth, Western Australia
\ /  ASCII ribbon campaign | For every complex problem there is an
X   against HTML mail     | answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
/ \  and postings          |  --HL Mencken

 

[keithr]

On 25/01/2011 1:51 PM, kreed wrote:

On Jan 24, 11:22 pm, "fritz"<yapu...@microsoft.com> wrote:
"Bernd Felsche"<ber...@innovative.iinet.net.au> wrote in messagenews:747v08xmk8.ln2@innovative.iinet.net.au...
"fritz"<yapu...@microsoft.com> wrote:
"Noddy"<m...@home.com> wrote:
"Toby Ponsenby"<m...@privacy.net> wrote:

In Australia, they advertise as a grocery store.

Kinda. Their weekly brochures are more like those from BigW or
K-Mart than those of coles or Safeway.

I love 'em. I think there's something *really* funky about a
place where you can go do your regular weekly shop and buy a
trumpet or violin at the same time

And if you want to compare Aldi OZ (which is run by Aldi-South) to
Aldi-North of Germany, click on the catalog in the link. It's an
animation of the current real catalogue.
http://www.kaufda.de/Aldi-Nord-Prospekte/b-r43

http://www.aldi-nord.de/has current offers.

The link I gave is the same as the flyer/catalogue that I pick up
from Aldi. (I live in Hamburg.) It also has the flyers from all the other
supermarkets, hardware stores, discounters etc in the region.http://www.kaufda.de/Aldi-Nord-Prospekte/b-r43



They sell everything from food, through hardware, appliances through
to holidays and mobile phone services.

Plus clothes, shoes, garden stuff inc. plants, cameras, binoculars etc.
Only a delection is ever in the store at any one time though. I don't think
the stores ever send anything back to the warehouse either, if the specials
haven't sold after a few weeks they start reducing the price until they are sold.

Same in our local Aldi, unsold items just keep dropping week after
week until they leave the shelves.

Just don't expect the in-store staff to be competent or able to
provide advice in those things.


They have that 90 day return guarantee on pretty much everything,
that is probably how they cover themselves selling items without
knowing anything about them
you buy it, if you can't figure it out or it
doesn't do what you want it to do, bring it back for a no-hassle
refund, and buy another model or go elsewhere.
AFAIK DSE and Big W do much the same thing.

The other problem is with Aldi is that they don't stock the same
(electrical and variety) products all the time.
they might have a bulk lot of Tevion Set Top Boxes or whatever, that
are sold in a week or two - it wouldnt
be worth the time to train all the staff on the fine details of a
"temporary" item like that.

They are always too busy in my local Aldi to help anyway. Even the store
manager is stocking shelves or at the register a lot of the time.


They do the same here, you can see literally anyone in that shop doing
everything from mopping the floor, to stacking shelves, to working the
register.

Good system in my opinion, at least everyone knows every aspect of
what is going on in the store rather than having some wank management
sitting in an ivory tower trying to tell everyone else how to do a job
that they have never done themselves and don't know the details of to
understand it fully. I think that staff have more respect for someone
who is telling them to do a job - if the person telling them is not
above doing that job themselves at times.

I just wish that we had one less than 50Km away, unless I'm going to the
area for something else, it just isn't worth the petrol cost.

 

[Fraser Johnston]

"D Walford" <dwalford@internode.on.net> wrote in message
news:4d380f29$0$29871$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com...

Good luck with it but IMO you get what you pay for so don't expect much.
Last battery tool I bought was a $700 Makita impact driver, dropped it off
the roof of a 2 story house, it barely got a scratch and still works
perfectly.

I've only ever bought Makita and I am yet to be disappointed. Just bought an
18 volt li-on to replace my 12 year old nicad drill which is still on its first
battery and works perfectly. I just wanted a cordless hammer drill.

Fraser

 

[Fraser Johnston]

"Clocky" <notgonn@happen.com> wrote in message
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Noddy wrote:
"Trevor Wilson" <trevor@rageaudio.com.au> wrote in message
news:8prop5Fb42U1@mid.individual.net...

**Two weeks ago, Aldi advertised a scientific calculator that is
identical (except for brand name) to the one I use on my bench. I
paid $27.00 for it about 18 months ago. I note that the same
calculator is 'on special' at my local Coles for $25.00.

Aldi had it for $1.99.

I bought one of those on Wednesday just for having a spare around.
Works a treat.

Wish we had an Aldi here, but we still haven't.

WA stands for Wait Awhile mate. We are 10 years and 3 hours behind the rest of
the country.

Fraser

 

[Clocky]

Toby Ponsenby wrote:

On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:34:43 +0800, Clocky wrote:

Toby Ponsenby wrote:
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 21:49:06 +0800, Clocky wrote:

Toby Ponsenby wrote:
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 10:47:46 +0800, Clocky wrote:

"John McKenzie" <j_m_a_c@bigpond.com> wrote in message
news:4D39D8C9.7F33@bigpond.com...
Clocky wrote:

Noddy wrote:
"Trevor Wilson" <trevor@rageaudio.com.au> wrote in message
news:8prop5Fb42U1@mid.individual.net...

**Two weeks ago, Aldi advertised a scientific calculator that
is identical (except for brand name) to the one I use on my
bench. I paid $27.00 for it about 18 months ago. I note that
the same calculator is 'on special' at my local Coles for
$25.00.

Aldi had it for $1.99.

I bought one of those on Wednesday just for having a spare
around. Works a treat.

Wish we had an Aldi here, but we still haven't.


You want me to mail you one of the calculators?


Thanks for the offer, but I'm OK for calculators ;-)
Their prices are very good though, could use the extra
competition here in WA.

The trick is that Aldi is not a Calculator, Computer,TV or
Hardware store. It's supposedly a grocery chain-store.

Actually, they're not only a grocery store and in Europe they sell
all sorts of stuff including electronics and they are hugely
popular for their cheap prices on all sorts of items, and they
have a reputation for value for money.

In Australia, they advertise as a grocery store.
I know what they do in Europe. I know the history of the two
brothers that run/ran the organisation, and how they got it to
where it is today. Not a pretty sight at all if you refer
to'consumers' as you do later5.

The specials on Calculators (in this instance) is there to get us
into the store.
I suspect the marketing ploy is to bait the males with tools etc,
so they drag their grocery shoppers into Aldi, the rest is easy.

Good on them if it works for them. I know they have massive buying
power and as such can pass the savings onto their customers.

Any what's your point here?
Any grocery chain has 'massive buying power'
Aldi has a broader market as a buyer, is all.




I not with some interest here in HickBrisville that when Aldi puts
up a 'special' on an item where Big W, Target etc stocks
equivalents, then the Big W prices are dropped to match for the
duration of the Aldi speshuls.


So consumers win.
Bullshit.
Consumers don't win. Ever.
That's why they're called consumers, you twonk.


If you can save $25 on a calculator you need for school, then what
ALDI does is good for consumers - or not, dickhead?


So, you get to choose which 'brand' to buy and where to buy it.
Natch, in either case the only way to avoid expenditure you don't
need it to only pick up the speshuls. At either place)

Aldi has ONE good point. They blinked first, and 'introduced' unit
pricing to Australian shoppers. More accurately, they used that to
claim high gound - a s they knew absolutely that Coles and Wollies
would never do that unless they were forced to do so by GovCo. and
that wasn't happening any time soon, no matter how much we all
bleated about trick packaging games and having to take calculators
shopping with us.

But, truth be know ALL the supermakets are doing us over by not
placing prices actually on items. Unless you're a true zealot, and
mark every item you buy with the price, looking for faded dockets
are year down the track, or possessing an exceptional memory, are
the only way you'll twig to the constant price increases going on.

But of course, Colour TV's are cheaper - more affordable even -
yeah - like we buy one of those and eat it every week.

Quit whining and grow your own food, you are welcome to do so.

I do.
So should you.

I do you fucking twonk.

In Europe somewhere, since everything's better there. Of course.

What the fuck are you on about now, loon?

Nothing more than proving that stupidity is bearable.
As is arrogance.

You live in a constant paranoid and delusional state.

The whole world is not after you.

 

[Toby Ponsenby]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 19:15:26 +0800, Clocky wrote:

Toby Ponsenby wrote:
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:34:43 +0800, Clocky wrote:

Toby Ponsenby wrote:
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 21:49:06 +0800, Clocky wrote:

Toby Ponsenby wrote:
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 10:47:46 +0800, Clocky wrote:

"John McKenzie" <j_m_a_c@bigpond.com> wrote in message
news:4D39D8C9.7F33@bigpond.com...
Clocky wrote:

Noddy wrote:
"Trevor Wilson" <trevor@rageaudio.com.au> wrote in message
news:8prop5Fb42U1@mid.individual.net...

**Two weeks ago, Aldi advertised a scientific calculator that
is identical (except for brand name) to the one I use on my
bench. I paid $27.00 for it about 18 months ago. I note that
the same calculator is 'on special' at my local Coles for
$25.00.

Aldi had it for $1.99.

I bought one of those on Wednesday just for having a spare
around. Works a treat.

Wish we had an Aldi here, but we still haven't.


You want me to mail you one of the calculators?


Thanks for the offer, but I'm OK for calculators ;-)
Their prices are very good though, could use the extra
competition here in WA.

The trick is that Aldi is not a Calculator, Computer,TV or
Hardware store. It's supposedly a grocery chain-store.

Actually, they're not only a grocery store and in Europe they sell
all sorts of stuff including electronics and they are hugely
popular for their cheap prices on all sorts of items, and they
have a reputation for value for money.

In Australia, they advertise as a grocery store.
I know what they do in Europe. I know the history of the two
brothers that run/ran the organisation, and how they got it to
where it is today. Not a pretty sight at all if you refer
to'consumers' as you do later5.

The specials on Calculators (in this instance) is there to get us
into the store.
I suspect the marketing ploy is to bait the males with tools etc,
so they drag their grocery shoppers into Aldi, the rest is easy.

Good on them if it works for them. I know they have massive buying
power and as such can pass the savings onto their customers.

Any what's your point here?
Any grocery chain has 'massive buying power'
Aldi has a broader market as a buyer, is all.




I not with some interest here in HickBrisville that when Aldi puts
up a 'special' on an item where Big W, Target etc stocks
equivalents, then the Big W prices are dropped to match for the
duration of the Aldi speshuls.


So consumers win.
Bullshit.
Consumers don't win. Ever.
That's why they're called consumers, you twonk.


If you can save $25 on a calculator you need for school, then what
ALDI does is good for consumers - or not, dickhead?


So, you get to choose which 'brand' to buy and where to buy it.
Natch, in either case the only way to avoid expenditure you don't
need it to only pick up the speshuls. At either place)

Aldi has ONE good point. They blinked first, and 'introduced' unit
pricing to Australian shoppers. More accurately, they used that to
claim high gound - a s they knew absolutely that Coles and Wollies
would never do that unless they were forced to do so by GovCo. and
that wasn't happening any time soon, no matter how much we all
bleated about trick packaging games and having to take calculators
shopping with us.

But, truth be know ALL the supermakets are doing us over by not
placing prices actually on items. Unless you're a true zealot, and
mark every item you buy with the price, looking for faded dockets
are year down the track, or possessing an exceptional memory, are
the only way you'll twig to the constant price increases going on.

But of course, Colour TV's are cheaper - more affordable even -
yeah - like we buy one of those and eat it every week.

Quit whining and grow your own food, you are welcome to do so.

I do.
So should you.

I do you fucking twonk.

In Europe somewhere, since everything's better there. Of course.

What the fuck are you on about now, loon?

Nothing more than proving that stupidity is bearable.
As is arrogance.
But you're doubly blessed and indeed proof that the combination is toxic.

You live in a constant paranoid and delusional state.

The whole world is not after you.

Walk a mile in my shoes.
It is.
At least I recognize that

--
Your childish, witless, stupid and repetitive.
There arent one post on this whole forum that looks like it came from
anyone who has more IQ points than there teeth.

A demented Peter Lucas Impersonator - November 2010 .

 

[Scotty]

"Toby Ponsenby" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message news:vub3v7swjts5.13pqbsctkj6i8$.dlg@40tude.net...
: On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 19:15:26 +0800, Clocky wrote:
:
: > Toby Ponsenby wrote:
: >> On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:34:43 +0800, Clocky wrote:
: >>
: >>> Toby Ponsenby wrote:
: >>>> On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 21:49:06 +0800, Clocky wrote:
: >>>>
: >>>>> Toby Ponsenby wrote:
: >>>>>> On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 10:47:46 +0800, Clocky wrote:
: >>>>>>
: >>>>>>> "John McKenzie" <j_m_a_c@bigpond.com> wrote in message
: >>>>>>> news:4D39D8C9.7F33@bigpond.com...
: >>>>>>>> Clocky wrote:
: >>>>>>>>>
: >>>>>>>>> Noddy wrote:
: >>>>>>>>>> "Trevor Wilson" <trevor@rageaudio.com.au> wrote in message
: >>>>>>>>>> news:8prop5Fb42U1@mid.individual.net...
: >>>>>>>>>>
: >>>>>>>>>>> **Two weeks ago, Aldi advertised a scientific calculator that
: >>>>>>>>>>> is identical (except for brand name) to the one I use on my
: >>>>>>>>>>> bench. I paid $27.00 for it about 18 months ago. I note that
: >>>>>>>>>>> the same calculator is 'on special' at my local Coles for
: >>>>>>>>>>> $25.00.
: >>>>>>>>>>>
: >>>>>>>>>>> Aldi had it for $1.99.
: >>>>>>>>>>
: >>>>>>>>>> I bought one of those on Wednesday just for having a spare
: >>>>>>>>>> around. Works a treat.
: >>>>>>>>>
: >>>>>>>>> Wish we had an Aldi here, but we still haven't.
: >>>>>>>>
: >>>>>>>>
: >>>>>>>> You want me to mail you one of the calculators?
: >>>>>>>>
: >>>>>>>
: >>>>>>> Thanks for the offer, but I'm OK for calculators ;-)
: >>>>>>> Their prices are very good though, could use the extra
: >>>>>>> competition here in WA.
: >>>>>>
: >>>>>> The trick is that Aldi is not a Calculator, Computer,TV or
: >>>>>> Hardware store. It's supposedly a grocery chain-store.
: >>>>>
: >>>>> Actually, they're not only a grocery store and in Europe they sell
: >>>>> all sorts of stuff including electronics and they are hugely
: >>>>> popular for their cheap prices on all sorts of items, and they
: >>>>> have a reputation for value for money.
: >>>>
: >>>> In Australia, they advertise as a grocery store.
: >>>> I know what they do in Europe. I know the history of the two
: >>>> brothers that run/ran the organisation, and how they got it to
: >>>> where it is today. Not a pretty sight at all if you refer
: >>>> to'consumers' as you do later5.
: >>>>>
: >>>>>> The specials on Calculators (in this instance) is there to get us
: >>>>>> into the store.
: >>>>>> I suspect the marketing ploy is to bait the males with tools etc,
: >>>>>> so they drag their grocery shoppers into Aldi, the rest is easy.
: >>>>>
: >>>>> Good on them if it works for them. I know they have massive buying
: >>>>> power and as such can pass the savings onto their customers.
: >>>>
: >>>> Any what's your point here?
: >>>> Any grocery chain has 'massive buying power'
: >>>> Aldi has a broader market as a buyer, is all.
: >>>
: >>>
: >>>>
: >>>>>
: >>>>>> I not with some interest here in HickBrisville that when Aldi puts
: >>>>>> up a 'special' on an item where Big W, Target etc stocks
: >>>>>> equivalents, then the Big W prices are dropped to match for the
: >>>>>> duration of the Aldi speshuls.
: >>>>>>
: >>>>>
: >>>>> So consumers win.
: >>>> Bullshit.
: >>>> Consumers don't win. Ever.
: >>>> That's why they're called consumers, you twonk.
: >>>
: >>>
: >>> If you can save $25 on a calculator you need for school, then what
: >>> ALDI does is good for consumers - or not, dickhead?
: >>>
: >>>>>
: >>>>>> So, you get to choose which 'brand' to buy and where to buy it.
: >>>>>> Natch, in either case the only way to avoid expenditure you don't
: >>>>>> need it to only pick up the speshuls. At either place)
: >>>>>>
: >>>>>> Aldi has ONE good point. They blinked first, and 'introduced' unit
: >>>>>> pricing to Australian shoppers. More accurately, they used that to
: >>>>>> claim high gound - a s they knew absolutely that Coles and Wollies
: >>>>>> would never do that unless they were forced to do so by GovCo. and
: >>>>>> that wasn't happening any time soon, no matter how much we all
: >>>>>> bleated about trick packaging games and having to take calculators
: >>>>>> shopping with us.
: >>>>>>
: >>>>>> But, truth be know ALL the supermakets are doing us over by not
: >>>>>> placing prices actually on items. Unless you're a true zealot, and
: >>>>>> mark every item you buy with the price, looking for faded dockets
: >>>>>> are year down the track, or possessing an exceptional memory, are
: >>>>>> the only way you'll twig to the constant price increases going on.
: >>>>>>
: >>>>>> But of course, Colour TV's are cheaper - more affordable even -
: >>>>>> yeah - like we buy one of those and eat it every week.
: >>>>>
: >>>>> Quit whining and grow your own food, you are welcome to do so.
: >>>>
: >>>> I do.
: >>>> So should you.
: >>>
: >>> I do you fucking twonk.
: >>>
: >>>> In Europe somewhere, since everything's better there. Of course.
: >>>
: >>> What the fuck are you on about now, loon?
: >>
: >> Nothing more than proving that stupidity is bearable.
: >> As is arrogance.
: >> But you're doubly blessed and indeed proof that the combination is toxic.
: >
: > You live in a constant paranoid and delusional state.
: >
: > The whole world is not after you.
:
: Walk a mile in my shoes.
: It is.
: At least I recognize that
:

They say "Walk a mile in someone elses shoes........... you have there shoes and your a mile away,
keep walking"


: --
: Your childish, witless, stupid and repetitive.
: There arent one post on this whole forum that looks like it came from
: anyone who has more IQ points than there teeth.
:
: A demented Peter Lucas Impersonator - November 2010 .

 

[Albm&ctd]

In article <ihkrbe$426$1@news.eternal-september.org>, tom@no.spam.invalid
says...

On 24/01/2011 11:02 PM, kreed wrote:
On Jan 24, 10:28 pm, Albm&ctd<alb_mandctdNO...@connexus.net.au
wrote:
In article<2011012414322416807-mike@nomailcom>, m...@nomail.com says...> On 2011-01-24 14:09:27 +1100, Bernd Felsche
ber...@innovative.iinet.net.au> said:

Just don't expect the in-store staff to be competent or able to
provide advice in those things.

And don't expect too much of their meat products. On the several
occasions over the years I have bought mince steak from them I have
noticed a peculiar faint odor reminiscent of mildew given off whilst it
was cooking. It was enough to turn me off buying any more meat from
them.

eeewww
Maybe just do like we do. Buy a whole blade from a real butcher, trim the fat
and mince that.
Yeah I know, old hand mincers are getting a bit scarce on the ground.
Lean pork and beef mince rissoles packed with lots of basil and onion,
yummeee

Al
--
I don't take sides.
It's more fun to insult everyone.http://kwakakid.cjb.net/insult.html

Can still get them in some of the kitchen shops, we got a nice one for
about $40 2 years back.

Aldi had them for $14 a while back.

Tom

The olde cast iron "Made in England' one I've got is about 70 years old I

reckon.

Al
--
I don't take sides.
It's more fun to insult everyone.
http://kwakakid.cjb.net/insult.html

 

[Albm&ctd]

In article <2011012512495716807-mike@nomailcom>, mike@nomail.com says...

On 2011-01-24 23:28:17 +1100, Albm&ctd <alb_mandctdNOWMD@connexus.net.au> said:


And don't expect too much of their meat products. On the several
occasions over the years I have bought mince steak from them I have
noticed a peculiar faint odor reminiscent of mildew given off whilst it
was cooking. It was enough to turn me off buying any more meat from
them.


eeewww
Maybe just do like we do. Buy a whole blade from a real butcher, trim the fat
and mince that.
Yeah I know, old hand mincers are getting a bit scarce on the ground.
Lean pork and beef mince rissoles packed with lots of basil and onion,
yummeee

Al

Making me salivate just reading this, but too lazy/insufficient time to
do that. Easier to get the mince from the local (real) butcher.

Yeah well get them to mince a whole blade (trimmed of fat).

I got chuck done once and it was lean but pretty freaking ordinary.

Al
--
I don't take sides.
It's more fun to insult everyone.
http://kwakakid.cjb.net/insult.html

 

[Albm&ctd]

In article <4d3eb0c2$0$29882$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com>,
notgonn@happen.com says...

You live in a constant paranoid and delusional state.

The whole world is not after you.

Ashley you're right. Shirley it's just the gov with increasing fees and charges

and everythin*k* is illegal, worthy of a fine, including normal human functions
such as drinking in a public place (Qld) and pissing on the beach.

Al
--
I don't take sides.
It's more fun to insult everyone.
http://kwakakid.cjb.net/insult.html