Lidl No More

A new Lidl grocery store just opened in the neighborhood. Before it opened there was a huge media blitz to bring in the customers. A coupon arrived in the mail for dollars off over a month period of time. Although we felt bad about abandoning our familiar Giant store, we went in to test the waters. If they don’t have the bread products we like then they are out of luck - and they didn’t. But we did find a few things that were cheaper - crab cakes to name one. Some of the tomatoes and fish items were good. But the chocolate chip cookies and chocolate wafer cookies rang flat. The crab cakes had more other stuff in them than crab even though it was the brand we always get. The coffee was good. I suppose half of what we got we liked or were neutral about. The other half we didn’t care for. We ended up going to Giant anyway to get bread and some vegetables. I’m sure another reason was the store was unfamiliar - the lay out and the brands. Since we went to Lidl we noticed that Giant is having more discounts to compete. In the end that’s what it’s all about anyway. But in our household it is the bread that wins our hearts. And for that Giant has the upper hand.