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Its not even imitation though, its all the normal Scandinavian and German brand stuff that our label/brand conscious society wouldn't look at because it isn't a British make or whatever. Daft. Still, I save about £80 a month through shopping with them so the less people that shop there the better as prices will stay cheap :thumb:

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Once worked at Lidl's head office in Wimbledon over the winter months when I was doing shows.

 

They are really very fussy about what goes on to the shelves.

 

There's a kitchen there, they systematically compare their rivals food against their own. If the Lidl version is thought to be inferior, it's pulled from the stores.

 

I've no problem with shopping at Lidl and Aldi (similar set up) having seen how they operate, despite being cheap they give a monkey's.

 

Unlike Tesco and Sainsbury's whose products have taken a serious dive in quality, 'Finest' my arse.

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I was in the legal/property dept. Spent most of the time with a very angry woman called Vivian, then with a German automaton whose name escapes me. She'd have been pretty if she smiled.

 

The boss was Alex Boening, nice guy. Despite being German he was such an ardent Anglophile he supported England. It must have been 2001 cos he'd been overjoyed when Owen ripped Germany a new one.

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Once worked at Lidl's head office in Wimbledon over the winter months when I was doing shows.

They are really very fussy about what goes on to the shelves.

There's a kitchen there, they systematically compare their rivals food against their own. If the Lidl version is thought to be inferior, it's pulled from the stores.

I've no problem with shopping at Lidl and Aldi (similar set up) having seen how they operate, despite being cheap they give a monkey's.

Unlike Tesco and Sainsbury's whose products have taken a serious dive in quality, 'Finest' my arse.

Had a client over from Germany today and she insists the best juice on the market is lidl's own brand ... Taking into account she works for another well known brand that is a competitor , it is an interesting statement and maybe an indication that lidl's stuff is as you mention

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THIS

 

Cheers me up no end. Sink the soap dodging fucktards. 

 


 

Russia 'seizes' Greenpeace ship after Arctic rig protest
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The BBC's Steve Rosenberg says Interfax is reporting that the ship will be brought in to Murmansk by coastguards

Greenpeace says 30 activists, including six Britons, are being held at gunpoint by Russian security officers who stormed the group's ship in the Arctic.

One of the activists told the BBC that about 15 men in balaclavas seized the Arctic Sunrise ship in the Barents Sea.

This comes a day after four Greenpeace members tried to board a Russian oil platform to prevent it from drilling.

The group says this threatens a unique and fragile environment - a claim denied by Moscow.

Speaking to the BBC on Thursday, one activist on the ship said Greenpeace members were being held in the galley of the Arctic Sunrise, while the captain was being detained on the bridge.

The activist said he believed the armed men were members of Russia's internal security service, the FSB.

_69907645_019343292-1.jpgAn armed coastguard points a gun at an activist aboard a Greenpeace boat
_69907647_019343251-1.jpgA Russian coastguard ship fired shots across a Greenpeace ship

Greenpeace also said its vessel was boarded in international waters and called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to release the crew immediately.

The ship is now expected to be taken to the Russian port of Murmansk.

The Russian foreign ministry earlier accused the group of "aggressive and provocative" behaviour.

It said the actions of the activists who had tried to board Gazprom's Prirazlomnaya drilling rig on Wednesday "threatened people's lives and could lead to environmental catastrophe in the Arctic with unpredictable consequences".

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Greenpeace spokesperson Ben Stewart: "I got a call from a friend of mine last night, who was actually in the mess of the Arctic Sunrise, he said he was under armed guard"

Moscow also said that its coastguard vessel had to fire warning shots across the Dutch-flagged Arctic Sunrise.

The Dutch ambassador to Moscow was summoned to the foreign ministry over Greenpeace's action.

A foreign ministry spokesman in The Hague later told Dutch media the issue had "our full attention" and that contacts with the Russian authorities would be pursued over what had happened.

The Gazprom project is Russia's first effort to extract oil from the Barents Sea.

Prirazlomnaya is scheduled to begin production by the end of the year. Russia's economy and its recent growth depends to a large extent on income from its huge oil and gas deposits.

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