Aldi to cease Click and Collect grocery service from 19th August 2024.

But Aldi obviously think business comes first, despite claiming they are doing this for customers' benefit!

Obviously business comes first…they're a business… What else takes priority???

We use the Tesco delivery service ourselves, and to be honest, they're not that much more expensive than Aldi if you go for Tesco own-brand products wherever possible.

As an experiment about a year ago, I did up a Tesco shopping list one week to get a total price, but didn't put the order through, and instead went to Aldi to buy their equivalent products. There was less than a €5 difference in about a €100 shop.

It loses money for everyone by and large

Eventually, companies stop losing money to gain or maintain market share.

Ah, but the convenience of having the Tesco ones delivered straight to our door, instead of having to go to Aldi to buy theirs…..! 😁

Yep I agree. Lidl/Aldi are not the cheap supermarket they use to be - and they still try to pretend they are. The fruit and vege is subpar, and they won't put their beer in a fridge. If the savings were significant fair enough, but theres minimal difference now days.

And in fairness, most of the beer in my local Tesco isn't kept in a fridge either.

It's not like it's meat or dairy products or something else that has to be kept cold. Unless you're absolutely bursting to drink it immediately, should be no issue to get it home and put it in your own fridge for a while first.

Aldi are ok in store. Lidl take the complete piss refusing to open more tills when the q is 20 deep.

A click and collect service really doesn't come with a great cost. Assuming their software produces a logical pick list even the largest of shops wouldn't take more than 15mins to pick. Given that they charge €5 for the service, it would be hard to lose much money on it. They could have increased the cost and those that valued it could have paid it.

It wasn't much use here as most aldis in Ireland never implemented it

What I actually think is they don't want to publish their prices online anymore.

They are all fixed costs no matter if just 1 or all shops offered the service. if it was those costs that were the problem then the solution is to extend it to more shops. One would also assume that the maintenance was minimal and it just grabbed from their stock database.

It doesn't look that they were ever that committed to it anyway since they rolled it out to a small fraction of shops.

Was it originally a covid launch?

I don't see that click and collect is a great advantage.

You still have to go to the shop and load the shopping into the car.

If I'm going that far I'd rather go in and pick my own fruit and veg, meat etc. Also you get to decide on b/b dates and choose special offers.

When our children were very small it was handy. Do the order at home and I'd do the collection on the way back from work. No impulse purchases or unnecessary angle grinders would end up bought either.

And it has to be stored and located when the customer comes to collect - €5 wouldn't begin to cover it!