Comments on: Reviewed: A night out in Bridport’s new Lidl

By: The Red Bladder

The Red Bladder — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:46:48 +0000

As you will see the date of this photograph is late November and it is evening, hence dark. Indeed I do know Happy Island and the fields and have often walked my various dogs along the banks of the Asker over the years. I was describing the road. As hideous a dump as you would find in a long day’s wander. Why anyone would want to protect it is way beyond me. Eggardon is indeed a pleasant spot but is only visible in the far distance. I agree with you about the variety and quality of the goods on offer, as I mentioned in my original piece, however I have not returned – shopping is not my department and is something I prefer to leave to an expert.

By: Lidl worker

Lidl worker — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:32:41 +0000

This article has frustrated me, i not only work at LIDL in Bridport but I am also a local resident. (No guessing who I am). You say that St Andrews Road is ugly? By the picture it looks like you visited us at night? Behind Lidl there are vast amounts of fields, rivers and farm land. The place is known as Happy Island! I spent many a time as a kid playing over there and from where I am sitting now i can see right over to Eggadon hill which is outstandingly beautiful. I have lived in concrete jungle so this is far from ugly.

The supermarket may be slightly different to say Morrison’s or Tesco’s but it not out to target the same clientele. I am proud to work there. Admittedly I never entered Lidl until I started working there but I can honestly say it’s brilliant. The meat and fresh fruit vegetables especially. The majority is produced in England or what can be and is extremely fresh. The store has seen a rise in profit people are becoming more aware on what we have to offer, families, local businesses and clubs.

I am offended by your article.

By: The Red Bladder

The Red Bladder — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 06:18:29 +0000

Satire? No, not even a try at it, not, I’m afraid, within a country mile of satire. However if satire is to your taste I would thoroughly recommend the greatest work in that field – Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift. After close to 300 years it is still as fresh and relevant as on the day it was written. A wonderful work which shows humanity at its very best and worst. The edition edited by Michael Foot, yes that Michael Foot, is superb and available from Penguin. His footnotes explain all period details and many of Swift’s contemporary allusions. A work of only some 50,000 or so words but never once does he refer to Lidl – now there’s the basis of a conspiracy theory for you! As for the poor drinking sludge, of course we do – I seldom touch anything else.

By: Horst

Horst — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:21:01 +0000

Ok, good try of a satire. But missed the point. Lidl is not creating jobs in Bridport. Go there in six months time and see that of the 25 on opening day there will be only four left then. But to “create” four jobs in Bridport, by then they have extinguished already the one or the other shop in town which means a few people lose their job. Sure they sell lobsters and Co. And shrimps and… But hey, that food is not the no 1 quality. Cheap lobster for the people! Nice from a farm and fed with whatsoever. Ok, with the booze you got. Another attack on people’s taste. But when you poor, you even drink sludge. (See famous busy Wetherspoons in this case too). And one thing before I go. Don’t try to be clever. I estimate that there are no more than 20 percent of the English they have got a clue of any foreign language. If you been in Germany, you know, they all understand at least, wo ist das Hundefutter?

By: Maddie Grigg

Maddie Grigg — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 13:30:39 +0000

I am a Lidlphile. I love their chocolate, their ice cream, their panettone (great for making luxury bread and butter pudding but they didn’t have any in there on Saturday), selection of antipasti, tagliatelle (the best, and cheapest) and Emmental. Their wine is often pretty good – a little while back Mr Grigg and I stocked up on a case of very good, half price Vaqueyras for about £6 a bottle.
I have not looked at the centre aisle of non-food items since buying a notebook and finding the pages were made of graph paper.
I have still to convince some of The Enchanted Village folk of Lidl’s greatness, but that’s fine, then there’s more room for me. As far as I’m concerned, Bridport’s Waitrose is just Scummers in a different coat.

By: Brian Hesketh

Brian Hesketh — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 07:36:57 +0000

It seems perfectly proper that Lidl’s staff have been trained in the correct idiom for responses to people who are clearly confused as to the range of their stock, or perhaps more accurately, the confused state of mind which might lead someone to demand horse fodder in a non-equine supermarket?

By: Bill Stanley

Bill Stanley — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 09:20:25 +0000

Well let’s hope that neither of the members of the St Andrew’s Road Residents Association read that little diatribe