The spiralling cost of YOUR Christmas dinner: How price of vegetables for festive family meal cost up to 60% more than last year – with 1kg bag potatoes rising from £1.85 to £2.95, carrots up from 25p to 35p, and sprouts increasing by 12.5%

The spiralling cost of YOUR Christmas dinner: How price of vegetables for festive family meal cost up to 60% more than last year – with 1kg bag potatoes rising from £1.85 to £2.95, carrots up from 25p to 35p, and sprouts increasing by 12.5%

The cost of vegetables for Christmas dinner has soared by up to 60 per cent in one year with carrots, potatoes, parsnips and brussels sprouts all hit by soaring inflation. Prices have risen by an average of 7 per cent over the past year across 208 lines of parsnips, carrots, potatoes and brussels sprouts at … Read more

Lidl announces changes to opening hours over Christmas with some stores shut completely – here’s how to find out if yours is affected

Lidl announces changes to opening hours over Christmas with some stores shut completely – here’s how to find out if yours is affected

By Zeenia Naqvee Published: 16:01 GMT, 23 November 2023 | Updated: 20:07 GMT, 23 November 2023 A popular budget supermarket has announced the dates that its stores will be shut during the festive period.  German discount chain Lidl, which has just under 1,000 stores in the UK will be shutting each and every one of … Read more

Judge is invited to take a ‘taste test’ of rival ciders in High Court dispute between Aldi and Thatchers

Judge is invited to take a ‘taste test’ of rival ciders in High Court dispute between Aldi and Thatchers

German retailer denies ‘passing off’ its Taurus cider product, launched in 2022 By Ryan Prosser Published: 00:36 GMT, 24 November 2023 | Updated: 03:59 GMT, 24 November 2023 A judge has been invited to take a ‘taste test’ of rival cider drinks in a High Court trade mark dispute between family firm Thatchers and German … Read more

Popular Aldi product is urgently recalled over fears it cause serious injury or even death

Popular Aldi product is urgently recalled over fears it cause serious injury or even death

By Daily Mail Australia Reporter Published: 20:50 GMT, 23 November 2023 | Updated: 21:37 GMT, 23 November 2023 Aldi has issued a recall for the Casalux Solar LED street light, a popular item from its Special Buys range.  The recall comes in response to concerns that the product’s internal batteries may overheat while charging, leading … Read more

Shocking moment shoppers throw rolls of Christmas wrapping paper at each other in brawl at west London Aldi store

Shocking moment shoppers throw rolls of Christmas wrapping paper at each other in brawl at west London Aldi store

By John James Published: 16:47 GMT, 21 November 2023 | Updated: 16:48 GMT, 21 November 2023 A bizarre fight involving two women and multiple tubes of Aldi Christmas paper has been mocked on social media with some suggesting it’s a sign the festive ‘shopping season has begun.’  The strange incident, which was filmed today in … Read more

Supermarket chain ditches self-serve checkouts amid calls for Coles and Woolworths to do the same: Here’s their message to fed-up Aussies

Supermarket chain ditches self-serve checkouts amid calls for Coles and Woolworths to do the same: Here’s their message to fed-up Aussies

Whether you love them or hate them, self-serve checkouts are here to stay in Australian supermarkets despite overseas stores going back to old-fashioned customer service. British supermarket chain Booths is the latest company to remove self-serve checkouts in response to customer feedback labelling the technology slow, unreliable and impersonal. Costco in the US has scrapped nearly … Read more

Champagne from Aldi and Co-Op ranked top in Christmas taste tests leaving high-end competitors feeling flat

Champagne from Aldi and Co-Op ranked top in Christmas taste tests leaving high-end competitors feeling flat

Champagnes from Co-op and Aldi have beaten a prestige brand at double price  By Sean Poulter Published: 02:18 GMT, 18 November 2023 | Updated: 02:18 GMT, 18 November 2023 Famous champagne houses will be feeling flat this Christmas as budget supermarket fizz has come out on top in taste tests. Champagnes from Co-op and Aldi … Read more

Third of shop staff could quit jobs after assaults and abuse amid surge in verbal and physical attacks

Third of shop staff could quit jobs after assaults and abuse amid surge in verbal and physical attacks

 More than 55 of Britain’s bosses have signed an open letter to the Government By Calum Muirhead Chief City Reporter Published: 00:34 GMT, 12 November 2023 | Updated: 02:26 GMT, 12 November 2023 Almost one in three public-facing staff members working in shops, hospitality and other industries are thinking of leaving their jobs due to … Read more

Battle of the checkouts! We asked whether MailOnline readers preferred staffed or self-service tills – and YOU told us… find out the winner here!

Battle of the checkouts! We asked whether MailOnline readers preferred staffed or self-service tills – and YOU told us… find out the winner here!

Four out of five MailOnline readers prefer staffed checkouts over self-service tills, our poll found today as the supermarket Booths said it was axing the machines. After more than 500 votes were cast in the first three hours of our survey, some 84 per cent said they preferred manned checkouts and just 16 per cent … Read more

Aldi security tags its Dairy Milk, Mars and Snickers bars in bid to stop thieves

Aldi security tags its Dairy Milk, Mars and Snickers bars in bid to stop thieves

Aldi has security tagged its Dairy Milk, Mars and Snickers bars in a bid to stop shoplifters. The images – which were taken at an Aldi store in Wallsend, North Tyneside – saw various chocolate bars with the yellow security tag sticker slapped across them.  Some of the sweet treats that had the sticker on it were … Read more