Lidl's Ladels the Labels!

You probably have a Lidl store somewhere near you, especially if you live in Europe, judging by the map above showing their progressive expansionist policy. We've had a Lidl's here for several years now, even though no-one knows how to pronounce it yet ("leed-ills", "lie-dills", "lid-dills"), everyone has their own way of saying it. Well, that's besides the point really. They've bulit a new store here, right next to the old one, only twice the size. What will they do with the old building? Nobody knows, but it'll give the old folk something to talk about until it's decided.

The new store opened on Thursday, and I had my first chance to go in there today. "How odd" I thought, "It's exactly the same as the old store, only slightly bigger and with a different flooring!" Yes, every sale item was in exactly the same location as it would have been in the old store, because the layout was the same too. And I still had to wait too long at the checkout, so no change there either.

They do have a nice big new car-park though, so that's something different I suppose. It's all came out of common good land that the Community Council sold to Lidl's for somewhere in the region of one million pounds I do believe. Now they have a million to spend, the local councillors are in a panic about what to do with it. They should just syphon it off through vastly over-inflated expenses claims like normal councillors would. It'll never do the town any good, we almost had a Tesco until last week when the whole thing was scrapped. That's the odd thing about this town, they keep building more houses, while all the time local shops and businesses have been packing up. Now, all we have is houses for around 20,000 and the odd corner shop. So let's build some more houses then, yes there are about 3 new housing estates in the pipeline!