Aldi will be opening tomorrow (Friday) according to today's Newbury Weekly News (page 3), irrespective that I and thousands of others went today to their opening. We all must be living in Alice's Wonderland as our local paper wouldn't get such an important event wrong. So remember; tomorrow Aldi's will be opening. If you went today then you are delusional.

I hope you are kidding? I was going to the new Aldi today but when I saw the article in the Newbury Weekly News saying it was opening tomorrow I changed my plans. I did see the sign outside that said opening on the 21st but I thought they had complications and had to postpone until tomorrow.

I hope this is not a wind up and the NWN is right. There are too many jokers on here trying to wind people up. I cannot see the NWN getting such an event wrong. After all Aldi’s paid to put a two page spread in their paper to advertise what they are selling on their opening day.

Aldi's will be opening tomorrow (Friday). Just not for the first time, I'll let you into a little secret.....it'll be opening on Saturday as well, not for the first time this week, but certainly for the first time on a Saturday.

Sorry, I do not think that is funny. The Newbury Weekly News gave the impression that Aldi's opening day was tomorrow, not today. That is what annoys me about this forum. Too many jokers who cannot take things seriously. I am not the only one who changed their plans so that they can go to the opening day.

You can shop there already, but the opening day is still tomorrow. Some places do this so that they can see if there are any snags to iron out before the official opening day.

The official open day is today, not tomorrow. I know this because I asked. Anyway, that isn't the point. The NWN said it is opening tomorrow where it should of said it was opening today.

Weird that their signs all stated 21st.

So, simple question were they open today, yes or no !!

Yes.

You mean it is not opening tomorrow?

It looks like it was a short, so I imagine the 'journalist' typed it on the 20th. Page 22 (and 23) is quite emphatic about being 'now open'!

HeatherW, there is bloody great two-page spread which says NOW OPEN in the paper, why trust a little article buried inside the paper instead? But at the end of the day it is only a bloody supermarket!!! Special days are Thursdays and Sundays, so your life might be saved yet!

Is that GMR in the photo waiting to rush in with his trolley

No, they are closing it.






The journalist might have made a mistake but that is what you've got sub editors for. To check mistakes.

Yes, which contradicts what is said on page 3... that it is opening tomorrow.

If he is good looking then yes.

Well it is, isn't it?

It is, but it doesn't change what I said and others thought.... or even the mistake the NWN made.

Who cares, it's a cheap supermarket, it's opening isn't Newsworthy to me?

You care enough to reply.... so that is something.

Looks like it!

Not necessarily. That could be a photo from another store. You never know with the NWN's. It is about stories, not facts.

Sorry. are you saying that the opening of an Adli is a SERIOUS business? Why would anyone change plans to attend the opening of a shop?

Huge signs outside the place and this very site saying the date would be today, Let's ignore them shall we?


I'd have thought the only people concerned about the opening of a new Aldi's would be the production team at the Jeremy Kyle Show as it'll take their core audience away for the morning.

I don't think that is what the lady said, just your interpretation on it. We all read things differently; depending on what statement we want to issue. Yours is to be clever.

sorry cant see why people get so excited its only another supermarket. But on the other hand if Asda set up here with a garage then maybe force the other garages to reduce their fuel prices to match reading and stop ripping us off

I have a feeling that I wouldn't like the Jeremy Kyle Show, but that said I understand that Aldi have good offers from time to time. Or is that Lidl? Anyroad up, you only find opening day offers on opening day, so if I'd planned to go and missed it because the paper got the dates wrong then I'd me somewhat tee'd off.

I agree, but they are excited enough to this thread to disrupt their important life to reply. That either tells you that this thread is so important or interesting or they have no real life..... I'll for the the second one

The clue is in the sentence... or put it another way.... the bleeding bloody obvious

It was open today as planned, and as advertised. It wasn't a great opening with lots of offers, it was just a normal day of trading to them. There was some difference between their prices and Tesco's, with that side of things I was impressed, however I doubt I'll go back, cheap comes at a price, and the "experience" was pretty poor.

Agreed!!!

Rather a self-righteous comment don't you think ! And no i never went personally, but there are plenty of folk about who are not as well off as some & cannot afford Waitrose or M & S prices.

Actually, I know a number of people who are as well off as some and will certainly use these outlets. Nothing wrong with saving money. After all, HM gives Tesco Christmas Puds as gifts. Most people don't really appreciate UK food retailing is a self protecting oligopoly, it has a higher gross margin than any of its continental competitors. Ever wondered why nice Mr Sainsbury could donate all that lovely cash to the Tate?

They donated cash to the National. They donated Works to the Tate.

It's called 'giving something back' and nowt wrong with it. I look forward to Aldi funding something of equal stature.

I do agree, BUT depends how much you've taken out in the first place! Our UK grocers follow the maxim 'there's one born every minute'.

Profile increasingly moving upmarket as can often be sensed from some nice German motas in car parks of Aldi!
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I nearly missed out as well. When I saw what was written in the Newbury I was going to go the next day. But then I drove past it and saw it opened and popped in. They were giving away free tokens for the trolleys. I know it is nothing but can be handy if you can't find a spare pound. Anyway, I found the shop very refreshing. We need cheaper food outlets.

I can’t see what all the fuss is about what day it was supposed to be open or not. It is hear and it has been advertised for a long time that it was going to open on the 21st. In fact previous NWN’s articles have said that Aldi’s will be opening on the 21st. There are more important things to worry about than when a cheap foreign shop will be opening or not opening.

It is not serious at all. I just think people have got nothing better to do than talk about nonsensical rubbish. We've got a recession on and people being thrown out of work and all people can find to talk about is dates. We need to get real.

Blimey, a free trolley. That must be worth going.

The problem with this thread is the timing of yesterday, tomorrow and today. Now tomorrow is Saturday and today is Friday but yesterday, tomorrow is today and yesterday was two days ago. So I assume they opened yesterday or was that today, bearing in mind that tomorrow it will be opening yesterday. Will they be giving a free trolley tomorrow or was that just today and are you allowed to wheel it down the London Road. We'll see what happens tomorrow then unless you are reading this Saturday when it will be today and Friday will be yesterday.

Cheap food comes at a price of course. But then expensive food comes at a price as well.

All in all, an interesting thread and one which fills me with hope for the people who have time in the day to look at just another supermarket just to see what it's like on the opening day which may or may not have been the opening day depending on what they read.

you are obviously not a woman or suffering under the recession. As they say every little helps. I don't think the point is so much about the opening times but about relying on the papers to get it right. I suppose we all see things in our own little ways.

I thought this forum was for the people of Newbury to discuss their concerns and problems. You can always make your own thread and discuss the things that concern you instead of just bleating about.

It is but all I am saying is that this thread is just trivia nonsense. We should be putting our minds together and talk about things that can or should make a difference. Democracy is when people get together and stand up to be counted. That was all I meant.

A bit like Simon perhaps. Didn't notice any of the girls engaging in that one.

That's a bit pompous, this is just a trivial local forum, nobody is going to make a real difference posting on here. All of the threads are valid on here, and important to someone.

One person's "trivia nonsense" is another's burning issue.

My word User at last a non protectionist statement from you

Well said!

Good reply.

Much less than can be said for yours.
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What would you like, for him to stand in the market place with two judges score cards.

True.... but we don't want to exert ourselves on a cold snowy Saturday, do we?