Lidl

I have to drop my star rating for Lidl as I have not been impressed lately with the amount of checkouts open. I mostly go in here before or after work, when this is the only shop nearest the biggest Hospital in Europe they must have a good lot of custom from Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, you would think they could be more organised at peak times.
This morning I was in at 08.15 there was a queue of three people in front of me and by the time I was served about ten folks behind me there was a Chap at the checkout querying a price and it took two of them to eventually sort it out. I asked the Manager if he could open another till and he told me he would when the Girl had counted her float, surely this should be done before the shop opens poor organisation.
I am still happy with the goods they supply but it can be a chore to shop there.

Only recently discovered this Lidl and it being close to my work is a bonus as I have missed having a Lidl or Aldi near my home.
This particular Lidl is a fair size & when I visited after work one day it was surprisingly quiet, which made a nice change to my regular visit to Morrisons post-​work where I have to strap on my armour & metal capped shoes to prepare myself for the inevitable mobs zig-​zagging the aisles. Honestly, you would think some people have never been in a supermarket with OTHER PEOPLE before the way they act. Sheesh. Pure trolly rage man.
Nae trolly rage here I am happy to report — nice wide aisles and, as I said, it seemed quite quiet to me. Yas. I was specifically in for fruit & veg and was happy to see a good selection of both on offer although not for as cheap I as remember Lidl being when I used to shop regularly in the store a few years ago. Still I guess all supermarkets have put their prices up somewhat in recent years. Bah. I spotted the odd deal — it was luckily for me cheap aubergines so I was happy being a lover of those purple fleshy beasts. I was saddened there were not more offers on but maybe since I was a regular Lidl shopper they have stopped doing so many?
As you walk in this store they have to the right a huge shelf of all their ‘fresh’ bakery products, I say ‘fresh’ as I presume they are fresh at 8am but not so at 5:30pm…still quite a few items on sale & the crossiants/​pastries all looked lovely but their faux Krispy Kreme style donuts looked a bit worse for wear, one even delightfully had a bite already taken out of it, mmm… try before you buy, eh? S’nice.
The meat section here was a lot more well stocked compared to other Lidl’s I have frequented, although I noticed a distinct lack (not rack) of lamb. Still plenty of great meat & fish bargains — I spotted two salmon steaks for a mere £2.69, pretty good.
All in all this Lidl was really well stocked and although maybe not as big as some of their other Glasgow stores it had a good variety of produce too.
Only tiny, minute grumble I had was when at the till they had none of their Bag-​for-​life type bags for sale; it was only cheap carrier or more expense insulated & super strong bags available. I should have brought my own (especially considering I seem to buy a new one nearly every other time I visit a supermarket & have a plasticky mountain of them in my flat) so my fault really.
One thing I must point out about here is when you have finished packing your bags on their ‘packing bench’ and the rear of the shop don’t do what I did and think you are being ever so helpful and take your basket with you to put back in what I presumed would be a stack of them near the entrance/​exit of the shop as they are, as I rather embarrassedly found out, alarmed! So if you try to take them out the first set of exit doors a delightful alarm sounds. So, as I was told, just leave them on/​near the packing bench. Okay. I know now…*cringe*