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Originally Posted by Osem

From what I've seen of the discount stores around this area, nearly all are located on small sites, with limited parking, miniscule stock rooms and restricted opening hours - which is why the sites are cheaper to develop and operate. They're frequently busy with long queues, short of stock on the shelves and operating at what must be full capacity at times. I don't see much room for further growth in those locations but what I do see is room for growing customer dissatisfaction as the bigger stores fight back and that's what will happen.

That's the problem in Worthing, the site is too small now for the number of customers. Where my mother lives in Penzance the Lidl store there is going to be redeveloped on a neighbouring site to be much bigger. If the discounters continue to take market share expect them to invest in new larger stores.

Originally Posted by Chris

At a supermarket, I like to have a choice, but I also like the organisation to have done a little careful pre-selection for me, to make my final choice a bit simpler. There is no need for them to put ABSOLUTELY FRICKING EVERYTHING under one roof. It just makes the task of finding what you want and getting out of the shop in a reasonable time, that much more difficult.

That's what I find refreshing at the discounters, the limited choice just makes it simpler. When I go to Sainsbury's there's just too much clutter, too many special offers that aren't that special and discounts that still don't match the discounters.

I'm not talking branded goods because I rarely buy a big brand as many are poor value and the supermarket own brand is good enough but on things like fruit and veg, basic meats etc.

These days I buy our main shop at Lidl and then top-up anything I couldn't get there or a specific own-brand product at the local Sainsburys.