Lidl Reviews Summary

Prices and Deals

Pros:

• "Plus the weekly sale items make those products even cheaper sometimes significantly cheaper."
• "Many name brand products in stock at very reasonable prices."
• "Good prices also on organic."
• "Great prices for certain items and the miscellaneous things are great!!"
• "Love, love this place. Excellent prices and good selection."
• "Shocked at the low prices. 79 cents for a bag of chips, 1.00 for a dozen eggs, 1.62 for a gallon of milk!"
• "Amazing prices for things that I buy every week."

Cons:

• "But sometimes certain fresh produce items... especially sale items are not always available."
• "Their produce is just a tad cheaper than Giant or Acme without the variety."
• "Prices are okay but not great. Take away is kind of disappointing."
• "Their fresh meat prices to me are generally higher than sale prices of equivalent items at ShopRite."
• "Their store brand products are similar or higher in price than say, Dollar General."
• "The prices are a little higher then Aldi's."
• "They have very little organic produce/fruits and it was hard to find the organic items mixed in with regular."

Store Experience

Pros:

• "This place makes me happy."
• "Clean store, very helpful if you cannot find what you need."
• "Store is clean and the people working there are courteous and nice."
• "Due to smaller store size than Walmart shopping trips are quicker."
• "Easy to get to."
• "The store is immaculate, well-stocked and roomy enough that you can browse without someone immediately trying to climb over you."
• "It was clean and well lit. Lots of variety and well stocked."

Cons:

• "Checkout was announced, no one showed to check a few of us out."
• "Not a very professional place."
• "The store in Middletown De. Needs major work on the upkeep of their yard."
• "I've been in line with a couple of items behind someone with a full cart. Not very considerate."
• "I walked out, not going to reload cart for 2nd of 3 times!"
• "The carts in the parking lot were obscene."
• "Closing all but one register with 10 people in line while 4 managers huddle in an aisle chatting - unacceptable."

Product Selection and Quality

Pros:

• "There are so many unique items that are changing all the time."
• "Variety is rich and cheap."
• "Great selection of produce, fresh bakery goods, and cheeses."
• "Produce is always very fresh, they have amazing specials throughout the store on everything!"
• "Hands down the grocery store with the best produce, and cheapest prices in the area."
• "Great selection of fresh baked goods and as always you can trust Lidl to have an expansive selection of cheese, meats and random things like Heidi Klum collection clothes."
• "Their meats are surprisingly cheap, which was nice."

Cons:

• "There not a lot to choose from."
• "I did not see any fresh meat, like ground beef or steak, only cryovac stuff."
• "A lot of space is taken up with trinket or specialty items that are non-food."
• "They never have anything in stock and are always out of things."
• "Every time I've gone in the last few times, the chicken cooler has been completely empty."
• "Less fresh baking goods missing the German creme swirls, Kaiser rolls, fitness rolls (with seeds), German Reyes and multi grain breads."
• "Only real issue is their bakery section is near the front door & across from their produce & they have an always open design on the baked goods."

Staff and Service

Pros:

• "Clean store, polite cashier, love the baking area, nice selection of food."
• "Very friendly and helpful staff."
• "Staff and management are very helpful and friendly."
• "The fresh baked goods are lovely and the employees have always been pleasant."
• "Cashier was friendly."
• "The employees are all very friendly and very helpful! And I just learned today that they are reorganizing their gluten-free and organic into sections."
• "The associates were pleasant and professional."

Cons:

• "Cashier was very rude and seemed miserable."
• "Barely any employees around... 1 cashier..."
• "The store is often short staff, and out of stock."
• "I just had the worst experience ever. I was verbally attacked by an associate."
• "Aside from the staff being a bit too apathetic and making it seem like you, the customer, is sort of always in the way."
• "Only problem I have with this store is that the employees are always on their phones while working."
• "The lady that was working at the register was very rude I felt like I was being mistreated because of my identity she was white and is a little fat and have red cheeks and had a ponytail."