Three times in two weeks I travelled from Newry to Dundalk to purchase a refill of the male shaving blades to find the shelf empty, and when I enquired of an employee, he returned and told me there were none in the back store either. read more

It's very hard to criticise a place that's great value with mostly quality food. That said I only buy a few items here - for fresh I go for fillet steak, pork fillet, chicken breast and pork mince (5% fat). So all meat is from Irish farms and I believe the quality of Irish meat is always excellent. The fillet steak is 32 day dry aged. Most steak in the USA is wet aged which is cheaper and produces an inferior product. For frozen it's their Greenland cold water prawns. They are again wonderful quality and taste. The last day I was there they were selling snow peas at 49 cents a bag and 500gm of red grapes at €1.29. Wonderful value for great produce and they often have real deals on fresh veg. So I bought a half dozen of each. The new normal is that you may have to stand outside a while as numbers are now limited. This is ok in an Irish summer (which this year is lousy). They provide hand sanitizer on entry. The only other downside is that they don't have many check out staff so again you can queue there a while too but it's the rub of the green here as the prices are so competitive. read more

Aldi - Outside - Grocery Near Me - Dundalk, LH

I like aldi - MUCH much more than lidl, it's cash and carry competitor, which is kinda weird to say and compare because at the base of it, they are both operated by the same/similar German private families, run under the same profit-over-people "lean warehouse" biz philosophy, and arguably carry the same product lines in different packaging. But this particular aldi store just feels familiar, worn, kinda tired. I usually don't always find what I'm looking for because I usually can only make it over after work, when the shop has taken its toll from the day traffic, but the employees are a bit friendlier here than in the two lidls in town. I do normally do shops in Tesco, for the atmosphere as much as the larger variety and prices, but I love some aldi products that do make the trip over a worthwhile one: the honey, flour tortillas, Spanish chorizo and coffee plus the odd bottles of red wine here and there. It's kinda hard to say one aldi stands out over another specifically because they are all designed and laid out the exact same, with no personality, but it is what it is, though the fact this aldi has free WiFi access means you can at least listen to Spotify while you get your shopping and head to take your place at the queues building up to check out! read more

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