I did get garlic for 29p, so as much as its a shame and we wish the stuff was well carde for, we still benefit. If the shops were loosing money, they wouldnt continue to do it year after year
Same in my local Aldi loads and loads of plants including hanging baskets, tomato plants and veg all looking very limp 2 weeks ago, I should have gone back few days later see if they had reduced any, i did ask if anyone waters them and the answer was no, what a shame, poor plants!
I was NOT getting at the Dutch or the Germans it just that the 2 nationwide discount supermarkets are from Germany !! Aldi & Lidl (well I'm not so sure about the latter ) and I'm quite sure we knew most of Bulbs/Plants in most shops in the country comes from Holland.
I am also aware that one can walk around Wilco/Morrisons/Tesco ect ect and see that their plant stock is also poorly looked after. So its not just Discount supermarkets that treat their products in this way. Recently I have noticed the Waitrose in our town have started having plant trolleys outside their stores with WELL WATERED specimens on them regardless of the time of day one passes. More expensive Yes worth the extra ?? Possibly
Things have not improved. Aldi in particular had dozens of clems, fruit trees and bedding plants dead and dying. I told the manager and was told they water every evening. Could not possibly be true. My local garden centre has lots of plants gasping for water. I have had some bargains as all they need is a drink.
They must buy them in very cheaply if they can afford to let so many die.
To some extent this is down to the manager of the individual store. I regularly go to two Aldi stores and at one the level of care is distinctly better so I assume that is down to the manager.
It depends on the staff and their management, I suppose. Not everyone has the gardening instinct. Where in one shop they might make the time to water their stock, another will be prioritising a different area of the supermarket. It hurts to see it happen, just like the waste of perishable foods past their sell by date. The non gardeners don't realise that if they looked after the plants at first, they would be more likely to sell more over the time they keep them on the shelves.
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Same in my local Aldi loads and loads of plants including hanging baskets, tomato plants and veg all looking very limp 2 weeks ago, I should have gone back few days later see if they had reduced any, i did ask if anyone waters them and the answer was no, what a shame, poor plants!
I was NOT getting at the Dutch or the Germans it just that the 2 nationwide discount supermarkets are from Germany !! Aldi & Lidl (well I'm not so sure about the latter ) and I'm quite sure we knew most of Bulbs/Plants in most shops in the country comes from Holland.
I am also aware that one can walk around Wilco/Morrisons/Tesco ect ect and see that their plant stock is also poorly looked after. So its not just Discount supermarkets that treat their products in this way. Recently I have noticed the Waitrose in our town have started having plant trolleys outside their stores with WELL WATERED specimens on them regardless of the time of day one passes. More expensive Yes worth the extra ?? Possibly
Things have not improved. Aldi in particular had dozens of clems, fruit trees and bedding plants dead and dying. I told the manager and was told they water every evening. Could not possibly be true. My local garden centre has lots of plants gasping for water. I have had some bargains as all they need is a drink.
They must buy them in very cheaply if they can afford to let so many die.
To some extent this is down to the manager of the individual store. I regularly go to two Aldi stores and at one the level of care is distinctly better so I assume that is down to the manager.
I asked the customer service person at Asda could someone water the plants and she told me to contact Greenpeace !!!
It depends on the staff and their management, I suppose. Not everyone has the gardening instinct. Where in one shop they might make the time to water their stock, another will be prioritising a different area of the supermarket. It hurts to see it happen, just like the waste of perishable foods past their sell by date. The non gardeners don't realise that if they looked after the plants at first, they would be more likely to sell more over the time they keep them on the shelves.