The worst branch in Malta is the one in Luqa. It’s always very crowded and the management doesn’t try to improve the situation. The workers still load shelves during peak shopping hours, while moving the pallet-lifters among the crowd risking an accident.

No one cares about the safety of the customers – probably they will when a fatality happens.

Well, that’s your loss, I often visit LIDL (San Gwann) and have never encountered such behavior. Maybe because I go in the evenings and these things happen during the early opening hours.

I do not buy all my needs from there, I just go after their bargains and nothing else. So if you want to buy cheese, olive oil, peanuts, toilet paper, UHT milk, ice-cream and a few other items at nearly half the normal price, then LIDL is the place to go to. Stay away from some of their products (especially wines and detergents) as they are hopeless. As with everything else in life, nothing is totally good or totally bad.

You can of course choose to stay away and spend more on less somewhere else, but that’s entirely up to you isn’t it?

So people who can hardly afford to buy a piece of bread are waiting patiently for a building permit?

Three for the price of one will be a standard offer at Labour’s chain.

I can’t really comment on the quality of their products since I only visited the place once to check it out, but even the tiny corner shop down the road from me stocks a wider selection of products.

If this behaviour happens also at a Marks&Spencer’s sale it does not follow that one should not set foot in the said shop.

I find many Lidl products to be value for money, and for me shopping there is a pleasant experience. Lidl is giving the other traders tough competition.

And a ‘building permit’ nowadays is still a far cry in comparison to having your property requisitioned. Unless you’re not a friend of friends.

I have bought a good number of tools from Lidl. Many of their products carry a TUV approved label, meaning that they are of prime quality.

But that does not mean that it’s of any problem with Lidl’s management for the rush of buyers to get their hands on something called a bargain.

I can say for sure that these things happen in other countries as well. My brother lives in Germany, and he was telling me the same thing happens there.

Well, having brought up the subject of the PL supermarket: Toni Abela jaghmel ir-reklami ta’ Mastro Lindo, Anglu Farrugia tal-pet food ghall iljunfanti u Joseph Muscat tal-depilating cream ghall-goaties.