Where possible, I shop for food at independent shops like greengrocers, fishmongers and butchers and others who make an effort to have good stock and provide a good service.

And then leave the supermarket (but not Lidl) for detergents and stuff like milk.

Now can you please elaborate, sincerely I don’t know .

I don’t find the selling of expired food over the counter ethical , but I also disapprove of slave labour.

Truly,can you elaborate?

You won’t, because I’m into ethical food shopping.

Il-LIDL fil-bidu kien popolari wisq, inqabad fuq sieq waħda bil-domanda għal-affarijiet tajbin bi prezz tajjeb.

Issa sab saqajh: organizzat , temperaturi miżmumin tajjeb , xkafef organiżżati, u fuq kollox nadif bi prezzijiet tajbin.

Il-LIDL daħħal il-kompetizzjoni ta’ vera f’Malta.

Jien kont inkun b’xogħol għand aġenti magħrufa Maltin, ta’ ditti rinomati. Fuq l-iskrivaniji kont nara il-posta tal-LIDL biex iqabblu l-prezzijiet u l-kwalita.

Għand il-LIDL gieli rajt prodotti bħal-parmeġġjan mormija fl-iskipp għax skadew. Tgħid fuq l-imwejjed tad-delikatessen, fejn l-affarijiet huma bl-użin , kollox ikun mhux skadut?

Issa sirt nieħu gost immur nagħmel ċertu xiri minn hemm, xiri ieħor nagħmlu minn fejn noqgħod u b’offerti tajbin ukoll. Jien inħares lejn il-prezz.

Min jaf, forsi għad niltaqa’ ma’ Daphne f’xi super market tal-LIDL.

Nothing. They are still called exactly that. But the name is, as you have it ‘Bermuda shorts’ and not ‘Bermuda’ or ‘a Bermuda’ as those shorts are known in Malta.

They’re not ‘a shorts’ but ‘a pair of shorts’ even if you only have the one on.

This is something that needs a dedicated lesson at school but which, from what I see and hear, teachers pass over completely.

A pair of scissors (1)
A pair of trousers (1)
A pair of shorts (1)
A pair of shoes (2)/a shoe (1)
A pair of earrings (2)/an earring (1)

& c

Hawn naqbel mieghek u din tal-Lidl okkazjoni rari fejn ma naqbilx mal-linja generali ta’ din il-pagna.

L-impressjoni li tmur ghand il-Lidl biex tiffranka mhix dejjem korretta. Jaghmluha hafna iva. Izda naf hafna wkoll – bhali – li sincerament ma jaghtux kas prezzijiet.

Jien mmur ghand il-Lidl l-ewwel wiehed ghax nsib certu prodotti Taljani, ta’ kwalita relattivament tajba, fosthom gobon u priezet, li ma nsibhomx postijiet ohra.

Sincerament – jekk tistaqsini humiex orhos mill-prodotti ta’ supermarkets ohra nghidlek ma nafx. Naf li tajbin – u dak bizzejjed ghalija.

Nippreferi bla dubju persuna li tixtri minghand il-Lidl milli persuna li tiffanfra b’selfies mal-BMW “armata” fuq Facebook.

The commoner he is the more votes he will get.

No doubt he has a great hidden sense of fashion that he is trying hard not to reveal.

What does bother me is his trying not to pay workmen the price he agreed and using the term “taf min jien?” all too often.

Ghandu qziz u arja. As one foreman told him in Maltese “And my name is xx . I don’t care who you are. I have workers to pay”.

Your spies are friggin’ good, Daphne – keep ’em coming.