I popped into my favourite "low rent" food store yesterday afternoon but the locusts had been there befo
re me. No 68p fruit and veg specials, no granary bread and, more significantly, no smoked salmon or cream cheese stuffed olives either. Ever since the Media woke up to the "Credit Crunch" (whose bite has been pretty toothless so far, although the incisors are getting sharper by the day) there have been incessant articles and features, notably in the broadsheets, about how to survive an economic downturn without lowering your standard of living and Lo! firms such as Netto, Lidl and especially my beloved Aldi are suddenly flavour of the month (although one columnist, who had obviously not taken her own advice, only recommended the latter for the bulk purchase of tea bags and loo rolls). Now I am no Joanie (or Sloanie) Come Lately at Aldi having been an aficionado since 1997 (and of Primark several years before that)and I resent the invasion of the Chelsea Tractor crew who had too much dosh and not enough nouse to shop there in the years building up to the Credit Crescendo. So, hands off the Plebs' pate and the Proles' prawns - and our loo rolls too, come to that!
re me. No 68p fruit and veg specials, no granary bread and, more significantly, no smoked salmon or cream cheese stuffed olives either. Ever since the Media woke up to the "Credit Crunch" (whose bite has been pretty toothless so far, although the incisors are getting sharper by the day) there have been incessant articles and features, notably in the broadsheets, about how to survive an economic downturn without lowering your standard of living and Lo! firms such as Netto, Lidl and especially my beloved Aldi are suddenly flavour of the month (although one columnist, who had obviously not taken her own advice, only recommended the latter for the bulk purchase of tea bags and loo rolls). Now I am no Joanie (or Sloanie) Come Lately at Aldi having been an aficionado since 1997 (and of Primark several years before that)and I resent the invasion of the Chelsea Tractor crew who had too much dosh and not enough nouse to shop there in the years building up to the Credit Crescendo. So, hands off the Plebs' pate and the Proles' prawns - and our loo rolls too, come to that! 
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