Decisions decisions.
Aldi Exeter Opening Bash or London G20 Summit
Typical – nothing happens for a whole month then two events clash.
Heads must surely role at the glaring error of scheduling April 2nd to be the long awaited opening of the new Aldi Exeter store and it directly clashes with the G20 London summit.
Two big dates for the April diary here.
First up international governmentalists are gathering in London for the 2009 G20 summit. The fact that at least 22 countries are attending seems not to phase the PR machine who clearly believe “its all in the branding” and G20 it shall be.
Over the weekend the rally organised by putpeoplefirst went off peacefully in what was refereed to as a carnival atmosphere joining climate change, anti war, help poverty and other associated groups show their feelings and expectations of the international leaders assembled at the G2o summit.
- Aldi Exeter Obscured by White Van
This didn’t prevent the weekend papers from continuing to publise the forthcoming protests which will culminate on 1st April dubbed “Financial Fools day”. A day of serious unrest and violence has been predicted for weeks and it is expected that demonstrators will use the latest technologies too organise disruption and chaos in the City of London. Meeting cancelled, directives to dress down and even office closures have been announced.
This extreme behaviour is a far cry from the festivities expected along the Alphington Road where an application for a street party to celebrate the opening of Aldi Exeter was dismissed on the grounds of being on a day when feelings of unrest throughout the UK will be high.
The celebration will instead be contained in the Aldi car park which it shares with its neighbour B&Q placing this small retail park firmly on the Exeter shopping map.
Shopping blog explained “Sainsburys now finds itself in the unenviable position of being sandwiched between two of the UK’s most successful bargain supermarkets. Aldi to the right and Lidl around the corner on the outskirts of Marsh Barton trading estate – all competing for our credit crunch restricted shopping budgets.
“The perfect stop off for those choosing to holiday in South Devon both holidaymakers and Exeter locals will surely see some keen competition and aggressive price wars.”
Global Changes
April 3, 2009 3:08 pmNice Picture of aldi lol , shame about the vans.
I chose to go to the G20 to protest for more action on climate change, although im not sure it did much good, they seemed more focused on the credit crunch instead.
Konferenser
June 16, 2009 1:54 pmAfter seeing the adverts on television i wasnt impressed when i finally decided to go to aldi. The actual store is very big but everything is laid out in crates (presumably why they have such low prices) and it looks messy. There were products on the floor and they seemed to be short staffed. They have a lot of different products though, which is good..I guess the credit crunch has hit them hard..
konferens
June 23, 2009 2:03 pmI guess Aldi did have some terrible luck, specially with the credit crunch.The truth of the matter is that as long as European politicians depend on their national electorates to hold power, they are going to put national interests first. That is common sense. If the European Parliament and European elections had any influence on their political careers then they would change, but not before. It’s human nature.
Gas Boys Gas!
July 15, 2009 2:31 pmThe no-frills chain has grown in allure as the recession bites. Company sources in Germany said “simple analysis” of the worldwide slump showed that consumers rate saving on shopping higher than ever before.
At the end of last year, Aldi had 4745 stores abroad and 4267 in Germany. Its most popular foreign markets are Britain, Switzerland, Austria, France, the Benelux countries, Spain and Portugal. Pretty impressive I’d say!
Irfan
September 13, 2009 7:02 amAfter seeing the adverts on television i wasnt impressed when i finally decided to go to aldi. The actual store is very big but everything is laid out in crates (presumably why they have such low prices) and it looks messy. There were products on the floor and they seemed to be short staffed. They have a lot of different products though, which is good..I guess the credit crunch has hit them hard..
I’m very agree with You..
Brighthouse
October 29, 2009 11:24 amI think shopping for food is a very personal thing. Some people only see prices and nothing else. With Tescos and Sainsburys offering budget food presented nicely on shelfs it is difficult for Aldi to keep up.
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October 29, 2009 11:35 amI went to a conference once where they spent an hour describing shop layouts (and how much they spend on it) and how they play with customers minds and entice them to buy. The massive budget this requires is reflected in the price of items at the noteable supermarkets. Aldi and Lidl have came from another angle where by everything is thrown in a box and is cheap as chips – I’d prefer to pay less then marvel at a fancy product storage unit.
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March 12, 2010 11:18 amIts kind of funny that they decide to host the opening of an Aldi store at the same time as the G20 meeting. Would suggest that the Aldi opening would be a little desolate. On that same note since i know protesting at the G20 would have done very little i would probably have continued to attend the Aldi opening.
Great post and thanks for sharing.