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Sat 07 Jul 2008Discount shopping comes of age
Price is the new imperative, and a new breed of covert shoppers is abandoning Superquinn and Dunnes for Lidl and Aldi. But there are also those for whom cheap is the new chic
THERE'S A CERTAIN TYPE of person who, if your trolleys collide in Lidl, will launch into a rigmarole about how they don't normally shop there, but that they just happened to be passing and popped in for some dogfood and found a great barbecue set too. You go along with it, trying to not look into their heaped-up trolley filled with everything from toilet rolls to tinned beans and cheap Chablis . . . just passing, indeed.
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