Here in the UK, we usually end up with Aldis and Lidls very near to each other. It makes sense, since they occupy the same kind of ‘big warehouse locations in customer shopping estates’, although it would be nice to have them a bit more spread out.

That does mean you can get the best of both very easily - Lidl for bread and cooked meat, Aldi for smoked mackerel and potato salad - and have two different ‘middle of Lidl’ selections of random goods. Absolute result…