Aldi

I really like this new Aldi in Bolton, it is in a good location, just out of the town centre, close to the new retail park near to the train station, and has plenty of free parking.
I’ve always found the staff in Aldi to be not the most helpful, they are more concerned with filling shelves, or getting your items through checkout, you will not get customer service like in Asda.
This is a fairly large Aldi, it is well layed out with a good choice of stock.
Keep checking their website to see what deals are on, and if it something that takes your fancy get there as soon as it opens as they go quick.

The Aldi store in Bolton is easily accessible and is not to far from the Deane campus of the University. It has ample parking including spaces allocated for both disabled and people with children. They have plenty of trolleys outside where you put £1 coin in to unlock and thankfully they’re somewhat under cover so if you have a young child with you there is no need to fumble around for tissues to dry the seat!
The store is relatively new and it shows in both it’s design and appearance as it’s large, open, well lit, neat and somewhat inviting.
The aisles are nice and broad so no jostling and struggling to get past other shoppers and it’s easy to navigate around the store.
They have a broad range of stock such as bread, cakes, biscuits, domestic cleaning items, toiletries, fruit and vegetables, chilled goods, frozen goods, tinned goods, pet stuff and drinks as well as their often random yet very good value offers on anything from tv’s to toys.
However, although I can do my weekly shop at Netto, I find it difficult to cover all ‘bases’ of what I need at Aldi, however it is a good place to start and the prices are not to be sniffed at.
It’s worth periodically looking on their website at their special offers as they have some complete bargains on offer.
Remember when shopping here that you will have to pay for any carrier bags you require so we always take a stash of reusable shopping bags with us which saves money and gives you eco brownie points.
One of my favourate items from here is their night and their day facial creams for woman, they have had excellent reviews in the media and are so cheap it would be silly not to at least try them, I use them and am very satisfied with them.
My only real gripe with this store is the staff. they seem terminally understaffed. It’s very rare to ever see a member of staff on the shop floor to approach and it’s rare that they have more then two tills staffed, usually it’s just one and often it’s the assistant manager operating it!
We did recently have one bad experience here. We went to buy fireworks as they are extremely well priced and good quality. the assistant manager took the money for them and then continued serving. It took ten minutes and a disgruntled sound from our camp to actually send him (tutting would you believe it, the cheek of it!) to GET the item we’d paid for. In my opinion this is atrocious customer service (or lack of!) and especially from an assistant manager. However, this is the only ‘true’ negative experience we’ve had and it will not prevent us from shopping there in the future.