Lidl advertises that their fruit and vegetables are always fresh! And that they’ve been voted best supermarket for fresh food?! Who gives these guys the awards? Not me ! This week I went to my local store in Hackney to get some avocados that were on offer. Well I picked one up , it was too soft! The next one I picked up was literally mush ! And the next and next all the same ! So where’s the fresh veg ? These were fit only for the bin ! And the staff couldn’t take them off the shelves, because they’re too busy on the checkout or too busy filling the shelves! And 2 weeks ago when it was hot, on the 24/06/23 I bought 2 boxes of chicken breast fillets, to make chicken shish on the following day . When I opened both boxes the fillets were mixed freshness inside 3 out of 6 fillets were literally off pale and slimy whilst the remaining were fresh?! Obviously the supplying company is mixing fresh and old chicken fillets or worse ? I threw them all away ! And couldn’t be bothered to contact their customer support! Because frankly this has happened a lot to me previously! Even the smoked salmon quality has changed to an inferior mushy soft consistency. I know because I had been buying it every week for 20 years. Lidl quality and freshness is none existent ! Only in the advertising as far as I’m concerned. I recommend you always smell the chicken. And not just go by the dates ! As the ones I bought still had 4 days to go