I've just learned through a mislabelled product that apparently the same product sold at Dutch Lidl will list "Lidl Nederland" as the supplier, but at German Lidl it will list the actual manufacturer
@joepie91 which german lidl? there's nord/sud split with lidl like aldi.
@bananas Huh? I don't think that's right. AFAIK all of Lidl is owned by Schwarz, even though they have regional distribution offices
@joepie91 trust me, you can easily notice the difference if you compare e.g. the uk to nl as i did moving over here.
@bananas I can't find anything about this - the German wiki also only seems to list the regional office split: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidl#Unternehmen
@joepie91 i have no idea what it is then, but they are so very much two different shops even if they aren't.
@bananas Oh they are, but AFAIK that's just down to the regional office thing - every country has (AFAIK) its own national organization that's often subdivided into regional offices, and each national organization is governed more or less independently, but with shared suppliers and infrastructure (IT, logistics, etc.). So each country's Lidl is different 'enough' to adapt to the local market.
@bananas Ah but this one wasn't multi-language, that's the odd thing 😅 It *only* had a German label
@joepie91 i see those sometimes during alpen fest week and stuff
@joepie91 like i got a jar of 'currysaus' recently. labelled in german because nobody really likes currywurst outside of germany.
@bananas The ingredient/nutrition/etc. label should still be in Dutch (legally)
@joepie91 there might have been a sticker on it. don't remember.
@bananas Yeah that's usually what happens with imported stuff, a translated sticker is put over it
@joepie91 shrug i am so used to multi-language packaging by now it doesn't seem weird.