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I've got Lidl rolls

Bluetit1802 said:
The manager of my store told me he had been unable to order a new supply of the dough as it had been removed from the list of bakery stuff. In other words - not available at the moment.

Last time this happened some stores ran out of dough in their freezers a lot earlier than others.



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I was offered some uncooked Tuesday when I rushed to our local one. Managed to bag a fair few for the freezer so was happy. Might go back down later to have another look later.

I had rang them the day before and was told they were changing suppliers, others have had different replies now I’ve seen. I was assured they would be returning and they had the same problem with other baked stuff in the past.

My twitter feed went nuts, at least 20 odd other diabetics all got on board and tweeted their concerns directly to Lidl from that thread. The same stock reply was sent out though and all that was mentioned was relaying it back to the buying team.
 
Hi all
Just made some low carb bread similar to recipe. It tastes like ordinary bread, but I put crushed garlic in it to improve taste. I also mixed soya and almond flour and added a beaten egg.
Made it in a Panasonic bread maker and rose ok.
Thanks again
Derek
 
lindisfel said:
Hi all
Just made some low carb bread similar to recipe. It tastes like ordinary bread, but I put crushed garlic in it to improve taste. I also mixed soya and almond flour and added a beaten egg.
Made it in a Panasonic bread maker and rose ok.
Thanks again
Derek
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Hi, I have a Panasonic, can you post the recipe please ?
 
I have found my Lidl to be in good supply but have been bulk buying anyway for two reasons.
1. To keep the freezer full just in case.
2. Because it cause a sales spike which will show on the buyers dash board and cause them to reconsider discontinuing them.

At the moment I am not to worried about them being discontinued because supermarkets tend to change SKUs etc or DD when the supplier down stream changes a component. Traceability is so important - if a supplier changes a single product in the recipe they may well DD it, then reintroduce it when all old stock is used and if this is baked in store it may well be a store by store process. If someone has a reaction - they know exactly what the make up was of the roll and which supplier to do a an in-depth on.

That was my experience anyway - so fingers crossed I continue to eat the bread and not my words!
 
SKU = Stock Keeping Unit
Or the code number the computers know it as. If you change the product (by making a different size for example) you should change the SKU

It could be that managers are re-ordering on an SKU that is now obsolete
 
walnut_face said:
SKU = Stock Keeping Unit
Or the code number the computers know it as. If you change the product (by making a different size for example) you should change the SKU

It could be that managers are re-ordering on an SKU that is now obsolete
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That makes sense because last time this happened, when they eventually came back the stock number had changed.
 
Bluetit1802 said:
I think you may have to translate this bit for me!
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Sorry - changing a SKU (stock keeping unit). A SKU is a reference number a company uses to identify a product.

DD - Is what goes on a ticket in most supermarkets or on the merchandising reports to say the line is discontinued.

The problem is that taking a line out from sale is done both corporately to all stores - or to stores locally and may have nothing to do with sales velocity. Stores are categorised and what happens is if overall sales in an area (In Store Bakery) fall below a threshold then it could fall down a category and that results in a reduced range. The idea then is you expand a more profitable part of the store or range.
 
walnut_face said:
SKU = Stock Keeping Unit
Or the code number the computers know it as. If you change the product (by making a different size for example) you should change the SKU

It could be that managers are re-ordering on an SKU that is now obsolete
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Exactly.
Sometimes it takes several cycles to realise a zero sale of the new sku is as a result of no one ordering the initial stock of the new SKU and most supermarkets do sales based reordering.

Interestingly a slow moving item ticket can go missing and the store stop selling it for ages and ages before someone realises it has been removed from the shelf. Not often but it does happen!
 
I went to my almost local Lidl (next town) today. They had plenty of rolls. As the bakery young woman was fettling the display I asked if she knew of any discontinuance for the rolls.

In that store, I was told the Mediterranean and Tiger rolls are being discontinued, but no knowledge about the High Protein.

She seemed surprised when I strolled off without picking any up.

Just for those who like imagery, and bit of bakery porn.
 

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I have just noticed on the image posted by @DCUKMod the weight of those rolls is 85g.

They were 100g on the last code number. I always weigh one when I buy a new load.

This implies to me they have changed the size (without lowering the price) and that this is the new recipe. Hopefully it will be in all our shops any day now - at the reduced size.
 
Bluetit1802 said:
I have just noticed on the image posted by @DCUKMod the weight of those rolls is 85g.

They were 100g on the last code number. I always weigh one when I buy a new load.

This implies to me they have changed the size (without lowering the price) and that this is the new recipe. Hopefully it will be in all our shops any day now - at the reduced size.
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Shrinkflation. The swines.
 
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