Lidl.... 5% bonus with I. E. S. A. F. membership card

[Rosamunda]

From 28th February to 5th March Lidl is giving a minimum of 5% reduction on the contents of your shopping basket (not including cigarettes and alcohol) in all its stores in Finland...

50€ spent 5€ reduction
100€ spent 15€ reduction
150€ spent 30€ reduction

all you need to do is show your lES@F membership card* when you go through checkout.

*or if you are (***insert suitable adjective***) enough not to have that card then any regular store card or piece of plastic will do

http://www.lidl.fi

***edit auto-censored because I wrongly accused approx 6 billion people of being too stupid to have an I.E.S.A.F. card. This was intended to be a joke/publicity for the pub quiz organisers but if it upsets people outside Keha III then I am more than willing to take back my words.

The point is... Lidl is offering 5% discount and Karhunkoski read about it several days ago but didn't think it worthwhile sharing the info with this Forum.

end of edit***

[Karhunkoski]

[quote="penelope"] all you need to do is show your lES@F membership card* when you go through checkout.

*or if you are stupid enough not to have that card then any regular store card or piece of plastic will do /quote]


Might as well call it the international english speakers of association of helsinki. Discount in Benfords and a pub quiz hardly warrant the membership for many of us, I guess we're just stupid.

[Rosamunda]

Maybe you just missed the point. You don't have to be a member of . (that was just an example) you can use any piece of plastic eg: your membership card to the Keski-Suomi Curling Club if you want.

[Karhunkoski]

Maybe you just missed the point. You don't have to be a member of . (that was just an example) you can use any piece of plastic eg: your membership card to the Keski-Suomi Curling Club if you want.

Don't worry, I didn't miss the point - I read the mainoksia a couple of days back.

Maybe you missed mine though - we don't all live in or around Helsinki, and if we don't it doesn't make us "stupid"

[richard berman]

Maybe you just missed the point. You don't have to be a member of . (that was just an example) you can use any piece of plastic eg: your membership card to the Keski-Suomi Curling Club if you want.

Don't worry, I didn't miss the point - I read the mainoksia a couple of days back.

Maybe you missed mine though - we don't all live in or around Helsinki, and if we don't it doesn't make us "stupid"

Well thats the point , people outside of Helsinki need to get of their backsides and stop morning that the benefits only work in Helsinki, thats because the members in Helsinki have worked on getting these benefits, and I am sure that a benefit in where you are would not benefit a member in Helsinki. So goes both ways. If you know of a place that you would like to get a benefit let us know the details and we could look into it for you.

Cheers

[Karhunkoski]

Maybe you just missed the point. You don't have to be a member of . (that was just an example) you can use any piece of plastic eg: your membership card to the Keski-Suomi Curling Club if you want.

Don't worry, I didn't miss the point - I read the mainoksia a couple of days back.

Maybe you missed mine though - we don't all live in or around Helsinki, and if we don't it doesn't make us "stupid"

Well thats the point , people outside of Helsinki need to get of their backsides and stop morning that the benefits only work in Helsinki, thats because the members in Helsinki have worked on getting these benefits, and I am sure that a benefit in where you are would not benefit a member in Helsinki. So goes both ways. If you know of a place that you would like to get a benefit let us know the details and we could look into it for you.

Cheers

I have no wish for, nor need of, the benefits, hence have no inclination to "get off my backside" thanks

My gripe was this:

*or if you are stupid enough not to have that card then any regular store card or piece of plastic will do

I don't have the card, does that make me stupid?

[karen]

Had no idea there was a card.

[Rosamunda]

Well now you know. If you buy stuff in Behnfords then it is worth having. If I remember correctly it also works in Boom! (which is in ESPOO )

[karen]

Still no clue where to get one.

[Hank W.]

I'll clue you in. At some point and time

[Rosamunda]

In the meantime your student card will do fine for discounts in Lidl.

I'll go with my kids (all bigger than me) and pick up some nuclear war supplies (tins of pineapple and pea soup) for the mökki. We did the same before the Y2K bug but probably in SIWA, not sure Espoo had a Lidl in 1999.

[sinikettu]

I have no wish for, nor need of, the benefits, hence have no inclination to "get off my backside" thanks

I think that you have miss-understod the purpose of the subject association.
It was founded ...(by Neil by the way)..to assist/help/advise foreigners on arrival in Finland.
The fact that later along the line members were able to negotiate some discount deals was an added extra. Now the pub quiz has added more members, we can and will increase the spread of Benefits beyond R3.
The Pub quiz we can help you to run in where ever...Even in Karhunkoski


If you visit the site you will find what is probably the largest reference WlkoPedia giving advice on just about every subject a newcomer to Finland might want to know.
All of knowledge that Hank and others have, that is scattered around this board, has been sucked out of their heads and catalogued.
It is truely huge and comprehensive.
You are invited to Check.. the NEW Wiki (Content) on the Association's site top banner.

[raamv]

Cmon Kids, nyt hiljaa!!
IMHO, the other forum is a complement to FF. While in FF, there is a lot of "freedom of expression", the other forum does have some rigidity to it and I have expressed that there.
As for promotion of that here on a LIDL "kanta-asiakas" päivat, I am not so sure that that was the appropriate thing to do at least not in the manner it was done.
While there re tons of associations located in HEV are, Unless the population that lives in the boondocks, start to express their opinions on
1) What are their needs for a foreigner in Finland living in the boondocks
2) How to get the same benefits/events/things etc that others in HEV area get
3) increase the participation of foreigners in the boondocks..
Its not going to be possible for any org. to provide them.

[sinikala]

I usually visit Lidl a couple of times a year when I happen to be in the Gigantti nearby, I don't think I've ever found more than €10 worth of stuff to buy.

Is it worth going to the effort for a saving of €1 p.a.?

Send your answers on the back of a postcard or a stuck down envelope to....

IE.SAF Membership Lidl Competition
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[Karhunkoski]

Thank you Penelope for your edit - I think you alone understood my gripe - it just seems that the HKI-based immigrants pretty much assume that everyone else also lives inside the wolf fence. You can even see this on the forsale forum, with posts like, "Iron Bed for Sale", where the seller probably hasn't even thought that Finland stretches a long way north, and more shockingly, that people actually live there.

I'm not sure where the solid defence for the IEAF came from, nor why it was needed. I understand it to be a very useful organisation and it does much good work for the immigrant community. However, just because it is a valuable organistaion down there, it doesn't mean that all of us who live up here cry into our pillows that we don't get to take part. I for one would have little use for such a club.

To recap, my grumble was that many (not all) of the HKI immigrant set, a. don't even think that people live outside the wolf fence, and, b. seem to sometimes be looking down their nose at anyone who does:

Take raamv for example, he sells himself on here as a bright lad, always handing out advice. Which makes me think he's also bright enough to know the true meaning behind the word "boondocks", which he insists on using to describe us lot outside the wire:

It derives from the Tagalog word "bundok", meaning "mountain". It also carries the implication that it is "backward" or "unsophisticated"; hence taga-bundok "people who live in the hinterland": i.e., people who are backward or unsophisticated.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boondocks


And that, my friends, just about sums up the impression I sometimes get, and what probably sparked my initial remark to Pen's original post.