Lidl campaign provokes: the owner of an Edeka branch reacts – Facebook users escalate
Created: 01/10/2023 15:52
By: Michaela Ebert
Discounter Lidl provokes competitor Edeka with an advertisement.
An owner of several branches comments on Facebook – the users escalate under the post.
Inflation causes prices to rise on all supermarket shelves.
Customers have to dig deeper into their pockets - discounters worry about the competition.
Some of them are therefore relying on new, slightly more provocative methods to keep customers with them.
For example, the company Lidl.
This recently declared its opponent Edeka the price war.
In his current advertising campaign, there is a direct price comparison: According to Lidl, a bag full of fruit and vegetables costs around 30 percent less than at rival Edeka.
A call to competition?
After provocative Lidl advertising: Edeka team comments on price comparison
The cheeky advertising campaign does not meet with everyone's goodwill.
The Edeka Ueltzhöfer team from the Heilbronn district, for example, gave some air to their outrage via a Facebook post.
Steffen Ueltzhöfer, owner and managing director of a total of six branches in the region, explains to echo24.de: “The overall presentation is simply not correct.
Suddenly a difference in the shopping cart is shown that has no relevance at all.”
This also applies to the statement on the Internet platform Facebook.
The ad "certainly does not violate competition law, but completely distorts reality," it says.
However, even Ueltzhöfer probably did not expect what developed from the post.
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The post goes through the roof: countless reactions, comments and a reach of almost three million Facebook users.
"It was pretty weird.
Then we deactivated the comment column of our own accord, simply because there were too many comments.” The reason for this decision: most of what the users say under the post for their own good “was no longer relevant to the matter a lot to do.
And that was not our intention at all.”
Provocative price announcement from Lidl: competitor Edeka speaks up via Facebook.
© Screenshot of the Facebook posts from Lidl and Edeka / echo24.de
But too late - only a short time later the Edeka-Ueltzhöfer page was blocked by Facebook.
None of the contributions can be reached by either the user or the owner.
And with good reason: Some of the users seem to want to vent their pent-up anger.
Owner annoyed by Facebook users: "You can have this discussion somewhere else"
"In the beginning there were people who still understood it - they then commented on it - but then it went all the way to the FFP2 mask requirement in the shops.
So things that had nothing to do with it anymore.
That's why we just ended the story.
Because you can have this discussion somewhere else, you don't have to have it on this topic."
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In the case of the Lidl price war, the Edeka managing director also thinks: "Lidl is active here and does a good job - and we do the same.
Ultimately, we have to prove that to the customer and not somewhere on social media.
I just wanted to clarify the situation.
[...] Basically, I don't want to make such a big thing out of the thing itself."