Shoppers racing to Lidl to snap up ‘amazing' household gadget that's £250 cheaper than Tefal
BUDGET shoppers are flocking to Lidl for an 'amazing' household gadget that's giving pricey brands a serious run for their money.
The Tower Ceraglide 2700W Steam Generator Iron has landed on Lidl's shelves, and customers say it's 'cutting through ironing piles with ease".
With a similar power output to high-end Tefal models, which can cost up to £300, Lidl's version is nearly £250 cheaper at £49.99.
The Tower model heats up in just 35 seconds and features an 80g/min continuous steam output with three-bar steam pressure, letting you power through shirts, trousers and even curtains.
It's also got a large 1.2L water tank, vertical steam setting for hanging garments, self-cleaning function, and ceramic double soleplate for extra smooth glide across all fabrics.
While Tefal's flagship Pro Express Vision offers higher steam pressure, fancy LED lights, and automatic steam release, it will set you back up to £400.
Curry's currently sells it for £299.99, which makes Lidl's version £249.99 cheaper.
Curry's also stocks the Tower steam generator iron for £60, which is £10 more expensive than what Lidl is selling it for.
It's always worth shopping around and comparing prices to make sure you're getting the most value for money.
How to compare prices to get the best deal
JUST because something is on offer, or is part of a sale, it doesn't mean it's always a good deal.
There are plenty of comparison websites out there that'll check prices for you - so don't be left paying more than you have to.
Most of them work by comparing the prices across hundreds of retailers.
Here are some that we recommend:
Google Shopping is a tool that lets users search for and compare prices for products across the web. Simply type in keywords, or a product number, to bring up search results.
Price Spy logs the history of how much something costs from over 3,000 different retailers, including Argos, Amazon, eBay and the supermarkets. Once you select an individual product you can quickly compare which stores have the best price and which have it in stock.
Idealo is another website that lets you compare prices between retailers. All shoppers need to do is search for the item they need and the website will rank them from the cheapest to the most expensive one.
CamelCamelCamel only works on goods being sold on Amazon. To use it, type in the URL of the product you want to check the price of.
Lidl's customers are thrilled with the results.
One buyer said: 'This iron is amazing. Lightweight and easy to use. Cuts through the ironing pile with ease.'
Another raved: 'Really good design and functionality was spot on.'
While a third praised the price tag, adding: 'Compared to more well-known brand names, it has some great features.'
I tried 'magic' Lidl garden hose - you need to get it, it's perfect for summer
The model number to look out for is T22023GLD, and it comes with a three-year warranty, giving shoppers extra peace of mind.
Meanwhile, it's not the only dupe Lidl is stocking this summer.
The Silvercrest Air Fryer, priced at £49.99, has been hailed as a cheaper alternative to the £200 Ninja version.
The Monsieur Cuisine Smart, at £399.99, is a fan favourite and often compared to the high-end Thermomix which can cost more than £1,000.
The Silvercrest Cordless Vacuum, on sale for £59.99, has drawn comparisons to the Dyson V8, with many praising its strong suction and lightweight design.
It comes as the budget-retailer brought out its Peppa Pig ride on suitcases, perfect for kids this summer.
How to save more money at Lidl
Lidl's prices are already wallet-friendly, but you can slash your bills even further using simple tips.
Download the Lidl Plus app
The app unlocks exclusive weekly discounts, automatically applied at the checkout.
Customers have saved up to £235 in a single month just by scanning it during each shop.
You can knock up to 25% off popular items like ready meals, baked goods and snacks.
Right now, Flying Goose Sriracha Prawn Crackers are down to £1.49, 50p off.
Bag £1.50 wonky veg boxes
Each morning, Lidl sells 5kg boxes of imperfect fruit and veg for just £1.50, saving you around £3.50 compared to buying them individually.
Grab midweek bargains
Every week, Lidl slashes prices on six fruit and veg items — this week, 400g of mushrooms is just 99p.
Hit the Middle of Lidl
You never know what you'll find in the famous middle aisle — from garden tools to kitchen gadgets, all at bargain prices.
Earn rewards with Lidl Plus
Spend £250 in a month, and you'll bag 10% off your next shop, saving you £72 a year if you hit the target monthly.
Don't miss bakery Happy Hour
From 7pm, Lidl knocks 20% off baked goods to reduce waste — croissants, doughnuts and pastries all go cheap.
Used right, these Lidl tips could save shoppers save hundreds on their Lidl shop.
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Telegraph
33 minutes ago
- Telegraph
I won't take lessons in economics from clueless Labour
Reform believes Britain can once again be a prosperous and powerful country. Unlike the entire political establishment, which has resigned itself to managed decline, we know a remarkable recovery is tough, but possible. The path to getting there requires halting the unprecedented exodus of the country's biggest taxpayers from the country, and indeed persuading more to come here. To create jobs, wealth and apply their broad shoulders to the tax burden. It also requires repairing the social contract. For too long those who set their alarm clocks and go to work have been getting a raw deal. Decades of foolish policy from witless and gutless politicians has resulted in tens of thousands of the wealthiest people in Britain fleeing the country. According to the Adam Smith Institute, this will cost £115 billion of growth over the next decade, and tens of billions in lost tax revenue. So, we announced a new policy yesterday, introducing the Britannia Card. We will make the UK attractive to the world's wealthiest people. But they must pay a £250,000 landing fee for the privilege of being here. All of those fees will be pooled and distributed directly to the 2.5 million lowest paid full-time workers in the country. This will make us competitive on the global stage, the entrepreneurs and wealth creators we want will make the UK their home. While they won't pay tax on foreign assets, they will, beyond the landing fee, still pay an average of £120,000 per year in direct taxation on UK earnings, and much more in VAT, Stamp Duty and (via their companies) Corporation Tax. Based on conservative assumptions of uptake of the card, the lowest paid full-time workers will receive a tax free annual payment of £600 to £1000. The rest of the country will benefit from the billions more these international job creators will pay in tax, beyond the landing fee. The economy benefits because those 'Britannia dividends' paid to workers will be spent in local cafes, high streets and cinemas. Those who earn the least have the highest propensity to spend. Nigel Farage is the first political leader in decades to have the courage and wisdom to say that Britain needs the wealthy to have any chance of getting out of the deep fiscal hole it's in. Non-doms have been vilified, firstly by Tories and now by Labour. According to Bloomberg, they represent 0.1 per cent of the population and pay 1 per cent of the tax. They're literally the last people you'd want to chase away if you cared about our country. The announcement was met by comical howls from the Tories. The clowns who managed in fourteen years the astonishing feat of hiking the tax burden on working people to the highest level in 70 years, tripling the national debt to £40,000 per person, and leaving public services on the brink of collapse. All at the same time. They have been appropriately rewarded for this with electoral oblivion. Labour, meanwhile, claim our policy will 'cost the treasury money'. Wrong. Reeves is the genius who hiked the Capital Gains Tax rate in her Budget, and – along with the woeful OBR – claimed it would raise billions in extra taxes. We now know the opposite has happened. It cost the exchequer billions, and she's borrowing that money as a result. She will then soak everyone else with higher taxes to make up for her incompetence. The same thing is happening with the non-dom policy. The OBR said that scrapping it would raise billions, but assumed that just 1.5 per cent of the non-dom population would leave each year. Just 10 months in and 10 per cent have left already. Once that hits 25 per cent (which it will in short order), revenue for the taxpayer will decline. That's why the Treasury are sounding the alarm, and she will almost certainly U-turn. I started a tech company from scratch, grew it to tens of millions in revenue and sold it for hundreds of millions. I know what it means to take risk, the sacrifice required to create wealth, and I know how people in that situation think. Not a single member of the Labour cabinet has started a business, or had a consequential job in the private sector. That's why they keep announcing policies straight from the student union. Time is running out. We need competence back in Westminster. It won't be easy, and we will need more than one term to do it. But make no mistake, Reform will restore this country to prosperity.
BreakingNews.ie
35 minutes ago
- BreakingNews.ie
Protesters say Jeff Bezos's Venice wedding highlights growing inequality
This weekend's star-studded Venice wedding of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez has galvanised activist groups which are protesting against it as a sign of the growing disparity between the haves and have-nots as well as disregard of the Italian city's residents. About a dozen Venetian organisations – including housing advocates, anti-cruise ship campaigners and university groups – have united to protest over the multi-day event under the banner 'No Space for Bezos', a play on words also referring to the bride's recent space flight. Advertisement They have staged small-scale protests, unfurling anti-Bezos banners on famous Venetian sites. A large banner against Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's planned wedding in St Mark's Square in Venice (Greenpeace via AP) They were joined this week by Greenpeace and the British group Everyone Hates Elon, which has smashed Teslas to protest against Elon Musk, to unfurl a giant banner in St Mark's Square protesting over purported tax breaks for billionaires. 'If you can rent Venice for your wedding you can pay more tax,' read the banner, which featured a huge image of Mr Bezos. Police quickly took it away. Advertisement There has been no comment from Mr Bezos's representatives on the protests. The local activists had planned a more organised protest for Saturday, aiming to obstruct access to canals with boats to prevent guests from reaching a wedding venue. Then they modified the protest to a march from the train station after claiming a victory, asserting that their pressure forced organisers to change the venue to the Arsenale, a more easily secured site beyond Venice's congested centre. 'It will be a strong, decisive protest, but peaceful,' said Federica Toninello, an activist with the Social Housing Assembly network. Advertisement 'We want it to be like a party, with music, to make clear what we want our Venice to look like.' Lauren Sanchez and Jeff Bezos (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP) Among the 200 guests confirmed to be attending the wedding are Sir Mick Jagger, Ivanka Trump, Oprah Winfrey, Katy Perry and Leonardo DiCaprio. Venice, renowned for its romantic canal vistas, hosts hundreds of weddings each year, not infrequently those of the rich and famous. Previous celebrity weddings, such as that of George Clooney to human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin in 2014, were embraced by the public. Advertisement Hundreds turned out to wish the couple well at City Hall. Mr Bezos has a different political and business profile, said Tommaso Cacciari, a prominent figure in the movement that successfully pushed for a ban on cruise ships over 25,000 tons travelling through the Giudecca Canal in central Venice. 'Bezos is not a Hollywood actor,' Mr Cacciari said. 'He is an ultra-billionaire who sat next to Donald Trump during the inauguration, who contributed to his re-election and is contributing in a direct and heavy way to this new global obscurantism.' Advertisement Critics also cite Amazon's labour practices, ongoing tax disputes with European governments and Mr Bezos's political associations as additional reasons for concern. A gondolier takes tourists along the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy (Luca Bruno/AP) Activists also argue that the Bezos wedding exemplifies broader failures in municipal governance, particularly the prioritisation of tourism over residents' needs. They cite measures such as the day-tripper tax – which critics argue reinforces Venice's image as a theme park – as ineffective. Chief among their concerns is the lack of investment in affordable housing and essential services. City officials have defended the wedding. Mayor Luigi Brugnaro called the event an honour for Venice, and the city denied the wedding would cause disruptions. 'Venice once again reveals itself to be a global stage,' Mr Brugnaro told The Associated Press, adding he hoped to meet Mr Bezos while he was in town. Meanwhile, a Venetian environmental research association, Corila, issued a statement saying Mr Bezos's Earth Fund was supporting its work with an 'important donation'. Corila, which unites university scholars and Italy's main national research council in researching Venetian protection strategies, would not say how much Mr Bezos was donating but said contact began in April, well before the protests started.
The Independent
38 minutes ago
- The Independent
Book festival receives £300,000 to continue programme for schoolchildren
The Scottish Government has given a leading book festival £300,000 to continue its programme for schoolchildren. Edinburgh International Book Festival is set to host more than 60 in-person and remote events this year for youngsters, with the Government funding set to support the programme for the next three years. As well as funding support, the cash will also help with travel costs for attendees and provide free tickets to those unable to afford them. Business minister Richard Lochhead said: 'The Edinburgh International Book Festival is one the country's most significant cultural institutions. 'Its schools programme has been crucial in fostering literacy and cultural engagement among young people, with thousands of pupils benefiting annually from free events and resources. 'This funding secures those benefits for young readers across Edinburgh, helping schools that might otherwise struggle with travel costs, and ensuring they have the same opportunity to take part in one of the world's leading literary festivals.' Festival director Jenny Niven said the event's programme for a children is a 'cornerstone of what we do'. She added: ' Publishing for children and young people has never been more vibrant, and the benefits of reading never better evidenced. 'The festival is perfectly positioned to help children engage with the amazing range and breadth of stories around them, to support teachers to use books imaginatively and creatively in learning, and to supply older kids with the tools to think critically, and learn to evaluate the deluge of info around them. 'This aspect of what we do is vital, and we're delighted to have specific public funding support to develop this work further in the coming years. 'We've identified the cost of transport as a key barrier to a wider cohort of schools joining us in August, and are committed to maintaining free access for as many children as possible. 'We're delighted that the Scottish Government's increased support for festivals has delivered public funding to develop this work further in the coming years, and we look forward to widening our reach across Scotland and exploring further the digital potential of what we do.'
