Liz Donaldson has been to Aldi every single day for the last eight years.
The dedicated Kilmarnock pensioner loves the German supermarket so much that she has been nicknamed Mrs Aldi.
And when Liz, 70, got a crushing cancer diagnosis this year she kept workers up to date with how she was doing.
“I first found the lump on my breast in January and I left it for a few days and then went to the doctors,” Liz told the Kilmarnock Standard .
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“I was told in February that I would have to have a mastectomy and I had the surgery on March 25.
“I’m a very positive person so I in a way I thought I was going to be okay.”
Liz was given the all-clear from her doctors on the day that the new Kilmarnock store opened its doors this month, when Winter Olympian Eve Muirhead was the star guest.
“I got a call from Aldi asking me along to the opening of the shop,” Liz said. “Everyone seemed delighted to see me and I was getting hugs and high-fives from everyone.
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“I was asked to cut the ribbon but Eve was so tall and I can’t lift my arm very high after the operation. But it was really very humbling to be asked along to the opening.
“I went to the hospital later that day and I was given the all-clear. You couldn’t make it up. I was absolutely delighted.
“I went in to the shop the next day to tell everyone. They couldn’t believe it either.
“I just want to thank Dom, James, Steven, Elaine, Lesley, Margaret, Lynn and Ann for their kind wishes and support.”
Workers showered Liz with flowers and cards. Some even sent flowers to her house.
Liz’s 73-year-old husband Jim ferries her to and from the supermarket every day.
“I can’t drive so Jim has to take me to the shops every day. If we didn’t go to Aldi every day he’d never get off his backside.
“I don’t like doing a weekly shop because I don’t know what I’ll want to eat each day.
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“He’s become so sick of the trips that he just sits in the car while I’m in shopping and he’ll come out and help me with the bags.
“We both smoke and we’ll often go into Tesco after Aldi to get our cigarettes in there. The staff in there even call me Mrs Aldi.
“We’ve been going every day for eight years. At the end of the day it gets us out the house.”
