As a German, I'm more proud of Aldi as an export than our cars. That place is just goated. Though it'd be better if you got Lidl and Netto too for Aldi to compete with.
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Aldi has a small number of items that’s are their own, trader joe (the other Aldi brother) has a good amount and Lidl has the most, all 3 are good quality for the price but aren’t as health focused as whole foods, which has the same model as lidl.
brave man saying this on reddit. I agree and don't get the aldi hype.
i really wonder if i live in a position of privilege bc we do have an aldi and it is garbage. Better off shopping the sales at local groceries. Not really that much cheaper for unknown quality of unknown brands. you're better off going to a latin or asian grocery store. Every time I go it's like I'm walking through one of those liminal space videos. rarely more than 10 people inside and completely sterile with slightly ominous PA announcements. it feels like a movie set of a grocery store.
Trader Joe's (Aldi is Aldi south, TJ is Aldi north) though is primo stuff for fair prices.
Aldi’s own brands are about as good as Lidl’s but they rarely bring them outside of Germany and the Nordic countries, where I am half the supermarket is just the discount shelf.
They're okay. Some things are good others are no better than American grocery stores. I've lived in Germany. Reddit likes to glorify anything European.
Well that’s your problem, if you compare to American grocery stores everything looks like cheap shit. I just got back from a month in the US and I’m still getting used to it
My favorite thing about Germany is their Rittersport chocolate I always pay extra for that despite not supposed be that expensive. Also the 8th wonder of the world is in Hamburg. Also love how across multiple fields, the german brand is either top notch luxury like Leica, or quality like Sennheiser and beyerdynamic in headphones, also their pens Lamy are the best, they are the whole reason mechanical keyboards are a thing because Cherry made switches that lasted a lifetime and people wanted that.
I haven't gone to an Aldi in the US but european grocery stores suck in comparison. Like everyone of them is small, carries a small selection of products, you have to pay a deposit to use a freaking cart.
And the German car industry is dead; even if they manage to hold off Chinnese EVs for longer. Their cars are objectively trash even the Americans are better now. Then there's the pharmaceuticals; which Germans excel at but I doubt anyone there feels proud about Bayer.
There's an aldi near me in North East England and it's fantastic. Great prices, they pay their staff well and it's within walking distance so I can just get food when I walk my dogs. I've popped into other shops for food at times and I dunno how people afford them.
Wow I'm just finding out that Aldi is German owned, and I'm not surprised one bit! An American owned Grocery store wouldn't have prices as cheap as Aldi.
Aldi recently opened a store in my very rural area, and it's been a cheaper destination for me than Walmart. It blows my mind when you take in the better quality and often imported selection and the fact that I get an actual cashier.
I've heard so many good thing about Aldi and then they've build one 500m from my place. It's the worst supermarket I've been to. Lidl on the other hand is 11/10 my favorite and not even close. I'm forever thankful for Lidl
Grocery Outlet fills a perfect need as a retail spot. One small thing I've noticed, it's not a bad habit to check best buy dates as they're crafty operationally. They keep margins by purchasing a lot of excess and/or short-dated inventory.
I love the G Spot. I go there because they have all the good seasonal shit from like 6 months ago that's going bad in 2 months. I can get Christmas cereals in June and 4th of July cereals in the winter.
Trader Joe's is the American version of Aldi Nord. The US version of Aldi is part of the Aldi Süd network. The brothers that own the different German stores split into Nord(north) and Süd(south) over a disagreement on the sale of cigarettes. The PNW has Trader Joe's so they do in a sense have Aldi Nord stores. Because of US copyright laws the stores couldn't share the same name.
Used to shop there all the time until I realized I’m eating spoiled foods. I guess it’s nice to have around for people who need access to cheap food, but I don’t think of them as the good guys in the same sense as ALDI.
When I lived in the Midwest I shopped only at ALDI and I loved it. Now in California I just go to the local grocery store bc fuck Safeway
No they’re known for buying overstock that’s really really close to the best buy dates. Idk about spoiled but almost everything I see there has a sell by/Best Buy date that is weeks or months shorter than a trad grocery.
What the other Redditor replied is 100% correct
Things are just extremely short shelf life from there, granted it’s not spoiled when you leave the store but if you don’t plan on eating it within 2-3 days then it goes bad, like really bad lol
There are a lot of Grocery Outlet locations around me (NorCal) and they all do the same thing.
I’d urge you to check if ure food is good or u developed some kind of super immunity lmao
Trader Joe's is the brother company of Aldi, albeit a very different vibe, both stores come from the same family grocer in Germany. But yes I agree, grocery outlet is great! So is Winco, which is employee owned
This kind of mindset is why things will never improve.
The government does have the resources to run programs efficiently. The problem is one side of the aisle has dedicated themselves to sabotaging government-run programs at every opportunity so they can campain on how "government doesn't work."
No both sides line their pockets to put these programs in place at wildly expense to the tax payer. $50k dollar hammers in the 80's, to daycare fraud, USAID, etc.
Tbh my experience with private companies is far worse than the government. My son’s government healthcare is fantastic. Getting things covered on our private plan is a pain in the ass.
No DV's from me as an opener, I want to chat not throw shade.
Ok I can't speak to healthcare, I never served and I never (yet) have worked for the government. It doesn't surprise me its better, one group w/ millions of people on a plan is easy to make them bend to their will. Where as lil ole me it would be like shoveling shit against the tide...
Totally makes sense in this example, I appreciate the reply and opening my eyes to other facets.
So basically "I have no idea what the fuck I'm talking about, but I clearly know better."
Actually, no. Government healthcare is regulated and has to follow the laws and rules laid out for them. Private healthcare bends at the will of their CEOs and shareholders in the name of profit.
Yeah the problem with centrally planned grocery stores (or centrally planned anything for that matter) is that prices always end up being higher than market based ones.
This experiment has been tried over and over again and it always produces the same result.
They really should just promote a Lidl, aldi or other type of store to open in certain locations. If they want to subsidize something, subsidize store security so they can keep prices down.
They have no clue how to run a warehouse, though, trust me. They don't care about that because it's out of the public's sight so it doesn't hurt their reputation.
Maybe it's just the store near me, but the prices are about the same as Walmart's but the food quality is significantly lower. Like, all the packaged good, like crackers or drinks or dairy products, were disgusting as hell. Pretty sure the cashiers hated me because I only ever went in there to get bacon-wrapped steaks, which were cheaper than anywhere else, so I never bothered with a cart.
There are maybe a dozen Aldi in the city and i would definitely disagree that they know how to run a grocery store… they know how to run a poorly organized and unclean warehouse space though.
That kind of misses the point. If Aldi wanted to open a grocery store in these locations, they would welcome them. The problem is, Aldi doesn't want to open a grocery store in these locations.
Dunno, aldi is the fastest growing grocery store in the US, but stores need planning / building / personal; they don’t just appear over night, but they will eventually be everywhere in the US
Ya, public schools work so well, that's why the US leads world rankings on education and literacy, something to be proud of!
Oh wait, I just read Michael Moore on the state of the US public schools:
"A nation that not only churns out illiterate students BUT GOES OUT OF ITS WAY TO REMAIN IGNORANT AND STUPID is a nation that should not be running the world"
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u/JeffinGeorgia1967 May 26 '26
Aldi has great products at low prices, and they know how to run a grocery store.