Why is there an affordability crisis while the ruling class continues to expand their wealth?
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The second part of your question answers the first part.
Aldi mentioned, but they didn't create the 'K shaped economy'. The top 20% of US earners having a spending boom whilst 80% of the population need to cut back . The poor, getting poorer will be told that it's the fault of other poor people, flaming furter race and religious persecution
Trump: "How many pencils do you need?"
Mother fucker has never been in a school before teaching kids who snap them, bite erasers off, and sharpen them to make the world’s tiniest writing utensil ever.
Kudos to Aldi's PR team for this fucking bullshit. No offense to you/Aldi. I like cheap shit as much as the next poor sap.
The top 10% of earners were responsible for a record 49.2% of total U.S. consumer spending in the second quarter of this year, according to Moody’s Analytics.
But economists warn that relying on a tiny slice of Americans to drive consumer spending could put the U.S. on shaky footing. Consumer spending makes up the lion’s share of the nation’s total economic activity.
“Whether the economy goes into a recession in 2026 hinges almost entirely on the top 20%,” said Navy Federal Credit Union’s Long. “If they do well, the overall economy does well. If they don’t, then we’re looking at a recession.”
In the meantime, she said, everyone else could face growing pressure.
muricans just need to stop retail therapy and the erosion of the bill of rights may crawl to a halt. economy is the one true religion.
retail therapy is cheaper in the short-term than actual therapy though, and for a country where over half the population lives paycheck to paycheck short-term cheap is all most anyone can think about
It's funny how this makes it seem like Aldi is a bad thing. I love Aldi! Their potato salad is so good.
Here in the UK, we usually end up with Aldis and Lidls very near to each other. It makes sense, since they occupy the same kind of 'big warehouse locations in customer shopping estates', although it would be nice to have them a bit more spread out.
That does mean you can get the best of both very easily - Lidl for bread and cooked meat, Aldi for smoked mackerel and potato salad - and have two different 'middle of Lidl' selections of random goods. Absolute result..
This video explains a reason why they might be near to each other
I legit like Clancy’s brand of chips or cookies over the major brands for some reason. Their take and bake pizzas are huge for the price! I know my wife tends to save on some meats and things when she shops at Aldi. I’m a fan as well.
Come to Germany, here you can have Aldi Nord, Aldi Süd, Lidl and their other little discounter friends.
south aldi best aldi
new mbti just dropped
FYI in some countries it goes by name Hofer for some reason.
Only Austria, because Aldi was already registered by someone else.
At least Slovenia as well. Not sure whether because of the same issue or not.
It's a branch of Hofer (i.e. Aldi Austria).
Makes sense then.
Interestingly, Walmart tried the opposite direction in the late 1990s: establishing itself on the German market. After less than 10 years and an estimated loss of $1 billion, they withdrew completely. There are numerous articles and videos about this topic, simply search for "Walmart Germany loss".
In Spain Aldi has nice selection of fruits and vegetables, a lot of good quality traditional products (0 additives, organic and so on) and changing selection of imported and seasonal ones (like Christmas stuff, Asian food, South American food). I never saw it as the cheap box store option.