The Aldis around here look upscale, but they sell mostly store brands. So, a discount grocery store for people who don't want to feel poor? I can't tell if the quality is better than any other discount grocer. I do like their peanut butter cereal.
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they save tons of money on staff and reduced employee workloads, so they can afford not to stock the worst quality food
The Aldi's here is just a slightly larger Trader Joe's, the selection is so much smaller than regular grocery stores. I don't necessarily need 6 brands of Mac n Cheese, but I would like at least one option. I don't have time to grocery shop twice in a week, so I just go to Kroger instead.
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They have an amazing dark chocolate selection for cheap
So "affordability" isn't a Democrat hoax? Well I'll be...
Lived in multiple countries and had an Aldi close in them all. The quality and variety does differ. In particular the quality of the meat and fresh produce and I agree state to state can provide a disparity. I suppose that can be hard to imagine if you are used to a consistent Aldi.
There are quite a few staples that I liked they were very cheap in comparison to the bigger stores. In particular the chocolate, kettle crisps, cheese twists etc.
I also found it helpful for stocking up when budgeting. Each Jan I would go buy the giant soap powder, dishwasher tabs, hand wash, toothpaste kitchen roll, olive oil, anything that could be stored in the garage. This stopped me visiting the other stores so much and spending on junk.
Sounds like a good deal. We don't have any Aldi's where I live in the US but Winco is the locally comparable grocer. Totally on their A-game. Like the difference in prices between Winco and any competing grocery store is startling and they treat their employees drastically better.
I went in and shot that in Aldi for the first time this past week. Unfortunately didn't have a quarter for the cart so I couldn't use it. Which isn't a huge deal had I known about it. But there was also six people online in one person working so there's no way I could even get some change to be able to put a quarter in so I instead I had to grab a box and carry everything around. Which isn't a huge deal but it made it very inconvenient and I did purchase less things because of that fact. I did enjoy their selection even though that particular store I was in was fairly small. It did have most of the things that I needed. And there were a number of things there that I looked at but didn't need. Overall I would probably use an Aldi to supplement my shopping at a large grocery store.ย
Oh and I'm also going to 3D print one of those Aldi tokens so that way I have it on my keychain whenever I'm in another state that actually has them.
I've never had to pay for a cart when in lived near one. Someone usually just gave me one as I walked past and I kept the chain going.
This is the way
Growth is stupid way of comparingโฆ
Growth is only relevant for stock hodlers
(Not real numbers)
AkA 0.1% -> 1.5% ๐ฅณ1500% growth
50% -> 75% ๐ only 50% growth
Yes, and in a saturated market like supermarket retail, โfastest growingโ is mathematically guaranteed to be a company without so much penetration.
Also the article is a blatant advertorial for Aldi cooked up as a way of advertising on Reddit/Lemmy without having to pay. Donโt upvote it.
"Last year, its stores attracted 924 million visits, making it the third-most visited supermarket in America after Kroger and Publix." Later on the article says there are 1 billion visits annually, so it seems that Aldi had 10% of footfall, which is pretty impressive penetration.
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Great now do Canada. Fuck you Galen.
Hell yeah GO ALDI