Maybe this will start a trend of businesses letting their cashiers sit down.
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The majority of checkouts at my local Aldi are self-service; I think Walmart might have started that trend.
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Aldi is great. Walmart has been robbing small towns in America without competition for long enough. I hope more Americans shop at Aldi and save more money while getting healthier food at a fair price.
Does Aldi provide better deals than Walmart?
I used to shop there, but the prices were comparable and everything went bad fast.
That is what fresh food not overloaded with preservatives will do. You should really make fresh produce shopping more of a daily activity as you need it. But not everyone has that kind of time understandably bi-weekly also doable for truly fresh produce along with you plan out your meals for the week
You should really make fresh produce shopping more of a daily activity as you need it.
Are you fucking joking? You expect a single parent working two jobs to go shopping daily as well?
Calm down, that was a general statement that is true. If your circumstances don't allow it, that sucks.
I gave an extreme example, but very few people's circumstances at this point allow them to go shopping every day. Even people working a single job are far too exhausted by it at the end of the day to be expected to go shopping after work. If Aldi can't sell vegetables that last more than a couple of days, people are less likely to shop there and more likely to shop at somewhere like Walmart. If for no other reason than sometimes you don't get to cook as quickly as you want to and you end up losing more money on the cheaper vegetables than you would have if you just bought the longer-lasting ones.
Even back before supermarkets where you had to go to multiple individual shops to buy food, no one went to the greengrocer on a daily basis. That is not how vegetables are supposed to work.
I don't comment often and I do know you Squid but you're wrong on this. Aldi had great food and especially great produce. I've been going there for more than 3 years exclusively.
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Unfortunately, the American society is just not great for accommodating healthy living. Everything must be done by car and in bulk. And everything must last long because people also want to go once a week. So things are pumped full of unhealthy preservatives as gasses.
It's not good.
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If you actually continue on to read the entire message you'll notice the part where I mentioned that not everyone has that kind of time
And my point was almost no one has that kind of time and that it's not realistic to expect vegetables to only last a day or two when that has never historically been the case.
Edit: Since so many of you think vegetables only last a day after they've been picked- https://extension.sdstate.edu/storage-life-vegetables
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everything went bad fast.
Yeah, that's because the food is fresh and less treated than what most Americans are used to. Going bad fast is not necessary a bad thing.
No, it's because it's old produce that is close to expiring.
The aldi simps here are insane, but another reason why I don't take the masses seriously anymore.
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Aldi provides way better working conditions than Walmart, that's for sure. Imagine being able to sit during a job that doesn't require standing – in America!!!
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Hell yeah. Aldi is the shit
smaller European entrant
I like how from the perspective of outsiders, Aldi is "small". They're huge here in Europe along with Lidl. The two make a meme of establishing shops next to each other wherever either exist.
I am glad that Aldi is setting up shops in US. The chain is pretty cheap though the food quality is okay compared to others. I haven't really heard anything bad about Aldi so they are pretty good employers unlike many American shops like Walmart.
Where I am in the US all our supermarkets suck, and are over priced. Aldi offers a clean environment with inexpensive food at decent non farm stand quality. When your alternative is double the price in a run down store or Walmart. Aldi is a very nice alternative.
I really don't think it takes much for Aldi to compete in a large part of the US market. Even if they're not the best because we have so much of the worst in supermarkets.
IL native, so maybe its regional, but Aldi aint small here either xD
Not only are they everywhere, everyone i meet raves about the stark differences in prices between them and their other local stores.
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I had a cut of gruyere from there a few weeks ago that was top notch. They got some real bargains for what some people would see as luxury food.
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They're not a small company but their locations do typically have a very small footprint compared to the typical US grocery store... Much lower square footage.
They've been in US markets for decades at this point. They just don't have locations in every region of the US or so many locations even in the regions that they do exist as to be considered ubiquitous.
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Please come to Colorado!!!!! I have my Aldi’s quarter ready!
Please please please! Aldi's would kill in CO, especially if the Kroger/Albertsons merger goes through. I kind of hope Aldi's stays out of CO until we know if the merger will go through, though. Their presence would weaken the case against the merger.
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I did nearly all of my shopping at Aldi when I was unemployed. Now I have a job and Aldi is still great, no reason to spend more at other grocery stores. I genuinely like a lot of their store brand stuff too
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good. only problem with aldi is their produce is hit or miss. moreso than competitors in my experience.
I feel like the places that are less hit and miss probably just throw away more produce so you only see the good stuff.
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We could just stop paying cosplay farmers to not grow.
Farmers and the amount of food they grow isn’t the issue. It’s corporate greed.
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This is the edgy, low information shit which makes Lemmy so obnoxious. Every. Fucking. Thread.
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We shop at Aldi and TJ's regularly. The grocery stores in my area charge literally double for many of the same items. Considering the grocery stores probably pay lower wholesale prices than either Aldi or TJ's it yet another example of the highest corporate profits in 70 years.
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New England resident here. I find Aldi to be alright. The lower price point is definitely noticeable, especially when you compare with other big players in the area like ShopRite and Stop&Shop.
I switched over to Aldi since 2020, they are quite decent when it comes to the basics.
Good to know they are expanding. Aldi's Sister concern Trader Joe's is already heavily present in the New England region, although I suspect they have a more 'niche' group of customers.
Aldi is da bomb
Ironic, because the last time I went to an Aldi here in America is was a total rip-off.
Care to elaborate? Was everything more expensive than competitors in you area or just certain things?
A high enough percentage of the stuff there was significantly more expensive than nearby grocery stores (idk about Walmart, I don't shop there) that it was clear that even if some items were the same or cheaper price, to be thrifty I'd have to shop at a second store and I hate doing that unless I have to.
I like Aldi overseas. When I lived in Australia and Europe, it was my favorite grocery store, and it was cheap af, so I didn't go in with a negative attitude or bad expectations, just to be clear. I was really disappointed though.
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And finally German conquered the USA..
Are they one-stop in the US, though?
In Germany you usually have a little shopping center with Aldi and/or Lidl, a DM and an Edeka. Once you have finished shopping at Aldi and DM you can pop into Edeka and get the 1 or 2 items you didn't get at Aldi and DM.
Many people in Germany are doing it like that. Edeka seems to florish from the people who prefer branded products and/or can't get into 2 shops because they don't go grocery shopping by car and can't really visit more than 1 shop, because you can't enter a 2nd one with a bag full of goods from the 1st one.
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Please please can you open up a few locations in Vancouver, please? Yale town is ripe for the taking
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Friggen love aldi. I'm kinda disappointed every time I have to go somewhere else now. Just wish they had longer hours cause my sleep disorder means it's hard to make it there before they close sometimes
In The Netherlands Aldi is one of the more expensive stores with subpar quality products.
I love Aldi but it's where you need to grocery shop first since they're likely to not have everything you need. I wish it was more one-stop.
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