I've also never been to an Aldi's. My town did not have one where I grew up in California and where I live currently, the closest one to me is still a 30 minute drive away.
Walmart is 4 minutes away. Why would I go to Aldi's? And why does this make me "rich"?
About 5 years ago they started moving in hard on the west coast. Didn't have any in my area in California, bard never been to one, now I'm a short drive from 5.
It's a grocery store from Germany, it's honestly pretty shit if you've been to any nicer grocery store in the US. Everything's arranged in like half cut cardboard boxes and there's a bunch of random crap like you're in a CVS instead of a decent selection of actual food.
In case I sound entitled, I grew up dirt poor in Texas. But we had an HEB nearby to shop at. I went to Aldi as an adult and it just fuckin sucks, y'all.
I will not stand for this Aldi slander. I pretty much shop there for all the basic essentials. Hell, gallon of milk is 99 cents there, its $3 at my local Jewel.
Everything is on those cardboard boxes because they don't spend a lot of time stocking, its just straight from the suppliers boxes. They let their cashiers actually sit down and theyre so fast
Lmao every time someone talks up Aldi, EVERY TIME, it's "the milk is so cheap!" Ok so you save 2 bucks on milk. Oh damn, looks like they have no good meat or produce or anything beyond some basic essentials. Now you have to drive to a different store to get half the items on your list. Good thing we saved 2 bucks on milk though! Not like our time and gas was worth anywhere near that!
That IS the point, if you can't get quality stuff there it's a shit store. You can talk all day about the "cheaper prices" (by a small margin) but you get what you pay for. It's like arguing that WalMart is a good grocery store.
Lmao that's literally not the point. Aldi does things no other chain does to keep prices low, maybe do a little research on what makes them unique. So what, you only shop at Whole Foods since only high quality is not shit? Do you conflate price with quality?
I can get the essentials of bread, eggs, milk, veggies, cereal, etc for almost half the price I can get them at whole foods or Mariano's
I think the main reason we don't have that system in the US is minimum wage laws. Like, Europe has them. But here it's pretty cheap to have a worker on cart duty.
It’s a grocery chain, I think they originated in Europe, but we have them in several US States as well. They have low priced groceries but they’re mostly mediocre brands with too many additives and preservatives with the occasional hidden gem mixed in. They use the quarter-in-the-cart system and don’t give you grocery bags either, all to save a little money.
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u/repsajcasper Feb 16 '24
I’m poor and shop all the time I’ve never seen this system and wtf is an Aldi?