My store carries a lot of organic produce and it’s very good for the most part. The shelf life is short, hence the low prices
I enjoy the experience it’s a treasure hunt
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I think you proved my point that every Aldi’s stocks a different selection and has different prices for identical items. The produce isn’t really “terrible” (as I erroneously described it a while back) in the Aldi’s near me, it’s just average; but it’s very overpriced. The gourmet green grocer has lower prices on many items. Aldi’s has eggs, milk, and ice cream as loss leaders but are making their profit on the few produce items they have. Cherries? Never in my Aldi’s. Organics? LOL! The Aldi’s near me is trying to compete with the 99 cent stores.
There are a couple “Farmers Markets” ( read - produce store) near me that sell eggs from a local producer for $0.89 per dozen for 12 Jumbo eggs. That’s the current price & it varies from week to week. They were as high as $2.49 last year. But even then they were half the price of anybody else.
A bag of 8 lemons for .99 on Sunday, marked waay down.
Butter was $5.00 at the grocery and 2.49 at Aldi for a #.
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Me too:
And the whole meal cost $15 for two including the fish.
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Not in the US, but Aldi in Australia seems similar. I find they have a few really great products - although they are often short run lines and thus are only there for a couple of months - which gets frustrating.
I do find some of their French cheese can be pretty good at the price they charge - but that may be a reflection of the outrageous cost of our local cheese.
However, I do find a lot of their own branded goods are just OK for my taste - i can see the attraction of the price/quality point for many of their customers but overtime I try them I find my self returning to the established brands especially when on special (just like your chocolate example).
I had always wondered how people could make Aldi their primary store. Then I went to an Aldi other than the nearby one and was enlightened. The “new” Aldi was about four times the size of the one I had been going to. So I was basically trying to compare a large convenience store to a decent-sized grocery store.
I picked up canned pineapple, evaporated milk, and Greek yogurt, all much cheaper than at the supermarket, even when it’s on sale!
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I agree, the first Aldi I visited out in Milford, CT. was kind of small. When I get a chance, I will check out one of their larger markets and see how it compares…
When we left Aldi the other day, Mark said to me, “Any time we go in we see these people wandering the aisles listlessly. (I guess a few have shopping lists.) But I look at them and ask myself, ‘Aldi lonely people, where do they all come from?’”
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Yeh & over in the pepper aisle they have red peppers, green peppers &…
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I will see your massive chocolate display and raise you a couple of Winking Owl displays at $ 2.19 a bottle:
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Chocolate is my drug of choice!
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We buy the pino grigio and the shiraz because we like them! They re good “house wines” when we just want to sip, or when dinner is a little too humble to open a more sophisticated bottle. Can’t beat them for cooking wines.
I bought them as a joke, initially, but the jokes on me!
I’ve seen several articles around the web saying that they’re made by Gallo.
You’re clearly not in New Jersey. Alcohol sales are severely limited–only two licenses are granted to any one owner, so only two Wegman’s in the entire state, for example, can sell beer or wine.
Seems Aldi is gaining ground in the US. But here Lidl has surpassed them and become more popular. There are more Lidls than Aldis these days and more Aldis are disappearing.
Check out the wine selection in southern Germany. There also stronger stuff.
https://www.meine-weinwelt.de/weinberater/alle-sorten
Click on anything on left to see other categories: https://www.aldi-sued.de/de/sortiment/aus-unserem-sortiment/neu-im-sortiment/
Aldi Netherlands’ wine selection (scroll directly to bottom and click on the wine photos): No liquors, however.
https://www.aldi.nl/aldi_wijn_11230.html
The rest (Aldi Netherlands again):
Is Winking Owl Aldi’s labeled wine?
Yep. Or as we refer to it Hwinking Auwl, mit a heavy Teutonic akzent.
