Aldi Wants to Conquer the American Grocery Store Landscape

I like Aldi for staples like old-fashioned oats, cooking oil, and laundry detergent. But I can't do all my shopping there because their meat is awful and their produce is very hit-or-miss. Typically I buy what I can at Aldi and get the rest at Giant, and if I'm getting fish, I go to Wegmans.

bring it.

fuck price-gougin-ass kroger.

They are way popular around me nowadays. The way to go is pick up loss leaders from other places and then get what you want that is available at aldi and if its not available then get that from those other places to.

I for one welcome our Aldi overlords

They are popping up like crazy here. I'm all for it. I can get most of what I need at far lower prices than Kroger/Walmart and then just pick up the remainder at one of those two since we don't have other options here.

You know I often play with the idea of opening a lot of buissness in the US with european customs, then a healthcare insurance for the employees and other neccessitys all like we have them in europe, so the others either get out competed from the market because this will have endless suply of people wanting to work for these companys, or it sets the new industy Standard

Germans are conquering again? Uh-oh.

Diese Kommentarsektion ist jetzt Eigentum der Aldirepublik Deutschland.

Ja aber aldi Süd. Der gute!
- Germany is still divided, it's just not east-west anymore

In the comments, a bunch of grump curmudgeons who don't like their undue loyalty to overpriced stores being challenged.

In what comments
- The comments after the article itself.

Aldi has opened a few stores in Texas but is really going to struggle to compete with HEB. If all I had was Kroger or Safeway though, I'd take Aldi any day

Different kind of store though. Aldi for the quick grocery reup. HEB is for the big monthly stock up.
- HEB's for quick trips or big trips, Costco is for big monthly stock ups.

Fine with me. Can’t be worse than Kroger.

I thought Trader Joe's was Aldi? (Edit: I remembered correctly)

Also, don't let yourself be deceived by the low prices, they are made on the backs of mistreated employees (making the Albrecht family billionaires and some of the richest people in Germany and the world).

Edit2: ah. Not that it makes any difference to non-Germans, but Aldi Nord has Trader Joe's, this is Aldi Süd.

Edit3: do buy your food there if you can't afford anything else, I'm not telling you to starve. Just to be aware.

I have been truly deceived then because I can buy food there without worrying I may not be able to also afford gas and almost all the employees I have interacted with seem OK working there.
Just out of curiosity, where do you get your food ensuring the employees are not mistreated?
- Also, I can imagine Aldi's practices being about on par with what US Americans are used to, sadly.
- I did not say don't shop there if you can't afford anything else. What I'm saying is don't think of them as the good guys. I absolutely get that some (many) people are in that situation.
  I get my groceries at a local German chain that I at least haven't heard anything egregious about in terms of employee treatment.
I have to eat, man. It’s literally double the price for food everywhere else. I’m not exaggerating, on average anything you find at any other grocery store will be twice the price as the equivalent at Aldi. I’m not in a food desert and I’m not shopping at high end stores, grocery stores just started putting the squeeze on during COVID and haven’t stopped.
They’re also the only store I’ve ever seen that will let cashiers sit instead of forcing them to stand for 8 hours. By American standards those are good jobs.
- I get it, absolutely, sometimes there's simply no way to consume (perfectly) ethically.
It's a least of evils thing in addition to the cost.
In Europe, Aldi has always paid their staff way more than other supermarkets.
- True. That's not the only metric for the quality of treatment of employees.
It is. They bought it

I hope they don't krispy kreme themselves.

May I ask the back story?
- Rapid expansion fueled on debt that went unpaid followed by rapid contraction

WO SIND MEINE ALDI SÜD FREUNDE?!

Having lived in Aldi Süd territory for half a year now, I can't say I'm impressed with how it was hyped up vs. Aldi Nord. All the Trader Joe's stuff is missing.
And Aldi Nord has the better apparel, which you sadly can only get in store (as far as I have seen).
- I dont shop in Aldi. But Aldi Nord has a more industrial/corperate vibe and Aldi Süd just is Lidl vibes but in worse.