“You can always tell an American in Germany by the way they incredulously don’t get that nobody is going to bag their groceries for them—they’re expected to do so (and schnell!) while the seated cashier is ringing them up...
As for the cart: It requires a deposit, and customers must return them to their rightful place—without the help of an employee—if they want their money back...
This is why I am hoping for Aldi’s rousing success in Amiland: so that more of our stores, and our culture in general, will incorporate such Teutonic efficiency. First the cost-savings of bagging our own groceries—then the ubiquitous bicycle lanes; immaculate, punctual public transportation; and, finally, required paid vacation and parental leave.
No thank you.
Do we get to pay the Kraut value added tax too?
Guess Rebecca’s never been to a Wegmans...
Shop there all the time. It’s the closest grocery store to our home but we used to drive almost 20 miles to get to one. A dozen eggs for less than a dollar, a gallon of milk for $1.99, soup starts at .39, inexpensive bacon, small appliances, kitchen gadgets and toys for 50-75% less than other stores... What’s not to like? Oh, and the grocery bags are only a nickel and they provide empty cardboard boxes if you don’t want to buy bags. Yes, you have to put a quarter into a slot to get a shopping cart. You get your quarter back when you return the cart.
I shop at Aldi...good prices, and their store brand products are of good quality. Their check out is really quick, even if there are lines. And the ones in my area now are selling Coca Cola products...which means my grocery shopping is almost exclusively Aldi
LMAO...sorry...not in the mood for horsemeat dinners...
I went into an Aldi’s precsely once and that will always be true. I figured out they wanted a quarter deposit on their carts; I had no change. I went into the store; they had no customer service desk. I flagged down a bored employee explaining I had no change; she said she didn’t either and kept walking.
Fukc them all. My American dollars are supporting an American owned chain.
They opened one nearby. It wasn’t the low rent appearance, it was the crappy produce that turned me off.
Great.
I know they’re not related, but honestly the first thing I thought was that this was going to be about “Trader Vic’s”.
Use a Trader Joes here in MD. Don’t care for their produce but everything else is OK
Suit yourself...not for me...my mom used to drive her 560 SEL to Aldi
Bless her heart....and to Save A Lot
I do Wallyworld and Dollar General and Dollar General Market
But prefer Publix and Harris Teeter....Piggly Wiggly for ground beef...high fat for grill hand patted burgers
For fancy I do Fresh Market....without peer...the Dean and DeLuca of Dixie
Wild Oats/Whole Foods...not much....they sell their aged meat ground for cheap
And soaps are good
Too many PC types.......
Aldi is part of a two brothers two separate parts worldwide Teutonic chain
Interesting business history
I was, at one time almost 30 years ago, so broke that I had no choice but to shop at Aldi (pretty bad when I needed to find someplace cheaper than the commissary). The garbage they sold was so nasty that I wasn't sure it was fit for human consumption. The store was so filthy that I wouldn't have been surprised to bring silverfish into my house via the flour and cockroaches via the boxed goods -- literally the only time I've ever felt it necessary to inspect the boxes food came in...some had the telltale cockroach tracks on them.
The good Lord willing, that will be the last time I'm ever in a position to have to set foot in an Aldi.
I went into an Aldi’s in IL once and never again. The isles were junky, and the store was in disarray. I needed vanilla chips for baking and thought the price could not be beat. Well, you get what you pay for and the product was horrible. Sorry, back to Nestle’s Vanilla Chips for me.
That article was barely readable!
Aside from the over-the-top leftist crap, it appeared that she really tried hard to use those two semesters of “German for Beginners” that she took in college.
Yes, it’s a German grocery chain. We get it already.
Aldi stores are here in England where I live. A few items worth getting, but overall VERY poor service, and small selection of stock. They wouldn’t last 10 minutes in the US, they have no where near the quality goods of Trader Joes. Just. Don’t. Bother.
I don't buy meat, prepared frozen foods, coffee or bread, but canned goods and baking products, chips (they are awesome), milk, butter, eggs and produce are always fine. I've never run into a surly cashier (how many supermarkets put in the extra pennies for you if your bill is 4 cents over a dollar?) and the parking lot is not cluttered with carts that people just leave.
Aldi is where we do the bulk of our shopping, with Walmart to fill in the gaps. We shop for ingredients rather thanks processed/prepared food, and we experience significant savings. We do get our meat and eggs from a local farmer. Aldi is now starting to carry some organic items, and their another items are usually free of MSG and hydrogenated oils. Other stores’ name brands and store brands usually contain these.
Been to one. Once. It was a new store open only a couple of months. Filthy. Disorganized. Poor selection. I wanted to buy a fresh pineapple that was on special but they didn’t have any. Brands are mostly brands you never heard of packaged to look like name brands, with the same colored labels. I guess it fools those with poor eyesight or non-English speakers. The only thing I picked up was a roll of aluminum foil. When I found out it was priced the same as Reynolds Wrap on sale but half the thickness, I put it back down and walked out. Maybe it was just a bad experience at that particular store. I won’t go back.