Posted on 07/22/2015 12:46:53 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Aldi and Lidl, Germany’s toughest discount food retailers, are invading the US. Both operate small, efficient no frill self serve supermarkets with a strong non-food assortment, and very low prices. Both have permanently changed the competitive landscape wherever they have gone.
Lidl is about to open its U.S. headquarter in Arlington, Virginia and a distribution center in Alamance County, North Carolina. These are early steps in its U.S. invasion by this formidable company that operates about 11,000 stores in 26 countries throughout Europe. I am told that the company has already selected 80 locations in the Greater Washington, D.C. area and plans to open over 500 stores in 2018. Near term plans aim for 2,000 new stores in the United States by 2020.
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Aldi’s? I thought they were already here. One of the brothers has Trader Joe’s and the other has Aldi’s.
I need to start something modeled after that. It’s really efficient
Trader Joe’s rules. Been shopping TJs since the early 70s. They’ve grown a bit.
Yeah Aldi’s has been around here for a long time...no extra charge for the horsemeat....LOL
“They are moving away from being ‘cheap-as-chips’ to selling quality food as cheap as chips.”
Doesn’t make sense not to charge for plastic bags and shopping carts. the mules don’t see that that’s how they lower food prices lol.
The first Aldi in NC is in my small town. It’s been here for what seems like 8 years or so. Some of their prices for fruits and vegetables are obscenely low.
No plastic bags at Trader Joe. It’s the land of the two-handled paper bag!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdB7GDZY3Pk
My girlfriends used to drag me to TJ’s but I grew to like it eventually. On A&L, my sis went to Frankfurt to work for a German bank temporarily and she told it’s more like a “better looking” Walmart. They must have had distributor deals (and in the same Walmart costs) in place before the American integration.
A plan is coming to me . i was going to post it . already posted a little bit. but it might get stolen here lol so instead i’ll write it on my pc .
” but it might get stolen here”
Well I was going to steal it if no one else would.
The first Trader Joe’s I went to... probably in Placentia near Cal State Fullerton... maybe a 1000 sq ft, in a little strip mall. They basically had some wine, some chocolate, some cheese. No groceries that I recall, nothing branded Trader Joe or Trader Jose or anything. Kinda like a very upscale 7-11.
Wegmans has everything Whole Paycheck has, but at lower prices and in plastic bags!
Basically, Wegmans takes out the low end and the high end (that would be Whole Paycheck). Trader Joe's is the mammal in this extinction. Their prepared meals and frozen pizza still win.
Oh! And then there's booze. Wegman's is cheaper than the local packies. And they are classified as a grocery store. That's a win for cynwoody: his credit card refunds six percent on 'grocery' purchases but only one percent on packie purchases! LOL!
You are right. Aldi’s has been in my area for years. I went in once, was not impressed, as I did not recognize any brand. Good thing I didn’t buy as they were selling horse meat in Europe disguised as something else.
Some supplier defrauded Aldi and about a dozen other grocery-store chains. Not Aldi’s fault.
We spend about $200 there a month. That’s a ton of groceries at aldi’s. Drastically cut my grocery bill by going there.
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