/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>16966264
it's for poor people

>>16966270
wrong

Its annoying to use. I don't want any more additional hassle at the grocery store.

>>16966270
What makes you say that? Just b/c prices are lower? Aldi's are very common in suburban areas

>>16966264
Dishonest

>>16966264
It's not that I don't, it's that I have another place I prefer and I don't like having to go to multiple stores to get groceries.

>>16966308
>Its annoying to use
What specifically is annoying about? Asking cause genuinely curious

>>16966264
Its for poor people and cheapskates who think they are saving money but pro tip, they are not

>>16966264
i like aldi and lidl, people just hate it because they like to pretend they're above others by not shopping there, it gives them a false sense of superiority that they use to delude themselves with.

>>16966326
Wrong, and your homosexuality is showing.

>>16966322
Their fucking cashiers are too lazy to stand up so they always keep a line and are slow. Too many arabs.

>>16966264
I shop both there and at edeka (higher class supermarket chain in germany). And I can tell firsthand that aldi stuff doesn't agree with me as well. The bread makes my stomach itch (slightly), the cheese burns (slightly) in my mouth, I feel (slightly) unwell from gorging myself on the sausages. Everything is just a little bit... strange and everything tastes a little bit worse. And their sauerkraut is too sour, but that's just my preference. I guess their fresh produce is fine, but because of all the other things I don't shop there any more.

>>16966351
Aldi cashiers are super fast usually. You must be at a weird location. Also, cashiers around the world and in Europe get to sit. I necnever understood why Americans are so obsessed over cashiers standing. It isnt that big of a deal if they get the job done, which also employees usually do

>>16966361
boomers will legit throw a tantrum if they see a cashier or employee at many different types of workplaces sitting.

>>16966361
Normally if I see a line anywhere I go I just fucking leave.

Almost nothing they sell is Australian, so I shop at local butcher, local fishmonger, local deli and local greengrocer. I have nothing against other countries I just want to support our food independence.

I also avoid big chain supermarkets for similar reasons.

>>16966346
I shop there, I probably been shopping there longer than you been alive zoom zoom, Aldi is for poor people and cheapskates. I helped my grandfather dumpster dive in aldi dumpsters when I was a kid. He is the only person who probably saved money by getting aldi products in the long run.

>>16966368
Well when they are a fat slouching mouthbreather working slowly while I have to hold the few items I even would buy at aldi because their meat is overpriced means I am holding 6 bottles of texas bbq sauce and 2 dark chocolate candy bars while the morbidly obese woman with 50 different boxed and processed foods is rang up by the morbidly obese woman in a stool and weird arabs are swarming around. The bbq sauce is the only reason I go at all. Their eggs are garbage and so is their produce.

>>16966264
Their blatant branding rip offs annoy me. It's like they think everyone is a retard or something - other supermarkets are fine with own brand labels for that stuff.

>>16966385
boomers are hypocrites, nothing new there

>>16966361
Unless you work at a desk in America it's assumed you're standing when you work and if you're not you are lazy. American industrialization is honestly retarded and we are slow to embrace change, technology and efficiency because the people in charge can't look past the glory days before the Midwest became the rust belt. The people in charge hate the middle of the country while still being totally reliant on it while the middle of the country bitches and moans about the lack of factory jobs that haven't been there in 20 to 30 years.
We aren't a world superpower anymore outside of military spending and rather than face the truth we have decided to stay in a lie that America is still somehow globally relevant

>>16966395
I'm a 28yo boomer.

>>16966396
It is possible to stand all day if you aren't morbidly obese and guzzling soy and canola oil and hfcs

>>16966404
Tbf, give cashiers a chair and let them sit whem they need to. Let them stand when they want. As long as they are at the register and finish the job, it shouldn't really matter.

Aldi is fine. A fair bit cheaper but a little limited for choice. Some stuff great other stuff less so. It is actually pretty noticeable how small the frozen shit section is here, like two half isles. The fresh produce is twice that, the refridgerated shit is 5 half isles. We shopped Tesco for a year due to covid and it was about 50% up but part is the extra choice. A typical Aldi is like 25% of the size of a proper supermarket here.

>>16966420
Nah, costco does it correctly. Cashier and a helper both on their feet. If you are too out of shape you can't do the job. Trader joes as well is good at ringing more cashiers and keeping lines moving quickly. Aldi only ever has two ringers and commonly is annoying to get out of. Plus fuck the quarter carts.

>>16966437
I like the quarter carts. It makes people actually put them away so there’s no cars randomly around parking lots or blocking the sidewalks.

>>16966444
I already do that and I always park in the back everywhere I go because walking doesn't scare me.

>>16966270
>>16966326
This is what poor people that are insecure about looking poor say.

>>16966270
It's for people big brained enough to save money and not pay more because you're too self conscious to shop at a discount store.

>>16966433
>less frozen goy feed
>more real food
wtf? is that legal?

>>16966361
They're just pissed because "back in muh day we had to stand."

>>16966451
The produce is shitty and has bad quality control though. They still have a shot ton of processed breads but no bread flour and they still have a bunch of shitty canned foods. If anything they have less produce than a normal supermarket. Mine doesn't have rutabega or turnips or celery root or cassava. The sweet potatoes are small and poor of color.

>>16966437
I actually like the quarter system and think more stores in the us should implement them. You get your quarter back and keeps the parking lot clear of any stray carts.

>>16966385
>Their eggs are garbage
Eggs are eggs, bro. There isn't some sort of tormented Aldi brand chicken laying inferior eggs.

>>16966448
That’s because you’re able to be civilized. Others can’t, and need to be punished for not behaving. A 25 cent fee and having to go out of your way for a new quarter is enough of a punishment, for the carts. And if you park in the back of the parking lot, you still need to drive through the whole thing to get out.

>>16966459
In yurop where the citybugs all walk and bike around it makes sense. Here in the states where fat fucks walk from chair to chair sitting at a standing job is terrible. Couch to car to seat to car to couch to bed. Without walking city infrastructure you are just enabling fat fucks draining the health care system and being slow and lazy.

>>16966466
Lol buy the good eggs at costco sometime. You won't go back. The shells are thicker, the yolks are oranger, the yolks don't break as easily, and they taste better.

>>16966474
You care way too much about stupid shit that doesn't impact you directly at all.

>>16966463
>>16966472
I don't ever have a quarter.

>>16966472
>A 25 cent fee and having to go out of your way for a new quarter is enough of a punishment, for the carts.
Plus, you actually get your quarter back.

>>16966483
As a fast person life is just a series of slow stupid fat people getting in my way every single day.

>>16966485
I mean, you could probably find one laying around. Or just keep a quarter in your car and use it when needed. iirc the quarter cart system is how they do it in Europe. It is a great system that should be used more often here. Plus it saves the company time and money by not having to waste worker's time to collect carts in the parking lot. Never understood why the other grocery store chains didnt start implementing this

>>16966361
People getting pissed because cashiers were sitting on the job is a little more complicated than lol boomers. When I worked as a cashier, I also held down two other additional jobs. I worked manual labor in the morning, then cashier in the afternoon and evening, then more manual labor after I got off from cashier job before my day ended. Being a cashier is not a strenuous job, it is just monotonous and annoying because you're dealing face to face with the public. There used to be a sense of work ethic and cultural exceptionalism people expected from each other, but that is all but completely gone now.

>>16966505
My expectation is people not being fat slow and lazy and just put it back out of personal pride.

>>16966505
>Never understood why the other grocery store chains didnt start implementing this
>Lo and behold, as far as the eye could see, from the managers office to the horizon, a sea of people born on or before 1965 stood verily, waiting to complain that they had to do a simple task and why the company refused to hire people to do it for them

>>16966507
Problem is, people don't put it back. This system is a great incentive

>>16966513
I actually enjoyed pushing carts. It's outside and nobody bothers you.

>>16966521
Glad you liked it, but it would still help grocery chains save time and money

>>16966264
Your view on Aldi is a litmus test for how old someone is

They sold real, honest to god generic food all the way up until the mid 90s.
You would walk in and grab a grease pen at the front door.
You would grab tin cans with NO LABELS, and you would write with the pen the price of the food and what it is on the can.

It took them 30 years longer than everyone else to use barcodes.
At this point they still only straight Cash and food stamps/EBT/WIC
It took them till like late 00s to accept debit card, and only 2016 did they start accepting credit cards.
Every step of the way, every decision they have ever made was to overwork their cashier/stocker/truck unloader, and minimize the cost of the product and store.
This includes selling the shittiest of generics they could find.

It was THE store to go to if you are on foodstamps and ride the bus. And since you are a poor motherfucker without a bank account and have horrible credit, the debit card/credit card thing didnt matter.
It was about one step above getting food at a food bank.

Looking at aldi now that they have revamped and changed their store in the last 5-6 years.
Sure its not the same slum that it was 10-15 years ago.
But now its just a store filled with Kroger store-brand levels of food, for the same price or MORE than Kroger. All without the option of the name brand right beside it.
I dont go in there because its not cheaper, and there is less choice.
There is no real reason to go in there.

>>16966264
I have no opinion on Aldi, there's no store of there's near me within 300 miles.

>>16966624
** theirs

Is a similar argument as to why I buy from Dollar General which is in easy walking distance? Same exact stuff from a big brand grocery store, same labels, without the huge markup of a place called "Price Chopper" HA the only thing that's being chopped from those fucks is your money.
Look at their stock too, DG is going way up. The folk who work there are pretty cool too.

>>16966437
>helper
What?

>>16966507
But sometimes you have to interact with reality too.

>>16966644
Hey bud

>>16966662
British news, yeah that's credible.

>>16966634
My guy, you do realize that dollar general is actually more expensive than just buying it at Kroger?
You need to pay much closer attention to how much per ounce you are paying.

I say this as someone who also routinely shops Dollar General for food.
They built a brand new one like 3 minutes down the road in my residential area, closer than any of my grocery stores.
I justify the extra price because there are never big lines, and its just convenient being so close.

The new model of Dollar General has pretty much turned half of the whole store into food while downsizing their crappy consumer goods section.
Its only a "dollar store" by name, its a full blown mini convenience store at this point. Their selection of dollar store goods will continue to dwindle.

>>16966383
>dumpster dives
Lol poor ass chud

>>16966326
How are they not saving money?
I can get the same sack of potatoes for 30% less if I go to Aldi instead of one of the "nicer" grocery stores.
I really don't mind if retards like you think that makes me look poor.

>>16966720
Because the prices arent actually cheaper
People only think its cheaper, because they know its a store for poorfaggots

>>16966725
>Because the prices arent actually cheaper
Could you elaborate on that? How specifically they arent cheaper

>>16966640
The assistant moves the cart and items while the cashier only scans.

>>16966507
Prepare to rarely have your expectations fulfilled.

>>16966733
The meat is insanely expensive and the sacked potatoes always have a bunch of shitty ones plus the sweet potatoes are pale. I like picking potatoes out individually.

>>16966736
That's why I'm abandoning suburbs/city for rural life with neighbors far away. Then raising my own subsistence livestock.

>>16966733
Aldi prices are not cheaper than competitors store prices
You may cherry pick one or two items you DID find cheaper, but I can also cherry pick items at Ralphs that are cheaper.

Its just like literally every other grocery store. If I wanted to save every single penny every single week, I would look at the ads for the 4 grocery stores near me and buy strictly the sales.
The people who walk into Aldi and buy everything there and end up not actually saving the money they think they are.

>>16966463
>>16966444
The quarter system just attracts homeless. Everytime I'm at Aldi's some homeless groid comes up to my car when I'm loading in groceries and asks to return my cart for me. I don't know how many times I have to tell them to piss off before they stop bugging me. Other grocery stores actually shoo the homeless away.

>>16966749
lmao countryfags are even worse at things like putting carts back

>>16966264
I have No quarters nor personal shopping bags

>>16966589
>he same price or MORE than Kroger
They're cheaper than krogers in my area

>>16966662
Get fucked boomer

>>16966751
>>clip coupons before aldi: weekly price : 100$
>>shop at aldis : 65$
They're cheaper 99% of the time.
The true shopper buys at aldis when they need shit not on sale and Hoover up the harsh discounts by other chains too.

>>16966725
That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
I can compare the price of a dozen eggs or a bag of carrots or whatever in two stores and tell which one is cheaper, and Aldi is usually one of the cheapest places at least where I live.

>>16966811
>Other grocery stores actually shoo the homeless away.
Not my experience.
In particular localities, most homeless just put in at least the bare amount of effort to avoid getting shooed out of the various chains of stores in particular areas. You have to be sleeping/not sober/argumentive/violent to get the police called on you, since whatever security they may have there aren't doing shit themselves unless it is a small local shop. If you aren't causing a problem beyond looking homeless, there effectively isn't a problem for any store operating there.
"Nice" stores and actually restrictive stores like Costco tend to be outside of those areas anyway, because they aren't putting up with the liability and their customers can drive to them.

Anyway, when I lived somewhere kind of ratty with an ALDI I was never asked by anyone to have my cart returned, but I can see someone doing it for the change. I guess it's a problem in the sense of asking for change, but in this case there is a service being performed.

t. experience in STL and Chicago

>>16966264
Never seen one.

>>16966264
Aldi in europe is a very low quality, low price, shit hole. In America it's the same but because it's new they think they've found some magical new jewel. That is why some don't like Aldi and some do.

>>16966811
We've done this in my country for years with no problem, it's just an efficient way to keep everything tidy. America is such a shithole.

>>16966589
>its just a store filled with Kroger store-brand levels of food, for the same price or MORE than Kroger.
stupid fucking retard eat glass and die

>>16966310
A lot of their products are cheap shit that are barely better than dollar store/ inner city mexican grocer store shit.

>>16966860
Thus subsistence ranching

>>16966396
Don't I know it! When I was 18, I worked at a factory briefly and was told 'wait here for this guy to come get you'. So I sat down to wait and was summarily fired.

>>16966264
aldi has the cheapest vodka i can find (5€ for a bottle) so i like it.. it also has pretty good frozen meal stuff

I love Aldi because I like being cheap and their food is usually good

>>16966967
>t. experience in STL and Chicago

Well there is your problem dingleberry. Of course the homeless had the run of the place. Try not going to cities that are known nation wide for being corrupt democrat run shit holes.

>>16966984
>America is such a shithole.
Nah America is a huge place. The shit hole parts run rampant with homeless are small parts densely concentrated around the urban areas that have long been controlled by the current presidents political party. The rest of America that is not, is actually pretty nice.

>>16966351
It's actually the opposite. They are ninja fast and I actually feel like an asshole not being able to unload the cart fast enough to keep up with them.

>>16967023
I have, just either suburbs or much smaller. Everywhere I've lived it's just seems like there is either no grocery stores with a homeless issue, or all stores in the area have some homeless issue. The main pushback/gatekeep seems to be geography, and secondly city policy. Whatever individual stores do doesn't seem nearly as decisive, unless again it's something like Costco. If an ALDI is having loiterers and homeless, stores nearby likely do as well.

If you have a large metro center city you know where this isn't an issue, as compared to suburbs or rural, I'd like to hear.

>>16966264
Only reason to shop there is for the Girl Scout off-brand cookies. They're basically the same thing at a third of the price.

>>16966310
Full of poor people. Not homeless poor but middle class idiots that landed themselves into 75% too much home simple to keep up appearances. As an upper middle class American my neighborhood is overflowing with these people.

>>16967093

>>16966264
Annoying as fuck check out system.

>>16966310
>>16966811
>Aldi's
>'s

>>16967093
Not at mine but I'm in shithole maryland

>>16966264
Mama Cozzi's is the best pizza and now they have the European Christmas sweets out. Good times.

>>16967205
hi from nova

>>16967137
kek they have some kind of points quota they need to meet based on how fast they get items through the scanner

>>16966264
1. nothing seems to be cheaper, just smaller for a smaller price. If I buy the same amount I really want, I fee like I'm paying same same price per weight (or even more!) than other stores.

2. not enough options that are both usda organic and verified vegan at the same time

3. bread is a rip off compared to costco

4. employees are miserable at aldis and this makes me feel stressed out because they are understaffed and overworked and rushed. It is nice that they have work ethic but the line doesn't move all that much faster vs other stores, the people working there just seem more stressed.

5. fruit and veg section is a joke, not enough organic options and jokingly expensive when it is for a store that's supposed to be a better deal

6. frozen section is a sick joke. tiny little packages that scale up price wise to be a worse deal. I want to buy big packages that area a good bulk deal not little bags of organic corn and peas so small they can only feed a tiny mouse.

the whole premise of aldi as a store defeats its own purpose and it needs to be seriously overhauled so that it becomes a good deal in THIS reality. not in their imaginations. That being said I'm glad it exists, just needs to stop sucking so bad. Why wouldn't I just go anywhere else with real good deals and products I want?
even the organic wheat pasta "is made in a facility that handles eggs" thanks now I can't buy that either.

>>16966264
I don't know what you are talking about. I love Aldi.

>>16966751
THIS

>>16966264
I don’t know but forever I will eat pic related and Aldi ribeyes. It should be illegal how good these steaks are for their price.

>>16966264
STORES ARE TOO DAMN SMALL

>>16967690
Not to mention dumb fuck heads decide to sprawl their cart out across the aisle while they look at the same 4 boxes of pasta

Is Lidl better ?

>>16967703
well that's every store in the US

>>16966521
Ricky, we need you in the food court

>>16966811
In the abbo parts of Western Australia every supermarket uses a coin system but you can buy a token to use instead so you don’t get mobbed

>bad meat
>horrid produce
>cult-like propaganda posters everywhere
>awful customer service
>literal dogshit quality overall
>awkward checkout

I literally despise Aldi. The only thing that I enjoy is their cheap prices and decent cheeses. That's it. Fuck that store, I never want to enter another Aldi for as long as I live. I will gladly pay more to make sure my potatoes don't sprout within a couple days of purchase.

>>16967843
>potato sprouts
>plant potato
>get multiple potatoes

>>16966322
Only grocery store I've seen where your have to pay a deposit for the shopping cart like your at the airport.

>cheaper than any other store in my city
>better quality goods than half the stores in my city
>never crowded
>never buskers or beggars outside

>>16966310
Suburban is still generally poor. The average American for instance makes almost 40,000 a year but doesn't have 500 dollars for an emergency saved up because they can't afford to save money.

>>16967892
You get the quarter back

>>16968104
>>never crowded
>>never buskers or beggars outside
Exact opposite for me
It's the poor person grocery store, they've been in my city since I was a kid and it's always been that way
Lidl is more upscale but still tons of third worlders

>>16967892
Thats how europe does it retard

>>16966264
It's nasty and full of goddamned poor people

>>16967892
All grocery stores in the USA shoukd do the same

>>16968104
It's never crowded at mine either but every time I'm in the store, they only have one register open so the line stretches into the aisle.

>>16966264
euro food markets make me think of globohomo and i will not eat the bugs

Wagies should stand when servicing the customer. It's more respectful.

>>16966264
I hate Italians

>>16966264
The Aldi I went to in america was like stepping into India. All of the shoppers were indian women, blacks, or meth addicts. The store was trashed, stuff people had picked up and put down just lying all across the dirty floor. It's like they just plop down palletes of stuff in the store aisles and people just take stuff to the register. The indian women were buying crates full of sparkly garbage

>>16966373
That's admirable.

surprisingly, the conditions found in a grocery store varies dramatically depending on your location, even if that grocery store is part of a chain.

>>16968925
Booming old fuck

>>16966264
>charging rent for a got damn grocery cart

>>16966506
lmao living in America and lmao at having to have three jobs just to survive

>>16966626
>>16966624
*they'res

>>16966734
>Americans are so fat they can't bag their own shit, yet get mad when the cashier sits
Truly Clownland

>>16966264
>Why do some of you not like aldi?
No branches in my state (Nevada)

>>16967892
Yeah, it's ingenious.

lack of self-service machines and tills located right next to the aisles making the queues a constantly cramped and confusing shitshow are the only thing about them that really annoy me
their bread is pretty meh too

>>16966466
I want to agree with you but then I bought a bulk case of walmart eggs once and I didn't think they made eggs with eggshells that thin and brittle.

>>16967892
You can walk in and ask to borrow a quarter in the US.
You can also just grab one of the empty display boxes from the box cart they have lying around and put your groceries in that and walk out with it like they do at costco.

>>16966811
Most shops in my area of Australia used coin trolleys. Then one day randomly half of the didn't. I enjoy not having to fish out a $1 or $2 coin and I try to go to the woolies and Coles that don't have them, so I agree it sucks dick.

>>16966437
>lazy bums want to SIT DOWN on the job?
>fuck walking 10 feet to return my cart!

>>16967749
In my part of the USA they just opened a LIDL. It is a hair pricier but a lot more content and actually exclusive products (imports mainly).
Also I really can't relate with all these people saying Aldi (or Lidl) is just as a expensive at their scale as other grocery stores. I assume some places I've never been to are competitive though, like ShopRite.

>>16969291
Their round sourdough is the best around here, but that's also because there is no fucking bakery around to compete.
In reality I could make better myself, but clearly I can't be arsed lol.

>>16966980
>t. Has never set a foot in an austrian Aldi/Hofer
They usully have the best quality goods at cheap prices alongside even cheaper discount products. Also the company's organic line is incredible. I get a kilo of organically grown zucchini for €1,19 and pretty much the same goes for other fresh vegetales. If it weren't for its limited sortiment and seasonal offers it would be the ideal store.

>>16966264
It's close to me and i can pick up all the basics at a decent price. Plus i really like theyre spicy pork rinds they are really good.

>>16966270
fpbp
going into aldi makes me lose faith in humanity because everyone is poor and ugly, but I live in england so that's nearly everywhere

>>16966264
In eastern europe lidl is the best chain to have around. It's cheaper than the competition and a lot of their store brand shit is pretty damn good especially for the price. It's only for a select few things they don't carry at all that you'd have to go elsewhere.

>>16969474
>going into aldi makes me lose faith in humanity because everyone is poor and ugly
>everyone
That also includes you

>>16966270
They cut costs by not having bags, and thus not needing more staff to bag groceries for you; by not having a fancy store layout, no frills.
Has nothing to do with poor.

>>16966264
Too many niggers, and spics

>>16968176
No you don't, unless you walk your cart back to the store like an animal. Fuck that. They should pay people to get the carts like a normal store.

>>16966264
my dad won't stop buying all the shit at LIDL. It's like ADHD heaven.
>weird pictures on all the store brands so they appeal to his sense of "new" despite being majority worse products
>they have a "bakery" that makes shit tier bread and remains unstaffed all day but he sees it and gets excited for some reason
>the useless shit aisle they have down the middle full of chintzy products that nobody in their right mind should buy but he does for some godforsaken reason (WE ALREADY HAD 3 WAFFLE IRONS AND 2 OF THEM ARE ACTUALLY GOOD, WHY DID YOU BUY THE RED ONE, DAD?)
>their wine selection is ok but he buys the 6 dollar bottle despite us having really fucking nice wine at home
look man I'm no snob but we absolutely do not need this shit
To clarify, I don't live at home. When I visit, and there's 6 different types of LIDL tomato sauce in the pantry, I just start getting a little frustrated.

>>16967300
>>16967205
fuck the both of you
God I hate Maryland and the Beltway. I hate it so much

Here is my take on it ...

>go to sainsburys
holy fuck why did it come to £110 I literally got two bags of shit. Who the fuck shops here it seems run down and like on the verge of collapse.

>go to morrisons
holy fuck why did it come to £110 I ... ok yeah I got loads of random bullshit, the place is pie city. It is filled with aspirational white people of a certain age.

>go to asda
holy fuck why did it come to £300 ... oh yeah I bought a bunch of clothes and some cookware jesus this place is the size of an airport. It is filled with fat white unemployed thicko scumbag cunts.

>go to tesco
holy shit two weeks worth of food cost me £110 yeah fair ok some is ok, a lot is not great. Ruled by large affluent asian families pushing three trollies and blocking off the reduced to clear two hours early.

>go to aldi
two weeks of food cost £65 and I am going to eat like a polish day labourer every day because all I got were staples. Some stuff is good, some not so good. The wine range is good and tightly focused. Filled with homeless looking ethnics, people who smell like shit, alcoholics, really busy and feels like I'll catch TB.

>go to lidl
Like aldi but I spend more because they have a large range of random weird items and stuff like frozen lobster which I buy out of boredom with the rest of the range. Different stuff is good and bad compared to aldi. The packaging is all heavy duty/thick seems wasteful. Not as busy as aldi, but maybe not as good. The wine range is sprawling and clumsy, who the fuck need four different types of sub £5 SA chenin blanc to chose from, the whole place feels a little weird in terms of choice of offering, sporadic basic goods (for here) but 25 types of luxury belgian biscuits. One instant coffee but 6 types of fresh whole beans. Weird bakery/patisserie section. 8 different craft gins but one basic one. Feels a bit like a shit morrisons in places. The place isn't very busy and seems to mostly be clean and presentable white working poor.

>>16969431
>falling for the organic jew

lmao

>>16967111
>landed themselves into 75% too much home simple

wdhmbt?

>>16966270
imagine burning money on INGREDIENTS when you don't need to, incredibly cukes mentality

>>16967892
shopping carts are the borderline that separate normal people and subhumans, also love the exchange of trading carts with people for a coin

>>16971515
Over extended themselves on the costs of home ownership moron. Many people see a minor salary raise as 'moving up to the big leagues' and they get a newer car and a bigger more aspirational house and between repayments and higher taxes they are suddenly poorer than ever before.

>>16970781
No, you should get off your fat american are and put the cart back yourself. You lazy fu.cks need to burn the calories. Plus, that is normal in other grocery stores around the world. Get with the program fatty

>>16972388
*fat American ass
*lazy fucks

>>16967079
>Nah America is a huge place. The shit hole parts run rampant with homeless are small parts densely concentrated around the urban areas that have long been controlled by the current presidents political party.

this

far-left anti-capitalist socialists create a mess than say it's capitalism...

their con is working less but going strong after 300 years...

>>16966264

I been into Aldi's a couple of times and I wasn't really impressed. Compared to other stores in my area, they were comparable in cost bit without the selection. What is worse is places like h-e-b will kill them on produce, so I am not sure how they are supposed to make inroads at least in texas.

>>16966264
I hate it because they're not in Canada.

>>16967079
DESIGNATED
HOMELESS
STREETS

>USA - still a relevant superpower

>>16967196
Any store can be referred to with a possessive "s", like Jewel's or Meijer's. Are you ESL?

>>16971540
>cukes mentality

Aldi's NUTZ

>>16973065
>Aldi's
>'s

>>16973238
>Starbucks's

>>16970856
go back to Richmond

>>16966264
its like im on supermarket sweet everytime im in the cashier line

>>16967020
i love aldi because i love the checkout experience and they dont play dogshit music in the stores and the temperature is never too hot or too cold, its also usually pretty open plan like they dont have these massive floor to ceiling shelves and it doesnt feel claustrophobic, also there is only like 2-4 people working in an aldi at any given time, whereas other stores will have like 20-40 people always stacking shelves so they always look full. aldi is just super efficient. and it helps with my autism and anxiety when shopping, going to any other shop gives me a panic attack and i feel like im going to faint.

>>16967843
>bad meat
store/country/state dependent
>horrid produce
store/country/state dependent
>cult-like propaganda posters everywhere
store/country/state dependent
>awful customer service
store/country/state dependent
>literal dogshit quality overall
store/country/state dependent
>awkward checkout
filtered.

>>16968273
1 good aldi worker is worth 10 workers at any other store. also everyone at aldi is trained to do every job and can be called from any position to do any job at a moments notice, like if they need to quickly move people through the checkout then 1 or 2 members can just drop what they are doing and blast through customers in like 10 minutes and then go back to what they were doing.

>>16968925
i dont give a fuck about respect i care about how much my shit costs and how fast i can get in and get out.

>>16969291
>lack of self-service machines
good those things break so often they have to employ a person to constantly stand there to fix the problem(which is constantly)

>>16966264
moldy strawberriest shit meat stupid appliances rude employees who hate the trolly people fuck you you dumb cunt AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

>>16970847
>the useless shit aisle they have down the middle full of chintzy products that nobody in their right mind should buy but he does for some godforsaken reason (WE ALREADY HAD 3 WAFFLE IRONS AND 2 OF THEM ARE ACTUALLY GOOD, WHY DID YOU BUY THE RED ONE, DAD?)

i would say this is my only problem with aldi, but obviously its profitable so i dont blame them, but i did just buy stand fan with a remote for my mum and she loves it so christmas is sorted. but yeh the rule for aldi is only buy food never buy any kind of machine or electrical device because there is a 99% chance its fucking worthless trash.

I went from shopping at Publix to Aldi and the prices at Aldi for meats and cheeses is literally half the price. How do they do it?

>>16973484
I won't have to, you people are moving down here more and more each day
the beltway expands, it must CONSUME

>>16973633
I'd rather not even know, but I'm gonna keep eating it

>>16973633
publix is an expensive grocer for most things.

>>16973484
>richmond
>already ruined by VCU trannies and out of state hipsters from NOVA
no thank you

It's the same produce as the other stores in your area. Source: used to be a produce buyer and the buyer from aldi would stand right next to me and buy the same shit to load on to his truck that I was loading for my fancy overpriced grocery store. But none of you understand how the fresh produce market works anyway so you assume for some reason that one store is buying nice broccoli and another is buying cheap broccoli when it all comes from the same distribution terminal.

>>16967137
Article obviously paid for by a competitor.

>>16966264
haven't been to an Aldi in a few years due to living closer to another grocery store now but I never had any issue with it. the food is all acceptable quality at good prices.

>>16966373
Unbelievably based

>>16966373
Have you actually looked? Almost everything they sell in Australia is Australian. There are manufacturers in Australia relying entirely on their contract with Aldi.

>>16966264
>disorganized mess; hard as fuck to find anything
>"I'll take your cart for this quarter!"
>have to pay for bags
yeah, I'll just stick to the white man's supermarket

>>16966264
Because it's fifteen minutes walk away. Fuck you Aldi, I used to buy your cheap gin all the time! FUCK YOU FUCK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

>>16966310
Anon I don't know how to tell you this but aldi are literally an icon of the working class, and I guess the lower middle class too nowadays. It's like asking "what makes you say waitrose is for rich people?". Besides, most suburbs are working class or lower middle class suburbs.

>>16967111
No upper middle class people shop in fucking aldi you retard

>>16966264
That's pretty clear you britfag, I'm American and I don't suck donkey cock like you eurofags do.

>>16966676
Bullshit, what crap newspaper are you reading from? Kroger/Price Chopper is 500% more expensive than a simple dollar general. You have to be absolutely stupid if you don't see that.

>>16966980
>recause it's new
retard

>>16973469
hahaha, faggots standing in line for their coffee.

>>16975350
faggots standing in line for some stupid coffee isn't new you dumb cunt

>>16971563
I'm there to buy what I need, not to do their job for them. They are providing the service, I am the customer. If they want me to serve them, they can come to my business.

>>16966264
I do like Aldi, but prefer Lidl for most of my groceries.

>>16966264
It's Lidl for poor smelly brown people

>>16973469
It's already starbuck's you mong

>>16966270
It’s a mid tier store in America much nicer than Walmart or food lion. I think it’s like how American fast food is better in Japan.

>>16967261
>European Christmas sweets
No such thing, flyover.

>>16966264
uk fag here
i work there

Because I'm a Lidlchad

>>16966264
I am an extremely picky eater and can't handle the slightest difference in taste in my groceries. I can't be happy with knock off anything; generic brands are okay, but I can't handle intentional dupes of name brands. Aldi and Lidl are full of these knock-offs and dupes, and therefore, I don't like the items I can get there. When it comes to produce it's pretty hit or miss. Usually when I get produce at Aldi it's either already bad or goes bad within 24 hours so I really have to cook it right away.

>>16966264
no self service check outs

>>16977033
The cashiers are pretty fast usually

>>16966322
I don't like the cart dance or either depositing for one or trading with a person on the way in and out. I don't like having to shove my groceries in discarded packing stuff either. I'd rather pay a bit more at a normal grocery store with baggers and cart jockeys.

>>16976176
I just got some Stollen and Panettone from my Aldi.

>>16970856
Listen, I wish I could destroy DC and Baltimore too, but I can't.

>>16977365
A story I tell over and over is when I lived in Baltimore and visited Johns Hopkins. The humorous effect of this beautiful campus, filled with old buildings and rolling greens and then BAM, a metal fence and then you're in Baltimore baby, nothing but liquor stores on fire or being robbed or both.

I hated living there. Also introduced me to Food Lion, the worst grocery store. And for those in the know, we commiserate over the fact that I actually lived in Dundalk and can thus talk of the poop towers of legend.

>>16977365
>>16970856
greetings from Arlington brah

>>16977379
>>16977377
I grew up in Howard Country, I hate niggers and people who work in DC so much

>>16977377
hopkins is a dystopia. Just a bizarre little rich world inside fucking baltimore of all places.

honestly though fuck food lion, worst grocery store I've ever been in hands down.

>starts a thread about aldi

>everyone instead argues about minorities.

jesus christ, you americans are literally obsessed with race. rent free.

>>16967020
>>16977270

Glad to see some /an/ browsers.

As for OP, I've never been to one. The closest one to me is a few hundred miles.

>>16966506
Sorry anon, I’m so sorry for not standing and smiling while I get fucked in the ass

>>16972441
>muh socialism boogieman

Nobody believes your lies anymore schlomo

>>16977691
nevr4get

>>16978051
You're a basil cunt fuck you.

Don't trust the meat tbqh

>>16978113
have a spoonful of your ethnic food Ellisyn

>>16978177
Hark! Here be a schitzo. Beware ye.

>>16966264
I went there today don't really hate it.

>bought their broccoli
>washed and chopped it up I see a small thing wiggling on the plate
>caterpillar same color as the broccoli drowning in the water droplets.
>proceeded to throw it out and wasted a good $6 $7 dollars on food
>can't eat broccoli until that picture gets out of my head.

I bought spinach from there and am hoping for a different experience.

>>16976052
>>16973238

I'm allowed to refer to any store with a possessive s

>>16978456
>buying non frozen fruit or vegetables at any supermarket
wtf is wrong with you? do you not have a fresh produce store run by an italian family for generations located near you?

>>16966264
never seen one in my life

>>16973590
>they have to employ a person to constantly stand there to fix the problem(which is constantly)
Sounds like my last job at a factory.
>run 7 machines alone
>get one running and move to the next
>have to fix it then on to the next one
>fix it and the first two have already stopped again
>continue doing this 12hrs a day 7 days a week
>boss: we're going to need you to step it up you're not hitting your numbers
>quit after two months mid shift without saying a word

>>16966662
dumb wagie slammed my milk into the cart so hard it exploded and got milk all over the cart and floor

>>16975294
at least your state allows them to sell alcohol. only grocery store here that sells alcohol is kroger and they had to build a separate partition of the store that you can only access by going back outside to get to that door.

>>16978757
Being a greasy neckbeard that never leaves the basement will do that.

>>16978825
i just checked, the nearest one is 10 hours away

>>16978825
>Being this proud of having an Aldi's

Yucko. I'd rather have a superior Trader Joe's where you don't have to pay for a cart, they bag groceries for you AND they have enough staff working there.

>>16978799
checked and based. another reason why i hate the self service machines is they are built in such a way where you pretty much have to be a robot(or npc) to use them correctly without them breaking. they are machines built by machines for machines. fucking soulless junk.

>>16978893
All the shit that's wrong with grocery stores is why I just started paying my mom to get groceries for me. She likes to shop around, and she knows every fucking body so it's her time to socialize, she makes a little extra cash, and I don't have to put up with bullshit. I only ever go when I'm going to make chili or something, because I like to pick the meats and peppers myself, as I take making chili way too seriously.

>>16978903
im a carer for my mum so its my job to go out and do shit for her(us) like shop but she also needs to keep fit so we walk to the shops and shop together and we only shop at aldi, sometimes she needs stuff that is only available at one of the other stores that i fucking hate so i will just wait outside while she goes in and gets it quickly.

>>16978806
If supermarkets couldn't sell alcohol the entire country would plummet into chaos and sobriety. The government would never do something so suicidal.

>>16976176
Everything about Christmas is European, except for the corrupted Coca Cola Santa.

>>16979481
Something like 70% of this state is still "dry." No booze in grocery stores, but beer is okay. Only two cities allow alcohol sales on Sunday, and only for a few hours in the afternoon. Heart disease, diabetes, and complications from oral infections are the top three killers here, yet the state consumes twice as much Mt. Dew as they do water. But like, we've got guns and it's okay to say nigger in public still, so everybody's pretty happy.

>>16979495
Sounds like hell. I remember being in Norway and being shocked that they don't let you buy alcohol after 6pm. Here it's very common for supermarkets to be packed at 10pm with people buying bottles of the cheapest rum and vodka. I have zero planning skills and would die where you live.

>>16979533
>Sounds like hell
It really is. There's a small town about 15 miles from where I live that took a vote a few years ago. Damn near the whole town voted to allow alcohol sales for the first time ever. Despite that fact, more than half the town showed up every day with bibles at the one liquor store to protest and shame anyone that dared to go in and buy anything. At the time I was working at a liquor store in my town, and the people from there would still drive here to buy alcohol and take it home so that the neighbors wouldn't see. Now mind you, everyone under 60yo in that county is addicted to meth, pain pills, and heroin. Lucky for me I'm in one of the better parts, university town, alcohol sales except on Sunday, but there's a city another 15 or so miles from here that sells on Sunday if you don't plan ahead, and the drug addicts we do have mostly keep to themselves in their shitty rural ghettos.