Yeah, I just don’t want to have to do research to understand WTF a poster is talking about.
They also carry “Bellini” type drink. I think it’s made in Germany.
Q.E.D. indeed ( I had to look that up✌🏼)
GR also known as beer city love me some Founders Dirty Bastard.
Not a fan of membership stores like sams and Costco Aldis would be a good choice for me.
It’s cool… I’ll get off your lawn.
Yeah, I guess I’m just not hip to all these area codes that the kids are talking about nowadays.
I would have once put Aldi alongside Save-a-Lot but I now feel they’re aiming for a different market. I feel that Aldi is aiming to sell quality food but is doing everything else to offer the lowest prices. Whereas stores like Save-a-Lot and Price Rite aim at having the lowest prices. So I feel you may pay less at Save-a-Lot or Price Rite but the food you get might not be as good.
For a long time, I bought string cheese at Aldi. Then one day, they didn’t have what I was looking for. They had string cheese but the package was different. Hmm. I got a package and took it home. It was ok but it was different. I ended up switching to Kroger.
I think they switched suppliers and gave their customers a heads up by switching the packaging.
Save-A-Lot may slap labels on whatever suppliers give them. One day you’re getting Kraft defects; another time it might be Cracker Barrel cheese that wasn’t up to snuff. Still other times, just some small local label produced something on the cheap. But Aldi’s store brand is more consistent, produced for them. Mrs. L and I are nerds for Aldi so we have to hunt them down when we travel. It’s very consistent stuff, although what they offer varies some by location.
Speaking of which, did you know that Aldi in Europe carries hard alcohol?
Then there’s this.
Does…Aldi in the United States not? Not a wide selection, but some things, don’t they?
They draw the line at liqueurs. Wine, beer, cider and something aimed at Bailey’s etc. But no straight gin or vodka etc.
Ah, I see. Thanks.
Yeah. They’re like the Big Lots of grocery stores. It’s not a bad thing, but it’s also not always great.
I’m surprised that people are mentioning milk. A few years ago they had cheap milk, but the past four years or so it’s more expensive than the bigger grocery stores. Last time I bought milk it was $2.39 for a gallon. When I was in Aldi’s over the weekend they their gallon of milk was $2.99.
@Mahaloth, I think there are different types of liquor licenses. When you get into hard stuff, they get stricter. If you can’t buy whiskey at a gas station, how about whiskey flavored wine? Actually I liked the cinnamon stuff shown here.
Aldi probably didn’t want to limit which locations they could be in, so in the US, none of the scotch that I’d heard was really good.
I haven’t noticed milk prices because we never buy it. For a lot of markets, that’s a loss leader. They are willing to lose money to attract customers. It’s in the back of the store so you have to walk past other things that you might buy.
Mrs. L sometimes gets Aldi’s half and half but I think Sam’s may have them beat on that one. They usually don’t have good prices on Diet Coke, either, and I go through plenty of it.
There are Facebook groups dedicated to Aldi. Some of the members are hardcore and will say, “I got everything at Aldi this week.” As much as I like a lot of their stuff, some of it doesn’t cut it for my tastes. I suspect they stock milk and Diet Coke for those people who won’t shop at multiple stores, but they aren’t able to keep the cost down.
Mrs. L and I generally don’t mind shopping and we typically go to Sam’s for vegetables, flowers, wine, yogurt, parmesan, frozen stuff (and, sniff once upon a time, a thing called “samples”). Aldi is for steak, chicken, turkey tenderloin, avocadoes, feta, goat cheese roll, pita crackers, brie, eggs (83 cents a dozen IIRC), egg substitute, turkey pepperoni, parmesan crisps, frozen breakfast, non cola sodas and of course the Aisle of Shame. Kroger is Canadian Bacon, jicama, string cheese, Power Ade Zero, name brands, whatever we don’t get at the others, what’s on sale, and Diet Coke.
Why we buy what we buy where we buy it? It’s a better product or a better deal; or maybe we have no choice. We can only get Power Ade Zero at Kroger. Sweet potatoes, on the other hand? They’re about the same at all three. We go through at least 5 lbs a week, stuffing dog bones.
PS-I meant to say yes, it’s disappointing when you find a product you love and then it goes away. But they close one door and open a window. With such small stores, I guess the strategy is to rotate.
I remember when this low carb bread went into stores. People went NUTS trying to find it. They brought it back not long ago and it seems that those same people aren’t really interested in it now. Weird!
While we’re at it on beverages, Aldi’s house brand of tea, Benner, is… Well, it’s not the best you can get in the US. But it’s a good, solid quality, certainly better than market leaders Lipton and Tetley, and it’s about a third of the price of any other brand.
@lobotomyboy63. my mom is like your family, in that she has about a half-dozen different grocery stores she’ll shop at, depending on what’s on sale where… but her grocery shopping still ends up being about 90% Aldi, because she can get most of what she needs there, and it’s almost always cheaper than elsewhere.
Are you sure it was not the organic milk that was $2.99? Mine has been set at $1.39 the entire quarantine time. Before that, it fluctuated from as low as $1.29 up to a high of $1.79.
Milk at Meijer is almost always $2-$2.79. Walmart, as I said, price matches Aldi.
Unless they’ve switched to selling only organic milk, yes.
As opposed to inorganic milk?
On the flip side, I once bought a bottle of holiday “chocolate wine” from them that was one of the worst things I’ve ever had. It tasted like someone dumped a package of Swiss Miss into a bottle of MD 20/20 and shook.
I have no idea what point you are trying to make.
Um… neither do I? I guess it was a lame attempt at a joke over the two meanings of “organic.”
Right. They do carry a few gallons of organic milk at my Aldi that actually do go for $2.99.
A few summers ago, they set the regular milk to $1.49 and put a big sign out advertising it would stay that way all summer.