Aldi

Those 99 cent Girl Scout cookie knock off marinated mozzerella Knock off chick fila patties Knock if Ben and Jerry’s. - I like better than real Ben and jerry

Do not buy the sushi ever! It’s not even edible!

The Almost-Lesbian cream pies are delicious.

All cream pies are delicious.

What’s Aldi? Never heard of it.

Choceur Peanut Butter Cups

The 85% Dark Chocolate-The Aldi brand.

I don't know exactly what it is called, but it's frozen chicken in a bag. lightly-breaded chicken breast with Italian herbs and parmesean or something like that. You bake it in the oven. It's around $5/bag and one person can make 3-5 meals with it.

Their Belle Vie carbonated water is as good or better than LA Croix, and quite a bit cheaper.

Vegetables are pretty cheap there. You can usually get a 3-4 pack of zucchini for less than $1.50. I live near newer, high-traffic Aldi stores and produce freshness hasn't been an issue at the stores near me, although it seems to be a problem at some stores I've read about here.

Don't go on a Sunday, the shelves are bare.

7Up Cake

Chocolate Chip Brioche Loaf

Pizzelles (Anise flavor)

Simply Nature White Cheddar Puffs

The eggs are usually 50 cents a dozen and way better than the tasteless ones at Kroger and Meijer. Smoked gouda slices. Heavy cream half the grocery price. Giretto Pinot Grigio is really good for five bucks. Their hams are good. They recently added their own version of Smartfood and it's delicious at less than half the price. The big bags of restaurant style tortilla chips are excellent, though On the Border are still my fave.

Aldi buys from the same manufacturers as everyone else. You can see that their 'generic products' have the same size packaging but is printed with different words and colours.

Their new Colombian coffee is good.

They have their own brand of low carb bread that's identical to the Schmidt 647 brand, but half the price. I love their cheeses, white cheddar with cranberries yum. I like the random stuff too. I got a cast iron griddle plate for $20 and a mini Dutch oven for about the same price, quality of both is great.

As long as you're flexible brand wise, you save a lot by shopping there without losing quality.

I like eggs, dairy (hald&half, heavy cream), cheese, winking owl wine ($2.99 I cook with it, but it's drinkable), the g.s. cookie knockoffs, flour, sugar, baking spray (Pam knockoff).

In Australia they have quite a good organic range with soy milk, pasta, canned tomatoes...

I’m in love with the knopper wafers

Diet Coke 99 cent 2L.

Their own brand Nespresso pods are good and it gives me a special thrill to be filling my aspirational lifestyle coffee machine with something so cheap.

r4 must be new here.

r17 they sell nespresso pods?? I never looked.

Aldi has been promising to open a store in my city for over 2 years now. A newspaper story said the building permit said they'd start construction in Oct '18, to be completed by end of 1st Q '19. The location happens to be 3/4 mi from where I live, and the empty lot is still there, no sign of anything going on.

I'd be more excited about an Lidl opening in my area than an Aldi. I do like Aldi but Lidl seems to sell products that are higher in quality than Aldi.

R21, our Lidl has amazing bread.

Their Keurig pods are normally cheaper than anywhere else I can find. Their 70% dark chocolate bars are also larger and significantly cheaper than the Ghiradelli ones at my normal grocery, and my chocolate connoisseur husband says they are just as good.

I love to put kuerig pods in my ass

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mattresses

Does the use of a cart still cost a quarter at Aldi?

R21 Lidl is 100x better than Aldi. Their stores are actually nice and you don't feel like you are shopping in a dark backstreet warehouse. Their fresh vegetables are nicer and they have bakeries. And, you don't have to put a quarter in the shopping cart to use it.

It doesn't cost you a quarter, R27. It's a deposit. You get it back when you return the cart.

If you live in a state that permits wine sales in grocery stores, then you can get perfectly acceptable cooking wine at Aldi for $3. But if you don't live in such a state, you probably don't need Aldi at all.

Lidl is in trouble in the US market. Americans are not shopping with them. The biggest complain is store locations. And why are the only on the East coast? Odd.

Lidl is slowly expanding up the East coast. They bought a chain of supermarkets on long island that will be converted to Lidl stores.

R30 It is easier to start in one geographic area and then expand. It is how most retailers, especially grocery stores develop.

Aldis are quite off putting.

R29 Being from South Carolina, I fully expect to not be able to buy liquor in grocery stores, but until your post I didn't realize there are states where you can't buy wine in a grocery store. That seems very backwards, thankfully this is one time we aren't the backward ones.

New York and Connecticut it's illegal to sell Liquor in a food store.

r29 You can get Two-Buck Chuck at Trader Joe's for the same price.

Our Aldi's in Sydney are great. Their day and night facial serums and night serums are amazing value. Have been using them for years. Love their meat and dairy, fresh and frozen foods. It's only an issue if you would like something in particular that they don't stock, but majority of the selection is quite good and has improved over the years. I'm a sucker for German/European cookies and specialties, especially around Christmas time.

*night creams I meant

That may be correct, R36, but only in the same states where you can buy Aldi's Winking Owl label. You're either all in on this one, or all out.

In any event, this is not a thread about what you can buy at Trader Joe.

I was shopping at Aldi a lot earlier this year but stopped after the third time in a row that they were out of the 3 or 4 things I went for - they're terrible about restocking.

R37 read the ingredients. The "German/European cookies and specialties" are garbage products. The chocolate is better, though.

Lidl will probably fail.

Lacura Caviar Skincare!! It’s basically La Prairie

The Aldi version of Golden Grahams and Wheat Thins. My friend buys out their sweet potato chips whenever she goes. She also likes the goat cheese and pear flatbread pizza. Someone upthread mentioned some kind of frozen chicken. I bought a bag of the panko-crusted breasts for $9. Absolutely delicious and the bag was huge! Haven't been able to find them since. Ugh to that. I am a total Aldi nerd.

R4 discount grocery store. Started after WWII IinnGetmany by a the Albrecht brothers. Came to USA a while back. Building everywhere. The Albrecht boy’s own Trader Joe’s. Probably war criminals.

Well goddamn, where doth a woke shopper such as R45 shop, then? Do you always trace the history four generations back when deciding where to shop?

I guess we all have our own special interests. I like that Aldi charges people for plastic bags (and as such, most of the shoppers at my Aldi bring their own or use a box). They're going to phase out a lot of their unnecessary plastics in the next year or two. Many of their packages are labeled as to which parts of the packaging are recyclable and what needs to go in the trash. I don't see this done as often in other stores. And I like that they pay a relatively decent wage. The fact that they're cheap is the icing on the cake-- I don't need to spend $8 on a loaf of brioche just to show I care.

I am German, bitches!

R47 halt den Mund, du bist hier nicht der Einzige.

"List your favorite finds."

The exit.

Southern Grove dry roasted honey peanuts.

R48, good one!

R48 Warum bist du so gemein?! Ich hab' dir nichts getan :-(

weil du eine Schlampe bist

R53 Ich bin noch Jungfrau!

R52 OK OK sorry hab mich von dem rüden Ton bei DL anstecken lassen. Aber wir kriegen hier keine Extrapunkte nur weil wir aus dem Mutterland von Aldi und Lidl sind... 😘

R51 It does not just sound that way ... also for you 😘

Nun, ich habe noch nie in meinem Leben!

R55 Von wo bist du her? Ich bin aus Bayern!

R49 wins.

R57 Berlin

MÄDCHEN! MÄDCHEN! MÄDCHEN!

I have found that the produce at Aldi and Lidl rots very quickly. However the diary and deli meats are good deals. Jarred and canned items are well priced. Nuts, seeds. Some household items. Juice and bottled water. Bread. They import specialty items for limited runs that are hit or miss but at least add variety to the shopping cart. I don't buy the wine, any I have tried is mediocre and averagely priced. I like looking at the JUNK aisles, which frankly remind me of dime stores and dollar stores of old. Where else to buy ping pong paddles, citronella candles, or snorkel fins, for a song? 10 years ago I would buy some sportswear specials at fair prices. Synthetic but functional crap one does not need to pay designer prices.

Their parmesan cheese in the container on the shelf is strangely flavored grit with no resemblance to cheese.

If there are two cashiers working when you walk in the door, there will be one by the time you are in line, regardless of time spent.

Fuck them, they discontinued their sugar free coffee creamer which was better and cheaper than the name brands. Since they remodeled their stores the quality has definitely gone down.

This was nearly 20 years ago, but upon moving into my first apartment, I literally bought my entertainment center there, lol. I was initially put off by how "cold" and "uninviting" the stores were relative to the other grocery chains around here, but it eventually grew on me. I like that it's streamlined so you can get in and get out - the cashiers don't fuck around either, they're fast as hell. There is actually a sense of urgency to get people rang up and out of the line right away. It's not a place for passive aggressive bitches to shop, hem haw around, block aisles, bring all their brats along with them to bother everyone, chat on their phones the whole time, and peruse.

I went to Aldi for the first time today. What a depressing shithole. There was one register open and lots of sad looking products for sale. I bought a sponge so I could get some cash. It took forever because I had to wait in line behind the typical assortment of old people and fat women with children. There was nothing magical about it. It's like a cross between Trader Joe's and Fiesta (Mexican grocery store).

ANY German company today that was around in world war two has NAZI connections. The company that owns PEETS coffee used slave labor during ww 2.

They have recently added Parmesan cheese crisps. Very much like “Whisps” if you have those in your area. They have zero carbs and are DELICIOUS. Especially the jalapeño version. I also vote for their bagged Cesar salads. The dressing is shockingly good for being so inexpensive.

I probably wrote this earlier but my father loves the Moser Roth 85% Dark Chocolate.

The frozen pork schnitzels are AMAZING. I can't find anything like them anywhere else.

Good: flavored coffee, frozen ice cream treats, cereals, snack bars, package rice etc., chicken, nuts, some produce, chocolate, cheese, meats, frozen potatoes and vegetable, Clancy brand snacks, Crofton kitchen stuff, Lacura personal care and some wines.

Not so good: some produce, clothing, hanging basket plants.

R67 how does a "crisp" have zero carbs??? There are only 4 sources of calories - fat, carb, protein and alcohol. So what is in those "crisps"?

R71 I’m so glad you asked! Parmesan Cheese.

Thank you. Ok I have egg on my face. How do they make a crisp out of cheese and no carbs. I'll have to try this miracle food!

r73 You can make your own quite easily -- they're called "frico" in Italian.

R73 I used to make my own using finely pre shredded cheddar from ALDI! You need a non stick skillet and cheese.

No. The Aldi Brothers are not war criminals. For that they are mich to young. Remember WW II ended 1945, 74 years ago. So the youngest fighting on each side during that war are mostly dead.

Theodor "Theo" Albrecht and his brother started 1948 with a very small local grocery store which based on her mothers heritage bakery with a new business. They struggled many times, also cause serviced groceries dies. The reinvented themselves many times.

And finally they got the idea to sell their goods literally right away from the delivery trucks. This was ALDI shops looked like until the very late 90's.

R46. R45 here. Not 4 generations back. Current. The Albrecht boys are still very much alive and in charge, but elderly. They were Wehrmacht and the Wehrmacht we’re responsible for war atrocities

Did you hear that? Aldi is cancelled. In fact, Germany is cancelled and will now be split between Poland, Belgium, and France. Or handed over entirely to the Swiss. Oh, wait. Switzerland has been cancelled! Nazi gold.

R76 WHERMACHT!!!!!!

I picked up this cut fruit bowl yesterday. I make a lot of fruit salads in the summer; this keeps them from sitting in the juices and getting soggy. Only $6.99!

For all of your manscaping needs.

R77 The old Albrecht brothers are both dead. Theo died in 2010 and Albrecht in 2014. And nope - simply being German in the 1930s and 1940s doesn't equal being a Nazi!

I got one of these to replace one that didn't have a see-through dispenser. $4.99.

Ugh. Poors.

No, dear. I'm sure my net worth far exceeds yours. But I'm not into wasting money.

Buying Made in China plastic CRAP at Aldi is wasting money. A "cut fruit bowl" should NOT exist. Cut fruit belongs IN its juice to prevent oxidation, browning.. Why gee, you might even toss in a bit of sugar and Campari! Heaven. Keep it in a vintage pyrex bowl, you twatty shill!