I'm about to make my first Aldi trip EVER

Ok, so it’s definitely hit or miss. They follow a European, not American ethic about food. I found certain things go bad quickly like milk because it’s not treated with chemicals the same way.

Fruit and vegetables are great and fresh. Certain meats are “ok”. You don’t need to worry about freshness because they move a LOT of inventory.

The cheese, yogurt and prepared mixtures like hummus are meh. The cheese when melted turned into oils, yogurt was chalky, and the bread was not high quality.

Be willing to experiment, but if you have a discerning husband like me, be prepared they won’t like it!

My favorites may not be yours but the thing to realize is that like TJ's, you can get a lot of stuff there, but maybe not everything.

Like TJ's, they have suppliers manufacturing items for them - probably 90 percent of the items they sell are their own brands, but you can find brand names here and there - sometimes in the cooler items (I just found a favorite Bolthouse Farm smoothie there), snacks, and in the "promotional sale" aisle.

We get some produce there (some is very good), things from the dairy aisle (almond milk, butter, whipped cream) and things from the cooler aisle.

Many of the Aldi store brand products are absolute crap. Others of them are fine. It's nonsensical. The almond milk is good. Tofu is good. Potato and tortilla chips are good, but crackers are disgusting.

Produce varies widely by store/geographic area. It's often so thoroughly encased in plastic that you can't tell if it's bad until you get it home, and it is often bad. Especially the broccoli.

Overall, Aldi has a shitty and depressing vibe, and I hate going there.

Not every Aldi is terrible but as Sylvia points out, some can be depressing.

We go to one that's pretty nicely maintained but some are nice and some are pretty ghetto and have that "shopping at Walmart, standing in line behind someone wearing underwear as pants" vibe.

I tried it twice here in NJ and, frankly, it’s a sad way to try to save money. You rummage around, fail at finding some items at all, and the quality of what you do find seems (and is) dubious. Paying is the peak moment: you can walk out of there thinking, “Nice. This all would’ve been $80 at my main supermarket and I only paid $50.”

But then you actually have to eat it. Sylvia is accurate at R3.

I’m sticking with my ShopRite/Trader Joe’s/Whole Foods trifecta.

Based on all the raves here about Aldi (in other older threads), having moved recently and gained access to an Aldi, we went shopping. What a dump. Seriously. Worse than Food Lion and that's a very low bar.

What am I missing? I see reading here that I'm not alone. R3's "shitty and depressing vibe" is a perfect description.

R6 (and OP) yeah. Aldi is not a place for “doing your food shopping” — at best, it’s a chance to pick up some random bargains if you enjoy slumming once in a while.

Reply 1 is absolute crap. Aldi is sourcing its milk locally so you are getting same American milk at that price point as any other shop. Aldi is quite good in Switzerland because they make a point to sell swiss products a the lowest price possible. If the egg is German and industrial, it is priced lower and then you get a German quality not a swiss egg. Rinse repeat for all products. If the frozen item is European industrial that I what you get. If the cheese is swiss you get swiss cheese quality. In the USA - if the product is made in USA, that's what you get. It's near going to be better than the low price point Aldi lives by.

R4 is right - it pays to go to the 'better' Aldi stores. The stores built from the 80s-90s definitely feel shabby, but many are being redone. A new store should be fine. Some of the older stores are just weird - they don't have the same products as other stores.

Not sure what you all are talking about regarding produce - the same produce trucks drop off at other national chains. Seriously.

I'd say around 80% are good or very good. Their frozen foods aren't great - but I don't buy much of that.

"The cheese when melted turned into oils, yogurt was chalky, and the bread was not high quality." - some Aldis have very large, good cheese selections. I've never had that experience. I buy full fat Greek yogurt and it's fine. Can't say the same for flavored yogurts - but that's usually crap anyway.

I don't buy bread usually - but it's not a bakery, so I'll admit their baked goods (all packaged) are limited and disappointing. But I'd argue they're around the same quality as pre-packaged baked items in other stores - stores without a bakery making items on premises.

If you're going in to the store to find fault - you will.

I think Aldi has some overlap with the Jewel/Albertsons folks. Aldi's based just outside of Chicago and some of the stuff they sell in store are items that are at Jewel/Safeway/Albertson stores.

Also, Aldi and Lidl often do NOT refrigerate their produce when it is out on the floor. LOOK carefully. My experience of produce from both shops is that it can go off quickly in the home. I mean an apple will be fine but more tender fruits and vegetables - good luck. I stopped buying. But they do offer top quality if the bother to SOURCE top quality and on those items you can save money. AOC cheeses and meats come from the region announced and therefore are good. As far as the aisled of temporarily stocked crap items, that is amusing. I like that sort of junk emporium treasure hunt. Sometimes. But it is a lot of crap. But you find treasures. Such as 100% German wool pillows, or weird chinese decor items that are both tacky and fabulous. They do have, very occasionally, some purposeful clothing items. I doubt any of these products make it to USA but if they do have a look. They have "featured nation" section which changes every few weeks and stocks a bunch of products from a nation which you wouldnt normally find on the shelf. So some of these products can be a break from routine and be enjoyable.

It's a great place to replenish standard pantry items. That's my take anyway. I like their cheese selection. Staples like bagged spinach, low sodium chicken stock, olive oils, flour/sugar, Greek yogurt...that's the kind of stuff I get from there. Mine is right next to my main grocery store (with connected parking lots) so it's not inconvenient to stop at both places when shopping.

If you are a fat whore who’re you might enjoy their chocolate selection as well as their faux Girl Scout cookies. The chocolate is usually from Germany.

Whore not who’re.

Aldi usually has the same blackberries/raspberries that other stores have for cheaper - I usually eat them within 2-3 days and have never had freshness issues with them.

Bananas look OK but they're always green, so I don't always buy them there.

be careful of the German cookies however. the German chocolate is fine. the German cookies can be the industrial kind filled with crap oils. yes germany does manufacture crap for their own poors.

yes the preserves and pickles and what not = good. but in Europe these are all european so what is on the shelf in USA? I find the xtra large capers there. LOVE THEM. and the caper juice is great to mix into a dressing for some bite.

Heres a typical Aldi cookie. This one made in Belgium. It's just the standard industrial product with palm and colza oil. Crap. Because there are German and Swiss and French and Belgium cookie manufacturers who use butter. Kambly for example. And you can buy Italian biscottis in a supermarket made with 5 ingredients including butter, and no seed oils, or you can buy industrial biscotti. Your choice. But don't get fooled that "made in europe" = quality.

I knew a woman who went to Aldi’s once. She’s dead now.

LOL R10 - actually that is true. My aunt followed one of the produce trucks after it left the Aldi store - she was retired and had time on her hands. Next stop - Jewel.

Jewel is a huge local grocery store in Chicago - owned by Albertsons.

TJ’s is owned by Aldi—the other Aldi, not the U.S. Aldi

I've found their produce to be quite good, actually. Same with dairy. I always get kefir there because it's half the price of everywhere else. The only thing that tends to disappoint me is their meat. The bread is pretty lackluster as well.

Mainly I like Aldi's because (a) they don't play terrible 80s music or bad pop hits (they don't have any music at all) and (b) my store is new and mostly self-checkout, which is much more efficient than waiting in line.

I've been trying to curb my habit of buying their cheesecake (two small slices for less than $2).

R22 - it really is a quick in and out experience.

What I like is that they don't stack more products in the MIDDLE OF THE AISLES! I don't know if they do this anywhere else, but so many aisles now have mini-stands that make it hard to get through. Even worse is when they are by very busy areas - dairy, meat, liquor. I don't get it - I've never looked at those crap-piles and changed my mind to buy something.

I understand the grocery stores get paid extra to have these stands, but they are such a nuisance and cause congestion. That's what your SHELVES are for.

Oy Gelson's they ain't.

More like Morton-Williams

Ir isn’t the best, but I love their products from Germany. I bought a blueberry jam from them once that was imported from Germany and I swear it was better than Bon maman

i am a cheap bastard and look forward to an aldi opening nearby

Is it like Lidl? I've been to Lidl and I hate it.

Look for their Deutsche Küche brand products. I've bought the most wonderful bratwurst from Dusseldorf (IIRC) as well as spicy brown mustard. Their imported cheeses are good, too.

God speed OP

What R12 and R29 wrote...Ditto.

I go there to buy German coffee. It's great

German coffee? Whats next, Swedish pasta?

R32, The Swedes do make wonderful meatballs....but that's a different (IKEA) thread.

The best thing about Aldi is that there are always surprises waiting.

Aldi Anal! On Aisle 8

[quote]TJ’s is owned by Aldi—the other Aldi, not the U.S. Aldi

Correct. Aldi US is owned by Aldi Sud (south); TJ's is owned by Aldi Nord (north.)

Interesting factoid: TJ's HQ is in Monrovia, CA, less than 100 yards from an Aldi store.

The Aldis in California are pretty nice, since they're all relatively new. I've heard that some stores are getting self-checkout, but none of the stores in my area have it -- which is actually fine with me, since fast checkout is one of Aldi's biggest advantages. Have you noticed that they print the UPC barcode on all sides of their products (store brands, obviously, which make up 90% of their inventory) so that they're easy to scan? The checkers are usually faster than the customers--i.e., it takes longer for the customer to unload the cart and pay than the checker takes to ring up the items. I get frustrated when I'm in line behind people who haven't figured out their system and take forever to pay. I use Google Wallet on my watch and am out of there in a flash.

The other big discount chain out this way is WinCo, and while they have a much larger selection than Aldi and are more like a traditional supermarket but with much lower prices, they don't take credit cards -- a huge dealbreaker for me. I want my cash back dollars!

That’s where it was founded…you’d expect its offices to be there.

R37 - Aldi Cali stores near me have self check-out. Not so great - most shoppers have carts full of stuff. And I think there's now a sign saying max 20 items for self-checkout. The checker lines go fast enough.

You're right - I did use self check-out and it did feel like it took longer (much longer) to unpack and scan. Fine for a few items - but I would never think to go to Aldi for just 4 or 5 items unless I lived next door.

There aren't a lot of WinCo's - never seen one. Smart & Final is another discount store that doesn't seem worth it - I don't like it.

The Deutsche Küche Sauerkraut is excellent.

Not the usual crap they call Sauerkraut here in the U.S.

Cali? Faker.

R40 - the DK canned soups (split pea, vegetable and lentil) are also very good and I never buy canned soups.

Not off the charts with salt and relatively low calorie. Quite a surprise.

R32, I like European brand coffee better than American. Certainly better than Starbucks. You have to know how to brew it.

Fat whore in aisle 7

R20 It's not a secret, either!

The address on Aldi products says Batavia IL, which is also where Jewel has its distribution center.

Most of the Deutsche Kuche items are solid quality.

R45 - Jewel has several distribution centers though in the Chicago area. I looked up the Aldi one on Google maps - it's not a location also identified with Jewel. I think that's just a coincidence. I doubt Albertsons would be working with a competitor like that.

But I can tell you the fruit and veggie distributors are taking their products to both of them on the same truck.

R43 I like my coffee from places where they grow coffee.

Walking through Aldi and looking at the nutrition labels of packaged goods, I see that cheap products contain unhealthy ingredients, which are cheaper to use. That’s why the products are cheaper than name brands or big store brands.

What a bunch of cunts. Aldi is always fine, often good, and sometimes great.

I wasn't impressed by their produce. Not that it was bad, but it was no better than any other store. There are two Aldi's near me, both are in shopping centers that are a pain to get into and out of, have inadequate parking lots and just aren't worth the trouble.

They're on Instacart but that kind of defeats the whole purpose.

Aldi is for poors.

R49 - bullshit. Provide one single example. You can't.

The reason why Aldi is cheaper (and Trader Joe's as well): small stores, limited staff, standard selection, limited hours and, most importantly, there's very little product marketing costs that big brands pour billions of dollars into every year.

You don't say the same thing about the Safeway generic brands that are significantly cheaper.

Nobody is saying Aldi is high-end, but to say it's all cheap shit is also stupid and wrong.

R47 Our Aldi has several Signature Select items which is (or was) Albertsons in house brand. Have seen some other Albertsons stuff in Aldi before, too.

Have no idea if they are the same company per se but they seem to share a supplier.

There’s one relatively (15 minute drive) near us that’s near the Wegman’s I go to weekly. I stopped at the Aldi store once because someone here said the frozen mini eclairs were good. They weren’t, and weren’t worth standing in line for ten minutes to buy, but I did.

Nothing I saw there would make me go back.

I've included a link to refute R49's trollish claims.

Aldi in fact does more IMO than any other mainstream grocery chain to provide items that are non-gmo, organic, whole grain, and/or gluten-free, as well as nitrite/nitrate free meats, and a variety of other products catering to low-carb and vegetarian diets.

Good for you, OP. It's a milestone! 😃

I did notice Aldi has a lot of GF products though most are in the chips/cookies/crackers section.

Stock is supposed to be transitory and it’s better if the place is a pit - like flea markets vs. a dying mall.

Look at the empty spaces - that’s what was in demand earlier in the day. If you see sad produce at the bottom, it’s because you reached the pallet late.

I’m old school, so I bring bags to Aldi’s and I don’t buy anything in a cardboard box. Because of roaches, and I’m bringing you this policy that was drilled into me in 1985. Do not take any cardboard home from a grocery store. EVER!

R59 I've used empty cardboard boxes as a "cart" when I am only getting a few things but agree, never take it home.

It wasn't Aldi but after seeing a few news stories about big ugly bugs crawling out of produce I nope'd out of doing that forever.

I condole you, OP

[quote]That’s where it was founded…you’d expect its offices to be there.

The first Trader Joe's was in Pasadena, a few miles west of Monrovia. And it's still operating.

Erewhon is also from Pasadena I think.

The best part about Aldi (other than the low prices on most everyday items) is "Aldi Finds," which they have for both food and non-food items. They're usually special buys and limited time items. They have knockoff versions of lots of higher-end cookware and home decor items. I've bought a lot of things in the Aldi Finds aisles and if they turn out to be not that great, at least I didn't spend a lot of money on them. But I've been happy with the majority of things I've purchased (food and non-food.)

For everyday items, my regular purchases (I go almost every week)-unsweetened vanilla almond milk, nonfat Greek yogurt, frozen broccoli, strawberries, apples, mandarins, bagged green salad, green onions. They have a great selection of cheeses at low prices, and a decent selection of breads. I don't bother with the cleaning supplies/paper products/healthcare aisle at all.

They do have pretty good chocolate

I get good buys on canned foods such as tuna. Meats- liw fat griund turkey, chicked breasts erc. Goid buys. The liw fat groubd meets, rxcellent buy. Tbe house grand boxed goids such as cookies, crackers, candies. Very liw quality. Goid guys on salsa, abd jarred tonatoe products-check the labels.

r66 got his keyboard at Aldi.

Yes, the chocolate is good. I like the little Choceur 5 packs, it's a small chocolate bar and they have lots of varieties.

Coming soon to 10011. The building is almost finished

Maybe I'm not fussy enough, but their $3.95 wine seems a good deal. I buy mustard, fake Frito scoops, hummus/guacamole, frozen quinoa chicken bowls, and nuts fairly regularly.

Thanks:

My Aldi try list:

liw fat groubd meets

grand boxed goids

abd jarred tonatoe

R41 what are you talking about?

The grand boxed goids are the best I've ever found! They are Sorbian goids from the wetlands of the Lusatia region.

Their spices jumped in price and reduced variety. Yes, lemon pepper is very reasonable, but I don’t need lemon pepper- more horseradish ginger kind of guy.

I trust their dairy and I’m choosy about the frozen meat. Produce is more limited than Safeway or QFC, but it’s of the same quality.

Californians don’t say Cali.

Pretty simple. We don’t say Frisco. We don’t type Angelino.

Aldi’s is also one of the last places you can meet and kick people like R75 in the cunt bone. No security whatsoever…. You could get a tick tock kid to film it for you!

R54, where I live, Signature Select is a Safeway store brand.

Maybe you should skip some of those Aldi products full of chemicals and preservatives; they appear to have an adverse effect on you.

I do believe it was an Aldi’s where one poster advised another to key an unhoused guy’s shopping cart.

There isn't one convenient to me so I don't go often. Like Trader Joe's they'll have products I buy once and enjoy and then they're never restocked. Annoying business model

r54 Albertsons owns Safeway.

Aldi = Specialty Selected brand

Safeway/Albertson's/Von's etc. = Signature Select

Not the same

My complaint with Aldi is about the bread selection. It seems odd a "German" grocery chain does not sell rye or pumpernickel bread.

r83 Good point. I guess it's just not popular enough to stock. I remember trying to find rye bread at Aldi too. They even sell rye bread at Target.

great selection of good Beers, Chocolate and European cheeses, Knock/Brat wursts, etc. At Xmas time, the store goes all out with really good specialty food items.

What is so great about traders joe? What do you guys buy there?

Right R83, Aldi bread selection absolutely sucks nothing but Italian tasteless crap at the level of wonderbread.

I bought some strawberries from traders joe, they were very red but absolutely tasteless

Upcoming Aldi Finds.

R86 all the good stuff from their German overlords ;)

Anything with dark chocolate, mostly. Their crackers are great. As we used to say in Cali-fornia; having a party? Go straight to TJ’s.

I hope Aldi stays out of The Great White North. We have sufficent.

R86: this isn't really the thread for that, but Trader Joe's does good frozen food, as well some condiments. My mom loves their breakfast cereal.

Trader Joe’s is Aldi before Aldi came to the US—I say fair game.

Curb your enthusiasm, OP.

Aldi and Lidl are okay in Europe. Tidy, clean, efficient. Baked goods are okay, fruit and vegetables are a narrower selection than at other grocery stores, tortilla chips and potato chips and similar snacks are hit or miss by type. Cured meats are okay, otherwise the meat section is a little thin. Cheeses are similarly limited in selection. Prepared foods are not terrible but not good. A fair number of products change often, along with special offers (often on a country of origin theme.) if I did all of my shopping in one place, it wouldn't be at either store chain. It's a place to buy selected things and maybe a limited offer product because it's in your path home.

In the US, the stores I've been in have been terrible. Weird, weird limited selections, over-emphasis on frozen foods, sad produce... No need ever to go back after a first visit

[quote]In the US, the stores I've been in have been terrible. Weird, weird limited selections, over-emphasis on frozen foods, sad produce... No need ever to go back after a first visit

That's a good summary.

OP, get yourself Aldi's Buona Italian Beef, a jar of giardiniera pickled vegetables and some french rolls and make yourself a nice Italian Beef sandwich.

ALDI’s brioche buns are a good deal. You get 6 for $3.79 compared to 4 for $4.99 at the supermarket.

R95 they did their market research! ;)

The Garden Ranch Dressing is very good.

I love Aldi…when I go in the morning when the items have been freshly stocked. That’s the secret. A lot of times in the afternoon, there is no stock left of fruits and vegetables.

It's Aldi.

Not Aldi's or Aldis!

The nearest Aldi to me is 180 miles away, but close to my regular getaway spot. I've stopped there to pick up provisions, but have had the most success with non-food items. I enjoy the quirky assemblage of stuff, some of it junk, in their spesh-ee-ality aisle. I've been happy with purchases as diverse as a wheeled laundry drying rack, sleeping bag, and a machete-like watermelon knife, to name a few. Also, I've found selectively good prices and quality on some food items like avocado oil, varietal stuffed olives, and dried blueberries. If a location closer to home opened up, I imagine I'd make it a regular stop.

Aldi is Miss Coco approved

Upcoming Aldi find.

Aldi is owned by the same private company that owns Trader Joe's.

I would say that their meats are very good, though the portion sizes are huge. For example, if you find ribeye steak at Aldi's get it--its comparable to TJ's, but a single steak is way more than 12 oz., so do you split it or get two???

[quote]Aldi is owned by the same private company that owns Trader Joe's.

Strictly speaking, this is not correct.

[quote]Aldi US is owned by Aldi Sud (south); TJ's is owned by Aldi Nord (north.)

Yes, this is correct. They're now different companies although they were originally started as one company by two brothers.

Strictly speaking it is correct. It’s European Aldi, but it is Aldi.

I went to an Aldi once, in Topeka Kansas of all places, and it was so depressing I refuse to make any further attempts.

As for TJs, I try and advoid produce, meat, and bread. They all tend to spoil pretty quickly.

This thread is worse than my 85 year old mother talking to me for 45 minutes straight about her trip to Walmart. I timed her once.

Unless you’ve got a lot of time on your hands or need to be very frugal, life’s too short to be rummaging around in an Aldi.

I went to the Aldi’s near me and it was a dreadful experience. First off, you have to pay 25 cents to use a shopping cart ( I had no quarters). The store was a mess and looked like it had been ransacked, there was a deranged homeless man in the store screaming about knowing Jesus and not one employee did anything about it, the selection of stuff was like stuff on the shelves of a third-world store, there was one check-out and the line was 10 people deep. It was a one-time experience for me.

Er, you get your quarter back when you return the cart.st I like it for produce I'm going to use quickly, cheese, coffee, and chocolate. The Pranzo line of pasta is Bronze die cut. The bagged cabbage amd kale based salads are fine. I really like their house laundry detergent. I like their Irish butter but my brand conscious partner doesn't.

I buy fish, chicken dairy and baked goods at Whole Foods, steel-cut oats from Amazon, tuna and Italian canned tomatoes from Costco and assorted items from Asian, Indian, Mexican, Middle Eastern and Jewish delis and groceries.

I cook mostly from scratch

We hole Foods? No, just no. Fish from there—yuck.

The quarter in the shopping cart thing was something Tucker Carlson encountered for the first time on his suck-up trip to Russia, while touring a Moscow supermarket. He praised it as a genius innovation in shopping cart management, keeping them out of the grubby hands of homeless people. He also marveled at what he believed to be another Russian ingenuity, escalators that can accommodate carts. If only the USA was so advanced.

I believe they now give you a quarter on request, R111. My store has one staffed checkout and several self-checkout stations. Produce usually requires buying a set lot, no individual pieces possible.

I had an issue once where I could tell the package of chicken was much lighter than the stated weight. Checker verified I was right, re-did the order so that I paid the correct price.

R105---for the millionth time no it isn't. Aldi and TJs are each owned by a different branch of the same family. Two completely different companies.

Awful place.

Half the time when we go to Aldi there are carts not returned to the cart corral. So we use it and keep the quarter.

R118, in the burbs it’s fake happy people trying to give you a filthy quarter for your cart. Oh, isn’t this so cute. No, Fucko. I know where my quarter has been and you look like a booger-rolling commuter.

TJ not good for meats? What about whole foods? I want to buy steak! In new York.

The ice pops from traders joe is very good. The mango flavored one...I get that every summer. The 365 whole foods brand of yogurt flavored ice pop is great too. Comes in blueberry and mango. The price has gone under tho...

*up typo

R114, did he also marvel at the old-fashioned word “groceries”?

Every Aldi I’ve been in feels like a ghetto grocery store. Right down to the quarter for the cart.

Beyond underwhelming.

A quarter is hardly worth much anymore as an incentive to return your cart. As far as I know it’s always been a quarter (back to the 80s?). But because the USA unlike normal countries doesn’t have a one dollar coin a quarter it stays.

Wouldn’t it be better to just take cart home? It’s got to have a value that is more than a quarter.

This thread has turned into a contest to see who can be the nelliest prisspot.

Their wines are quite good for the price.

You must be careful. These are a no:

Their dried pasta—Rotten. To mush in an instant. The “egg noodles” break into inch long Kraft Mac n cheese size just as they become tender. I don’t know why.

Their rolled oats in tube like Quaker’s—Flavorless. Tasteless. No even whisper of oat taste. You could be eating moist sawdust.

Powdered drink mix—they changed their recipe and it’s just colored water, barely sweet.

Frozen stir fried vegetable mix—it’s raw and refuse; the ends of fresh veg not sold and the 2 or 3 snow peas are unbeatable.

Paper goods are fine, like TP and PT. Don’t get the cheapest, the dissolve in hand.

Frozen foods are mostly good, no big complaints about the meals, chicken fingers, et al. Except the stir fry veg mentioned.

I find the fresh meat acceptable, except the marinated “tri tip”. It’s a pot roast and needs to be prepared as such.

Fresh veg and fruit seem mostly good. They are mostly sold in packages of multiples . I like their pre made salads, vine tomatoes, green peppers.

Their nuts and dried fruits are great. I also buy their staples like sugar, flour, yeast, canned milk, butter, hot dogs, bacon, eggs, bread…

Their milk is weird. It gets an odd odor and a swirly film on top within five days. It tastes fine, but I can’t cotton to It.

I will buy as much as can there, as well as a Dollar Tree before I go to big name grocery. The thing about ALDIs is they mostly have their own brand. Once in a while you may get a deal on Best Foods Mayo or Lays…but it’s not like a name brand close out like at dollar stores.

They do make an excellent vanilla ice cream—the more expensive one with pure ingredients. Half the price of Hagen-Daz.

They have Bimbo white bread which is better than Wonder.

They have odd German food I like—weisswurst, strudel, cookies, that’s fun to try.

Trader Joe’s is expensive. Aldis is discount. The two cannot be compared.

Trader Joe's has been selling their various varieties of fresh eggs at standard prices - $4 to $6 per dozen - since the bird flu shortages began. They do sell out quickly, at 1 dozen per person, but I don't know how they can do so without taking a loss. Even Walmart, which is famous for squeezing its suppliers, can't match them. With so many import-sourced grocery items, I wonder if T.J.'s will "eat the tariffs".