Mashed I am a big fan of Aldi's and we shop at the Aldi's Waxahachie, Texas. Here in Midlothian, they struck down the chance to get an Aldi's... Maybe one day we will get an Aldi's . But until we do we will be going out of town to Aldi's to do our shopping.
We have had Aldi for about 2 years. I shop at about 3 stores on a regular basis, but I am trying to shop there more. But I can only shop early morning; other times it's just too crowded! I can appreciate having fewer employees, but if there are more than 3 people in line, I would like to see them open another checkout line. The cashiers are very fast, so that helps!
Leelee Alexander it's nice going there and I don't have to be like. Oh we can't have this for dinner this week we can't afford it! It's like if you want it within reason put it in the cart!
I shop at Aldi in the Netherlands. All our grocery stores have the same cart system. You have to put in money to shop with a cart. And I don't think I would appreciate someone else packing my groceries for me. There is nothing wrong with me so I can do it myself.
In Ireland at least, you get the euro coin back when you return the trolley. Do you suppose Tesco, etc. has figured out a way to monetize that one euro you lend them for 30-40 mnutes while you shop?
You can say what you want about Aldi "low staffing" but those very efficient people doing the checking can get you/me through a line faster than I can unload my cart! I have never run across an unpleasant cashier or a slow one! I can come out of there with twice as much food as I can from any other food store! It is clean, easy to find items, and last month was the first time ever they were out of an item I wanted! I didn't ask for the item, I was in a rush! I can shop at Aldi & get enough food for the month, any other store, maybe two weeks of food (if I'm lucky) and costing more money, stand in line waiting for my turn to check-out. Twenty check- out lanes and 3 open. Their store is clean & they remodel often! If you have shopped Aldi you know the truth, if you haven't you may believe trash talk. When I didn't have a quarter for a cart (no change on me) the cashier GAVE me a cart to use!!!! If you think their cashiers are stressed you have never worked at Wal*Mart. That was stress!!!! And some of the bosses at Wal*Mart make their people that work under them do their work!!! The cashiers also earn $11. plus change an hour which isn't bad considering McDonalds, Wal*Mart etc.. You/me get a lot of bang for my/your buck. A quarter a cart is a good deal....no rampant carts crashing into beautiful cars there!!! Aldi's is one of the better things going on in this world!!!! Ya, someone with money is NOT going to like it, but for us (lower middle & I have seen many above) appreciate what Aldi can do for us.
I can’t speak to how overworked they are I know they are paid well $12 /hr in my area, where as the grocery store across the street starts u off at like $8. What’s ironic is that that is the most expensive grocery chain in the area.
The only 'issue' I have with Aldis is they will stock an item long enough to get you hooked on it then pull it from stores and when you ask about it they tell you it was 'seasonal' LOL!!
Here in Australia they do the seasonal item thing and generally change the special items every week or 2 (except for Christmas items which they have for up to 2 months). As mentioned they usually bring back the same seasonal stuff same time next year, although some foreign food themed stuff (Asian, Mexican etc) is on the shelf every 6 months rather than every 12 months.
I understand the concept of seasonal items and have no problem with those... it's items they have had for YEARS and then they stop them... like the foot long beef sticks they just recently phased out in US stores! Those things sold like hot cakes (think my wife bought at least half the supply LOL!). We were actually going to 3 different Aldi's looking for them when she found out they were discontinuing them!! Luckily she found a substitute at the local Save-a-lot!!
There is a very good reason for your observation (and actually many retailers have this ) Aldi will use it's purchasing power to get a very low price from a supplier. The next round of contracts, Aldi (read any supermarket chain) will force the supplier into an even lower price or more favorable conditions. Until eventually the supplier cant accept the conditions or finds a better chain to do business with, or has to sacrifice on quality... Either way, Aldi won't stock your favorite snack anymore.
Dozo G True, the other supermarket chains here in Australia have now dropped their contract offers so low trying to compete with Aldi that Aldi now has large global brand items like Cadbury and Nestle (as well as others) on their shelves every few months. Even the DK press Lego books regularly appear during the Christmas toy sales at Aldi over here..
Don't know about Aldi in America but here in Australia, you can purchase your own reusable token to put into that coin slot to use Aldi's trolleys. Which I think is a great idea. 1 it means you don't have to carry money on you & 2 ( the coin slot thing) makes you responsible for returning the trolley to where it came from. Which people should be doing, no matter where you shop at. Trolleys shouldn't be littered all over the place( think about that next time you're doing your weekly shopping and the trolley is a bit wonky. It's wonky because someone misused or mishandled that trolley some time in the past) Also returning the trolley means the next shopper who comes along doesn't have to worry about finding a trolley to use( which is a scenario that has happened to all of us at least once in our shopping experience. And it always seems to happen at the most inconvenient of times doesn't it?)☮️
....good quality horse-meat packaged & sold as beef too, don't believe me? Google the story. Sloppy, inadequate management at Aldi for this to have ever happened for any reason. Good luck to you with the "mystery-meats" they sell at Aldi if you're still brave enough to be continuing to buy your food there
I've been shopping Aldi for decades!!! Even way back when practically all they carried was canned goods. They are SO different now! I've said for years now that Aldi has gotten us through a lot of long winters during which we would have had very little fresh produce if not for them! Now their product line is so extensive, even with many German imports, especially, but not only, around the Holidays!
There's a reason Aldi employees are paid more than most people in similar work. They are super-human mega machines and Aldi won't employ just anybody. I adore Aldi and have respect for the super humans that work there.
Say, compared to walmart particularly. As I like to say. "Man there's a lot of high-priced talent standing around here." Not all of them of course, but far too many. The useless ones have reached their peak in employment life. They probably park up close to the store as well.
Sandy Lee Pepsi does NOT contain "aborted baby parts"! One of the sweetener companies they dealt with used fetal tissue to test their product ( don't ask me to explain how, look THAT up yourself! I'm not a scientist, I don't understand it!) which Pepsi didn't even know about until after the fact. No argument here that use of aborted tissue is awful, BUT PepsiCo didn't do it AND the tissue was Never IN the product!!!! Stop following around after rumors with your tongue hanging out!!!!
Nae Too , it's not. Trader Joes existed as is, independently of Aldi before the owners of Aldi purchased the chain from it's creator and original owners
So in Belgium i grew up with aldi. Honestly I don't know what you guys are used to in the US... Items still being in boxes on te+he shelves? So what.. If it makes the price cheaper I would gladly unpack the f ing box myself. A grocery shop is there to provide you with food, wether the food is is still displayed in a half box or not really does not make a difference. Paying a deposit for a shopping cart? This is literally the case in every shop in Belgium. We don't have people packing our groceries either. In a country where so many people barely have money to buy food, I think priorities are seriously shifted to the wrong place. It does give me hope that you talked about the bees. Yey
Arne Van Eycken ....You are so right about priorities.People want the whole ball of wax. They want pretty stores, faster check out lines, unlimited selection, free bags, and low prices! They obviously have no idea what 'overhead' is.They don't understand the power of advertising. Hell, many don't even know how to figure out price per ounce in their head, and god forbid they use that calculator on their 'smartphones'. Big business absolutely loves ignorant people. They make bigger profit margins off them all the time.
U GUYS ONLY HEAR ABOUT THE PEOPLE PLACED ABOVE MIDDLE CLASS. AGAIN JUST SAYING.. YES. PPL EVERYWHERE THAT MAKE ALOT OF MONEY ARE LAZY AND EXPECT ALOT..
Here in the UK, Aldi is well respected. I'm a power tool freak. Recently I purchased a Makita battery Combi Drill and Impact drill kit for about 180 pounds with 2 year warranty and 1500Ma/h. Went into Aldi and purchased a nifty battery operated drill with removable chuck and option for hexagonal drill driver 2000Ma/h and three years warranty for around thirty-five pounds. I use this Aldi Workzone tool in preference to the Makita. In fact the Workzone brand is proving to be popular with tradesmen here in the UK. They soon walk out of the shop. Sellers on EBAY are selling Workzone products as used goods for higher prices than Aldi sold as new! Cannot say anymore than that!
I'm SO happy this was a positive video! My cousin turned me on to ALDI for the prices, but I had no idea the standards were this high, and am no longer leary of buying everything from them. I'm praying the prices don't skyrocket once people catch on. At 55 I'm in the worst financial place, and I did everything correct. A decade long illness which has turned out to be terminal has wiped me out $$$, so this is truly good news. ALDI'S version of Thin Mints for $0.98 are better than Girl Scout cookies in my opinion, and their pumpkin tortilla chips are my all time favorite chip. Healthy, low fat and sodium, but more than that they're DELICIOUS. 👍👍👍👍👍👍
H.P. Vogel yes they are called trolly coins. You can buy then in most supermarkets/poundshops/ebay/amazon. They are good to have as once you buy one, you can't spend it, meaning it 'should' always be in your wallet/purse when you needed it, unlike a euro or pound coin, which today is easy not to have on hand. Btw a euro will fit in a uk UK trolley and pound vice versa
They just opened an Aldi in my neighborhood, and I wanted to know what kind of a supermarket it is - before going in. I learned everything I wanted to know. Great video, thank you.
Some misinformation is in this video... The shopping cart situation is perfectly normal for _any_ German store that has carts. It's just the way Germans are used to dealing with those. And the US IS NOT the only country, where both Aldi Nord & Süd coexist, since both (obviously) are present in Germany.
Exactly this. American living in Germany. I prefer the coin deposit. Gives me those extra steps for walking. Although I have to agree with some people. Aldi is a damn confusing place to shop at sometimes.
+J.R. Caldoon The food at Aldi they sell here in USA is garbage compared to any Aldi in Europe, my fiancée lives in Germany and i can't believe the difference from the food sold there compared to here! A German owned store that don't sell any German food here! Terrible
I remember shopping at Aldi with my parents in Chicago since the 1990's. When I moved back in my 20's I continued shopping there. Its been 16 years and I just shopped there last weekend. I love the new products they have like veggies and other name brand items.
Jay Bee....Yes, at least here in NY State they are. Everybody in my beekeepers club fight with this year after year. Its way worse now than 25yrs ago when I first started. But, its worth the fight, we need the bees.
Tory Ellis......you win the prize for the stupidest statement of the day.They only pollinate all the plant life on earth. Without that....we all begin to starve to death. That's what they do.
Ok wait no. I work for Aldi and some of this is wrong. You used info about the European Aldi and extrapolated it to the US Aldi. Aldi US just won two employer awards, one from Forbes magazine, as one of the best employers in the country. We take surveys once a year about what we like and dislike about working there, and the company responds. For example, in response to the work-life balance thing, they tweaked our vacation and request-off policy to be much more generous (vacation rolls over year to year now instead of use it or lose it, for one example). Aldi Sud and Aldi US are similar but different enough that it is quite unfair to use European info to describe the US version.
Yeah, but it's all relative luvvie. Over here everyone gets loads more statuary paid holiday and shorter hours than you do in the US, so the fact Aldi is offering you holiday carry over is nothing to them.
London Calling you're absolutely right. Labor standards and general empowerment of the labor force is crap over here. The fact is they could be more generous, but they operate within the system and expectations of the society Around them. Here, they can be among the best employers for simply doing a minimum, where in other places, it's the standard or even lower. We can be cynical that way. But the fact is, in the 5 years I have worked here, I have seen exponential growth and an honest effort on the part of the company to balance their employees' job satisfaction, staying ahead of the curve in the market, expanding, sustainability, efficiency.... They are not a publicly traded company,so they can afford to invest in the company's stability and workforce quality, since they are not chasing quarterly profits and other such pitfalls of big business.
Hi Margaret. Good points honey. A company who doesn't invest in its staff and pay heed to their careers is not following a clever business model, so Aldi is on the right track. Hope working conditions improve even further for you. I'm always shocked when I see the long hours / lack of holidays and perks that you guys endure over there. People slow down and start to lack motivation when they are worked too hard and not given incentives, so productivity suffers then anyway. Regards from the lazier side of the pond!
I love my Aldi checkout ladies and manager! The ladies at the checkout are always in a hurry to complete transactions, but make a point to speak to me and talk to my little boy. The manager walks the store and is always keeping things straight. When I couldn't find a special buy the day it was released, he called in and found it at two other local stores without me asking. The employees are always super helpful. I'm glad you're treated well!
THIS VIDEO DID IT FOR US! We're shopping at Aldi from now on. Love the parts about phasing out the pesticides that harm honeybees (we're beekeepers) and people, too, and the GMO's. We live quite rural and make one long drive per month for our grocery order and Aldi is even farther, but we'll make the drive because of the pesticides and GMO's, etc. Thanks for the information.
plush furr it's better for the planet to encourage people to bring reuseable bags, and at least you can pack the backs exactly how you'd like rather than putting some kid through the ringer or just complicating his job. It really isn't that big a deal. Pack you own bags and save yourself some money.
It warms my heart to see, something good when it comes to food. I love seeing quality food for lower prices. I do most of my shopping there. It feels good buying food that is not full of pesticides and chemicals. We need more stores with 💓 and morals.
skkrt skrrrt, I dont remember which european coutry it was, but I have seen a shop, where chashiers put your stuff directry into bags. And in one premium russian chain there are bag girls.
LOVE Aldi! Without it, we would be eating pbj sandwiches and ramen noodles, literally. The prices are great and I can get in and out quickly. Yes there may be 5 people in line with one cashier, but the cashiers are always Super fast with ringing things up since they don't have to bag it.
In and out quickly???? I had to get lettuce for a pizza shop I was working and always had to wait behind 20 people!! One fucking cashier is not enough! That place is disgusting and smells funny too.
Aldi are doing a great job in undercutting the big, established supermarkets/stores here in the UK and are very popular. They were slow to catch on and many people were a bit snobby about them and then realised their products were often much better than big name brands (like Kelloggs) and less costly. Their chocolate is FAR better than such as Cadbury which, sad to say, is completely spoilt since being taken over by US giant, Kraft, who are despised for promising to keep production here then later shipping it overseas. Putting a £1 coin (or similar-sized token) in a trolley and returning it to it's base is the norm here, as is packing your own groceries. We don't have a big service sector here as the US. It is a problem when they whizz them through faster than you can pack but I scoop all into the basket or trolley and pack on the nearby window ledges. Variety is a little restricted but they do a great range of non-food items which constantly change, re-appearing at various intervals so you grab 'em when you can.
Yet I might be forgiven when I read the TOP answer here to this question - "They are two brothers. The Brothers Albrecht The one brother started out with the Aldi stores, in which his brother had a part, but the two brothers fell out with each other and thus his brother decided to start a competing company LIDL and apparently up untill today there is no love lost between the two" Might be a common misconception as they do operate in a very similar way. :-) uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080207033450AAncz3f
Because I am aware that most users of YT channels I visit are mostly frequented by Americans so, as a matter of consideration and to avoid misunderstanding, I try to clarify where there are terminology differences. Supermarket/store covers both sides of the Pond. Shopping pertains to ALL goods, here we are discussing predominantly a `grocery' store, that also being a fairly common English term. You will have seen that sign over some shop fronts and supermarket counters I'm sure. I have not yet resorted to American spellings. I think you are splitting hairs.
I really like Aldi, and most of the workers at the local Aldi that i go to really love working there. In the 9 years I have been shopping at Aldi's, I have not seen but a few employees leave Aldi. Aldi really saves me a lot of money, and I will continue to shop there.
Hell yeah! Go to Aldi, etc first and get the bulk of the shopping, then go to the more expensive places for the last few bits 'n' pieces. Works for me!
Rob Roy i just wish they did home delivery be good.i dont like to shop on line.i would by more stuff if it was delivered and wen u aint got transport .u can only carry so much
Pathmark used to charge and Edwards and as a kid I would go and find the shopping carts and return them for the .50 cents but this was long time ago like 20yrs lol. Nough place are gone
My wife used to work at an Aldi in OH and then transferred to an Aldi in MD and I couldn't wait for her to find another job. Sure, the pay is better than competing stores, but the amount of work she used to do compared to like Wal-mart, for example, is insane. I think in an 8 hour shift (which always ended up being 9-10 hours), she would usually take about a 10 minute break. They'd only have like 3-5 people running the entire store at any given time. She would do everything... unloading trucks, stocking shelves, smashing cardboard, cleaning the bathrooms and running checkouts. She would literally jog around the store sometimes. The place is a sweat shop and not worth the extra $2 per hour.
All cashiers/checkers should be able to sit down. Some one standing at attention as they tend to me does not make me feel important or like I am the most crucial thing in their life. Their comfort makes me feel good. I love Aldi's!
Here in Finland, I've noticed that most people get to sit down, whether it be at Aldi's (here it is called Lidl) or otherwise. I even see hairstylists sitting, which I never saw in the US where I was from. Most people aren't required to stand from what I've seen, unless it's a job where you really and truly have to. I wish they would adopt this practice everywhere else. :/
Most stores cashiers don't sit down though right? At least here in my area they all seem to be standing. Even in gas stations, etc... I think they should be able to though.
My son works for Aldi's. It's a great grocery store. You can make money working for them. They close at 8 and not 9. You lie, there are no bag boy. You bag your own groceries.
Some close at 8 some at 9. My store stored s about to switch tomorrow as a matter of fact. We start closing at 9 tomorrow, after being an 8 o'clock store for years. way back in the day Aldi was not even open on Sundays
nunchaku101 How else can they get people to take the carts back? Most people don't care about where they leave the carts, sometimes even leaving them where it can damage a car. You'd have to realize that all big chain stores have some hand in the NWO agenda. The best thing you can do is go to a farmer's market.
Han Skinslo Not only are their prices good but I think the food is better than national brands. The money we save shopping there enables us to afford other thing.
Because if you notice they have shelves and larger staff, two factors that keeps Aldi prices lower but Joes doesnt use carts either at least the 3 i know of in my area.
My wife shopped always at Aldi growing up in Vienna, when she moved to America 12 years ago and she found one, she was so happy, and turned me on to Aldi. I love this store! Best grocery store in America.
Great catch...I did some reading and it seems as thought it was passed on to "family" so I think Albrecht gave to his heirs or those that own Aldi. But you are correct. They did not create Trader Joe's.
ALDI Sud owns the U.S. branch of ALDI, while ALDI Nord owns Trader Joe's. ALDI split into two regional stores with two different logos after the Albrecht brothers did not agree on whether or not they should sell cigarettes in their stores. ALDI Sud has the brightly-colored logo used on most of their international ALDI and Hofer stores.
W Winterheart .. Were you to dig a little deeper, you'll find that most of their items are sourced in the USA -- like any grocery store. Walmart Great Value is a prime example of such sourcing. Any imported item will have a label that designates country of origin.
My family loves Aldi's. Just past weekend I got a big bag of fresh peaches; during winter no less. Only a $1.99 a bag and that is cheap for fruit. We get all of our fresh produce from them.
domienik1984 Not any more so than any other standard store...and I'm not even sure as much as other stores. Aldi is working toward providing more natural, less processed foods, across the board, over & above their organic line.
The shopping cart thing is from ALDI's country of origin, Germany. In Germany, all retailers do the coin deposit cart thing. It's just standard practice there.
They must have as many lazyass fat slobs too tired to put their cart in the carthole as we do here in lazyass fat slob America. There are way way too many handicap license plates here too.
I have been shopping at ALDI's store since it opened in my neighborhood. And although the video was informative, it missed two important elements. ALDI management hires people of different ethnic groups, and does a good job of choosing them. All of the employees that work at ALDI are VERY COURTEOUS and helpful. This is rare in many businesses and stores in particular. Too many people working in other stores have negative attitudes, don't know their merchandise, and don't care about helping or being helpful to customers. I haven't seen any negativity with the employees that work in this store.
We absolutely love Aldi. I go every 2 weeks. An advantage trip for my family of 3 including a teenage boy is 89.00 that's for most of our shopping for 2 weeks!!!! The produce is our favorite!
After early skepticism I have to admit that Aldi offers very good products and a great price. Don't mind the warehouse appearance of the stocking shelves as long as the store is clean and the merchandise is of good quality. Normally generic brands are avoided when shopping but Aldi generics are better than expected and in many cases as good as the name brand items. An interesting story too, great video.
I place that blame on the supplier. Aldi wasn't the only company affected by that back in 2013. The US got lucky that none of it was sold here (UK, Sweden, France). I was dubious as first too, but I like a lot of their brands better than big names.
Now to get rid of the high fructose corn syrup in the USA. That stuff is terrible! Their brand of teriyaki marinade is delicious but has the high fructose corn syrup in it.
Wegmans has the food you feel good about label on their products. It means theres no additives , preservatives, high fructose corn syrup ect. Wegmans also has their own organic farms and team up with local farmers for fresh organic produce! They believe in buying local! Wegmans is awesome! Aldis isnt bad though. They've gone organic in my area of NYS.
there are so many ways to label high fructose corn syrup differently and still be FDA approved, its not bad for you, its that is in nearly all processed foods, do what you can to buy fresh and make it at home
Yes I figured if it came from the earth than it’s better for you. I’m not big into processed foods at all. Love summer fruits and veggies! I know there was a petition going around demanding the FDA ban HFCS. Bottom line if consumers refuse to buy the products with the stuff it would force the manufactures to change. It’s just like when the gas prices went up, the food prices went up and never came back down. The sizes of things shrank too. Example ice cream. I just started making my own.
I gotta say when I went into Aldi and shopped with my mother I used to say to her I think these people are Christians because every time I come here I have a good experience and I feel relaxed and customers help each other in that store i mean almost all of them. NO other stores do this for me usually I feel sick and stressed out and feel cut throat games are going on. I never feel that taken advantage of when I am there. It feels like they actually care. Also another HUGE THING IS nobody else feels stressed out either they all are relaxed and happy. HOW DO I KNOW? THEY LOOK IN YOUR EYES AND SAY THINGS LIKE DO YOU WANT TO GO IN FRONT OF ME IN LINE? OR TAKE YOUR TIME AND THEY MEAN IT. ALSO HUGE THING IS I was short money and broke I couldn't afford bags one day and out of nowhere the family in front of me bought way too many bags like 5 and gave them all to me! It was exactly what I needed 5 bags! ANOTHER TIME I WAS BROKE AGAIN( AS USUAL) SOME GUY (with his little boy) IN FRONT OF ME PAID THE PART OF THE BILL I COULDN'T AFFORD AND GAVE ME MONEY FOR MY POCKET!!! I think God touched his heart he was so nice and a good example for his son, He looked like a minister all dressed up with a long black coat (London fog or something). EVERYONE THERE SEEMS FRIENDLY EVEN CUSTOMERS. SOMETHING IS GOING ON THERE THAT IS VERY GOOD AND GOD WILL BLESS THIS STORE AND ALREADY HAS SINCE IT HAS BEEN OPENED SO LONG. There has got to be something they are doing different. Idk what but I have not ever had a bad experience in that store. Not once. They care about disabled people and elderly. Cashiers rush out of the back to open a line for a disabled person if the line is even slightly long. I remember when they first opened it was a bit hard for them to find good employees but when they did it went great! Smooth as can be. I don't go around making compliments for nothing but when it is due I give them. I passed this video to my mother she likes Aldi a lot it is her favorite store! Mine too!
The fact you have to use coins to get a cart honestly is a good thing because if you seen Walmart you'll know that its common to see shopping carts in the damn streets
Micheal Carver "A 2015 survey by the Pew Research Center shows this divide. Nearly 9 out of 10 scientists from the American Association for the Advancement of Science say GMOs are "generally safe" to eat. Though if you're like more than half of U.S. adults from the general public in that same survey, you think you probably shouldn't eat them" What's wrong with gmos in the first place?
@Nikolie Grish GMOs are not safe at all. They have not even been studied long enough to determine their health risk. Not all GMOs are created equal. GMOs can be created to intentionally kill whatever digest it also;such as what occurred in Australia with the millions of Kangaroos dying.
My favorite grocery store that was a non chain grocery store with Save-A-Lot. The owner of the building went up on their rent and force them out of business.
You were lucky. There was a Sav-A-Lot near me that was in a poor neighborhood. It smelled like ass in there. Literally. Their lemons and limes were as hard as baseballs. They did have lots of specialty Mexican products in there, which sounds good, but it also meant that EVERYONE spoke Spanish in there.
But i only shop there cause i cant afford real store i hate bagging my shit i hate i still gotta go to walmart for some stuff and the dollar store i used to use 1 store now i have to go to 3 or 4 crazy makes ya feel poor ! Well to me anyway !
Ross O'Donnell When working in Ireland a few years ago I shopped in their HQ store at Naas just west of Dublin. Usual stuff but all the employees seemed to be Polish.
Melinda Smith Sorry, but that's absurd!!! First off, Aldi IS a REAL store!!! They have better quality products than many store that charge full prices, certainly AS good! Yes, I wish I could shop small locally owned shops instead of big chains like Wal-Mart too, but unfortunately small shops have to charge more & too often end up out of my price range. My contention, too, is that WM isn't any worse than K-Mart, Target or any of the others, people just focus more on their lesser traits....we see pics of people dressed in weird outfits, etc., supposedly at WM...what would be said about them if they they turned those "odd" people away from their doors?!? There's plenty more I could say on the subject, but just remember this, before you complain about which store you "have" to shop at....1 in 5 Americans go without enough food to eat, on a daily basis!!! How POOR do you feel now?!?
I work there and there's way more than 8-10 employees...try 20. Great pay and benefits. They work with my home life. Been there a year and make 15 an hour. Normally get over 40 a week...😉 happy employee here. And there's no such thing as a caretaker aka cashier...everyone does everything
Michelle Litton My mom works there and she said that she nevers wants to shop/work there again because their "steak" was horse meat and she had to work with it 😝😝😝😷😷😷
I love Aldi and always have a shopping cart quarter in my pocket and their bags I buy are good ones, not thin plastic! I'm am Aldi fan.Also, they have other items beside food: socks, weight scale, holiday decorations.❤
I went into Aldi, the woman told me I had to rent a cart, so then I just held everything in my hands and then she didn't give me a bag. I returned everything. How am I supposed to walk home without any bags. Plus as other people have said, the packaging is terrible 😒
It's not "renting" a cart. You get the money back when you return the cart. Duh. Yes they make you pay for bags, which is good for the environment as it means you only get one if you need it.
I grew up shopping at Aldi with my mother and then shopped there as a young adult. I still shop there whenever I see one travelling now that I am 55. Love it. They still have some German products.
I LIVE IN NEW JERSEY AND ALDI TOOK OVER MOST OF THE OLD GRAND UNION SUPERMARKET LOCATIONS IN MY AREA WHEN THAT CHAIN WENT BANKRUPT IN EARLY 2000'S. GOOOO ALDI,)))
DIZZY KNUTSAK You are very fortunate. Now you can buy and enjoy a healthful diet while saving lots. I'm in NYC and need to hike to the Bronx for the Aldi in almost Riverdale. So worth it!! Great European products. And nifty house and garden; pet stuff, too.
Alana Robertson 😒. It doesn't mean ppl r lazy. Majoritynuv stores hav bag boys. I guess ur sayn elderly women who r not as strong should bag their own groceries 2😐
plush furr My mom is 67 and disabled and can put groceries in a bag. If someone can't physically bag groceries, they probably can't manage shopping there anyway. My store doesn't have mobility scooters. I see elderly people in there all the time. They usually use discarded boxes and the checkout ladies put the items back in the boxes as they scan them.
Laura G - I am 63 and very disabled. I only shop at Aldi's because I don't have to try and walk around 20+ different aisles. Plus I have shopped there for almost 20 years due to their prices. The workers there know me and know that I have a difficult time with heavier items, so I don't have to take them out of the basket, until I get to the car. (I ask other customers for help to get them into the basket and they too are very helpful, considerate and nice). I then bag my items into light weight proportions in my heavy-duty Aldi's bags. It's when I get home, that's when I have trouble.
Alana Robertson I know! It's not hard to do it yourself and walk your trolley 20 metres to put it back. My Aldi just got a posh make over, bye, bye ugly yellow floors.
Loz I like being able to pack my own bags. I can put things in the bag just the way I like. We have a Woolworths right next to our aldi so I just use their non-deposit trolleys lol (they are both in a shopping mall and there are no aldi trolley stations on the exit we enter and leave from)
Food prices in Australia are insane. Here in Germany I can buy fruits from New Zealand cheaper than in Australia, even though I live close to the other side of the planet. Tell them that many Aussi shops have replaced cashiers with self checkout and they might get a heart attack.
In Costa Brava Spain, lack of checkout staff has always been a problem, but they manage, it’s actually a nice and safe experience during these Covid 19 times, thanks team 😘
I love Aldi's. Plain and simple. In fact I am eating a pecan pie from them. Today I had bacon Wrapped scallops from where? You guessed it. Aldi's Lovely Aldi's lol.
i only have one complaint about Aldis foods: THE SALT CONTENT SEEMS too high. It doesnt matter what I buy there, all I taste is SALT. imo Actually, thats why I dont shop there anymore.
I never knew aldi was in the usa plus the aldi uk staff are really well payed and they dont have to unload delivery trucks as the truck driver does it them self unlike most supermarkets in the uk who get the staff to help unload.
I love Trader Joe’s- my favorite store ever. When I lived in Germany- I loved aldi! But had no idea they were “related”. I went to Aldi yesterday and got sooooooo much for $30...!!
Danielle Tirpkoff me too. the best prices. i get everything from aldi. for 150 bucks my cart is overflowing. i have found some REALLY delicious items at aldi.
my parents did nothing wrong. if you dont like the store then dont shop there. you have the choice to spend your money however and wherever you see fit.
Most in UK take a deposit, not all. Tesco in Stroud does not, for example, nor most of the other Tescos I have been to. Aldi have just received permission for a shop in Stroud.
I am a trucker in the UK and i have delivered to the Aldi Distribution centre and when you back on a bay you go in the back and unload yourself, so they save a lot of money by not having unloading staff as well, i expect some of that gets passed down to the prices.
I was an owner operator leased to a company in O'fallon missouri... I delivered to the Aldi stores from the warehouse. Couldn't wait to get the hell away from those cheap bastards..
This is not correct for the UK. Aldi is the only supermarket I've ever used that requires a deposit. Tesco, Sainsbury, Asda, Morrisons etc do not. I use Aldi weekly, as savings on grocery are excellent with quality mostly as good as their higher priced competitors. There other product lines are pretty good too, I've found some good tool and DIY items over the years, which have a 3 year warranty! If you can handle some inconvenience in exchange for good savings then it's a no brainer.
turboslag yip. Every supermarket except Aldi have abolished £1 deposits now in favour of electronic perimeters that lock the wheels when you try and leave the car park.
That deposit for the cart is very common in Europe. Here in the Netherlands every single grossery store has you put in a coin to unlock the cart. It doesn't even have to be actual money. At most grossery stores you can get a key chain for FREE that has a coin on it that will fit.
omg, the Trader Joe/Aldi truth shook me to the core, I literally looked like that guinea pig(?) meme you added. I wondered why I loved both so much, and then I remembered that my mum had mentioned that both were affiliated or something, but I didn't think much of it because she was vague. omg, shooketh.
Putting a deposit in for your cart is a normal thing in Europe. All the supermarkets do it over here it’s mainly because people who don’t have cars use them to drive their groceries from the store to their houses. I used to know some people who accumalated 4 or 5 of these carts in their garden and didn’t Bother bringing them back for a long time. Many stores prohibit people from taking the carts home nowadays. U have the Aldi but we have the Aldi and the Lidl wich are basicly the same thing in everything but name. I think the Lidl has more heart for it’s employers in general tho they also have more people working there so not just the bare minimum. Don’t think because it’s cheaper that the products are worse. The Lidl has accumalted best fruit and vegetables price of all the supermarkets 7 times in a row. And many of these price fighter products are not only cheaper but rate higher also compared to their more expensive counterparts. I would also rate their milk products very high and I can know cause I’m dutch. Happy shopping !
Are you an ALDI fan? Where do you do your grocery shopping?
Mashed I am a big fan of Aldi's and we shop at the Aldi's Waxahachie, Texas. Here in Midlothian, they struck down the chance to get an Aldi's... Maybe one day we will get an Aldi's . But until we do we will be going out of town to Aldi's to do our shopping.
We have had Aldi for about 2 years. I shop at about 3 stores on a regular basis, but I am trying to shop there more. But I can only shop early morning; other times it's just too crowded! I can appreciate having fewer employees, but if there are more than 3 people in line, I would like to see them open another checkout line. The cashiers are very fast, so that helps!
Mashed - Mostly Aldi but I love Trader Joe's which I hear also is owned by Aldi.
I love Aldi, I do 80% of my grocery shopping there. I cut my grocery bill almost by half since I started shopping there.
Aldi hands down. Great prices and fresh fruits & veges
Aldi has the best prices around,You don't need coupons or anything and can still feed your family delicious, healthy foods for a great price.
Leelee Alexander it's nice going there and I don't have to be like. Oh we can't have this for dinner this week we can't afford it! It's like if you want it within reason put it in the cart!
Ch Jo Wow SMH
Leelee Alexander and they take food stamps so you're in luck!
JourneyTotheTruthandTotalRandomness people don't care anymore as long as they can get something cheaper that's all that matters
How do you know it's healthy, just because it says that on the label? You are one fucked up bitch.
I shop at Aldi in the Netherlands. All our grocery stores have the same cart system. You have to put in money to shop with a cart. And I don't think I would appreciate someone else packing my groceries for me. There is nothing wrong with me so I can do it myself.
In Europe putting a coin into a shopping trolley is used by most retail companies.
I think 25cents for a shopping cart is the best deal at aldi. I have baught and recycled several.
In Ireland at least, you get the euro coin back when you return the trolley. Do you suppose Tesco, etc. has figured out a way to monetize that one euro you lend them for 30-40 mnutes while you shop?
Same with Canada
Here in the USA, Iowa, no other store can even compete with its prices. I find the returnable cart system to be the best idea I've seen.
Roy i agree, nice , clean parking lot. loving ALDI only : ))))
I used to live in Illinois and it as nice going to aldi
Iowa is a low wage inbred shithole state!!!
Majority, if not, every shop has returnable trollies in UK, not just Aldi, so I was a little confused by the video.
Even here in Australia their prices are unbeatable.....
You can say what you want about Aldi "low staffing" but those very efficient people doing the checking can get you/me through a line faster than I can unload my cart! I have never run across an unpleasant cashier or a slow one! I can come out of there with twice as much food as I can from any other food store! It is clean, easy to find items, and last month was the first time ever they were out of an item I wanted! I didn't ask for the item, I was in a rush! I can shop at Aldi & get enough food for the month, any other store, maybe two weeks of food (if I'm lucky) and costing more money, stand in line waiting for my turn to check-out. Twenty check- out lanes and 3 open. Their store is clean & they remodel often! If you have shopped Aldi you know the truth, if you haven't you may believe trash talk. When I didn't have a quarter for a cart (no change on me) the cashier GAVE me a cart to use!!!! If you think their cashiers are stressed you have never worked at Wal*Mart. That was stress!!!! And some of the bosses at Wal*Mart make their people that work under them do their work!!! The cashiers also earn $11. plus change an hour which isn't bad considering McDonalds, Wal*Mart etc.. You/me get a lot of bang for my/your buck. A quarter a cart is a good deal....no rampant carts crashing into beautiful cars there!!! Aldi's is one of the better things going on in this world!!!! Ya, someone with money is NOT going to like it, but for us (lower middle & I have seen many above) appreciate what Aldi can do for us.
I'm with you!
So true! The cashiers are super fast. I think low staffing means better prices for customers
I can’t speak to how overworked they are I know they are paid well $12 /hr in my area, where as the grocery store across the street starts u off at like $8. What’s ironic is that that is the most expensive grocery chain in the area.
hitchhiker Exactly!!
I couldn't have said it better. YOU covered all the bases :)
The only 'issue' I have with Aldis is they will stock an item long enough to get you hooked on it then pull it from stores and when you ask about it they tell you it was 'seasonal' LOL!!
Here in Australia they do the seasonal item thing and generally change the special items every week or 2 (except for Christmas items which they have for up to 2 months).
As mentioned they usually bring back the same seasonal stuff same time next year, although some foreign food themed stuff (Asian, Mexican etc) is on the shelf every 6 months rather than every 12 months.
German aldi's are the best better then Dutch ;-)
I understand the concept of seasonal items and have no problem with those... it's items they have had for YEARS and then they stop them... like the foot long beef sticks they just recently phased out in US stores! Those things sold like hot cakes (think my wife bought at least half the supply LOL!). We were actually going to 3 different Aldi's looking for them when she found out they were discontinuing them!! Luckily she found a substitute at the local Save-a-lot!!
There is a very good reason for your observation (and actually many retailers have this )
Aldi will use it's purchasing power to get a very low price from a supplier. The next round of contracts, Aldi (read any supermarket chain) will force the supplier into an even lower price or more favorable conditions.
Until eventually the supplier cant accept the conditions or finds a better chain to do business with, or has to sacrifice on quality... Either way, Aldi won't stock your favorite snack anymore.
Dozo G True, the other supermarket chains here in Australia have now dropped their contract offers so low trying to compete with Aldi that Aldi now has large global brand items like Cadbury and Nestle (as well as others) on their shelves every few months.
Even the DK press Lego books regularly appear during the Christmas toy sales at Aldi over here..
Don't know about Aldi in America but here in Australia, you can purchase your own reusable token to put into that coin slot to use Aldi's trolleys. Which I think is a great idea. 1 it means you don't have to carry money on you & 2 ( the coin slot thing) makes you responsible for returning the trolley to where it came from. Which people should be doing, no matter where you shop at. Trolleys shouldn't be littered all over the place( think about that next time you're doing your weekly shopping and the trolley is a bit wonky. It's wonky because someone misused or mishandled that trolley some time in the past) Also returning the trolley means the next shopper who comes along doesn't have to worry about finding a trolley to use( which is a scenario that has happened to all of us at least once in our shopping experience. And it always seems to happen at the most inconvenient of times doesn't it?)☮️
Fiona P we've had those coins here in the UK for years and years, maybe a decade!
Definitely wonkey lmao
Fiona P ... I just hate a wonkey trolley. I think I drive one of those and it says Ford on it.
Fiona P .....Hi Fona. We americans can sure tell your Australian. Wonky !!! like wobbly.
Fiona P Wow
I like aldi. They have good quality foods for a decent price.
....good quality horse-meat packaged & sold as beef too, don't believe me? Google the story. Sloppy, inadequate management at Aldi for this to have ever happened for any reason. Good luck to you with the "mystery-meats" they sell at Aldi if you're still brave enough to be continuing to buy your food there
Johnny-B Racer I am 🙋🏽♂️
Nope, they’re expensive.
@@johnny-bracer6515 tja not only aldi. Ikea. And so many more. And lots we dont know.
In England they came out tops in terms of pricing overall, in a 2018 survey
I've been shopping Aldi for decades!!! Even way back when practically all they carried was canned goods. They are SO different now! I've said for years now that Aldi has gotten us through a lot of long winters during which we would have had very little fresh produce if not for them! Now their product line is so extensive, even with many German imports, especially, but not only, around the Holidays!
There's a reason Aldi employees are paid more than most people in similar work. They are super-human mega machines and Aldi won't employ just anybody. I adore Aldi and have respect for the super humans that work there.
Shame then! Love our Aldi, we only go there for very specific things, but I love everything about it in general.
Sandy Lee "Aborted Baby Parts"?!?
That is too absurd to fashion an argument against!
Say, compared to walmart particularly. As I like to say. "Man there's a lot of high-priced talent standing around here." Not all of them of course, but far too many. The useless ones have reached their peak in employment life. They probably park up close to the store as well.
I work for Aldi. I can confirm we are indeed superhuman
Sandy Lee Pepsi does NOT contain "aborted baby parts"!
One of the sweetener companies they dealt with used fetal tissue to test their product ( don't ask me to explain how, look THAT up yourself! I'm not a scientist, I don't understand it!) which Pepsi didn't even know about until after the fact.
No argument here that use of aborted tissue is awful, BUT PepsiCo didn't do it AND the tissue was Never IN the product!!!!
Stop following around after rumors with your tongue hanging out!!!!
I had no idea Trader Joe's, was apart of the Aldi.
Sheree Morgan they're not.
plush furr The video says so. Trader Joe's is an Americanized version of Aldi.
Nae Too , it's not. Trader Joes existed as is, independently of Aldi before the owners of Aldi purchased the chain from it's creator and original owners
Trader Joe's is NOT Aldi...
He said it pretty much is Aldi
So in Belgium i grew up with aldi. Honestly I don't know what you guys are used to in the US... Items still being in boxes on te+he shelves? So what.. If it makes the price cheaper I would gladly unpack the f ing box myself. A grocery shop is there to provide you with food, wether the food is is still displayed in a half box or not really does not make a difference. Paying a deposit for a shopping cart? This is literally the case in every shop in Belgium. We don't have people packing our groceries either.
In a country where so many people barely have money to buy food, I think priorities are seriously shifted to the wrong place.
It does give me hope that you talked about the bees. Yey
Arne Van Eycken ....You are so right about priorities.People want the whole ball of wax. They want pretty stores, faster check out lines, unlimited selection, free bags, and low prices! They obviously have no idea what 'overhead' is.They don't understand the power of advertising. Hell, many don't even know how to figure out price per ounce in their head, and god forbid they use that calculator on their 'smartphones'. Big business absolutely loves ignorant people. They make bigger profit margins off them all the time.
Think the same way.. I'm from US. Just saying
Too many lazy people in USA!
U GUYS ONLY HEAR ABOUT THE PEOPLE PLACED ABOVE MIDDLE CLASS. AGAIN JUST SAYING.. YES. PPL EVERYWHERE THAT MAKE ALOT OF MONEY ARE LAZY AND EXPECT ALOT..
Well and welfare ppl are lazy too.. lol.. there a good number of ppl though that work hard for what they have n love SHOPPING @aldi
Here in the UK, Aldi is well respected. I'm a power tool freak. Recently I purchased a Makita battery Combi Drill and Impact drill kit for about 180 pounds with 2 year warranty and 1500Ma/h. Went into Aldi and purchased a nifty battery operated drill with removable chuck and option for hexagonal drill driver 2000Ma/h and three years warranty for around thirty-five pounds. I use this Aldi Workzone tool in preference to the Makita. In fact the Workzone brand is proving to be popular with tradesmen here in the UK. They soon walk out of the shop. Sellers on EBAY are selling Workzone products as used goods for higher prices than Aldi sold as new! Cannot say anymore than that!
greedy boards on eBay. I wd never buy from them. and cheats.
I'm SO happy this was a positive video! My cousin turned me on to ALDI for the prices, but I had no idea the standards were this high, and am no longer leary of buying everything from them. I'm praying the prices don't skyrocket once people catch on. At 55 I'm in the worst financial place, and I did everything correct. A decade long illness which has turned out to be terminal has wiped me out $$$, so this is truly good news. ALDI'S version of Thin Mints for $0.98 are better than Girl Scout cookies in my opinion, and their pumpkin tortilla chips are my all time favorite chip. Healthy, low fat and sodium, but more than that they're DELICIOUS. 👍👍👍👍👍👍
I really like their fig bars, better than fig Newtons. I will try the thin mints.
Maria McLaughlin they are high they are a German chain why higher standards than the American ones. We have them here in Europe to!
Hey me too, glad its a positive video!! I like the place myself. Wishing you the best ❤
Maria McLaughlin jhgvnn nn.
In Europe, at least in the Netherlands, every single grocery store requires a coin to use their shopping carts.
In Germany, too. It's a good idea, it stops people from just leaving the carts wherever.
Same in the uk except Tesco.
In Australia as well.
H.P. Vogel yes they are called trolly coins. You can buy then in most supermarkets/poundshops/ebay/amazon.
They are good to have as once you buy one, you can't spend it, meaning it 'should' always be in your wallet/purse when you needed it, unlike a euro or pound coin, which today is easy not to have on hand.
Btw a euro will fit in a uk UK trolley and pound vice versa
freibier well I see so many shopping cars all over town (coin inside and everything) that I really starting to doubt it.
They just opened an Aldi in my neighborhood, and I wanted to know what kind of a supermarket it is - before going in.
I learned everything I wanted to know.
Great video, thank you.
YOU LEARNED NOTHING FROM THIS FOOL
They work hard unlike u
You could’ve just walked into the store without watching a video. Do you think someone is going to watch to see if you bought anything? Silly.
Some misinformation is in this video...
The shopping cart situation is perfectly normal for _any_ German store that has carts. It's just the way Germans are used to dealing with those.
And the US IS NOT the only country, where both Aldi Nord & Süd coexist, since both (obviously) are present in Germany.
Exactly this. American living in Germany. I prefer the coin deposit. Gives me those extra steps for walking. Although I have to agree with some people. Aldi is a damn confusing place to shop at sometimes.
This is all true, but it is very unusual for USA shoppers to have to drop a quarter to get their cart. :)
+J.R. Caldoon The food at Aldi they sell here in USA is garbage compared to any Aldi in Europe, my fiancée lives in Germany and i can't believe the difference from the food sold there compared to here! A German owned store that don't sell any German food here! Terrible
We also use them in the uk weird to hear of a trolley without money in it.
Shopping cart deposits are normal everywhere in EU.
I always keep an Aldi quarter in my car
Michael Keller you are not the only one my friend lol.
Haha my mom does that!
Michael Keller: Me too.
I've kept a cup holder full of change for years. The only place I use it is Aldi's. Lol
Ha! We do too.lol
I remember shopping at Aldi with my parents in Chicago since the 1990's. When I moved back in my 20's I continued shopping there. Its been 16 years and I just shopped there last weekend. I love the new products they have like veggies and other name brand items.
I only know Aldi from living in Chicago for three years. Love it. Didn't know Trader Joe's was Aldi until I saw this vid.
Depositing for shopping carts is 100% normal in Germany, so I'd suppose they didn't even think about that too much...
As a bee keeper my hat is off to ALDI. I love my local Aldi store.
Jay Bee....Yes, at least here in NY State they are. Everybody in my beekeepers club fight with this year after year. Its way worse now than 25yrs ago when I first started. But, its worth the fight, we need the bees.
Man fuck bees what the hell do they do???
Tory Ellis......you win the prize for the stupidest statement of the day.They only pollinate all the plant life on earth. Without that....we all begin to starve to death. That's what they do.
Wow😂 i totally thought you guys would know that was a joke. OF COURSE bees are important!
went 2 the grand opening 2 yrs. ago have been shopped ALDI since LOVE ALDI! the home delivery is convenience also!
Ok wait no. I work for Aldi and some of this is wrong. You used info about the European Aldi and extrapolated it to the US Aldi. Aldi US just won two employer awards, one from Forbes magazine, as one of the best employers in the country. We take surveys once a year about what we like and dislike about working there, and the company responds. For example, in response to the work-life balance thing, they tweaked our vacation and request-off policy to be much more generous (vacation rolls over year to year now instead of use it or lose it, for one example). Aldi Sud and Aldi US are similar but different enough that it is quite unfair to use European info to describe the US version.
Yeah, but it's all relative luvvie. Over here everyone gets loads more statuary paid holiday and shorter hours than you do in the US, so the fact Aldi is offering you holiday carry over is nothing to them.
Margaret Gardner you may have a point, but ALDI rocks regardless! ❤❤
London Calling you're absolutely right. Labor standards and general empowerment of the labor force is crap over here. The fact is they could be more generous, but they operate within the system and expectations of the society Around them. Here, they can be among the best employers for simply doing a minimum, where in other places, it's the standard or even lower. We can be cynical that way. But the fact is, in the 5 years I have worked here, I have seen exponential growth and an honest effort on the part of the company to balance their employees' job satisfaction, staying ahead of the curve in the market, expanding, sustainability, efficiency....
They are not a publicly traded company,so they can afford to invest in the company's stability and workforce quality, since they are not chasing quarterly profits and other such pitfalls of big business.
Hi Margaret. Good points honey. A company who doesn't invest in its staff and pay heed to their careers is not following a clever business model, so Aldi is on the right track. Hope working conditions improve even further for you. I'm always shocked when I see the long hours / lack of holidays and perks that you guys endure over there. People slow down and start to lack motivation when they are worked too hard and not given incentives, so productivity suffers then anyway. Regards from the lazier side of the pond!
I love my Aldi checkout ladies and manager! The ladies at the checkout are always in a hurry to complete transactions, but make a point to speak to me and talk to my little boy. The manager walks the store and is always keeping things straight. When I couldn't find a special buy the day it was released, he called in and found it at two other local stores without me asking. The employees are always super helpful. I'm glad you're treated well!
THIS VIDEO DID IT FOR US! We're shopping at Aldi from now on. Love the parts about phasing out the pesticides that harm honeybees (we're beekeepers) and people, too, and the GMO's. We live quite rural and make one long drive per month for our grocery order and Aldi is even farther, but we'll make the drive because of the pesticides and GMO's, etc. Thanks for the information.
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There's actually no bagboy in Aldi! 😂
There is NO bag boy to be stressed out
true
That's what I said!
Rhonda Waldron xactly. U gota pay 4 bags n a cart😐 like really... unless u bring ur own bag. Wel that defeat the purpose uv going n 2 shop.
plush furr it's better for the planet to encourage people to bring reuseable bags, and at least you can pack the backs exactly how you'd like rather than putting some kid through the ringer or just complicating his job. It really isn't that big a deal. Pack you own bags and save yourself some money.
plush furr nah the whole purpose of going in to shop is to buy your groceries. plastic bags are awful for the environment.
Of all things, I never imagined I'd end up watching a CZcams video about Aldi...
omgitsMeerkatChris lololol
me either, but here we are! NOW I'll go find a great headbanging video! ALDI is pretty cool tho!
omgitsMeerkatChris yesss
omgitsMeerkatChris I know I don't understand it either
Right
It warms my heart to see, something good when it comes to food. I love seeing quality food for lower prices. I do most of my shopping there. It feels good buying food that is not full of pesticides and chemicals. We need more stores with 💓 and morals.
?? Bag boy seems stressed?? Ummm it's Aldi, and here they don't have bag boys!!???
the Cashiers don't bag your stuff either. its up to you.
I respect grocery chains with baggers more i feel like American chains are better tbh
Before visiting the us I have no idea bag boys existed. I have never seen them in any european country. Grow up and bag your shit by your self
skkrt skrrrt angry? Geeze....
skkrt skrrrt, I dont remember which european coutry it was, but I have seen a shop, where chashiers put your stuff directry into bags. And in one premium russian chain there are bag girls.
LOVE Aldi! Without it, we would be eating pbj sandwiches and ramen noodles, literally. The prices are great and I can get in and out quickly. Yes there may be 5 people in line with one cashier, but the cashiers are always Super fast with ringing things up since they don't have to bag it.
Destinee Gradwell
I know that's right ..I had to go to Walmart and them line's are super long and slow and their cashiers aren't very nice at all..
In and out quickly???? I had to get lettuce for a pizza shop I was working and always had to wait behind 20 people!! One fucking cashier is not enough! That place is disgusting and smells funny too.
Aldi are doing a great job in undercutting the big, established supermarkets/stores here in the UK and are very popular. They were slow to catch on and many people were a bit snobby about them and then realised their products were often much better than big name brands (like Kelloggs) and less costly. Their chocolate is FAR better than such as Cadbury which, sad to say, is completely spoilt since being taken over by US giant, Kraft, who are despised for promising to keep production here then later shipping it overseas.
Putting a £1 coin (or similar-sized token) in a trolley and returning it to it's base is the norm here, as is packing your own groceries. We don't have a big service sector here as the US. It is a problem when they whizz them through faster than you can pack but I scoop all into the basket or trolley and pack on the nearby window ledges. Variety is a little restricted but they do a great range of non-food items which constantly change, re-appearing at various intervals so you grab 'em when you can.
Thank you for the correction. Serves me right for not checking facts as i normally do instead of relying in heresay! I thought they were.
Enlightened Patriot
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Yet I might be forgiven when I read the TOP answer here to this question -
"They are two brothers. The Brothers Albrecht
The one brother started out with the Aldi stores, in which his brother had a part, but the two brothers fell out with each other and thus his brother decided to start a competing company LIDL and apparently up untill today there is no love lost between the two"
Might be a common misconception as they do operate in a very similar way. :-)
uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080207033450AAncz3f
Of you are from the UK them why do you use Americanisums such as store's instead of shops and groceries instead of shopping?
Because I am aware that most users of YT channels I visit are mostly frequented by Americans so, as a matter of consideration and to avoid misunderstanding, I try to clarify where there are terminology differences.
Supermarket/store covers both sides of the Pond. Shopping pertains to ALL goods, here we are discussing predominantly a `grocery' store, that also being a fairly common English term. You will have seen that sign over some shop fronts and supermarket counters I'm sure.
I have not yet resorted to American spellings. I think you are splitting hairs.
My wife and I just were at Aldi in Owatonna Minnesota, we bought all organic food for cheap! ALDI is my favorite grocery store!
I really like Aldi, and most of the workers at the local Aldi that i go to really love working there. In the 9 years I have been shopping at Aldi's, I have not seen but a few employees leave Aldi. Aldi really saves me a lot of money, and I will continue to shop there.
Well I learned something new today... I had no idea that Trader Joe's was a version of Aldis.
DD Harrell Me neither
Everyone calls it " aldis " whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
DD Harrell me neither. Mind blown.
They get you coming and going.
I heard that they where similar.
Who needs fancy fruit and veg displays anyway? I love Aldi, you can't get everything you need and range is limited but it's value for sure.
if you fancy off tasting slop
Hell yeah! Go to Aldi, etc first and get the bulk of the shopping, then go to the more expensive places for the last few bits 'n' pieces. Works for me!
Rob Roy i just wish they did home delivery be good.i dont like to shop on line.i would by more stuff if it was delivered and wen u aint got transport .u can only carry so much
Rob Roy ....Me likes fancy displays and music to shop by! But then again....me mom says me stupid.
Every place should do the cart deposit.
it's a European thing, here every shop does it, it's not an Aldi invention lol
Right cause then people actually return the carts where they should be.
Moon Dancer
That's called cheapness.
Pathmark used to charge and Edwards and as a kid I would go and find the shopping carts and return them for the .50 cents but this was long time ago like 20yrs lol. Nough place are gone
Moon Dancer - bullshit!
My wife used to work at an Aldi in OH and then transferred to an Aldi in MD and I couldn't wait for her to find another job. Sure, the pay is better than competing stores, but the amount of work she used to do compared to like Wal-mart, for example, is insane. I think in an 8 hour shift (which always ended up being 9-10 hours), she would usually take about a 10 minute break. They'd only have like 3-5 people running the entire store at any given time. She would do everything... unloading trucks, stocking shelves, smashing cardboard, cleaning the bathrooms and running checkouts. She would literally jog around the store sometimes. The place is a sweat shop and not worth the extra $2 per hour.
Their cashiers can sit down.
Yup!!! Because from 6-9 we’re throwing a truck of 26 pallets that have to be done by 9am when the store opens
Dottie Villegas yes ikr
All cashiers/checkers should be able to sit down. Some one standing at attention as they tend to me does not make me feel important or like I am the most crucial thing in their life. Their comfort makes me feel good. I love Aldi's!
Here in Finland, I've noticed that most people get to sit down, whether it be at Aldi's (here it is called Lidl) or otherwise. I even see hairstylists sitting, which I never saw in the US where I was from. Most people aren't required to stand from what I've seen, unless it's a job where you really and truly have to. I wish they would adopt this practice everywhere else. :/
Most stores cashiers don't sit down though right? At least here in my area they all seem to be standing. Even in gas stations, etc... I think they should be able to though.
My son works for Aldi's. It's a great grocery store. You can make money working for them. They close at 8 and not 9. You lie, there are no bag boy. You bag your own groceries.
Debra Thomas depends on the area.. The aldis here in NJ closes at 9
In Pa. open @9 close @ 9
Fuentes omurgosh another new jerseyian HAI FAM.
Some close at 8 some at 9. My store stored s about to switch tomorrow as a matter of fact. We start closing at 9 tomorrow, after being an 8 o'clock store for years. way back in the day Aldi was not even open on Sundays
Debra Thomas,No Lies, different in different areas.Don't need baggers,rather do my own.Ours pays $15.hr.Always upgrading,LOVE Aldi's!
I love Aldi shopping carts. I wish more stores had 25cent locking carts. It definitely helps keeping the carts where they belong
nunchaku101 How else can they get people to take the carts back? Most people don't care about where they leave the carts, sometimes even leaving them where it can damage a car. You'd have to realize that all big chain stores have some hand in the NWO agenda. The best thing you can do is go to a farmer's market.
Since Walmart ran our local grocers out, We were blessed to get Aldi's!
with 20 bucks, I walk out of Aldi with almost more than I can carry
Hey, if you're living on your own and don't make much money, Aldi's was always on budget.
Just eating an aldi yoghurt 👌
Aldi is better than it used to be. I love the low prices.
paul mryglod and
Han Skinslo Not only are their prices good but I think the food is better than national brands. The money we save shopping there enables us to afford other thing.
I love Aldi! Its no nonsense shopping. Their produce is amazing and prices are rock bottom. YEA ALDI!!!
When you do not waste half of your earnings or more on advertimsement, you can afford to keep prices low
you got it!
Trader Joe's is supposably the same as Aldi. But they are a LOT more expensive than Aldi.
S Brannon Trader Joes is modeled more like Whole Paycheck.
Because if you notice they have shelves and larger staff, two factors that keeps Aldi prices lower but Joes doesnt use carts either at least the 3 i know of in my area.
I LOVE ALDI , SO GLAD WE HAVE ONE 1/3 THE PRICES AT FANCY STORES AND CARRIES NOW ORGANIC FOOD FANTASTIC. GB
"Organic" lol. Did you verify that with a lab?
My wife shopped always at Aldi growing up in Vienna, when she moved to America 12 years ago and she found one, she was so happy, and turned me on to Aldi. I love this store! Best grocery store in America.
Albrecht bought Trader Joe's in the 70's. This video makes it seem like Aldi created Trader Joe's and that is not the case.
Great catch...I did some reading and it seems as thought it was passed on to "family" so I think Albrecht gave to his heirs or those that own Aldi. But you are correct. They did not create Trader Joe's.
The Albrecht klan boight it from the founder Jou Coulombe, in 1979.
*Aldi 100% DID create Trader Joe's!!!* this is not the 70's it's 2017 so forget all of the old unapproved history of lies you remember .
1 Day Late & 2 Dollars Short holy shit they didn’t make Trader Joe’s. Next time do some research before you start spitting shit.
ALDI Sud owns the U.S. branch of ALDI, while ALDI Nord owns Trader Joe's.
ALDI split into two regional stores with two different logos after the Albrecht brothers did not agree on whether or not they should sell cigarettes in their stores. ALDI Sud has the brightly-colored logo used on most of their international ALDI and Hofer stores.
I wholeheartedly support Aldi USA!!! Staffing us great! Prices are fantastic -- which is why they fi not stock shelves in traditional way.
W Winterheart .. Were you to dig a little deeper, you'll find that most of their items are sourced in the USA -- like any grocery store. Walmart Great Value is a prime example of such sourcing. Any imported item will have a label that designates country of origin.
My family loves Aldi's. Just past weekend I got a big bag of fresh peaches; during winter no less. Only a $1.99 a bag and that is cheap for fruit. We get all of our fresh produce from them.
Honey Bliss Fresh chemically treated food xD
Me too!
domienik1984 Not any more so than any other standard store...and I'm not even sure as much as other stores.
Aldi is working toward providing more natural, less processed foods, across the board, over & above their organic line.
Honey Bliss hello
Sad to tell u guys but the fruit y’all eating is fake. You all brainwashed. #staywoke
l shop there...you can get some good things but not everything! you really do save money!
The shopping cart thing is from ALDI's country of origin, Germany. In Germany, all retailers do the coin deposit cart thing. It's just standard practice there.
They must have as many lazyass fat slobs too tired to put their cart in the carthole as we do here in lazyass fat slob America. There are way way too many handicap license plates here too.
Tanith Rosenbaum I think it is a genius idea and keeps their carts being used more by homeless to be stolen and driven all over the neighborhoods!
I have been shopping at ALDI's store since it opened in my neighborhood. And although the video was informative, it missed two important elements. ALDI management hires people of different ethnic groups, and does a good job of choosing them. All of the employees that work at ALDI are VERY COURTEOUS and helpful. This is rare in many businesses and stores in particular. Too many people working in other stores have negative attitudes, don't know their merchandise, and don't care about helping or being helpful to customers. I haven't seen any negativity with the employees that work in this store.
We absolutely love Aldi. I go every 2 weeks. An advantage trip for my family of 3 including a teenage boy is 89.00 that's for most of our shopping for 2 weeks!!!! The produce is our favorite!
There is an Aldi down the road, opened up about 7yrs ago and I’ve never been. I am now interested to chk it out
The deposit for your cart is pretty common in Europe , every store has it.
After early skepticism I have to admit that Aldi offers very good products and a great price. Don't mind the warehouse appearance of the stocking shelves as long as the store is clean and the merchandise is of good quality. Normally generic brands are avoided when shopping but Aldi generics are better than expected and in many cases as good as the name brand items. An interesting story too, great video.
they sold us horse meat labeled as ground beef. F that place.
I place that blame on the supplier. Aldi wasn't the only company affected by that back in 2013. The US got lucky that none of it was sold here (UK, Sweden, France). I was dubious as first too, but I like a lot of their brands better than big names.
The 'trolley deposit' that you speak of in the video - this is standard at every supermarket in the UK, not just Aldi.
That's the standard in every European country I´ve been too
Now to get rid of the high fructose corn syrup in the USA. That stuff is terrible! Their brand of teriyaki marinade is delicious but has the high fructose corn syrup in it.
moejoesmom blame your government. They’ve subsidised farming to sell that to food chains for less than it actually costs to make.
Wegmans has the food you feel good about label on their products. It means theres no additives , preservatives, high fructose corn syrup ect. Wegmans also has their own organic farms and team up with local farmers for fresh organic produce! They believe in buying local! Wegmans is awesome!
Aldis isnt bad though. They've gone organic in my area of NYS.
Yeah. Their hands are in everything.
there are so many ways to label high fructose corn syrup differently and still be FDA approved, its not bad for you, its that is in nearly all processed foods, do what you can to buy fresh and make it at home
Yes I figured if it came from the earth than it’s better for you. I’m not big into processed foods at all. Love summer fruits and veggies! I know there was a petition going around demanding the FDA ban HFCS. Bottom line if consumers refuse to buy the products with the stuff it would force the manufactures to change. It’s just like when the gas prices went up, the food prices went up and never came back down. The sizes of things shrank too. Example ice cream. I just started making my own.
I gotta say when I went into Aldi and shopped with my mother I used to say to her I think these people are Christians because every time I come here I have a good experience and I feel relaxed and customers help each other in that store i mean almost all of them. NO other stores do this for me usually I feel sick and stressed out and feel cut throat games are going on. I never feel that taken advantage of when I am there. It feels like they actually care. Also another HUGE THING IS nobody else feels stressed out either they all are relaxed and happy. HOW DO I KNOW? THEY LOOK IN YOUR EYES AND SAY THINGS LIKE DO YOU WANT TO GO IN FRONT OF ME IN LINE? OR TAKE YOUR TIME AND THEY MEAN IT.
ALSO HUGE THING IS I was short money and broke I couldn't afford bags one day and out of nowhere the family in front of me bought way too many bags like 5 and gave them all to me! It was exactly what I needed 5 bags! ANOTHER TIME I WAS BROKE AGAIN( AS USUAL) SOME GUY (with his little boy) IN FRONT OF ME PAID THE PART OF THE BILL I COULDN'T AFFORD AND GAVE ME MONEY FOR MY POCKET!!! I think God touched his heart he was so nice and a good example for his son, He looked like a minister all dressed up with a long black coat (London fog or something). EVERYONE THERE SEEMS FRIENDLY EVEN CUSTOMERS.
SOMETHING IS GOING ON THERE THAT IS VERY GOOD AND GOD WILL BLESS THIS STORE AND ALREADY HAS SINCE IT HAS BEEN OPENED SO LONG. There has got to be something they are doing different. Idk what but I have not ever had a bad experience in that store. Not once. They care about disabled people and elderly. Cashiers rush out of the back to open a line for a disabled person if the line is even slightly long. I remember when they first opened it was a bit hard for them to find good employees but when they did it went great! Smooth as can be. I don't go around making compliments for nothing but when it is due I give them. I passed this video to my mother she likes Aldi a lot it is her favorite store! Mine too!
I actually prefer a lot of stuff from Aldi's over any other store. Idk why
Probably because you don't have to choose among two dozen varieties of spaghetti sauce.
Because your a hipster.
I like the off brand poptarts better
The fact you have to use coins to get a cart honestly is a good thing because if you seen Walmart you'll know that its common to see shopping carts in the damn streets
Aldi is the best market EVER! I rarely shop anywhere else
The shopping carts are handled that way by almost all stores all across western Europe
Cheap prices plus non-gmo? YES!!
Micheal Carver "A 2015 survey by the Pew Research Center shows this divide. Nearly 9 out of 10 scientists from the American Association for the Advancement of Science say GMOs are "generally safe" to eat. Though if you're like more than half of U.S. adults from the general public in that same survey, you think you probably shouldn't eat them"
What's wrong with gmos in the first place?
Nikolai Grish - 10/10 of my internal warning sirens say health advice from the USA is generally unsafe to swallow.
@Nikolie Grish GMOs are not safe at all. They have not even been studied long enough to determine their health risk. Not all GMOs are created equal. GMOs can be created to intentionally kill whatever digest it also;such as what occurred in Australia with the millions of Kangaroos dying.
@@nikolaigrish 9 out of 10 scientists in the USA, Canada and EU are paid shills.
Been shopping at Aldi for 40 years. Great food. Great prices. They’ve never had bag boys.
No bag boy at our local Aldi's. We keep reusable cloth bags in the vehicle and a quarter.
In and out quickly. Good prices. Carry most of what we want.
My favorite grocery store that was a non chain grocery store with Save-A-Lot.
The owner of the building went up on their rent and force them out of business.
You were lucky. There was a Sav-A-Lot near me that was in a poor neighborhood. It smelled like ass in there. Literally. Their lemons and limes were as hard as baseballs. They did have lots of specialty Mexican products in there, which sounds good, but it also meant that EVERYONE spoke Spanish in there.
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Hehe I live in UK here we have aldi and lidl to fulfil all our needs
Aldi like Liddl is for poor unsophisticated shoppers. In most deprived parts of the country and cities.
Jedi Lidl is the better choice, it's the one I go too
Asda and Tesco too
Tesco is the best
Will Melbourne I gotta agree with you there
I grew up on Aldi that's how we kept our cabinets full on a low budget. And I'm from Illinois. Thank you Aldi 🤗
Funny to hear an American talking about this when I’m from Ireland and there are loads of Aldi’s and it all seems so normal
they are better than walmart
But i only shop there cause i cant afford real store i hate bagging my shit i hate i still gotta go to walmart for some stuff and the dollar store i used to use 1 store now i have to go to 3 or 4 crazy makes ya feel poor ! Well to me anyway !
Ross O'Donnell
When working in Ireland a few years ago I shopped in their HQ store at Naas just west of Dublin. Usual stuff but all the employees seemed to be Polish.
Melinda Smith Sorry, but that's absurd!!!
First off, Aldi IS a REAL store!!!
They have better quality products than many store that charge full prices, certainly AS good!
Yes, I wish I could shop small locally owned shops instead of big chains like Wal-Mart too, but unfortunately small shops have to charge more & too often end up out of my price range.
My contention, too, is that WM isn't any worse than K-Mart, Target or any of the others, people just focus more on their lesser traits....we see pics of people dressed in weird outfits, etc., supposedly at WM...what would be said about them if they they turned those "odd" people away from their doors?!?
There's plenty more I could say on the subject, but just remember this, before you complain about which store you "have" to shop at....1 in 5 Americans go without enough food to eat, on a daily basis!!!
How POOR do you feel now?!?
Ross O'Donnell didn't know Ireland had Aldis..learn something everyday
I work there and there's way more than 8-10 employees...try 20. Great pay and benefits. They work with my home life. Been there a year and make 15 an hour. Normally get over 40 a week...😉 happy employee here. And there's no such thing as a caretaker aka cashier...everyone does everything
Michelle Litton That's awesome!
Michelle Litton My mom works there and she said that she nevers wants to shop/work there again because their "steak" was horse meat and she had to work with it 😝😝😝😷😷😷
Michelle Litton In the Netherlands only 3 or 4 employees.
We've had Aldi for as long as i can remember..
Big Baller. That can't be in America...either way that would be gross
Romin van der Meiden I'm in America and our store is very busy. One of the busiest actually. I'm sure it depends on need.
I love Aldi and always have a shopping cart quarter in my pocket and their bags I buy are good ones, not thin plastic! I'm am Aldi fan.Also, they have other items beside food: socks, weight scale, holiday decorations.❤
My Official Aldi Quarter lives on my dashboard...
I went into Aldi, the woman told me I had to rent a cart, so then I just held everything in my hands and then she didn't give me a bag. I returned everything. How am I supposed to walk home without any bags. Plus as other people have said, the packaging is terrible 😒
It's not "renting" a cart. You get the money back when you return the cart. Duh. Yes they make you pay for bags, which is good for the environment as it means you only get one if you need it.
Love it!
Sad to hear. Did you not have a bag or bag money? Some cashiers just give you a bag~I*ve seen cashiers do this.
I grew up shopping at Aldi with my mother and then shopped there as a young adult. I still shop there whenever I see one travelling now that I am 55. Love it. They still have some German products.
I love Aldi's. Best store around me .
Aldi, not Aldi's :)
I shop at Aldi and Giants.
perhaps today Mazel tov!
Skankhunt42 lmao
It's super cheap
I LIVE IN NEW JERSEY AND ALDI TOOK OVER MOST OF THE OLD GRAND UNION SUPERMARKET LOCATIONS IN MY AREA WHEN THAT CHAIN WENT BANKRUPT IN EARLY 2000'S. GOOOO ALDI,)))
DIZZY KNUTSAK You are very fortunate. Now you can buy and enjoy a healthful diet while saving lots. I'm in NYC and need to hike to the Bronx for the Aldi in almost Riverdale. So worth it!! Great European products. And nifty house and garden; pet stuff, too.
DIZZY KNUTSAK ...are the workers forced to unionize there in NJ?
I love Aldi. Great prices, fresh veggies. Great price on organic ❤😊
hello there my Also always has moldy produce.
I'm Hilary Not the Aldi's I go to. That's gross. Try going to another one.
yes, their organic prices are way cheaper than other stores most of the time.
Paying for a cart is very common! Prevents vandalism!
aldi doesn't have bag boys.
Tony Soprano you are the bag boy of your own stuff. 😂😂😂
Ivy Hays xactly😂
Alana Robertson 😒. It doesn't mean ppl r lazy. Majoritynuv stores hav bag boys. I guess ur sayn elderly women who r not as strong should bag their own groceries 2😐
plush furr My mom is 67 and disabled and can put groceries in a bag. If someone can't physically bag groceries, they probably can't manage shopping there anyway. My store doesn't have mobility scooters. I see elderly people in there all the time. They usually use discarded boxes and the checkout ladies put the items back in the boxes as they scan them.
Laura G - I am 63 and very disabled. I only shop at Aldi's because I don't have to try and walk around 20+ different aisles. Plus I have shopped there for almost 20 years due to their prices. The workers there know me and know that I have a difficult time with heavier items, so I don't have to take them out of the basket, until I get to the car. (I ask other customers for help to get them into the basket and they too are very helpful, considerate and nice). I then bag my items into light weight proportions in my heavy-duty Aldi's bags. It's when I get home, that's when I have trouble.
I've always loved Aldi Australia. The price difference is insane.
Loz all the people bitching about packing their own shopping bags and paying for the trolley ahaha
Alana Robertson I know! It's not hard to do it yourself and walk your trolley 20 metres to put it back. My Aldi just got a posh make over, bye, bye ugly yellow floors.
Loz I like being able to pack my own bags. I can put things in the bag just the way I like. We have a Woolworths right next to our aldi so I just use their non-deposit trolleys lol (they are both in a shopping mall and there are no aldi trolley stations on the exit we enter and leave from)
Alana Robertson I might have to switch to Charlestown Aldi, it's right next to a woolies and your trolley idea is amazing! Haha.
Food prices in Australia are insane. Here in Germany I can buy fruits from New Zealand cheaper than in Australia, even though I live close to the other side of the planet.
Tell them that many Aussi shops have replaced cashiers with self checkout and they might get a heart attack.
Pro bees deserves a thumbs up
freevideos051 All bees must die
Bee lives matter.
dandaddavi So you want to kill us all?
In Costa Brava Spain, lack of checkout staff has always been a problem, but they manage, it’s actually a nice and safe experience during these Covid 19 times, thanks team 😘
Thank you for clarifying the Aldi/Trader Joe's difference. I knew there was a shared parent company, but I guess it's more of a sibling rivalry. lol
I love Aldi's. Plain and simple.
In fact I am eating a pecan pie from them. Today I had bacon
Wrapped scallops from where?
You guessed it.
Aldi's Lovely Aldi's lol.
have u tried 'german style sauerkraut?! let me know. HAPPY NEW 2018 ! yez. ALDI the only!
i only have one complaint about Aldis foods: THE SALT CONTENT SEEMS too high. It doesnt matter what I buy there, all I taste is SALT. imo Actually, thats why I dont shop there anymore.
I don't eat bacon,I don't eat swine,no bottom feeder food for me,no crustaceans.
+Firstname Lastname Probably because your shopping at a Aldi in US not Europe, BIG difference!
P.J. R.C. helicopter lover omg thanks I was looking for some bacon wrapped scallops I could make at home. Thanks for info
I never knew aldi was in the usa plus the aldi uk staff are really well payed and they dont have to unload delivery trucks as the truck driver does it them self unlike most supermarkets in the uk who get the staff to help unload.
I love Trader Joe’s- my favorite store ever. When I lived in Germany- I loved aldi! But had no idea they were “related”. I went to Aldi yesterday and got sooooooo much for $30...!!
I am an ALDI fan! And I shop at an ALDI Food Market near me in, Mount Clemens, Michigan!☺
Danielle Tirpkoff me too. the best prices. i get everything from aldi. for 150 bucks my cart is overflowing. i have found some REALLY delicious items at aldi.
What did your parents wrong, so you become an ALDI fan? OMFG
my parents did nothing wrong. if you dont like the store then dont shop there. you have the choice to spend your money however and wherever you see fit.
You didn’t mention there special buys I love Aldis special buys
100 percent of supermarkets use the insert coin system on trolleys in England
Luke Davis
Not all.
Asda doesn’t
Germany too
I was just thinking that.
When I lived in the UK, my local Morrisons didn't require you to use a quid to take a trolley!
Shopping cart idea is great. You won't get your vehicle fucked up.
Yes. You also don't have to pay a guy who has to push the carts back the whole day. This is the standard in pretty much every European country
@@parzival9639 we are in the stone age
I love Aldi's everything I've bought from there is really fine you can't fault them at all and it's cheap
Shopping carts all take a deposit (£1 coin) in the U.K...
True. And we call them a trolley, not cart.
It's only 25 cents in the USA. I'm sure it's because most of us don't carry $1 coins.
A lot of Canadian grocery stores take a $1 coin, too. And even more of them used to, but some have phased it out.
One quarter in the U.S
Most in UK take a deposit, not all. Tesco in Stroud does not, for example, nor most of the other Tescos I have been to. Aldi have just received permission for a shop in Stroud.
We love Aldi's!!! The BEST BARGAINS!
I am a trucker in the UK and i have delivered to the Aldi Distribution centre and when you back on a bay you go in the back and unload yourself, so they save a lot of money by not having unloading staff as well, i expect some of that gets passed down to the prices.
I was an owner operator leased to a company in O'fallon missouri... I delivered to the Aldi stores from the warehouse. Couldn't wait to get the hell away from those cheap bastards..
I shop at Sainsburys here in the UK, but looks like ill be switching because of the no GMO and no PESTICIDES
Paying a trolley deposit is standard practice in Europe. All stores do it. Particularly here in the UK and Ireland. Can't blame Aldi for that one 😉
I love the quarter slot idea. It keeps people from denting your car.
This is not correct for the UK. Aldi is the only supermarket I've ever used that requires a deposit. Tesco, Sainsbury, Asda, Morrisons etc do not. I use Aldi weekly, as savings on grocery are excellent with quality mostly as good as their higher priced competitors. There other product lines are pretty good too, I've found some good tool and DIY items over the years, which have a 3 year warranty! If you can handle some inconvenience in exchange for good savings then it's a no brainer.
turboslag yip. Every supermarket except Aldi have abolished £1 deposits now in favour of electronic perimeters that lock the wheels when you try and leave the car park.
Its a great practice.
Free From The Cherry Tree same in Australia. My ex husband was an employee there. Management have an INSANELY HIGH STANDARD expected from their staff.
That deposit for the cart is very common in Europe. Here in the Netherlands every single grossery store has you put in a coin to unlock the cart. It doesn't even have to be actual money. At most grossery stores you can get a key chain for FREE that has a coin on it that will fit.
omg, the Trader Joe/Aldi truth shook me to the core, I literally looked like that guinea pig(?) meme you added. I wondered why I loved both so much, and then I remembered that my mum had mentioned that both were affiliated or something, but I didn't think much of it because she was vague. omg, shooketh.
I have always loved Aldi. They have really good quality specialty items. The items may not always be there but when you catch them load up!
Aldi is pure genius.
Putting a deposit in for your cart is a normal thing in Europe. All the supermarkets do it over here it’s mainly because people who don’t have cars use them to drive their groceries from the store to their houses. I used to know some people who accumalated 4 or 5 of these carts in their garden and didn’t Bother bringing them back for a long time.
Many stores prohibit people from taking the carts home nowadays. U have the Aldi but we have the Aldi and the Lidl wich are basicly the same thing in everything but name. I think the Lidl has more heart for it’s employers in general tho they also have more people working there so not just the bare minimum.
Don’t think because it’s cheaper that the products are worse. The Lidl has accumalted best fruit and vegetables price of all the supermarkets 7 times in a row. And many of these price fighter products are not only cheaper but rate higher also compared to their more expensive counterparts.
I would also rate their milk products very high and I can know cause I’m dutch.
Happy shopping !