114 points

Maybe this will start a trend of businesses letting their cashiers sit down.

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20 points

The majority of checkouts at my local Aldi are self-service; I think Walmart might have started that trend.

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5 points

It’s required by state law in California

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2 points

I’ve seen a few cashiers at other places. Granted they were all older so maybe had a reasonable accommodation to sit, but maybe… Maybe…

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85 points

Aldi is great. Walmart has been robbing small towns in America without competition for long enough. I hope more Americans shop at Aldi and save more money while getting healthier food at a fair price.

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7 points

I drive 20 minutes out of my way to shop at aldi rather than win-dixie (which they’ve bought recently) down the street for my monthly large shopping.

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6 points

Does Aldi provide better deals than Walmart?

I used to shop there, but the prices were comparable and everything went bad fast.

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45 points

That is what fresh food not overloaded with preservatives will do. You should really make fresh produce shopping more of a daily activity as you need it. But not everyone has that kind of time understandably bi-weekly also doable for truly fresh produce along with you plan out your meals for the week

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4 points

That is what fresh food not overloaded with preservatives will do.

What are you talking about? Kroger is not injecting their apples with preservatives.

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You should really make fresh produce shopping more of a daily activity as you need it.

Are you fucking joking? You expect a single parent working two jobs to go shopping daily as well?

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27 points

everything went bad fast.

Yeah, that’s because the food is fresh and less treated than what most Americans are used to. Going bad fast is not necessary a bad thing.

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1 point

Fresh is not necessarily better, there’s nothing wrong with frozen food if you don’t mind the texture. And no it’s not like Kroger is injecting preservatives in apples.

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No, it’s because it’s old produce that is close to expiring.

The aldi simps here are insane, but another reason why I don’t take the masses seriously anymore.

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15 points

Aldi provides way better working conditions than Walmart, that’s for sure. Imagine being able to sit during a job that doesn’t require standing – in America!!!

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1 point

I didn’t even know that was an option until I walked into an Aldi.

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4 points

Almost everything at Aldi is private label, which is why it is cheaper (again you only find a few recognizable name brands). However, I will not by fresh foods from Aldi as most of the time as it goes bad fast. I do like their snacks and prepackaged deli stuff tho.

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That’s what fresh food is, not filled with preservatives and processed garbage that contributes to chronic low grade inflammation

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Is their food really “fresher” than Walmarts?

Can you provide any sources to back up that claim?

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0 points

Lol

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-1 points

Learn canning and preserving like baba

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1 point

Or just shop at Walmart.

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47 points

Hell yeah. Aldi is the shit

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44 points

smaller European entrant

I like how from the perspective of outsiders, Aldi is “small”. They’re huge here in Europe along with Lidl. The two make a meme of establishing shops next to each other wherever either exist.

I am glad that Aldi is setting up shops in US. The chain is pretty cheap though the food quality is okay compared to others. I haven’t really heard anything bad about Aldi so they are pretty good employers unlike many American shops like Walmart.

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Where I am in the US all our supermarkets suck, and are over priced. Aldi offers a clean environment with inexpensive food at decent non farm stand quality. When your alternative is double the price in a run down store or Walmart. Aldi is a very nice alternative.

I really don’t think it takes much for Aldi to compete in a large part of the US market. Even if they’re not the best because we have so much of the worst in supermarkets.

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IL native, so maybe its regional, but Aldi aint small here either xD

Not only are they everywhere, everyone i meet raves about the stark differences in prices between them and their other local stores.

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1 point

Yeah they’re ALL over at least northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin. And for the longest time, it was the only place I could find zero-carb bread that didn’t taste like garbage.

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8 points

I had a cut of gruyere from there a few weeks ago that was top notch. They got some real bargains for what some people would see as luxury food.

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5 points

The Aldi Brie is very good.

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8 points

They’re not a small company but their locations do typically have a very small footprint compared to the typical US grocery store… Much lower square footage.

They’ve been in US markets for decades at this point. They just don’t have locations in every region of the US or so many locations even in the regions that they do exist as to be considered ubiquitous.

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6 points

Aldi definitely isn’t small in the US. This is like calling Publix small just because you don’t live in Florida, or Love’s small just because you don’t live in the massive swath of the US they cover.

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5 points

Aldi is fairly new to much of America. Kroger in America is much, MUCH bigger. And of course Walmart dwarfs both.

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5 points

Its strange that they couldn’t get a hold of Denmark. They closed all their shops here last year, even shops that opened that same week! Must have been a very abrupt decision!

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1 point

People will argue that it’s working in Switzerland. But, I don’t think so. They are a little cheaper on certain article. And, I don’t see lots of people there during the day.

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2 points

Not in all of Europe, I don’t think I’ve ever seen an Aldi in Czech Republic or Poland

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They suck so much, im glad they closed all their stores in Denmark

We have better alternatives with equal or better prices etc.

Such as Netto

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5 points

Scandinavian bubble I think

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1 point

They trully were bad in Denmark though. Although they did get better just before they closed

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Please come to Colorado!!! I have my Aldi’s quarter ready!

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Please please please! Aldi’s would kill in CO, especially if the Kroger/Albertsons merger goes through. I kind of hope Aldi’s stays out of CO until we know if the merger will go through, though. Their presence would weaken the case against the merger.

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Specific locations for the new stores weren’t revealed, but the German company said it wants to strengthen its “already strong presence” in the Northeast and Midwest, plus expand out West in Southern California, Phoenix and new cities, like Las Vegas.

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