MY Local Aldi show us yours...

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hollydolly

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This is my local aldi... just a few minutes drive from my house ( I didn't take this picture)...


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The Aldi store is the flat grey roof building on the right...and if you look to the far right where the trees and the Viaduct... is... I live up the hill beyond the viaduct and trees...

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A few are still located in older stores that had been something else at one time. The newer stores are stand alone & pretty much look alike, except for a few exceptions, depending on what type of lot they were built on. One thing I noticed is that a Barnes & Noble Bookstore was bought by Aldi & completely gutted & remodeled & is huge inside compared to others that I've been in.

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Lilac said:
I like the food specials they run during the different holidays, especially around Christmas. I also like the different products they bring in from other countries. Some of those used to be hard to find & when you did find them, they were at a high price.
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I don't know if you know but Aldi is German... so there's a lot of European products like Italian, & German hams.. etc which if bought in the bigger supermarkets would cost 2 or 3 times as much if you could get them
 
Lilac said:
A few are still located in older stores that had been something else at one time. The newer stores are stand alone & pretty much look alike, except for a few exceptions, depending on what type of lot they were built on. One thing I noticed is that a Barnes & Noble Bookstore was bought by Aldi & completely gutted & remodeled & is huge inside compared to others that I've been in.

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hollydolly said:
I don't know if you know but Aldi is German... so there's a lot of European products like Italian, & German hams.. etc which if bought in the bigger supermarkets would cost 2 or 3 times as much if you could get them
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They have been a lot of competition for our military commissary which carries a lot of European products. They also rival the prices on those goods.
The picture on the website is not our local Aldi.
 
Yes I do & you're right about the European products. My uncle in Germany always talks about Lidl. One of those stores was supposed to be built in the next county, but some thing else was put in there instead. So far they are all on the east coast in the U.S.
 
Lilac said:
Yes I do & you're right about the European products. My uncle in Germany always talks about Lidl. One of those stores was supposed to be built in the next county, but some thing else was put in there instead. So far they are all on the east coast in the U.S.
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We have as many Lidl Stores as we have Aldi, but the Lidl stores are usually smaller than the Aldi stores... In Spain the lidl stores are much bigger, more the same or larger than Aldi ... they sell similar things, even down to the Middle aisle special contents . in Lidl, it's called Lidl Middle.. in Aldi it's nicknamed the Aisle of Shame

13 Facts Only Real Aldi Fans Know About The Aisle Of Shame - Mashed


I actually prefer Lidl..to Aldi, but I don't have one near me . it's a 40 mile round trip..so I stock up when I go there..
 
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Aldi is in the process of gutting and refitting a former Big Lots store in a shopping center here.
I'll absolutely be checking them out when they open in a couple of months(?)
Maybe they'll be the little store that could.
In the meantime and only a block away and on the same side of the road ... Walmart. They have my groceries.
Photos taken Sunday night @8P.M.

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So far there are no Aldo stores in Canada.

There weren’t any in the western US, where we travelled a lot. Last year was 2019. Maybe it’s changed.
 
Jules said:
So far there are no Aldo stores in Canada.

There weren’t any in the western US, where we travelled a lot. Last year was 2019. Maybe it’s changed.
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A push to bring more competition into the Canadian grocery sector in the form of discount European brands such as Aldi and Lidl would face steep obstacles in Canada’s fragmented marketplace, experts say.

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The Competition Bureau’s probe into concentration among Canada’s grocers released Tuesday highlighted the role international competitors could play in lowering prices as food inflation continues to cause pain at the grocery store.

The report argued that introducing international grocers such as Aldi and Lidl would push the dominant incumbents — namely Loblaw, Metro and Empire — to lower prices to compete with the discount brands popular in Europe and some parts of the United States.

The Bureau drew on a 2008 report that showed the so-called “Aldi effect” drove down grocery prices in Australia when the retailer entered the country, and even used Canada’s experience with Walmart as an example to show how a new player can disrupt the status quo.


A Reuters report from 2008 shows a move from Walmart to cut prices on food staples by as much as 35 per cent put pressure on competitors to do the same; a 2015 Bank of Canada study showed that the company’s innovative cost structures were driving down prices elsewhere in the sector.
Chasing the ‘Aldi effect’: Why it’s hard for discount grocers to break into Canada - National | Globalnews.ca
 
hollydolly said:
We have as many Lidl Stores as we have Aldi, but the Lidl stores are usually smaller than the Aldi stores... In Spain the lidl stores are much bigger, more the same or larger than Aldi ... they sell similar things, even down to the Middle aisle special contents . in Lidl, it's called Lidl Middle.. in Aldi it's nicknamed the Aisle of Shame

13 Facts Only Real Aldi Fans Know About The Aisle Of Shame - Mashed


I actually prefer Lidl..to Aldi, but I don't have one near me . it's a 40 mile round trip..so I stock up when I go there..
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`Thanks for the 13 Aldi facts, Fascinating!
 

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