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15984995 No.15984995 [Reply] [Original]

Why can't American grocers compete?

>> No.15985001

greed

>> No.15985003

>>15984995
Aldi's isn't American?

>> No.15985009

>>15985003
It's from Yurope

>> No.15985022
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15985022

Not only is Publix better, but you don't have to pay to use a cart and they put your stuff in bags.

>> No.15985056

>>15985003
Its German

>> No.15985092
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>>15985003
IT'S ALDI
JUST ALDI
IT'S JUST FUCKING ALDI
THERE IS NO APOSTROPHE
NOBODY NAMED ALDI OWNS IT
STOP THIS

>> No.15985096

i went to Aldi once after hearing all the hype. literally just lanes of canned food. truly a shithole grocery store for fat retards.

>> No.15985097

>>15985092
It's Aldi's here in the US mate

>> No.15985100

>>15985003
oh god I hate americans so much

>> No.15985140

>>15984995
I hate that supermarket. 1 You have to pay to use the shopping carts. 2 the place is disorganized af. 3 They have shitty brands.

>> No.15985145

>>15985096
here in Switzerland it's for niggers and immigrants in general.

>> No.15985163

>>15985140
its "trader joes: the hood edition" literally.

>> No.15985164

lmao..
Kroger and Publix blow it away even walmart supercenter grocery stores do.

>> No.15985165
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>>15984995
Why can't alditards compete?

>> No.15985197

>>15985165
sure waitrose is nice but only for people who've (((made it)))

aldi is sufficient until your crypto is enough to let you retire a neet life

>> No.15985218

>>15984995
The aldis in my hometown is going out of business

>> No.15985224

walmart "great value" brand is usually half the price of the regular brand...also live in TX man I go cross the border to mexico walmart and buy groceries like 25c on the dollar compared to us walmart...

>> No.15985231

>>15985197
I haven't nearly made it and i shop there. I need to for a proper selection of food which most shops don't have. My food bill is about £100 a week all in all and im /fit/ so eat non stop.

>> No.15985239

>>15984995
We sure as shit can compete, it's called Costco. They can afford to sell you things at a loss like no one else can. Plus depending on where you live in the US you have very comparable options to Aldi.

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BOW DOWN

>> No.15985244

>>15985218
They building a second one in mine, literally 1200 meters from the other one. It's not like the first one is even packed at any time or anything.

>> No.15985265

>>15985218
It is just a (((cohencidence)))

>> No.15985287

All in avocados

>> No.15985293

I'm in the midwest US, and I used to shop at kroger, giant eagle, and meijer. Then an Aldi opened up nearby and my grocery bill per month is almost half of what it used to be. I typically buy store-brand shit anyway so the knockoff brands Aldi sells don't bother me.

What sets them apart is how efficient they are from other chains. They employ less people per store than other retailers, but they generally pay more, so the workers are inclined to actually give a shit. Ever walked in to a walmart and it's a bunch of overweight degenerates taking their sweet time scanning your items? Aldi doesn't have that. They're all about speed.

Read this article a while back, even Walmart's CEO is actually impressed with Aldi's strategy
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2019/05/business/aldi-walmart-low-food-prices/index.html

>> No.15985299

>>15985097
no it's not
t. aldi shopper

>> No.15985300

>>15985140
>>15985022

You don't pay to use the cart you fucking retards. You put in a coin that you get back when you return the cart.

>> No.15985305

Don’t go to Aldi, go to Lidl instead

>> No.15985321

>>15985140
>You have to pay to use the shopping carts
based retard...

>> No.15985333

>>15985300

>t. cart-returning cuck

>> No.15985342
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ALBERT HEIJN AND JUMBO ARE THE BEST SUPERMARKETS

>> No.15985352

>>15984995
>one cash register lane open
>one shelf stocker
>nothing but cans, just add water meals, nothing fresh
>no bags, no bagger
>have to rent the shopping carts and return them to get your money back so they dont have to have an employee spend time collecting them in the parking lot
really this store is for young and poor people. had a cutie bag my food and walk me to my car from publix.

>> No.15985358

Aldi's do so well because they make most of their good and control the whole process rather than just reselling. Also they let the wagies sit down and often have a weird section down the middle of miscellaneous stuff

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>>15985001
based mentally retarded sewage-blast-concussion patient

>> No.15985389

>>15985358
>miscellaneous stuff

The air conditioner in my bedroom is literally from Aldi.

>> No.15985478

>>15985300
Which is hella efficient for making sure niggers put their carts away and not having to pay wagies to round up carts in the parking lot.
This model should be adopted for a lot of other things.

>> No.15985518

Aldi = XRP
Lidl = link

>> No.15985585

>>15984995
Lulz, that's a typical German store in burgerville. Next thing you will be schnitzel.

You just need a Lidl now for a full Europoor package
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nghZdhqqGgk

>> No.15985628

>>15985352
Your Aldi must be shit or you haven't been there in 10 years, it's nothing like that around me. Fresh produce, frozen foods, local brewery stocked alcohol isle, baked goods, even kitchen ware and utility shit for around the house. The food is good quality and cheap. Years ago there was lanes of pallets with food on them throughout the store, very nigger tier, that is no longer the case.

>> No.15985649

>>15985585
We have Lidl now, but it looks like Aldi is going to kill them too.

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15985659

Stop embarrassing yourselves you ignorant fags.

https://www.businessinsider.com/h-e-b-is-americas-best-grocery-store-2014-3

>> No.15985662

>>15985649
Are the bananas straight or curved?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXk7MxR5seI

>> No.15985666

>>15985389
The air conditioner in my bedroom is figuratively from Aldi.

>> No.15985683

Lmfao @ poorfags not shopping at REWE

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>>15984995
europe has the worst fucking grocery stores, and they get progressively worse as you move northwest. i miss american grocery stores. by far the best in the world. norway has the absolute worst grocery stores in europe... absolutely pathetic selection overpriced as fuck but if you like shrimp embedded in mayonnaise there's a whole fucking aisle for that

>> No.15985695

>>15985293
ohio?

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>>15985695

>> No.15985773

>>15985163
The Aldi by me is literally across the street from the projects, no thanks I am not shopping there

>> No.15985813

>>15985628
Leaving pallets unattended in the middle of walkways is actually against OSHA regulations as it is a tripping hazard

>> No.15985832

Does Aldi have buffalo tender sandwich like Publix?
If not than it can fuck right the hell off

>> No.15985877

>>15985666
Checked. The air-conditioner in my bedroom is metaphysically from Aldis

>> No.15985884

>>15985092
Language is a living thing, get over it.

>> No.15985915

>>15985628
I bought a table saw from Aldi recently and it's quite good.

>> No.15985919

>>15985224
Holy shit can you actually do that and get away with it?

>> No.15985932

>>15985832
Wawa sandwich beats the fuck out of Publix.

>> No.15985973

>>15985092
No it's Aldi's cause I said so

>> No.15986025

>>15985932
lol Wawa is just barely a step above Subway

>> No.15986092

>>15985022
kroger > publix
>inb4 publix subs
gay

>> No.15986527

go to aldi
>have to pay to use a cart

never again

>> No.15986578

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>> No.15986591

Aldi sells half rotten garbage.

>> No.15986602
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>>15984995
>not eating grass fed meat from Whole Foods every day.

Poor fags.

>> No.15986640

>>15985022
kys Aldi is based af, you can get gourmet cheeses and meats super cheap.

>> No.15986657

>>15985694
>ew

>> No.15986662

>>15985342
>ALBERT HEIJN AND JUMBO ARE THE BEST SUPERMARKETS

where is that place located fren?

>> No.15986681

>>15984995

There's quite a bit of variance in our metro area. The most recent upgraded one by me has a 'bakery' now and they almost have an entire lane stocked with wine. They also have more speciality / pompous shit to eat too.

The one in the next town over can't expand because there's a large grocery next to it so they carry their basic staples and some of the rotating weekly specials, that's about it.

Some of their weekly rotation stuff is pretty cheap for what you'd get elsewhere. Some of the stuff isn't cheaper or poorer quality but overall the savings are worth a quick trip. You do get your trip done in under a half hour and it's kind of hard to splurge except for the weekly stuff.

The Walmart by me fights the 'normal/poor' one by me aggressively. I think Walmart considers them a considerable threat in the less wealthier areas. They're quite successful at finding hole in the wall locations and turning a profit.

>> No.15986682

>>15985659
>HEeb

>> No.15986685

>>15985231
yeah exactly you're wasting your money and pushing back retirement

>> No.15986693

>>15985518
Based

>> No.15986705

Aldi doesn't have the kosher tax stamp on it's products, Aldi is /our grocery store/

>> No.15986725

>>15984995
It's poor people food, just a European "Dollar Tree"

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>>15984995
>buying groceries
Who the fuck even does this anymore? I'm usually too busy working or too tired on the weekends. Most of my meals consist of takeout from the diner.

>> No.15986729

>>15985140

1) You 'rent' the cart with a quarter. You get your money back by not paying some kid to haul carts and the carts are less abused which is savings.
2) It's hectic but most of the time it's slow fucks taking up space. They learn. Employees are always running around organizing shit. Their pay is good but they earn it.
3) Overall they do well. You'd be surprised how it's all distributed from the same big players. They can run lower margins with exclusivity deals and not doing fancy packaging / storage.

>> No.15986747

>>15985241
more like Karen Market

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>>15986602
I love wholefoods but I'm a poor fag so I shop at new seasons, basically wholefoods lite

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>>15986602
I know how you can get grass-fed meat for free, Anon. Just suck a stoner's dick.

>> No.15986765

>>15985300
>he isn't stockpiling carts for selling as scrap metal when shtf

>> No.15986803

>>15985659
I stopped at an H-E-B while driving through Austin and I couldn't find a normal bottle of water anywhere in the store, the closest they had is hipster shit like Smart Water

>> No.15986811

>>15985919
yeah but you cant bring meat back across the border though

>> No.15986817

>>15984995
I’m so sick of you europoors. Go into a Ralph’s in California and you will literally think your shit store is 3rd world

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>>15986602
you think shes grass fed?

>> No.15986827

>>15985100
Fuck you have fun with socialism and 3rd world niggers

>> No.15986843

>>15984995
God I wish they'd expand to the PNW already. Yeah we've got WINCO which is nice, but it's just not the same as ruthlessly efficient deutschmarting.

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>> No.15986976

aldi fucking sucks, their selection is trash, like sure you get discounted food but i only go there for tuna cans. wegmans and shoprite are unironically better

>> No.15986987

>>15985163
so thats why i hate trader joes as well

>> No.15987017

>>15986811
>yeah but you cant bring meat back across the border though
what about produce?

>> No.15987028

>>15986025
a subway with a convenience store and sometimes gas station attached

>> No.15987067

>>15985585
Lidl has the ebst damn soups ive ever fucking ate and thats about it.

>> No.15987145

>>15986728
how fucking hard is it to spend 20-30min tops cooking your own meal

>> No.15987165

>>15985369
Ohh myyy

What is it Miss Bailey?

It's a tesseract...

>> No.15987166

> eating food

>> No.15987170

>>15986818
nah she's probably a grain-fed vegan.

>> No.15987328

>>15984995
What the fuck are you talking about. Americans basically invented food surpluses

>> No.15987473

>>15984995
Costco retards, fuck Yuropoors

>> No.15987504

>>15985022
The publix deli is the greatest god damn thing on the planet, the only thing that beats it is the Harris Teeter delis, but I'm sure those are only in NC

>> No.15987505

Wegmans is the best supermarket in the US

>> No.15987617

Can't do all my shopping there

>> No.15987628

Aldi is a poor person's grocery store. At least it was when I was growing up ~15 years ago.

>> No.15987796

A few weeks ago they had the monster 40oz peanut butter jars for $1.80. Been buying cheap bread and cheese. Living off pb sandwiches and grilled cheese for like, under 3 dollars a week. Thanks, Aldi

>> No.15987944

>>15987796
enjoy your obesity

>> No.15987973

>>15987796
That must be some shitty bread & cheese

>> No.15988001

>>15985092
It's Aldi's the same way we say McDonald's even though the actual sign just says McDonald.

>> No.15988018

>>15987944
American education at work. Being obese or not is literally only about quantity of food consumed.

>> No.15988054

>>15988018

Exactly. People know nothing about calories apparently. Granted, eating bread, cheese, and peanutbutter is not great for micro nutrition by any means, I'm just saving more money for a couple months.

>> No.15988148

>>15988001
I've never seen a McDonald's with a sign that just says McDonald.
But I have seen one that just says M. The golden arches are so recognisable that the rest is superfluous.

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>>15988001
>the actual sign just says McDonald
uhh...

>> No.15988313

>>15985241

Nobody can compete

>> No.15988329

Are you retards actually fighting over which jewish establishment you spend your money at?

>> No.15988352

>>15985628
all the ones around me are like that other anon's experience, really cheap readymade shit and almost no produce to speak of, what little was there was expired. Tried to get some beef and it was super oxidized and smelled off. Everything else was novelty food like "chocolate cheese" which wasn't bad but wasn't a staple. I dunno maybe it's just my area in texas but its been like this in all of them

>> No.15988358

HEB is the superior grocery store.
Any other answer is fighting for second place.

>> No.15988368

>>15985659
This and Central Market are the obvious answers

>> No.15988401

>>15988018
Then everyone in prison or military would weigh exactly the same.

>> No.15988547

>>15988018
is that what they tell you youropepoor commies?

>> No.15988619

>>15985022
ITT: Muricans unclear on the environmentally friendly deposit return principle. I fucking hate it when they pull this scam at concerts and shit tho- pay £1 or whatever 'deposit' on some shitty plastic beaker. Then queue for a week to claim it back. Cunts

>> No.15988634

>>15985224
Have fun getting cancer aids

>> No.15988665

>>15984995
Trader Joes is more profitable, plenty inexpensive and isn't disgusting to be inside.

>> No.15989068

>>15988619
>>15985022
In Ausfalia Aldi is the only one that persists in trying to use the deposit system for trolleys. The other two big supermarkets (Woolworths and Coles) have free trolleys, so invariably you take a trolley from Woolies and take it into Aldi. There's always a forlorn, dusty row of Aldi trolleys sitting outside, untouched.

>> No.15989078

>>15989068
australia aldi still have the cashier, i never went because of it.

>> No.15989408

>>15989078
I fucking hate the self checkout. It feels to much like working

SCAN MY ITEMS WAGIE

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>>15985100
>>15988018

>> No.15989516

>>15985293
ding ding ding

this is the only non-nigger retard response in this thread. Aldi can afford to jew the Kroger/Publix/Meijer kikes down a peg or two because Aldi has an efficient supply chain and non-nigger employees that are paid like humans. I first saw the company's fliers for $14/hr cashiers here in the southeast 5 years ago. It probably pays $15-17 now. This is in the same market where Kroger will gladly give $7.25 to literal retarded niggers.

The paid carts are a holdover from Germany. The goods are cheap and high quality, so who gives a fuck.

>> No.15989543

>>15989068
You guys are dumb. You don't have to pay for the cart, you get the goddamn quarter back
I have a single quarter in one of those indent things on my car console just for Aldi's

>> No.15989572

>>15985342
Lol don't tell me you live in the same shithole city as me

>> No.15989673

>>15984995
Interesting. Like this anon said >>15985056 and here in Germany Aldi (at least the Süd one) is seen as "inferior" or the "poor person's discount" for "Assis." I only shop there. Fuck REWE.

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>>15989464

>> No.15989929

>>15985092
>hey bro, sick pair of Nike's!
>its just Nike bro, stop

See how fucking autistic you are?

>> No.15990066

aldi süd is the real aldi

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>>15990066
The original Aldi in Essen seems to be nowadays Aldi Nord.

A sad thing that Essen is now a shithole.

>> No.15990386

>>15985140
4. The table at the register is to small to pack in your groceries.

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>>15984995

>> No.15990959

>>15989543
I know you don't have to pay for it. Why the fuck would I fuck around putting in a coin like a cuck then rolling it all the way back to the special Aldi cart corral to get my coin back? I can just use a woolies one without fucking around. I also don't want to reward cucky continental bullshit like this.

>> No.15991061

>>15990959
When you finish using the lawn mower do you just leave it there without putting it away? Boomer fuck

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bow down to your master, plebs

>> No.15991174

>>15991061
I put it in the regular corrals with all the other trolleys, same treatment as the other stores get. Fuck walking to the special deutsche-corral all the way over there.

>> No.15991253

>>15986827
America is practically a socialist country retard get the fuck off my board

>> No.15991266

>>15986685
> eat like shit and don't learn new cooking so you can retire earlier lmao
Nah, i even had a wild boar on the weekend which took me about 2 weeks to find. I love cooking.

>> No.15991284

>>15991125
rewe is shit desu, if anyone from non-discounter its edeka

>> No.15991296

>>15985097
Do you call more than one sheep "sheep's" too?

Faggot

>> No.15991309

>>15987505
This

>> No.15991316

>>15985140
1.The coin is refundable, prevents carts from leaving shopping grounds, keeping carpark spaces cleaner (not perfect) and minimizing cart collector work
2.Maybe in the US, but in Australia the main staples are organized, its the "specials" that are not common that are and all of that is just shit you don't need like trophy cabinets and video game arcade cabinets (rare examples though I do admit)
3.They use their own brands and only SOME of the larger brands so they can pass the savings to you while maximizing their own profits

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>>15988001
Anon I consider myself somewhat of a McDonald's connoisseur - I have dined on their signature BigMac® in McDonald's restaurants in over 100 countries - and I can confirm not one had a sign saying Mcdonald.

>> No.15991505

>>15989464
>European saying the word nigger a lot.
Anon, I don't know how to tell you this..

>> No.15991517

>>15987505
People arguing whole foods vs aldi..... They've really never been inside a Wegmans I pity them

>> No.15991546

>>15989841
The chad American tard strength vs the virgin Euro fiscal responsibility and ethics

>> No.15991668

>>15984995
Aldi is geared to the reality that most Americans are more impoverished than they realize. Expect more shit like that to catch on.

>> No.15991787

>>15991668
This. The US has a slightly higher GDP than western Europe, but also a muuuuch bigger income disparity. Meaning a middle and lower class American makes a bunch less than their western European equivalent.
Aldi is the poor person's supermarket in Europe, but in the US it can reach a far bigger market.

Their business model is pretty great desu. Stripping down fancy packaging and store decorations, and going more self-service, allows them to sell relatively decent products for a much lower price.

>> No.15991863

>>15985342
gebaseerd en geroodpilt

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>>15991863
>hij winkelt niet uitsluitend bij de Hollandsche Eenheidsprijzen Maatschappij Amsterdam

>> No.15992182

>>15985092
Proper english puts an apostrophe after any name relating to a building or location generally.

For example you might have a friend named timmy, but you go over to timmy's house, shortened often to timmy's.


>This has been your daily english lesson /biz/.

>> No.15992197

>>15991787
What are you talking about? Even on a PPP basis less than 10 States are poorer than Italy for example.

>> No.15992202

>>15985342
fuck off your country is weird and names everything after first and last names.

>> No.15992230

>>15984995
I prefer Lidl, which we also have in America btw...

>> No.15992370

>>15992197
That has to do with some things being extremely cheap in the US that are relatively expensive in Europe, land for example. China has us both easily beat by that metric, yet they live in poverty compared to us.

>> No.15992430

>>15992370
>land for example
Nigga wat

>> No.15992449

>>15989929
Behead those who pronounced 'Ni-key'

>> No.15992468

Freakonomics did an episode how Trader Joe’s is the most profitable supermarket per square feet of shelf space. Guess who owns them? Aldi.

>> No.15992471

>>15992430
Nigga ya'll muffugges got swathes of empty plains to build shit on. I'm from the Netherlands ya'hear, and we gots no space mah dude. You wanna buy a slab-o-land here, you pay out yo ass nigga shit.

>> No.15992485

>>15985342
Sterf

>> No.15992505

>>15986818
>how every woman would look if cock had a kcal count

>> No.15992539

I fucking love aldis. All of their prices are what my other grocery store consider sale prices. Why even bother going anywhere else?

>> No.15992556

>>15986092
only new krogers desu. Old krogers are dingy af. both have terrible bakeries tho

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>>15992063
>Hij laat het niet door z'n vrouwmens doen

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>>15992569
>2019
>een gleufdier onderhouden