>25~75% cheaper than warehouse clubs and traditional grocery

>>8820822
By selling generic garbage. It is certainly not as cheap as Mexican supermarkets. At least with Mexican markets, you will still get the brand name items. Also, Kirkland is the superior store brand.

A time machine back to 17th Century Africa

>>8820822
honestly I don't know

only thing I can think is because they save a lot on overhead by not hiring more than 3 employees, no in store music fees, no advertising signs, etc.

>>8820822
1 employee manages the whole store
produce is all cheap garbage on the verge of spoiling
they only get seasonal stuff

>>8820822
>How do they do it?
poor interior lighting

>>8820863
>poor interior lighting
Kek, this seems to be true for every single store. I'd never really paid attention to the fact until you pointed it out. That and hiring a minimal amount of minimum wage local teenagers who have an aversion to manning the tills.

never been into one of these fuckin places, ama

Walmart tier re-branded for wypipo

>>8820822

Correct me if Im wrong- to make Aldis work, I have to shape my list to what they have, not the other way around, is that it?

People love this place, but I go in and dont see the things Im looking for and never recognize the brands.

It must be me, cuz a lot of people swear by them.

>>8820822
In Germany? Worse products.
Or at least weirdly-shaped vegetables.

>>8820822
>How do they do it?

We studied this in the marketing class I'm in, but I didn't pay attention.

>>8820832
>17th century Africa

Oh really? And just who was colonizing Africa in the 1600's?

>>8820925
Have you ever been to aldis?

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>>8821089
>aldis
>s

>>8820822
All of their meat is previously frozen, they only start to let it defrost as stock goes down.

90% of all the produce at my Aldi are the same brands as what I can buy in the regular grocery stores. However if I don't use Aldi's stuff within a few days its completely rotten, so I suspect they get old stock from local places

Pretty much their only thing that needs to be fresh is their milk.

>>8820831
Bullshit, mexican supermarket name brand stuff is more expensive, however the offbrand stuff is cheaper.

What you can get there, that you can get at other supermarkets, are the things I try to buy.

I don't buy meat or frozen foods or produce. Only things like canned food, chicken broth, butter, whole grain mustard, snacks, juice, and other unperishables.

>>8821080
Dutch

>>8820822
cutting overhead
few employees
re-branding generics/govt surplus
aggressive expansion model
their profit margins are still probably comparable to a conventional grocery store but they win much harder in terms of units.

>>8821102
He's probably from the Midwest . Every store gets a 's on the end

The freshness of most of their stuff is questionable. Okay value I guess.

poor selection, poor quality, poor service, poor location

at least at the one i went to in new england

It's right before my main shop I'll go there first and buy whatever they have in my list , meat, veg etc (usually about half the list) then the more niche things I get from the next shop. I save a fuckton

>>8820917
I think they pay $11 starting

>>8820862
Shit, I figured this was the case. I remember when I was in college I was at a career fair and they were there. They were trying to get me sold on becoming management. I almost bought it and applied but ended up getting a job somewhere else. The whole pitch was
>become a management trainee
>after so many months you get to "manage your own store"
>starting pay they said was "almost $70k/yr"

Looking back on it I guess it would make sense. Hire one guy at 70k/yr and work the fuck out of him vs hiring a bunch of part timers.

>>8821080
Aldi. Please read.

>>8821325
Aldi rebrands quite a few more well known brands as well. If I remember correctly Red Baron and their pizzas come from the same factory, but Aldis will buy overruns or end of run units which is still profitable to the mfg but unneeded by grocery distributors and the stores they sell to. Because Aldi has rotating items they have a greater negotiating ability for vs traditional stores which don't drop/rotate products as often, and will buy just about anything. Aldi is also larger than most regional chains which helps with negotiating, similar to Walmart.

>>8821837
Nope Aldi's in my area is starting at $14. Not even shitting you. The food is cheap because the less than acceptable food is sent to Aldi for a cheaper price. Some food even molding along the way. This food in Walmart's eyes should be trashed or given to donation centers but that's where Aldi makes its' money. Sure they have a couple good blocks of cheese and whatnot but most produce is poor quality stuff.

In Germany the new Aldis look really nice, comparable to the new Lidls and Edekas. However they are much lower on personell, stock a different and usually smaller selection but provide weekly deals for not only groceries but miscellaneous stuff.
Many college students get most of their stuff from Aldi, only their booze from Edeka or Rewe.

>>8820822
>hey I forgot to bring a quarter
>do you have one?
>"no"
>ok let's just go inside and get change
>"I only have my credit card"
>fuck, me too
>"are there any quarters in the cupholder?
>"no"
>WELL I GUESS WE'RE GOING BACK HOME THEN

Why do shopping carts cost a quarter, aldi?
If someone steals your cart, they also have the quarter.
What the fuck guys?

>>8822251
The place that used to have quarter carts where I live (this was years ago) also had the parking lot be basically a bunny slope angled hill. Locking the carts of to some fat twat didn't just fling their cart and have it roll down hill into cars made sense but too many people complained about it so they got rid of the rent a cart part.

I've overheard a conversation between two employees at my local Aldi sometime ago.

Apparently the booze goes really fucking well. Which I find weird because I think their booze is terrible.

>>8822251
Is that not a thing in the US?

Here in the UK pretty much every supermarket trolley requires £1 (lots of people use plastic replacement things instead) to unchain it from the others, and then you get it back when you chain it back up again. I think it is a great system, before hand people just dumped the things in the car park and fucked off so it wasn't uncommon for the wind to catch one and send it flying into a car.

Hardly an inconvenience when you get used to it, and baskets are still there if you are only going in for a couple of things.

>>8820956
Thanks for sharing

>>8822348
The ones round my way always have a different selection of local stuff each time you go in and it is very cheap. Lots of interesting beers etc. Their own brand Glen Marnoch whisky has bottlings from Highland, Speyside, and Islay distilleries which presumably is stuff that doesn't meet their requirements or is quite young. Either way, it is very cheap and tastes good, especially the Islay one

>>8822349
Oh I didn't know what the actual purpose was, but keeping carts out of the parking lot makes sense. Saves them one employee.
Thanks for explaining, it was unclear.

Germanfag here
I'm an employe at my local Aldi and Ich can Tell you why they are successfull.
Renee those concentration Camps wenn Used to have during WW2?
Guess What, they still exist, nur now they called Aldi!

>>8822400
>German 'humour'
Stick to engineering Hans

>>8822361
No worries. There are always areas in the car park where you put them, then an employee will take them all to the front of the shop every now and then so you don't have to go all the way back to the shop to get your coin back.

It is annoying when you forget a coin though.

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>>8822400

I find Aldi to be no cheaper than just buying homebrand at woolworths, and at woolworths I don't have to pay for bags

>>8822540
What the fuck Woolworths. Are you a time traveler from the 1920s?

>>8822545
dumb phoneposter

>>8822251

by placing just that tiny bit of personal value to the customer in each cart, they save the trouble of needing a guy to corral the bulk of them.

>>8822546
I'll hook you m8

>>8820822
low cost staffing model, like walmart

>>8820822
Regional manager for Aldi in Germany here.
The biggest cost for any grocery store are the wages of the employees. Aldi pays more than it's competition but cuts down on people working in the store.
There will be always less people working at an ALDI than at a LIDL that's making the same revenue.
That's why the turnover rate at ALDI is so high. The pay for unskilled personal is quite good but it's pretty tough to work at a store for years.
44 people that have been working for me for years have quit the last quarter alone while only about 70 new people have gotten jobs in my district. At least 3/4 of the new people will quit before their 5th paycheck.
I have 5 stores and each of them has increased revenue by 11%-24% when compared to the last year but my superiors still demand that I'll cut the hours of my employees working in a store at a given time.
Seriously, don't work at ALDI unless you desperately need money.

Back to the topic, most of the stuff we sell has a very low markup for our profit. While other stores will make 5c of profit for a sold joghurt we'll only make 1c but sell 5 times as many.
Cutting costs and increasing quantity is how we can sell stuff this cheap.
Our food quality isn't even that bad when compared to supermarkets (just stay away from our bread and meat, the fish is fine)

>>8822581

Walmart doesn't make you buy bags, or make you bag your own purchases. Aldi is meh tier.

>>8820822
750g of cream cheese 3€ when 1kg in other stores are 5-6 €...

>>8822589
What's so tough about the work exactly?

>>8822615
you have to be fast as fuck. First thing you do in the morning is to pack about 4-5 Europallets that are stacked 1.5m to 1.8m high with rather heavy boxes of vegetables and fruits. You'll have like 90minutes for that.
Than the average store gets like 30 Europallets of food 3 times a week and between 6-15 Europallets of non-food twice a week. My stores also usually get 1-3 Europallets of frozen goods 3 times a week. All the while there are only 3-4 people working at the store (1-2, sometimes 3 have to sit at the cash desk).
The work wouldn't be so hard if you could slack off for a second but you have to be fast all the time because every second is precious.

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>>8822627
forgot pic related.
It's definitely a job for men but the majority of applications are from women.

>>8822627
Yeah sounds tough for a woman. What's a shift 8 hours?

>>8822635
Yes on average 8 hours. 6 and 10 Hour shifts aren't unusual. Trainers wäre getting shafted with 9 hour shifts.

>>8822589
Aldi Nord or Süd?
Here in Denmark, Aldi is doing horrendous, despite having 225 stores, their marketshare is only ~2%.

>>8822644
Aldi Nord (lower saxony)

>>8822648
My condolences.

>>8822644
Isn't that because nearly every danish ALDI employee is either a clueless teenager, a senile 70 year ords or someone with brain-damage on a 2 hour flex-job?

>>8820831

>Kirkland is the superior store brand

I don't trust anyone who makes granola bars and toothpaste under the same name.

you cant get everything at aldis, but it's still a fucking amazing store. best part is, no coupons, no housewives with a bunch of kids. everyone there is just normal working people looking to save a little money. checking out takes about 6 seconds.

>>8822655
Nah, it's because their concept doesn't really work for the danish market. Lidl isn't doing too well either.
Aldis main issue is that there's little to no danish products, the stores are cold and uninviting and Aldi has been subject for criticism in the media.

>>8822666
>the stores are cold and uninviting
Yeah, the design looks like a retirement home for groceries, and it's always so fucking cluttered.

Rema 1000 is just way better for the market.

>>8822671
Certainly helps that the products in Rema 1000 are way better.

>>8822644
>that snooty Scandi going Aldi/Lidl isn't good enough for my (parents) fine tastes

every single time

>>8822695
ALDI is so Ill regarded not even the alcoholics will shop there.

>>8822695
Well, desu, I frequently shop at Lidl. Their selection of cold cuts is pretty good and their bake-off is superb.

>>8821218
It depends on the particular market. I know that some charge higher for grocery items, while making other aspects of the store cheaper (tortilleria, bakery, meat, hot foods).

Sometimes they are willing to break even on some products if they know it will make the customer more likely to buy more expensive grocery.

Don't know about America but in Germany their business model was grabbing suppliers by the balls.

They generated a huge demand with their low-income customers and made suppliers their bitch.

>>8824123
good strategy

>>8822127
thats stupid, aldi has the same standards as every other supermarketchain, arguably better vegetable/fruit than the ones with less turnover.

It is well known that the cheap "brands" come mostly from the same factoriesm the butter,milk etc is most often just identical quality no matter if you pay 1.50$ or .60$.
one of aldi's advantages is that they are branded as being cheap, people who shop there mostly dont give a shit about poor lighting,no employees,no brands - they want the best price.
And Aldi, because they are huge, can push prices solely because of their marketpower, in germany they dictate price of basic groceries i.e., and they also save money in all the other departments.
I rarely shop at aldi, im not big on processed food and got locally owned arab supermarkets which i really like, but aldi is basically the same as every other chain when it comes to quality, just cheaper, with housebrands and a little less of a choice.

>>8822656
they dont make it you mong they just contract with other manufacturers to sell it under their label

do you really think the same company would make cheese, golf balls, vodka, bed sheets, AND bacon?

2/10

>>8820855
This, my city's Aldi usually takes about 30 minutes to check out because only one register is ever open. They also save money on credit card fees by only taking cash.

>>8824210

My Aldi's takes card. U wot.

>>8824123
>made suppliers their bitch

That's pretty typical of large scale food retailers. Suppliers are so desperate to tap that huge market they'll accept a pittance for their products. It must pay off for them, otherwise I don't see why they would do it.

It's one reason that organic produce gets a bad name. These mega organic growers supplying enormous retailers are obviously using pyrethrin broad spectrum insecticides. But small and medium growers that you'll find at farmers markets or smaller groceries do not use them. They are concientious and diligent in their efforts to improve agriculture.

>>8821349
Fucking drives me crazy

Dad
>I'm going to Walmarts, want anything?

>>8822251
You're suppose to take the coin back out after you're done with the cart you massive cockhead.

>Steal your cart
Is this an american thing? Grand Theft Cart?

Anyone named Emma who goes to aldi is gay #btfo

>>8821080

portugal you silly bugger

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Aldi is fucking weird. Or rather, my roommate and his dad are fucking weird. They have this Aldi obsession basically. Almost all of my roommate's electronics come from Aldi. It's some brand called Medion that they have inside locked glass displays in the stores. And my roommate has had several phones from there, his monitor is Medion, his desktop is Medion, and his old laptop was Medion. Probably more stuff. Most of it his dad bought for him, but he's bought Medion shit since too.
And it's all fucking shit too. And not even that cheap as far as I understand.
Who the fuck buys electronics in a fucking supermarket.

>>8822251
Makes it harder for kids to fuck with the carts. That tiny hurdle of having to have a quarter on you is often enough to make them go and do something else.

It also resonates with your inner jew, that you shouldn't throw money away so most people return them to get their coin back.

>>8825990
you can buy helicopter flights at aldi

>>8822400
Ein held bitte

>>8820862
>verge of spoiling

I fucking doubt it, whenever I buy my avocados, bananas I have to wait day or two for them to be ripe enough to eat.

>>8824444
>Is this an american thing?

Or like a Mexican thing. When Mexican "immigrants" move into your neighborhood, soon thereafter, it will be littered with shopping carts.

>>8821349
Midwest cuck here, Only my half retarded aunt says this. Everyone else says words normallys.

>>8824444
>Is this an american thing? Grand Theft Cart?
Yes. Every time I go to aldi there is at least one guy who stole a cart from Wal-Mart for his shopping trip at aldi. The guy will roll his cart into the train with him on the way home.

Nice roll retard.

>>8822228
true dat. Netto is just nasty m8

>>8820937
Yea there's my regular grocery list and my aldi's grocery list. you have to familiarize yourself with the brands

>>8822228
Why can't Aldi into alcohol? It's literately the only thing that lets me still enter a REWE.

>>8820822
Many of their store brand items are actually name brand items. I've heard that their Kirkwood Chicken is actually Tyson chicken, just under a different package. The Kirkwood Gluten Free Chicken nuggets are the same exact ones that I buy under the Wegmans brand. The Wegmans brand is $2.00 more per bag.

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>>8827202
go to lidl

>>8826818
Netto often offers the surplus of Edeka, just as Penny offers the surplus of Rewe because they belong to them. Sometimes you can get sweet deals there.

>>8827245
Holy fucking shit $4.44 Canadian for a fifth?
How are you still alive? That's astronomically cheap.

>>8827261
it's €

>>8827261
It's regularly 4,99€, sometimes goes down to 3,99€
And apparently it isn't even that bad
https://wodkablog.de/wodka-test/putinoff-premium-vodka-lidl/

>>8827273
You have frog language on your ads too?
That's still $4.70 USD. Astounding.

>>8822656
How dumb are you?

I might be going to Aldi today, wish me luck bros

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>>8827343
Great deals and cute cashiers may come to you

>>8820831
>By selling generic garbage.

I've seen the exact same food items from the same producers and country of origin sell in the bigger, 'posher' supermarkets with ridiculous mark-up prices for mere virtue of being associated with a 'wealthier' store name.

I'm thankful I have one a few blocks from where I live. They're comfy little stores and I basically use their prices as a benchmark whenever I happen to do groceries somewhere else.

>>8822589
Hach ja... der Aldi Süd.
Der Aldi Nord des Südens.

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>>8828243
Yeah, we know, Adolph, you like Aldis.

>>8822349
Sometimes I leave the quarter there when I leave the cart. It's a nice treat for whoever grabs it next.

>>8820822
Smaller selection means taking less risks
Leaving the stuff still inside the boxes saves time and personal, so does coins inside carts. Placing all drinks in plastic bottles takes >5 minutes and one guy with a wierd cart.
A cheap 10€ to determine the weight of the fruits and bread vending machines to save even more personal.
One worker for 15€/hr does as much as three minimum wage workers and the trainee program is so intense, it is considered to be superior to a bachlors degree in Economics

>>8820822
Went there for some fruit sales when kids were not in school. Poor people were there with their poor people kids acting like poor people kids and I got really stressed. People shop at Costco so they don't need to be around poors.

>>8820822
Thier veg is trash tier, also some of their stuff is crap like the tunnocks rip offs and their fake Andrex. The brioche parma hams and coconut oils are damn good and the special selected mozerella is the best I've had in UK

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>>8830646
>he fell for the coconut oil meme

>>8830674
Well and truly, drink a carton of water a day. I dont always use the oil depends on the dish and I'm a sucker for duck/goosefat i just try get healthy food into my family. And the the milk ? God damn that milk transforms a Thai green

>>8830689
>basic bitch beverage

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>>8824290

>Browse this thread about Aldi, Lidl, etc
>All of a sudden get ads about becoming store manager for a Lidl thru Arse Technica

FLOEEENNNS your selling my 4chan browsing history you dirty Jew. Uninstall Clover. Now.

>>8821349
Midwestern fuck here.

I didn't here people say this shit until I went to my shitty hill people college town.

Talking to a townie once

>Oh yeah, I work at Krogers
>Krogers
>s

The conversation ended there I couldn't deal anymore.

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>he doesn't have an aldi coin

>>8830801
>here people say this shit
>here
>college
Lies.

>>8830827
How is this more convenient than a quarter?

>>8821349
WI here
Only ever heard Aldi with the 's at the end.

Also it's called soda not pop.

It's not even that cheap in Poland and the quality is pretty bad but I bought a dragon fruit there today and only paid 5pln because of cashier's mistake so I can't be mad.
Wish there was a Lidl closer to where I live.

>>8831251
You can't keep a quarter on your keychain?
You'd have to explicitly put a quarter into your pocket every time you went out.

>>8827202
Aldi in the UK sells all the booze you could ever want. They even do it in the US

>>8822627
Sounds like a good place to lose weight as long as you eat right at the same time. I lost 100 pounds in the course of a year working night stock at a large grocery store.

>>8820822
>gf still insists on driving across town to Walmart when there's a store right across the street because "it's cheaper"
I didn't know gingers could be Jewish but holy shit.

>>8821102
>>8821349
Wisconsin here.
I literally didn't know it was just Aldi until right now.

>>8820822
by sourcing shit close to date and carrying mostly their own brand of foods

>>8822627
Try doing almost double that at six in the morning with only an hour to do it.

>>8824123
That's the same business model in the US. Walmart is known for it, but most supermarkets warehouse division's do the same thing, which is why they all end up selling mealy gassed tomatoes instead of good tomatoes.

we have "Aldi" in france

>>8820822
haven't been to ALDI but it's basically the same prices as Lidl? found Asda (UK walmart) was similar price/better quality/more selection than lidl

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>>8820822
aldis will always get a better rep because decision fatigue is something that drives grocery shoppers crazy and at aldis you don't face a large ammount of it, and have 1-9 products to choose from usually of the same type instead of 4-25 at regular grocery markets. chances are if you make a choice between a few goods you will feel far better about it later than if you had to pick between tens of them

I rarely shop at aldis but in my quest to be a decent home maker I went and got some non stick pans they had for sale here for 13 ducks. one large lidded one and 2 smaller fry pans. all ceramic, cheap ass 26 dollar pans normally. but good enough for me. Wasting hundreds on non stick pan seems like a bad gamble to me, just replace them when they fuck up.

>>8821349
MI here. Would you like me to pick you anything up from Meijers?

>>8820862
>produce is all cheap garbage on the verge of spoiling

At least in Chicago area, most of it is the same stuff you see in the other stores. It's just wrapped or bagged to be sold and transported easier. I've walked through the packaging facilities. The same tomatoes that go out to Pete's Fresh Market just go through another door, are put in plastic trays, and sold to Aldi. Also, they just buy what's cheap, not what's in season.

source: 3 years in produce purchasing

>>8827261
German taxes on alcohol are extremely low. At least compared to the rest of europe.

>>8835696
Get me a box of Garfield chocolate donuts.

>>8824287
Mine does as well but only for debit

>>8830738
>tfw he didn't win
RIP Osterreich

>>8820917
In Minnesota it starts at 15 bucks an hour. Not bad for a young adult or someone with no trade or college background.

>>8835737
Former Chicago guy here.
You can't compare Midwest especially Chicago grocery stores to the rest of the country. God I would give my left nut for a Woodmans on this damn island.