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[โ€“] Deceptichum@quokk.au 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Any Aldi Ive gone to in Australia is the same quality as any other supermarket. Albeit with rip-off names of most things, but 90% of the time theyโ€™re literally from the same factory as the original.

I worked at a food manufacturer that supplied to Aldi. Literally our same product, just an Aldi created label with their branding.

In Australia as well, there's only 4 or 5 items I can't get a much cheaper alternate that's of equivalent quality from the larger supermarkets. So we shop at ALDI every couple of days, and visit the others once every couple of weeks.

Yeah exactly lol