I fucking love Aldi. I shopped there when I was poor as hell in college and I'd still go there now if they had any nearby. Sure their selection is limited but what they have is legit and their deals are phenomenal.
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they have totally upped their game in the last 10 years as well. they have way more stuff than ever and i barely need to go anywhere else anymore. got the best wine of my life there last winter too.
Woolies and Coles: How can we compete if we're not allowed to overcharge our customers?
They don't even compete, they price fix, their prices are the same (excluding deals)
Another thing I like about aldi is it doesn't have inane music and ads blasting at you over a P.A. If I go there when it's not peak time it's nearly silent which makes shopping feel very peaceful and makes me want to spend longer in the place.
Also much faster to navigate than colesworth due to less aisles of stuff I mostly have no interest in.
The Aldi near us recently added self serve checkouts. They work, they don’t nag and they still have an attendant to happily make small-talk and help customers.
Yes! Another great point. I have a very high success rate with aldi self serve checkouts. Coles ones frequently have issues resulting in waiting for the attendant.
Does anyone else think the voice on the self-serve checkouts sounds like Mr Handy from the Fallout TV series?
Honestly I find the Aldi self-serve voice so much more annoying than the other ones.
the fact that they've squashed so much of the fucking market that Aldi is the only viable competitor they can think of - a chain so fucking small comparatively that an international friend I recently caught up with noted the same store availability as when she was last here a decade ago is a condemnation of the pair in and of itself
We had a local IGA open in our estate recently. There are some things that are more expensive than Colesworth, but only by a small margin.
The same when a Foodworks opened where we used to live.
Being able to stroll to the supermarket is a nice luxury; it is quicker to walk to IGA than to drive to the nearest Coles or Woolworths.
Wow, they even acknowledged that customers will go to ALDI then go to Colesworth afterwards because ALDI didn't have everything they needed. Sounds like real serious competition to me! About as threatening as a local market or butcher.
Aldi is less accessible for me but if this wasn’t the case I’d happily adjust to the limited range and shop there as exclusively as I could. Fuck Colesworth
Yo half of the US would be starving if it wasn't for Aldi.