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Why the Aldi hate?

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May 31, 2023, 09:24 AM
chellim1
Why the Aldi hate?
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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
I'm a fan of Aldi, although not quite as much as a few years ago.

Pre 2021ish, Aldi's prices made it a smoking deal. It would literally be 1/3 the price to shop my basic groceries at Aldi compared to another grocery chain.

But it seems like Aldi got hit hard with the post-pandemic inflation over the past couple years. Now, many of their items are the same price - or higher - than the bigger grocery chains like Walmart.

I still like going there, since they tend to have interesting stuff each week that other grocery chains don't carry, often including German food that I like, but it's not as much of a cost savings as it used to be.

I agree, RogueJSK.
I still like the place, but everything costs a lot more. It's not much saving compared to my local Schnucks grocery store.


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May 31, 2023, 10:30 AM
Gene Hillman
Snack foods, salad dressings and other items have more than doubled in price over the past two years. They aren't the bargain on many items that they were before. I think they carried the price increases to the extreme. Their big advantage used to be price. [I can't believe shoppers there are not noticing this.
May 31, 2023, 09:52 PM
PASig
One thing I’ve noticed Aldi doing a lot of too is Shrinkflation where they’ll shrink the sizes of things but keep the price the same or even raise the price. All food producers seem to be doing it but Aldi seems to be doing it more often than others.

I have an old ground black pepper container from 8-9 years ago that is easily twice the size of the current one.