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That is interesting about the different ownership. Here in the US, Trader Joe's is considered an upscale grocer with gourmet and ethnic offerings, and lower prices as compared to, say, Whole Foods. Aldi here is considered the value store, with less service and selection.
 
I totally agree what mrwash said. There is a huge difference between Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd in Germany.

Part of the products are basically the same just in different packages with different names on it, but I think it also shows that the south of Germany is the wealthier part hence more upscale products in Aldi Süd stores. Also the whole store layout is more inviting to me.
I remember Aldi stores from the 1970s and Aldi Nord today still looks and feels as if time stood still, the whole atmosphere is kind of depressing there.
 
I do like Aldi, and end up going there about once a week. Eggs are cheap ($.89 a dozen the last few weeks), as well as lifeway kefir, at $2.79 a bottle. What I like about Aldi is that each week they add something new or different. I got an avocado slicer, shoe rack, as well as a queen sized memory foam mattress! We needed a new mattress, and I was intrigued by memory foam and air mattresses, but never slept on either and was concerned about spending $2000+ to only discover that I made a bad choice. I had found a hotel with a Tempur-Pedic, another with a Sleep Number mattress, and we were planning on booking a night at each we could try the different types of mattresses out. I stumbled across the memory foam mattress at Aldi, and figured for less than the price of a night in a hotel, we could try it out at home and see if a memory foam mattress would be something we might like. It was tightly vacuum packed in a box with wheels, and I was able to easily get it into my tiny Honda Fit my myself. Well, we liked it so much, we decided to just keep it. We have had it about 3 years now.
 
I like it

But everyone here calls it Aldi's !!LOL,Belk's dept stores changed there name in the late 60s to just BELK, but everyone still says Belk's!! Seriously, I dont go to the Aldi store that much because it is out of the way, but they do have some good products, I do not buy flour or corn meal there, I use only one brand and I have to drive to Virginia to get it, so I go about once a month and stock up.
 
And now Dominick's in closing in Chicago!

I knew it! I just knew this was coming.

Dominick's has been owned by Safeway now for quite some time. Just like they have with other chains they buy they have destroyed Dominick's.

Here in Houston we had a chain of grocery stores named "Randall's". Great store, great prices and an absolutely huge selection of items for sale. When you needed juniper berries for your red cabbage recipe Randall's was the place to go to find it. Randall's was the first store in Houston with a true Deli. It was Houston's favorite place to shop.

Then came along Safeway. The former president and owner of Randall's got a cushy job with Safeway for selling the Randall's chain to Safeway. They made him the head of Dominick's in Chicago.

Read the comments section of this story... seems I am not the only one who feels this way.

Under Safeway control they handled both Randall's & Dominick's stores the same way. Cut the selection, dump lots of brand name goods and replace them with "Safeway Select" or other house brands. Then raise the prices to corner convenience store levels. Then they dumped the deli sections totally. You can go into a Randall's "flagship store" (their largest) on 4pm on a Saturday and be the only person in the huge store. The parking lot will be empty.

Safeway outside of the west does not know how to run grocery stores to be profitable. Sure Houston is a hard grocery market but this will be the FOURTH time Safeway has entered into the Houston market and failed. So Dominick's closing does not surprise me one bit. Safeway put them out of business.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/busin...rent-leaving-chicago-20131010,0,2828348.story
 
Interesting about Dominick's. Safeway destroyed a popular grocery chain in my area, Genuardi's. Genuardi's was known for its good prices, great selection and customer service. At least we now have Wegman's, although they are all a bit of a drive for me.
 
Dominick's was, at one time, seen as the high end local grocer. They were run by can'trememberfirstname Mariano who now runs Roundy's out of Wisconsin which has moved into Chicago as Marinao's, which is quite nice.

It was a surprise, but not a surprise, to see they were leaving. They were losing market share, dramatically, and the safeway products and selection got smaller and smaller. Interestingly, they closed some stores only to reopen them (at least one I can think of, in a good place for stopping on my way from friends).
 
Sorry for the subject scope drift....

A few month's ago I asked my sister who lives in the Chicago burb's how Dominick's was doing since I knew she shopped there. She said she hadn't been in a Dominick's in years. She said the stores look trashed out, the selection is minimal and the prices are sky high. She said Jewel isn't that much better either. So she does a lot of shopping at Meijer, which I knew as Thrifty Acres in Holland, Michigan.
 
@mrboilwash: The Aldi North stores indeed were (or still are) not very good looking but Aldi has recognized this and is upgrading the stores fast. But I still don't like them and I would prefer Aldi South. I live near the division-line so I get the benefit of both stores ;)
 
Here in Sydney it's blue and yellow Aldi

And they are multiplying like mushrooms. When I go to Aldi I look for specific things. Primarily food products from Germany, fresh vegies and their coffee is cheap and good. Occasionally they have specialty items like irons, fridges, wahers, tools, bath towels etc. and they are pretty good quality at low cost. The stores are clean and they smell almost the same as they do in Germany, which is a little weird. Maybe its a customized smell particular to Aldi stores that is designed to make people buy more. I don't like it all that much.

Aldi is an in and out store for me - I go in with a focus, grab what I want and skedaddle out of there.

Aldi are the only store that has chained up shopping carts. Some of the other supermarkets have tried that system, but it never took off. Aldi even hands out cart tokens on key rings that specifically fit their slots. Otherwise a one or two dollar coin deposit is required. Here nobody returns their shopping carts either and other supermarkets specifically employ people to collect them, which is a good thing - people need jobs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldi
 
Aldi's...

Here in Indianapolis,we have 3 Aldi's.They just built a new store on the southside
that is there largest store,and I shop there on a weekly basis.I made one bad choice there apple pie...ICKO!All there produce and meats are just as good quality as the larger well know stores; if not better.I'm glad we have them.We also have another store Save-a-Lot.It is not the same quality as Aldi's.If you look at the products they have the same item as Trader Joe's only say's Aldi.
Michael
 
For all you bakers out there...

Aldi has their own brand of unsweetened and semisweet baking chocolate squares on sale this week for 1.99 for 8oz pkg. This is a great price since Baker's downsized their pkgs of chocolate from 8oz to 4oz while charging the same price (about 3.50-3.79). The only drawback to Aldi's chocolate is that it's not individually wrapped squares- it comes in a block which is scored into 20 (.4oz) squares.
 
to each his own.....but I have yet to reap big savings by shopping at CostCo, or Sam's......your mileage may vary.....I am just willing to bet I can make my dollar stretch a hell of a lot further than you can shopping these smaller places....and get a lot more for that dollar!

I just got an offer from BJ's for a 60 days trial....I walked thru....and am wondering where are all the big savings...TIDE, Downy, DogFood, bread, milk, and other items cost a heck of a lot more than Walmart or ShopRite alone.....if I want to save more, I hit BigLots or DollarGeneral for detergents...less than half of what these bulk stores charge.....

I see no point in joining a membership, and then having to pay a higher price.....at what point does my membership fee do a wash-out?....how much do you have to spend before you start to see big savings.......TV's and Vacuums are the same price as KMart!.....big ticket items, and I start to see savings where?

for the most part at ALDI, its not nickels and dimes in savings.....it major dollars!

where else can you get eggs for .89 cents a dozen......
or bread for .85 cents.....
milk for under 3.00.....
 
But the problem is ...

... those 89-cent eggs come from hens loaded with hormones and antibiotics, and often fed manure and ground-up chicken parts.

That bread has 109 ingredients, including hydrogenated oils, high fructose corn syrup, artificial flavors and colors, and genetically modified franken-wheat.

And that milk comes from hormone and antibiotic-infused cows unnaturally fed corn, forced to pump out 10 times the normal amount of milk, with blood and puss running from open sores on their udders that invariably find its way into the milk product.

Penny wise, but pound foolish: You've saved a few bucks at the checkout, but you've sacrificed your health and well-being, setting yourself up for a shorter life and major diseases down the line.
 
who are you kidding?......you really need to have your head examined.....

that Milk is the same name brand found at CostCo and ShopRite.....

and bread made at the same location as name brand....your gonna tell me the bread made for Stroehmann is made with 100% pure ingredients, and organic eggs, and wheat fed cows.....get real!....

and EGGS.....unless your buying organic, at close to 4.00 a dozen.....they are all infused with chemicals of some sort.....

do you really think the veggies and meat you get from a retail grocer is not mass grown with major chemicals?....approved my the FDA!....

WAKE UP!......thats like a mention in another thread of everyone buying bottled water.....like its not supplied from the same garden hose we drank out of as children...and were still alive!

seems your one of those people who believe anything printed on the internet is true....and that it cant be put there unless it is true....and you must have gotten that info off the internet.....

next thing your gonna tell me is TIDE, which is sold at ALDI, just cheaper, is not the same TIDE found in CostCo.....

unless you have your own farm, with cows and chickens.......you have no idea what the heck is truely in the process of feeding these animals before they hit your table.....

I supposed you think a BigMac is made out of 100% pure beef!.....most people do....and then to watch a NightLine report of the amount of high protein meal worms that is added....What part of the chicken is Nugget?.....
 
Martin ...

... you are only proving my point.

You cannot compare the world of food that we grew up with to what we're eating today. Most of the chemicals and manufacturing processes that are poisoning our food today simply did not exist a generation ago.

And that's absolutely correct -- you should be looking only for organic (which is tightly regulated at the local level, not just the USDA, which has become notoriously lax in its standards), or from local farms with which you are familiar.

My point is that too many people save money on their food, at the expense of their health.

And incidentally, I'm not one of those who believes that everything on the internet is "true". On the contrary, as a professional journalist, I'm skeptical of just about everything. But as someone who's been researching and writing about health issues for nearly a quarter of a century for two television networks, I consider myself at least fairly well informed.
 
It refers to "studies" ...

... but doesn't CITE any studies.

And even if it did, consider the source. Most university and medical studies are funded by -- pharmaceuticals and agri-business. What do you think their "findings" would be? Certainly not in favor of small farmers using organic practices!
 
Most university and medical studies are funded by:

... Pharmaceuticals and Agri-Business.

 

Oh how this is so true. And is thus the reason why Alcoholic beverages are good for you one week, bad the next and the reason why smoking apparently kills 50% of smokers (And if that is so true, how come our population is so huge when upwards of 50% smoked in previous years?).

And here's the kicker: Big-Pharma funds those smoking studies (the ones they release weekly telling us that smoking is now 200x worse than previously thought) - people buy the "stop-smoking" products that only have a 1% success rate = $$$ for Big-Pharma - and they just keep raking it in, using that to fund more studies and make more money off food that is really dangerous that they have to medicate us with.

 

I watch what I eat. I'm not intolerant of lactose or gluten (After at least 5 different sets of tests lasting numerous weeks), but I tend to avoid it wherever I can. I don't drink milk, humans aren't meant to. I don't eat pork, my religious views and knowledge of that animal's toxic body are enough to put me off. I might eat red meats and chicken more, but I still like vegetables.

 

Stay clear of cheap junk people. Buy what is right for you and the animals that make that food for you. The fascination with cheap, abundant food is going to (and already has) caused too much health troubles around the globe.

 

Yes, off topic.

 

On Topic: ALDI has not penetrated our corner of this fair country as of yet. Although I'm quite sure they will soon enough. I look forward to seeing some more competition in the grocery chains and the new and perhaps better products this may introduce from the Euros.
 
And as far as COSTCO goes, watch out for their Kirkland branded dog food. It's made by Diamond Foods of South Carolina. This company has been on FDA dog food recalls quite a number of times in the past few years. They keep failing USDA inspections of their processing plant. Most recent recall was for salmonella contamination that people could get just by handling the food.

Kirkland does make a lot of nice quality items under the Kirkland brand name, but dog food is not one of them.

http://www.dogfoodadvisor.com/dog-food-recall/kirkland-dog-food-recall/
 

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