Pet peeve of mine: it's 'Aldi' not 'Aldi's' https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/why-do-people-add-s-...
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Holy moly. How is this even still a thing?
Show HN: Aldi Price Map
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#122Cool. Anything similar for EU?
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#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
If anything it should be Al'sdi (Albrecht's Discount)
To continue this nitpick: it's "Albrecht Diskont" (no genetive), so it should be AlDi or ALDI (the latter is the spelling used officially by Aldi). When I was a child in the 90ies, older people still called Aldi "Albrecht" (and the middle class avoided going there for fear of being marked poor): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Albrecht... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/Aldi-Ka…
Hm. Been at the Aldi-Äquator in the 90ies, which is the division between Aldi-North and South in Germany. So one could pick 'branches' from the overlap there, and compare. Which was really different at the time.
Anyway, I remember the talks about that fear of being marked poor. It was all a load of BS as you could see from the parked cars, and style of clothing of shoppers.
Similar to BILD.de perceived as trash-tabloid, nonetheless having the largest circulation.
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's interesting, because the customers at Aldi here in Germany are basically a cross-section of the population, but tend to be middle/higher middle class. Especially after the update to most of their shops during the last 7-8 years [0], most Aldis look really nice inside. This combined with the huge advantage that shopping at Aldi is really efficient (the stores are not large, for most items, you have only a singl…
Dutch here, worked a few years in Germany. I can attest to the difference in esteem of the Aldi/Lidl in de and nl. But you already agree: German shops just look run down as a matter of course. Rewe and Edeka the least probably? However (I've lived some years in FR and PL too), nothing beats Dutch supermarkets in terms of shopping-speed. Nowhere. If you think (German) Aldi is fast, you should try a Dutch shop (prefera…
Bread?! Lidl?! Aharrharrhaarrgh. (cough, spit...)
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#125As someone from the Netherlands, I was surprised how expensive the local supermarkets in the US are (and also that they don't include taxes in the price labels). I still remember that over 10 years ago, one banana and one granola bar cost me over 10 dollar (nowadays it's probably a lot more). I almost cancelled the purchase at the checkout, but I didn't want to look like a cheapskate.
The nearest K-mart would be 1.5 miles out of town and of course everyone would take the car to go there to buy groceries in bulk.
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
People still avoid Aldi in the Netherlands if they want to keep up appearances. Lidl seems to suffer from this stigma a lot less.
That's interesting, because the customers at Aldi here in Germany are basically a cross-section of the population, but tend to be middle/higher middle class. Especially after the update to most of their shops during the last 7-8 years [0], most Aldis look really nice inside. This combined with the huge advantage that shopping at Aldi is really efficient (the stores are not large, for most items, you have only a singl…
I disagree to both to the single option to select from, and the excellent quality. For Aldi-North that is. Sampling for about 2 to 3 times a year there, since about 2014. Before that I lived there.
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#127Pet peeve of mine: it's 'Aldi' not 'Aldi's' https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/why-do-people-add-s-...
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fitting for reading about a german supermarket chain
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#128As someone from the Netherlands, I was surprised how expensive the local supermarkets in the US are (and also that they don't include taxes in the price labels). I still remember that over 10 years ago, one banana and one granola bar cost me over 10 dollar (nowadays it's probably a lot more). I almost cancelled the purchase at the checkout, but I didn't want to look like a cheapskate. The nearest K-mart would be 1.5…
That seems odd. Where in the U.S.? A banana at my grocery store in western New York State costs less than 50 cents (49 cents per pound).
Granola bars admittedly can be ridiculously overpriced for what they are but even just one CLIF Bar is less than $1.50.
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#129How naive of me to ecpect anything else than an us-only map when this is about a german supermarket chain with most of its stores in europe...
Well I did search for any available data for Germany but nothing available easily :|
Re: Show HN: Aldi Price Map
#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
If anything it should be Al'sdi (Albrecht's Discount)
To continue this nitpick: it's "Albrecht Diskont" (no genetive), so it should be AlDi or ALDI (the latter is the spelling used officially by Aldi). When I was a child in the 90ies, older people still called Aldi "Albrecht" (and the middle class avoided going there for fear of being marked poor): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Albrecht... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/Aldi-Ka…
Mom shopped at Aldi but didn’t mention it to Dad