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Re: Show HN: Aldi Price Map

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Post by mlrtime »

bowsamic wrote: post #52

I like Aldi Süd (the one you Americans have and also the one in the UK) but here in Hamburg and also in France it is Aldi Nord and it's really quite awful (more like Netto and Penny, both of which I hate). Thankfully we also have Lidl which is closer to Aldi Süd but honestly I'm a bit soured on Discounters in general recently. I still use them for some things but often they're more expensive than my local greengrocer…

>Here in Germany the situation is different to the US though, we often don't just go to one shop

What would give you the indication that the situation is different in the US? In any given week I shop at Aldi (Favorite), Trader Joes, HEB, Whole Foods, Costco and Wal-Mart.

I'm consistently shocked by which stores have the best prices AND best quality produce.

Re: Show HN: Aldi Price Map

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Post by unregistereddev »

sspiff wrote: post #42
ayocado wrote: post #4

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Oops, yes it covers US only. Could not find easily available data for European countries :)

Aldi products in Europe vary by country, so harder to compare. I'm also not sure if the prices vary within countries.

To be fair, Aldi products in the US vary by state. There likely is less variance than in Europe. I think in the US the local differences are largely based on what foods they are able to get locally for an attractive price.

Re: Show HN: Aldi Price Map

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Post by bowsamic »

mlrtime wrote: post #171
bowsamic wrote: post #52

I like Aldi Süd (the one you Americans have and also the one in the UK) but here in Hamburg and also in France it is Aldi Nord and it's really quite awful (more like Netto and Penny, both of which I hate). Thankfully we also have Lidl which is closer to Aldi Süd but honestly I'm a bit soured on Discounters in general recently. I still use them for some things but often they're more expensive than my local greengrocer…

>Here in Germany the situation is different to the US though, we often don't just go to one shop What would give you the indication that the situation is different in the US? In any given week I shop at Aldi (Favorite), Trader Joes, HEB, Whole Foods, Costco and Wal-Mart. I'm consistently shocked by which stores have the best prices AND best quality produce.

Apologies, I had assumed from my visits to the US that it was like the UK and France where it's common to only go to one single shop. When I lived in the UK most people I know bought literally everything from one giant supermarket and never felt the need to go anywhere else. For example, every Sunday we would do one giant shop at Sainsbury's and that was our week's shopping done. Can't really do that in Germany because all of the shops are shut on Sunday, so you have to shop on Saturday, but more likely here you are just doing multiple little shops throughout the week

Re: Show HN: Aldi Price Map

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Post by badpun »

Beijinger wrote: post #173
das_keyboard wrote: post #120

How 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...

Aldi (and Lidl) are okay. But I wish Europe had Trader Joe's (owned by Aldi) and Costco.

There are some Trader Joe's products in my local Aldi in Poland.

Re: Show HN: Aldi Price Map

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Post by schrodinger »

Lio wrote: post #110
atoav wrote: post #75

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How long do you thing that they will turn the already-plural "data" into the hyper-plural "datas"? Or has this already happened, I am too afraid to check.

Datums? ...and lets not get into the "paninis" situation.

Eh, devils advocate: when a word becomes more of a loan word than just a usage of its proper origin, doesn’t it make sense to follow the new languages patterns?

Different grammatical situation of course but similar in spirit is “latte.” It just means milk in Italian and so in Italy you’d always say cafe latte. But in the states everyone knows it as the coffee drink (Starbucks probably to blame).

Same with salsa—just means sauce in Spanish—but it’s become an English word in the states at this point and taken a different meaning.

Entree being another more egregious example…

Re: Show HN: Aldi Price Map

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Post by slfnflctd »

das_keyboard wrote: post #120

How 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...

There are 2,356 Aldi stores in the US right now and it's probably growing. They've been expanding massively here for the past 10-15 years or longer.

Re: Show HN: Aldi Price Map

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Post by olelele »

LargoLasskhyfv wrote: post #123
lqet wrote: post #67

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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-tablo…

Bild is trash tho...

Re: Show HN: Aldi Price Map

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Post by schrodinger »

jaimex2 wrote: post #168
armcat wrote: post #155

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Aldi is big in Australia too, around 600 stores across the country.

We have fixed prices across the country though (Australia that is). Interesting that its so varied in the US, completely different model.

It’s not just the US. Im an American working remotely for a European grocery delivery platform, and one of the key feature requests from partners in UK and France is location-specific pricing. Presumably price discrimination for those in wealthier neighborhoods.
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