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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.
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Maybe I read too much reddit and I've been primed [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priming_(psychology) ] But I read this as another anti-American comment which seems to be very fashionable recently.
As an American, I can understand the European internet user’s chagrin at our seeming total cultural ubiquity. It seems like almost every piece of media is about American concerns unless explicitly stated otherwise.
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To be fair, this was more of a tongue in cheek response and not really directed at you or your project directly. For me Aldi is just such a european thing that I was genuinely surprised by this.
Don't forget there are two Aldi (Aldie?) the yellow South and the Blue North and they both have a different international footprint just to complicate things
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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.
In the case of this Aldi price map, they are doing regional pricing - it would seem that every store in an area has the same price regardless of neighborhood wealth for the individual store. So you get naval oranges in Los Angeles at $1.89, $2.39 in Chicago, and $2.99 in New York City (and Houston).
The difference probably has a lot to do with the cost structure for operating the distribution network. If you switch to the organic pasta sauce, it appears that the price is the same $1.99 everywhere except Los Angeles, where it is $2.19. Their oranges are likely coming from California and their pasta sauce is coming from somewhere east of the Mississippi.
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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…
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Aldi North is called Trader Joe's in the USA.
It's not the same. Aldi Nord just owns Trader Joe's https://www.aldireviewer.com/aldi-and-trader-joes-are-they-t...
This is great I would love to be able to toggle a high contrast version for those with red/green color blindness.
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>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 becau…
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.