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I've always found the cashback rewards to cover the membership cost, YMMV though. I also live for the hot dogs
They don't have a cashback program here.
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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.
Case in point: the Kroger in Oxford Ohio (where Miami of Ohio's campus is located) has had remarkably higher prices than other Krogers in the area for as long as I've known. Oxford is 'close' to Cincinnati, but there's enough corn and soybean fields between the two to make the trip a pain.
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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...
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...
Well I did search for any available data for Germany but nothing available easily :|
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I don't understand. YC is an American company in English. Why are visitors so surprised when most of the content is US based? Also Merica' #1 ... jk :)
Content in English means it’s fair for all those who speak English. Unless you want a build a wall across the internet to keep rest of us out.
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Actually it's 'Aldis', because we're talking about more than one.
> Actually it's 'Aldis', because we're talking about more than one. Just to clarify why this is wrong. First we are not talking about more than one, there is only one "Aldi" company. We don't use Aldi's (notice the use of the ' for possessive after a single noun) in this case even though every company name is a proper noun which would follow this rule. It's not used because the Price Map is not belonging to Aldi, it…
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All businesses pass on all costs, otherwise they would go bankrupt. Revenue must remain greater than expenses (outside VC funded moonshots).
On the contrary, a successful business will eat some costs in order to generate more profit. That's the definition of a loss leader. When Publix sells a rotisserie chicken for $8, they're taking a loss on every one. If people only came to Publix for the chicken, they'd go bankrupt in a month. Hence they aren't passing on the cost. They hope people will buy other items too, which have higher margins, and make up the d…
As 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…
Pet peeve of mine: it's 'Aldi' not 'Aldi's' https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/why-do-people-add-s-...
Pet peeve: it's ALDI, not Aldi. It's an acronym for ALbrecht-DIskont.
e.g. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/17/business/aldi-winn-dixie-...
e.g. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-63015985
Aldi's corporate style is "ALDI" but that's just their internal guidance, not the rules of English.
What would it take to add the ALDIs in Europe to this map ?
Data :) Not easy to get it at scale without APIs
[1] https://www.aldi.us/online-shopping/new-aldi-grocery-website...