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Re: Show HN: Aldi Price Map

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Post by phatfish »

yourusername wrote: post #89
PaulRobinson wrote: post #62

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In the UK I prefer Lidl to Aldi for reasons I can't quite fathom, and the pricing is within pennies of each other. Interestingly many of the middle-of-the-road supermarkets like Asda, Sainsbury's, Morrison's and Tesco now price match a ton of their own brand essentials to Aldi as loss leaders to try and get people in store. It's not quite enough to make it the default shop though. What's kind of interesting is that i…

>In the UK I prefer Lidl to Aldi for reasons I can't quite fathom Maybe it is how the stores look? In NL Lidl looks like a normal supermarket that just happens to be cheap. Aldi is like someone went out of their way to make a supermarket as ugly and uncomfortable a shopping experience as possible.

Maybe you have the "other" Aldi (Nord) in NL? In the UK the Aldi stores are quite nice. Far less pallets dropped on the shop floor and most of it on shelves. They are generally smaller shops and VERY busy though, which is all that is stopping me from using them regularly.

I think they reached the point in the UK that everyone willing to put up with chaos in store was already shopping there, so they had to start competing with the traditional supermarkets like Tesco and Sainsburys.

Re: Show HN: Aldi Price Map

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Post by Sai_ »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #235
FlyingSnake wrote: post #224

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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.

It is absolutely not true that just because a message is in English it has the intended audience of all English speakers.

How is anyone supposed to divine that a general English statement about a European MNC was restricted to just America?

It’s like me saying “McDonalds has stopped selling hamburgers” and expecting you to magically understand that this statement is about Indian McD’s and not American McDs.

Re: Show HN: Aldi Price Map

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Post by locallost »

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...

I don't get this criticism at all. Somebody created something for free to scratch their itch, and they're likely from the US, why would they bother with anything else? If it's so important to you, you can always scratch your own itch, I doubt the author of the project would mind help.

Re: Show HN: Aldi Price Map

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Post by rendang »

EasyMark wrote: post #225
flohofwoe wrote: post #221

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Reminds me of how the world was divided into a Spanish and Portuguese hemisphere in 1494 ;)

I think the problem there is that Aldi and Trader Joe's stores are in the same territory, should we be looking at localized warfare? :D . I like both, but Trader Joe's is always ridiculously crowded. They could add two more here and still be "crowded" but not "oh-my-god I can't go into that mess". I think they're leaving money laying on the table with this choice. I've lived in 3 cities and it was always the same, to…

For a long time there was only 1 NYC Trader Joes, in Union Square, and it was a madhouse. Fortunately they do tend to expand, it just takes a while. Off-peak hours like weekday mornings help too.

Re: Show HN: Aldi Price Map

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Post by wongarsu »

slfnflctd wrote: post #178
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.

There are 4.215 Aldi stores in Germany, 1.997 of those from Aldi Süd who also operates the US stores. Add to that 960 Aldi Süd stores in the UK, 530 in Austria, and a couple more in the other neighboring countries, and I think it's completely fair to be surprised if an aldi price map focuses completely on the US.

Re: Show HN: Aldi Price Map

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Post by rendang »

kube-system wrote: post #239
joezydeco wrote: post #210

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Pet peeve: it's ALDI, not Aldi. It's an acronym for ALbrecht-DIskont.

Acronyms under most English style guides should be written in lowercase with the first letter capitalized. Only initialisms should be in all caps, which Aldi is definitely not. 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.

I almost always see most acronyms (not brands with an acronym origin like Aldi) in all caps, and always considered it an odd quirk of the BBC that they did not.

E.g. The NYT itself: https://www.nytimes.com/search?query=nato

Even the Daily Mail: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=nato+site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2F...

But apparently the Guardian doesn't do the all-caps either. Are there any American publications/style guides that don't do all-caps?

Re: Show HN: Aldi Price Map

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Post by rendang »

oniony wrote: post #106

Do Americans find it difficult to slice their own mushrooms?

That's sort of like noticing that frozen pizzas/TV dinners exist and asking, do people find it difficult to cook their own food?

Personally, I find washing the mushroom debris off the knife and cutting board to be more inconvenient than the slicing itself

Re: Show HN: Aldi Price Map

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Post by sgerenser »

drcongo wrote: post #144
scoot wrote: post #117

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That isn't how contractions in English work – you can't form a contraction from two nouns. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/con...

Quite right, what's needed here is a portmanteau - Legarts

I prefer Legricks. Dammit kids, pick up your legricks, I darn near killed myself!
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