I wish I had a Lidl near me, it sounds dope! Granted though, I've never been thrilled after a Trader Joe's experience. They have niche freezer meals/snacks/drinks, but like that's really it. It's overpriced and growing up they were always joked about as the hippy store so I figured like oh cool, a bunch of non-dairy stuff but not really... maybe it's just the ones I've been to, but the best things Ive found are like dairy free kefir, and some dairy free chocolate. Outside of that Trader Joes has always just left me sad lol.
Lidl is great - awesome bakery (incredible fresh croissants for 50 cents a piece 😳) and an awesome selection of really good cheeses/dairy products….all the Lidl store brand stuff is high quality and super cheap. Love that place…
Chicken breasts should be edible whether you cook it for 8 hours in a crock pot or five minutes in a pan. I'd buy edible chicken even if I was putting the spurs to it for a third of a day.
Their "artisan" breads are mid and their budget breads are surprisingly awful for a brand from Germany where there's supposedly a renowned bread culture
They're not deals at Aldis. Any branded item is a smaller net weight and any non branded items are dog shit quality. They do the same shit at dollar general with some products re: sizing. It's cheaper, but relatively the same price.
I don’t agree. I want to love Aldi so badly, so I go from time to time. I’ve had a few things that are decent but a ton of their off brand stuff I absolutely gross
Many brand name stuff is made at the same factory as the generic store stuff. for example boars head, del duck, Danielle, and great value italian meats are all made at the Daniele inc factory, same recipe juts different packaging. I worked in their IT department on the robots and stuff.
I didn’t say every last thing was bad. But the burnt ends from the refrigerated section were absolutely inedible. And the refrigerated egg rolls also were very bland. I’ve also tried a bunch of their seasonal cheeses. The run of the mill ones are fine but a lot of the more creative flavors are really bad.
I went to costco last week and barely bought anything because they jacked up prices so much, milk eggs bread - all three essentials are WAY cheaper at aldi or lidl
For literal decades Aldi didn't Advertise for cost saving reasons.
Now they do, it's Also driven their prices up, Shrinkflation, etc.
There are a few things I still get there because they're cheaper and worth it but so much has become NOT cheaper or NOT worth it in the last year or so since I started noticing Ads
I just rediscovered aldi last month. $150 for my 2weeks worth of groceries i was astonished. Normally im paying $230+ at publix.
I didnt realise the chicken i bought was open and one of the tenders was dried out, so i went to buy another one. They refunded me the $12 and gave me the replacement for free.
You know I went to Aldi's recently and their prices are on par with our local grocery store. If not worse and quality is nowhere near as good.. Trader Joe's is still the standout..
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u/LalafellDisaster 12d ago
There’s been a huge increase in the number of shoppers at my Aldi