• Infynis@midwest.social
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      8 months ago

      More affordable than Walmart, or whatever your local hypermarket is. And with better quality stuff too

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      8 months ago

      It depends on the location. Like any other grocery chain, the prices vary from one store to the next. They have great chocolate bars though.

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      8 months ago

      Yes. For the items they carry they are generally much cheaper. They minimize all unnecessary costs like marketing and packaging, encourage self checkout and using your own reusable bags. Their stores are spartan and they sell box/can goods right out of bulk/pallet packaging so that also saves some logistics cost.

      I live in a HCOL area (for the Midwest anyway) and while you can’t get everything at Aldi, you’d pay 1.5 - 2 times the price buying similar food at a regular regional supermarket. You’d probably pay 2 or 3 times the price if you did all your shopping at a Gucci place like Whole Foods or Sprouts.