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I really like Aldi. You can't rely on them to have everything since they seem to like letting stock totally deplete then fill the empty shelves after. And a few items I had bad experiences and don't get anymore. But it's my main stay for a lot of stuff.

Zeus posted...

Until I watched CompanyMan's video on it, I didn't understand any of it, but the whole thing is surreal. They charge for grocery carts. they don't do grocery bags

They don't "charge" for them. You put a quarter in, you get it back when you return the cart. It means they don't have to pay people to go out and retrieve the carts.
And I've seen other grocery stores w/ the same scheme that are American.
They don't provide bags for free, but you can buy big plastic bags for like 10 cents or buy or bring your own reusable ones. Again, something a lot of "budget" grocers do, not just them...

Apparently *everything* is a product exclusive to them, and they don't even have normal store hours.

I thought it was like a Trader Joe's, but it's more like a Trader Ghettos. (Although apparently Aldi's owns TJ's, so... wtf)

It's really not like TJ's...

It's a no frills grocery store where they sell mostly "store brand" products and made the running of the store as ruthlessly efficient as possible. In return, you get lower prices, much faster check out lines, and the food is almost always just as good as any other off-brand version you'd find in other stores, if not better.

And yeah, they have less hours and more holiday closings than most grocery stores, b/c while they have few employees they tend to actually pay and treat them better than other grocery chains, in my experience...