Everyone always says how awesome ALDI is because of "special buys" and cheap prices, but it's all junk and low quality. Also their prices are not cheaper.
ALDI Supermarkets = Overpriced Rubbish
9hundred on 04/10/2021 - 22:16
Last edited 04/10/2021 - 22:23 by 1 other user
Last edited 04/10/2021 - 22:23 by 1 other user
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I guess OP may be right for some things. If you can compare exact products, you may be in for surprise.
For example, compare A2 milk 2L.
Colesworth - $5.30
ALDI - $5.29I once got their home brand nappie for my kid, it’s cheap but not to mention not good quality one.
Their fresh products are cheaper though.
I find the ALDI nappies work really well. We use them for both our kids and I know lots of others who do as well.
Day time ok but not overnight too thin.
Good advice for the OP.
A2 milk is a known scam, hence the high price regardless
The taste is good thou. Any Aldi milk brand taste the same?
I was thinking the same, A2 milk = come in sucker.
Evidenced by the fact that the OP drops the post and then disappears. Pretty childish really.
ALDI's dark chocolate 180 g $1.99 is pretty good to me. It's made in Belgium.
Yeah they have some of the best chocolate for the price.
Coles sells Belgian dark choc too though, at 200g for $2.30, so it's not that much cheaper. Anybody know if there's a noticeable difference in quality (and which one is better)?
Aldi is a f..k ton better. That being said I get the Choceur dark and their 70% dark. Both are fantastic (this opinion is before you factor in price)
haha
Three days on, it seems it was a first-class OzBargain trolling exercise. SMH.
Any specific examples? I don't shop there often but from time to time like to have a gander for something new and different from the same old stuff at Coles and WW.
I find some of their cheese selection pretty good and their knock-off Pringles are far superior.
Aldi is the closest supermarket to me, I could walk there in 10 minutes, but I rarely use it. I wouldn't say it's ALL junk like OP suggests, but I got annoyed with them pretty quickly as every item was a bit of a coin toss as to whether it was decent or rubbish. Couldn't be bothered going there and then to another supermarket to get the stuff I knew was rubbish at Aldi to save a few bucks for the things that were okay vs just going elsewhere and paying a bit more.
Produce = hit and miss. You can't go wrong with bananas, onions, bagged salads, etc., but their seasonal produce (especially stone fruit) is a gamble, so I buy those at a grocer and get basics at Aldi.
Special Buys: personally don't understand why people go ga-ga and line up over snowboarding gear, air fryers, or Dysons. You can often find better deals year-round just following Ozbargain, especially Dysons.
Packaged foods: I actually prefer Aldi home brand coffee beans, chocolate, and biscuits (especially Knoppers). Local dairy products (including cheese and yoghurt) are from the same suppliers as Colesworth (inside source), and it's significantly cheaper. Ditto with non-perishables like sugar, oil, etc.
No, the selection isn't as large as Colesworth, and checkout can be frantic, but if you know what you want and you're a quick bagger, Aldi is great.
especially Knoppers
I love this shit. So bloody good.
I started going once a month to stock up on tissues, paper towel and cat litter, now I'm also grabbing most of the packaged foods you listed.
Just tried the beans this last week, better than I was expecting but will need to give the dark a go. Good value but might stick with the local roasters.
There is always a ton of cheap kids stuff in the special buy section, great for 1-4 year olds.
I actually found that most of their cheese is superior in ingredients, they sell cream cheese that is preservative free (which you can never find elsewhere) and their greek fetta is made out of sheep and goats milk which you'll pay an arm and a leg for at coles or woolies.
Their preground coffee is cheap and great for the price
I think you may be right some of the time about special buys, but not always and their warranty periods can be excellent on some goods and the choice is pretty good considering what they are doing.
If you really need something special you can make those choices from elsewhere.
The promotional push is much less and lack of brand advertising with interesting overseas foods is really interesting and a good chance to try other things.Note that Knoppers is a good German brand ("Storck"), so its the original product and not an Aldi knock-off. Same as all the Haribo stuff they have.
I like and have never had a huge problem with any of their products - nothing really strikes me as "bad" but I also dont really eat much in the way of heavily branded / specific "products", mostly staples and basics.
What does bother me about Aldi is the lack of stock. Every single trip I have to go somewhere else afterwards because they were out of some staple essential item I really cant just skip - simple stuff like a 1L milk or bread rolls. I still go often but If I had to commit to one shop I'd never choose Aldi.
This was my experience from a few years ago. Aldi is okay for the very basic stuff but so I only went there if I knew I was making a basic meal (stuff like mince, onion, chicken, carrot etc etc) and would not need an ingredient that I wasn't sure if Aldi would have but I knew coles or woolies (certain deli meat, seafood, cuts of beef/pork) would.
Tim Tam rip off is better than Arnotts imo
I dont like Aldi cheese. Its cheap and nasty to me. As is much of their frozen food, especially veg. Their cereals are also poor - cardboard like. But their fresh meat and fresh fruit+veg is fine. Usually slightly cheaper than ColesWorths, although lacking in range.
Rubbish post
Don't be a selfish narcissist, man.
Be cool, monkey
Which store did you visit for you to base this opinion on?
Woolworths
Audi
Aldo's hair salon, Brookside.
Flashbacks. So many flashbacks. Once they gave me a bald spot. Free haircut though
That place is always packed it's ridiculous
Howdy neighbour!
ALDI Total Landscaping.
ALLDI
McDonalds
McDowells.
LIDL or Trader Joe's.
Probably David Jones food back in the day. I could never understand how anyone could fork out so much for stuff there except brand and price snobbery which fits the OPs and some other comments here.
everything from aldi that's not food is cheap junk. I stopped doing my main shopping at aldi maybe 4 years ago. woolies and Coles do a better job all around. aldi has these shit little isles were forced into and the lines are allways there
Not sure which Aldi store you have a grievance with, but my local Aldi doesn't have 'shit little isles that I'm being force into and lines that are always there'.
Yeah, Aldi have the widest isles by far here, woolworths is almost too narrow for two people to walk by and coles is not much bigger.
"Everything"
Owned a Mitre saw and a vacuum from Aldi for years with no issues.
Yeah they are cheap, but they are of no different quality of other similarly priced products.I don't particularly like going to ALDI because there is no self-service checkouts at my local or click and collect.
But if you are looking for a cheap product to do a job infrequently and ALDI have it then you get local warranty and you can pick it up.Pretty good for rural people.
When there is no line, we simply close the "extra" checkouts to make sure a line forms!
Are you talking about Woolies? They're terrible for wait times now.
Drill bits from ALDI, they all broke in no time - Rubbish
Noise Cancelling Headphones - Rubbish
Roesti ( potatoes Hash ) in bag - Excellent
Merino wool underwear - ExcellentMeat: Not Nice
Agree: ALDI is hit and miss, and I always need to go to another grocery shop.
I bought a pack of masonry bits 7 years ago and I'm still using them. I also picked up a merino jumper and it was excellent. The NC headphones I bought were decent for the money until I dropped them ducking a magpie and the headband broke (only paid 18.50 on the 39 rrp). I've bought bad electronics from there, but it was cheap enough.
The food is generally fine though, like most here I don't know what OP is talking about TBH
If the NC was decent, you wouldn't have heard the magpie ;)
"Noise Cancelling Headphones"
Mine were $80 JBL Live 650BT - very very far from "rubbish" and among the most comfortable I have ever worn. I have never bought Stainless China drill-bits or tools for anything other than a one-off task in soft timber.
There steaks are pretty good
Where are they again? Aldi?
Aldi meat for me is far better than Coles or Woolies, in both price and quality. Aldi ready to cook fresh meals were a cheap life saver when the 2nd child was born.
Their steak is poor: but same as Coles and Woolies, I don’t know what it is but it’s not good. I can’t eat supermarket sausages either. Butchers often cheaper too. Everything else is fine
When you're used to butcher level steak all the supermarket stuff is junk. But dollar for dollar, aldi steaks are better than colesworth steaks. That's based upon my experience from about 4 years ago tho and things might have changed.
These days, I'm a shopping from a butcher as well for my beef.
@ankor: My mate's mate knows a bloke who runs a garage. He says his butcher told him one boozy evening that snags and mince were a butchers bonus. Fatty off cuts they couldn't sell went into snags and mince. With the mince, he'd throw in a bullocks heart which made the mince appear beautifully red and lean - it has slab appeal. His snags were flavoured with all manner of things even gravy powder and bulked up with cereal, In fact the more lean meat they contained, the less they taste of sausage. His snags and mince have won awards.
I find ALDI meats generally worse that Coles and Woolies: Coarser, chewier, more fat attached. Coles has some nice clean lean fillets, which are impossible to find in ALDI.
ALDI has got better some food is good but I like my local Woolworth or Coles I like know money is going back to mum and dad with super in sockmarket
Will have to look in to the sockmarket, hopefully it's in the sustainable option
Coles also has small household appliances. If you give them to children to play "house", ensure they can't plug the trash in.
Some Aldi frozen seafood is Chinese packed - and some Danish, Australian and Norwegian. Just about everything similar in Coles is pricier, almost all Chinese produce - and crap.
but it's all junk and low quality
What's quality to you?
TBH I've given up with this sort of viewpoint. You very well may think devon is a quality meat so without any evidence or facts, you'll get ignored.
Everyone always says
OP is outside the everyone group.
Everyone doesn’t mean everyone? 🤯
is OP fully vaccinated? lol
achew
'scuse me
Nothing against ALDI.
I know some of their stuff are cheaper than Colesworth but the stress I am getting during checkout is not worth it 😒
I like to take my time at self checkout.
They’re introducing self-serve checkout to their stores now
I hope they enforce an item limit because some people take way too long to bag their entire trolley full of shopping.
I like to take my time at self checkout.
Well lets hope they have more than one self service checkout, it will probably be faster to use a regular one if we were in the queue behind you at that self checkout. 😀
Let’s hope you’re not behind me 😉
That’s because everyone tries to use it like colesworth.
If you have a large number of things you’re supposed to unload a trolley onto the conveyor and then either pack it back into bags standing up in your trolley, or just dump it unpacked into the trolley and repack into bags at the table or into bags at your car boot.
Or get creative. I have 4 of one item, I put 1 on the conveyor and tell the operator there are 4 of that item. I never had (locally) any issue with that.
Of course having a full trolley load with many different items makes it harder for them to check, so maybe wouldnt work in every case.
Meanwhile that checkout chick watches you unload to the belt as there's no room after scanning a few items
But why stress out? You just pick and put in the basket at your normal pace. If we start living and dancing at other's tune, how far we can go?
Ikr, I wish I could live like that 🤷♀️ Gotta make my face thicker.
I find any Aldi-branded special buy products to be of very low quality and rarely lasts long
Have you tried the snow clothes?
Snow clothes last for years because you only use it 2 weeks a year.
The snow gear is fit for purpose. I've had my current set 3yrs and the previous set 5yrs - better option than renting for sure. I also travelled with the 1st set so I got good use for $100 - only had to get a new set as I gained weight.
Partner has been using the snow jacket for years for most of winter as normal winter/its raining jacket its held up very well.
A packet of chips only needs to last 10mins!
The motorbike stuff seems ok. Haven't had a need to test the durability of it tho..
I buy certain product at ALDI because they're cheap and good:
Frozen spicy chicken tenders: Cheaper than the competition, and taste good.
Canned tuna in springwater: The quality of more expensive brands, but at half the price.
Bagged spinach leaves: Cheapest per 100g out of all stores
Red Bull clone drink: 79c or 99c, and I think it tastes better than Red Bull.
Choceur chocolate: Brilliant quality and always the same price. Much cheaper than the poor quality Cadbury bars.
Frozen salmon fillets: Always $26/kg, and the cuts are good quality.
Nice try Colesworth marketing team.