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‘Dollar store dinners’ go viral on social media (abcnews.com)
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[–] 13 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Aldi is more cost effective, in terms of unit price and also actual quality. I've never not enjoyed stuff I got from Aldi. And if I ever DID end up not enjoying one of their store brands? Twice as nice guarantee: they'll refund my money AND give me a replacement just in case the one I got in the first place was defective. It's real. It's the realest, even.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    I wish I had good experiences with Aldi. Mine just has an entire section of actually rotten produce and it’s hard to want to go back.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    To be honest, Aldi has always been kinda shit.

    I might get down voted a lot but that's my opinion. I grew up on shopping at Aldi. Half the time the frozen section seems like overstock other from local stores. Then the pricing, sometimes its alright and other times its cheaper to go to the grocery store with a 50% off sale (bogo) for the same crap.

    Why does their brand of saltines have TBHQ? tert-Butylhydroquinone. A lot of stuff has BHA and BHT. Why does the name brand not have that? Some of those compounds harshly interact with certain medicines and well pot lol. So it's really no different than anything else around except fancier stores, even then.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, I've been in 3 Aldi's and I never find these magically low prices everyone seems to keep talking about.

    at the absolute best theres been a couple items the same price as walmart, and yes we can rail against the evils of walmart for weeks without rehashing a single topic, but at the end of the day.. if you are on a very restricted/limited budget, you are going to shop where you can afford, and in my experience.. Walmarts cheaper than Aldi, for roughly the same portion sizes on items that i looked at.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago*

    It was my thought that the produce, meat, and staples seemed to be the bargains people were talking about, not the processed stuff. But yeah, the produce section disgusted me so much I just wouldn’t go back. Bags and bags of rotting garlic, soft onions, bruised and spoiling fruit and veg — I just was like “nope,” went to the only employee I could find in the store at checkout and let them know their produce section had a lot of spoiled product, put my cart back, and left

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