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   Stephen Farrow (stephenfarrow@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jun-2025 02:30:28 JST Stephen Farrow

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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jun-2025 02:37:56 JST feld

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     @stephenfarrow well to be fair, it's not like people in America are aware of where Aldi is from. This information isn't really displayed anywhere. To the American public it's just the cheap no-brand grocery store that they love.
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jun-2025 04:17:33 JST feld

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     @stephenfarrow In my experience, it started showing up in poor rural communities and was outcompeting the other large grocery chains and Walmart on prices. I don't know if the EU/UK Aldi is very comparable to the USA Aldi, though.
     
     (also I usually see it called "Aldis". Just feels weird to say the name singular.)
     
     Elderly citizens with limited budgets *loved* Aldi in the USA. My grandparents almost exclusively shopped there after they retired from the farm in the 1980s, and I am quite certain they didn't know it was a German grocery chain that showed up in our farming community. It's not like they fly German flags or anything.
     
     Things are changing over the last 10 years though. Aldi is leaving lower income neighborhoods. I think they're getting pushed out by all the Mexican/Latino grocery stores which can be even cheaper.
     
     And absolutely nobody in the USA knows what Lidl is unless they've traveled to Europe.
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     Stephen Farrow (stephenfarrow@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jun-2025 04:17:35 JST Stephen Farrow

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     @feld Then that, I'm afraid, says something about American consumers. Aldi is everywhere in the UK, and we all know it's a German chain.

     And that's not the only jaw-dropping part. Why on earth would a supermarket *in Germany* carry American products, or label things in English?

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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jun-2025 04:18:08 JST feld

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     @stephenfarrow hey @lain did you ever visit an Aldi when you were here in the USA? Have any notes?
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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jun-2025 04:20:36 JST lainy

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     @feld @stephenfarrow kinda! trader joe's is owned by aldi nord, the aldi aldis in the US are owned by aldi süd, but i haven't been there yet
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jun-2025 04:22:59 JST feld

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     @lain @stephenfarrow and Americans are definitely convinced Trader Joes is some hipster chain invented here too
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     @feld @stephenfarrow My spell checker accepts "Aldis" but it has problems with "Aldi".
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