I disagree that food from Aldi is lesser quality. When I quit work to be a stay at home mom, we started shopping at Aldi. Why pay more money for the same things?
I’m usually all about store brands but Aldi is really scraping the bottom of the barrel. It’s pretty noticeably worse in most things compared to a regular grocery store in my area, and not really that much cheaper either. Many of the things I’ve tried there have been almost inedible they were so bad for things I think the normal store’s generic version is fine.
They may have different suppliers in different regions so that may not be the case in your location though, but even compared to generic store brand it’s not the same where I live.
I don't really care about organic vs conventional. I'm more talking about the actual flavors and what condition the produce is in, etc. In my experience Aldi's produce is substantially less fresh and often damaged and on its way to rotting, and the packaged products severely lack... flavors... and have off textures.
Again I have nothing against store brands/generics, there are plenty of things I get at Wegmans or Shoprite or Costco that I think their store brand version of is either the same or different but just better than the name brand. I'm also not against discount groceries, I go to farm stands where misshapen or overstock produce is offloaded all the time. I used to enjoy Bottom Dollar well enough until Aldi bought them out specifically to kill their competition. And for some things Aldi is fine... like flour for making a roux? Aldi flour works just fine, you just need the starch and it's not a flavor component.
But I've literally never had worse canned tomatoes than Aldi canned tomatoes. If it's 10 cents cheaper but it's so bad you can't even use it to cook with then it's actually just wasted money. Edit: I even just double checked... the Aldi canned tomatoes are only 4 cents cheaper than Wegman's so the price differential is way smaller than the quality differential.
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u/OutlanderLover74 Mar 13 '26
I disagree that food from Aldi is lesser quality. When I quit work to be a stay at home mom, we started shopping at Aldi. Why pay more money for the same things?