Woolworths and Coles are emphasising the threat of Aldi — is it really a competitive force to be reckoned with?

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• DontMakeMoreBabies@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I fucking love Aldi. I shopped there when I was poor as hell in college and I’d still go there now if they had any nearby. Sure their selection is limited but what they have is legit and their deals are phenomenal.

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  • cheers_queers@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    they have totally upped their game in the last 10 years as well. they have way more stuff than ever and i barely need to go anywhere else anymore. got the best wine of my life there last winter too.

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  • MorpheusB@aus.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    @DontMakeMoreBabies @zero_gravitas I can get all I need bar some spices/herbs at about 50% of Coles cost

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• dumbass@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Woolies and Coles: How can we compete if we’re not allowed to overcharge our customers?

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• melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Aldi is less accessible for me but I’d happily shop there as exclusively as I could. Fuck Colesworth

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• Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Another thing I like about aldi is it doesn’t have inane music and ads blasting at you over a P.A. If I go there when it’s not peak time it’s nearly silent which makes shopping feel very peaceful and makes me want to spend longer in the place.

  Also much faster to navigate than colesworth due to less aisles of stuff I mostly have no interest in.

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  • Salvo@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The Aldi near us recently added self serve checkouts. They work, they don’t nag and they still have an attendant to happily make small-talk and help customers.

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    • Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yes! Another great point. I have a very high success rate with aldi self serve checkouts. Coles ones frequently have issues resulting in waiting for the attendant.

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• Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  the fact that they’ve squashed so much of the fucking market that Aldi is the only viable competitor they can think of - a chain so fucking small comparatively that an international friend I recently caught up with noted the same store availability as when she was last here a decade ago is a condemnation of the pair in and of itself

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  • Salvo@aussie.zone ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We had a local IGA open in our estate recently. There are some things that are more expensive than Colesworth, but only by a small margin.

    The same when a Foodworks opened where we used to live.

    Being able to stroll to the supermarket is a nice luxury; it is quicker to walk to IGA than to drive to the nearest Coles or Woolworths.

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• a1studmuffin@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Wow, they even acknowledged that customers will go to ALDI then go to Colesworth afterwards because ALDI didn’t have everything they needed. Sounds like real serious competition to me! About as threatening as a local market or butcher.

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• Ilandar@aussie.zone ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I guess it depends where you live and how you shop. Every ALDI I’ve been to in metropolitan SA has had terrible.range and since I already buy home brand products there is very little price difference. ALDI also tend to get inferior locations here so you have to go out of your way to shop at one, whereas a Coles, Woolworths, Foodland or Drakes will often be in a group of shops that includes one or two competitors, an independent fruit & veg grocer and maybe an independent butcher, fishmonger and liquor store. I have a local ALDI that I will occasionally walk to and buy a couple of things from, but I would never rely on it as part of my regular shops.

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• watson387@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yo half of the US would be starving if it wasn’t for Aldi.

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• treleanor@aus.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  @zero_gravitas @MorpheusB I noticed “The Aldi near us recently added self serve checkouts.” If my Aldi did that, I’d definitely shop there. Mine has the slowest checkouts in the world (tested by monkeys) and tries to make me late for my bus. It’s not unknown for me to dump my stuff and walk out.

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  • wildwhitehorses@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The checkout staff at my local Aldi are so fast I swear they are super human or on meth ( i mean it is Perth). Colesworth on the other hand are slow.

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