It’s also not even the cheapest. A lot of food at ALDI is both cheaper and of a better quality.
Edit: I like the alternate opinions, like where people say what things in Great Value they still like. We do still buy a few Great Value things, too!
It kind of brings to mind the unmelting icecream sandwiches. There’s a lot of chemistry going into that food to make it edible for pennies.
That being said, I see a lot of families in that store scraping by and trying to feed everyone in the house and it’s got to be hard to pass on a product that is often half the cost of the brand name.
Yeah, I feel bad for people without ALDI. We’re barely scraping by too.
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It depends on what you buy. Most of the stuff at ALDI is both cheaper and of better quality than Great Value specifically. Yeah, it obviously might not compare to a better brand than Great Value.
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I mean, pesticides, preservatives, and shelf-stabilizers aren’t bad. They’re good. It really just depends on what you’re using to do those things. A lot of the time additives are harmless. Ice cream stabilizer? Harmless, serves its purpose well. Soy filler in your frozen beef burrito? Harmless cheapening additive, and it’s still food.
I know corporations suck, I know that they do all sorts of dirty tricks and get away with them. But I really dislike the demonization of food— which is also a kind of ignorance that many food labels use to sell you their bullshit.
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For what it’s worth, Walmart’s double raisin Raisin Bran is awesome. It’s so many raisins for maybe even less cost than normal Raisin Bran where they give you “two scoops” of nothing in a box.
Dude. Just buy bulk raisins.
So…buy name brand cereal and then buy extra raisins to add to it, vs buying the great value brand for less than the box of Raisin Bran?
Everything this toxic, parasitic Walton Corporation does and pushes must be taken in bad faith. They are a bloated, mindlessly greedy cancer on society.
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ALDI is not American. They have better quality for cheaper and they let their damned cashiers sit while they work.
It’s easy to say “all corporations blatantly evil” when you’ve only lived in and experienced the US. Then something non-American is in America, but you don’t know, and you already have the assumption made.
Not gonna lie though great value chips are really good. But I will agree most gv food is terrible
No idea what Aldi is but I’ve got some decent great value stuff. Their pizza and lasagna isn’t bad. Also that equate brand they have has really cheap aspirin or face wash. Idk about the other stuff though.
Really depends on the product. Some products (generally the ones that are made from cheap ingredients) are of similar quality to global brands.
But obviously, on average cheaper products will be of lower quality.
the walmart peanut butter isn’t bad, and it’s still packaged in 18oz jars, not the shrunken 16oz jars nearly all others come as (18oz = 2 cups = two batches of cookies).
their version of coke zero is pretty decent, too.
Yee, but I find peanut butter very hard to eff up. It’s just peanuts and oil. Anything else that does or does not exist in a cheap peanut butter will only change it a little.
ALDI doesn’t sell clothes, bicycles, appliances, etc…
Walmart doesn’t sell those things under the “Great Value” brand.
they have a lot of store brands besides ‘great value’, though. they even have store brand TVs and laptops (Onn brand).
Okay? This post is about the Great Value brand name being a lie. Like how Super One (Midwest grocery chain)'s in-house brand is “Essential Everyday”, which is a lie. But Great Value’s lie is a somewhat-malicious deception instead of just being merely absurd.
That wasn’t a comment about their value deals. That was a fact about things they simply do not sell at all.
Not exactly relevant? But I changed the post to say “food” instead of “things”, because that’s what I meant.
Was totally relevant until you changed your post to clarify you exclusively meant food.
Many people are more than happy to compromise a little bit on price vs. quality if they can manage to get everything they’re shopping for at one store instead of driving all around and burning gas between three or more specialty stores.
People buy more than food ya know, they also need socks, underwear, glasses, a new tire for their car, a bicycle for their kid, etc.
Can’t find any of that at an ALDI, and most people try not to waste gas money driving all around town.
“It’s also not even the cheapest. A lot of things at ALDI are both cheaper and of a better quality.” I literally said “not even the cheapest”, which means a direct comparison between something at Walmart and an equivalent at ALDI, one you can compare prices with.
And I’d rather pay $200 at ALDI for good food and then go to Walmart for non-food, than $350 at Walmart for crappy food just because I can also buy a bike at Walmart.
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Good for you, do what you do. You must have a way better ALDI than we do to brag so much, our ALDI doesn’t even sell coffee.
Ain’t worth the gas to drive back and forth between two or three different stores when Walmart has it all.
Don’t care about name brand, just shop for the reasonably decent deals of the day, while saving gas money and also saving time in the heat.
Like, who TF wants to burn gas driving between three different stores in this 115⁰ heat?
