Aldi

[Robert98]

Do they have fresh meat there? Or just frozen?

[Duk123]

Originally Posted by Robert98

Do they have fresh meat there? Or just frozen?

They have fresh meat but not alot of choices of it. Mainly burger in I think 80/20 and 90/10, county ribs, round steak, pork chops, pork loin, turkey burger, some roasts and a few other things.
While Aldi's doesn't have alot of choices it's worth while to shop there. I was laid off last year so we switched to Aldi for the bulk of our shopping and we were able to cut 25% to 30% out of our food budget.
If you go give it a couple of tries. The first time that I went I wasn't real impressed and the differences between Aldi and other stores at first were a turn off. But after 4 or 5 times I began to really like it an now Cub and Rainbow feel odd to me.

[Voyageur]

Originally Posted by asitshouldbe

They sell a generic of the major brand for almost every product in the store. If you pick up a product and think, this looks just like Campbell's, it is. Most major brands sell a (generic). It is actually the name brand product labeled under the generic name.

Sure, it's generic - that's what generic is, just a matter of labelling.

Generics are invariably produced by companies with recognizable brands under contract for places like Aldi, which doesn't actually own a facility that makes soups or cereals or canned carrots.

The funny thing is people think all the food is generic, its not. The magarine that looks exactly like Land o Lakes but is named different, guess what? It is the same product with different labeling. My aunt is a manager at Aldis and told me about the not so generic, generics.

Again, that's what generics are - items (say, bran flakes cereal) produced by a well-known corporation (say, General Mills) under contract for a place like Aldi or Cub or Rainbow. As such, you don't pay for the marketing of the brand (or, at least, you pay for a lot less marketing).

That's what a generic is.

[Cruz Azul Guy]

We have an Aldi's within walking distance from our house but we never shop there. The main reason for this is their lack of fresh product. Aldi's seems to have a sufficient amount of boxed, canned and frozen products but heavily lacks in areas such as deli, fresh produce, and baked goods. That is mainly what we buy so as a result we have very little use for Aldi's. Even what they do have I've found to be old and pretty gross. I recall going there once to take advantage of a good deal they had on tomatoes and I was really disappointed by them, they were overripe and unattractive in appearance.