Lindl is coming to San Antonio (El Paso: price, grocer, shop)

[elnina]

Originally Posted by zcondren

Aldi's food is super low quality. You get what you pay for.

^^^ lol!!

[Azure110]

I have never thought of Aldi as "super" low quality. It is better than HEB's own Hill Country Fare crap.

[zcondren]

I disagree, most HEB store brand products are superior to the national brands.

[Big A]

Originally Posted by zcondren

I disagree, most HEB store brand products are superior to the national brands.

I hope you are being sarcastic.

[elnina]

Originally Posted by Big A

I hope you are being sarcastic.

Me too. I avoid buying HCF.
Note: many HEB brand products are made by national brands.

Also, back on topic, please.

[Texasmann]

H-E-B =| Hill Country Fare

[rynetwo]

Well apparently the brand has some fans in this thread, but they did not compete well in the United States. Time will tell if they rebrand themselves and keep expanding.

[Texasmann]

To clarify.

H-E-B Brand =| Hill Country Fare

[elnina]

Originally Posted by Texasmann

To clarify.

H-E-B Brand =| Hill Country Fare

H-E-B produces many of their own-brand products, including milk, ice cream, bread, snacks, and ready-cooked meats and meals.
These and other private-label products are sold under various brands, including
"Central Market Naturals",
"Central Market Organics",
"H-E-B",
"H-E-Buddy",
"Hill Country Fare",
"H-E-B Creamy Creations" ice cream,
"H-E-B Mootopia" milk,
and
"H-E-B Fully Cooked."

BTW - Two facts that maybe some people don't know:
- In 2010, H-E-B opened Joe V's Smart Shop, a brand featuring discount items modeled after discount grocer Aldi.

- In the mid-1980s, local grocery chains Handy Andy and Centeno joined a lawsuit against H-E-B citing unfair pricing practices. H-E-B eventually settled the suit out of court with Centeno in 1998 for $6.5 million and with Handy Andy for an undisclosed settlement amount.
H-E-B also has paid $12 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit accusing the San Antonio-based grocery chain of Medicaid fraud. Since at least 2006, according to the suit, H-E-B allegedly submitted to Texas Medicaid inflated prices on thousands of claims for prescriptions it filled so the company could obtain higher reimbursements than allowed.
No bueno, HEB...

[elnina]

Originally Posted by rynetwo

Well apparently the brand has some fans in this thread, but they did not compete well in the United States. Time will tell if they rebrand themselves and keep expanding.

Nah, Aldi is doing pretty good. At a time when the rest of the industry is really struggling, Aldi is thriving and investing.
Aldi, the world’s #5 retailer owned by Aldi Sud, embarked on a $5 billion plan last year to remodel and expand its U.S. chain to 2,500 by the end of 2022
Since announcing its growth plan in June 2017, it has added more than 140 new stores from coast to coast, opening its 1,800th U.S. store in August last year.
By 2022, Aldi said it will be the third largest U.S. grocer by store count with 2,500 locations, behind Walmart and Kroger.
Currently, 40 million consumers shop its stores each month, and the grocer hopes to serve 100 million customers monthly by the end of 2022. Aldi U.S. is just beginning to explore grocery delivery through a partnership with Instacart in four cities.
While Aldi U.S. does not release sales figures since it is part of a private company, its U.S. sales have doubled the last five years and the goal remains to double sales again in the next five years.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/08/groc...footprint.html

Aldi is doing pretty good around the world too:
https://www.mashed.com/121443/aldi-l...ike-countries/