She really has no idea what she is talking about, she lived in Germany for a year and a half and didn't bother to learn German??? Küche is pronounced koochay?? Really???
Rafael Herschel not anymore! We are remodeling all the stores in my area, and as far as I know, all US stores of a certain age. The new design looks very upscale
But only like the oldest of oldest Aldis still have that flooring in Germany I think (and maybe Norma). But yeah, I was thinking "oh, the floors look like the ones from my childhood!" And the fonds for the price tags is the same, too.
I have to comment on the German word "Küche": "Küche" usually means "kitchen" but not in the context presented in the video. "Deutsche Küche" means "German cuisine" or "German cooking" because "Küche" can mean the room in the house but it can also mean the style in which food is prepared. Ich a German says "Das Restaurant hat eine gute Küche" this also usually means that the food is good, not the cooking equipment.
In Spanish also, "cocina" can mean the room and the food itself... Something like the word "cook"? "good cook" for the food and/or for the guy who prepares the food?
Don't forgeht that Aldi is a Discounter (that's the reason why it's very cheap). Other supermarkets in Germany don't use so many cardboard-boxes to display the food.
But their hiring process is a JOKE. It's impossible to get hired even with 11 years of experience working in stores. Don't know what the hell they look for in applications. It's a grocery store, not the assembly line at VW!
Nice comparison, but I have a few corrections. In Germany, normal supermarkets don't leave the items in the shipping crate, only the discounters do this. Aldi accepts credit cards, though they started this only recently. While they employ fewer people than a regular supermarket, they pay better wages (at least in Germany). Anyway, I do love these comparisons from an Americans point of view, keep up the good work!
Gero Lindenberg Aldi pays above average wages in most cities in the US. I’ve never worked there but I see their ads in the employment posts frequently.
thanks! i'm glad you liked the video :) am I right, though, that ALDIs in Germany leave the items in the shipping crates? and i'm surprised they accept credit cards now! I remember when I was going, they only took debit or EC Cards (giro card?) but not credit. I think I worded my one comment poorly - i definitely didn't mean that ALDI doesn't pay their employees well, but rather that they pay out less money overall to their workers because of how much more efficient the store is (so less hours, fewer employees)
Kelly does her thing all German discounters leave the items in the crates: Aldi, Lidl, Netto, Penny. Most of them have started to accept credit cards about two years ago, at least in northern Germany. Oh, and now I see how your comment can be understand in such a way as to describe that the company saves on wages because they need fewer employees :-)
Oh, I always have to remind myself that credit cards and debit/EC cards are not the same thing. I, like many people in Germany, rarely use my credit card to pay for things in a store. I only use it for things like online purchases. For everything else I use my EC card - which I call a credit card in my head. %-)
no it's not! it's psychological abuse and emotional cruelty...... and a pretty good reason for a divorce! xD i would fill her cars AC with confetti or saw dust , just for the giggles :)
Wow even the floor tiles are the same! ... but its not true that aldi in germany is paying less to their employees. Aldi employees are actually earning a decent salary.
I didn’t word it well - I meant that the store employs fewer employees because of the store’s efficiencies and therefore pay out less money to employees. I have no idea how much they make here or in Germany
putting the items in the boxes in the shelves was actually a big part of Aldis road to success ... it saves time for each employee, u need less employees and it saves space ... they always used good products and handled the shop practical
I was so happy when Aldi opened a store in my city. I'm on a very tight budget and it has changed the way I shop. I am able to get better food and have a healthier diet. I love Aldi!
Aaaaaaaaamin....They have better bread. All kind of bread. Very yummmmmy bread. When i go to Germany i buy bread as much as i can...But The Netherlands stay my big love after Belgium. We have Waffels and Chocolade.
If that is what cheap means for US standards then.... damn.... even a premium grocery store in the netherlands is less expensive than this. The Aldi here is even cheaper than that.
@@kmlammto Wealthy country? Hmm maybe but that is Germany too. And personally I would not choose to live in the US. I could tell you what we have better here compared to the US but that is quite a bit and my English is not good enough so that you would understand everything. So read it up for yourself if it is from interest. But for example when you loose your job here, the Government pays good money until you have a new job. Or the health insurance for example is a need to have for everyone here and everyone needs to pay in for that, and the amount everyone needs to pay in is connected to the amount of money you get from your job. If you don't have a job, the Government pays everything that's necessary for you to keep a good standard of living. What I can say is the health care system here alone is worth to live here😉 And overall living costs are cheaper here from what I've heard. The average wage is a bit lower compared to the US I've read but what counts is what you have at the end of a month in your pocket. With the amount of work you've done to get it. Here we have up to 30 fully paid days off from work per year. When you get sick you can't loose your job because of that. And many things more that I would like to tell why I will always stay in Germany.
Hi!!! I work for Aldi in Ohio and I love it. Been shopping there for many many years, employed for 6. I definitely prefer this German business model. Gotta love those smart, practical Germans :)
Do you can say about time rates in comparison to other retail shops in the us? In germany Aldi is the employer with best time rates of the whole retail sector here, also in the us?
ihave35cents If you don't like ALDIs business model just don't shop there! But if you like their prices you will have to do some (not all of it!) of the work yourself. But who would complain about that? It won't kill you for sure!
You are always saving money if you can do something your self. You can't shop faster in other stores. You just pay them to do things for you while you stand there waiting. If you earn more money than an simple job pays, then don't mess with shopping at all. Pay a guy to shop for you.
Interesting video, similar to my experiences with Aldi here in the UK. I have just one comment: You refer to Aldi paying their employees less money. But as far as I know salaries at Aldi are fairly good compared to many other retailers, certainly above minimum wage, as long as you can keep up with productivity and speed required.
it's the same in germany. aldi pays pretty well if compared to other retailers. For sure you dont get rich but it actually is one of the better paying companies. crazy
sorry, i didn't mean that their hourly wage is slow, but rather that they would be working fewer hours overall because of how efficiently the store is ran (which translates more to my statement that they would just hire fewer employees)
No worries, it's clear that your video focused on the Aldi shopping experience, and not on the economics of Aldi's business model ;-) And it's true that per product they Aldi spend less on staff. But because it's efficiently run, they can afford to pay fairly high salaries.
+Kelly - Most ALDI workers in the ALDI shops in germany get only part time jobs and contracts, not full time jobs. And different times, maybe every week, when to work. At ALDI you get more money, but you must work harder as ie at Lidl. Some workers quit at ALDI, because it is too hard for them. At ALDI south shops, I think they have 20 % - 30 % fewer employers. Because it saves money for the ALDI south company. So the work is more hard for the ALDI workers. In the past, you get only paid, when the ALDI Shop is opened. If its closed, you must work for free. Now we have a gouverment law of a minimum wage per working hour. Current 8,84 Euro/hour. This law of a minimum is very good, and helps the workers. ie you must paid this minimum for every hour. It helps also at so called minijobs = part time jobs. You get maybe maximum 450,- Euro per month. But no limit how much hours you must work for it. But with the minimum payment you can calculate, how much hours maximum you need to work for it.
+Kelly - They can order his workers, how much they need it in the shops. ie more workers if more customers. Or they send workers temporary to other own shops in the area, if they needed. But other shops and discounters do the same.
Deutsche Küche...or "How to perpetuate old German stereotypes" What the hell is a Beer Bratwurst? As a German I can´t stop laughing. Kelly, great channel!
Aldi was always known for ultra-fast cashiers. Before barcode scanner systems, the cashier had to remember each price of every item and type it into the cash machine manually. And Aldi cashiers were so fast at it, i would even go so far to say, they typed in the price even faster than this cashier here. Aldi was always famous for that and probably will ever be. In total, it's called efficiency. German efficiency. Also, placing the whole cardboard box into the shelf, you know, the cardboard box for groceries is mostly called display box, because reasons. Except for the boxes in the vegetables section. But unpacking all the stuff costs time, and time is money. Save the time, people will buy it anyways, with the additional opportunity to lower the price. If you want someone to hand it over to you with a fake smile while having a smalltalk and your ass kissed, sure, but nothing's for free
Actually they did not know the price (because that can change). Every product had a (three digit?) number code they had to know and type in. And they were fast!
Was at a Aldi store in London only 2 cashiers open and there quality of chocolate was lesser quality than the German Chocolate with the same label. Also I don’t live in Germany nor England. But I could taste the difference. The chocolate in Germany was richer tasting.
You already could when this video was published - at least when shopping at Aldi Süd (for those who are not familiar with the German Aldi equator - the company split up about a disagreement between the two brothers owning it, and so it was divided into "Aldi Nord" (north) and "Aldi Süd" (south) a long time ago. Countries outside Germany are usually served bei either one of the two branches, while Germany is pslit up between them.) Maybe the northern half introduced credit card acceptance later, but I remember paying with Mastercard at Aldi Süd for 5+ years now. The US Aldi is by the way run by the southern Aldi branch (they have slightly different logos, so this is obvious), just like the Aldis at Mainz where Kelly lived for a while are.
@@Colaholiker After the deaths of the brothers, it seems that ALDI Nord and ALDI Süd have started to "bury the ax". On German TV there are now commercials that the two ALDIs have co-produced, showing both logos.
Vor der Einführung der "Scannerkassen" mussten die Kassierinnen ALLE Preise im Kopf haben. Wer sich bei Aldi bewarb, bekam eine Liste und die musste als Test auswendig gelernt werden. Das war noch echte Kopfarbeit.
Und die Kassiererinnen mussten auch jede Woche die Angebotspreise im Kopf haben. Es gab sogar Testkäufer wo geprüft wurde, ob alles richtig abgerechnet wurde. In Österreich war Hofer (Aldi) die letzte Kette die Scannerkassen einführte. Noch Anfang der 2000er wurde da alles per Hand eingetippt.
Soweit ich weiß, musste das Personal die Produktnummern im Kopf haben und diese in die Kasse eingeben, in der die Preise programmiert waren. Also z. B. Klopapier 3478 oder so...
Quatsch. Man musste die PLU Nummern lernen (wie heute auch noch von frischen Artikeln wie Obst und Gemüse), was aber keine große Sache war, da die Artikeldatenbank darauf ausgelegt war. Das heißt : Weniger Artikelnummern, häufiger Sorten mit identischen Preisen als heute und ebenfalls eine weitaus geringere Auswahl. Seit Einführung der Scannerkassen wird immer mehr an Personal gespart, was heißt, dass die Kassierer damals auch deutlich langsamer arbeiten durften als heute. Ich arbeite im Rahmen eines Aushilfsjobs neben meinem Studium als Kassierer bei Aldi, ziehe die Artikel blitzschnell über das Band und erreiche trotzdem nur 2/3 der normalerweise geforderten Geschwindigkeit.
Das war bei uns in England genauso. Die am Kassier mussten blitzschnell schaffen, jedoch dafür wurden sie überdurchschnittlich belohnt. Trotzdem gab es eine hohe Personalfluktuation, denn der Stress dabei war kaum erträglich. Sogar mit den Scannerkassen gehts heutzutage nicht schneller, besonders wenn bei einem unerkennbaren Barcode der Leser ausflippt.
Aldi in Germany is actually 2 Aldi's, Aldi Nord, and Aldi Süd. Aldi Süd owns Aldi USA, and are similar to each other. Aldi USA has updated their stores, where new and remodeled stores are removing the rails that separate the first and second aisles. What you mentioned that German grocery stores have gates that you have to go through, Aldi USA used to have those too, until the early 2000's. Aldi USA has been in my area since 1979, and they used to be barebone. Before 2004, cashiers used to have to remember all the prices, because even in the late 70's to 2004, nothing had price tags on them. I had a neighbor back out of taking a job with Aldi USA, because she couldn't remember the prices of everything. Like Aldi in Germany (both Nord and Süd ), you either bring in your own bags, or you buy them (local to me, Aldi didn't offer bags at all, until 1992). As for debit and credit cards, Aldi USA started accepting debit cards in 2000, and credit cards in 2016. Aldi USA accepts state run SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) cards (formerly called foodstamps). They however never accepted checks and WIC (Womens Infant, and Children), because checks don't clear right away, and not fast for them to process as payment. WICH isn't accepted, because of having to have items verified for approval for the program, and not getting paid right away. I have seen some of the German products at Aldi USA, and for me, some of the products take getting used to eating, because it's made different from the American version of the same food. German potato soup definitely has a different taste. I definitely would like an American do a video of Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd in Germany, so we can see how the 2 are different. One video I did see of an Aldi Nord store, that since Aldi Nord owns Trader Joes in the US, that sometimes, Trader Joes products have been found in their stores (Trader Joes products won't be found at Aldi Süd stores, or Aldi USA stores) .
Really enjoyed your post. I wish youtube comments are more often like this. At Aldi Nord in germany they use Trader Joe as a brand for products that feels american to germans. I dont know for sure. But I think those products are mostly not produced in the US. It is more about the vibe.
There are definitely local adaptations of Aldi's to their local markets. Aldi Nord runs the Aldis in Belgium and France and you find typical products from these regions.
Tilumbus I forgot to mention that in the US Aldi Nord chose to buyout Trader Joes, rather than open from the ground up, and have to go under a different name. This way, it was cheaper to go that route. Too bad that Trader Joes hasn't grown fast enough. I'd like to go to one, but the nearest one to me is in Chicago.
davenwin1973 ... at the time before scanners and barcodes they didn't know all the prices of the items but the three digit code of of all the food items and the 4 digit code of some additional items Aldi offered at that time. That way it was faster than typing in the price (at least figure, decimal, figure, figure). Plus you always knew what items had been taken out of stock in realtime.
One of my professors at uni used to work for Könecke, a big and renowned manufacturer for sausages in Germany. I don‘t know if it is still the case, but they used to be behind Aldi salami and other types of sausages. They had a contract that said they could only deliver their goods in brown boxes (in order to look cheap), but one day Könecke ran out of brown boxes and delivered in the more expensive white ones. Aldi made a big fuss about it and threatened to fine them, because they wanted to look cheap and white boxes did not fit that image. Nowadays Aldi really tries to look more premium with a different produce area and different freezers/ fridges and so on. Aldi Nord built a new store a few years ago where I live and is also slowly renovating existing ones to look better. They aim to look more like a regular supermarket instead of a discounter.
12:11 Walmart also times their cashiers as to how many items they scan a minute, and how much time they spend with each customer, which I found a bit weird, because what if you have a chatty customers who moves slow? I am hoping that the retail giants will stop putting emphasis on speed, but more value on treating their employees right. 😎
ALDI = Albrecht Discount Funny, my girlfriend is from the US and she was happy to see its almost the same here. We have more expensive places here, Aldi is one of the cheapest but quality is still good. Paprika is around 1 buck at the REWE for instance :> The Bratwurst looks like a regular german wurst. But whats uncured? NOW I understand why my girl spent like 15 min in our gummibär-ile! oO
Your egg fact-oid blew my mind. I had no idea that was the reason they're kept refrigerated. I'm still trying to wrap my head around hearing the term Euro instead of a German Mark, and pfennig.
It's amazing, isn't it! Same here in the UK, unwashed eggs, so they may not *look* immaculate but they retain the natural protective coating and therefore do not need refrigerating, last ages, and we don't eat the shells of course... Makes so much more sense!
I still remember as Aldi didn't had barcodes and every kashier had to know ALL item by number. But heck, they were often times faster as they're know with the scanner. Because they didn't need to wait until the person in front of you is gone. They just started to tip in the next items and if you reached the cashier she was nearly at the end of your groceries and just checked if she didn't overlooked something. All in your cart, money (best in bar because it's faster) and then the next one. Doesn't matter if you still stand there or not, because she can just tip everything she sees. THAT was fast. Nowadays they have scanner and they weigh your veggies, thats slowing down the process of an human level that I can pack and seperate my groceries without getting in stress :D oh and here in Germany at ALDI it's so that the kashier needs to be so fast as how many people are in the store. Because every new checkout they need to open is loss of money. That explains why people in Germany "cut the line" in discounters. They don't. They're supposed to, because the new just opened, so that the first line doesn't get too long. The second checkout will take all people who come right off from the store and if everything is normal again, the checkout get's immediately closed. In Germany you can switch the line, but you are not supposed to, the second checkout is never for people waiting at the first one, except the kashier calles you ;) Same reason behind it: money! That also might differ in the ALDI there? Or how does it work in ALDI in the US?
@@Tippel3 your absolutely right. Thats how it works at my Aldi, referring to the opening of new lines and it being money saving technique.,as i stated earlier we are always multi-tasking. If the line gets more than 2-3 customers at the back of belt we get on walkie and call back-up. We try not to unless necessary because they have to leave whatever theyre doimg to assist, as quickly as possible😊. Main cashier as well has other job responsibilities when not ringing. Theres no down time until you get your break. Its hard work however Aldi takes good care of their employees.
check out my video about Trader Joe's (owned by Aldi Nord!) ua-cam.com/video/LpD6eXO_U2o/v-deo.html hey guys! I LOVE all the comments!! I really want to clear up one thing - I in no way meant to insinuate that ALDI doesn't pay their employees well. Rather, I meant to communicate that the store is ran very efficiently, therefore they need to pay out less money to employees overall in the form of fewer hours and fewer employees.
I´m German and I moved from Saarland (a German state) to Mainz three and a half years ago. I was probably as shocked as you were by the speed the cashiers are working. In my old state you could easily pack your things while talking to the cashier and pay AFTERWARDS, but in Mainz, it´s... a different story. Maybe it´s just that specific city? :D I actually had to develop a elaborate technique to being able to handle packing my things, maybe talking and paying AT THE SAME TIME. (And I´m really proud of my technique, but the tempo still stresses me out :D)
I am a German and I was in an Aldi in the US. I think a lot of products from the brand "Deutsche Küche" are really inspired and made like products you can actually buy in Germany. Some not, but that is like, when we in Germany have something like an American Week, where we can get "real american" products. But most of them are very well made :-)
With "Pfand" (same thing with the carts, I guess americans would go on a rampage about this! *lol*). You actually have to collect your bottles you emptied and carry them back to the store, where you get the 25 ct (PER BOTTLE, no matter the size!!) back you paid initially extra when you bought it. The store will collect the plastic bottles and recycle them with all plastic bottles (even from other markets, they all have the Pfand sign on it).
We have all sorts of water bottle sizes in America from tiny 8 ounce to 12 ounce, half liter, 20 ounce, 24 ounce, liter, liter and a half, 3 litter and gallon. Possibly a few others.
Surprised to see Jaffa Cakes in the German Foods section! That cashier would fit right in, in Aldi in Ireland. If you load the conveyor belt with a bit of thought, you can race the cashier and have your packing finished as soon as she scans the last item :D
I always load conveyor with heavy stuff first, especially produce and eggs last, because they throw your groceries into the buggy without care. Didn't know they were timed. Still, love Aldi's` though, wonder why they stopped carrying Regular non-dairy creamer?
They are, but Aldi is the only place I know where they sell those in Germany and Switzerland and they are quite good there. Most people I know think of this "cookie/biscuit/cake" as an Aldi-cookie because they only know it from there.
As far as I remember the Jaffa Cakes have been introduced through Aldi in the german-speaking region and many believe they are a "german"-thing in the german-speaking countries. I just found out recently that they originate from the UK.
5:38 In the local Aldi here in Germany the Vegetables and Fruit are also put on shelfs and are not displayed in those cardboard boxes (which I think looks a bit messy).
Old comment I know but, what I learned in another UA-cam video the US version of Aldi Nord is called Trader Joe’s. At least the owner of that company bought them
hmmm, the half-liter bottles are also available and kinda popular in Germany too. often the same drinks that are available in the 1.5 liter bottles are also available in the smaller ones. buying the big one is cheaper (per amount), but the small bottles can be more convenient in some situations.
Also I remember ALDI specifically having a policy that you are not supposed to take out the individual bottles of the small (0.5 liter) packs, having signs to that effect on top of the shelves. I say "ALDI specifically", because i haven't seen that in other stores like LIDL etc. but it seems that a couple years ago they abandoned that, not sure when exactly.
Actually, Aldi is changing their strategy, allowing more "brand"-products to come in, declining the "no-name" products. Even the appearence of the stores change now. BTW, in the US, you´ll have "Aldi South" for the two founder brothers devided their business into two halves decades ago...
@DeadLink 404 Well since I never in my life have seen an Aldi south, but many Aldi north's, I'll believe you, or do they tend to let their fruit and vegetables rot or dry up to a shrivelled mess in Aldi South as well?
Hi, I’m an American living in Germany for the the past 42 years. I recall talking to my mother in the USA (1979) and telling her all about the German grocery store called Aldi. Since then, I have seen Aldi revolve into a great discount store with actual air conditioning, accepted debit card use, and one of the best fresh produce of all the German grocery stores. Customer service is also very generous. I’ve returned many items without a sales receipt and have always been compensated and/or have received a new item, no problem at all. I also must comment that almost all of the Aldi‘s in Germany are better renovated and stocked than the American Aldi. This one in the video was pretty bad! I live near Frankfurt, Germany.
@@luciennelucke2319 natürlich weiß man warum: Hofer. Die von Helmut Hofer im Jahr 1962 gegründete Filialkette Hofer wurde 1967 von Aldi Süd übernommen. Da der Name Aldi in Österreich nicht nutzbar ist (er gehört der Firma Adel Lebensmittel Diskont), firmiert sie seitdem als Hofer KG.
We have ALDI in Slovenia and Austria but it is named Hofer. It is perfect, I think the thing that I would emphasize is the standartisation of the store, no matter in which country you go to an ALDI it has the same design, same size, products are placed in a similar order. And what I love the most is at least in Austria and Slovenia that they really connect with the local producers, so a lot of the food and drinks are usually produced locally. Another thing are the "Parkplätze" - parking spaces are big enough as I own a bigger SUV and it is no problem to park there, usually even when you park there is still a little bit of space on the sides.
Lived in Germany for a couple of years and ALDI was my favorite store. Just moved near Arlington VA and was very happy to see an ALDI. They look exactly the same.
I am happy for the US-citizens, to get the goods cheaper via ALDI. Live, money and paying is not easy for the most people in the US, - I think. greetings from germany.
+SGT ROCK - It`s because of a too good image about US-citizens via entertainment. It shows families with several children - living in houses, with a big car garage, and two cars or more. And all the goodies, what you can buy. Including full lightning show at the house at christmas time. And a big dinner with ten people or more. But, to pay all this, you need maybe 7.000 - 10.000 $ per month earning ? But in real most US-people don´t earn so much money ? I think, the reality for many US-people is 9 - 20 $ / hour earning. Expensive apartement renting. Too expensive health insurance. Very difficult, to make money for your retirement. Every month the challenge, how to pay all ? If you get more money for your work, it is because more expensive in this area, ie a job in New York. The boss must pay more, or you cannot work and life there. But it is also difficult to manage all, with the money who you can make. I`m german, and live in germany. I´m happy of cheaper health insurance as in the US. Better social insurances. Low prices for food. But double price for gas etc. for cars, etc. Maybe lower job income, as in the past. (Depending which employee.) Maybe 20% - 50 % lower. Apartement rents are climbing, more expensive. And difficult to get an apartement for rent. But in summary, I think it is more difficult in the US. US mentality: You must fight, to make the money you need. If you cannot, its your fail. We had Wal-Mart in germany, about 18 years ago. But several discounters were cheaper as Wal-Mart. I bought only soft drinks at Wal-Mart germany. Wal-Mart quit all their shops in germany - too less business for them. But in the US maybe Wal-Mart is the only shop in this area ? Or others more expensive ? = you must buy there, and must pay their prices. So I think and hope, that real cheap discounters in the USA will become more and more. When I go shopping food in germany (I´m single) I pay about 30 - 60 $ per shopping. I check all out, to buy as cheap as possible. When I drive to the gas station - car full tank filling - gas regular = 72 $ When I have no job = no money, I can get 960 $ per month from the state, and a paid health insurance, to help me to survive.
Wow! That's a heck of a post. I think most Americans do have a house with a 2 car garage and 2+ vehicles. We also have quite a few toys. However, many of these Americans are deep in debt. You don't need to earn $7,000 to $10,000 in most areas to live this type of lifestyle; just a decent job with good credit. There are also many Americans that live at or near the poverty level. The cost of living is slightly higher in the US than Germany, but it's actually pretty close. I think the biggest difference is that lower wage earners in Germany are better compensated than in the US. Germany's government seems to take the view that employers and the government should provide more for the workers at the low end of the pay scale, whereas the US government favors the business owner over the average wage earner. Walmart might be the only shop in some areas, but the main reason you really can't compare a US Walmart to a German one is they are probably completely different stores. Walmarts are huge in the US (the size of the individual stores) and they are everywhere. They get much better deals than other retailers because of the size of their purchases. In the US, they operate on a level that can't be competed with by your average retailer. I imagine the Walmarts in Germany were considerably more expensive than the ones in the US. There are a tons of discounters in the US. There's a dollar store on nearly every corner. Aldi in the US is obviously a discounter, but there are other stores that are a bit cheaper in my town. I'm not sure how long that $30-60 covers, but I imagine it's a bit cheaper than in the US. Filling up my cars takes about $40, but again there are different sized gas tanks. I know gas prices in the US were a lot cheaper than the US when I went to Germany. There are still programs in the US too that benefit the poor. I'm not sure of the amounts or how you qualify, but there is certainly money for people who have hit hard times.
+David Squires - Thank you, for your detailed answer. Ok, it is different, if you are selling only food, or do you have a warehouse who offers like all. Because you must finance also the goods, who are not daily or weekly sold. ALDI is restricted for a smaller amount of goods. And not so much variation of a product, like the most other shops in the US. Different gas prices is because of different taxes. In germany 70 % of the gas price are taxes. There are a lot of other taxes in germany. ie taxes every year, if you have dogs. But the taxes helps the german gouverment, to help people with a too low income or unemployd. Current near three million people without any job. And four million people with only part time jobs = too less income to life with it, who needs support from the gouverment to pay all. (Level in 2018) There is a minimum calulated, what you need in germany. To have enough food, an small apartement, and an health insurance. If you have less income, or nothing, you can get money from the state gouverment to pay this. But this is better and cheaper, as more criminals and more jails like in the US. Every german citizen must have an health insurance. It is a law. The minimum payment is 204 $ per month. If you earn more money, you must pay more. If you have a wife or plus children, they are included in this health insurance without extra paying. This is cheaper, as an health insurance in the US. (So far I know.) This insurance pays near all, what you need to become healthy. Near full payment. Self payment: $ 12 per day in hospital. (But you safe food money at home.) $6 - $ 12 per medicine.
Oh yeah. They get paid I think I remember seeing $12/hour. Normal grocery stores generally pay minimum wage when you first start. The Federal mandated minimum wage is $7.25 , but states can make their own minimum wage pay as long as it's above $7.25/hour. Washington D.C. state required minimum wage is $12.50.
They pay relatively well, but the selection process to get a job at Aldi tends to be very strict, as they require staff to be quick and therefore productive. They also have fairly good schemes for university graduates. Also, all staff have to fulfil all roles. So even store managers may need to help packing shelves, if needed. There were some reports though a few years ago, that Aldi-Süd used cameras to check on productivity of staff, an accusation that Aldi denied.
SBlack some places in the US they have about the same amount of people working in Aldi as they do in a small normal grocery store. The Aldi that I go to has 15 cashiers during the busy times, and that'sabout the same amount a small grocery store has. It used to be where there were only 2-3 cashiers at all times, but you would have to bring someone with you so they could stand in line while you went grocery shopping. If you didn't have anyone to stand in line you would wait about 1 hour during the busy times. You would have to bag your stuff out in the parking lot because the table to pack groceries was to full.
About the eggs. It might be about Salmonella. In Norway we don't have salmonella in our eggs, and they do last for several weeks in room temperature. It doesn't make sense that there is a protective film on them that you wash off. They wash our eggs to...
No, Kelly's explanation is absolutely correct. Fresh eggs have a protective layer, the cuticula, which contains lysozyme. So, the shell of the egg is protected from germs for about 3 weeks. If eggs are washed,the protective cuticula is removed and the eggs must be refridgerated.
A big difference I notice is that Aldi employees in both of the local stores I visit have a noticeably better attitude than at "normal", American grocery chain stores around here (central CT)...I am repeatedly impressed!...like every time I have a question or have to deal with them one-on-one...maybe they are selected/screened for it, maybe once they are employees, its the fact that they know they are getting payed better than if they worked at the Stop and Shop down the street... Some of my own observations: Aldi chocolate is a generic German brand, so reasonably priced yet still excellent quality...so are the Christmas Stollen...but one has to be careful buying produce there...it spoils quicker...I think/wanna say its because they use different suppliers which don't use as many preservatives (stated store policy) or they deliver to the store closer to peak ripeness, so there is less time before spoilage starts...example: The Bananas are from some off brand (not Chiquita), and they only last a few days at home before getting black spots...Chiquita can noticeably last double that... We like Aldi for many things, but for a few products, our palates still prefer (or haven't been weaned off) the brand names...like peanuts... and I agree with op, with all the fabulous selection and flavor of breads and baked goods available in German bakeries, the bread selection here is pretty pitiful, but it's not too much better there, where I wouldn't normally buy any bread at an Aldi, but rather go to a baker (often found at the entrance to a normal grocery store), and get freshly baked products from their huge, tasty selection...some American grocery stores now have inside bakeries, so they are getting better, but they still don't offer the multi-grain tasty fresh-baked specialties that they offer over there... Cheers
I love Aldi! Around here people like to “pay it forward” by handing off their carts, without taking the quarter. Some go so far as to put quarters in several parked carts. It’s considered good manners if you take a cart already loaded with a quarter to pass your cart to another person when you leave, without collecting the coin.
It happened not an hour ago, someone deliberately left their quarter on top of the cart’s coin/lock box. We made sure to leave it for the next person, as it’s considered bad manners to take it. And yes, I got my Knoppers!!!
Great idea. Well done on whoever promoted this. Bear in mind that in Ireland the deposit for Aldi/Lidl/Tesco trolleys, as we call them, is either a one or two euro coin, not a quarter! But bravo nonetheless for youg neighbourliness.
"Deutsche Küche" I doubt that the products are made by the same company. ALDI uses own brands. It is the same here in Germany. ALDI has its own brands for food from different countries or areas for example Asia or Italy. They have some brands they use as premium brand and they have own brands they use for disguising the manufacturer. Often this are more expensive brands with good image like Hochland, Leibniz, Zott, Bonduell, Storck, Nescafé, Danone, Katjes, Brandt, Müller, Meßmer, Lorenz, Bahlsen and so on. I would say it is the same with "Deutsche Küche" different German brands that were put into one ALDI brand.
Marie Pierre Narr Thanks for the comparative information. I really appreciate it. That puts Bahlsen on a meaningful scale for me. It tells me not to bother with that brand.
OldLordSpeedy Ja, ist mir danach auch aufgefallen, das Leibniz für Butterkeksmarke von Bahlsen ist. Ist aber nicht so schlimm, das es doppelt ist. Gibt ja Butterkekse und Waffelröllchen bei ALDI. 😉
The concept you are speaking of (displaying the groceries in their boxes they got delivered in) is called Discounter in Germany. We also have normal grocery-stores where the stuff is put into shelfs, they also usually have a broader variety of products of the same kind. You are correct, this concept has exactly one target, to sell groceries as cheap as possible.
So nice of you that you bought yor boyfriend Knoppers. Actually I think the prices are very similar. But the "German" products are just for you Americans. We don't eat that much Sauerkraut here. The Aldi markets here in Germany are modernized recently and look much nicer now.
you haven't seen Aldi empoyes back in time when they had to know every single price, no scanners, only hitting the keys ... was much more faster then this shown scanning
General Note: Kelly's videos are always small, interesting study trips for me. You always learn something about it. Very good quality, informative content, likeable person. Keep it up. Look no garbage on yt or tv, look Kelly ... :-) By the way: ALDI is an abbreviation for Albrecht Discounter and HARIBO stands for Hans Riegel Bonn ...
I was so excited when we got an ALDI store. The prices are amazing. The quality is more honest, since Europe has stricter regulations for production. I LOVE their Apple strudel, frozen, their red cabbage Christmas cookies, super,chocolates herring. When I first stepped into the store I found the floor tiles were the same color as in Germany.
Fun fact. The reason US supermarkets have dual doors is because of ICC Commercial Energy Code. Facilities of high volume in and out traffic being grocery stores, hospitals, shopping malls, and office buildings have to use vestibules as a climate air barrier to limit outside air infiltration into the building. Either a vestibule, an overhead heated and/or cooled blower known as an Air Curtain, or revolving doors must be used (which isn't practical for grocery stores with shopping carts going in and out). Basically, its an energy efficiency mandate in the US.
+Kelly - Lidl is very good in germany. It has a bit more goods as ALDI. And better quality at body care products. prices near at ALDI level. It looks like an battle on the market between ALDI and Lidl in germany.
What part of DC do you live in? If you take the metro yellow or blue line to Pentagon City, you can walk through the Pentagon City mall and out the other side to an area called Pentagon Row. There is a store called "World Market" there that has a number of good food items imported from Germany. They have a good selection of Ritter Sport and Milka chocolate bars, Haribo, and also things like Knoppers, Kinder chocolate, seasoning packets for meals such as Jagerschnitzel, and more. The best is in Novemeber and December, when you can find German Christmas goodies, such as Stollen, Lebkuchen, Zimtsterne, Glühwein, and Spekulatius.
Kelly, great vid! I absolutely LOVE Aldi! I loved Aldi in the US and I absolutely love it here in Germany! You know what's here in German Aldi and not in the US...Booz! Lot of Wines, Beers and other types of alcohol and dirt cheap my friend. Also, did you know that I also get my phone cards from ALDI? I pay 7.99 Euros a month. Oh and they do take Credit Card... I use my American Express all of the time! Did you know that you went to Aldi Sud? Aldi Nord owns Trader Joe's! Awesome Job again and Happy 4th!
Sam Sok we have wine and beer in my local American Aldi's. Their Winking Owl (house) brand of wine is pretty darn good and less then $3/4 a bottle. Other beers and wine are better priced than normal stores. I have not been to Germany in decades, but look forward to visiting again! I laugh at how it takes America 10/20/30 years to finally catch on to better ways of shopping.
+Jennifer Wahab Aldi and their main Rival Lidl (same concept as aldi) have realy realy good wine in germany for pretty cheap. Aldi Doesnt have good beer and Lidl has a strange new Craftbeer line with 0.5L for 70 cents, in cans, with fancy steampunk art on it.
Whoa, great cashier! That lady would lead the pack in a German Aldi, I've never seen anybody that fast. She even puts the stuff in the cart, incredible!
Presenting the goods in their cartons is actually quite practical if you are shopping for a big family, party or event. You can grab a whole cardboard box full of things, or replace a few items inside, and use that box to bring the goods home. When you buy a lot, using many bags is just a lot of re-packing and unpacking ... One advantage of Aldi (at least within the subchains Aldi-Nord and Aldi-Süd, the latter including Aldi USA and Hofer Austria) is the standard layout of the shops. No matter where you are, you immediately know where everything is if you just familiarize yourself with one shop. There are only a few exceptions (such as the few inner city Aldis that use an existing building).
Great video! I have been working on ALDI packaging for over 15 years wanted to share a few things. ALDI US cashiers are paid better than average US grocery store employee as they do more, work harder and ALDI believes in compensating their staff. Deutsche Küche products do not come from the same manufacturer, that is just the ALDI branding they have the manufacturer put on the product. ALDI stocks a few non-ALDI brands (eg: LaCroix) when they get a good deal on the product, and feel they can move the product. Most products instore are ALDI only brands which you can see by the distribution statement on back of pack. The products are not made in Batavia IL, that is just the corporate headquarters and distribution center, and US labeling regulatory requires a distribution to be on packaging so companies take liability for safety of product.
Competition is a wonderful thing! I love their prices! I hope they include more organic items in the future. Thanks for explaining the shopping cart thing. that seemed confusing.
Checking out at a German grocery store is always a stressful situation. And I hate it. Especially when you're alone and you have a whole shopping cart full of stuff.
The trick is to not bag your groceries immediately at the cashier's desk. Just throw them back into your cart. Pay and then move the cart somewhere else and bag your stuff.
Many people don’t like to make decisions. So ALDI usually only have 2-3 brands of any kind of product. Usually all you can choose are good. This makes buying easier for you.
@@LJBSullivan Spätze are really easy to make yourself, and better than anything you can buy. You need a Spätzlebrett and a video that shows how to use it :-)
Aldi-Nord Germany website states: "Bei ALDI Nord erwarten Sie sichere, schnelle und einfache bargeldlose Bezahlmöglichkeiten. Wir akzeptieren flächendeckend und betragsunabhängig girocard, V-Pay, VISA, MasterCard, Maestro und American Express. In Ihrer ALDI Filiale können Sie gerne auch kontaktlos zahlen, sofern Ihre Karte bzw. Ihr Smartphone die entsprechenden technischen Voraussetzungen erfüllt." So yes, you can pay by credit-card at Aldi-Nord (at no extra cost) In Aldi-Süd Germany you can pay with Visa-, MasterCard and American Express, V-pay and bankcard (Giro/EC) and Maestro (at no extra cost). In the Netherlands at Aldi you can pay by banking-card (also NFC) and PIN (maestro) and V-Pay. It might be surprising to some Americans, but all those Aldi's also accept cash in euro's. Cash is king in most EU-countries, especially in Germany. I lived in Niedersachsen for 8 years and by far most people pay cash. In supermarkets in the Netherlands paying cash or by bankcard is about 50/50. Often there is one counter where you can only pay using a bankcard. Most of the time credit-cards are not accepted in supermarkets in the Netherlands. Smaller retailers most of the time do accept bankcards, but hardly ever credit-cards because of the higher rates.
In Germany, they do training at the cashier, to work as fast as possible. After 8:00 p.m. when the Aldi shop closes in germany. I think training in the US-Aldi Stores too. When you see in this video how fast she works. At every Saturday, all the food stores in germany have most customers of the week. Because these customers must not work in their jobs on saturday. So the cashiers have the most to do. Even working fast to serve all the customers.
+stephan schloesser - If the german football team is out of the wm competition, the people are less interested, to shop bear, chips, meat for the grill,non food fan goodies, etc. Less customers = more easy to go shopping.
2:57 The arrangement is probably not a coincidence: The aisles in Germany follow a similar layout throughout all Aldis in Germany so that items are easy to find for the customers no matter to which store they go.
I shopped at Aldi when we lived in Spain, i loved it. Missed it when we moved back but now we have one but it's in the next town 30 minutes away. Never had anergy drinks in Spain either.
I am Canadian and I have never heard of Aldi. They don't have them here but they are found in many other countries, except Canada, which is surprising. An American business usually expands into Canada before it goes to Europe.
I honestly thought the same. When she stood infront of the shelf and i saw Knoppers I was just like ''OH MY GOD ALDI IN AMERICA HAS KNOPPERS FUCK YAS!'' But it has to be cooled... Don't even talk to me if you eat Knoppers that is not cooled it's so much better.
That was hardly 100 years ago. I'm in my 40s and can remember those times. A cashier had to remember all prices by heart. They didn't even have to look at the tiny price tags. But as a customer you also had a lot more time and space to pack your stuff, since there were two separated trays for the goods of two customers at the end of each checkout lane.
@@LJBSullivan Yes, but the acceptance of credit cards in German stores is generally low. Most of them will accept EC cash, but not credit cards because of the fees. This also applied to Aldi and Lidl for a very long time.
@@Nikioko I really do think that this CC-acceptance myth comes from people that don't own a credit card and just heard about it from someone who has heard it from their hair stylists cousin who has heard it from their sisters best friend that used to work at a grocery store 20 years ago. My bank account has no EC-Karte or V-Pay offering, so i have to use the Credit Cards all the time and my Visa or MasterCard are accepted literally everywhere. Sometimes it happens that they only accept one or the other, but it never happened to me that i couldn't pay with CC at all. And no: i do not live in a big city, but in a rather small town (20.000 inhabitants).
@@drrubi3944 Go to a pharmacy and try to to pay with credit card. Good luck. There is a fixed price on RX medicines in Germany which leave around 5€ profit. If the medicine costs 100€, the pharmacy gets 5€ and has to pay 5% of the sales to AmEx, it is easy to calculate that they earned nothing at all.
@@Nikioko That is simply wrong. To start with: at least the pharmacies that i frequent accept credit cards without even blinking an eye. Amex charge 2,89% + 0,10€ per Transaction for Pharmacies. That only accounts if your Terminal-Provider has no flat-rate contract with Amex. If they do it could even be free of charge. Then you have to keep in mind that barely anyone in Germany has an Amex card. The main credit cards are Visa and Mastercard. Now to the pharmacies: The earn 3% of the wholesale price + 8,35€ Apothekenhonorar - 1,49€ Apothekenabschlag. The 5€ you have to pay for your prescription go straight to the Insurance company and have nothing to do with the pharmacy. So let's take for example Ramipril 5mg (one of the most prescribed medication for high blood pressure). It has an Apothekenverkaufspreis (= legally regulated price) of 16,89€. The pharmacy has bought it from their wholesaler for 2-3€. Let's assume 3€ for the sake of this example. The pharmacy now earns from a patient that has to pay for his own medication in full 16,89€-3€ -> 13,89€. If the patient is a so called "Kassenpatient" with state healthcare the pharmacy will earn 3% of 16,89€ (0,51€) plus 8,35€ minus 1,49€. So a total of 7,37€. The patient will pay 5€ in the pharmacy. Those go straight to the Insurance company and in a few months time they will transfer a larger amount for several months of business into the pharmacies account. To come back to the topic: If you have to pay your 5€ fee, the pharmacy has to pay 0,14€ of fees to Amex. This will reduce their earnings not that significantly, right? If you have to pay the full price it looks similar. This would sum up to 0,50€ of fees. Even for a medication that costs 1000€ and has a wholesale price of 850€ the fee would still be bearable compared to the profit. And you have to keep in mind that only 10% of the patients are Privatpatienten and that 90% are Kassenpatienten for which the pharmacy has the legally guaranteed profits.
I shopped at ALDI in the UK, the US and Melbourne Australia and each has quite some differences.......but what I most missed about all those outside stores is the authentic german potato chips. Those Paprika Chips only sell in Germany in no other country ( I had to import a few bags of those myself with a DHL package ) And talking about the check out or cashier position, only in Germany you have to put your groceries on the band and after the scan you have to drop them quickly into your trolley.....to get packed later on. In the US it seems like there is even a bagboy that helps you pack your shopping. I noticed in the UK and Australia, many customers still packed their groceries in plastic bags right after the scan, which cost valuable time an d the line at the register moves much slower. Bagboys in US grocery stores were quite a surprise for me when I visited the US.
03:43 *Exactamente* ! That's part of ALDI's revolutionary discount concept they invented in the 50ies and 60ies. 09:48 German ALDI *is* air conditioned. 10:22 The cashier is wearing gloves. Is that recommended by law in the US? 12:39 With regard to *paying their employees less money..* Not in Germany: they're payed a third more on average as compared to other chains.
Just 2 things: First, "Schnitzel" is not from Germany, it's from Austria. Second, Discounters actually pay their (fewer) employees above average salaries due to the working conditions, or else probably not a lot of people would want to work for them
@@luciennelucke2319 nope. there was no austria it was the holy roman empire. it is a fucking piece of meat. it is like you say: "austrians invented cooked eggs". it is dumb idiotic nationalism.
Slovenia, Austria and Italy also has the same system. And I would like to point out that, the the food is not on the floor it is on pallets, food and other sold items must be lift off the ground, so the stores use the delivery pallets to simply place the delivered goods in the isle and quickly move on.
There is a ton of energy in Germany. There are entire shelves dedicated to energy. Monster, rockstar and red bull there's everything here. And we also have small and big bottles of water.
Jesus, I litterly live in Philadelphia 5 minutes from aldi, and there prices were much less then yours. Usually the eggs are $0.35-$0.65 for a dozen! And the gallon of milk is usually $1.20
What? The cheapest eggs in Seattle I've seen are $1.60 at Trader Joe's. But when I visited Oklahoma City I remember that food and restaurants were much less expensive there, so maybe they have 60 cent eggs. The northwest does tend to have the most expensive food in the country (but it's higher quality too).
Aldi and Aldi Süd do accept credit cards. Since 2018 they even accept American Express Cards, which is absolutely fantastic, because now every other chain like Lidl, Netto and Penny accept them too.
A couple of things: apparently, some German ALDIs accept credit cards, because I'm in Germany right now (Mühlhausen, Thüringen) and I've only used credit cards whilst shopping here for the last few weeks. Also, ALDI is like a mini-warehouse, sort of like a Costco without the membership. When one checks out at Costco, one can use the several tables and shelves set up to break down boxes, etc. In that case, yeah, this feature is nothing new Stateside. Also, I use a 50 cent coin for my cart in Germany, not a 1 Euro coin. The ALDI where I shop allows 50c, 1E and 2E coins. Oh, and finally, I noticed that some of the products you featured have signs that read, "Inspired by Germany" instead of "Made in Germany" or "Imported from Germany". That's hilarious!! Great video!
i dont know why I'm watching a video about American Aldi's at 2 am.
i think we've all been there
Same. It's currently 2:02 am 🙄
I'm watching this at 2:44 a.m. Apparently this video attracts insomniacs.
She really has no idea what she is talking about, she lived in Germany for a year and a half and didn't bother to learn German??? Küche is pronounced koochay?? Really???
Same her 2:29
They even have the same type of ugly floor tiles in the US Aldi... Interesting.
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I thought the same: "Oh they have the same tiles." 😊
Rafael Herschel They didn't have to work very hard at it.
Rafael Herschel not anymore! We are remodeling all the stores in my area, and as far as I know, all US stores of a certain age. The new design looks very upscale
But only like the oldest of oldest Aldis still have that flooring in Germany I think (and maybe Norma).
But yeah, I was thinking "oh, the floors look like the ones from my childhood!" And the fonds for the price tags is the same, too.
And the same pushy rushy check out manners too! hate it!
I have to comment on the German word "Küche":
"Küche" usually means "kitchen" but not in the context presented in the video. "Deutsche Küche" means "German cuisine" or "German cooking" because "Küche" can mean the room in the house but it can also mean the style in which food is prepared. Ich a German says "Das Restaurant hat eine gute Küche" this also usually means that the food is good, not the cooking equipment.
thank you! i didn't know that (obviously) hahaha
Kelly does her thing also: cuisine is just french for kitchen ^^ they also use the word for both
In Spanish also, "cocina" can mean the room and the food itself... Something like the word "cook"? "good cook" for the food and/or for the guy who prepares the food?
Doyetsche queschee so can be pronounced correctly auf Deutsch
@Lang Hansen ausrotten hmm ausgerottet or Ausrottung. Actually for me means that definitely Vernichtung. oder meinst du was anderes?
Don't forgeht that Aldi is a Discounter (that's the reason why it's very cheap). Other supermarkets in Germany don't use so many cardboard-boxes to display the food.
Exactly. She tells like Aldi is the only grocery store.
I agree, I don’t remember Edeka having cardboard boxes.
Just what I wanted to say. Same here in the Netherlands.
@radiosouthnorth911 yes but that changed too over time.
but the boxes are kinda useful. you dont need a cart, a bag or whatever if you can just grab a box (at least for not oversized purchases
In fact, Aldi and Lidl are paying their employees good compared to other grocery stores or stores in general.
But their hiring process is a JOKE. It's impossible to get hired even with 11 years of experience working in stores. Don't know what the hell they look for in applications. It's a grocery store, not the assembly line at VW!
largol33t1 would rather get rejected by ALDI than take a job at Walmart and get paid $0.15 per century
@@largol33t1 I think that’s because they care about retention. Whereas other most grocery stores here treat employees as disposable
Nice comparison, but I have a few corrections.
In Germany, normal supermarkets don't leave the items in the shipping crate, only the discounters do this.
Aldi accepts credit cards, though they started this only recently.
While they employ fewer people than a regular supermarket, they pay better wages (at least in Germany).
Anyway, I do love these comparisons from an Americans point of view, keep up the good work!
Gero Lindenberg Aldi pays above average wages in most cities in the US. I’ve never worked there but I see their ads in the employment posts frequently.
thanks! i'm glad you liked the video :) am I right, though, that ALDIs in Germany leave the items in the shipping crates? and i'm surprised they accept credit cards now! I remember when I was going, they only took debit or EC Cards (giro card?) but not credit. I think I worded my one comment poorly - i definitely didn't mean that ALDI doesn't pay their employees well, but rather that they pay out less money overall to their workers because of how much more efficient the store is (so less hours, fewer employees)
Aldi changes his selling concept. All markets will be rebuild. Products in shipping crates will disapear in the future, i think.
Kelly does her thing all German discounters leave the items in the crates: Aldi, Lidl, Netto, Penny.
Most of them have started to accept credit cards about two years ago, at least in northern Germany.
Oh, and now I see how your comment can be understand in such a way as to describe that the company saves on wages because they need fewer employees :-)
Oh, I always have to remind myself that credit cards and debit/EC cards are not the same thing. I, like many people in Germany, rarely use my credit card to pay for things in a store. I only use it for things like online purchases. For everything else I use my EC card - which I call a credit card in my head. %-)
"These are my boyfriends favourite!" *puts it back*
hahahahaha now he's giving me crap for that
DerTolleIgel it is a sexual thing to reject him
no it's not! it's psychological abuse and emotional cruelty...... and a pretty good reason for a divorce! xD
i would fill her cars AC with confetti or saw dust , just for the giggles :)
I laughed at that point too 😂
She bought it. You can see it clearly when she checked out. It was on the checkout conveyor belt 10:27
Wow even the floor tiles are the same! ... but its not true that aldi in germany is paying less to their employees. Aldi employees are actually earning a decent salary.
I didn’t word it well - I meant that the store employs fewer employees because of the store’s efficiencies and therefore pay out less money to employees. I have no idea how much they make here or in Germany
Aldi pays better than other supermarkets here too
I know thats not what she meant but same in UK they pay more than other supermarkets
Aldi pays better then competing companies in the. US too.
putting the items in the boxes in the shelves was actually a big part of Aldis road to success ... it saves time for each employee, u need less employees and it saves space ... they always used good products and handled the shop practical
I was so happy when Aldi opened a store in my city. I'm on a very tight budget and it has changed the way I shop. I am able to get better food and have a healthier diet. I love Aldi!
Most people in the world associate German = Bavaria. We have more than Spätzle, Sauerkraut and Schnitzel 😂
Whats a typical dish from your region?
Abgesehen davon, dass Spätzle eine Schwäbische Spezialität ist.
Yes, we also have Weißwurst, Bier and Breschdlengsgsälz!
butterkaffee Semmelknödel and Knödel.
butterkaffee maultaschen
ALDI is a life savor for low budget person/family to still be able to eat good in America !
same in germany
zachary romeo don't you hate poor people
zachary romeo i am from Germany and in Germany buy ritch People in Aldi to
Rich people don't do their own shopping! XD
sanshinron I mean not milionears I mean middle rich XD
Seeing what Americans think is a "fresh bread section" is sad
Yes our bread is sad
I hear that bread in the US is much sweeter. Is that true?
German Aldis literally have bread vending machines
That section was empty. It needed to be restocked. My Aldi's has three types of rye, pumpernickel, French, brioche and wheat.
Depends on the region of the US.
As a Dutchman - one thing the Germans have over us is their wonderful bread culture they have there.
daar bak ik geen pretzel van :S
Ya, Germans do love good, hearty bread. I prefer a good dark farmers bread but it's hard to beat a warm, crispy brotchen with cold cuts
only the bread? Netherland is a culinary disaster ;D only deep-fried fast food everywhere.
Aaaaaaaaamin....They have better bread. All kind of bread. Very yummmmmy bread. When i go to Germany i buy bread as much as i can...But The Netherlands stay my big love after Belgium. We have Waffels and Chocolade.
And also beer! :) Sorry but nobody outshines the variety of our German breads and beers.
If that is what cheap means for US standards then.... damn.... even a premium grocery store in the netherlands is less expensive than this. The Aldi here is even cheaper than that.
Grocery stores here cannot even compete with Aldi in the US
Cheaper at Sam's Club.
Boy bye. De prijzen zijn in Dollars, niet in Euro's. Nederlandse Aldi's zijn niet goedkoper.
Yes, in the USA we are a wealthy country with high income that gets eaten up by the high cost of everything.
@@kmlammto Wealthy country? Hmm maybe but that is Germany too. And personally I would not choose to live in the US. I could tell you what we have better here compared to the US but that is quite a bit and my English is not good enough so that you would understand everything. So read it up for yourself if it is from interest. But for example when you loose your job here, the Government pays good money until you have a new job. Or the health insurance for example is a need to have for everyone here and everyone needs to pay in for that, and the amount everyone needs to pay in is connected to the amount of money you get from your job. If you don't have a job, the Government pays everything that's necessary for you to keep a good standard of living. What I can say is the health care system here alone is worth to live here😉
And overall living costs are cheaper here from what I've heard. The average wage is a bit lower compared to the US I've read but what counts is what you have at the end of a month in your pocket. With the amount of work you've done to get it. Here we have up to 30 fully paid days off from work per year. When you get sick you can't loose your job because of that. And many things more that I would like to tell why I will always stay in Germany.
About credit-card payments: all aldi-south in germany accept maestro / v-pay / master / visa and even google-pay
Aldi in Australia also accept credit cards. They pass the processing fee to the customer.
@@mandyfish2468 Even in Austria the aldi equivalent (Hofer) accepts them.
Hi!!! I work for Aldi in Ohio and I love it. Been shopping there for many many years, employed for 6. I definitely prefer this German business model. Gotta love those smart, practical Germans :)
thanks for watching!
I work for them in the uk xx
Do you can say about time rates in comparison to other retail shops in the us? In germany Aldi is the employer with best time rates of the whole retail sector here, also in the us?
ihave35cents If you don't like ALDIs business model just don't shop there! But if you like their prices you will have to do some (not all of it!) of the work yourself. But who would complain about that? It won't kill you for sure!
You are always saving money if you can do something your self. You can't shop faster in other stores. You just pay them to do things for you while you stand there waiting. If you earn more money than an simple job pays, then don't mess with shopping at all. Pay a guy to shop for you.
"this is like my boyfriends favourite" *puts it back into the shelf* he's not getting it lol :P
hahahah whoooooops.....
Interesting video, similar to my experiences with Aldi here in the UK. I have just one comment: You refer to Aldi paying their employees less money. But as far as I know salaries at Aldi are fairly good compared to many other retailers, certainly above minimum wage, as long as you can keep up with productivity and speed required.
it's the same in germany. aldi pays pretty well if compared to other retailers. For sure you dont get rich but it actually is one of the better paying companies. crazy
sorry, i didn't mean that their hourly wage is slow, but rather that they would be working fewer hours overall because of how efficiently the store is ran (which translates more to my statement that they would just hire fewer employees)
No worries, it's clear that your video focused on the Aldi shopping experience, and not on the economics of Aldi's business model ;-) And it's true that per product they Aldi spend less on staff. But because it's efficiently run, they can afford to pay fairly high salaries.
+Kelly - Most ALDI workers in the ALDI shops in germany get only part time jobs and contracts, not full time jobs.
And different times, maybe every week, when to work.
At ALDI you get more money, but you must work harder as ie at Lidl.
Some workers quit at ALDI, because it is too hard for them.
At ALDI south shops, I think they have 20 % - 30 % fewer employers.
Because it saves money for the ALDI south company.
So the work is more hard for the ALDI workers.
In the past, you get only paid, when the ALDI Shop is opened.
If its closed, you must work for free.
Now we have a gouverment law of a minimum wage per working hour.
Current 8,84 Euro/hour.
This law of a minimum is very good, and helps the workers.
ie you must paid this minimum for every hour.
It helps also at so called minijobs = part time jobs.
You get maybe maximum 450,- Euro per month.
But no limit how much hours you must work for it.
But with the minimum payment you can calculate, how much hours maximum you need to work for it.
+Kelly - They can order his workers, how much they need it in the shops.
ie more workers if more customers.
Or they send workers temporary to other own shops in the area, if they needed. But other shops and discounters do the same.
Deutsche Küche...or "How to perpetuate old German stereotypes" What the hell is a Beer Bratwurst? As a German I can´t stop laughing. Kelly, great channel!
wenn man Bratwurst anbrät oder grillt und dann mit Bier ablöscht, dann hat man auch ne Bierbratwurst
@@michellefldr klar😂
Naja, bleibt halt nur das im Sortiment, was sich gut verkauft.
I'm laughing too. IKEA invented the Swedish meatball, more laughter!
Is deren name für normale bratwürste nürnberger art
Aldi was always known for ultra-fast cashiers. Before barcode scanner systems, the cashier had to remember each price of every item and type it into the cash machine manually. And Aldi cashiers were so fast at it, i would even go so far to say, they typed in the price even faster than this cashier here. Aldi was always famous for that and probably will ever be. In total, it's called efficiency. German efficiency.
Also, placing the whole cardboard box into the shelf, you know, the cardboard box for groceries is mostly called display box, because reasons. Except for the boxes in the vegetables section. But unpacking all the stuff costs time, and time is money. Save the time, people will buy it anyways, with the additional opportunity to lower the price. If you want someone to hand it over to you with a fake smile while having a smalltalk and your ass kissed, sure, but nothing's for free
Actually they did not know the price (because that can change). Every product had a (three digit?) number code they had to know and type in. And they were fast!
hihi schnelle Kasse! Heute ist Aldi in Deutschland berüchtigt dafür zuwenig Kassen geöffnet zu haben...
I like Aldi efficiency it saves me huge money. When I want my ass kissed I shop at an expensive store as a treat. Aldi is the store for me
Was at a Aldi store in London only 2 cashiers open and there quality of chocolate was lesser quality than the German Chocolate with the same label. Also I don’t live in Germany nor England. But I could taste the difference. The chocolate in Germany was richer tasting.
Actually you can pay with credit card at Aldi nowadays.
Creditcard or deposit Card? Because thats a difference.
Beatrice Herb Creditcards. Visa, Mastercard and even American Express.
i can pay with Visa and EC at ADLI. Funny thing, besides gasstations and LIDL, this is the only store i would pay with Card. Cash is King
You already could when this video was published - at least when shopping at Aldi Süd (for those who are not familiar with the German Aldi equator - the company split up about a disagreement between the two brothers owning it, and so it was divided into "Aldi Nord" (north) and "Aldi Süd" (south) a long time ago. Countries outside Germany are usually served bei either one of the two branches, while Germany is pslit up between them.) Maybe the northern half introduced credit card acceptance later, but I remember paying with Mastercard at Aldi Süd for 5+ years now.
The US Aldi is by the way run by the southern Aldi branch (they have slightly different logos, so this is obvious), just like the Aldis at Mainz where Kelly lived for a while are.
@@Colaholiker After the deaths of the brothers, it seems that ALDI Nord and ALDI Süd have started to "bury the ax". On German TV there are now commercials that the two ALDIs have co-produced, showing both logos.
Vor der Einführung der "Scannerkassen" mussten die Kassierinnen ALLE Preise im Kopf haben. Wer sich bei Aldi bewarb, bekam eine Liste und die musste als Test auswendig gelernt werden. Das war noch echte Kopfarbeit.
Und die Kassiererinnen mussten auch jede Woche die Angebotspreise im Kopf haben. Es gab sogar Testkäufer wo geprüft wurde, ob alles richtig abgerechnet wurde. In Österreich war Hofer (Aldi) die letzte Kette die Scannerkassen einführte. Noch Anfang der 2000er wurde da alles per Hand eingetippt.
Soweit ich weiß, musste das Personal die Produktnummern im Kopf haben und diese in die Kasse eingeben, in der die Preise programmiert waren. Also z. B. Klopapier 3478 oder so...
Quatsch. Man musste die PLU Nummern lernen (wie heute auch noch von frischen Artikeln wie Obst und Gemüse), was aber keine große Sache war, da die Artikeldatenbank darauf ausgelegt war. Das heißt : Weniger Artikelnummern, häufiger Sorten mit identischen Preisen als heute und ebenfalls eine weitaus geringere Auswahl. Seit Einführung der Scannerkassen wird immer mehr an Personal gespart, was heißt, dass die Kassierer damals auch deutlich langsamer arbeiten durften als heute. Ich arbeite im Rahmen eines Aushilfsjobs neben meinem Studium als Kassierer bei Aldi, ziehe die Artikel blitzschnell über das Band und erreiche trotzdem nur 2/3 der normalerweise geforderten Geschwindigkeit.
Das war aber in allen Läden...also mit dem Preise auswendig lernen.
Das war bei uns in England genauso. Die am Kassier mussten blitzschnell schaffen, jedoch dafür wurden sie überdurchschnittlich belohnt. Trotzdem gab es eine hohe Personalfluktuation, denn der Stress dabei war kaum erträglich. Sogar mit den Scannerkassen gehts heutzutage nicht schneller, besonders wenn bei einem unerkennbaren Barcode der Leser ausflippt.
Selbst die Einkaufswagen sind vom gleichen Hersteller wie bei uns. 😅
Ja, die sind vom Wanzl aus Leipheim. So wie 80% aller Einkaufswägen weltweit.
Kai-Uwe Faber Aus Leipheim und Kirchheim. :)
Love how Aldis stocks the shelves, so u can use the empty boxes for your groceries, and Aldis food is just as good as name brands
Half of the "Deutsche Küche" products i have never seen so in Germany 😅
At least they don't hold back on schokolade! :D
Aldi in Germany is actually 2 Aldi's, Aldi Nord, and Aldi Süd. Aldi Süd owns Aldi USA, and are similar to each other. Aldi USA has updated their stores, where new and remodeled stores are removing the rails that separate the first and second aisles. What you mentioned that German grocery stores have gates that you have to go through, Aldi USA used to have those too, until the early 2000's. Aldi USA has been in my area since 1979, and they used to be barebone. Before 2004, cashiers used to have to remember all the prices, because even in the late 70's to 2004, nothing had price tags on them. I had a neighbor back out of taking a job with Aldi USA, because she couldn't remember the prices of everything. Like Aldi in Germany (both Nord and Süd ), you either bring in your own bags, or you buy them (local to me, Aldi didn't offer bags at all, until 1992). As for debit and credit cards, Aldi USA started accepting debit cards in 2000, and credit cards in 2016. Aldi USA accepts state run SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) cards (formerly called foodstamps). They however never accepted checks and WIC (Womens Infant, and Children), because checks don't clear right away, and not fast for them to process as payment. WICH isn't accepted, because of having to have items verified for approval for the program, and not getting paid right away. I have seen some of the German products at Aldi USA, and for me, some of the products take getting used to eating, because it's made different from the American version of the same food. German potato soup definitely has a different taste. I definitely would like an American do a video of Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd in Germany, so we can see how the 2 are different. One video I did see of an Aldi Nord store, that since Aldi Nord owns Trader Joes in the US, that sometimes, Trader Joes products have been found in their stores (Trader Joes products won't be found at Aldi Süd stores, or Aldi USA stores) .
davenwin1973 Thanks for posting. The information you gave is really interesting; and you did a thorough job of it, too.
Really enjoyed your post.
I wish youtube comments are more often like this.
At Aldi Nord in germany they use Trader Joe as a brand for products that feels american to germans. I dont know for sure. But I think those products are mostly not produced in the US. It is more about the vibe.
There are definitely local adaptations of Aldi's to their local markets. Aldi Nord runs the Aldis in Belgium and France and you find typical products from these regions.
Tilumbus I forgot to mention that in the US Aldi Nord chose to buyout Trader Joes, rather than open from the ground up, and have to go under a different name. This way, it was cheaper to go that route. Too bad that Trader Joes hasn't grown fast enough. I'd like to go to one, but the nearest one to me is in Chicago.
davenwin1973
... at the time before scanners and barcodes they didn't know all the prices of the items but the three digit code of of all the food items and the 4 digit code of some additional items Aldi offered at that time.
That way it was faster than typing in the price (at least figure, decimal, figure, figure).
Plus you always knew what items had been taken out of stock in realtime.
One of my professors at uni used to work for Könecke, a big and renowned manufacturer for sausages in Germany. I don‘t know if it is still the case, but they used to be behind Aldi salami and other types of sausages. They had a contract that said they could only deliver their goods in brown boxes (in order to look cheap), but one day Könecke ran out of brown boxes and delivered in the more expensive white ones. Aldi made a big fuss about it and threatened to fine them, because they wanted to look cheap and white boxes did not fit that image.
Nowadays Aldi really tries to look more premium with a different produce area and different freezers/ fridges and so on. Aldi Nord built a new store a few years ago where I live and is also slowly renovating existing ones to look better. They aim to look more like a regular supermarket instead of a discounter.
12:11 Walmart also times their cashiers as to how many items they scan a minute, and how much time they spend with each customer, which I found a bit weird, because what if you have a chatty customers who moves slow? I am hoping that the retail giants will stop putting emphasis on speed, but more value on treating their employees right. 😎
ALDI = Albrecht Discount
Funny, my girlfriend is from the US and she was happy to see its almost the same here. We have more expensive places here, Aldi is one of the cheapest but quality is still good. Paprika is around 1 buck at the REWE for instance :>
The Bratwurst looks like a regular german wurst. But whats uncured?
NOW I understand why my girl spent like 15 min in our gummibär-ile! oO
Your egg fact-oid blew my mind. I had no idea that was the reason they're kept refrigerated. I'm still trying to wrap my head around hearing the term Euro instead of a German Mark, and pfennig.
It's amazing, isn't it! Same here in the UK, unwashed eggs, so they may not *look* immaculate but they retain the natural protective coating and therefore do not need refrigerating, last ages, and we don't eat the shells of course... Makes so much more sense!
There are about 4-5 barcodes on each ALDI product so they can scan it faster at checkout. 🤔
really?? i had no idea! that's a great technique haha
I still remember as Aldi didn't had barcodes and every kashier had to know ALL item by number. But heck, they were often times faster as they're know with the scanner. Because they didn't need to wait until the person in front of you is gone. They just started to tip in the next items and if you reached the cashier she was nearly at the end of your groceries and just checked if she didn't overlooked something. All in your cart, money (best in bar because it's faster) and then the next one. Doesn't matter if you still stand there or not, because she can just tip everything she sees.
THAT was fast. Nowadays they have scanner and they weigh your veggies, thats slowing down the process of an human level that I can pack and seperate my groceries without getting in stress :D
oh and here in Germany at ALDI it's so that the kashier needs to be so fast as how many people are in the store. Because every new checkout they need to open is loss of money.
That explains why people in Germany "cut the line" in discounters. They don't. They're supposed to, because the new just opened, so that the first line doesn't get too long. The second checkout will take all people who come right off from the store and if everything is normal again, the checkout get's immediately closed. In Germany you can switch the line, but you are not supposed to, the second checkout is never for people waiting at the first one, except the kashier calles you ;) Same reason behind it: money!
That also might differ in the ALDI there? Or how does it work in ALDI in the US?
@@Tippel3 your absolutely right. Thats how it works at my Aldi, referring to the opening of new lines and it being money saving technique.,as i stated earlier we are always multi-tasking. If the line gets more than 2-3 customers at the back of belt we get on walkie and call back-up. We try not to unless necessary because they have to leave whatever theyre doimg to assist, as quickly as possible😊. Main cashier as well has other job responsibilities when not ringing. Theres no down time until you get your break. Its hard work however Aldi takes good care of their employees.
check out my video about Trader Joe's (owned by Aldi Nord!) ua-cam.com/video/LpD6eXO_U2o/v-deo.html
hey guys! I LOVE all the comments!! I really want to clear up one thing - I in no way meant to insinuate that ALDI doesn't pay their employees well. Rather, I meant to communicate that the store is ran very efficiently, therefore they need to pay out less money to employees overall in the form of fewer hours and fewer employees.
In Deutschland werden die Aldi/Lidl Mitarbeiter sogar sehr gut bezahlt, soweit ich weiss.
Kelly arent Lidl,Metro or Kaufland in US?
Those are also german food store chains!
Kelly does her thing hi it’s me the little girl hi!!
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nice job !!! Told you !!
I´m German and I moved from Saarland (a German state) to Mainz three and a half years ago. I was probably as shocked as you were by the speed the cashiers are working. In my old state you could easily pack your things while talking to the cashier and pay AFTERWARDS, but in Mainz, it´s... a different story. Maybe it´s just that specific city? :D I actually had to develop a elaborate technique to being able to handle packing my things, maybe talking and paying AT THE SAME TIME. (And I´m really proud of my technique, but the tempo still stresses me out :D)
Lol! I’m a bit relieved to hear that you, as a German, seem to understand the kind of stress I experienced hahaha
I am a German and I was in an Aldi in the US. I think a lot of products from the brand "Deutsche Küche" are really inspired and made like products you can actually buy in Germany. Some not, but that is like, when we in Germany have something like an American Week, where we can get "real american" products. But most of them are very well made :-)
normally we have half liter bottles AND 1,5 liter bottles of water here :)
With "Pfand" (same thing with the carts, I guess americans would go on a rampage about this! *lol*). You actually have to collect your bottles you emptied and carry them back to the store, where you get the 25 ct (PER BOTTLE, no matter the size!!) back you paid initially extra when you bought it.
The store will collect the plastic bottles and recycle them with all plastic bottles (even from other markets, they all have the Pfand sign on it).
We have all sorts of water bottle sizes in America from tiny 8 ounce to 12 ounce, half liter, 20 ounce, 24 ounce, liter, liter and a half, 3 litter and gallon. Possibly a few others.
@@mediagirl Imagine Americans even in Japan where you mostly cant Drink or eat in public and all the streets are perfectly free of trash
@@TheMrPeteChannel i dont know what an once is sry but i see where you are going :)
Surprised to see Jaffa Cakes in the German Foods section!
That cashier would fit right in, in Aldi in Ireland.
If you load the conveyor belt with a bit of thought, you can race the cashier and have your packing finished as soon as she scans the last item :D
My weekly sports. Beat the cashier! :)
nigel Mc Hugh me too, i was quite sure they were more of a british thing... who knows?
I always load conveyor with heavy stuff first, especially produce and eggs last, because they throw your groceries into the buggy without care. Didn't know they were timed. Still, love Aldi's` though, wonder why they stopped carrying Regular non-dairy creamer?
They are, but Aldi is the only place I know where they sell those in Germany and Switzerland and they are quite good there. Most people I know think of this "cookie/biscuit/cake" as an Aldi-cookie because they only know it from there.
As far as I remember the Jaffa Cakes have been introduced through Aldi in the german-speaking region and many believe they are a "german"-thing in the german-speaking countries. I just found out recently that they originate from the UK.
That yellow floor tho, it seems to be in every Aldi around the world XD
Mentos Freshmaker Not in the Netherlands. Haven’t seen them since the updates ten years ago...
5:38 In the local Aldi here in Germany the Vegetables and Fruit are also put on shelfs and are not displayed in those cardboard boxes (which I think looks a bit messy).
Aldi Nord or Sud? The Aldi I shopped at in Germany had everything in a box like this.
In Germany we have two types of Aldi, Aldi Süd (south) and Aldi Nord (north). The Aldi in the US is the version from the south.
Old comment I know but, what I learned in another UA-cam video the US version of Aldi Nord is called Trader Joe’s. At least the owner of that company bought them
hmmm, the half-liter bottles are also available and kinda popular in Germany too.
often the same drinks that are available in the 1.5 liter bottles are also available in the smaller ones.
buying the big one is cheaper (per amount), but the small bottles can be more convenient in some situations.
Also I remember ALDI specifically having a policy that you are not supposed to take out the individual bottles of the small (0.5 liter) packs, having signs to that effect on top of the shelves.
I say "ALDI specifically", because i haven't seen that in other stores like LIDL etc.
but it seems that a couple years ago they abandoned that, not sure when exactly.
Aldi's in Germany are much bigger and have many more products than the ones in the US.
Still like going to the ones in the US though.
Actually, Aldi is changing their strategy, allowing more "brand"-products to come in, declining the "no-name" products. Even the appearence of the stores change now. BTW, in the US, you´ll have "Aldi South" for the two founder brothers devided their business into two halves decades ago...
Yep Aldi and Trader Joe's
@DeadLink 404 Well since I never in my life have seen an Aldi south, but many Aldi north's, I'll believe you, or do they tend to let their fruit and vegetables rot or dry up to a shrivelled mess in Aldi South as well?
My dad was stationed in Hanau from 72-96. I came back stateside but still go visit my mother in stuttgart every year. Love your video
Hi, I’m an American living in Germany for the the past 42 years. I recall talking to my mother in the USA (1979) and telling her all about the German grocery store called Aldi. Since then, I have seen Aldi revolve into a great discount store with actual air conditioning, accepted debit card use, and one of the best fresh produce of all the German grocery stores. Customer service is also very generous. I’ve returned many items without a sales receipt and have always been compensated and/or have received a new item, no problem at all. I also must comment that almost all of the Aldi‘s in Germany are better renovated and stocked than the American Aldi. This one in the video was pretty bad! I live near Frankfurt, Germany.
Aldi stands for "Albrecht dikont" (discount) , founded by two brothers Karl and Theo Albrecht.
I mean diskont , and not dikont 😉
In Austria Aldi is called Hofer
Nobody knows why, it’s the same company though
Niemals davon gehört. Hier in Belgien gibt es nur Aldi. In Aachen (NRW Deutschland) habe ich Aldi , Aldi süd auch schon gesehen.
@@luciennelucke2319 natürlich weiß man warum:
Hofer. Die von Helmut Hofer im Jahr 1962 gegründete Filialkette Hofer wurde 1967 von Aldi Süd übernommen. Da der Name Aldi in Österreich nicht nutzbar ist (er gehört der Firma Adel Lebensmittel Diskont), firmiert sie seitdem als Hofer KG.
Before they died, the Albrecht brothers were Germany's richest men.
One thing you forgot to mention: even the floor tiles are the same as the ones adorning all Aldi Süd stores in Germany.
so true hahahaha
Same as the uk too haha xx
7:20 No "Deutsche Küche"-Packaging is complete without a picture of Neuschwanstein castle. LOL!
Gildo Schuster - Disney still hasn't bought it ? 😋
We have ALDI in Slovenia and Austria but it is named Hofer. It is perfect, I think the thing that I would emphasize is the standartisation of the store, no matter in which country you go to an ALDI it has the same design, same size, products are placed in a similar order. And what I love the most is at least in Austria and Slovenia that they really connect with the local producers, so a lot of the food and drinks are usually produced locally. Another thing are the "Parkplätze" - parking spaces are big enough as I own a bigger SUV and it is no problem to park there, usually even when you park there is still a little bit of space on the sides.
Lived in Germany for a couple of years and ALDI was my favorite store. Just moved near Arlington VA and was very happy to see an ALDI. They look exactly the same.
I am happy for the US-citizens, to get the goods cheaper via ALDI.
Live, money and paying is not easy for the most people in the US, - I think.
greetings from germany.
greetings!! :) thanks for watching
Aldi is inexpensive, but I don't think it's the cheapest grocery store. It seems to be about the same as the other discounters in my area.
+SGT ROCK - It`s because of a too good image about US-citizens via entertainment.
It shows families with several children - living in houses, with a big car garage, and two cars or more.
And all the goodies, what you can buy.
Including full lightning show at the house at christmas time.
And a big dinner with ten people or more.
But, to pay all this, you need maybe 7.000 - 10.000 $ per month earning ?
But in real most US-people don´t earn so much money ?
I think, the reality for many US-people is 9 - 20 $ / hour earning.
Expensive apartement renting.
Too expensive health insurance.
Very difficult, to make money for your retirement.
Every month the challenge, how to pay all ?
If you get more money for your work, it is because more expensive in this area, ie a job in New York.
The boss must pay more, or you cannot work and life there.
But it is also difficult to manage all, with the money who you can make.
I`m german, and live in germany.
I´m happy of cheaper health insurance as in the US.
Better social insurances.
Low prices for food.
But double price for gas etc. for cars, etc.
Maybe lower job income, as in the past. (Depending which employee.)
Maybe 20% - 50 % lower.
Apartement rents are climbing, more expensive.
And difficult to get an apartement for rent.
But in summary, I think it is more difficult in the US.
US mentality: You must fight, to make the money you need.
If you cannot, its your fail.
We had Wal-Mart in germany, about 18 years ago.
But several discounters were cheaper as Wal-Mart.
I bought only soft drinks at Wal-Mart germany.
Wal-Mart quit all their shops in germany - too less business for them.
But in the US maybe Wal-Mart is the only shop in this area ?
Or others more expensive ?
= you must buy there, and must pay their prices.
So I think and hope, that real cheap discounters in the USA will become more and more.
When I go shopping food in germany (I´m single) I pay about 30 - 60 $ per shopping. I check all out, to buy as cheap as possible.
When I drive to the gas station - car full tank filling - gas regular = 72 $
When I have no job = no money, I can get 960 $ per month from the state, and a paid health insurance, to help me to survive.
Wow! That's a heck of a post.
I think most Americans do have a house with a 2 car garage and 2+ vehicles. We also have quite a few toys. However, many of these Americans are deep in debt. You don't need to earn $7,000 to $10,000 in most areas to live this type of lifestyle; just a decent job with good credit.
There are also many Americans that live at or near the poverty level.
The cost of living is slightly higher in the US than Germany, but it's actually pretty close. I think the biggest difference is that lower wage earners in Germany are better compensated than in the US. Germany's government seems to take the view that employers and the government should provide more for the workers at the low end of the pay scale, whereas the US government favors the business owner over the average wage earner.
Walmart might be the only shop in some areas, but the main reason you really can't compare a US Walmart to a German one is they are probably completely different stores. Walmarts are huge in the US (the size of the individual stores) and they are everywhere. They get much better deals than other retailers because of the size of their purchases. In the US, they operate on a level that can't be competed with by your average retailer. I imagine the Walmarts in Germany were considerably more expensive than the ones in the US.
There are a tons of discounters in the US. There's a dollar store on nearly every corner. Aldi in the US is obviously a discounter, but there are other stores that are a bit cheaper in my town.
I'm not sure how long that $30-60 covers, but I imagine it's a bit cheaper than in the US. Filling up my cars takes about $40, but again there are different sized gas tanks. I know gas prices in the US were a lot cheaper than the US when I went to Germany.
There are still programs in the US too that benefit the poor. I'm not sure of the amounts or how you qualify, but there is certainly money for people who have hit hard times.
+David Squires - Thank you, for your detailed answer.
Ok, it is different, if you are selling only food, or do you have a warehouse who offers like all.
Because you must finance also the goods, who are not daily or weekly sold.
ALDI is restricted for a smaller amount of goods.
And not so much variation of a product, like the most other shops in the US.
Different gas prices is because of different taxes.
In germany 70 % of the gas price are taxes.
There are a lot of other taxes in germany.
ie taxes every year, if you have dogs.
But the taxes helps the german gouverment, to help people with a too low income or unemployd.
Current near three million people without any job.
And four million people with only part time jobs = too less income to life with it, who needs support from the gouverment to pay all.
(Level in 2018)
There is a minimum calulated, what you need in germany.
To have enough food, an small apartement, and an health insurance.
If you have less income, or nothing, you can get money from the state gouverment to pay this.
But this is better and cheaper, as more criminals and more jails like in the US.
Every german citizen must have an health insurance. It is a law.
The minimum payment is 204 $ per month.
If you earn more money, you must pay more.
If you have a wife or plus children, they are included in this health insurance without extra paying.
This is cheaper, as an health insurance in the US. (So far I know.)
This insurance pays near all, what you need to become healthy. Near full payment.
Self payment: $ 12 per day in hospital. (But you safe food money at home.)
$6 - $ 12 per medicine.
yeah, cashier is legit. she got skills
In the UK Aldi are famous for being a great employer, they pay well and are good to their staff. I wonder if that is the same in Germany/US?
Danm21 Healy it is. They pay over average salaries here in Germany.
Danm21 Healy it's the same in germany.
Oh yeah. They get paid I think I remember seeing $12/hour. Normal grocery stores generally pay minimum wage when you first start. The Federal mandated minimum wage is $7.25 , but states can make their own minimum wage pay as long as it's above $7.25/hour. Washington D.C. state required minimum wage is $12.50.
They pay relatively well, but the selection process to get a job at Aldi tends to be very strict, as they require staff to be quick and therefore productive. They also have fairly good schemes for university graduates. Also, all staff have to fulfil all roles. So even store managers may need to help packing shelves, if needed. There were some reports though a few years ago, that Aldi-Süd used cameras to check on productivity of staff, an accusation that Aldi denied.
SBlack some places in the US they have about the same amount of people working in Aldi as they do in a small normal grocery store. The Aldi that I go to has 15 cashiers during the busy times, and that'sabout the same amount a small grocery store has. It used to be where there were only 2-3 cashiers at all times, but you would have to bring someone with you so they could stand in line while you went grocery shopping. If you didn't have anyone to stand in line you would wait about 1 hour during the busy times. You would have to bag your stuff out in the parking lot because the table to pack groceries was to full.
About the eggs. It might be about Salmonella. In Norway we don't have salmonella in our eggs, and they do last for several weeks in room temperature. It doesn't make sense that there is a protective film on them that you wash off. They wash our eggs to...
Norway is actually one big refrigerator.
No, Kelly's explanation is absolutely correct. Fresh eggs have a protective layer, the cuticula, which contains lysozyme. So, the shell of the egg is protected from germs for about 3 weeks. If eggs are washed,the protective cuticula is removed and the eggs must be refridgerated.
A big difference I notice is that Aldi employees in both of the local stores I visit have a noticeably better attitude than at "normal", American grocery chain stores around here (central CT)...I am repeatedly impressed!...like every time I have a question or have to deal with them one-on-one...maybe they are selected/screened for it, maybe once they are employees, its the fact that they know they are getting payed better than if they worked at the Stop and Shop down the street...
Some of my own observations: Aldi chocolate is a generic German brand, so reasonably priced yet still excellent quality...so are the Christmas Stollen...but one has to be careful buying produce there...it spoils quicker...I think/wanna say its because they use different suppliers which don't use as many preservatives (stated store policy) or they deliver to the store closer to peak ripeness, so there is less time before spoilage starts...example: The Bananas are from some off brand (not Chiquita), and they only last a few days at home before getting black spots...Chiquita can noticeably last double that...
We like Aldi for many things, but for a few products, our palates still prefer (or haven't been weaned off) the brand names...like peanuts... and I agree with op, with all the fabulous selection and flavor of breads and baked goods available in German bakeries, the bread selection here is pretty pitiful, but it's not too much better there, where I wouldn't normally buy any bread at an Aldi, but rather go to a baker (often found at the entrance to a normal grocery store), and get freshly baked products from their huge, tasty selection...some American grocery stores now have inside bakeries, so they are getting better, but they still don't offer the multi-grain tasty fresh-baked specialties that they offer over there... Cheers
I love Aldi! Around here people like to “pay it forward” by handing off their carts, without taking the quarter. Some go so far as to put quarters in several parked carts. It’s considered good manners if you take a cart already loaded with a quarter to pass your cart to another person when you leave, without collecting the coin.
That’s really awesome! Where are you at if you don’t mind me asking?
Kelly, Alabama.
that's the famous southern hospitality!
It happened not an hour ago, someone deliberately left their quarter on top of the cart’s coin/lock box. We made sure to leave it for the next person, as it’s considered bad manners to take it. And yes, I got my Knoppers!!!
Great idea. Well done on whoever promoted this.
Bear in mind that in Ireland the deposit for Aldi/Lidl/Tesco trolleys, as we call them, is either a one or two euro coin, not a quarter! But bravo nonetheless for youg neighbourliness.
"Deutsche Küche"
I doubt that the products are made by the same company. ALDI uses own brands. It is the same here in Germany. ALDI has its own brands for food from different countries or areas for example Asia or Italy. They have some brands they use as premium brand and they have own brands they use for disguising the manufacturer. Often this are more expensive brands with good image like Hochland, Leibniz, Zott, Bonduell, Storck, Nescafé, Danone, Katjes, Brandt, Müller, Meßmer, Lorenz, Bahlsen and so on.
I would say it is the same with "Deutsche Küche" different German brands that were put into one ALDI brand.
Helloweener I've heard that Bahlsen is really good. The only place I see Bahlsen offered where I live in the US is at Walmart.
Mojo Jim // I think Bahlsen in Germany is the equivalent to Keebler in the US. (In reference to product spectrum and the product's popularity)
Marie Pierre Narr Thanks for the comparative information. I really appreciate it. That puts Bahlsen on a meaningful scale for me. It tells me not to bother with that brand.
Helloweener Leibnitz ist Bahlsen Hannover oder Bahlsen ist Leibnitz Hannover ... eins von beiden ist richtig.
OldLordSpeedy
Ja, ist mir danach auch aufgefallen, das Leibniz für Butterkeksmarke von Bahlsen ist.
Ist aber nicht so schlimm, das es doppelt ist. Gibt ja Butterkekse und Waffelröllchen bei ALDI. 😉
Love how Aldi and Lidl just give a Big middlefinger to the A-brands...A MARS Bar?...K we will sell a smarsbar 70% cheaper...
The concept you are speaking of (displaying the groceries in their boxes they got delivered in) is called Discounter in Germany. We also have normal grocery-stores where the stuff is put into shelfs, they also usually have a broader variety of products of the same kind. You are correct, this concept has exactly one target, to sell groceries as cheap as possible.
The REWE here in Germany sells alot of Monster and Red Bull and other Energy Drinks too!
So nice of you that you bought yor boyfriend Knoppers. Actually I think the prices are very similar. But the "German" products are just for you Americans. We don't eat that much Sauerkraut here.
The Aldi markets here in Germany are modernized recently and look much nicer now.
you haven't seen Aldi empoyes back in time when they had to know every single price, no scanners, only hitting the keys ... was much more faster then this shown scanning
General Note: Kelly's videos are always small, interesting study trips for me. You always learn something about it. Very good quality, informative content, likeable person.
Keep it up.
Look no garbage on yt or tv, look Kelly ... :-)
By the way: ALDI is an abbreviation for Albrecht Discounter and HARIBO stands for Hans Riegel Bonn ...
Aw thank you!! Thats very nice of to say :) i knew about the HARIBO but had no idea a it ALDI. Thanks :)
I was so excited when we got an ALDI store. The prices are amazing.
The quality is more honest, since Europe has stricter regulations for production. I LOVE their Apple strudel, frozen, their red cabbage Christmas cookies, super,chocolates herring. When I first stepped into the store I found the floor tiles were the same color as in Germany.
Fun fact. The reason US supermarkets have dual doors is because of ICC Commercial Energy Code. Facilities of high volume in and out traffic being grocery stores, hospitals, shopping malls, and office buildings have to use vestibules as a climate air barrier to limit outside air infiltration into the building. Either a vestibule, an overhead heated and/or cooled blower known as an Air Curtain, or revolving doors must be used (which isn't practical for grocery stores with shopping carts going in and out). Basically, its an energy efficiency mandate in the US.
I think Lidl are also expanding into the US
It is! A few people have commented to say they already have stores in Virginia near where I’m living
+Kelly - Lidl is very good in germany.
It has a bit more goods as ALDI. And better quality at body care products.
prices near at ALDI level.
It looks like an battle on the market between ALDI and Lidl in germany.
Yes, but only on the east coast for now. Aldi is still expanding into the West so Lidl has a ways to go to be a true competiter
What part of DC do you live in? If you take the metro yellow or blue line to Pentagon City, you can walk through the Pentagon City mall and out the other side to an area called Pentagon Row. There is a store called "World Market" there that has a number of good food items imported from Germany.
They have a good selection of Ritter Sport and Milka chocolate bars, Haribo, and also things like Knoppers, Kinder chocolate, seasoning packets for meals such as Jagerschnitzel, and more.
The best is in Novemeber and December, when you can find German Christmas goodies, such as Stollen, Lebkuchen, Zimtsterne, Glühwein, and Spekulatius.
The fruit and vegetables of the Lidl,are the best and cheapest in the Netherlands.
Kelly, great vid! I absolutely LOVE Aldi! I loved Aldi in the US and I absolutely love it here in Germany! You know what's here in German Aldi and not in the US...Booz! Lot of Wines, Beers and other types of alcohol and dirt cheap my friend. Also, did you know that I also get my phone cards from ALDI? I pay 7.99 Euros a month. Oh and they do take Credit Card... I use my American Express all of the time! Did you know that you went to Aldi Sud? Aldi Nord owns Trader Joe's! Awesome Job again and Happy 4th!
Thank you!! Happy 4th to you too :) I completely forgot about the beer thing!! That’s a massive difference. Whoops!
Sam Sok we have wine and beer in my local American Aldi's. Their Winking Owl (house) brand of wine is pretty darn good and less then $3/4 a bottle. Other beers and wine are better priced than normal stores. I have not been to Germany in decades, but look forward to visiting again! I laugh at how it takes America 10/20/30 years to finally catch on to better ways of shopping.
Oh that's awesome! thanks for letting me know! Deutschland is pretty cool!
Here's my video about Trader Joe's! ua-cam.com/video/LpD6eXO_U2o/v-deo.html
+Jennifer Wahab Aldi and their main Rival Lidl (same concept as aldi) have realy realy good wine in germany for pretty cheap. Aldi Doesnt have good beer and Lidl has a strange new Craftbeer line with 0.5L for 70 cents, in cans, with fancy steampunk art on it.
Whoa, great cashier! That lady would lead the pack in a German Aldi, I've never seen anybody that fast. She even puts the stuff in the cart, incredible!
Presenting the goods in their cartons is actually quite practical if you are shopping for a big family, party or event. You can grab a whole cardboard box full of things, or replace a few items inside, and use that box to bring the goods home. When you buy a lot, using many bags is just a lot of re-packing and unpacking ...
One advantage of Aldi (at least within the subchains Aldi-Nord and Aldi-Süd, the latter including Aldi USA and Hofer Austria) is the standard layout of the shops. No matter where you are, you immediately know where everything is if you just familiarize yourself with one shop. There are only a few exceptions (such as the few inner city Aldis that use an existing building).
Great video! I have been working on ALDI packaging for over 15 years wanted to share a few things. ALDI US cashiers are paid better than average US grocery store employee as they do more, work harder and ALDI believes in compensating their staff. Deutsche Küche products do not come from the same manufacturer, that is just the ALDI branding they have the manufacturer put on the product. ALDI stocks a few non-ALDI brands (eg: LaCroix) when they get a good deal on the product, and feel they can move the product. Most products instore are ALDI only brands which you can see by the distribution statement on back of pack. The products are not made in Batavia IL, that is just the corporate headquarters and distribution center, and US labeling regulatory requires a distribution to be on packaging so companies take liability for safety of product.
Competition is a wonderful thing! I love their prices! I hope they include more organic items in the future. Thanks for explaining the shopping cart thing. that seemed confusing.
the cashier was even quicker than the ones in Germany - wow...
Time is Money....:)))
actually she was more between slow to moderate for us germans....
We’re the cashiers sitting in chairs? The do in Germany and in all the grocery and like Home Depot.
The Aldis here in Munich (Germany) do accept Credit Cards like Visa and Mastercard. Not sure since when thou.
Checking out at a German grocery store is always a stressful situation. And I hate it. Especially when you're alone and you have a whole shopping cart full of stuff.
The trick is to not bag your groceries immediately at the cashier's desk. Just throw them back into your cart. Pay and then move the cart somewhere else and bag your stuff.
Many people don’t like to make decisions. So ALDI usually only have 2-3 brands of any kind of product. Usually all you can choose are good.
This makes buying easier for you.
I like lots of selection. Since I'm in the US a lot of the items I never eat. Spaetzle, Brandy cake?
@@LJBSullivan Spätze are really easy to make yourself, and better than anything you can buy. You need a Spätzlebrett and a video that shows how to use it :-)
@@LJBSullivan ua-cam.com/video/-Y6Ga9hMm4Y/v-deo.html
The temperature is the same in Germany right now. And our aldi do accept credit card 😉
Yep, it's cold inside. I love it in the summer...
Afaik they accept bank-cards, not credit cards like Visa or Mastercard.
where do you live in germany?? i think the temperature rarely got that high last summer.
In north rhine westphalia there are several discounters where they accept credit cards, including all Aldi and Lidl stores.
Aldi-Nord Germany website states:
"Bei ALDI Nord erwarten Sie sichere, schnelle und einfache bargeldlose Bezahlmöglichkeiten. Wir akzeptieren flächendeckend und betragsunabhängig girocard, V-Pay, VISA, MasterCard, Maestro und American Express. In Ihrer ALDI Filiale können Sie gerne auch kontaktlos zahlen, sofern Ihre Karte bzw. Ihr Smartphone die entsprechenden technischen Voraussetzungen erfüllt."
So yes, you can pay by credit-card at Aldi-Nord (at no extra cost)
In Aldi-Süd Germany you can pay with Visa-, MasterCard and American Express, V-pay and bankcard (Giro/EC) and Maestro (at no extra cost).
In the Netherlands at Aldi you can pay by banking-card (also NFC) and PIN (maestro) and V-Pay.
It might be surprising to some Americans, but all those Aldi's also accept cash in euro's. Cash is king in most EU-countries, especially in Germany. I lived in Niedersachsen for 8 years and by far most people pay cash. In supermarkets in the Netherlands paying cash or by bankcard is about 50/50. Often there is one counter where you can only pay using a bankcard. Most of the time credit-cards are not accepted in supermarkets in the Netherlands. Smaller retailers most of the time do accept bankcards, but hardly ever credit-cards because of the higher rates.
In Germany, they do training at the cashier, to work as fast as possible.
After 8:00 p.m. when the Aldi shop closes in germany.
I think training in the US-Aldi Stores too.
When you see in this video how fast she works.
At every Saturday, all the food stores in germany have most customers of the week.
Because these customers must not work in their jobs on saturday.
So the cashiers have the most to do. Even working fast to serve all the customers.
sunnymas all 4years on wm soccer time its the best time for shopping in germany special if german play its creepy no one on street or in shops 😇😇😇
+stephan schloesser - If the german football team is out of the wm competition, the people are less interested, to shop bear, chips, meat for the grill,non food fan goodies, etc.
Less customers = more easy to go shopping.
We have the same in Austria and Slovenia, but it's called Hofer ☺
7:27 - Salted Bretzel Muesli Bars must be an American invention... I've never seen something like that here. o.O
2:57 The arrangement is probably not a coincidence: The aisles in Germany follow a similar layout throughout all Aldis in Germany so that items are easy to find for the customers no matter to which store they go.
Aldi is my jam! I try not to shop anywhere else. It has great prices and much better quality food than other places in my opinion
I love Aldi's !! I honestly didn't know that it's a German brand store !! Thanks for the video and info!!
You’re welcome :) I’m glad you liked it! Thanks for watching
There is already a second grocery company from Germany in the USA. They are called Lidl and are also recommended if you like Aldi.
No s. ALDI.
Aldi only started accepting credit cards a few years ago. Before then they took debit cards and cash.
I shopped at Aldi when we lived in Spain, i loved it. Missed it when we moved back but now we have one but it's in the next town 30 minutes away. Never had anergy drinks in Spain either.
I am Canadian and I have never heard of Aldi. They don't have them here but they are found in many other countries, except Canada, which is surprising. An American business usually expands into Canada before it goes to Europe.
Now you guys have Knoppers I could live there...
lol!
Web crawler what is it?
it's a wafer with milk cream, chocolate and hazelnuts.🤤 They are highly addicting
@@sarahburggraf861 and its super crispy
I honestly thought the same. When she stood infront of the shelf and i saw Knoppers I was just like ''OH MY GOD ALDI IN AMERICA HAS KNOPPERS FUCK YAS!'' But it has to be cooled... Don't even talk to me if you eat Knoppers that is not cooled it's so much better.
You should have seen the cashier back then. About 100 years ago, they had to type the prices into a keypad at amazing super-hyper-speed.
I can’t even imagine!!
That was hardly 100 years ago. I'm in my 40s and can remember those times. A cashier had to remember all prices by heart. They didn't even have to look at the tiny price tags. But as a customer you also had a lot more time and space to pack your stuff, since there were two separated trays for the goods of two customers at the end of each checkout lane.
They also had to count back change without a computer.
I live near cologne and temperatures got up to 35°. Walking into aldi is like walking into a refrigerator.
(German aldis do except credit card)
So do the US ones
@@LJBSullivan Yes, but the acceptance of credit cards in German stores is generally low. Most of them will accept EC cash, but not credit cards because of the fees. This also applied to Aldi and Lidl for a very long time.
@@Nikioko I really do think that this CC-acceptance myth comes from people that don't own a credit card and just heard about it from someone who has heard it from their hair stylists cousin who has heard it from their sisters best friend that used to work at a grocery store 20 years ago.
My bank account has no EC-Karte or V-Pay offering, so i have to use the Credit Cards all the time and my Visa or MasterCard are accepted literally everywhere. Sometimes it happens that they only accept one or the other, but it never happened to me that i couldn't pay with CC at all. And no: i do not live in a big city, but in a rather small town (20.000 inhabitants).
@@drrubi3944 Go to a pharmacy and try to to pay with credit card. Good luck. There is a fixed price on RX medicines in Germany which leave around 5€ profit. If the medicine costs 100€, the pharmacy gets 5€ and has to pay 5% of the sales to AmEx, it is easy to calculate that they earned nothing at all.
@@Nikioko That is simply wrong.
To start with: at least the pharmacies that i frequent accept credit cards without even blinking an eye.
Amex charge 2,89% + 0,10€ per Transaction for Pharmacies. That only accounts if your Terminal-Provider has no flat-rate contract with Amex. If they do it could even be free of charge. Then you have to keep in mind that barely anyone in Germany has an Amex card. The main credit cards are Visa and Mastercard.
Now to the pharmacies: The earn 3% of the wholesale price + 8,35€ Apothekenhonorar - 1,49€ Apothekenabschlag. The 5€ you have to pay for your prescription go straight to the Insurance company and have nothing to do with the pharmacy.
So let's take for example Ramipril 5mg (one of the most prescribed medication for high blood pressure). It has an Apothekenverkaufspreis (= legally regulated price) of 16,89€.
The pharmacy has bought it from their wholesaler for 2-3€. Let's assume 3€ for the sake of this example.
The pharmacy now earns from a patient that has to pay for his own medication in full 16,89€-3€ -> 13,89€.
If the patient is a so called "Kassenpatient" with state healthcare the pharmacy will earn 3% of 16,89€ (0,51€) plus 8,35€ minus 1,49€. So a total of 7,37€. The patient will pay 5€ in the pharmacy. Those go straight to the Insurance company and in a few months time they will transfer a larger amount for several months of business into the pharmacies account.
To come back to the topic: If you have to pay your 5€ fee, the pharmacy has to pay 0,14€ of fees to Amex. This will reduce their earnings not that significantly, right?
If you have to pay the full price it looks similar. This would sum up to 0,50€ of fees. Even for a medication that costs 1000€ and has a wholesale price of 850€ the fee would still be bearable compared to the profit. And you have to keep in mind that only 10% of the patients are Privatpatienten and that 90% are Kassenpatienten for which the pharmacy has the legally guaranteed profits.
I shopped at ALDI in the UK, the US and Melbourne Australia and each has quite some differences.......but what I most missed about all those outside stores is the authentic german potato chips.
Those Paprika Chips only sell in Germany in no other country ( I had to import a few bags of those myself with a DHL package )
And talking about the check out or cashier position, only in Germany you have to put your groceries on the band and after the scan you have to drop them quickly into your trolley.....to get packed later on.
In the US it seems like there is even a bagboy that helps you pack your shopping.
I noticed in the UK and Australia, many customers still packed their groceries in plastic bags right after the scan, which cost valuable time an d the line at the register moves much slower.
Bagboys in US grocery stores were quite a surprise for me when I visited the US.
03:43 *Exactamente* ! That's part of ALDI's revolutionary discount concept they invented in the 50ies and 60ies.
09:48 German ALDI *is* air conditioned.
10:22 The cashier is wearing gloves. Is that recommended by law in the US?
12:39 With regard to *paying their employees less money..* Not in Germany: they're payed a third more on average as compared to other chains.
FreeSoftware I’ve rarely seen cashiers in the US use gloves until the arrival of Covid-19. Now it’s common.
Just 2 things:
First, "Schnitzel" is not from Germany, it's from Austria.
Second, Discounters actually pay their (fewer) employees above average salaries due to the working conditions, or else probably not a lot of people would want to work for them
first, you're wrong. when schnitzel were first mentioned there was no country calles austria. its a german word. deal with it.
Sa Ke it’s austrian, deal with it
@@luciennelucke2319 nope. there was no austria it was the holy roman empire. it is a fucking piece of meat. it is like you say: "austrians invented cooked eggs". it is dumb idiotic nationalism.
@@zasher7800 I wonder who's beeing a nationalist here ô.o
@@Sadfluffybear
But he's right though.
You'll confuse Wiener Schnitzel with Schnitzel in general.
Fake, not enough Haribo so its not german at all.
hahahaha
At the very least some Aldi Nord branches definitely accept credit cards ... I have paid by card both in Dresden and in Zittau.
Slovenia, Austria and Italy also has the same system. And I would like to point out that, the the food is not on the floor it is on pallets, food and other sold items must be lift off the ground, so the stores use the delivery pallets to simply place the delivered goods in the isle and quickly move on.
There is a ton of energy in Germany. There are entire shelves dedicated to energy. Monster, rockstar and red bull there's everything here.
And we also have small and big bottles of water.
Shout out to the cashier girl. She would fit so fine here in Europe.👍😄
I never saw "Muesli Bars Salted Bretzel" anywhere in Germany but I would love to!
Jesus, I litterly live in Philadelphia 5 minutes from aldi, and there prices were much less then yours. Usually the eggs are $0.35-$0.65 for a dozen! And the gallon of milk is usually $1.20
What? The cheapest eggs in Seattle I've seen are $1.60 at Trader Joe's. But when I visited Oklahoma City I remember that food and restaurants were much less expensive there, so maybe they have 60 cent eggs. The northwest does tend to have the most expensive food in the country (but it's higher quality too).
Aldi and Aldi Süd do accept credit cards. Since 2018 they even accept American Express Cards, which is absolutely fantastic, because now every other chain like Lidl, Netto and Penny accept them too.
A couple of things: apparently, some German ALDIs accept credit cards, because I'm in Germany right now (Mühlhausen, Thüringen) and I've only used credit cards whilst shopping here for the last few weeks. Also, ALDI is like a mini-warehouse, sort of like a Costco without the membership. When one checks out at Costco, one can use the several tables and shelves set up to break down boxes, etc. In that case, yeah, this feature is nothing new Stateside. Also, I use a 50 cent coin for my cart in Germany, not a 1 Euro coin. The ALDI where I shop allows 50c, 1E and 2E coins. Oh, and finally, I noticed that some of the products you featured have signs that read, "Inspired by Germany" instead of "Made in Germany" or "Imported from Germany". That's hilarious!! Great video!
The composition of shop looks same like in UK Aldi stores ;)
looks like they found a solid template and they're sticking with it