I'm fine with the principle but I generally find I can't shop there because it's too limited, often missing just one item I need that they either don't have or

I'm fine with the principle but I generally find I can't shop there because it's too limited, often missing just one item I need that they either don't have or a brand I don't like. With spaghetti bolognese it's the pasta sauce, the aldi ones are feral. For chilli con carne their canned goods (beans and corn) are often/always unavailable. It get's even worse when you combine things, like when I want $x for dinner tonight but $y for breakfast in the morning and the $y at aldi is horrible. My inner city shopping habits are to buy stuff for just the next day or two, so going to different stores isn't an option and lately they've been trying to "cater" to this and removed the bulk options, so I'm seeing even less reasons to shop there now. I wish other stores weren't so customer hostile though. Generally store brand items make up most of my shopping and are price competitive with aldi but they'll make them hard to locate. They also try and group items into some kind of "theme" so you end up with a canned goods section but have to go over to the mexican section for canned black beans, they whole idea collapses for anything that fits more than one theme or none. Then there's the constant nagging to join there loyalty program.