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Trader joes ironically is the US branch of aldi nord. (Aldi süd owns aldi US) If you like TJ, aldi ought to be pretty similar.
by Akronymus 3y ago
Trader joes ironically is the US branch of aldi nord. (Aldi süd owns aldi US)
If you like TJ, aldi ought to be pretty similar.
- extraduder_ire 3y agoThey existed beforehand, and aldi nord bought them out. They didn't change much about how the company operated though. They might have streamlined it a little, maybe. I remember seeing trader joes branded cans the last couple of times I was in an aldi nord, as well as the cigarettes they're known for. (I live in an aldi süd country)
- creer 3y agoThey did change. It was very progressive at first but TJ is now very different: For example, they rotate in new products very often now (and cancel old standbys) - even lots of experimental products (kinda have to with the volume of new products). Lots of these new products are snacks or sweets kinds of things. Many of the new products obviously will not stay on the shelf for the long term. For another, at my regional stores they have also stopped offering two kinds of ripe kiwis (by the 1, by the 5-6 / plain, organic). There is now one kind and it's not ripe. The "not ripe" was the end of me buying kiwis at TJ. Shockingly, my local Safeway has started carrying ripe kiwis. For me, they have become more like safeway in how less usable they are.