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How naive of me to ecpect anything else than an us-only map when this is about a german supermarket chain with most of its stores in europe...
by das_keyboard 3y ago
How naive of me to ecpect anything else than an us-only map when this is about a german supermarket chain with most of its stores in europe...
- ayocado 3y agoWell I did search for any available data for Germany but nothing available easily :|
- das_keyboard 3y agoTo be fair, this was more of a tongue in cheek response and not really directed at you or your project directly. For me Aldi is just such a european thing that I was genuinely surprised by this.
- jimmySixDOF 3y agoDon't forget there are two Aldi (Aldie?) the yellow South and the Blue North and they both have a different international footprint just to complicate things
- ivandenysov 3y agothere are even memes about this. Like this tactical map: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/zacwvs/supermarket_civil_war/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/zacwvs/supermarket...
- nwatson 3y agoAldi North is called Trader Joe's in the USA.
- BlackLotus89 3y agoIt's not the same. Aldi Nord just owns Trader Joe's https://www.aldireviewer.com/aldi-and-trader-joes-are-they-the-same-company/ https://www.aldireviewer.com/aldi-and-trader-joes-are-they-t...
- earthwalker99 3y agoYep. I shop at a building with an Aldi on the 1st floor and a Trader Joes on the 2nd floor. It's wonderful.
- goatforce5 3y agoI popped into an Aldi in Portugal ~6 months ago, and I noticed they had some Trader Joe's products on the shelves. Unsurprisingly, Aldi Portugal is owned by Aldi Nord.
- m0do1 3y agoIn Austria, Aldi (South) is called Hofer.
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- ayocado 3y agoIt is pretty big in US as well :)
- mlrtime 3y agoMaybe I read too much reddit and I've been primed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priming_(psychology) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priming_(psychology)] But I read this as another anti-American comment which seems to be very fashionable recently.
- whythre 3y agoAs an American, I can understand the European internet user’s chagrin at our seeming total cultural ubiquity. It seems like almost every piece of media is about American concerns unless explicitly stated otherwise.
- boxed 3y agoJust the other day the US news were all ablaze about how the Super Bowl was the biggest viewed program on television since Apollo 11. Except of course, the Eurovision Song Contest is way bigger.
- roydivision 3y agoIf the location is not explicitly stated the default is the US. That's the Internet.
- mlrtime 3y agoI don't understand. YC is an American company in English. Why are visitors so surprised when most of the content is US based? Also Merica' #1 ... jk :)
- FlyingSnake 3y agoContent in English means it’s fair for all those who speak English. Unless you want a build a wall across the internet to keep rest of us out.
- hombre_fatal 3y agoIt is absolutely not true that just because a message is in English it has the intended audience of all English speakers.
- tshaddox 3y agoAldi was pretty ubiquitous in the rural Midwestern United States around where I grew up in the 1990s. We didn't associate it at all with Germany or Europe, and I had no idea about the company's origins until I read about it on Wikipedia many years later.
- tpm 3y agoAt least for Austria theree seems to be this: https://github.com/badlogic/heissepreise https://github.com/badlogic/heissepreise There is a link to raw data (a big json). Aldi is Hofer in Austria. Prices are probably the same in all their stores? Not sure something similar exists for Germany.
- mzs 3y agoThanks for making this. Is there data provided for iodized table salt?
- snowpid 3y agoIf you are the creator, the problem is more the title. You could write something like "Aldi Price Map in the US". Your current title is a good example of US defaultism and I happens way often (even in social studies where the scientist should be just embarrassed for that).
- armcat 3y agoAldi is big in Australia too, around 600 stores across the country.
- jaimex2 3y agoWe have fixed prices across the country though (Australia that is). Interesting that its so varied in the US, completely different model.
- schrodinger 3y agoIt’s not just the US. Im an American working remotely for a European grocery delivery platform, and one of the key feature requests from partners in UK and France is location-specific pricing. Presumably price discrimination for those in wealthier neighborhoods.
- Kon-Peki 3y ago> price discrimination for those in wealthier neighborhoods. In the case of this Aldi price map, they are doing regional pricing - it would seem that every store in an area has the same price regardless of neighborhood wealth for the individual store. So you get naval oranges in Los Angeles at $1.89, $2.39 in Chicago, and $2.99 in New York City (and Houston). The difference probably has a lot to do with the cost structure for operating the distribution network. If you switch to the organic pasta sauce, it appears that the price is the same $1.99 everywhere except Los Angeles, where it is $2.19. Their oranges are likely coming from California and their pasta sauce is coming from somewhere east of the Mississippi.
- WhyCause 3y agoIt's not necessarily wealth that governs price changes, but access. Anyone with a car and 'enough' money for gas can go to the store across town if it's cheaper, but if a store is isolated enough by geography or neighborhood income level, you'll likely see higher prices. Case in point: the Kroger in Oxford Ohio (where Miami of Ohio's campus is located) has had remarkably higher prices than other Krogers in the area for as long as I've known. Oxford is 'close' to Cincinnati, but there's enough corn and soybean fields between the two to make the trip a pain.
- Beijinger 3y agoAldi (and Lidl) are okay. But I wish Europe had Trader Joe's (owned by Aldi) and Costco.
- badpun 3y agoThere are some Trader Joe's products in my local Aldi in Poland.
- TillE 3y agoAt Aldi Nord in Germany, the "Trader Joe's" products are just the usual cheap garbage with a label slapped on it. It's nothing like the interesting stuff you get in the US.
- KomoD 3y agoWe have Costco in Sweden, it's terrible, I'd never pay for a membership to be able to shop...
- slfnflctd 3y agoThere are 2,356 Aldi stores in the US right now and it's probably growing. They've been expanding massively here for the past 10-15 years or longer.
- oflannabhra 3y ago"Aldi" is actually split across two different companies that operate in different regions of the world: Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd. In the US, Aldi Süd operates the Aldi stores, whereas Aldi Nord owns Trader Joe's.
- xeromal 3y agoIs LIDL related to the group at all? I've been seeing them pop up too
- mnw21cam 3y agoThey're a competitor.
- andrewshadura 3y agoNo, Lidl is part of another group that also owns Kaufland.
- flohofwoe 3y agoReminds me of how the world was divided into a Spanish and Portuguese hemisphere in 1494 ;)
- EasyMark 3y agoI think the problem there is that Aldi and Trader Joe's stores are in the same territory, should we be looking at localized warfare? :D . I like both, but Trader Joe's is always ridiculously crowded. They could add two more here and still be "crowded" but not "oh-my-god I can't go into that mess". I think they're leaving money laying on the table with this choice. I've lived in 3 cities and it was always the same, too much for those of us who get anxious when every time you stop to pick up something for more than two seconds, you have someone looking over your shoulder at the same thing.
- stephenitis 3y agomessage the author and create the european map? create the map you want to see in the world
- locallost 3y agoI don't get this criticism at all. Somebody created something for free to scratch their itch, and they're likely from the US, why would they bother with anything else? If it's so important to you, you can always scratch your own itch, I doubt the author of the project would mind help.
- ciex 3y agoI don’t see anything indicating criticism in op’s comment, seems more like an expression of surprise.
- NeveHanter 3y agoIt's US centric and US-only but the title doesn't say so, especially for the brand that's not usually associated with the US
- tomcam 3y agoDid the TLD provide any clues? I would Germans would prefer a .de domain.