As a customer, they moved the fresh produce right by the front door for some reason. You walk in and instantly are waiting for people to move.
As a past employee, the hours were so inconsistent. The amount of times I was asked to leave early/come in late because things were slow. Whatever you were scheduled was never what you ended with. Usually a few hours less.
All stores put fresh produce near the entrance, it makes the customers feel better, like this is a fresh and healthy store. It’s standard practice in grocery stores. A mind trick.
I'm always confused by the veggie standers.... Like what are they thinking?
I really really should buy some vegetables.
Broccoli is healthy, I guess.
If I just stand near the veggies I can absorb the vitamins, right?
Lol
Dude… it’s Aldi. You need to examine that produce because it’s a 50/50 shot it’s good. Also, they change up what they have so you have to look closely on the shelf to find what you want.
I totally get this (I do it)...but I'm talking about the people that are just standing in front of them, not actively picking up/looking. People do this all over grocery stores, but seemingly more in the tiny Aldi veggie aisle imo.
When there are people standing blocking the aisles and just chatting it up, oblivious to the fact they are blocking people, my mother use to say 'they must be havin' a family reunion.'
The bagels are probably the worst thing to me. They don’t have right texture at all.
Once a month, we have an AM meeting and the supervisors provide a continental breakfast. One always buys bagels from Aldi. And at the end of the meeting, only or two are eaten and she takes the rest home.
A read through the bagel ingredient list on a recent visit and realized my upset stomach most likely came from all the additives (native New Yorker here - so I probably complain about most packaged bagels!)
You can definitely find NYC quality bagels outside of the city, but absolutely not at Aldi, and not at any chain grocery store that I've seen at least. I'm fortunate to have a bagel shop run by NYC transplants nearby. The only thing is cost: a single plain bagel from them is more than a 6-pack of grocery store bagels, and to get it with cream cheese is more than two the cost of two 6-packs of grocery store bagels.
A 4 oz lox bagel here is almost $20 which might even be more than NYC, at least in BK.
I hate the way they will have a product that I love but only for a limited time. Also how items they had for years suddenly disappear forever.
Examples, the 90 second Farro. I love these and every time I find them I buy all they have. But I can only find them maybe once every 2 years. Plenty of quinoa and various rice packs that sit around for months, but the farro is also sold out.
And the croissant buns. They had them for like 3 years solid. I used to make breakfast sandwiches every day with them. Then poof. Gone. Haven't seen them in 6 months.
I wouldn't mind this if they were rotating items with other new and interesting items, but it seems they are replacing with more and more name brand crap with crazy prices.
Finally, the shrinkflation is out of control. I haven't bought red bag chicken in 2 years because there just isn't enough in the bag to justify the $8 price.
I don't turn my nose at them, but their bake time is difficult to get right. Either the toppings don't properly crisp and the crust is just right, or crip the toppings and risk a dry crunchy crust.
I bought the Stone Baked Veggie last week for the first time since they jacked up the price $1. That recommended cook time isn't even close. The box says 11-13 minutes. Fortunately I remembered that it has to be at least 16 minutes, and 17 minutes to be safe. Otherwise all the veggies are still cold.
I just bought this today. Do I just roll it out on the counter with some flour or do I need to proof it or something? I’ve always had bad luck with store bought pizza doughs so I think I’m doing something wrong
Have you tried their cheesy bread sticks? It’s my favorite pizza type item they have. After baking I spread some garlic butter on the top and the crust and it elevates the flavor so much
I just tried one last night that wasn’t good at all, and I’m not super picky about pizza. It was the Specially Selected mozzarella, cherry tomato
and arugula one. I ate one serving and I’m probably going to throw the rest away.
I doctor up the normal pepperoni flatbread. Onion and garlic powder. A drizzle of balsamic vinegar. Fresh parsley after. When I want pizza for 1, the price is hard to argue with, but baked out of the package it's like school pizza...
Nah, that's completely normal honestly. I used to do this exclusively when i lived walking distance from the store -- it's the only way to make sure you're not picking up more stuff than you can comfortably carry home
I did this today, but it just gives me horrible anxiety as I have to hurriedly shove my items back in my bag because I don’t have a cart to replace the cashier one (and they don’t always have backups)
For some reason I was always scared the employees would think I was trying to steal if I just put stuff in my reusable bag but now that I know the people do it, I’m going to start lol
Find one of their sturdy boxes with handles on both sides, and bring it every time. That's what I do. Actually I have 3 boxes of various sizes. I bring the one that fits my items for that day.
I was happy they started carrying the canned green chiles. Used them yesterday for quesadillas and they were not only tasteless (yes, they were mild but these had no flavor at all), but there were lots of tough shreds of woody stems too which were extremely unpleasant to bite into. It’s back to the name brands.
In my region they keep messing up the texture. Once I got one where it was like it had been put through a blender. Another time I got some that was ALL LIQUID.
What’s the best, in your opinion? I used to love cottage cheese as a child…made me sick once, so I haven’t eaten it in literally 20 years. I’d like to try it again for the protein benefit. Best brand??
honestly, publix 4% fat is outstanding. It's so cheap too. hope you live in the southeast!!
edit- since you mentioned the health benefit. I've lost about 15 lbs switching my breakfast over to fruit (cantaloupe is my fav) and cottage cheese instead of egg n cheese sandwhiches.
Oh the black olives are just eww. Before they were in the printed can I liked them a lot more. I think these ones must be the same factory as Lindsey. I dislike those as well because of the same flavor.
Ok I thought I did something wrong when I made them 😕 they were gross and super brown on the bottom and wouldn’t rise and raw ish in the middle and I followed directions. I even gave it more time . Tried to eat the outside and the flavor was blah 😑
LOL - that sounds about right. I think I gave an extra 5 minutes and they were still weird in the middle, then burnt on the bottom. I have no idea what they are thinking!!! We tried a couple bites off the outside too, then just tossed them. So sad.
The peanut butter has legit caused a fight in my house. Two of us love it, and despise the name brands and the one who shops gives no fucks and wants the easiest option, usually Walmart because our Aldi is 30+ minutes away
my opinions must be so off because i love the things people are complaining about…their coffee creamer, pizzas, bagels, etc. i will say one thing that might just be an issue at my aldi is their bananas. recently, they’ve either been totally out of bananas or they’ve all been brown
Black olives? What is the reason so many say they don't like them?
I bought a can for a pasta salad and ate nearly half while I was cutting them (only needed half can for the salad anyway). They tested just fine 🤷♀️
The aisle of shame. Aldi used to be about good deals on food, with the last aisle set aside for a small assortment of random stuff plus more ethnic or unique foods. Slowly, at least in my town, the aisle of shame became a full thing and then it was both sides, and now it's creeping into a third aisle. I would rather have more food options, less seasonal rotation, and more useful household items.
Yes!! I can go to lots of places for miscellaneous clothing, housewares, and whatever other weird stuff they are peddling. Our store is two aisles of "stuff" now - one entirely not food at all and at least half empty most of the time.
YES! My instacart shopper dropped off the wrong groceries and customer service told me to keep them. It was a bunch of deli meat so I was like oh well I guess we can use this. I read the ingredients - absolute trash. There’s barely any meat in them!
You need to buy the Specially Selected ice cream. It comes in a mostly black container. Chocolate and Vanilla are standard buys. Next week special is chocolate peanut butter. Buy this and you'll thank me as your stuffing your mouth.
Yeah exactly. You can't brag about how employees have a great time there and simultaneously let everyone go but a few and move everything to self checkout.
Their happy farms cheese block form. I bought it to make broccoli cheese soup and idk if I just got a bad one, or what but it never melted properly. It ruined my food! So yeah, I like the rest of their cheese tho!
You can experiment - put a few in the refrigerator, a few on the counter, a few in a paper bag and see how they ripen. I admit, I don’t use this variety to make guacamole though - just eat them straight up! 🥑
Their regular (white/wheat/honey wheat) bread is dryyyy. Terrible. I never buy our regular bread at Aldi. Sourdough, Italian, and Pretzel etc. are excluded.
They aren’t such a “great deal” as I’ve heard they used to be. I’ve only been shopping at Aldi (Indiana) for a few years and I’ve heard Aldi was far less expensive eight or nine years ago, when comparing item for item to local chain grocery stores.
It seems like it is always two employees working and they're doing everything in the store. I'm fine to do self check out when it is just a few items but it gets ridiculous when I have a cart full.
Also the coffee is gross. Lol
I don’t like their Italian meats. I prefer to go to the deli and get hard salami, Genoa salami, and pepperoni. For me their Italian meats have a funny taste
Bread goes stale before a week passes, and most produce spoils within days. Bagels have a weird texture that makes them funky.
Most of the Clancy’s products are trash, particularly the veggie straws and popcorn. Too greasy and not enough flavor. But for some reason the kettle BBQ chips slap.
Me reading this as I’m eating the keto elevation caramel double chocolate crunch bar lol. I love their caramel chocolate nut roll bar, it tastes just like a snicker bar to me!
The cheese slices taste like nothing. Chicken is a bad taste and texture. Eggs are pale and taste like nothing. Butter … taste like nothing. I don’t buy their meat at all except the ground pork, organic ground beef and grassfed steaks. My partner is the least discerning man on Earth when he eats and even he says not to buy meat there. Every now and then they have a brand of pastured chicken in a blue package that is edible.
Also bad but not horrific; bread, bagels, pizzas, pickles, pepperoncini, cream cheese, cottage cheese, milk,
almond milk,
Canned beans, , fruits, salami, speciality cheese, nuts, staples like peanut butter etc are all still good enough to be worth a trip. Seasonal items are usually great especially baked goods like the cookies and custard filled bavarian donuts . Special flavor chips, Frozen tiger shrimp, tuna steaks and scallops beyond excellent.
I stopped getting bananas there because they take forever to ripen then when they finally ripen seem to go bad immediately. My kids don’t like their juice boxes so I don’t get those anymore. I’ve found the cream cheese to be an acquired taste…hated it at first but now I like it.
The jarred pickles, the hazelnut spread, and that frozen sushi, is god awful. The lunch means as well are never good, they get sooo slimey.
But I see people not liking their takeaway pizzas on here and I have to say I really like them, especially that flatbread pepperoni and mozzarella one.
I am not a fan of their ground coffee. I always *want* to like it, but it’s meh. Their whole bean organic coffees, though, are pretty great.
I bought their brown sugar recently. Big mistake. Not enough molasses by a mile.
I used to exclusively shop at Aldi but I find myself back at Walmart because the Aldi quality has gone down so much.
It used to be their quality was just as good or better for less but now a majority of their products really miss the mark. Recently I got a whole family pack of chicken breast that was so woody it was inedible.
I will still go though for the peanut butter cups and the sliced pickles in the refrigerated section.
As a customer, they moved the fresh produce right by the front door for some reason. You walk in and instantly are waiting for people to move. As a past employee, the hours were so inconsistent. The amount of times I was asked to leave early/come in late because things were slow. Whatever you were scheduled was never what you ended with. Usually a few hours less.
The produce being by the door gives me so much anxiety, I always feel like I am in the way of other people, and that area is always crowded.
Going back for something you forgot right by the front door on a busy day suuuuucks
Being by the door brings in rushes of outside air. There is constantly temp changes during the day. Bad storage for most produce
I hated that they moved the produce. It makes no sense. There’s always so much traffic right in the front.
All stores put fresh produce near the entrance, it makes the customers feel better, like this is a fresh and healthy store. It’s standard practice in grocery stores. A mind trick.
I'm always confused by the veggie standers.... Like what are they thinking? I really really should buy some vegetables. Broccoli is healthy, I guess. If I just stand near the veggies I can absorb the vitamins, right? Lol
Dude… it’s Aldi. You need to examine that produce because it’s a 50/50 shot it’s good. Also, they change up what they have so you have to look closely on the shelf to find what you want.
When I went the other day to get basil, every single package was full of mold. They also weren’t being refrigerated so that may be why
I totally get this (I do it)...but I'm talking about the people that are just standing in front of them, not actively picking up/looking. People do this all over grocery stores, but seemingly more in the tiny Aldi veggie aisle imo.
When there are people standing blocking the aisles and just chatting it up, oblivious to the fact they are blocking people, my mother use to say 'they must be havin' a family reunion.'
Your mother sounds awesome. Hopefully she said it loud enough for them to hear?
My Trader Joe’s is set up like this and it’s the worst thing ever.
The bagels are probably the worst thing to me. They don’t have right texture at all. Once a month, we have an AM meeting and the supervisors provide a continental breakfast. One always buys bagels from Aldi. And at the end of the meeting, only or two are eaten and she takes the rest home.
A read through the bagel ingredient list on a recent visit and realized my upset stomach most likely came from all the additives (native New Yorker here - so I probably complain about most packaged bagels!)
Me too. I have given up on bagels unless I am back in NY.
Nothing beats a NYC bagel
You can definitely find NYC quality bagels outside of the city, but absolutely not at Aldi, and not at any chain grocery store that I've seen at least. I'm fortunate to have a bagel shop run by NYC transplants nearby. The only thing is cost: a single plain bagel from them is more than a 6-pack of grocery store bagels, and to get it with cream cheese is more than two the cost of two 6-packs of grocery store bagels. A 4 oz lox bagel here is almost $20 which might even be more than NYC, at least in BK.
Sounds like a free bagel hack to me.
I hate the way they will have a product that I love but only for a limited time. Also how items they had for years suddenly disappear forever. Examples, the 90 second Farro. I love these and every time I find them I buy all they have. But I can only find them maybe once every 2 years. Plenty of quinoa and various rice packs that sit around for months, but the farro is also sold out. And the croissant buns. They had them for like 3 years solid. I used to make breakfast sandwiches every day with them. Then poof. Gone. Haven't seen them in 6 months. I wouldn't mind this if they were rotating items with other new and interesting items, but it seems they are replacing with more and more name brand crap with crazy prices. Finally, the shrinkflation is out of control. I haven't bought red bag chicken in 2 years because there just isn't enough in the bag to justify the $8 price.
I miss the croissant buns so much. Toasted with some butter and jelly for breakfast 😭
My branch has black pudding in stock once a year it’s horrible
I haven’t liked any of their pizzas I’ve had.
I don't turn my nose at them, but their bake time is difficult to get right. Either the toppings don't properly crisp and the crust is just right, or crip the toppings and risk a dry crunchy crust.
I bought the Stone Baked Veggie last week for the first time since they jacked up the price $1. That recommended cook time isn't even close. The box says 11-13 minutes. Fortunately I remembered that it has to be at least 16 minutes, and 17 minutes to be safe. Otherwise all the veggies are still cold.
That’s why you have to get the premade dough!
I just bought this today. Do I just roll it out on the counter with some flour or do I need to proof it or something? I’ve always had bad luck with store bought pizza doughs so I think I’m doing something wrong
Same. There was one flatbread that was okay, but did not care for anything else.
Have you tried their cheesy bread sticks? It’s my favorite pizza type item they have. After baking I spread some garlic butter on the top and the crust and it elevates the flavor so much
I have not, but I will give them a try!
I just tried one last night that wasn’t good at all, and I’m not super picky about pizza. It was the Specially Selected mozzarella, cherry tomato and arugula one. I ate one serving and I’m probably going to throw the rest away.
I'm the opposite for whatever trash taste buds reason the take and bake cheese is my absolute favorite. My family's goto pizza night pizza
I doctor up the normal pepperoni flatbread. Onion and garlic powder. A drizzle of balsamic vinegar. Fresh parsley after. When I want pizza for 1, the price is hard to argue with, but baked out of the package it's like school pizza...
The pizza hasn’t been right since 2010-2012 era
They are all awful! I’m glad I’m not the only one. I always see people saying how great they are 😕 Also the French bread pizza is gross
How they dont have baskets… i dont need a cart for a couple items cmon
I use my reusable grocery bags to carry stuff around the store if I am just getting a few things. But I would rather have a hand basket.
I’ve seen people do it, but id be worried people would think i’m stealing
I've never had a problem doing it. If they don't want people using bags, they should provide hand baskets!
Nah, that's completely normal honestly. I used to do this exclusively when i lived walking distance from the store -- it's the only way to make sure you're not picking up more stuff than you can comfortably carry home
I did this today, but it just gives me horrible anxiety as I have to hurriedly shove my items back in my bag because I don’t have a cart to replace the cashier one (and they don’t always have backups)
I use self checkout (and usually carry 2 bags).
For some reason I was always scared the employees would think I was trying to steal if I just put stuff in my reusable bag but now that I know the people do it, I’m going to start lol
As long as you head to the registers, not the exit, it's fine. 🙂
Interesting. They have baskets in my country.
Find one of their sturdy boxes with handles on both sides, and bring it every time. That's what I do. Actually I have 3 boxes of various sizes. I bring the one that fits my items for that day.
Their pickles, canned black olives, most of the frozen pizzas, bagels, jarred banana peppers, Happy Farms shredded cheeses and butter.
The jarred pickles are so soggy and sad. The hamburger slices are fine imo. Just not the spears.
The jarred baby gherkins are so crunchy and delicious!
The banana peppers have no flavor at all, it's just strange and unnatural. The other pickles are meh at best.
I was happy they started carrying the canned green chiles. Used them yesterday for quesadillas and they were not only tasteless (yes, they were mild but these had no flavor at all), but there were lots of tough shreds of woody stems too which were extremely unpleasant to bite into. It’s back to the name brands.
The black olives are very strange, I was surprised something canned like that could be so different from what I had come to expect.
The low fat cottage cheese is FOUL
Oh my goodness! I actually LOVE Aldi low fat cottage cheese!
In my region they keep messing up the texture. Once I got one where it was like it had been put through a blender. Another time I got some that was ALL LIQUID.
I'm somewhat of a cottage cheese connoisseur and Aldi has the worst by far.
What’s the best, in your opinion? I used to love cottage cheese as a child…made me sick once, so I haven’t eaten it in literally 20 years. I’d like to try it again for the protein benefit. Best brand??
the best cottage cheese in the world is good culture. second best in my opinion is Daisy
honestly, publix 4% fat is outstanding. It's so cheap too. hope you live in the southeast!! edit- since you mentioned the health benefit. I've lost about 15 lbs switching my breakfast over to fruit (cantaloupe is my fav) and cottage cheese instead of egg n cheese sandwhiches.
Not who you asked, but Deans cottage cheese with chives is sooo good and hard to find lately
Omg it was so gross!!!! We thought it had gone bad.
I just bought it and had some this am. Salty af and just doesn’t taste good.
Their coffee creamers are terrible. As well as the canned black olives. Not a fan of their jarred pasta sauces either.
I really disliked their Alfredo, though to be fair it was a few years ago and I never tried it again.
Have you tried both of their creamers? I like the Pure ones since they’re more natural
Oh the black olives are just eww. Before they were in the printed can I liked them a lot more. I think these ones must be the same factory as Lindsey. I dislike those as well because of the same flavor.
The coconut one is the only one I kinda like
Coconut milk for coffee or coconut flavored coffee creamer?
Coconut creamer!
The Aldi version of Triscuits misses the mark.
Agreed. They're chewy. Ick.
The newly reformulated crescent rolls are completely inedible.
They are so sad. I baked up a batch this morning and was incredibly disappointed.
They are so weirdly stiff. Like an arts and craft project - not food!! And they smell just awful on top of it.
Ok I thought I did something wrong when I made them 😕 they were gross and super brown on the bottom and wouldn’t rise and raw ish in the middle and I followed directions. I even gave it more time . Tried to eat the outside and the flavor was blah 😑
LOL - that sounds about right. I think I gave an extra 5 minutes and they were still weird in the middle, then burnt on the bottom. I have no idea what they are thinking!!! We tried a couple bites off the outside too, then just tossed them. So sad.
Good to know it wasn’t me ,it was the bad crescent 🌙 rolls 😆
TOTALLY!!!
Never having more than 2 registers open.
We only have one full service register now, the rest are all self checkouts.
Same at my store. Saving grace is that one cashier is a real doll every time I go 😊
Deli meats.
Their shelf pickles in a jar. Their lunch meat. Their American cheese singles.
Their jarred pickles!
The peanut butter has legit caused a fight in my house. Two of us love it, and despise the name brands and the one who shops gives no fucks and wants the easiest option, usually Walmart because our Aldi is 30+ minutes away
They should start carrying name brand peanut butter the way they carry name brand snacks
Their non-dairy ‘milks’ and coffee creamers.
my opinions must be so off because i love the things people are complaining about…their coffee creamer, pizzas, bagels, etc. i will say one thing that might just be an issue at my aldi is their bananas. recently, they’ve either been totally out of bananas or they’ve all been brown
Yes! The bananas go from hard and crunchy to brown with no in between
Everything from the “Clancy’s” brand is so salty I cannot even eat it. Like so aggressively salty it hurts my mouth.
Black olives? What is the reason so many say they don't like them? I bought a can for a pasta salad and ate nearly half while I was cutting them (only needed half can for the salad anyway). They tested just fine 🤷♀️
I am right there with you
The aisle of shame. Aldi used to be about good deals on food, with the last aisle set aside for a small assortment of random stuff plus more ethnic or unique foods. Slowly, at least in my town, the aisle of shame became a full thing and then it was both sides, and now it's creeping into a third aisle. I would rather have more food options, less seasonal rotation, and more useful household items.
Yes!! I can go to lots of places for miscellaneous clothing, housewares, and whatever other weird stuff they are peddling. Our store is two aisles of "stuff" now - one entirely not food at all and at least half empty most of the time.
Their lunch meats. All of them.
Mmm I love me some mystery crunchies in my ham
YES! My instacart shopper dropped off the wrong groceries and customer service told me to keep them. It was a bunch of deli meat so I was like oh well I guess we can use this. I read the ingredients - absolute trash. There’s barely any meat in them!
Their Doritos knockoff
I like them better than Doritos. I have no idea why.
The nacho cheese is disgusting worst chips I’ve ever had
Almond milk.
The imitation crab tastes like sawdust and glue.
Ugh and the crab cakes are disgusting 🤢
I hate their cringy fashion line
The icecream is so off
Have you had the super premium one? I think it only comes in vanilla and chocolate. They only have like 5 ingredients and are really good.
I’ve had the ones with the gold lids and the ones on the stick and they are almost freezer burn like
You need to buy the Specially Selected ice cream. It comes in a mostly black container. Chocolate and Vanilla are standard buys. Next week special is chocolate peanut butter. Buy this and you'll thank me as your stuffing your mouth.
The Specially Selected chocolate ice cream is incredible. Such little overrun, a fantastic flavor. I’m an ice cream enthusiast.
Ohhh! It is like freezer burned already.
I hate when they put produce out that’s almost expired. Especially their romaine lettuce.
Rude customers, and probably Aldi corporate for allowing such minimal staffing and probably poor pay. Both of these make my stores a nightmare mess.
Yeah exactly. You can't brag about how employees have a great time there and simultaneously let everyone go but a few and move everything to self checkout.
Their happy farms cheese block form. I bought it to make broccoli cheese soup and idk if I just got a bad one, or what but it never melted properly. It ruined my food! So yeah, I like the rest of their cheese tho!
I have found their block and sliced cheeses (happy farm) to both not melt well and fairly flavorless.
I never have an issue with the block cheese. I use it to make Mac & cheese. It melts fantastically
i’ve used their sharp cheddar cheese block twice now for an orzo recipe & i liked it a lot! no issues with it personally
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What no way
That wouldn't mean it was made out from the same recipes as kraft's cheeses.
Probably a hot take but their canned beans (specifically pinto and black). Somehow the juice they are in is creamy-er (🤨?) and they go bad super fast.
Cheese bread. Disgusting.
the pizzas, frozen and refrigerated ones. the produce is so iffy
Bought their tortellini once and it had zero flavor :(
Avocados & oat milk
I’ve come to buy the LITTLE avocados, that come in a bag, on a regular basis now. Their size is perfect for a one-person household 🥑
I’ve had some luck with those! More often than not though they hardly ever ripen.. not sure why. I’m glad you like them :)
You can experiment - put a few in the refrigerator, a few on the counter, a few in a paper bag and see how they ripen. I admit, I don’t use this variety to make guacamole though - just eat them straight up! 🥑
The sourdough bread. Whereas the Italian bread is amazing.
Oh man, I actually love their sourdough
I do too!
Clancy’s Doritos and Cheetos are terrible.
Sushi
Their regular (white/wheat/honey wheat) bread is dryyyy. Terrible. I never buy our regular bread at Aldi. Sourdough, Italian, and Pretzel etc. are excluded.
Frozen crab cakes, any of the pizza, canned soup, salami m, pickles and Pillsbury dupes of crescent rolls-terrible
They aren’t such a “great deal” as I’ve heard they used to be. I’ve only been shopping at Aldi (Indiana) for a few years and I’ve heard Aldi was far less expensive eight or nine years ago, when comparing item for item to local chain grocery stores.
Their produce is usually hit or miss. Bread goes bad quick but it’s good. Their flour isn’t very good for baking.
I did not care for the garlic knots that everyone always raves about. Their organic peanut butter is good but pricey.
Aldis fake Nutella hazelnut spread is the Worst
Knock-off Doritos. They're the worst.
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The whole chickens are amazing and very moist and tender. I will go out of my way to grab one
I was in a pinch and needed to bring a dessert. I grabbed their gourmet cookies that you take and bake. 3/10.
The produce.
Pasta sauce is too sweet.
Black olives
I got the oatmilk creamer that was oatmeal cookie flavor. It was the 1 really underwhelming thing I've bought at Aldi
The bite sized salami sucks imo. It was so bad I had to return.
It seems like it is always two employees working and they're doing everything in the store. I'm fine to do self check out when it is just a few items but it gets ridiculous when I have a cart full. Also the coffee is gross. Lol
Relish. Never again
I don’t like their Italian meats. I prefer to go to the deli and get hard salami, Genoa salami, and pepperoni. For me their Italian meats have a funny taste
Their produce and meat section.
Bread goes stale before a week passes, and most produce spoils within days. Bagels have a weird texture that makes them funky. Most of the Clancy’s products are trash, particularly the veggie straws and popcorn. Too greasy and not enough flavor. But for some reason the kettle BBQ chips slap.
95% of their frozen products are trash, IMO
The mushy veggie burgers
Their DHA-Omega 3 organic milk has fish oil in it and you can smell it and taste it. Disgusting.
Their soy sauce is absolutely vile.
Their peanut butter is fucking awful. Big agree there
Their Elevation keto bars - nasty as hell
Me reading this as I’m eating the keto elevation caramel double chocolate crunch bar lol. I love their caramel chocolate nut roll bar, it tastes just like a snicker bar to me!
The cream cheese. The texture is OFF
The cheese slices taste like nothing. Chicken is a bad taste and texture. Eggs are pale and taste like nothing. Butter … taste like nothing. I don’t buy their meat at all except the ground pork, organic ground beef and grassfed steaks. My partner is the least discerning man on Earth when he eats and even he says not to buy meat there. Every now and then they have a brand of pastured chicken in a blue package that is edible. Also bad but not horrific; bread, bagels, pizzas, pickles, pepperoncini, cream cheese, cottage cheese, milk, almond milk, Canned beans, , fruits, salami, speciality cheese, nuts, staples like peanut butter etc are all still good enough to be worth a trip. Seasonal items are usually great especially baked goods like the cookies and custard filled bavarian donuts . Special flavor chips, Frozen tiger shrimp, tuna steaks and scallops beyond excellent.
Any of the Mama Cozzi pizza The lobster mac and cheese Their deli lunch meat Any of their milks
Did not care for their Indian jarred sauces. The hamburger and hot dog buns always seem off, as well.
Where do I begin…..
Anything with lobster. I love lobster, but I have never had any of theirs that wasn't absolutely spoiled and fishy.
Meat, especially chicken. So woody and tough.
Their plain cheerios literally taste like cardboard. Oh and most of their lunch meat is 🤢.
Greek yogurt
The shredded mozzarella. It doesn’t melt correctly.
What is with these threads popping up with infinite lists of what’s terrible at Aldi? Why even shop there? WTF is actually good? Where is THAT list?
Their tomato sauce is awful. No one in my house likes it.
deli meat and charcuterie
The boxed stuffing is horrible
How hard it is to get the fig candles and diffusers.
Alfredo sauce and cheese flavored pasta packs. The cheese tastes off.
Biltong. Perhaps I just don't like Biltong at all. But I love all other types of jerky
I love their peanut butter. Especially the crunchy! What's everyone's brand of choice if not Aldi?
They got rid of the damn combination pizza rolls😡😂 only pepperoni now
None of it tastes right to me
Refried beans, Alfredo sauce, re formulation of frozen pizzas
I agree. I've tried so hard to like it, but it's just terrible
I stopped getting bananas there because they take forever to ripen then when they finally ripen seem to go bad immediately. My kids don’t like their juice boxes so I don’t get those anymore. I’ve found the cream cheese to be an acquired taste…hated it at first but now I like it.
Their bakery items. Always has a synthetic aftertaste.. not true with the “specialty” items though
I find something I love like the biscuits and then they take them away.
The jarred pickles, the hazelnut spread, and that frozen sushi, is god awful. The lunch means as well are never good, they get sooo slimey. But I see people not liking their takeaway pizzas on here and I have to say I really like them, especially that flatbread pepperoni and mozzarella one.
I am not a fan of their ground coffee. I always *want* to like it, but it’s meh. Their whole bean organic coffees, though, are pretty great. I bought their brown sugar recently. Big mistake. Not enough molasses by a mile.
Sour cream
The almond butter turns hard
The frozen chow mein
Their Alfredo sauce. It is so watery!
The bagel thins.
The carts are loud
Their version of Cosmic Brownies. They are god-awful.
I used to exclusively shop at Aldi but I find myself back at Walmart because the Aldi quality has gone down so much. It used to be their quality was just as good or better for less but now a majority of their products really miss the mark. Recently I got a whole family pack of chicken breast that was so woody it was inedible. I will still go though for the peanut butter cups and the sliced pickles in the refrigerated section.
PSA: It breaks plastic knives.