actually from what i understand aldi isn’t an overstock kinda place: their brands are all in-house brands, but they go to big manufacturers and say you can whitelabel your product for us and get exclusive access to our shelves or we will go to your competitor
it’s often the same brand products that are 2x the price everywhere else but without the marketing and mark up that comes with
in australia i’ve never really had an issue with aldi not having stock of anything - unless you’re looking for brand name things, but that’s not really what aldi is about
That’s really interesting, I wasn’t aware of that. The reason I assumed it was overstock because they don’t consistently have the same things and things they have will be weirdly specific. For example, the last time I went to Aldi (probably 2 weeks ago) they had a cooler full of pizzas from one brand that were all buffalo chicken and ranch. Looking at the online stock for my normal store they have 4 varieties of stuffed crust frozen pizza, two varieties of thin crust, and one variety of plain crust.
As for being out of stock, it’s rare that they will be completely out but rather they won’t have the option you got last time. For example the last time I went they had fettuccine but not spaghetti. I also like the german options (especially the Deutsche Küche soups), last time I went they had spaetzle and soup but looking online now they don’t have either.
actually from what i understand aldi isn’t an overstock kinda place: their brands are all in-house brands, but they go to big manufacturers and say you can whitelabel your product for us and get exclusive access to our shelves or we will go to your competitor
it’s often the same brand products that are 2x the price everywhere else but without the marketing and mark up that comes with
in australia i’ve never really had an issue with aldi not having stock of anything - unless you’re looking for brand name things, but that’s not really what aldi is about
That’s really interesting, I wasn’t aware of that. The reason I assumed it was overstock because they don’t consistently have the same things and things they have will be weirdly specific. For example, the last time I went to Aldi (probably 2 weeks ago) they had a cooler full of pizzas from one brand that were all buffalo chicken and ranch. Looking at the online stock for my normal store they have 4 varieties of stuffed crust frozen pizza, two varieties of thin crust, and one variety of plain crust.
As for being out of stock, it’s rare that they will be completely out but rather they won’t have the option you got last time. For example the last time I went they had fettuccine but not spaghetti. I also like the german options (especially the Deutsche Küche soups), last time I went they had spaetzle and soup but looking online now they don’t have either.
I wonder if this is a US Aldi specific thing?