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.
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?