Well. Damn.
I guess I was going off what a traditional American Supermarket (Kroger, Meijer, Ralphs, Vons, Publix, etc) look like. I’ve learned something today.
What would you call it other than a supermarket?
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Grocery store.
They don’t really dabble much in the things beyond groceries that traditional supermarkets usually keep around. The selection is smaller, on purpose. They carry basically one brand and one size of each thing they have on their shelves.
I think that Supermarket as a term has always just meant grocery store, and the evolution to mean stores that sell other textile goods is a more recent development and not universal
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Never been in an Aldi but
in addition to its standard assortment, Aldi has weekly special offers,[77] some of them on more expensive products such as electronics, tools, appliances, or computers. Discount items can include clothing, toys, flowers and gifts. Special offers have limits on quantities, and are for one week. Aldi’s early computer offers in Germany, such as a Commodore 64 in 1987, resulted in those products selling out in a few hours.[78]
If you could buy a C64 computer, I think you’re a bit more than a grocery store.
Those specials last literally less than a week in most cases.
I don’t think the duration of the special is relevant - if you can buy things like appliances and tools at an Aldi, that would move it be a standard grocery store.
Hell, if they’re selling those items, that gets them close to a store like Costco. Which I think everyone would agree is far superior in terms of price, selection and quality.
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That’s bait.
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Not sure how it always applies internationally, but a supermarket actually has a definition in the US per the U.S. FMI Food Industry Association
Stores offering a full line of groceries, meat, and produce with at least US$2 million USD in annual sales and up to 15% of their sales in general merchandise (GM) and health & beauty care (HBC). These stores typically carry anywhere from 15,000 to 60,000 SKUs (depending on the size of the store) and may offer a service deli, a service bakery, and/or a pharmacy e.g., Albertsons, Safeway, Kroger, and Prime Supermarket.
A “grocery” store is usually $1 million in yearly sales.
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Huh. TIL again.
My take was fully wrong and based totally on the eye test which has failed me.
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…most times it’s one aisle that has those…sometimes half an aisle at most…and they rotate out.
I’ve always thought of Aldi as a “grocery store”, larger midwestern chains like Hyvee as supermarkets…also CostCo’s et al.
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Id be interested in “GM” and “HBC” in an Aldi bc they don’t even sell makeup. Their health and beauty “aisle”…its really half an aisle in my experience is essentially toothbrushes, toothpaste, deodorant, vitamins, soap and shampoo…and this is in the same half aisle as dog food/treats, baby food/diapers, paper plates, foil, storage bags, garbage bags, TP, paper towel, and laundry soap.
This entire aisle is about 40ft-50ft long. That’s it.
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Up to 15%. Not greater than.
Understood. Still pretty crazy to me just based on the way the store is broken up compared to others that I would consider actual supermarkets.
I’d argue it’s not really an eyetest but how the general population uses these terms.
It’s the difference between how we use it colloquially vs some alphabet soup government agency defines it.
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ALDI has less than 2,000 skus
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I worked for a company owned grocery anchored shopping centers.
Fascinating to see the makeup of who the top grocers are in every market.
Your top 2 grocers in practically every market are going to be in no particular order: Walmart and the local supermarket (Kroger, Publix, wegmans, HEb……)
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Loved @djpie and @Randy giving @MerchCzar a hard time after he was bitching on one of the tee boxes because of a shot he didn’t like. “Woah, come on man, we aren’t doing that here”
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The intro to the nest video took me back to strapped Tallahassee jamming to Creed.
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