3 more ALDIs

Zombie thread.

What ever happened to the Kaleen Aldi?

Just to clarify a couple of things
– Value for money doesn’t mean cheap
– Cheap doesn’t mean value for money
– Not everyone is trying to get rich in life, some of us are just looking to enjoy all aspects of our lives
– Meat comes from a Butcher
– Fruit & Veg come from the farmer’s market
– Bread comes from a Bakery
– Coles and Woolworths don’t get my grocery money

2604 said :

screaming banshee said :

My name is screaming danger banshee and I stand for:

Quality over quantity
Incidentally, as a former Belconnenite, I find it highly amusing that someone who fancies herself as being “elite” and too good to shop at Aldi appears to live in Kaleen of all places. My recollections of Kaleen circa 2005 are of tired ex-govies stretched out along endlessly looping, go-nowhere crescents. Here’s hoping your strategy of getting rich by paying unnecessarily high grocery prices enables you to get out of there and into a suburb more suited to your high social standing.

2604 – in recent weeks you have provided us with your negative perceptions of both the inner north and now Belconnen/Kaleen.

So where is your perfect suburb? Gods country is it? Or are you just unhappy with
your lot in life and lashing out makes you feel better?

Reprobate said :

Meh. For Erindale, there’s already an Aldi just 3km down the road (though I appreciate Jon would not even know how to get to get to Tuggers let alone what’s down there), so it seems a bit of a token measure (no surprises there). And on the other side of Wanniassa is a Supabarn; clearly even having one of his preferred “battling” local non-majors in the vicinity of Woolies at Erindale isn’t making a difference now. Wouldn’t Aldi cannabalise sales from the local Supabarn as well, leading to less sales = less profit = higher prices or less service?

What is Stanhope’s populist vendetta against Coles and Woolies about anyway? I can’t imagine him saying “Canberrans want more choice than just Labor or Liberal, so we’re not going to allow them any new candiates in the next election and we will help smaller parties win seats”…

According to the CT, the site they have agreed to sell to Aldi for the Wanniassa store is the one with the existing Supabarn, not at Erindale with the Woolworths. How they’re going to fit a 1000m2+ supermarket on the site is beyond me, they must plan on building on the carpark which will leave next to none left for people to actually shop there.

What is more ludicrous is Stanhopeless’ obsession with Aldi, when it has been shown that it has done nothing to reduce prices in the supermarket. All evidence to date is that an opening at Aldi reduces prices for a few weeks until the novelty runs out and prices return to equilibrium.

Aldi does not and will not gain a significant market share in Australia as they simply do not compete in the same market as Woolies and Coles. A small portion of people who do not care about product range, brands, choice and quality will shop at Aldi for the cheap prices, the rest of us who enjoy having a range of products will continue to shop where this is offered at reasonable prices – Woolies and Coles.

Stanhope needs to pull his head out of his ass and come up with a realistic policy for supermarkets, rather than just creating an oversupply of supermarkets in a misguided attempt to create competition.

“If I cant afford to have the best, then I’m prepared to go without. I guess that makes me elitist….well who doesn’t want to be elite.”

Existing under the rather deluded misapprehension that higher priced items equate better quality is hardly a mark of elitism or being cultured. It smacks more of prejudice … It’s totally fine to say that you one does not want to shop at Aldi just because one does not want to do so (it’s each person’s choice after all), but to dismiss all the products without having tried them and to dismiss the customers as bogans is somewhat narrow-minded and more than a little ill-bred …

We selectively shop – a bit at Coles and Woolies, a lot at Aldi and sometimes at SupaBarn or the local IGA depending on convenience. Apart from a few products that I prefer from either Coles or Woollies, I’m happy to do most of my shopping at Aldi because I’ve tried a lot of the products and I don’t see the point in paying more for what is essentially the same thing simply because of branding. There are a few items I’m not a huge fan of at Aldi but that isn’t because of the Aldi-ness of them, it’s the individual products in question. I welcome Aldi and other shopping outlets because I believe that healthy competition among the supermarkets is only a good thing – Coles and Woollies started dropping the price of certain items when Aldi came along and I notice that they keep the prices up for a lot of the items Aldi doesn’t have. Furthermore, it’s nice to see an end to the relatively anti-competitive power the big supermarkets used to have when negotiating leases at shopping centres.

For someone who disparages bogans (presumably because they are ignorant), it seems strange that the same person then proceeds to disparage Aldi and its customers in the manner above … that seems to personify what I regard as a fundamental element of Boganism …

why should supabarn be given any more sites when they charge as much as they do. I can’t stand being ripped off

screaming banshee said :

My name is screaming danger banshee and I stand for:

Quality over quantity
Purchasing from local Australian businesses
Paying the GST
Making things from scratch using fresh local produce

If I cant afford to have the best, then I’m prepared to go without. I guess that makes me elitist….well who doesn’t want to be elite.

Sensible people don’t give a rat’s about being “elite”. They “stand for” saving money on inconsequential things like groceries and spend the savings on things that do matter, like paying off their mortgage more quickly, providing for their retirement, or saving for their kids’ uni education.

Take it from someone who has actually shopped at Aldi, in our case for close to 4 years: Aldi products are the same quality or better than what folks you like to be seen buying at Coles or Woolworths. Their fruit and veg are miles ahead of both and their meat is generally excellent quality, especially their sirloin steaks. Most of the packaged foodstuffs are made in Australia under contract by the same companies that supply branded products to Coles/Woolies. Aldi saves us about $70 per week, or about 3 extra fortnightly mortgage payments per year.

Incidentally, as a former Belconnenite, I find it highly amusing that someone who fancies herself as being “elite” and too good to shop at Aldi appears to live in Kaleen of all places. My recollections of Kaleen circa 2005 are of tired ex-govies stretched out along endlessly looping, go-nowhere crescents. Here’s hoping your strategy of getting rich by paying unnecessarily high grocery prices enables you to get out of there and into a suburb more suited to your high social standing.

screaming banshee said :

Tooks said :

I’d have to disagree and I’m betting you’ve never set foot in the place, otherwise you’d know better.

I dont have to set foot in the place, I get the catalogues and my bogan inlaws think shopping there is the ducks nuts so I get to experience the poor quality food.

They’re like a reject shop that sells groceries, all their ‘homewares’ or whatever you want to call it a cheap and nasty rubbish that will end up as landfill. Their food products are low quality/high fat/high salt tasteless rubbish manufactured for the lowest possible cost. Their private brands are designed to mimic as closely as possible a reputable product without being sued.

One must assume that they do this for the benefit of their customers, so visitors that manage at passing glance of someones fridge/pantry/bathroom doesn’t notice.

My name is screaming danger banshee and I stand for:

Quality over quantity
Purchasing from local Australian businesses
Paying the GST
Making things from scratch using fresh local produce

If I cant afford to have the best, then I’m prepared to go without. I guess that makes me elitist….well who doesn’t want to be elite.

Well, if nothing else I have to admire how you don’t let your ignorance get in the way of your opinion.

Just because your bogan rellies only buy those products doesn’t mean that is all they sell.
oh, btw, from the aldi website:

Australia is renowned for the quality and freshness of its produce. That’s why 100% of our fresh meat, 97% of our dairy products and 97% of our fruit and vegetables in our Australian stores is sourced from Australian farmers++.

and their haribo gummy bears are tops in my book.

Tooks said :

I’d have to disagree and I’m betting you’ve never set foot in the place, otherwise you’d know better.

I dont have to set foot in the place, I get the catalogues and my bogan inlaws think shopping there is the ducks nuts so I get to experience the poor quality food.

They’re like a reject shop that sells groceries, all their ‘homewares’ or whatever you want to call it a cheap and nasty rubbish that will end up as landfill. Their food products are low quality/high fat/high salt tasteless rubbish manufactured for the lowest possible cost. Their private brands are designed to mimic as closely as possible a reputable product without being sued.

One must assume that they do this for the benefit of their customers, so visitors that manage at passing glance of someones fridge/pantry/bathroom doesn’t notice.

My name is screaming danger banshee and I stand for:

Quality over quantity
Purchasing from local Australian businesses
Paying the GST
Making things from scratch using fresh local produce

If I cant afford to have the best, then I’m prepared to go without. I guess that makes me elitist….well who doesn’t want to be elite.

EvanJames said :

I wish the Quangers Aldi was allowed to sell beer. It is a serious problem. The lack of cheap belgian beer.

You can just drive up Canberra Avenue to Manuka Oval and get a beer for $7. I dont know what you are on about.