"ALDI The Best Grocery Store On Earth" | Kip Reacts to The Fat Files 

To paraphrase a certain puppet used by a certain ventriloquist, “ Welcome to Aldi. Get your shit and get out.”

Worked at an ALDI for 2 years. Part of their low prices is that they own the companies that produce 95% of their product. As a result they eliminate middle man price markups and have better quality control over the products themselves. Maximum quality, for the minimum price.

I work at an Aldi as a cashier. And if you're curious, yes, we are encouraged to scan items fast and efficiently. Not only that, cashiering is only part of the job. We also restock and clean the store as well as operate our curbside. There are no designated departments either. Such as bread, meat, and produce department. If a certain area needs to be restocked, any attending employee can attend to that task wherever the outage may be.

I love ALDI, I live in western NY and it’s the only store I can feed a family of 3 for 2 weeks on $250, including all staples, meats, fresh produce, and junk food

The impulse buy aisle's stuff is called "Quengelware" ("whining wares") in German, because parents buy it to silence their kid's whining. The other stuff you get in these aisles are cigarettes, but not because they're for children, but because that way the cashier can control the dispenser. And we have the scary pictures on cigarettes, too. Oh, and both Aldi companies sell cigarettes by now.

The "recycling" sign with the number has nothing to do with recycling. It denotes the type of plastic. Not all plastic can be recycled, so the plastic industry had a brilliant idea. Make a pictogram that looks really similar to the recycling one, so people think all the plastic is recycled while it's only like 2 of the 7 categories

There is a lot of psychology involved in grocery stores; in particular product placement in the aisles. I had a neighbor who worked for one of the major soft drink distributors and learned the companies would bid for the best shelf space (eye level, usually at one end of the aisle or the other) so the grocery company was making money stocking the product, or at least not losing as much in buying it for resale, and for selling it. ALDI is using psychology, too, just in a different fashion. Most stores want you to come in, linger, ponder the choices, pay and get out; putting the frenetic pace at the end of the experience. ALDI is like a NASCAR pit stop. You go in, grab your stuff, pay and go. It’s enough to leave you breathless when you realize how little time you spent there. You’re sacrificing choice, possibly some quality, for speed. And price. Especially price.

When I first encountered an Aldi store, it was so much more calming than walking into a Walmart. 😂

I remember gas being 15 cents a gallon! A gallon of milk was a nickel.

i once made the mistake of saying there was an item i couldn't find. they stopped scanning my items, they called someone else over, and then we stood there for about 10 minutes while we waited for the person to then find what i could not.

I live in Denmark and here we have plenty of grocery stores akin to Aldi as well as actual Aldi’s all across the country a lot of which even openly advertise how quick shopping at their establishments is

To be honest Ive been asked if I found everything I was looking for and I’ve said No a couple of times. 21:21

23:40 I do round up not for whatever cause they say it's for but because I believe that everything should be priced at 1/4 dollar intervals! Yes I will round up from 9.87 to 10.00 because I don't want the stupid change that is less valuable then the metals the are composed of.

For comparison, check out why Walmart failed in Germany 😅

Bro turned a 13 minute video into 45 minutes dawg.

ALDI, also known as the only place in America where you can sit down as a cashier. To any non-Americans: No. No I am not kidding. I wish I was.

Aldi: the cheapest grocery store I've ever been to. But also good quality!

I worked as the cart guy at my local grocery store for 3 years and let me tell you, it is probably the most miserable job you can have at a grocery store. Working in the frozen department where you're having to spend 90% of your time either fully or partially inside of a -20 farhenheit freezer, no problem. Working in dairy or produce where you're having to constantly lug around 30+ pound crates of milk or 40+ pound bags of potatoes/onions, piece of cake. Working in recieveing where there is a constant possibility of poorly wrapped pallets toppling over and you having to spend 30 minutes picking everything up when they do, child's play. _You could not pay me_ to go back to working carts, I wouldn't do that shit again for $50 an hour. I was routinely put as the only guy working carts during my shift and we were not just one of the busiest locations in our area, but one of the busiest _in the country._ On a normal weekday 8 hour shift I would end up walking around a marathon's worth of distance according to my health app and that would increase to almost a supermarathon on weekends. There were _multiple_ times where I had to be sent home early and given the next day off because it was too painful to stand on my feet and my legs were giving out. It was frequently in the mid teens to mid twenties in terms of temeperature during the winter and upwards of 100 during the summer. During the summer I would perpetually have heat rash so bad that it would actually end up scarring. And to make it even worse, despite the fact that it was a brightly lit underground parking garage, because of "cOmPaNy PoLiCy" we weren't allowed to wear winter hats during the winter and were forced to wear high-vis vests all the time which would make it exponentially worse during the summer. Working carts _is HELL._

Kip there's a Trader Joe's in Boise & Meridian in Idaho. Yes if you've never had the Aldi experience. It's the only grocery store we use and only use Walmart for anything Aldi doesn't sell.

Fun fact all of the brand foods you buy, the ones you think are competing against eachother are all actually owned by like 3 parent companies. So technically you only have the illusion of choice.

Not even 30 seconds into the video and Kip foreshadows the video's closer completely by accident. This cat truly has the same brain cell as the rest of us.

36:33 no Kip, that was just the administration quietly allowing more oil permits than what they were publicly saying

Get the block. Cheese tastes better when you shred it yourself.

I don't even work at an Aldi but nothing made me happier than learning their cashiers get to sit down. I've worked retail, I've been called over to help on the registers, I'm also 6'2 and the particular slight angle that I would have to bend down to in order to scan items and do the whole process would KILL my lower back after only 20-30 minutes

I have an Aldi where I live currently (central NY) and it's set up and functions exactly as described in the video. I've noticed the differences before and they get almost all of my business for groceries. You even notice the difference in shop time when using an app, (instacart, etc.) to get stuff delivered. He doesn't mention in the video but Aldi does still like to stock specialty and seasonal goods. So there's usually killer deals around Christmas time, whether that's baking supplies, gifts or food stuffs. Christmas is when I let myself buy chocolate and treats, and it's usually tasty Swiss or German imports! Also not associated with Aldi in any way, but wanted to throw in my two cents since I was familiar with what Nic was talking about lol.

18:57 In Germany they say nothing and just do there job.

14:00 - You answered your own question: all-enclosed shopping malls are no longer really a thing. From the 70's to the late-90's/early-00's, shopping malls were effectively social centers, where you could hang out for most of the day, and socialize. Post-00's, with the rise of online-everything, most of those all-enclosed malls closed - from c.25K in 1986, to c. _700_ in 2022...and the smart grocery stores started adding stuff to appeal to that social needs bracket. That's called smart business.

So what we learned right off the bat is: they managed to “blitzkrieg” shopping after it didn’t *completely* work for war.

I'm glad he brought up the cart system, my dad would always check the carts for any quarters left behind. And this wasn't covered so I don't know if all Aldi's do this but mine don't have paper and plastic bags for groceries, you'd either have to take the cart back to your car or bring your own bags, or you can buy your own bags there, they even have a counter table after you check out to back your groceries and I like that

Americans making a big deal about what makes aldi unique. as a swamp german, this is how all our supermarkets are.

I've worked at a couple food production facilities and I can confirm that yes, we just put the same stuff in different boxes.

His "Buh!" character is a 'keyboard warrior.' Three things Nick did not cover. One. Upside-down ketchup bottle moment. Aldi does not stock shelves with items. Aldi stocks shelves with BOXES of items. Mind-blowing. Stocker rips off pre-perforated top and side of box, shelves it, walks away. Shopper grabs item out of box, stocker removes empty box if shopper doesn't take it. 90% time and labor reduction on stocking? Two. Aldi does not bag your groceries. Shopper empties cart onto checkout conveyer, cashier empties conveyer into another cart, shopper swaps carts and is checked out. That's why it's so fast. Three. Shopper moves to long counter and bags their groceries with reusable bags they brought or bought. Or the shoppers box their groceries with boxes collected from the store. That's right, folks! Aldi produces no plastic bag waste and their cardboard waste and cleanup labor is reduced. By. Their. Customers.

Aint no way Kip just said Nutella is a type of peanut butter

Aldi's / trader Joe's is not the fastest growing in this country. they have the fastest growing in this Union of Nations states in the USA.

I had no idea that Aldi and Trader Joe’s were owned by the same family. Trader Joe’s is great.

Yes. His name is Nick.

The funny part is that Aldi's is basically how stores looked like in the USSR, except they're actually well stocked. One option for everything and be fast, because if you're shopping you're not building socialism!

Aldi and TJs also buy all their product from suppliers with cash not credit. TJs is one of the cheapest places around me to buy eggs right now normally 400$+ per dz for normal, they do it for 3 sometimes less.

I grew up in an area with an Aldi and it was great especially for someone who grocery shops like I do. I dont shop. I raid. I know what im there for, I grab it, I go. I stop exactly long enough to do mental math when there's two prices on differently sized items (which isn't necessary there) and check freshness on fruit that's it. Those are the reasons I stop. So Aldi is wonderful and I hope and pray when they put one in Washington it goes in close enough to be worth going to.

Yep, there is a Trader Joe's in downtown Boise. When I first learned that it was just a different Aldi, blew my feckin mind lol

PNW doesn't have them because for the most part, the whole area is locked down by Safeway/Albertsons with a quarter of the market, Kroger/QFC/Fred Meyer with another quarter. Then the monster that is Costco with almost all of the rest with a small sprinkling of WinCo. No one wants to try and wade through that minefield.

Aldi is pretty good, your pushed into a walking one ile turn left walk that ile and trurn right and repeat until you reach the end. Tesco doesn't have good self service stations, you'll scan a item and the packaging is crumbled and it won't scan. You can also accidentely scan the item twice ramdomly or it just think you didnt place the item in the bag. but aldi's self service checkout will instantly scan the item if you flick it towards the machine which transfers to regular checkouts and those mf's will make items fly towards you

I buy a weeks worth of food for 30 dollars at aldis.

Btw the charity thing at the register... you are paying for the store to take that as a tax break... Why give to charity for the tax break when you can get your customers to pay for your tax break.

To my knowledge there are no Aldi stores in Idaho and I wish there were same with Scheels. Seems like the aforementioned stores are east of the Mississippi or if there they aren’t close to Idaho. Now I’m willing to go to Utah for some stores and restaurants so if anyone who works for Aldi and looking to setup a location I recommend South East Idaho or Utah.

I worked at a Kroger for 2 years, and I have two stories of people stealing from the store. One guy walked in, grabbed a cart and spent half an hour filling it with a lot of small items, medicine, cosmetics, individual drink bottles, the works. He takes his cart out the other sliding door to not pass checkout. A lady saw his cart and told me and I got on the walkie to let our managers and customer service people know. I walk up to his car as he's loading up his car, he sees me and begins to load faster. When I'm about 15 feet away, he just hops up in his car and drives off. He only managed to load half of the things he stole, which looked like about thousands of dollars worth of stuff The other, a woman walked in and grabbed a school bag from our seasonal aisle and stuffed over $200 worth of meat in it. We caught her, put the meat back and threw out the bag, because some packs of meat weren't sealed properly and leaked blood and myoglobin into the bag.

(I said this on the og video.) Jokes on Walmart, my social anxiety doesn't let me look around

About the cheese thing, Shredded cheese from the grocery store is coated, The coating isn't bad for you in any way, But they're coated to be non sticky. A side effect of this coating is that generally the blocks are cheaper/the same price, But have a slightly better result than the pre-shredded cheese. That being said shredding cheese by hand can be a strenuous or annoying task, So I still buy shredded cheese out of convenience myself every few weeks. Edit: I eat cheese on the daily so anything under once a week is frankly not that often.

Personally for me I try to buy things in bulk like meat or rice.

Aldi's is no longer a cheaper option. It tends to be more expensive by a couple dollars now.

*I am at Aldi's!* *I am!* *I am at Aldi's!*

Had a disagreement. Split & separated into 2 businesses. Didn't become enemies or competitors. The fact they had a disagreement big enough to split their business but DID NOT stop working with each other is an unexpectedly wholesome development for capitalism

To be fair, that's mostly the normal supermarket experience in Europe

If you'd like to lament with me i also live in the ALDI's & TJ's desert

My superpower is an abnormal number of people think they know me from somewhere, but they can't remember where. Which sparks such riveting questions such as "Where did you go to school? Did you play sports? Did you ever live here or there?'' I'm an introvert from a one horse town, I swear we've never crossed paths. I'm also 5'5 with a bright red beard. So this means a bunch of people must be seeing leprechauns, cause there's not a lot of dudes that look like me that aren't a mascot for a cereal. I'm an introvert by choice by the way. I don't have inept social skills. It really blows people's minds when I've worked with people for a while, but then I'm being polite to a third person, and have a perfectly normal conversation, and I might make them laugh or something, and my coworker is like "The fuck was that?" I don't like small talk, because it's pointless, but I can do it.

AlDI honestly, or any other german discounter for that matter, are not really like this in germany. There is always a small variation of products. We honestly could use one or two of those american stores that have EVERY sort of peanutbutter. Because if you´re lucky, german discounters have Crunchy and regular + one more kind, that goes for almost everything. It´s kinda sad, because i KNOW there are Nutella White and Nutella Dark out there somewhere, but in germany you can only get those in a Metropolis like Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich or Berlin. Either a rich, or a HUGE city, otherwise you´re fucked, or have to drive like 2 hours, 5 hours by train, to get them.

i´m sorry but did you say electric carts? dafuq is that

as someone that worked in a grocery store for almost 10 years I can confirm people just zombie mode not all people, but at least 75% of them zombie mode the other 25% is kind of split up into groups: Group 1 = The people with hard dedicated lists and coupons [they may grab some odds and ends through the trip, but otherwise they are in and out within an hour] Group 2 = The speed shoppers [they likely know where everything they want is, they grab a cart, get their shit, and get out...maybe 30 min tops unless the store is busy] Group 3 = The "I only need a few things" [these people usually take 15 minutes if that, since they either have a small list of shit, or if they lack a list, they are only grabbing a handful of things]

Excuse me. Standing and walking around is the most unprofessional thing to do in the world. A "Professional" Job is more so a professional job the more and the longer you sit your ass in a comfy chair. The more sitting and the more comfy the chair, the more professional the Job. Does a Bank manager stand behind his desk when he talks to an important customer? I think the fuck NOT! Not sitting down being supposedly unprofessional, is like saying Rugby is a rehabilitation sport.

to be fair: the orcas in the ocean are attacking the yachts of billy and jimmy, two guys who bought a 30ft used yacht for 4-6k and made them seaworthy over two years of working on their boats on the weekend. the orcas are not attacking the 200ft superyacht with a 50 person crew of a big corpo ceo...

I am NOT sponsored by Scheel’s BUT I went into the one in Billings, MT a couple months ago because a friend of mine wanted the white Air Jordans and I found out that they price match in store as well

I go people watching when i'm bored sometimes, and the number of people that mindlessly drift around grocery stores to look at pretty colors are staggering.

the shredded cheese is covered with wax you wind up eating petrolium products, shred your own ish

Bro.. when he said Albertsons.. I felt 5 again. We haven't had an Albertsons in my part of Texas since I was about 8 or so. Damn.

28:10 gods kip you are so right NO ONE WOULD BRING THEM IN PRACTIUCALLY

And you'd be surprised how much floor space is saved by not having 20 different brands of the same thing. My biggest shock around ALDI's was how small they are. I'd say they're not all that much bigger than a Walgreens. I got an ALDI's a couple miles down the road and a Trader Joe's a couple miles further down the road.

About halfway through, and the video is great. Just wanted to mention a few things before I forgot. Firstly, the pronunciation of Aldi keeps throwing me off. Second, the German Engineering joke was wild, and great. Third, I keep forgetting how bad US minimum wage can get. Fourth... I'm sorry, electric carts/trolleys????

We got Stop&Shop around me, but we also have an Aldi, im probably going to start going to Aldi

Name brand better than... yeah, try "name brand" with "mother nature" XD Oranges and apples are oranges and apples... who cares about the sticker on them ? The same with most other basic items like milk, cheese, ham... Makes shopping actual basic groceries a LOT easier. even with items like canned/frozen food. canned corn ? still canned corn, no matter the label. Same with frozen peas etc. Whenever you DO have a "name brand" the stuff is so heavily processed It's no longer considered "food"/safe to consume by some other country on this planet more often than not ;)

Well... Being German let me Tell you... Kip Come over... just go Shopping here a few Times... You will have SUCH a Good Time

Always get bricked cheese, pre-shredded is dusted in anti-caking agent so it doesn't stick together. So, it doesn't melt as good.

25 cent burritos. We would buy em by em 100 at a time. Ramen was less than 10 cents if bought by the case. Im old lol

Interesting fact, shredded cheese has cellulose to keep it from sticking together. The cellulose is actually super fine wood powder, lol food for thought. I learned that in cardiac rehab.

actually i gotta say this one thing about name brand vs store brand, back when me and my dad would shop at save-a-lot, they would often have this brand of cola that was called "bubba". it often tasted like fucking liquid bubble gum. like someone just made a fizzy drink with 50% corn syurp and 45% carbonated water, and the rest is just to make it look like generic cola. and i hated that. that was often one of the FEW instances where i actually perfered the goddamn name brand to the store brand! you could not get me to drink that liquid bubble gum again even if you paid me like a trillion bucks! but funny enough, literally every other fizzy drink, even BIG K, and sams cola, was all very similar in flavor to basically coke or pepsi. even dr thunder was very similar in flavor to dr pepper, but its so subtle that your average working class person would not notice the difference. and i could, because ive been a bit more self aware about taste for all my life honestly. now im not sure why that is, and guessing is properly speculation at this point but perhaps with store brand, you get the freshest because it often sells out before name brands, whereas with name brands they have had time to settle in the store. but idk.

75% of what Aldi is, is every European store. Cahshiers hitting down, lanes pushing people through the store, coins in the wagons, less variety of brands etc, no bagging service, bag it yourself etc.

I wish there was an Aldi in Oregon, specifically in my town so I could work there instead of Safeway

Kip, living in cincinnati, I feel like I got legit Kroger every couple miles it seems like, so I looked up their store locations cause they own alot of other storefronts that aren't named Kroger, and it looks like their Kroger named stores are basically located on the east half of the US, with Texas being the furthest west you will find one. I lived in Redmond WA for a bit, and they own Fred Meyer and QFC stores out there, but no Kroger.

So i grew up in germany and aldi is my go to grocerie story ( in large part because it is basically outside my house, like 200-300 meters away) and it is brilliant. When i was a kid i allways hated going to a supermarket like Real or such with my parents because it allways took forever. Today as a grown ass man however... it's still the same. Not gonna lie, if i have to spend more than 30 minutes in a store to get basic consumables, i get the serious urge to just start throwing shit. Because it's stupid.

I can totally see Kip as Asset Protection, walking around with a sheathed sword on his back/belt

My best friend actually works at a Costco deli, and the owner of Costco himself literally goes from Costco to Costco to make sure they don’t change the price of the Costco Dog, and he said if they do, then whoever did it is fired immediately. Mad respect.

Aldi's cola they stock £1.65? or something for 6 cans, coca cola is 8 cans for like £5 something so yeah the Aldi vive line is great, they do their own version of other stuff like fanta and it tastes pretty much the same.

When i stop in a supermarket, it´s generally because i saw a product that interests me, and i try to think about what would i have that with, or how would i incorporate that in a dish. Depending on how much i am interested in it i think a little longer, but usually i decide after a minute that it´s not worth figuring out anymore.

Comparing runtime of a researched, scripted, and edited video to how long it takes to react to live is hardly fair. 1/3 of that is gonna be spent just trying to comprehend the rapid pace of information delivery.

Thats what i love about dutch supermarkets here is this and here is that and small impulse buy stuff at the self-checkout counter. i speak rarely to people. the only people i might speak is with my brothers or a neighbor i see so yeah. Im happy it shows where to find what and no maze shit :D

When it comes to "highest quality customer service" I have to say. It doesn't even take an agoraphobic introvert to not want to talk to the employees of a store at all. That's why so many people complain about stuff being locked up. I do not want to steal anything any more than I want to ask an employee for the darn key to get my laundry detergent.

DONT Buy shedded cheese. It's oxidized you gotta shredd it yourself

7:56 CZECH REPUBLIC MENTIONED, RAAAAAAAAAAAAHH (I love my nation)

Aldi's...nuts! HA (knee slap) got'em

The little goods at the checkout to make the last sale like sweets and so on we call in Germany "Quengelware" which translates to whinegoods, because little children waiting in line with their moms see them and then are whining "Mom, can I have this ... come on mom, please ..."

This is why I dislike my brother and my mom's purchasing habits Brother he is and impulse spender he sees something be it anything and I do mean pretty much anything and he gets it without thinking it all the way through Mom is a preemptive spender she gets mainly food based thing before that thing is actually completely used or is nearly gone

An example of a knock-off tasting really good and it's much cheaper: Great Value Walmart peanut butter or mint cookies, because they taste just like Girl Scout cookies and are much more affordable (I was a Girl Scout as a child). Yeah, you heard me, Tagalongs and Thinmints have a knock-off that is as good if not better, at Walmart of all places. Also, the key to a good poor man soup is ketchup (Ate that most of my life and I make it myself now; the tastes of home).

45:42 Stu, is that you? Angela still got you up in the middle of the night? You need to learn to tell your brother and sister-in-law to take proper care of their own child.

Deep down I knew the Germans had some thing to do with this store. We are like this and then some. I have been saying that the modern person cann't shop and when they do they look like a zombie for a decade now. He puts it right, man.

the one thing sticking with me is, you really think a Karen worked retail? absolutely not, they will just assume all the people they saw standing up as they bought things were doing it right.

If it is just me shopping? Takes me about twenty ish minutes, if my sister is with me oh dear god....two hours minimum

Trader Joe's has moved to more processed goods. Aldi's is still awesome.

You said Aldi wrong if you're not from Germany because it's a German grocery store

Me personally I go into new stores that just popped up and I'll walk the entire store then after I'm out of the store I know the store better than the stockers and managers

Men were in or out women on the other hand are the ones that end up standing there for a while Men might stand there like you said to do math or trying to find something specific but women are the one you have to watch out for. I'm not trying to be sex this year but it's just how our brain to work

Their burritos werent the best but a 25 cents apiece you could fix em up no problem.