Americans Shop ALDI for the First Time - How's it Compare to the UK? 

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The own-brand stuff is where the bargains are at. Forget brands like Kelloggs or Lays, get the generic goods, it's probably made in the same factory to the same recipe. Good to see you go for the organic, better quality.

I'am flabbergasted at how expensive these goods are in America today. I started visiting America 40 years ago and it was always at least half the price of groceries in the UK.

What is sadly lacking there is the Aldi middle aisle!

Both Aldi and Lidl in the UK aren't as cheap as they used to be but they are still much cheaper than the Aldi in your video. Also, both Aldi and Lidl are famous for their 'middle aisles' which have limited time offers not just on food but on everything from garden furniture and tools to canoes and camping equipment.

Frightening prices , i had to hide behind the sofa lol , Sophia is a legend 🤣🤣👍👍

My son lives in Maryland & when we travel from the UK to visit him I just about have a heart attack in the supermarkets - 2 to 3 times more expensive than the UK 😮.

Thumb nail thought you guys were here IN THE MOTHERLAND!!❤❤❤😂😂

The most expensive ALDI ....in the world 😮

Yes all trolleys are outside Aldi in the U.K.

Farmers in the UK only get 10p a pint of milk from the sale to the supermarkets, it cost more to keep cows

Thank you for a look at a shopping trip looks like and costs in the USA.

Good to know that wherever you go, even in the US, Aldi still looks the same. Looks like our locals. We have 3 within car ride away from our home. We switched from Sainsbury's supermarket, which is within walking distance to our home, to Aldi which to us, is a single bus ride away and with the £2 per journey Bus ride and saved 50% off our weekly grocery shop.

I'm born in the northwest of England, live in New Zealand and you're cheaper than we are, fruit and vegetables are similar, everything else is way cheaper in the US. I live in the heart of vineyard country here, but 300grams of grapes, about 3/4 of a pound are about $5 US. A decent one person ribeye steak is about $20 US. The prices here are unbelievable. The average rent for a rundown 3 bedroom, uninsulated home here is about $2700 US per month and the minimum wage which the vast majority of people earn is about $600 per week, power is on average $280 per month. Hence New Zealand has a huge per capita amount of homelessness and a growing problem with fentanyl, violent crime is through the roof and people say how beautiful New Zealand is the idyllic paradise.. stay safe guys, love your content.

Amazed at how few customers in the place

Great job guys! Enjoyed seeing you out and about.

Love this channel! Keep doing more of this content, we love the uk comparisons

It's cool to see you guys out and about.

the reason some prices may look higher in the uk is that in the us they add the VAT at the till on checkout but in the uk the VAT is already added to the price tag on the shelf that why prices in the uk may say something like £4.99 Inc VAT

The brands you are not familiar with are Aldi's own brands. There are many online comparisons on UK website against the market leaders. The chocolate is very good actually. You make savings by trying the Aldi version

I LOVED watching you guys ❤️(you're like my additional American family 😁) go round a store we are familiar with. However it's SO VERY DIFFERENT to our Aldi! Shockingly so 😮! When considering that at this time, there isn't much difference between the $ and the £ For example all our milk comes from what's called Dairy cow's, they are all mainly grass fedand through the absolute WORST of the winter month's fed hay, with some pellets of compressed grass with added nutrients (but this is only in the frosty snowy weather). Everything except your fruit and veg, and good Irish cheese! (I'm from Scotland and wonder if there was any Scottish cheese 🤔🤔) I would say is more expensive even in an Aldi store, which was so surprising! In the Scottish Aldi, all our milk, cheese, and most of our soft fruits in season, and veg which can be grown here and meats are marked with a Scottish flag to show that they are products from here, many relatively local, or at least from our tiny country 😂. It's a great sign of quality, when you know it's grown locally. Also low air miles! It's not travelled 100's and 100's of miles just to get on your plate 😂 ❤

where are the aisles of mystery, mystique and confusion!!! I want a pair of cheap socks and a plant hanger, pronto!!

Don’t forget a US pint is 16 fl oz whereas UK is 20 fl oz so a half gallon of milk (4 US pints ) is only just over 3 uk pints

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Cheddar is actually the name of a village in Somerset in the UK

Fun fact - if you look at the price tags closely you will see they are actually all screens. Occasionally you see one update randomly.

Worth clarifying that the coin to "pay for the cart" is totally refunded when the cart is returned after shopping. Milk in the UK is around £2.41 for a US Gallon (= US$ 3.07) ... Although we don't buy it in US Gallons. We buy it in (UK) Pints, Yes, PINTS because dairy and beer is still sold in imperial measures - Don't ask!!)

the largest container of milk sold here is 6 Imperial pints which generally goes in supermarkets for around about £ 1.60 I think I normally buy smaller amounts

UK prices are waaaay cheaper, and the products are all different too.

The pizza was $7+ 😖😮 We would pay like £2/3 for that!!! 🥴

The US needs to change the way Eggs are sold and not washed and be on show on shelves not Refrigerated.

85 Buckaroos? Damn. I could probably get that same shop in an Aldi in the UK for about £35-£40... which even at £40 is only $50 USD.

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Here in Croatia milk is normally in one litre cartons or plastic bottles. In Lidl a litre carton is €0.99

Cheaper in the UK on the whole!!!! Our ALDIs are much more random, tyres next to strawberry’s 😂😂

2:25 your totally right there. I remember when they first showed up in uk and didn’t even really have much shelving. Things where stacked on boxes and they still had to type the numbers for everything even though I’m not that old and there was plenty of supermarkets with scanners 😂

I nearly choked on my coffee at the prices! I was in ALDI today here in the UK and paid 99 pence for a loaf of bread, I believe that's around $1.30.

Kerrygold butter is the best butter you will ever buy. Grass-fed and unsalted. Here in Scotland you will often get to the shop after work to find it sold out for the day. It's stunning stuff.

Aldi in the uk, their organic milk is £1.45 for a 4 pint (British pints) bottle at least in my Aldi.

It looks lovely where you are

Great video, interesting to see what you have there, compared to here in the UK 🇬🇧, I guessed the total at $88,

The one near where I lived in the US was identical to the one I used to go to in the UK. So similar that when the foreigner at the checkout was throwing my groceries at me at lightning speed, I'd sometimes forget which country I was in.

We get 4 pints =1/2 gallon for £1.65 or $ 2.08 .

Oh my gosh. US so expensive compared to UK

Always some good deals in Aldi, but I can believe how expensive it is compared to the UK.

At 11.30 when you are talking about not seeing lamb I'm sure I can see legs of lamb on the bottom right corner of the fridge with green labels on, in UK it's usually green for lamb, red for beef, blue pork, yellow chicken, if I'm wrong I'm sure someone will tell me.

Yes we do have our shopping trollies out side and we also have to pay a £1 deposit on the trolley

It's getting expensive in England some of the stuff is cheaper in our expensive shops.

Peanut Butter I just cannot buy it as once open it’s irresistible, I’m a Brit & my sister met & married a US military guy Mike so when they settled in California we used to go visit, one of our favourite things to do was visit the supermarket we always allowed room to fill a suitcase with favourites to bring home before BettyCrocker cake mixes landed in the U.K. I used to buy 6 along with frostings but now they’re here in the U.K., my sister did the same when in the U.K..Heinz beans, Marmite, Heinz Tomato Soup she always took back, I took those there she bought stuff to me, this was good thank you..

Not a bad price,but still a little expensive than here in the UK .but overall not bad at all 👍

Wow that is one expensive Aldi. The aldi near me is half those prices. UK here 😊 butter cookies 99 pence here. Cheese here £1.75. We get 4 pints for £1.65. Or 6 pints of milk for £2.20. Laundry detergent here is £2.65 and it does for 40 washes

Was looking forward to the middle aisle

BTW When you do not recognise random brands in Aldi check the packaging because most likely they are Aldi's own brand as Aldi tends to make up random generic brand names for various products and sometimes even tries to copy the original when it comes to design and logo and so on. Some of the Aldo own brand names I do recognise but some were foreign to me ALSO since Aldi is a GERMAN supermarket chain they also sell German made chocolates (some of the more premium in house brands which here in the UK is called Möser Roth or something like that which their own brand of luxury German import chocolate and some of it is quite good and a whole lot better than stuff like Hershey's)

Thought you may find the Three rivers race on the Norfolk broads interesting only seen it myself on tv today in uk

You wouldn't pay a third of some of these prices here in the UK, even at the high end supermarkets.

We shop at lidl (very similar to aldi) over here in the uk. Family of three, we eat very well, and get a weeks + of shopping for £150. Everything from fruit to steaks.

If you are shopping in Aldi and you see something you like but have never heard the name before, always buy the smaller size to try it. A lot of the time it tastes better than the one you normally buy. When you are using your Computer type in ALDI UK and see what they sell in the UK and the prices.

With the prices displayed do you have to add tax at the till/checkout and if so, how much extra do you have to add on?

We have to put a £1 coin in our shopping trolleys in the uk

Omg $85!!! 😮

I wonder when all your prices went up. They used to be cheaper than the UK a decade ago.

When you buy meats make sure check the ingredients.

It's been about 15 years since I was in the US, but I remember at the time, everything seemed so much cheaper than the UK. How it has changed!

Aldu Australia just had a load of UK snacks - stocked up on Worcester sauce crisps(chips) and caramel wafer bars 😊 nom nom

Those prices are a bit dear in places! Different to here in UK. I love their fresh stuff its really lasts. Don't buy brand names, its a bit of a pick n mix thing because certain things are fine but other stuff isn't very nice.. Meat has been OK so far I have found. So glad you went!! Thank you.

Wow. Ive been to usa but not done real food shops. So expensive x

I went to Aldi on Friday (prices below) £1.69 for protein pancakes £1.69 for 1/2lb unsalted butter £0.89p for a packet of lght cheese singles (8 slices) £0.79p for a packet of babyleaf salad (110g) = 0.24 pounds in weight £1.09 for 6 pack of seeded white burger buns £2.35 for a dozon free range medium sized eggs £0.85p for a coconut

As well as the prices being more expensive you have to deal with sales tax being added at the till - if I'm not mistaken - making the prices even worse.

This was interesting. It is very expensive. I guessed the total at around $40 ! xx

A lot of the brands you had never heard of will be Aldi own brands. We buy a lot of the own brands in UK and they are very good: in fact, in the UK most own brands (across all store chains) is manufactured by and in the same factory as the regular branded products. I’d recommend that you give the own brands a try, you may be surprised at the taste and the cost saving (compare A1 sauce to the Aldi own brand $4.48 v $1.89! That’s massive saving). When we’re in the states we do a good deal of our grocery shopping at Aldi (we like Publix too though). I’m with you on the lack of lamb (and other meats), it seems to be beef or chicken only in most stores.

It seems very expensive compared to Aldi in the UK!

In Aldi, the price labels are actually screens

Most of the produce you showed are at least half the price in the UK or less 😱

Really interesting video on Aldi in the USA guys. I noticed how you both walked straight past the Aldi own brand chocolate... Aldi chocolate is very nice compared to a lot of other brands out there, especially here in the UK. I really recommend you give it a try, you could be very pleasantly surprised at the high quality and low price. The peanut butter Aldi sell here in the UK is also second to none in flavour and quality so maybe give the peanut butter in your store a try also. Looking forward to more of your great videos 👍

In the UK we have to put £1 in to get a shopping trolley.

its aldi not oldie lol

Aldi in the UK is known mainly for it's own brand (brand knock-offs) which are really cheap. It doesn't stock a huge amount of branded products, and where there are branded products they are not particularly cheap either.

When Lindsay said “20 years”, I started to wonder when it came over here; apparently 1990, but I don’t think I was really aware of what it was until about 2015ish. The coin in the cart thing, drives me nuts every time! I hate using that. I put up currency converter; cause even I was curious. Did you say $7 (£5.50 uk) for a pizza! 😮 ours at Aldi can range from 1.99-5.50. Also I don’t know about yours, but ours does super6 range; which is a super cheap fruit and veg which changes out every week…like currently cherries are 99p ($1.26) but they won’t be on offer next week. If that makes sense. Remember guys you can use the seeds out of some foods you get and regrow them. ❤ Our avocados come in packs of 2, 4 or individual. I find them expensive I think it always depends on your budget no matter where you go. The nuts are expensive but ours are in small bags, not huge tubs. Usually around the £2 mark here, but just checked the website and the everyday essential range of mixed nuts is 59p. 😮 the butter cookies you can find in England at Poundland. The goats cheese looks nice. I don’t think we have that here with the cranberries. 😂we think the same guys! Lunchables are garbage! Aldi chocolate is so good! I love their pretzel chocolate bars. The cereals at Aldi here are £1.99 if you pick the cheap ones. Laundry detergent £3.79-£5.99 ($4.82-$7.62) You guys may have bigger items. In volume. That pizza is huge! 😮 yeah our pizzas are small, you’ll definitely have a culture shock when you come here. Yeah, I guess if you only buy fresh stuff, then Aldi is super cheap. It’s the snacks that get me every-time and then I have no money after going.

Good Morning Beautiful People!!! 😊 Ugh sweet potatoes, and avocados ...both are vile. My ex husband made chips with sweet potatoes once, thinking they were like potatoes... 🤢 I've never tried okra, unless we call it something else? But I don't think so anyway, I always hear it referred to in American shows though. That's weird what you class as "greens" ... Wasn't that like a salad type mix you picked up, that you called greens? To us "greens" are a dark green leafy cabbage/spinach type of vegetable that you boil, to have with a roast dinner usually. Yours appeared to be much paler, and near the cold raw salad stuff. Interesting. Some of those prices were pretty reasonable really. The cheeses especially were cheaper than I thought they'd be. We also eat the processed cheese slices here, but typically we eat them at BBQs to make cheeseburgers. Being rubbery anyway it melts much quicker on a hot burger, and is the same type of cheese that McDonald's and other fast food burgers are made with. I don't like cheese on my burgers though, I like my burger on the bottom half of the bap, covered in raw onion and ketchup, topped with lettuce and tomato that has some mayo on, then the top of the bap. No cheese on mine! Btw we say Gouda like GOW DAH (sounds like powder) which is how it is properly pronounced in the Netherlands where it's made. Actually the way the Dutch people say it, it actually has a mixture of a G sound and an H sound together, sort of like Howder, but with a grrr sound before the H, which I'm useless at doing! Same as I can't roll my Rrr's like the French people can do. 😂 I don't know if those types of sounds are learnt from birth, but the majority of English people can't roll their Rrr's or comfortably say things like Gouda as the Dutch would. It's not GH like the word ghost, where the H is silent, it's a proper G and H sound made together, which makes me cough! Irish and Scottish people, typically find continental European pronunciations much easier than English people do. Some of those prices were surprisingly good, some shockingly bad. The pizza seemed expensive, especially as you didn't appear to have many alternative pizzas to choose from. It wasn't MEGA expensive, we do have some that are priced higher for a more fancy brand, but there are also a ton of other much cheaper alternatives to pick from. Ours certainly wouldn't start out at that end of the price range I mean, that kind of price point would be for a fancier brand. That bread though was way expensive! Bread is a European staple food, and if you ever get to France (especially) you'll realise why! Heavenly! Actually it's probably why Americans call them "Dinner rolls" when to us, they're just rolls. Hmmm I never thought of that. 🤔 You probably associate rolls and crusty breads with being something fancy you'd have with a posh dinner in a restaurant...and at those prices I can see why! Most Europeans have bread, real butter, and salad - served with cheeses, sliced meats, or seafood, every single day for at least lunch, and often for their dinner too. Fresh crusty bread with real butter is something I will never tire of the taste of, it is so tasty and smells gorgeous. That tin of butter biscuits was also sky high! We get those tins in Poundland very often, especially at Christmas time, same as shortbread tins too. It seems your prices went from one extreme to the other, but at least in Aldi you were more comfortably able to afford things you wouldn't buy in most of your supermarkets it seems, so I bet you enjoyed that. Such a shame you can't enjoy a wide variety any day of the week though, like we can. It was weird seeing the start of your video as the image was reversed, so you looked like you were driving a British car 😊. I know that Aldi is NEW, but where is everyone??? I can't believe how empty the store was during a normal day. I think the only time I've ever been in a supermarket that was THAT empty, was if it was just before closing time at midnight! I did see your unboxing video but didn't comment, but I am very glad you're back again. I missed seeing you all a lot, and I guess you're entitled to go on holiday...but don't make a habit of it, alright? 😂🤣😅 Oodles and noodles of love to you 3! 😘😘😘 xxxxx PS: Hell NO to that "bacon" 🤮 .... Oh my lord, I wouldn't eat that for a dare! There's no meat in it, that's all the bits of fat I trim off bacon usually. Honestly I could just about cry at what Americans put into their bodies, I can't even believe the meat factory packs that up as a food choice, let alone calling it bacon. What on earth are they feeding the pigs to get that thick of a layer of fat to form on their flesh.? I've never seen that much fat in 20 packs of bacon, let alone one. A BIT of fat adds flavour, sure, but that much is just a prolonged suicide method. I know, I know, you guys love it...but you SHOULDN'T! I can't believe they are allowed to sell that and call it "food!". I suddenly don't want lunch... 🤢

My milk use is very casual so to avoid waste, I keep powdered milk. I only buy fresh milk when I have a specific use for it. I do enjoy USA grocery store videos. Thank you for this one!

Wow, I guessed $85 dollars so I was very close! I must say that your Aldi is way more expensive than mine here in the U.K. I went shopping there this morning and spent £44.40 for a whole week's shopping, and that included a bottle of red wine and 18 cans of premium cider! £44.40 is $56.33. Without the alcohol, my shopping was £29.52 ($37.45). I normally spend around £30 per week ($38). All our fruit and vegetables are way cheaper than yours. I also only pay £1.45 for 4 pints of milk (2.272 litres) which is $1.84. Butter is £1.69 ($2.14), bread is £0.65 for 400g or £0.85 for 800g ($0.82, $1.08 respectively). 7 premium bananas cost 88p ($1.12). 227g Strawberries cost £1.49 ($1.89), 200g Cherries cost £0.99 ($1.26), Tangerines cost £0.69 ($0.88), 240g Radishes cost £0.39 ($0.49), 400g Cheddar Cheese cost £2.49 ($3.16). A 4 pack of yogurts (125g pots) cost £1.79 ($2.27). 12 medium free range eggs are £2.35 ($2.98). 190g sweet and crispy salad is £0.99 ($1.26). 300g of cherry tomatoes are £0.69 ($0.88). I don't know the price of meat as I am a vegetarian but I bought 600g of breaded fish (4 fillets of wild caught pollock) for £2.99 ($3.79) for my neighbour. I was shocked by the price of your bread and milk and meat. I used to shop at Asda (Walmart) but their prices have really skyrocketed over this past year, so I now shop at Aldi and my shopping bill has reduced by 50%.

WE only get butter cookies in tins at christmas

Your food seems very expensive but your wages look very attractive. Edit: comparing middle classes. The difference between rich and poor seems far more pronounced.

I can’t get over how expensive it is there 😢 feel sorry for you guys.

UK prices in Aldi approx 1/3 cheaper than the USA.

Blimey that’s expensive. That’s the equivalent of around £66 English pounds. I’d have thought that would be no more than £35 - £40 English pounds here. Great video x

A1 sauce originally came from the UK

Yes, we have to use a £1 coin to get a cart here in Britain, at least at every store I've been too. You can get plastic "fobs" to use in stead of a coin. I believe it's to reduce the number of stolen trolleys that get dumped in rivers and canals and what not.

Cant believe how expensive everything is!!! Are these cheaper than normal US Supermarket prices?

i live literally around the corner from my local ALDI in the UK, So i go quite alot....but damn you guys are expensive for food over there

Bananas and cheese are cheap, everything else seem more expensive than England. In the 80's you could buy a loaf of bread for 10p, now it costs about £1.00

In Australia, for 3 Litres of milk (a gallon is 3.78 litres) you are looking at between $5 to $6.

I remember when I started shopping at Aldi back in the 90's. There were no barcode scanners or any technology at the tills. All the prices were in the checkout person's head.

Hi Aldi is cheap if you go no-brand, they usually have stuff made, often by well known manufacturers and packaged in their own wrap. The cost savings occur when you ignore the brand but concentrate on what you need, organic, beef, wholemeal bread etc...Try them all, ou may find you can swap lots out without an issue

Milk is 1.65 for 4 pints

I had to look up “arugula” thinking it was something special…..but it’s just rocket😅

It looks very warm there!!

I was in Aldi in Scotland. Over heard a woman telling her friend that every time she shops she spends over 100 pounds. The woman replied - i dont think its possible to spend over 100 pounds in Aldi.

was wondering if the Aldi branded goods were made in the usa chemically enriched way or European ingredients /recipe.

We've had an Aldi store in my home town in the UK for nearly 8 years now (I have a video tour on my YT channel 😁). Yours there looks almost identical! That's good ol' corporate branding!