How zero waste is Aldi? Deep dive into Aldi's sustainability claims... 

I'm not shocked that bad since I was shopping in the middle of Ohio cornfields haha

it could be store to store for sure! maybe I'll give another one a go!

@@TheSimpleEnvironmentalist please do. Your opinion means a lot!

It is definitely store to store with Aldi! My parents live in Illinois while I live in Indiana and there are definitely differences between the two! I also live in a bigger city while my mom and dad live in a smaller town

@@halslibrary how interesting!

@@miss_m_yt thank you :)

it could be location specific!

that's great to hear! I need to tell mine to up their game haha

I think I should check out mine to compare to the American ones too. Maybe even check out Rewe as well lol

@@mj2625 fors ure!

@@mj2625 for sure!

I LOVE SPROUTS!! But that's a west thing and I won't have it this year at least. I also love NG!!

yay thank you!!! I try my best :)

that's great! perhaps mine just didn't have it!

Their own brand being a majority of their stock also in theory reduces their emissions because it’s not a bunch of different warehouses factories and companies, it’s not Aldi brand and 5 others brands for butter, it’s just Aldi brand

Agreed completely

oooh true! it is a good way to ensure you shop small which is a good thing!

makes sense! This was in a almost 100% white community in a cornfield so they think vegans are gross haha. I need to try Fresh Thyme!

perhaps just my location but I'm also starting to think I didn't look hard enough with these comments haha

good to know!

It was north of Dayton in the middle of a cornfield haha. So much plastic for sure!!

yay thank you!!

for sure! that's wildddd

I've heard good things about them!

apparently others have had better luck than I did!

good to know!

ugh NO!!

that's great!

I wish I could but I no longer live where sprouts is BUT I suppose I could do a review reflecting on my time using sprouts? I shopped there exclusively from June 2021 to March 2023 so I have some experience!

oh wow that's a shame...thanks for sharing!

omg I just found a Giant Eagle on our road trip and I loved them! It's a shame Aldi doesn't always have everything for everyone

it's so weird for sure!

they do have good prices!

Trader Joes is owned by the owner of Aldi Nord. But the Aldi stores you see in the US are owned by Aldi Süd.

I'm scared to do TJs but I must

@@JainMonroe woah!

hmmmm interesting! I will have to try to find one around here but my gut says greenwashing

100% hahahaha

I don't like homemade hummus ! but potentially out of stock. The signs I complained about were NOT aisle one and this has been a common critique of other environmentalists. It's okay to critique a business!

oh good!

wow nice!

I love trivia haha thanks! That's a much better percentage than the US but always room for improvement!

aww thanks so much!

must depend on location!

WOOHOO! Thank you :)

oh nice! that's a shame

their website is SO weird like I don't think they're greenwashing but why is their website worded like that??? I think the lack of vegan options was definitely this location since I was in the middle of cornfield ohio haha

hmm weird. I only got whole foods so I can't attest to that

seems like TJs is a popular option! I'll look into it!

turns out this location sucked haha

man wish I had that!

omg that's a great point! I didn't even realize how not overstimulated I was until you mentioned this.

yayyyy thank you! Free Palestine always!

woah good thinking! Ugh TJ's is lowkey the worst but I'm afriad to spill the tea cause of their die hard fans haha

@@TheSimpleEnvironmentalist well, depends on where you are… around here Safeway is kind of like you generally ok big grocery (you can get a lot of single carrots or avocados or tomatoes or other vegetables, but apparently the ones in Oregon are owned by someone different and the quality of veggies really sucked in the one I visited that I did the rest of the shopping at TJ’s.

@@karinhart489 makes sense

Trader Joes is owned by the owner of Aldi Nord. But the Aldi stores you see in the US are owned by Aldi Süd.

@@JainMonroe Wow, interesting! I heard it got started as a California company. The two stores look very different here in the US (We have the first "Aldi" branded store here in my town, and it is set up completely different than all the Trader Joe's I've been in).

definitely doing it next!

nice!

ohhh i see! cool that they are both so close!

omg thanks for noticing! I guess i didn't mess up this day hahaha

no...it's ALWAYS been the case for me at Kroger, Meijer, Sprouts, Albertson's. I can get all my stuff there, even pet food and litter! But Aldi DOES get it right in the staples department that's for sure.

@@TheSimpleEnvironmentalist It's great that you have all of those stores near you, and that you can get everything you need in any one of them, but is it always for the best price? Do all of those stores (if they carry all of the same items) have everything priced exactly the same as one another? Do they all run the same sales and offer the same coupons at the same time every time?... I don't have any of those chains in my area, I have Stop & Shop and Key Food, and I can get everything at either one, but It won't always be at the best prices, E.g. Key Food has a quart of Land O'Lakes half and half for $5.99 and Stop & Shop has it for $4.49, but if I go to the wholesale club (BJ's) I can get it for it for $2.99 and they frequently have a $1 off coupon when you buy two, at least if I go to BJ's I pass two Stop & Shops and an Aldi on the way home, and Key Food is four blocks from my house in the opposite direction, I work relatively close to where BJ's is (one exit past work) and one of the Stop & Shops is right at the highway exit where I get on to go home, so at least as far as gas is concerned, I'm not really burning much, or any extra most of the time. I think shopping habits are definitely, at least in part affected by location, I don't know where Kroger, Meijer, Sprouts, Albertson's, or Aldi are located in correlation to your location, but In my case I pass multiple stores every day traveling between home and work, additionally I think shopping, especially out of the bounds of the day to day can be circumstantial, like how you only needed one potato or didn't need a whole bag of lemons, but if you needed to make mashed potatoes for a large gathering, or wanted to make homemade lemonade (not that you specifically want/need to, and without knowing your/anyone else's location in correlation to stores) one may opt to go to Aldi because a bag of potatoes and a bag of lemons may cost less than whatever other stores in the area are selling similarly weighted items for, another example of circumstances in my case (before the cat died) by weight I was typically able to get a better price on cat litter at BJ's, but my cat didn't like any of the brands/types of litter that they sold, I would get the litter that she liked at Stop & Shop, but I would try to only buy it and stock up when it was on sale, but sometimes it wasn't and sometimes they were out of it, Key Food regularly stocks a brand that's similar enough, so I would sometimes have to get it there ( I'd stock up when they had sales too) ... I guess what I'm getting at, and the point of all of my rambling is that though it's definitely convenient and potentially less wasteful to get everything all in one place, those dollar amounts are representations of the energy that we've expended through work, so saving money on what we buy is being energy efficient and sustainable, however, if you had to drive out of your way to go to multiple stores (which I don't) the fule to cost savings ratio may impact the overall benefits.

partially a dud but I did notice similar themes to another Aldi I tried nearer a big city

thank you for your continued support!

no I said NO tofu which was a big shame!

sounds like a US problem once again...that's great for you!

great to hear!

yup same

THANK YOU!

I love them!

it's not a perfect store but I love a family-owned biz!