My German Husband Shops at LIDL in the USA! 

Have you been to a LIDL before? Is this one similar or different to the one near you? 🤔🍞🛍

I think LIDL is a good addition to the US supermarket landscape. It is definitely an americanized version but it brings some affordability to some basic foods including the bakery section! :)

Donut with a treat 🦟 Those custard tarts are from Portugal, Lidl exported the idea to the US. Those US Lidl's are also different from the ones in Portugal, they are much larger and spacious.

I live in Finland and I love Lidl. I often shop at Lidl because the prices are lower than your finnish shops and they also sell a lot of products from Finland. But the most thing I love about Lidl is that there are products that are GMO free. As a vegan this is very satisfying. Also they sell other items such as tools, clothes, hiking stuff for quite a good quality and low price. Thank you Germany for this shopping opportunity.

I really don't get the lazy attitudes so many have about returning the carts to the designated areas. I, for one, won't park near an area in a parking lot where there are a lot of abandoned carts. I'd prefer not to have my car dinged up by carts rolling into it. I always return my carts, even if I have to walk a bit extra...which I do, since I park further away from the stores and cart return stalls.

We have enjoyed the bakery at LIDL. We don't have one where we live but there is one close to our daughter's in Staten Island, New York. I saw you bought the egg tarts; those tasted good. We also bought some of the cookies; chocolate chip and macadamian nuts; also very good. We will definitely be trying more next time we visit; I'll have to try the hazelnut croissants.

I had to laugh at the generated closed captions... "Aldi and Lethal grocery stores"

I have an Aldi about a mile from me. It does have the carts that take a quarter, but it is very, very small compared to the Lidl in this video and it doesn't have a bakery. There are a few things there that I love and buy regularly; they have a breaded, uncooked and frozen pork schnitzel that is absolutely awesome. But unfortunately, like a lot of other things at this Aldi, they don't always have them. The last time I made some (in the oven) I made mushroom gravy and so I had jagerschnitzel and mashed potatoes with the gravy...delicious!!!!

We LOVE Lidl!!! It's so much cheaper and the quality is great!! But ours doesn't have a self checkout... 😔

There are some stores here in the Stuttgart area that do have self-checkout. Like the REWE store near the Stuttgart Airport (Leinfelden-Echterdingen) has six self checkouts or the Selgros wholesale warehouse adjacent to the airport runway (Filderstadt) that has two self-checkout points. I live near a Lidl, REWE, and a Netto Discount markt and they sadly don't have self-checkouts there.

I live in South Carolina, and I enjoy shopping at Lidl here.

Lidl in the Netherlands uses self check-out everywhere, very cool.

I have a few Lidl near me and on way to work as well. Love it as I can do a good week shop for near half of what wife would spend elsewhere. Also we have the coin system.

Live in the Pacific Northwest and we don’t have Aldi or Lidl here. I shop at Winco; the most reasonably priced in my area.

I'm not aware of any Lidl stores in Minnesota, so far we have Aldi which is expanding. You might want to see if there is a discount grocery store. You just have to be careful on the fresh fruit. I really like Aldi, I first encountered it in Germany when visiting relatives. I always have a quarter in my auto.

Love the channel and the cheapest store I've gone to is a 99 cent store has name brands of soup ,ramen, tuna and sausage and bread , 2nd Walmart and Frys market have a great one folks always a pleasure to watch!🙂🤙🤙🤙

I went to one in North Carolina when I was visiting on Memorial Day. Seems similar to the one that you visited in the video. No bags unless you pay for the reusable ones. I don’t go to Walmart. I would go to Lidl if they had one near me.

No LIDL in MN as far as I know, but I love Aldi and yes, they have the coin in the shopping cart.

I love Lidl! We have them here in Hampton Roads (Virginia Beach). MWR have quite a few of them in the metro along with Aldi. I believe we were the the first metro to get Lidl in 2018. I prefer it over Aldi.

1 of the 3 Netto-Marken Discount in my city here in Germany has a self-checkout (2 actually) but nobody is using them and mainly cause its confusing because they put a sticker that says you should allways ask for a staff/cashier ... wich is weird because it defeats the purpose of checking out on your own ... I noticed it some days ago as a elderly woman read the sticker and was confused and than asked her husband if he knew what that means and he said "isn't that the same as a normal cashregister than?" and so both at the end lined up behind me at the regular checkout. I also saw this (with 3 self-checkouts) in a Rossmann in another city and I also used it, but many people still don't like to pay with their cards so that Rossmann tried to encurage people if they can than they should try to self-checkout and only use the normal checkout if they can't use a card (as for example kids can't pay with a card)

Aldi in Brooklyn has coin shopping carts as well. I think it's pretty much all Aldi's. Kinda shocked about Lidl. However if a store is somewhere that carts rarely go missing maintaining the coin things wouldn't be worth it.

Every lidl store i was it was beautiful

We go to both ALDI and Lidl. But more to the Aldi because it’s closer. For bread definitely Lidl

I discovered Lidl during the pandemic. Brand new down here in Georgia right south of Atlanta. Love it. Compared to Aldi it is a bit bigger built not overwhelmin.I told my mom we have specific stores we go for different things so we often have a Lidl list. My only concerns are wishing (even without the pandemic) that they had doors on the bakery goods especially the ones not in boxes like pretzels and croissants as I saw a fly in that segment of the video. I also wish to know if you can return items if you get the wrong one. In the US we have a customer service area. Unless we get in line to return items which seems like it would back up cashiers. All in all. Love the store. I hope one gets built closer to me as 20 mins is a stretch but it is worth it especially for meat products. Also, lucky our store for the most part ppl put the carts back. I wish our Lidl had self checkout.

LIDL apparently is eyeing Canada with their first store opening next year in 2022. I remember them while I visited Köln. I frequented REWE because it was close to my hotel. We'll see how they fare once they open in Canada. As for shopping carts: I agree. I cannot stand the wayward carts left recklessly in the parking lots. It's an issue here too. Self checkouts. I am not a fan ... but that being said it is not going to stop the proliferation of them. I still prefer dealing with a real human. I noticed in Amsterdam, that many of the Dutch did not like the self checkouts; of course not speaking on behalf of all Dutch people, but the people I encountered at the Dirk outlets, were vocal regarding their dislike of them. Always a pleasure to watch your videos.

Love it here in landsdown

I love Lidl. Great prices on organic foods. Quality produce.

Great video! I noticed that since the Panera started, my local Lidls & Aldis in the Southeastern US still have the coin system. However, some of the stores stopped connecting the carts together. Probably to cut down on touch transmission. And now it seems shoppers have continued that.

We also have Lidl in Bulgaria and here it is also a fair priced shop.

I’ve been to a few Lidl and Aldi’s in Europe and I’m always happy to find one to get some bread.

Wait you pick up the bread with your hands?? In the netherlands lidl got some shovel for it, you pushed it to side it drops in the middle and you can pick it up.

Hello, Thanks for the video. Too bad, but I do not think Lidl implemented in the West Coast. There are now if I am not wrong only on the East coast

Cheap grocery stores in the US really depends on where you are in the US. On the west coast you have a hard time finding a Aldi, but there's Trader Joe's (vice versa on the east cost - both chains are Aldi owned, but as usual it's Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd). I have yet to see a Lidl on the west coast of the US. We do have other chains on the west coast that are cheap on groceries. Favorites include Grocery Outlet, 99 Cent Stores, Walmart and Trader Joe's. There are a few Aldi's in Southern California. 99 Cent stores are by far the cheapest - they sell the kind of produce other stores don't accept like crucket cucumbers etc. So you can really score in the "dollar store for groceries" if you don't mind a bag of something that has imperfections. For the most part, if you really want to save money you have to know what is cheap where. Every chain focusses on different items as customer magnets. I usually hop to the 99 cent store to see what they have in produce, then hop to a grocery outlet which in my case is right next door and see whether they have good sales like a pound of Salami for $1.99 or a jar of Hengstenberg Sauerkraut for $1. Right now they have 8lbs of whole wheat flour for 4.99 and that from a good manufacturer. Then I hit Walmart for some things (not great in my area) and Trader Joe's has good quality items all around for a reasonable price - they don't do sales, they have low prices for good quality for the most part. You can also find things in a TJ's that no other store carries because a TJ is essentially all store brand (most imported and no genetically engineered items anywhere in the store). They essentially cater to the healthy hippy crowd on the west coast. Then of course watch sales because the regular grocery chains like Safeway, Kroger or Vons all have below cost sales on some items to lure people in. Safeway for example sells meat real cheap every now and then - like $2.99 for a pound of sirloin or new york steak if you buy 5 lbs or so. I stock up on those sales and make sure to only buy the sale item because everything else in the store costs more than elsewhere.

We now do most of our shopping at Aldi. They have great prices but they are often out of sale items and sometimes regular priced things as well. This is particularly true for the non-food Aldi Finds. Local Aldi stores do not sell beer even though it is permitted and other groceries in the area do (wine cannot be sold in groceries here). The stores tend to be dark and dingy although some remodeling has recently taken place. I would love to see a Lidl here but they are still moving along the coast and we are several hundred miles inland.

Totally agree about the lack of quality bakeries in the U.S..

Yes we have lidl in france

That donut with the fly on it looks amazing 🤤

1:19 there is flies on the donut 🍩!

No LIDL in California. But we do have Aldi and Trader Joe’s so, I’m not complaining.

1:19 Hello little fly

Aldis is smaller than Lidl, and they have the coin carts.. and they may be a little cheaper, depends on what you want..

Lidl and Prisma were my favorite supermarkets in Europe, followed by Coop... Here in the US we have no Lidl or Prisma nearby... I find Aldi overpriced (at least here in FL). The Lidl bakery in the video looks amazing!

Aldi Nord is trader joe's in the US.

I loved the discount German groceries, they were great in Germany, but I don’t like the USA ALDI so much and have not been to LIDL USA. My aunt made sure that I brought back a bag of LIDL Spätzle and some chocolate. told her it was 39 cents and good chocolate was super cheap too. Most German Americans replaced their German diets with American food except sauerkraut and brautwurst and liverwurst but I wish that the German grocery store took over just so you could get some decent cheeses. But really these German companies should get a clue and do it. The polish grocery stores in the Chicago area import all this great polish and Eastern European foods, I think a German LiDl or Penny would be very popular in American small towns with large German populations. Also Must add that the discount off brand liquor of Lidl would also be very popular in the USA if they kept near the same price. Obviously USA taxes it. But the off brand Jägermeister would be popular here. It was only 5 Euro so even if it was $10 or less imported people would buy it and consider it „special“. I liked the cheaper brands better than Jägermeister to be honest.

Watching this in 2024 and sadly realizing that by now in Germany self-checkouts are everywhere and still they are hated by every single store/company and about to vanish again 😭

I had no idea we had LIDL in the States. Where I live we only have ALDI.

i seen tht fly 🪰 on the tht frosterd donut lol

Only Aldi in CT, and they're too small in my opinion. Great video, I always enjoy watching you!

Milka is hard to find in the usa

who noticed that housefly in doughnut??

How is nobody discussing the fly at 1:19 ?

My local Walmart got rid of Ritter Sport. 😭

Too bad (or to good from the family point of view) Lidl is still in private hands. I would love to own me some Lidl stocks!!

Very expensive compared to UK Lidl

I think prices must change from region to region within the US. Those prices are expensive for my region; Walmart is way cheaper here. What are the prices at Walmart for those items in your region? Without a direct comparison, "it's expensive" or "it's cheap" isn't reliable.

So einen großen LIDL haben wir hier in Ostholstein auch.

Habe Duetschland vor 25 Jahren verlassen, und bei Aldi und Norman eingekauft. Hier (CA) gibt es nur Trader Joes, kein Aldi, kein Lidl.

I have not been to LIDL but we have ALDI here in Pennsylvania. I don't really go there though but last time I did they had coin carts. Also I work in a mom & pop bakery. We mix, form, proof and bake bread daily and they have been in business for almost 40 years We also have everything under the sun including many German items as the owner is 3rd gen baker whos family originated from Germany. He still uses his grandpas recipes for many items like the Stollen he makes at Christmas. I'm really enjoying the American series of videos.

I started shopping at Aldi when I first moved to the US (Toledo, OH) in 1997. Aldi has been one of main grocery stores then. When I first moved down to Atlanta, GA in 2002, my husband would make fun of me, saying that I was the only IBMer who shopped at Aldi:-) Hey, it helped (in some small ways) us pay off two houses in 5 years!

I am such a fan of Lidl. I use to go to Aldi but Lidl hands down. Wonderful quality in the baked goods, vegetables, fruits, meat, fish, and their organic selections along with the price is a welcome change in the supermarket environment in the states. Anytime I see a Lidl I make a point to check out the store. That's how hard core I am about this German import. And I wish we carried even more imported foods because that is where the quality lies in my opinion.

I hate when people don’t return the carts. I live in Korea now, and we had the coin system when I arrived in 2012. They stopped that 2-3 years ago.

They finally built an ALDI near my Wal Mart! I love the ALDI! But I also love the effect on Wal Mart, their prices dropped immediately!

Can't relate about your video content now but just wanna say you guys always entertain me. Please continue uploading contents that are not only satisfying to watch but also filled with positivity. 💕😊

We have Aldi here and I go once a month and stock up. I also do a Walmart pick-up and get produce at farm stands. I lived in Germany growing up and my son just came back after being a student there for 5 months. I find German produce, bread, dairy and deli items to be cheaper than here and better quality for the money. Pork and fish is generally a tiny bit cheaper in Germany. Chicken and beef are definitely more in Germany than here. Beef is usually a lot more.

Authentic (ie. German owned) German bakeries in the US can be very pricey, gourmet oriented, and often worth it. Fresh bread will be $5-7 a loaf, pies $20-30, cookies about $30 for a large box, black forest cake $65-70 before any custom icing.

Lidl's bakery looks great, I've never been to any but after seeing the food and I have to try it out here. Thanks for the great video

I love Lidl grocery store! I just wish they would have Milka chocolate and the ALDI store near me does have the coin slot but the Lidl doesn’t unfortunately

I've always found Walmart and Target to be far more expensive than the local chains.

4L ice cream? Yes please! =)

Hope you's try out Wegmans. One of the best grocery stores.

😮 wow, There’s still good content on the internet

I live in New Zealand and I found an amazing German bakery. They have the bretzels, the kaiser rolls the rye rolls and something called Gassenhauer Bread. The owner is German with 40 years of experience baking.

Aldi in the US is owned by Aldi Süd. The Aldi Nord presence in the US is Trader Joes.

I stole from this store once... But then I SAID "In Business they say a motto or a slogan says A LOT... But here in our store, we like to say a Lidl"..." They laughed so hard they forgave me for stealing...

If you want to know why chicken is so cheap in the USA ? Read up on CHLORINATED chicken and WHY it has to be chlorinated. I doubt you want to eat American chicken afterwards unless it is organic of course :) !

Nice lidl in America !?!?

In Germany at LIDL we have Awesome Crossaints with Ham and Cheese Filling Delicious.

7:45 husbands talking with their mouths full is a universal language

Meat that cheap almost always means low quality as well as very poor standards regarding the welfare of animals

Regarding the size of the supermarkets and thus the more relaxed feeling when you go shopping, I am very positively surprised. European cities are often too cramped to allow for such buildings. Even if there is space, supermarkets tend to be not that big. Prices seem very competitive, even slightly cheaper than in Europe. Packaging of items could be much improved to produce less waste.

Me who has been shoppin at lidl/aldi since birth. "Your intellect is my common sense" - European

A TON of LIDLs have been opening up across the US. Especially in the NJ, NY, CT area. I think they saw the large success of Costco’s expansion around the US and saw the gap in the market for cheap groceries besides Trader Joe’s. They will do very well

Him: *Proceeds to say "Berliner"* Me from Berlin: *So you have chosen death...*

Suggestion: If we don't use coin system, then we should switch to credit card system who would make it necessary to return the cart to a correct place in order to get the credit card back.

you are making me hungry! I've been to a Lidl that just opened about half an hour away, just found out there will be a Lidl opening 10 minutes away, SOOOO EXCITED!! :)

We don’t have LIDL in California,as far as I know. A gallon of milk is never cheaper then $2.89 uSD. The good brands would be around $5. We also don’t have or I’ve never seen them,those pizza bread sticks.

LIDL hat sich in den letzten Jahren extrem entwickelt in Deutschland! Tolles breites Sortiment, immer mehr Bio! Gehe immer zu LIDL! Interessant zu sehen, wie die Läden in 🇺🇸 aussehen! Ist definitiv nochmal ein riesigen Unterschied, aber es gibt einfach unterschiedliche Standards und Wünsche ☺️ Danke für den coolen Einblick 👍🏽👍🏽

The second Lidl store in the US is near me. Having been in their stores in Romania and Germany, I was shocked how big the store was. I found the prices to be lower then the local grocery chains and forced then to lower their prices on eggs, bread and many other items. Over time they have started carrying name brands like Lays chips, for half the price I will buy the Lidl brand. Love your channel and energy.

I’m a BIG fan of ALDI’s 25-cent shopping cart corral rental return; it’s efficient + keeps its carts form dinging parked cars. I wish LIDL had the same system. Too many lazy Americans can’t return their shopping carts.

Never been to a Lidl but there is an Aldi near me. They are small and streamlined, they keep the coin system for the carts, they charge for grocery bags, and other things that make them stand out from most grocery stores.

Seeing the prices makes me jellous. In New Zealand most things cost 2-10x the amount. Chicken thighs are about $10 usd a kilo with skin and bone and $17 without

Pretzel Roll, im Deutschen Raum das Laugenbrötchen ist tatsächlich das beste aus Lidl Backtheke. Ich schwöre darauf.

I'm jealous of your chicken price, but mostly that you can actually buy chicken thighs. That cut of meat does not exist where I live in Germany. I can of course cut up a chicken myself but the thigh part is so tiny it is only a couple bites of food. Americans used to love chicken breasts but they've switched over to appreciating the juicier thigh meat and cooking it is fail-safe because you would have to try really hard to overcook it. I cook a lot and most of the online recipes I find, and chefs I watch, call for thigh meat. Probably in about 10 years Germany will realize this and start offering chicken thighs (bone-in, or boneless/skinless) in grocery stores. And yes I've been to the butcher and bought them, but what I got back was a bunch of tiny pieces with little bone splinters throughout, for 11 Euros, 2009 price.

The milk and chicken are dirt cheap...great buy 😋

Costco is cheaper than Lidl (for items you can/like to buy in bulk) and Costco's quality is very high...some of the Aldi/Lidl items are not well made. (The Lidl US headquarters is in Arlington, VA - about 1.5 miles from the new Amazon HQ and the Pentagon.)

That Lidl's layout and size though the US one seems to be a bit bigger) is much like the new Lidls being built in Italy. We have a bunch of the older Lidls however they have been expanding in Italy and building stores like this American one. I think this is Lidl's new standard layout for stores as even the building design is the same. The newest Lidls also have that self check out you used.

We have about 5 Aldis in town. I seldom go there because I like other stores better. Plus they are closer to where I live. I can find some German products at a huge store that's only a local one but they are very cheap. No LIDLs even close to Wis. I'd check it out if we did get one.

+1 for saying "US" and not "America".

I adooooooore Lidl bakery 🥰

We have lidl and aldis. We shop at aldis once a week. Lidl once a month. We hate wallyworld but sometimes you have to depending on what you need