Small things can make a big difference in quality of life sometimes. Whether it’s healthy food, or a product that makes a task easier, or something that provides physical or mental comfort or social connection, we all look for things…
For a long time, Aldi was very particular about what forms of payment it accepted. Specifically, if you didn’t have cash, or maybe access to cash via a debit card, you were out of luck. This may have been due,…
Since we created Aldi Reviewer, we’ve received a steady stream of emails and comments from people who think that we’re Aldi. We’re not, and we say so all over our site: on our about page, in our disclosure policy page, and…
It took a while, but we’ve spotted Aldi self-checkout in the wild. This has been a long time in coming. Aldi first brought self-checkout to the United Kingdom around 2019. Two years later, in 2021, the grocer started piloting the…
Anyone with experience shopping in Aldi knows that there are two basic kinds of products: the things that are there all the time and things that are only there for a limited time. The things that are there all the…
Aldi is different from other grocers in a lot of ways. Quarters. Bagging your own groceries. Mostly house brands rather than national brands. Another difference? The distinct lingo the company uses. If you live in the United States, you hear…
We review a lot of Aldi products. We purchase each and every one of them out of pocket — Aldi does not send us products for review — and we spend considerable time putting them through the paces before our…
“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.” — Dr. Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park For better and for worse, the world has become increasingly automated. I’m not just talking about robots that…
Each time Aldi rolls out a new weekly ad, it’s a bit like Christmas to us. We find it fun to browse the Aldi ad page to see what’s coming up. For us, it’s not just personal, since we also…
The median age in the United States currently stands around 39 years old. If that’s you, it means you were born in or around 1984, grew up in the 1980s and 1990s, and came into adulthood just after the turn…
