Aldi was recently named the 2018 Retailer of the Year by Supermarket News. This award recognizes Aldi’s expansion across the U.S. and its efforts to provide a high-quality experience for shoppers with products that can only be found at Aldi while also offering good value. Aldi is a leader among…
Back in October of 2015, many of the credit card networks in the United States implemented what was known as an “EMV liability shift.” EMV, a chip standard originally named after the companies that developed it (Europay, Mastercard, and Visa), was a move away from the magnetic swiping that had been…
Earlier this week, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) a Washington, D.C.-based environmentalist organization, published an article entitled “Breakfast With a Dose of Roundup?“, which argues that unsafe levels of weed killer can be found in a number of oat cereals and granola bars. The herbicide, glyphosate, is manufactured by Monsanto under…
Last year, Aldi UK debuted a Wine Advent Calendar in its stores, selling it for £49.99, or £2 a bottle. In U.S. dollars, that comes out, in the current exchange rates, to around $63.50 per box, or $2.50 a bottle. The Wine Advent Calendars were popular, which is not a surprise given…
Anyone who shops at Aldi knows that its got its own culture, from the quarter system to the Swiss-Army-knife-workers. The store also has its own lingo, most obviously in the many house brands that sit on the shelves: Millville, Friendly Farms, Mama Cozzi’s, Nature’s Nectar, Little Journey … you get…
Aldi has been remodeling existing stores and opening new stores at a fast pace in recent years, and the company announced today that it is upping its game even more by increasing its selection of fresh food products. Customers will find more fresh, organic, and easy-to-prepare foods. Twenty percent of products…
Two years ago today, we started a blog dedicated to Aldi product reviews, news, and features, in large part because we realized we couldn’t find reviews of Aldi products ourselves. So we decided to try. Two years and over one million pageviews later, Aldi Reviewer (or, AR, as we’ve come…
UPDATE (11/27/18): The CDC issued a new warning two days before Thanksgiving 2018, documenting an outbreak of E. Coli in romaine lettuce. This is the second E. Coli scare of 2018, just seven months after the first one. We’ll periodically update this story as we learn more, but here’s what…
UPDATE (11/12/17): For various reasons, we have decided to remove our book from the Nook store. You can still find it on Kindle. Earlier this year, we launched our eBook, An Unofficial Guide to Shopping at Aldi: Tips, Tricks, & Resources. At the time, the book was a Kindle exclusive. No…
Aldi announced earlier this month that it now accepts contactless payment options, including Apple Pay and Android Pay. This is the second major payment change by the grocer in the last two years; in March 2016, Aldi began accepting credit cards. Now you can add compatible smartphones and other contactless…
