Aldi coming to Adelaide !!! (61)

dont go to Aldi at peak times, ie Saturday mornings the queue can be long

but..

their gourmet ice cream is loverly!

it can take a bit of time to get used to the way the store is laid out but each store is the saem so once you master the layout it becomes a lot easier.

if you like particular brands you will struggle, but also if you like to try different foods there is always a good selection. Pestos and tapanades, to european biscuits and lots of others.

I still find the negativity amazing .They will open from what I have heard in exsisting shopping centres hell Woolies is closing in Port Adelaide !!! There is one space .
I live in Richmond in Adelaide we have woolies at Hilton Coles at kuralta park anzac highway .Then 2 minutes drives from one coles is another coles on the corner of marion rd and anzac highway a couple more minutes up marion rd is another coles .
Henley bch rd has drake supermarkets some are foodlands and some are IGA's 3 in total.Burbridge rd has another Drake Foodland which is that small it can open from 7.30 am 7 days .Lets remember in Adelaide sunday shopping starts at 11am!!
Yep bring Aldi in drag prices down create jobs .And Adelaide people still say no !!!
And that idot senator Xenophon he was is against pokies when they came I could afford the cheap meals they brought !!And he is against Alidi for god sake Adelaide grow up!!!

Don`t be surprised if they don`t have everything you need, as you will probably still need to go to one of the other supermarkets.

Meh its ok BJSSSS I go to Woolies,Coles,foodland and rite price (near or out of date stuff) most saturdays .
Its the fact that either one or two dont have what i needat the right price !!!

Aldi has nearly everything people need. They may not have the brand or the size you want but that is their policy of providing the goods at the lowest price they can obtain.

Aldi has about 1500 items on the shelves (excluding the "sales" items).

Coles and Woolies have at least 10,000 items in stock, often more. Yes, they have 5 different dog foods in 5 different sizes, each brand. Yes, they have 5 different Weetbix in 5 different sizes, in 3 brands. Yes, they have 5 different Corn Flakes in 5 different sizes, in 5 brands. Wait until you see the muesli range.

I like my Nescafe Instant coffee. I don't buy Pablo, Bushels, Royal or Black & Gold because I know what Nescafe is and how I like to make it. And do love my Robert Timms Coffee Bags.

I know I can buy cheaper at Aldi but I am after the brands I enjoy and know, and do thank Aldi for making the traditional supermarkets lower their prices to compete.

Well, here is my take on Aldi.

Before they entered the Australian market the big two ripped off consumers as much as they wanted. There was no competition. Once Aldi came to our suburb our grocery bill dropped by at least $50/week for the family, and we only bought stuff we liked from Aldi.

However, they sell a lot of crap. Avoid their brand of technology as fire. I took back just about everything I bought from them except for a drawing tablet, which works OK, but not a good quality.

They sell cheap TVs with very low specs and as I heard the warranty service is shocking. When I shopped around for a washing machine I read the stories of people who bought washing machines from Aldi which developed a computer fault. And the nightmare these people had to go through to get them serviced!

I bought a 16MP digital camera. Took it back straight away, the images in full size looked like paintings, the camera had such a small sensor and low quality lenses.

The other problem is their specials. A few months ago I lined up for 45 minutes for an Android tablet they advertised even on TV. They only had about six (yes, SIX) tablets in the whole store and were sold out in seconds. Then they took names of people who wanted them. Bait advertising? I put my name down, they said I would get one in 30 days, but after more than 2 and a half months they called me about it and I said, thank you, but no, thank you. By that time Google released their tablet for the same price with much better quality and specs.

My other issue with them is if they have a good product you like, a few weeks later they change it to crap. They keep changing suppliers I suppose because of price. They don't care about quality. The toilet paper is cheaper than at Coles or Woolies, but they are unusable as they fall apart in your hand, you need to use twice as much. The breakfast cereal was great until one day the next lot I bought was tasteless. They regularly have rotten vegetables and fruit left on trays. The milk bottles regularly leak when you lay them down in the fridge.

One good thing until they change supplier. Their Brasilica coffee. The best I have tasted.

Fruit and veg must be universal I've bought apples from coles that were like malteasers fine on the outside rotten in the middle!!Woolies had rotten red pears fine on top mouldy green on the bottom!!
So all 3 are bad hey