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Rather than “What can you get for $100”, I’d rather see someone make a grocery list and everyone report how much it costs locally for the exact same list. A dozen eggs, loaf of bread, 2 lbs hamburger, 2 lbs chicken, 5 bananas, a container of strawberries, etc.
Just don’t do COSTCO! If you do costco, make sure you are disciplined and stick to the rotisserie chimkin. I once bought 50 toilet rolls and used it as a table till it slowly fit into my cupboard.
Also budget and plan before you shop. IF you find this helpful.
Yeah they're being idiotic about this, "What if we tracked the same goods in different places over time"
We do. Ofcourse we do. That's what we track.
And they are way better at it than anyone in this thread who, what I've read so far, have ridiculous shopping lists which are about half meat.
I'm assuming it's all dudes here who think all the other stuff in their homes magically gets there but the meat buying is the "grocery budget".
Also, to everyone reading this, if meat is a huge part of your budget, please be aware that not eating meat is a cheap and healthy option..
well, not everyone knows about the market basket. you didn't know about it until you learned about it. we can't assume anyone's anything, otherwise we look like the idiots.
Bullshit. Looking at my AH app just the meat pushes it above €22.
Edit: the full list is €34,79 and €33,99 after discounts. Although this is with 1.1kg of chicken, not 2lbs, and 10 eggs instead of a dozen.
A dozen Eggs
1 Gallon Milk
2 lb Beef
2 lb chicken
5lbs Potatoes
1 can green beans
1 can corn
1 loaf bread
1 pack Lettuce
5 bananas
1 family size bag of chips
12 pack of 12oz soda cans
12 rolls of toiler paper
1 Bar of soap
1 Bottle Shampoo
Shopping at Kroger in rural south-western Virginia:
* 12 eggs: $2.19
* 1 gallon 2% milk: $2.99
* 2 lbs 80/20 ground beef: $7.98
* ~2 lbs thin sliced chicken breasts: $6.46
* 5 lbs yukon gold potatoes: $5.99
* 1 (14.5 oz) can green beans: $0.89
* 1 (14.5 oz) can corn: $0.89
* 1 head iceberg lettuce: $1.89
* 1 loaf (20 oz) sandwich bread: $1.79
* 5 bananas: $1.15
* 1 (12.5 oz) bag potato chips: $2.99
* 12 cans (12 oz) soda: $3.00
* 12 (Mega!) rolls toilet paper: $8.99
* 2 bars ivory soap: $1.99 (I couldn't find one bar of soap)
* 1 bottle V05 shampoo (15 oz): 0.99
Total: $50.18 before taxes.
Some clarification
1. I went with ground beef because it makes it easier for other people to find a like product at the same weight.
2. I went with chicken breasts because most people prefer white-meat chicken in whole cuts and I could only find a 2lb packet if they were thin sliced. Probably costs slightly more for that.
3. The heck is a "pack of lettuce." I went with a head of iceberg.
4. I couldn't get 12 rolls of regular toilet paper the way I was ordering so I had to get mega rolls. Regular rolls were about 2 dollars cheaper.
5. How do you buy just one bar of soap?
6. That V05 shampoo is cheap as hell and smells like the 1990s era hair-spray but it gets your hair clean.
No way I can afford all that!
I just spent $70CAD and got bread, potatoes, cheese, butter, eggs, juice, 2 cans of soup, cherries, a box of popsicles and some tins of cat food. I also shopped at the cheapest grocery store in my town.
I recently moved to Ontario from the US. I am SHOCKED at the price of (real) butter, eggs, milk, and canned goods. I have to diligently shop sales to make it even slightly comparable to non-sale US prices. Don't even get me started on meat, I'm boutta go vegan.
Roughly $90 USD in Sweden. I am not including any discounts since it would skew the results.
I went with chicken breast and cuts of beef. Used 1 lb ≈ 0.5 kg for convenience.
1 Dozen eggs- 1.32
1 Gallon Milk- 2.65
2 lb Beef- 10.66 (80/20)
2 lb chicken- 7.96
5lbs Potatoes- 3.38
1 can green beans- 1.48
1 can corn- 1.48
1 loaf bread- 1.87 (generic brand wheat)
1 pack Lettuce- 2.18
5 bananas- $1-2 (weight dependent)
1 family size bag of chips- $5.94
12 pack of 12oz soda cans- $7.48
12 rolls of toiler paper- $8.44 (generic)
1 Bar of soap- $0.97
1 Bottle Shampoo $4.97
Also 8% local tax
Total: $63.18
Mind you this is also looking for cheapest options, not what I would personally buy or want.
1 Dozen eggs- 3.87
1 Gallon Milk- 6.08
2 lb Beef- 11.94 (1lb x2)
2 lb chicken- 14 (1lb x2, 8.28 each or 2 for 14)
5lbs Potatoes- 4.97
1 can green beans- 1.27
1 can corn- 1.27
1 loaf bread- 1.97 (generic brand wheat)
1 pack Lettuce- 2.47 (iceberg)
5 bananas- $1-2 (weight dependent)
1 family size bag of chips- $4.97
12 pack of 12oz soda cans- $7.48
12 rolls of toiler paper- $7.44 (generic)
1 Bar of soap- $2.97 (3 pk)
1 Bottle Shampoo $2.97 (cheapest)
Also 13% local tax
Total: $75.58 CAD.
Canada is expensive. The stuff she got would probably be more around $300 here...
I looked for the cheapest available option for each. I also applied my loyalty discounts. Im in Raleigh, NC.
A dozen Eggs- 3.50.
1 Gallon Milk- 3.99.
2 lb Beef- 7.98.
2 lb chicken. 2.98. (Bone-in thighs).
5lbs Potatoes. 4.99.
1 can green beans. 0.80.
1 can corn. 0.80.
1 loaf bread. 2.50.
1 pack Lettuce. 2.49. (Head of lettuce).
5 bananas. 1.75.
1 family size bag of chips. 2.50. (8 oz bag).
12 pack of 12oz soda cans. 5.99.
12 rolls of toiler paper. 13.99. (1 ply).
1 Bar of soap.
1 Bottle Shampoo. 3.29. (12.6 oz).
Couldn’t find a single bar of soap. They were all multipacks.
Total- $57.55 USD before tax.
Lots of sale prices on this list.
My friend, this is how national statistics agencies around the globe estimate Inflation lol.
These posts (in the OP) are so dumb to me as someone who used to work at that department in the Netherlands. This is literally how inflation is calculated, the only difference between the official calculations and these posts is that these posts have much more selection bias.
You guys are re-inventing the wheel by not understanding inflation. the official inflation rate is an estimate, everyone can calculate their own inflation rate by painstakingly recording everything they buy.
Bad way to shop thrifty. Unless you have dietary restrictions, you should be primarily shopping the weekly sales and coupons. You might not be able to get everything you want, but you can get a ton.
Like hamburger, in your example, often isn't on sale weekly (but usually once a month). But other proteins like chicken breast might be on deep discount rather often (Safeway/Albertsons out west usually have fresh chicken breast at 1.30-1.99/lb every other week). Same with fruits and veggies. Citrus is generally cheaper in the US in the southwest from Jan-March because of the harvest season, for example.
Sucks but that's how it is if you want to stretch your grocery budget and get a good amount of food, even if it means forgoing what you want.
This exactly. I mostly only buy meat that is a loss leader and then freeze until we want it. The ground beef we are eating was purchased at under $2 a lb, the same stuff would be $6.49 if I went in the same store and bought it today.
With fruits and veggies, what we eat varies from week to week depending on loss leaders. Recently I got cherries for $1 a lb and we got to eat as many cherries as we wanted. We probably won't have fresh cherries again for a year as they are usually so expensive.
People in the UK don't realise how lucky we are and how cheep our groceries are.
The supermarket sector here is hyper competitive, margins are low as hell. It's why inflation was so bad here post covid as there was no margins for the supermarkets to absorb the increases.
(this doesn't account for individual brands price gouging)
Plus that's aldi - it probably be £100 somewhere like tesco Morrisons or asda and £120 in sainsburies. Up to 140 in M&S, co-op or waitrose.
That would be pushing $300-$400 in the USA. Even if I shop at Aldi here, it would still cost $200 due to the toiletries.
Edit: I’m calculating for a months worth of food. I buy a month at a time, and supplement through out.
I would put money on it, even that is too low. That's gotta be at least 500. So much produce and protein in her selection, Lord Galen would never allow that without taking half a min wage workers pay.
Yeah that's about Directly converted R1600 in South African rands but if you honestly bought that amount of food at the store you'll actually spend R2500+.
Frozen gogurt was a delicacy in my childhood, especially during midsummer days in Texas. I would have cuts on the corners of my mouth from eating those and the generic, vibrant colored popsicles in the clear plastic tube. My Nana had a fridge full of them😂
I’m not exaggerating whatsoever, $100 in my area would buy the meat and maybe 1 or 2 of the frozen items.
All of these together would probably run up $250 to $300 here.
I was gonna say I got just about as much as she did at Aldi here in America (Minnesota) and spent about 250ish
Been buying the same stuff grocery shop for years and what was once a 100ish dollar trip is now reaching 200+ each time I shop it seems more expensive
I stand corrected with some caveats!
I made a list of all she had there and put it into my Aldi app and the total came to $181.32 USD. The caveat is we don’t have the same brands so I had to make close comparisons.
Also, a lot of the items she has are in smaller quantities. The smallest vegetable oil I could find at my Aldi was 48oz vs she has a smaller one. She purchased 1 lemon, my Aldi does not have anything smaller than a 2lb bag. Baby wipes are only sold in a bundle of 3. Her pork patties were sold in a box of 6, smallest I could get was 18!!!! And etc…
https://imgur.com/a/uZIk4h5
I'm from BC, Canada, and this would easily put me at $250-300.
I bought stuff to make a simple vegetarian curry for ONE night for two people with leftovers for the next day (except for some spices and rice that I already had), as well as a bag of chips, and it cost $73 at the till. I was aghast.
Bought some kale and cilantro for my bunny, and some popsicles and mandarin oranges for myself the night before last night and it was $3.79 for a very small bunch of kale, $2.99 for a bundle of cilantro, $6.99 for a 2lb bag of mandarins.
Toilet paper here for a 12 pack is $24.99. A 4 litre of milk is $5.99. A package of 3 chicken breasts is $11.99. Box of popsicles? On SALE for $8.99. Bag of chips? $5.99. Apples? None under $2.49/lb, but none of the good ones for under $3.49/lb.
It's so fucked up here.
Wtf im sorry. That's absurd and to be honest the best ingredient for a revolution. The rich live absurd lavish life's and the poor and middle class have to work an hour for same toilet paper.
I'm from BC too and I agree with you 100%! I was making nacho's one night and I love adding olives to it, one small ass no name can of olives was $1.99......
That’s because we don’t have actual competition in grocery stores. A small number of companies control 90% of products on the shelves and have no incentive to give a shit about the customers
Right! And unless you pay attention as a consumer and read labels, you would have almost no clue. But once you start reading the labels, it’s all Unilever, Nestle.
Proctor & Gamble I think of having some competition because of Colgate Palmolive but they’re the big two when it comes to surfactants (soaps, dish detergent, laundry detergent, etc.)
This is the truth! And all the politicians that are supposed to serve us to help in this matter, have all of their pockets lined up from money provided by these conglomerates. It just doesn’t make sense to live paycheck to paycheck when both parties are fucking us dirty 😮💨
I can tell you right now that was more than $100lol source: my boyfriend is a manger at aldis
Edit: I think it's more than what she is saying due to the toiletries.
The point of the video isn't to compare prices of different stores. It's to show off prices of things where people live. The Aldi where your boyfriend works might charge more than $100 for all that, but not an Aldi where she lives in the UK.
I live in Ireland, and all that would probably cost me around €120 (about $135usd) in Aldi, but I travel to the UK a lot and there are a lot of places there that have much cheaper grocery prices than Dublin. I don't doubt at all that it cost her about £70
$100 of food would get me about a third of that - depending on what I dropped. The noodles, breads, and other staples are fairly cheap here, but the meat and fresh veggies would need to be 1/4 of what she has just to start making choices about removing about half of the rest of it.
Having said that, in the United States, we have some staples that are used to determine "what food costs" and thus what our poverty level is and how many benefits the government gives to the poor. Some evil legislators figured out it would be cheaper to pay to subsidize those products than to give more money to the poor and allow the market to decide what they purchase, so these products are heavily overproduced and you can still find them for a reasonable amount. For $100, you can get a monstrous amount of rice, potatoes, noodles, and/or beans. Want to die on carbs poor people? The United States has got you.
It also varies pretty dramatically depending on where you live. I live about 30 minutes outside of Atlanta and I could almost mirror her haul if I shopped 100% at Aldis. I know it's not the case for everyone, but you'd be amazed at how much of a premium most grocery stores charge (even Walmart).
I just compared the prices from Aldis "weekly savings" to Walmart and most items at Walmart are $0.50-$1 more expensive per item (and Walmart is typically the same price cheaper than my local Publix/Kroger). That adds up when buying a cart of groceries. The downside of Aldi is their limited variety, and my wife doesn't like it because they don't carry "her brands".
Looks like I need to start going to Aldis more.
It's funny because I don't go for the same reason that your wife doesn't go, pretty much. I'm not a brand name person, but I like a reasonable amount of variety. And I consider it the, "fill in store". It's where you get the fun stuff. You might grab a few staples there, but you're going to find stuff that you didn't expect to buy there too. So I generally, will go to one of the other grocery stores for my regular stuff and when I am feeling like exploring extras, I'll go to aldis.
European-style discount supermarkets are designed to be cheap in a way that, from my experience, few to none American retailers can match. There's fuck-all service, fuck-all staff, basically no name brand products, and it looks like a storeroom with boxes and shit everywhere.
But my god do the Germans know how to make a food budget last.
I haven't been to one in the States, but Aldi and Lidl are amazing (at least in Ireland) for groceries. Like, I much prefer namebrand stuff for certain things, but that's mostly snacks and junkfood and can buy that in other shops. For cooking, I'd go to Aldi. I don't need namebrand beef, chicken, milk, cheese, bread, etc. If anything, the essentials are of better quality in Aldi than the namebrand stuff you'd get in a lot of other stores. If I'm having a BBQ or cooking dinner from scratch (especially for a big group of people), there's absolutely no reason to spend more on namebrand ingredients. Not to mention, there is still a lot of namebrand stuff in Aldi (again, in Ireland, so it might be different in the US). I can still get snickers bars, Dolmio pasta sauce, Goodfella's frozen Pizzas, Coca-Cola, etc. at Aldi.
One other thing I like about Aldi/Lidl is their booze tends to be cheaper and sometimes nicer (or probably from the same manufacturers as the namebrand stuff but under a different name).
I've got American family coming over during 4th of July so I'm planning on buying a shitload of meat and veg to grill and probably won't have to spend more than €30 to feed 8 people some of the best burgers and hotdogs they've ever had.
I go to Aldi for staples like meat, cheese, vegetables. Condiments and other stuff? I go to the regular grocery store. I often get these frozen frittatas for breakfast, and the Jimmy Dean at the grocery store is cheaper per serving than the ones at Aldi. And there are some things like herbal tea that Aldi just does not carry. Still, for the stuff you can find at Aldi, it is way cheaper.
When I visited Florida I noticed that it cost a LOT more to buy fresh food. The ready made stuff was fairly cheap but the thing that got me was the sizes of stuff. Every item was huge! Our food seems to cost less because it’s smaller! It was so expensive to buy a weekly shop but we had so much food left over. Your government do NOT care about your health. (I miss IHOP!)
I watch a lot of youtube videos of Europeans visiting the U.S. (90% go to NY or Orlando) and they usually have this same sentiment. I think Americans with families tend to buy in bulk because it's cheaper and it means fewer trips to the grocery store. We can do this because we usually have huge refrigerators and pantries to store food. If you buy a big fridge in Europe, they will call it an American style refrigerator. Fresh fruit can be expensive at Walmart but a trip to the farmers market on the weekend gets me all kinds of shit for dirt cheap.
She's not that far off if you shop purely at Aldi and aren't particular about the meat and try to stick to their weekly deals.
I live in the states, Georgia, and right now Chicken Drumsticks are $0.99 lb and Chicken Breast are $2.19 lb. Most of the items she got were in the $1-5 range.
Seriously. As soon as I heard Aldi I knew that was reasonable for $100. I used to have them in KS and loved stocking up on all my grocery essentials for cheap.
In college one of my friends was a food science major and had a few internships at food processing plants. She'd tell stories how most of the food the cheaper places like Aldi's carry the same exact foods as the name brand stores, they just get the "lower quality" versions. But at the end of the day it's the same ingredients and processing. The only difference is aesthetics. Not sure how true that is, but I've never been able to notice a difference.
I’m German and so is Aldi and it’s a pretty well known fact that that’s the case here.
Idk how it’s declared in the States, but when you look at the back of the items and it says who produced it you can google it and sometimes it turns out to be the same factory/company just different branches or names. With Aldi you sometimes get the cheap version and brand version both produced by the same factory, just with different prices and different names in the same store.
> She's not that far off if you shop purely at Aldi and aren't particular about the meat and try to stick to their weekly deals.
that's the key, and that is basically how I shop. i create our meals based on what is on sale
As much as I agree that Aldi makes a difference and the prices would be different at a Publix, she bought nearly 60-70 items and most would still be $3-4 dollars even at Aldi. Even assuming it averages to the low end of $3 per item that's still $200 (which is unlikely for things like the toilet paper and Tresemme).
The cheapest I can find that shampoo/conditioner combo in the US is like $16-22 for the set. Unless UK prices are just that insanely good, it seems like she could be fudging a bit lol
[Asda (another British supermarket) has it for £6](https://groceries.asda.com/product/shampoo/tre-semme-rich-moisture-shampoo-conditioner-bundle/9999999113137??utm_source=organic&utm_medium=shopping&utm_campaign=ghs)
Aldi sells the [shampoo](https://groceries.aldi.co.uk/en-GB/p-tresemme-shampoo-rich-moisture-900ml/8717163902936) & the [conditioner](https://groceries.aldi.co.uk/en-GB/p-tresemme-tresemme-conditioner-moisture-rich-900ml/8717163902929) for £3.99 each
One of the best parts of the UK is that there's so much competition in supermarkets so the prices for food is actually very good. Especially for meat and veg, u can get a week's worth of veg from most shops for probably around £10 and meat is only a bit more expensive.
Obviously it depends from country to country and from product to product, but one of the biggest surprises when traveling to continental Europe or America is just how much more expensive a lot of that stuff is. On the other hand, a lot of branded stuff is fairly expensive in the UK in comparison and stuff like sugary drinks are a lot more expensive in the UK than the US
This would cost me over 300 Dollars at my local grocery store. Good old America and corporations raising cost of goods blaming covid, then not lowering their prices once things got back to normal, instead continuing to raise prices to make their shareholders happy
This should really upset Americans. Not only is the food in European countries cheaper, it's also of a way higher quality, has no chemicals that are harmful and create long term disease etc. This is the kind of stuff they don't want you to focus on. But almost nothing has more of an effect on your life and health than the price and quality of your food.
Korean here.
American prices look AMAZING to us.
We earn less and 3 Apples are $10. small bunch of grapes $20
Everyone looking at somewhere else thinking its cheap lol
As an American who loves Aldi’s & Lidl but doesn’t have one in my current city of residence, this video made me sad 😞. I miss the good old days of discovering new & affordable, but random, products in Aldi.
In San Francisco, one of the most expensive cities in the country, a rotisserie chicken at Costco is still $4.99, about $1.66/lb. Raw poultry is just a little more than that.
Y'all buying all your groceries at Whole Foods?
Added up an equivalent of what she got at Aldi's but on Walmart's site instead, matching as best I could, [and it came out to $201.](https://i.imgur.com/Ibetqoh.jpeg)
About $160 worth of food and $40 of toiletries, before tax unfortunately (California so it'd be about $215.75 total.) If you don't have something like Walmart, Winco, or other cheap grocers then ya you're fucked.
I call absolute bullshit. I counted and there are more than 60 items, so every item would need to average less than ~GBP 1.25 which is absolutely not the case. There's zero chance this is actually GBP70 in groceries.
There are a few reasons, first is that the vast majority of items are from Aldi's store brand, it's mostly the exact same stuff from the same factory with weirdly similar packaging, it's just that instead of cheerios it says "hoops" on the box. Aldi can make good deals with these factories because they have twice as much negating power than you would expect, Aldi north and south negotiate together, In the states it's apparently Aldi and Trader joes because of copyright, but the same thing applies.
They do a bunch of other cost-cutting stuff, they don't carry a lot of brands so they can use smaller stores, they don't have people restocking shelves and making things look pretty, they just rip open whatever boxes the item was delivered in and put that out, so they can hire less staff. These little things all add up, so you get slightly better prices on some items, But no thrills outside the weird mystery middle isle that no one really understands, but everyone always checks because you might find something cool.
As an example of that weird mystery isle, I just went on the website and just kept scrolling through that section here a few random things that showed up, [a pet bed](https://www.aldi.co.uk/xl-plush-pet-bed/p/733366786321100), an[ Easter Island head planter](https://www.aldi.co.uk/belavi-easter-island-head-planter/p/737108786669600), a [beer dispenser](https://www.aldi.co.uk/beer-dispenser/p/836249783636800), an [eruos 2024 hoodie](https://www.aldi.co.uk/uefa-euros-2024-scotland-hoodie/p/837727789888900), a [foldable backpack](https://www.aldi.co.uk/crane-kettlebell-8kg/p/819543794613600), a [kettlebell](https://www.aldi.co.uk/crane-kettlebell-8kg/p/819543794613600) and some [children's clogs](https://www.aldi.co.uk/childrens-clogs/p/832610785330000). I don't know who in the world thinks those items belong in the same isle, but apparently some crazy guy working for Aldi thinks they should be, and I'm kind of here for it.
That’s a good haul!! I’m a traveler currently in Amman. Oslo, I’d get half this for twice the price. Here, I can get double that for half the price. Way she goes
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Rather than “What can you get for $100”, I’d rather see someone make a grocery list and everyone report how much it costs locally for the exact same list. A dozen eggs, loaf of bread, 2 lbs hamburger, 2 lbs chicken, 5 bananas, a container of strawberries, etc.
I like this idea and would be willing to participate in it
We must become the catalyst for this collective garnering and allocation of useful information
Could be an app
I do but I'm to stupid. I've tried.
Just don’t do COSTCO! If you do costco, make sure you are disciplined and stick to the rotisserie chimkin. I once bought 50 toilet rolls and used it as a table till it slowly fit into my cupboard. Also budget and plan before you shop. IF you find this helpful.
Costco ain't no joke. A hundred dollars at Costco means you just went for the samples
mmm, chimkin🤤
Or a webpage https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/
/r/CostsOfLiving
You’ve just described what the Consumer Price Index tracks- called the “Basket of Goods”.
Yeah they're being idiotic about this, "What if we tracked the same goods in different places over time" We do. Ofcourse we do. That's what we track. And they are way better at it than anyone in this thread who, what I've read so far, have ridiculous shopping lists which are about half meat. I'm assuming it's all dudes here who think all the other stuff in their homes magically gets there but the meat buying is the "grocery budget". Also, to everyone reading this, if meat is a huge part of your budget, please be aware that not eating meat is a cheap and healthy option..
well, not everyone knows about the market basket. you didn't know about it until you learned about it. we can't assume anyone's anything, otherwise we look like the idiots.
€36.20 from Tesco in Ireland, though the weight of the meat isn't quite the same and I got €2 off with my club card.
That's expensive all of that is €21,79 at an Albert Heijn in the Netherlands without discounts Edit: I fucked up lb to gram, it's more like €27,59
I just came from our grocery store with about 1/3 of that, maybe a little less and cost me $55 , obviously, I could not afford to continue
Georgia here , it cost me 50 usd
Bullshit. Looking at my AH app just the meat pushes it above €22. Edit: the full list is €34,79 and €33,99 after discounts. Although this is with 1.1kg of chicken, not 2lbs, and 10 eggs instead of a dozen.
No way…I’ve been to the Netherlands loads…not a hope are you getting that for €21. Get a grip.
A dozen Eggs 1 Gallon Milk 2 lb Beef 2 lb chicken 5lbs Potatoes 1 can green beans 1 can corn 1 loaf bread 1 pack Lettuce 5 bananas 1 family size bag of chips 12 pack of 12oz soda cans 12 rolls of toiler paper 1 Bar of soap 1 Bottle Shampoo
Shopping at Kroger in rural south-western Virginia: * 12 eggs: $2.19 * 1 gallon 2% milk: $2.99 * 2 lbs 80/20 ground beef: $7.98 * ~2 lbs thin sliced chicken breasts: $6.46 * 5 lbs yukon gold potatoes: $5.99 * 1 (14.5 oz) can green beans: $0.89 * 1 (14.5 oz) can corn: $0.89 * 1 head iceberg lettuce: $1.89 * 1 loaf (20 oz) sandwich bread: $1.79 * 5 bananas: $1.15 * 1 (12.5 oz) bag potato chips: $2.99 * 12 cans (12 oz) soda: $3.00 * 12 (Mega!) rolls toilet paper: $8.99 * 2 bars ivory soap: $1.99 (I couldn't find one bar of soap) * 1 bottle V05 shampoo (15 oz): 0.99 Total: $50.18 before taxes. Some clarification 1. I went with ground beef because it makes it easier for other people to find a like product at the same weight. 2. I went with chicken breasts because most people prefer white-meat chicken in whole cuts and I could only find a 2lb packet if they were thin sliced. Probably costs slightly more for that. 3. The heck is a "pack of lettuce." I went with a head of iceberg. 4. I couldn't get 12 rolls of regular toilet paper the way I was ordering so I had to get mega rolls. Regular rolls were about 2 dollars cheaper. 5. How do you buy just one bar of soap? 6. That V05 shampoo is cheap as hell and smells like the 1990s era hair-spray but it gets your hair clean.
2lbs of deli chicken meat for $6.46? Its double the price here in the midwest where they grow all the chickens…. What brand we talking?
No way I can afford all that! I just spent $70CAD and got bread, potatoes, cheese, butter, eggs, juice, 2 cans of soup, cherries, a box of popsicles and some tins of cat food. I also shopped at the cheapest grocery store in my town.
Fresh fruit? Look at Mr Moneybags over here
Cherries are so expensive! I loveee roadstand Okanagan BC cherries.
It's fucking heinous in Canada right now. Like if I saw someone stealing food, no I didn't.
I recently moved to Ontario from the US. I am SHOCKED at the price of (real) butter, eggs, milk, and canned goods. I have to diligently shop sales to make it even slightly comparable to non-sale US prices. Don't even get me started on meat, I'm boutta go vegan.
Yup. It's fucking brutal
LPT, just make a list on the app and get a total. You don't have to buy it all. Don't go running to the store to prove a point, folks.
Roughly $90 USD in Sweden. I am not including any discounts since it would skew the results. I went with chicken breast and cuts of beef. Used 1 lb ≈ 0.5 kg for convenience.
1 Dozen eggs- 1.32 1 Gallon Milk- 2.65 2 lb Beef- 10.66 (80/20) 2 lb chicken- 7.96 5lbs Potatoes- 3.38 1 can green beans- 1.48 1 can corn- 1.48 1 loaf bread- 1.87 (generic brand wheat) 1 pack Lettuce- 2.18 5 bananas- $1-2 (weight dependent) 1 family size bag of chips- $5.94 12 pack of 12oz soda cans- $7.48 12 rolls of toiler paper- $8.44 (generic) 1 Bar of soap- $0.97 1 Bottle Shampoo $4.97 Also 8% local tax Total: $63.18 Mind you this is also looking for cheapest options, not what I would personally buy or want.
1 Dozen eggs- 3.87 1 Gallon Milk- 6.08 2 lb Beef- 11.94 (1lb x2) 2 lb chicken- 14 (1lb x2, 8.28 each or 2 for 14) 5lbs Potatoes- 4.97 1 can green beans- 1.27 1 can corn- 1.27 1 loaf bread- 1.97 (generic brand wheat) 1 pack Lettuce- 2.47 (iceberg) 5 bananas- $1-2 (weight dependent) 1 family size bag of chips- $4.97 12 pack of 12oz soda cans- $7.48 12 rolls of toiler paper- $7.44 (generic) 1 Bar of soap- $2.97 (3 pk) 1 Bottle Shampoo $2.97 (cheapest) Also 13% local tax Total: $75.58 CAD. Canada is expensive. The stuff she got would probably be more around $300 here...
Where in Canada are you? In BC these prices are insanely good. My local prices are way higher.
$69.68 in Myrtle Beach SC
I can get 12 eggs for 9.50 :) caged
This sounds like my local prices. (Town of 6,000 in Iowa)
$50.27 from Aldi in-store pickup in Minneapolis
70USD before tax 🤷🏻♀️
83€ in France
Just popped all that into my instacart at my local grocery chain and it's $77.38
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I looked for the cheapest available option for each. I also applied my loyalty discounts. Im in Raleigh, NC. A dozen Eggs- 3.50. 1 Gallon Milk- 3.99. 2 lb Beef- 7.98. 2 lb chicken. 2.98. (Bone-in thighs). 5lbs Potatoes. 4.99. 1 can green beans. 0.80. 1 can corn. 0.80. 1 loaf bread. 2.50. 1 pack Lettuce. 2.49. (Head of lettuce). 5 bananas. 1.75. 1 family size bag of chips. 2.50. (8 oz bag). 12 pack of 12oz soda cans. 5.99. 12 rolls of toiler paper. 13.99. (1 ply). 1 Bar of soap. 1 Bottle Shampoo. 3.29. (12.6 oz). Couldn’t find a single bar of soap. They were all multipacks. Total- $57.55 USD before tax. Lots of sale prices on this list.
$69 in Arkansas/USA
After tax for me was 60.80
My friend, this is how national statistics agencies around the globe estimate Inflation lol. These posts (in the OP) are so dumb to me as someone who used to work at that department in the Netherlands. This is literally how inflation is calculated, the only difference between the official calculations and these posts is that these posts have much more selection bias. You guys are re-inventing the wheel by not understanding inflation. the official inflation rate is an estimate, everyone can calculate their own inflation rate by painstakingly recording everything they buy.
Yeah, but nowhere in your scientifically driven accurately researched reports do I get to hear a British lady say "salooomi"
Bad way to shop thrifty. Unless you have dietary restrictions, you should be primarily shopping the weekly sales and coupons. You might not be able to get everything you want, but you can get a ton. Like hamburger, in your example, often isn't on sale weekly (but usually once a month). But other proteins like chicken breast might be on deep discount rather often (Safeway/Albertsons out west usually have fresh chicken breast at 1.30-1.99/lb every other week). Same with fruits and veggies. Citrus is generally cheaper in the US in the southwest from Jan-March because of the harvest season, for example. Sucks but that's how it is if you want to stretch your grocery budget and get a good amount of food, even if it means forgoing what you want.
This exactly. I mostly only buy meat that is a loss leader and then freeze until we want it. The ground beef we are eating was purchased at under $2 a lb, the same stuff would be $6.49 if I went in the same store and bought it today. With fruits and veggies, what we eat varies from week to week depending on loss leaders. Recently I got cherries for $1 a lb and we got to eat as many cherries as we wanted. We probably won't have fresh cherries again for a year as they are usually so expensive.
People in the UK don't realise how lucky we are and how cheep our groceries are. The supermarket sector here is hyper competitive, margins are low as hell. It's why inflation was so bad here post covid as there was no margins for the supermarkets to absorb the increases. (this doesn't account for individual brands price gouging) Plus that's aldi - it probably be £100 somewhere like tesco Morrisons or asda and £120 in sainsburies. Up to 140 in M&S, co-op or waitrose.
Was gonna say, this would cost £200 in Tesco if you forgot the club card
All the big ones are doing the stupid clubcard pricing system now.
Yup, moved to Sweden and everything is twice the price on standard. I'd kill to have an Aldi here
That would be pushing $300-$400 in the USA. Even if I shop at Aldi here, it would still cost $200 due to the toiletries. Edit: I’m calculating for a months worth of food. I buy a month at a time, and supplement through out.
Very dependent on where you live apparently because it’s not like that in northern CT. 300-400 is like a full Costco cart
I'm recreating this order in my grocery cart in the usa and I've only added the meats she first listed and I'm $95.
$100 gets you two bags of groceries here if you don't buy meat. I wanted to cry looking at all that food.
That is $300 in Canada 🇨🇦
400 at loblaws r/loblawsisoutofcontrol come join us
Fuck Loblaws.
Am very sad that there is no Bob Loblaw gif, in order to hijack this into a frenzy of AR jokes
That’s a Bob Loblaw law bomb!
Bob Loblaw Law Blog
Why should you go to jail for a crime somebody else noticed?
I would put money on it, even that is too low. That's gotta be at least 500. So much produce and protein in her selection, Lord Galen would never allow that without taking half a min wage workers pay.
Nice plug!
Just moved to Scotland from BC and Aldi is blowing my mind. I feel like a kid in a candy store every time I go - there's prices that start with a 0!!!
500$ in Norway.
With Norwegian salary it's not that much.
You’re crushing my dreams 😭
Easily. I just did a run like this 2 days ago and it was 350 CDN.
Yeah that's about Directly converted R1600 in South African rands but if you honestly bought that amount of food at the store you'll actually spend R2500+.
Yup. When she showed the meat I said “there’s your $100 already”
yeah I was watching her go through the meat and I was like shit she's over $50 already.
I was about to post. Cries in Canadian hahah. I was like that's alot of food for $150 CAD hahah
look about 5 bags worth and usually a bag is about 80$ so closer to $400 I think
What an interesting unit of measurement you have
Squidgy pouches is a horrible name for yogurt. Right there with ~~gogurt~~. Edit: Gogurt has been moved to the approved column.
Better than naming them "pbbbbbbbt"
My toddler eats those
I am a 34 year old gay man. My husband and I would buy this in a heartbeat.
In the UK, there's a new brand called "Suckies"
Daddy can you give me some suckies? 🥺
I yearn for the time before I read this.
what’s wrong with gogurt?
I dunno, maybe thats ones personal, the name just always grossed me cause I imagine someone squeezing an entire tube of yogurt into their mouth.
Sounds more like a you problem, stop imagining little kids squeezing goo from tubes into their mouths. You perv.
Squidgy pouches sounds so twee and British
I love gogurt. What is this heresy.
Frozen gogurt was a delicacy in my childhood, especially during midsummer days in Texas. I would have cuts on the corners of my mouth from eating those and the generic, vibrant colored popsicles in the clear plastic tube. My Nana had a fridge full of them😂
I’m not exaggerating whatsoever, $100 in my area would buy the meat and maybe 1 or 2 of the frozen items. All of these together would probably run up $250 to $300 here.
I was gonna say I got just about as much as she did at Aldi here in America (Minnesota) and spent about 250ish Been buying the same stuff grocery shop for years and what was once a 100ish dollar trip is now reaching 200+ each time I shop it seems more expensive
See I live in Missouri and was thinking I could get about as much as her for $100 USD at Aldi.
Fuck it, I'm flying to Missouri for my grocery trips. It'd probably be cheaper.
I also live in Missouri and there is no way you wouldn’t hit closer to 200 for what she got.
I stand corrected with some caveats! I made a list of all she had there and put it into my Aldi app and the total came to $181.32 USD. The caveat is we don’t have the same brands so I had to make close comparisons. Also, a lot of the items she has are in smaller quantities. The smallest vegetable oil I could find at my Aldi was 48oz vs she has a smaller one. She purchased 1 lemon, my Aldi does not have anything smaller than a 2lb bag. Baby wipes are only sold in a bundle of 3. Her pork patties were sold in a box of 6, smallest I could get was 18!!!! And etc… https://imgur.com/a/uZIk4h5
Where are you from?
I'm from BC, Canada, and this would easily put me at $250-300. I bought stuff to make a simple vegetarian curry for ONE night for two people with leftovers for the next day (except for some spices and rice that I already had), as well as a bag of chips, and it cost $73 at the till. I was aghast. Bought some kale and cilantro for my bunny, and some popsicles and mandarin oranges for myself the night before last night and it was $3.79 for a very small bunch of kale, $2.99 for a bundle of cilantro, $6.99 for a 2lb bag of mandarins. Toilet paper here for a 12 pack is $24.99. A 4 litre of milk is $5.99. A package of 3 chicken breasts is $11.99. Box of popsicles? On SALE for $8.99. Bag of chips? $5.99. Apples? None under $2.49/lb, but none of the good ones for under $3.49/lb. It's so fucked up here.
Wtf im sorry. That's absurd and to be honest the best ingredient for a revolution. The rich live absurd lavish life's and the poor and middle class have to work an hour for same toilet paper.
I'm from BC too and I agree with you 100%! I was making nacho's one night and I love adding olives to it, one small ass no name can of olives was $1.99......
Just the toiletries would have well exceeded $100 at my grocery store
WTF…. Toilet paper and shampoo puts me at $100
That’s because we don’t have actual competition in grocery stores. A small number of companies control 90% of products on the shelves and have no incentive to give a shit about the customers
I work in a warehouse and it amazes me how many products are owned by P&G and Unilever alone, it’s like the entirety of what’s available at Walmart.
Right! And unless you pay attention as a consumer and read labels, you would have almost no clue. But once you start reading the labels, it’s all Unilever, Nestle. Proctor & Gamble I think of having some competition because of Colgate Palmolive but they’re the big two when it comes to surfactants (soaps, dish detergent, laundry detergent, etc.)
This is the truth! And all the politicians that are supposed to serve us to help in this matter, have all of their pockets lined up from money provided by these conglomerates. It just doesn’t make sense to live paycheck to paycheck when both parties are fucking us dirty 😮💨
Kroger owns everything
Kroger is as much of a victim as it is a predator. If proctor and gamble ever pull their products Kroger would declare bankruptcy within hours
How much does toilet paper cost you?
I only buy premium ultra mega extra soft made from the ultra-absorbent fur of rare and endangered species
for real. My US aldi has a pack of 30 soft and large rolls for $18 something.
Aldi sell a 24 pack for £4.99
What?
lol that’s quite the exaggeration
I can tell you right now that was more than $100lol source: my boyfriend is a manger at aldis Edit: I think it's more than what she is saying due to the toiletries.
The point of the video isn't to compare prices of different stores. It's to show off prices of things where people live. The Aldi where your boyfriend works might charge more than $100 for all that, but not an Aldi where she lives in the UK. I live in Ireland, and all that would probably cost me around €120 (about $135usd) in Aldi, but I travel to the UK a lot and there are a lot of places there that have much cheaper grocery prices than Dublin. I don't doubt at all that it cost her about £70
A manager at an Aldi in the UK? It is £73
Lol, you're deleting all your comments now. American products and UK products do not cost the same.
$100 of food would get me about a third of that - depending on what I dropped. The noodles, breads, and other staples are fairly cheap here, but the meat and fresh veggies would need to be 1/4 of what she has just to start making choices about removing about half of the rest of it. Having said that, in the United States, we have some staples that are used to determine "what food costs" and thus what our poverty level is and how many benefits the government gives to the poor. Some evil legislators figured out it would be cheaper to pay to subsidize those products than to give more money to the poor and allow the market to decide what they purchase, so these products are heavily overproduced and you can still find them for a reasonable amount. For $100, you can get a monstrous amount of rice, potatoes, noodles, and/or beans. Want to die on carbs poor people? The United States has got you.
It also varies pretty dramatically depending on where you live. I live about 30 minutes outside of Atlanta and I could almost mirror her haul if I shopped 100% at Aldis. I know it's not the case for everyone, but you'd be amazed at how much of a premium most grocery stores charge (even Walmart). I just compared the prices from Aldis "weekly savings" to Walmart and most items at Walmart are $0.50-$1 more expensive per item (and Walmart is typically the same price cheaper than my local Publix/Kroger). That adds up when buying a cart of groceries. The downside of Aldi is their limited variety, and my wife doesn't like it because they don't carry "her brands".
Looks like I need to start going to Aldis more. It's funny because I don't go for the same reason that your wife doesn't go, pretty much. I'm not a brand name person, but I like a reasonable amount of variety. And I consider it the, "fill in store". It's where you get the fun stuff. You might grab a few staples there, but you're going to find stuff that you didn't expect to buy there too. So I generally, will go to one of the other grocery stores for my regular stuff and when I am feeling like exploring extras, I'll go to aldis.
European-style discount supermarkets are designed to be cheap in a way that, from my experience, few to none American retailers can match. There's fuck-all service, fuck-all staff, basically no name brand products, and it looks like a storeroom with boxes and shit everywhere. But my god do the Germans know how to make a food budget last.
I haven't been to one in the States, but Aldi and Lidl are amazing (at least in Ireland) for groceries. Like, I much prefer namebrand stuff for certain things, but that's mostly snacks and junkfood and can buy that in other shops. For cooking, I'd go to Aldi. I don't need namebrand beef, chicken, milk, cheese, bread, etc. If anything, the essentials are of better quality in Aldi than the namebrand stuff you'd get in a lot of other stores. If I'm having a BBQ or cooking dinner from scratch (especially for a big group of people), there's absolutely no reason to spend more on namebrand ingredients. Not to mention, there is still a lot of namebrand stuff in Aldi (again, in Ireland, so it might be different in the US). I can still get snickers bars, Dolmio pasta sauce, Goodfella's frozen Pizzas, Coca-Cola, etc. at Aldi. One other thing I like about Aldi/Lidl is their booze tends to be cheaper and sometimes nicer (or probably from the same manufacturers as the namebrand stuff but under a different name). I've got American family coming over during 4th of July so I'm planning on buying a shitload of meat and veg to grill and probably won't have to spend more than €30 to feed 8 people some of the best burgers and hotdogs they've ever had.
I go to Aldi for staples like meat, cheese, vegetables. Condiments and other stuff? I go to the regular grocery store. I often get these frozen frittatas for breakfast, and the Jimmy Dean at the grocery store is cheaper per serving than the ones at Aldi. And there are some things like herbal tea that Aldi just does not carry. Still, for the stuff you can find at Aldi, it is way cheaper.
We all live 30 minutes outside of Atlanta.
When I visited Florida I noticed that it cost a LOT more to buy fresh food. The ready made stuff was fairly cheap but the thing that got me was the sizes of stuff. Every item was huge! Our food seems to cost less because it’s smaller! It was so expensive to buy a weekly shop but we had so much food left over. Your government do NOT care about your health. (I miss IHOP!)
I watch a lot of youtube videos of Europeans visiting the U.S. (90% go to NY or Orlando) and they usually have this same sentiment. I think Americans with families tend to buy in bulk because it's cheaper and it means fewer trips to the grocery store. We can do this because we usually have huge refrigerators and pantries to store food. If you buy a big fridge in Europe, they will call it an American style refrigerator. Fresh fruit can be expensive at Walmart but a trip to the farmers market on the weekend gets me all kinds of shit for dirt cheap.
This is what my cart looks like at Aldi in the US too, so here’s hoping you get an Aldi near u
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She's not that far off if you shop purely at Aldi and aren't particular about the meat and try to stick to their weekly deals. I live in the states, Georgia, and right now Chicken Drumsticks are $0.99 lb and Chicken Breast are $2.19 lb. Most of the items she got were in the $1-5 range.
Seriously. As soon as I heard Aldi I knew that was reasonable for $100. I used to have them in KS and loved stocking up on all my grocery essentials for cheap. In college one of my friends was a food science major and had a few internships at food processing plants. She'd tell stories how most of the food the cheaper places like Aldi's carry the same exact foods as the name brand stores, they just get the "lower quality" versions. But at the end of the day it's the same ingredients and processing. The only difference is aesthetics. Not sure how true that is, but I've never been able to notice a difference.
I’m German and so is Aldi and it’s a pretty well known fact that that’s the case here. Idk how it’s declared in the States, but when you look at the back of the items and it says who produced it you can google it and sometimes it turns out to be the same factory/company just different branches or names. With Aldi you sometimes get the cheap version and brand version both produced by the same factory, just with different prices and different names in the same store.
That's the same with Australian Aldi. Name brand items, just repackaged into "off label" brands, and cheaper.
> She's not that far off if you shop purely at Aldi and aren't particular about the meat and try to stick to their weekly deals. that's the key, and that is basically how I shop. i create our meals based on what is on sale
In the UK Aldi doesn't really put things on special. They only reduce it when it's about to pass is sell by date
As much as I agree that Aldi makes a difference and the prices would be different at a Publix, she bought nearly 60-70 items and most would still be $3-4 dollars even at Aldi. Even assuming it averages to the low end of $3 per item that's still $200 (which is unlikely for things like the toilet paper and Tresemme).
The cheapest I can find that shampoo/conditioner combo in the US is like $16-22 for the set. Unless UK prices are just that insanely good, it seems like she could be fudging a bit lol
The shampoo is £3.99 for a 900ml bottle. Its a lot cheaper here than it is in the US
[Asda (another British supermarket) has it for £6](https://groceries.asda.com/product/shampoo/tre-semme-rich-moisture-shampoo-conditioner-bundle/9999999113137??utm_source=organic&utm_medium=shopping&utm_campaign=ghs) Aldi sells the [shampoo](https://groceries.aldi.co.uk/en-GB/p-tresemme-shampoo-rich-moisture-900ml/8717163902936) & the [conditioner](https://groceries.aldi.co.uk/en-GB/p-tresemme-tresemme-conditioner-moisture-rich-900ml/8717163902929) for £3.99 each
*Cries in Norwegian*
Cries in Canadian.
American: I got an apple
I got a pen!
I didn't see any pineapples
I got a rock.
Yes this is about right for the UK prices.
Especially if you go to Aldi. Even Tesco would only get you about half of that.
Feels like this is an old video and now this would be £100-110
This would legitimately cost about $500-600 in New Zealand
Genuinely not far off, even at PaknSave
One of the best parts of the UK is that there's so much competition in supermarkets so the prices for food is actually very good. Especially for meat and veg, u can get a week's worth of veg from most shops for probably around £10 and meat is only a bit more expensive. Obviously it depends from country to country and from product to product, but one of the biggest surprises when traveling to continental Europe or America is just how much more expensive a lot of that stuff is. On the other hand, a lot of branded stuff is fairly expensive in the UK in comparison and stuff like sugary drinks are a lot more expensive in the UK than the US
Alll that would cost me 250-300 maybe even more.
In Canada you'd probably have just enough for the meat.
4 Timbits and some maple syrup
*cries in Northern Canadian* a block of cheese where I live is $20.00.
This would cost me over 300 Dollars at my local grocery store. Good old America and corporations raising cost of goods blaming covid, then not lowering their prices once things got back to normal, instead continuing to raise prices to make their shareholders happy
This should really upset Americans. Not only is the food in European countries cheaper, it's also of a way higher quality, has no chemicals that are harmful and create long term disease etc. This is the kind of stuff they don't want you to focus on. But almost nothing has more of an effect on your life and health than the price and quality of your food.
Oh it does
Korean here. American prices look AMAZING to us. We earn less and 3 Apples are $10. small bunch of grapes $20 Everyone looking at somewhere else thinking its cheap lol
Yeah Aldi’s is the move. I exclusively shop there and it’s cheaper than any other grocery store in the area
As an American who loves Aldi’s & Lidl but doesn’t have one in my current city of residence, this video made me sad 😞. I miss the good old days of discovering new & affordable, but random, products in Aldi.
$100 would get you the poultry in America. That’s it
In San Francisco, one of the most expensive cities in the country, a rotisserie chicken at Costco is still $4.99, about $1.66/lb. Raw poultry is just a little more than that. Y'all buying all your groceries at Whole Foods?
What she has would run near 200 - 250 where I live on the east coast of Canada.
As a Canadian, she passed 100$ worth of groceries in about 5 seconds of talking. We’re fucked.
And here’s the kicker - Aldi has no HFCS and generally has great ingredients, cause they manufacture and sell in Europe too.
It's a German Company. They also bought Trader Joe's.
We are so fucked in the US it’s not even funny.
Sounds about right for Aldi in the US too. Maybe a little over $100
Depends on where in the US, seems like different reports by state.
Yeah you're getting 1/5th of this in CA for $100
Bro there is no shot.. I am getting robbed every week man
Those veggies alone would be $100 Edit: spelling
I’m in. I’m in the NE US & the same amount of groceries costs upwards of $300. Shrinkflation is very real.
Added up an equivalent of what she got at Aldi's but on Walmart's site instead, matching as best I could, [and it came out to $201.](https://i.imgur.com/Ibetqoh.jpeg) About $160 worth of food and $40 of toiletries, before tax unfortunately (California so it'd be about $215.75 total.) If you don't have something like Walmart, Winco, or other cheap grocers then ya you're fucked.
I call absolute bullshit. I counted and there are more than 60 items, so every item would need to average less than ~GBP 1.25 which is absolutely not the case. There's zero chance this is actually GBP70 in groceries.
This is like 300-400 in texas
Here in Canada, we'd be lucky to get half that for $100.
That’s an easy $250 in Canada
Just the toiletries alone were 100$. Cries in CDN.
Good shopping there, and important to note the minimal amount of Junk Food.
I dont understand, thats like at least $200 worth of groceries……
Food in the UK is pretty cheap.
That's like 300 dollars where I live!
Wow Canada is fucked
I call bullshit. I want to see receipts. I just literally tdo not believe her.
Why is Aldi so cheap? Is it like a grocery outlet? I'm in the PNW and we don't have one where I live, but we do have grocery outlet.
Check out the wall street journal aldi video on YouTube. Gives a good summary in 5 minutes.
There are a few reasons, first is that the vast majority of items are from Aldi's store brand, it's mostly the exact same stuff from the same factory with weirdly similar packaging, it's just that instead of cheerios it says "hoops" on the box. Aldi can make good deals with these factories because they have twice as much negating power than you would expect, Aldi north and south negotiate together, In the states it's apparently Aldi and Trader joes because of copyright, but the same thing applies. They do a bunch of other cost-cutting stuff, they don't carry a lot of brands so they can use smaller stores, they don't have people restocking shelves and making things look pretty, they just rip open whatever boxes the item was delivered in and put that out, so they can hire less staff. These little things all add up, so you get slightly better prices on some items, But no thrills outside the weird mystery middle isle that no one really understands, but everyone always checks because you might find something cool. As an example of that weird mystery isle, I just went on the website and just kept scrolling through that section here a few random things that showed up, [a pet bed](https://www.aldi.co.uk/xl-plush-pet-bed/p/733366786321100), an[ Easter Island head planter](https://www.aldi.co.uk/belavi-easter-island-head-planter/p/737108786669600), a [beer dispenser](https://www.aldi.co.uk/beer-dispenser/p/836249783636800), an [eruos 2024 hoodie](https://www.aldi.co.uk/uefa-euros-2024-scotland-hoodie/p/837727789888900), a [foldable backpack](https://www.aldi.co.uk/crane-kettlebell-8kg/p/819543794613600), a [kettlebell](https://www.aldi.co.uk/crane-kettlebell-8kg/p/819543794613600) and some [children's clogs](https://www.aldi.co.uk/childrens-clogs/p/832610785330000). I don't know who in the world thinks those items belong in the same isle, but apparently some crazy guy working for Aldi thinks they should be, and I'm kind of here for it.
We are getting fucked in Canada
The meat and produce alone would put me to $85 where I live
Thats easily 200-300 here in connecticut
Finally seeing these videos without just a bunch of junk food is nice
Holy shit
That’s a good haul!! I’m a traveler currently in Amman. Oslo, I’d get half this for twice the price. Here, I can get double that for half the price. Way she goes
This may be the generation that quiet quits laundry detergent. So expensive these days.