Really? Honestly I think their produce is great. Maybe it just depends on the store you go to though.
Hy-Vee's weirdest business decision yet?
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Aldi uses a lot of plastic on their produce, and it can make it sweat and turn. I notice it the most on asparagus.
Here's a reddit link. I'm not the only one that thinks that. Aldi employees have to move quick and don't get as much time to inspect IMO:
Yeah, there are certain things I will not buy at Aldi. Apples, watermelon, grapes, but they have plenty of produce that’s just as good as anywhere else and much cheaper.
Depending on the day, you can get all of these items at sams club
That’s a game changer. Had no idea that Sam’s club had freshly squeezed OJ. Will definitely check it out.
Was waiting for her to say "near double digit number of employees"!
That's a shame. When I worked at Best Buy in college, they had a great employee discount program. It was cost + 3% on everything. Big things like computers or TVs didn't see much of a discount but for cables and other high margin items, the discount was insane (95% off retail). People abused the hell out of it to sell HDMI cables and stuff like that on eBay so they modified the program that you can only get a maximum of 50% off the full retail cost. Still a good deal but definitely not as good as it was. This was over 10 years ago so I wouldn't be shocked if they modified it further to not be as good of a deal.
I, like most, look at it everywhere. I've just noticed more hit or miss at Aldi's produce.
I do think sometimes it's a little odd that Aldi has items that everywhere else keeps chilled just in a cardboard box on a shelf. Like a head of lettuce could be sitting unchilled for hours.
Margin are really tight, sales are down from the pandemic peak, and they are spending a ton of capital on their expansion to Tennessee.
This is about cost cutting, plain and simple.. Hy-Vee also is notorious for owning a high percentage of their stores.. Starting last year, they accelerated the sale of stores during the huge run up in rates, causing corporate to sell for millions less than they hoped for..
This is about cost cutting, plain and simple.. Hy-Vee also is notorious for owning a high percentage of their stores.. Starting last year, they accelerated the sale of stores during the huge run up in rates, causing corporate to sell for millions less than they hoped for..
And all three of these things (margins/inflation, pandemic sales, and interest rates) were absolutely predictable. Nobody’s perfect, but they are really on an impressive streak of getting absolutely everything wrong.
Hy-Vee seems to be single handedly causing inflation issues in central Iowa. There are products at other store (same name brand and everything) that are literally 10%-40% less. One example was sparkling grape juice. Hy-Vee was $4.9/bottle. Wal-Mart was $2.99/bottle. Same brand, flavor size etc...
Large jars of peanut butter were $1 less per jar away from hy vee, about a 15% difference.
Large jars of peanut butter were $1 less per jar away from hy vee, about a 15% difference.
There are brand name things I will always buy, but since I live within a half mile of Walmart, I will use a lot of the “Great Value” products.
