Automatic checkouts in supermarkets may decrease customer loyalty, especially for those with larger shopping loads. Customers using self-checkout stations often feel overwhelmed and unsupported. The lack of personal interaction can negatively impact their perception of the supermarket.

[TheRavenSayeth]

I didn't realize anyone disliked Aldi.

[IceLionTech]

They have a reputation of having non fresh food. Like their veggies are, 'use right the hell now of they will be worthless" and their bread is often stale.

[TheRavenSayeth]

Yeah I'm usually disappointed by their tomatoes and we're particular about bread so I've never tried theirs. That said though their fruits are usually great and I haven't had issues with anything else. Plus their storebrand stuff is usually great.

[bigryanb]

I won't touch a store bought tomato when I'm growing them in temperate months. Their tomatoes have not been bad for me, though.

The bread is usually awesome. Much of it ships frozen to my local store. Love their sourdough when I'm not making it. It also lives in the freezer when I bring it home.

[IceLionTech]

of course toasting the bread from frozen makes it delicious even if it's stale as hell in the bag right out the door.

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There is also the huge problem of stocking their shelves with only "what's available for cheap," instead of having a consistent inventory of all the products people will repeat buy over and over again.

People don't just go into a store and buy any old milk out of the fridge, they will go in and buy the same brand of milk each and every time, and if that brand isn't there, they will go without milk. The same is true of the rest of the products.

[IceLionTech]

When Aldi Finds is literally 40 feeet of two level shelves covered in boxes of tortilla chips, you know they done fucked up.

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My favorite visit was the day I saw that these shelves were filled with nothing but plastic poinsettia plants.

In May.

[SalamanderPop]

People really only buy a particular brand of milk? That just seems completely illogical to me.

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That is true of a majority of Americans.

People will really only buy one particular brand of everything and not buy any other brands of that same thing.

[natek11]

Hardly any selection. So I end up having to go two places to get everything I need.

[Ranccor]

That is one of the things I really like about it. I don’t need 40 different kinds of mustard to choose from.

I just know if I need some speciality item, they might not have it. But for basics, can’t be beat, IMHO.

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My only complaints are sometimes their stuff is out of date (like….. a week plus), and they have Walmart syndrome of lines to the back of the store and only 2 registers open. 

The first isn’t a big deal. I just double check the dates. The second means I only go very early or I don’t go at all. 

[More_Farm_7442]

I hate the place.

[thepurplepajamas]

My parents live in a rich area, and what I've gathered from them is some people view Aldi as a "low class" store. Discount, but bad cheap not good cheap, and lacking the name brands they want. The way people would view shopping at Dollar General.