Who wins?

For me it's a tie.
Both have their pros and cons.

Lidl > Hofer, which is probably the same thing as Aldi because it has the same logo.

Lidl

As a Dutchman I agree with this fellow. Lidl has great quality vegetables and meat, and it's very cheap compared to Albert Heijn (our version of walmart).

Bong here. I go to Aldi for very good value beer, wine and breakfast cereals. Everything else is mostly shit apart from occasional meat and vegetables.

Lidl is homeless people tier.

Is hofer an aldi knockoff?

Enlighten me, what is the difference? How do you even tell?

Belgian here, aldi is cheaper if you want to survive, but lidl has that fancy fresh baked bread and better quality products.

>These Aldi cookies were life as a kid though

In the UK, I prefer Aldi. The fruit and veg is better, and they sell bigger packs of chicken breasts and lean mince which Lidl seem to lack - only get the 15% - 20% stuff there which is horrid. Aldi has a better alcohol selection too with various beers from all over the country and occasionally nice whisky.

Seems to be a very big Lidl being built near me though and they are investing a lot so that may well change when it opens.

Finland here, no Aldi over here so how the fuck should I know

I live in north germany, i only shop at lidl as the one where i live has a huge amounts of specials, and the veg is allways fresh. Aldi has smaller product choice and a strange layout.
The last plus is that the cashiers are all chill and they bake bread fresh everyday

Lidl has fresh bread, everything else is shit.

Aldi however, are currently Waitrose tier for half the cost.

My area is getting one of the first American Lidls, they pick a spot right near an already existing Aldi.

Let the german small grocery store was commence!

I visit both, and other stores.

Hofer (Aldi-sud) is good for nuts, oils, milk substitutes, cured meat, dairy, clothing
Lidl is good for fresh vegetables, sweets, baked goods, cheapo powertools

Both suck ass at anything Italian, I get that elsewhere.

Here's a map of all the likely American locations

If you want a middle class lifestyle at half the price aldi wins.

If you want to eat okay and still get wrecked 24:7 lidl wins.

Funland here
Lidl has pretty strong presense here and aldi is nowhere to be seen.
I like going to lidl because 120€ monthly food budget, some of the products are horrible but after learning what is good it became my main grocery store
> tfw they removed my favorite yogurt

>Albert Heijn
>(our version of walmart)

Albert Heijn is nothing like Walmart. You could fit fifty Albert Heijn stores inside a single average Walmart.

The Netherlands doesn't really have anything directly comparable to Walmart or the large British supermarkets. The Dutch just don't shop like that.

>Waitrose tier
Not quite

Prove me wrong

this. Lidl has nowadays even better products than the "old duopoly" (the S-Group and Kesko, which dominated the market until Lidl came here) + lower prices. The selection is still small-ish

ITT faggots don't realise that Aldi and Lidl are the same company

This
They use the same 4 fucking letters FFS! How can people not realise this?

please reread their names

FUCK
I am sorry.
I thought it was called Lial all these years haha. I have poor vision, d looks like a to me. Had to change my own name because it used to be Adam which caused me no end of confusion haha.

Since the Swiss invasion of South Germany, Lidl really upped theiir game.
Better layout, better selection and most of all they sell name brands, whereas Aldi mostly sells their store brand stuff.

...

They're building an Aldi's on my town. I guess now I will see what the big whoop is all about.

Bullshit
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarz_Gruppe

Who /OneStepAboveDumpster/ here?

Expensive as shit and worse assortment than Lidl. When i lived in Denmark I only went there because it was nearby. And at least it's cheaper than Meny. How do people even afford shopping there?

Oh this is in UK, never mind then

we have Netto too and it looks completely different, other colors, other logo

We don't have them in the UK

Oh sorry. Looks like you cucks don't know where the real deals are.

you know that's an ALDI subsidiary right
or is that the joke

when I was living on Spain I used to go to both and love both. Their candies are top tier. Now that I live on US, I hear there are LIDL and ALDI on NJ but I never saw them.

Poor mans blue moon i saw the other day at aldis.

Aldi is fucking horrible. We have it here in texas and i wish that meme eurotrash would fuck off. I gave it a shot one time and its just a shitty mix of costco and a dollar store. Food placement is weird, i have no idea where shit is, everything is generic trash, and you have to pay to use the carts? Suck my fat american donkey dick, HEB is god tier

Are you thought coors light is shit

You can already guess what this is. Sorry for sideways images.

>Sorry for sideways images.

STAHP IT

>How do you even tell?

All of the Aldis in Northern parts of Germany are owned by Aldi Nord.

All of the ALdis in the Southern parts of Germany are owned by Aldi Süd.

Internationally:

>Aldi Nord is responsible for its stores in Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Poland, Spain, Denmark, and Portugal, and also operates the Trader Joe's markets in the United States.

>Aldi Süd's responsibilities are in the United States (operating under the Aldi name), Austria and Slovenia (as Hofer), United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and Switzerland.

Both suck. Thank god I live in switzerland and I have access to passable alternatives

If you go there more often you will memorize the shop layout and you get the money from the carts back once you return them and don't leave them in the middle of the parking lot like some fatass that can't walk a fee steps. Surprised you didn't complain about the lack of bagging. Your other points might be right but for someone with a low budget it's pretty good.

Here in Sweden, we pride ourselves on our orderly dumpsters, leaving netto actually one step BELOW dumpster.

I'm french and i swear to christ my local Lidl does the best bread in a 10km radius

Oh, the Lidl bakery stuff is fine and decent. Same situation here in Sweden at least.

When i visited relatives in sweden i bought some stuff from coop, felt like a better lidl but slightly higher prices/quality
4/5 store, would shop again

this, fellow frogfag and Lidl has great bread for the price. Their croissants are kinda mediocre but their pain au chocolats are legit boulangerie-tier. Also I'm addicted to their 99c vegetarian pizzas

Netto IS a sandnigger dumpster

Their spot products.
The Netto in my town is so poorly managed, half the time the things on sale aren't properly registered. Some other things are sold at a ridiculous low price.

Tried the sliced bread – it was dried out.

Tried the minced beef, it smelled a bit funny and the lower fat (5%) wasn't even available.

Cooked meats are shit. Non reformed is not available.

I'll give you one thing though – the beer and wine are excellent value. In some cases better than the Waitrose equivalent and half the price.

Why the fuck can't Lidl install sneeze guards over their bread? Or better yet use those thin perforated wrappings other UK supermarkets do.

People like you are why children have allergies.

The immune system must be tested to make it strong.

>side posting pics intentionally

Cunt

Danefag here. LIDL all the way. ALDI is shit up here.

Netto actually used to be pretty great in the 1990s. That was then. Today I shop almost exclusively in IRMA and LIDL, which are totally opposite ends of the price spectrum of course, but I cannot help but be impressed with LIDL's quality. The same can most definitely not be said of ALDI.

If I was to rate the local supermarkets after quality, it would go:

IRMA > MENY > Kvickley/Brugsen (same thing) > Fotex > LIDL > Rema1000 > Netto > Kiwi > Fakta > ALDI.

Rated by value, it would go:

LIDL > Rema 1000 > Netto > Fakta > IRMA > Kvickley/Brugsen/Fotex (same thing) > ALDI > KIWI.

Off the top of my head, at least.

Trader Joe's is good for frozen premade foods and cheese (some of it, anyway).

Aldi is good for non-frozen boxed and canned goods, and a tiny selection of some German imported meats, cheeses and stuff.

Neither are very good with fresh food, although TJ's is much better than Aldi for that.

Both are about the same level for cheap generic beer.

In general, I'd go to Aldi for dry goods, TJs for frozen pizzas and Indian dinners and cheese, and the farmer's market for produce (mine also has tons of quality meat vendors). That's 3 locations instead of one, so you decide how much your time is worth.