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Customers who use shopping carts have to pay a 25 cent unlocking fee. Why Is Aldi So Cheap? By Corey Williams Updated September 24, Aldi will often schedule only two or three staff at a time. That's nothing compared to the number of employees you'll see at other markets.
With the way Aldi is designed, not as many workers are needed to stock the shelves or keep things in order. This also allows the store to pay those few employees a decent paycheck. Aldi doesn't bother buying as many plastic bags as other stores, thanks to their bag policy. If you end up using an Aldi plastic bag, you'll have to pay for it.
This is to encourage customers to bring their own bags — keeping the store a green environment and putting money back into customer pockets. Have you ever seen a Walmart or Target ad on TV? Probably not as many. Although Aldi does have a small television campaign, advertisements on television aren't seen as frequently as other popular name brands. This means Aldi has extra money to save for what they do best — bring you cheap prices. No need to have someone working the shopping carts all the time with a system like Aldi's!
In order to use a cart, you must put a coin in the cart to unlock it. This gives people an incentive to return the cart and get their money back. Didn't know about that? Well, here are five things to know before shopping at Aldi next time. Unlike most supermarkets, Aldi doesn't charge suppliers for shelf space and keeps their terms simple.
According to Australian newspaper "The New Daily," Aldi claims it wants "to suck the profitability out of the [supermarket] industry in favour of the consumer.
For you. World globe An icon of the world globe, indicating different international options. Rather than employ a team of runners to retrieve carts from the parking lot all day, Aldi expects its customers to return carts to the store after each shopping trip.
It forces that behavior by charging customers a quarter deposit that they get back when they return their carts. This is not a novel idea. Several American grocers tried it in the s and s, but abandoned the practice after it annoyed customers who had come to expect more services at their grocery stores.
Aldi, which opened its first US store in Iowa in , has stuck with the model, insisting the deposit system is key to its low-price strategy. Some fans even knit their own versions. With five or six super-wide aisles, Aldi only stocks around 1, items — compared to around 40, at traditional supermarkets and more than , at Walmart supercenters.
And good luck trying to find major name brands. The two companies share a common history. The packaging on these items sometimes looks so similar to brand-name alternatives that customers find themselves doing a double-take. Aldi sells its Tandil laundry detergent in an orange plastic jug with blue and yellow graphics reminiscent of Tide.
Although it may not be obvious at first glance, Aldi employs several key design details that maximize efficiency at checkout, too. On many of its products, barcodes are either supersized or printed on multiple sides to speed up the scanning process.
The cashier drops them directly into a shopping cart below. Customers must wheel away their shopping carts to bag their own groceries in a separate section at the front. Aldi has other tactics to keep real estate and labor costs down. Size is one factor. A Walmart supercenter averages around , square feet.
Costco warehouses average around , square feet. Aldi only stocks about 1, items compared to 40, at traditional supermarkets. Their duties are also streamlined. Aldi displays products in their original cardboard shipping boxes, rather than stacking them individually, to save employees time stocking shelves. The result: A single Aldi might have only three to five employees in the store at any given time, and only 15 to 20 on the entire payroll.
The company claims to pay its workers above the industry average, but still saves on overall labor costs simply by having fewer people. All of these cost savings add up and are passed on to customers. Last year, he noted that when he visited Aldi, a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs each cost 99 cents.
Foran said he and his team could not risk losing on those popular items. Despite the stripped-down store experience, Aldi scores higher on customer satisfaction surveys and benefits far more from word-of-mouth marketing than Walmart and other supermarkets. After Aldi first entered the United States, it took two decades for the company to expand to stores. Now, in its rapid growth phase, Aldi is on track to open more than new stores just this year alone. The Great Recession and its slow recovery helped the discount grocer gain popularity among budget-conscious shoppers in the United States.
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