Aldi-Style Discount Supermarkets

It's called Aldi and they have over 1,000 stores in the US.They have build a half cozen in my area in the past few years so I figure they cannot be doing that poorly...As someone else mentioned: They also make you pay a $.25 deposit to use a shopping cart, don't take credit cards, and don't offer name-brand anything.

Our Grocery Outlet does this, as does CostCo.

As opposed to my local Walmart, or Kroger?

There's some of that European approach creeping into US markets thanks to Aldi Nord and Aldi Sud - we now have both Aldi and Trader Joe's which primarily have their own versions of products and carry only that brand (or occasionally a second 'mainstream' brand as special items). Costco is similar as well in typically having only a single brand of any given type of product.

It's not just Aldi, the same thing has been common for decades at some Tesco, Morrisons, Lidl etc stores.

Would be curious to know if there’s an overlap with other retailers. Many “discount” supermarkets in Germany (Aldi, Penny, Lidl, Netto) have such aisles. As far as I can see in the UK, both Aldi and Lidl have similar things here, but not that vast of a variety?

In the US, Aldi, and I think some other grocery stores do this.

Interesting. Could you expand on how they compare to Aldi?

Is this really any different than any other store brand? Is there a retailer that doesn't do this?

This happens in all supermarkets of Europe, basically. Examples from Germany:Depending on the store you get either mostly only store products (Aldi, Lidl), both store products and brand products (Kaufland, Rewe?) or mostly brand products (likely Edeka)The case of what you mentioned is the reason why the Schwarz Group (Lidl and Kaufland) are moving overseas, respectively to the US and to Australia: there isn't much price competition.Disclaimer: work for them.