You can’t get your whole shop at Aldi. It’s great for what it’s great at, though. Aldi’s home brand is a class above the home brands of Colesworth, but tends to be priced at the same price or even cheaper. I usually get eggs, cheese, yoghurt, brekky cereals, biscuits, snacks and some veges there. Yes - basic ‘white’ staples.

I would likely get more frozen goods at Aldi, but when I do the grocery shop Aldi is the first stop. I don’t want to be roaming around for another hour or two with a trolley full of melting food.

The biggest problem we have with ALDI is that it seems the produce goes off way quicker.

For busy families that try and get away with a single weekly shop, that can often result in a fair bit of waste, which negates a good chunk of any price benefit.

ALDI is pretty terrible if you don’t have a really basic White Australian diet.

I get what you’re saying. They’ve got the basic Aussie Italian, Mexican, Asian covered. You’ll never beat shopping at the specialty supermarket/shop for whatever cuisine you’re cooking.

But as a somewhat counterpoint to this, I quite enjoy their weekly(?) deals where they have mostly pantry foods and specialities from a particular country. Sure, they’re not available all the time, but there’s been plenty of times I’ve gone ‘OMG, it’s xyz from country 123!’ and you’d be lucky to find it anywhere in Australia. My eyes must’ve bugged out of my head when I saw they had white asparagus 🤣

It has to be augmented with other sources, yes, but then I already frequent the local markets, fish mongers, Asian grocery etc for specific ‘non basic’ stuff. But more often than not, the convenience of Woolies having (almost) everything in the one place wins out.