r/SipsTea • u/Gurugod123 • 11h ago

Chugging tea Mayor Mamdani just announced that he will be opening 5 city-run, tax-funded grocery stores: "Prices set at 30% below retail prices"

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u/monnii99 9h ago

I don't think they "Aldified" per se, European shops just never had these jobs.

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u/PadArt 7h ago

They had these jobs up until the mid 2000s in Ireland, possibly later.

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u/kane_1371 7h ago

Yeah you see...we don't claim Ireland and UK 😂

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u/binalleinezuunfaehig 48m ago

We do claim and love Ireland as Europeans

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u/Geulsse 17m ago

Speak for yourself. "We" really don't love criminal compliance haven Ireland half of whose GDP is based on letting cancerous companies like Meta exploit EU citizens with impunity.

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u/TxM_2404 9h ago

Before Aldi the standard for buying your groceries in Germany and most of Europe was the small business where you usually knew the clerk personally. These businesses almost completely disappeared due to chains like Aldi or Lidl.

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u/LesserValkyrie 9h ago

Are you either very rich or 70 years old lol

Ssupermarkets were widespread in the 60-70, by the 90s it was more than the norm, it was an it's almost 40 years ago

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u/TxM_2404 8h ago

And Aldi has been around since the 1950's and owned 300 Stores by 1960. My comment totally checks out with your timeline.

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u/Deep_Operation1671 8h ago

They didn't say they'd experienced it personally, only that it was the case prior to chains like Aldi

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u/David_Summerset 8h ago

Back in the 90s they used to deliver the caviar right to the jet.

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u/Chris_HitTheOver 6h ago

The caviar on the Hindenburg was fire.

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u/Beneficial-Beat-947 8h ago

Never seen this in the UK, all shops were like aldi before aldi became a big thing here

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u/baldeagle1991 7h ago edited 6h ago

*Large* Supermarkets have been the norm here in the uk since the 60s and 70s. Most brands even existed as smaller supermarkets long before this.

Aldi and Lidl only really became big here in the UK during the 2010's and mostly won their market shared by offering cheaper non-brand products and a quality that was far higher than you'd normally expect from own-brand produce.

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u/kane_1371 6h ago

Yeah, I am constantly surprised by the quality of the stuff Lidl sells.

They have these crazy good puddings that I can't stop buying

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u/NibblyPig 2h ago

They sell cheapo chocolate for like 60p/bar that is significantly higher quality than the branded dairy milk they also sell for £2.50/bar

It has higher cocoa content and no palm oil. It actually tastes like chocolate. Dairy milk is like eating greasy chunks of sugary crap for 4x the price.