We do and the baskets or tables offering a quasi-random assortment of items would be called Wühltische (wühlen - verb, to dig/borrow. Tisch - noun, table)

During easter you will find choclate, before New Year you will find fireworks, and during off-season you'll find random stuff there.

You need a new pair of headphones, check the Wühltische. That submersion-mixer you desperatedly want? It's somewhere over there.

[–] kofe@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I have a gift card to Aldi I've been sitting on since Christmas. Your comment has inspired me to go spend all $20 on items from that aisle. I will update with what that afforded me and how ashamed I am tomorrow

[–] QualifiedKitten@discuss.online 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

22 hours later... Any update?

[–] kofe@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

I died

(I completely forgot and am certainly more ashamed I made the promise than I think I would be if I'd remembered and followed through)

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Well there's Aldi Süd (South) and Aldi Nord (North). They split a long time back and most countries have one or the other. Germany has both. In the US Aldi stores here are Aldi Süd. (Trader Joe's is actually owned by Aldi Nord. It's my understanding that it's not really like an Aldi Nord store though.)

As far as I can tell most Aldi stores Süd and Nord have this across Europe but under different names.