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Yeah I've been price comparing by unit volume between aldi and BJs cause my dad put me on his BJs membership-
Almost nothing is cheaper at BJs. Rice is. A whole bundle of coconut milk is cheaper.
But like... Unless you're already buying brand names it's frankly a bad deal 😅 and even then I'm curious how much better than Walmart it might actually be
BJs offered us a deal so we took it.
Almost every product there (all name brand) costs the same as buying the generic brand at Walmart. Cereal, yogurt, Mac and cheese, toilet paper, I have compared all of it while we have the one year membership.
Sure, I get name brand, and Jif is better than great value, but I have saved nothing. Won't be renewing when they actually expect me to pay the membership. Sam's club beats Walmart by a little bit but not a lot, and I dont have a Costco or Aldi's near me. How does Aldi's stack compared to BJ's?
Thank you for sharing, that's super helpful!
Aldi seem almost always cheaper or the same price compared to BJ's, as everything at Aldi with a small number of exceptions is store brand. Even buying in smaller quantities many things are cheaper at Aldi, by at least a little bit.
The exceptions I saw were things like rice since you can buy store brand jasmine at BJs in a huge 25 lb bag, which if I remember is a good deal compared to Aldi (obs ignoring membership cause you can't really factor that in). Basmatti was even steeper of a deal I think, since Aldi sells less basmatti and so only sells a smaller bag and for a bit more money. And I do remember dry black beans being cheaper but I believe that was even cheaper at Walmart. That might also be true for canned coconut milk which I think was cheaper at BJs, but it might be a bit cheaper still at Walmart, I don't recall.
Milk has weirdly been way cheaper for me at target in my area, than basically anywhere else, which feels very strange, but it's close to me and I'm usually there to pick up perscriptions anyway so it's not too inconvenient to get only milk there.
It's been a bit since I did price comparisons though, and my memory is exceptionally bad 😅. I almost always shop at Aldi so I don't compare them ongoing, I just went through the process of checking a bunch of things recently.
Shopping at Aldi I would generally expect you to save a bit of money vs BJ's unless you're buying stuff you can buy at BJs in much larger volume.
Plus Aldi doesn't make political campaign donations, and as such isn't using my money to purchase my political institutions away from me, which I very much appreciate
Cool thanks for the info.
Also didn't know bjs was donating lije that. Terrible.
Almost all companies do unfortunately, Aldi is a somewhat rare exception
You can look up what companies do or don't, and which parties they support with the Goods Unite Us app or website, it's handy :)
There was a comm here on lemmy where people posted screenshots of the apps overview for various companies, which was neat, but I haven't seen any posts from it for a while
Whoa, you can get a BJ membership? I thought it was something you always had to pay for each time.
Can you shop at BJs without a membership...?
Its a wholesale club, like sams and Costco. But yes, you can get a membership, I think that's the default/standard way of shopping there, shopping without a membership I think would be an exception to the norm
Is there like an option to pay an added fee on top of whatever you're buying to be able to shop without membership? If so, how much is it?
And is the membership card called "Happy Endings" or something?