Aldi, Please Mind Your Onions
By Jim Bauer
@porwest (112717)
United States
August 4, 2019 7:16am CST
It is rare that I complain about Aldi. They have some great prices and I love to shop there. I can fill my basket and walk out of there for under $50 with a TON of groceries.
Mostly good quality.
But my last visit I bought a package of 3 lbs of onions, and it was a very good price.
I usually inspect my onions pretty well, and thought I did this time. BUT, I am resorting to throwing away HALF of my onions because half of the onion is moldy and rotted already.
ALDI, get it together. Give me a GREAT price on my onions. But please make sure I get a bag of onions I can actually EAT. If I am throwing away half of my onions...
I am NOT saving any money.
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12 responses
@Hannihar (130150)
• Israel
8 Aug 19
@porwest
I have never heard of Aldi's till people mentioned it here. That is great that you can work out of there for under $50. That is so sad about the onions. I went to this store that is full of toys and other things and mentioned about broken ones and they just put them back in there. I thought that is not right.
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@MommyOfEli2013 (89458)
• Rupert, Idaho
5 Aug 19
I don't buy/eat onions....but when we shop for my grandmother and get her onions I just get the single ones so I can check them all by themselves. Sorry you didn't get a great bag this time!
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@porwest (112717)
• United States
7 Aug 19
@MommyOfEli2013 I think, if I remember right, the single onions are something like $1 per pound or somewhere around that. I buy a 3 lb bag of onions for about $1.69.
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@MommyOfEli2013 (89458)
• Rupert, Idaho
6 Aug 19
@porwest I didn't know about them being more expensive for the single ones....but we usually only by one or two for my grandmother....so don't need a whole bag. But that is awful that it was fine and then the next day some were already rotting.
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@andriaperry (118793)
• Anniston, Alabama
5 Aug 19
I check ALL produce when I shop at any store, because of that fact. But still I have to love Aldi, I often get free quarters and enough food for 2 weeks for $20.
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@MarieCoyle (59110)
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27 Apr 21
I love Aldi. I have had trouble buying onions for the past month, at the several stores I go to other than Aldi. It is not the season for onions, I've been told, and the ones we are seeing in the stores have mostly been in storage for a long time. Kind of like most potatoes, too. They are not as good this time of the year.
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@owlwings (43897)
• Cambridge, England
4 Aug 19
I don't know how things are with customer service in your neck of the woods, but all I would have to do would be to take the opened bag and its contents back to Aldi (optionally with the receipt) and I'd get either a full refund or a replacement.
Whether I'd actually do this would depend on whether it's less hassle and less expensive (in gas and time) to just ditch the bag and buy another elsewhere.
@snowy22315 (208746)
• United States
4 Aug 19
That is a rarity, normally Aldi has great produce. It might just be your particular store.
@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
4 Aug 19
You will have to pay attention to inspecting next time.
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