There are differences in eggs in Germany. 1) Industrial farming in boxes 2) Barn farming (Bodenhaltung) 3) Free range farming (Freilandhaltung) 4) Organic in combination with 2) or 3) (Bio) 5) Farm eggs, chicken breed that doesn't lay an egg every day, so large eggs (Bauerhof Eier) The higher the number, the higher the price. The price does not necessarily refer to the quality, but also to the way the animals are kept.
Thank you for the compilation. I would just like to mention that 4. ‘organic’ (Bio) is not comparable with 2. and 3. and there is no combination: ‘Organic’ also always means more free-range area for the chickens. An ‘organic’ label would not even be possible with barn farming (2).
I don't think so, I bought one chicken breast at the teke. I think it was 1,49 and didn't think much about it. And at checkout I saw it was 5 eur! For 1 chicken breast. Still have the receipt. 5.05 eur for 0.282 kg. the date 09.09.2024
The real sponsor of this episode is:.... ALDI. A very insightful and perfectly prepared presentation of products from this store. I have not seen better publicity. Thanks to you, I am changing my grocery store to... ALDI.
I think for eggs and meat, one needs to also compare across farming types. Free range and bio is more than battery hens and mass produced beef and pork where the animals have a low quality of life. In Europe I feel the norm leans towards free range and bio.
It is an EU-regulation: "Throughout the EU, sellers must indicate product prices clearly enough for you to easily compare similar products and make informed choices - no matter how they're packaged or how many units are sold together. Companies are legally obliged to be completely clear about the price you'll have to pay when they advertise or sell something to you. Complete price information The price quoted in an offer must include all taxes and delivery charges. If there might be extra costs that can't be calculated in advance, you must also be told about that upfront."
sorry, but my inner "klugscheißer" kicks in and dinkel is spelt in english a variety of wheat that is more expensive than the regular wheat. so the bread comparison is not that accurate.
The egg comparison does have more layers in behalf of costs actually when you go into the needy greedy detail.. US eggs are produced by battery farming therefore need to be chlorified and then fridged in order to be a save product..while due to battery farming you´ll get a way higher margin of eggs per square meter of the facility = which makes eggs way cheaper due to the way higher number of eggs which are produced in way less space and then brought into the market (= economic outcome of supply + demand) but due to the additional needed process of chlorifying + fridging that then also adds more costs before they can be sold to the customer European eggs are not battery farmed due to the EU animal protection law = way lower margin of eggs are produced per square meter of the facilty therefore due to supply + demand those are more expensive but there are then no further costs because those don´t need to be chlorified + don´t need to be fridged before they can be sold to the customer A similar thing is to say about beef...in the US it is allowed to use hormons for growth and even cloning cows but in the EU don´t = So US cows deliver more meat + more milk per cow in comparision to cows in the EU which has of course an impact to the selling price....despite the question of the impact of people´s health which would open an other "can of worms" so to say.
Hi Ashton, that was great, thanks. I am from Munich, but I live on Maui, HI, and I love to visit my homeland, Oberbayern, once a year for a month, usually in July. Anyway, the price you quoted for Aldi USA is around 2.5 times as much here on Maui. No Aldi here, so Costco is my life saver. When I go to Aldi in the small Bavarian town, where I stay with friends, I get 'Kaufrausch'. Meaning, I get euphoric, because I can fill my cart with pretty much everything my heart desires, including booze, tasty tomatoes and walk out happily with a EUR 50 invoice, scratching my head how everything can be so ridiculously cheap. The only times I stray from Aldi, and go to Edeka or Lidl, is when they have Ritter Sport Nougat on sale for 59c, or 79c last July, then I raid the shelves to the horrified look of the cashier, as they don't have limits on sale items in Germany. And that's all I have in my checked luggage, around 30 pounds of chocolate, roughly a year's supply😂 . And I will never ever stop over in Phoenix in 114 F again, because I ended up with a lot of 'mousse au chocolate' last July. 😋
@@Lysandra-8 Already booked my next year's trip via Anchorage, Alaska. But who knows, maybe at the speed momma Earth is heating up, it will be 114 up there by next year. 🥵
The main reason bananas in the US are cheaper than in Germany is because of shipping costs. Shipping from Columbia or Ecuador to the US is way faster and cheaper than to Germany. Hence the price difference.
Ashton, just one small detail on your tables and overall price display throughout the video for readability. Please, use in a column on the left and the right side the same currency as this mixture ($ (€) | € ($)) makes it hard to read. So, something like in a same column (€($) | €($)). Otherwise, use of colors for readability was good.
It is always funny to me that Americans who are angry at angry for asking for a 25¢ deposit don't know about the plastic chips you can use instead. I barely put real money in the shopping cart here in Germany. 😅
Sometimes a dairy product in Germany is actually from the same manufacturer for cheap and brand option. They have this oval label ("Identitätskennzeichen", like: DE BY 12345 EG) that shows the producer, that way you can tell if it's the same. Edit: That could be a reason why there is no difference for Rewe and Aldi for Yoghurt.
It is important to note that the products you bought are produced in a different way in the USA an Europe. That makes it very difficult to make a fair comparison. Have a look a the project "Food for thought" by Kadir van Lohuizen (book, docu series and exposition) to see where your food comes form
Nice comparison. So much work. But it makes a lot of sense, beef is always way cheaper in the U.S., pork on the other hand is way more expensive than in Germany. One thing, though. The chicken breast in your comparison with Hen House and Rewe, there is no way, that you pay $81/pound at Hen House or €99/kg at Rewe.
Wenn man bei Rewe die teuerste Milch nimmt, ist der Unterschied natürlich so hoch. Die Hausmarke ist überall ähnlich günstig und weicht, wenn überhaupt, nur um ein paar Cent ab. Daher hinkt der Vergleich.
@@bn1435 If you want to point out and be a smartass about something, doing it about something that is already pointed out twice in the video doesn't really make you look particularly clever.
I was so scared seeing the you reach into the almost empty box of bananas. I worked at a German supermarket and funnily enough a friend of mine worked on a banana field in Vietnam during his work and travel right after school. He noticed that there are tons spiders and insects on the bananas (back in 2006) and even the bath wasn't guaranteed to get rid of them. Also some bananas grew directly in plastic bags carrying spiders in them. I had two encounter in the fruit section stacking up banana boxes seeing a spider. A customer also once reported a spider but I wasn't the person working in the fruit section anymore so I couldn't verify. I have the irrational fear of finding a spider amongst those bananas even though they most likely won't bite and I'm not scared of spiders anywhere else. Amazing video as always Ashton! Been there since the very start of the channel and it is always a pleasure seeing someone with a similar degree not being lazy and doing all the work necessary to find the best common demoninator to compare everything fairly.
The yoghurt prices in Germany are no surprise at all. Those small yoghurt portions have a very specific job in the german grocery shops: to pull in customers. As a result they are sold at absolute cut throat prices. Even upmarket shops like REWE are forced to sell them at 0% profit or even at a loss, to compete with the Aldi-prices. It seems Aldi-Süd tries to get the same system going in the USA. In general the overall profit margin for grocery products in discounters is incredible low in Germany, somewhere between 2-4%. Which is almost impossible to compete with in the american market.
shop by price pr kilo. and knowing the normal price, is the way to go, everywhere in the world. So never shop in just one shop. go shop in 2-4 different shops, and max once a week. going for discount is the way to go :) shopping by just what I want is very pricy. Never make a dinnerplan by feel. Make weekly dinner plan. by what is on sale.
A lot of chicken meat sold in Denmark is "enhanced". The meat is injected with a salt water and sugar solution. It's supposed to make the meat juicier, but it also means that the meat can be sold at an apparently lower kilo price, even though you actually get less chicken for your money.
Spongier doesn't means softer but not outright more porous/dry. I remember having no problems spreading jam, peanut butter, etc on "Toast" in the US. Nevertheless it tasted way different and I still remember all the additives on the package.
The establishment of several "banana republics" in central amerca made the big price difference! ;-) Very detailed and professional ! Thank you. Have a nice sunday.
Ofcourse you can comparee prices on a one-to-one basis. But the next question is how to compare the quality of the products? How does it taste? What aditived do they contain? and so on. As you mentioned about the bread, in the USA it is spungier than in Germany.. And Chicken in the EU is produced to way higher sanity standards than in the USA.. It can be cheaper, but a salmonella infection isn't any fun either.
The US does not use imperial units but US units. In most cases it makes little difference, but a US gallon equals 3.785411784 litres and an imperial gallon equals 4.54609 litres.
Our Aldi in germany has purple and green colored plastic packets (self standing, like the M&Ms) of ready to heat sauces from their asian store brand. If you see those, try them. They taste amazing.
The ‘Landmilch’ that you bought in the German Aldi supermarket is not labelled as organic. It is only the green pack :-), but has no organic label. Organic milk is even more expensive in Aldi. However, it is more expensive than the cheapest Aldi milk - but then you have compared correctly.
On some of those same items, Aldi and Walmart have similar prices. At Sam's Club there are some better prices on the shelf but one has to factor the cost of membership as part of the pricing too.
She was speaking English, so the pronunciation is acceptable. What gets me is when immigrants ( US, GB, AUS ) trying to speak German insist on English pronunciation of German or international brands. Heck, when I am in the US I use the pronunciation the natives will understand.... ( curtesy aside )
Great comparison with surprising result: US prices not necessarily being more expensive than Germany if you shop in the right places. However, one thing I missed, which I found ridiculously overpriced in the US, is toilet paper. Would have been interesting to see if it is like 500% more expensive even at Aldi...
Should we mention the differences in quality between the US and EU versions? In the 15 European countries we visited, groceries were consistently cheaper than in the US and also much better in quality: more sustainably produced, far more likely to be locally sourced, less packaging, and better tasting. We got used to the smaller portions because the meals were more satisfying.
on that bit at the end: honestly if you can afford it... dont shop at aldi or lidl... they are absolutely horrible employers - those discounts are always paid by someone... you are just making someone else pay it
That depends on the labor laws and worker protection rights of the country, as well as the market situation. Aldi Suisse pays a minimal wage of 4'700 CHF a month, Lidl Schweiz 4'550 CHF, the Swiss discounter Denner 4'400 CHF and the non discounter supermarkets Migros and Coop will pay a minimal wage of 4'200 CHF a month. All gross wages before taxes and social security contributions, and for the year 2024. Aldi Suisse as well as Lidl Schweiz were severly criticised by the media and the public for their low wages at the time they entered the Swiss market. Both companies learned that a negative image because of low wages lead to lower sale numbers, and since Aldi and Lidl want to expand their operations in the well saturated Swiss market, they had to change something.
Chicken in Rewe was 9,90 EUR /kg and a sale price. You can see it in the video. If you add up this numbers you end up with 7.32 EUR for Rewe and 103.68% Prices are nearly the same in Germany whne yozu take the store brands. You can get 99 cent milk in every store for example. And then you have different items on sale every week, which is for all stores including Aldi.
there was a comparison here on YT where they checked the prices of diffrent store brands (like ja!, gut&günstig etc) and if you only buy the store brand, the prices will be the same. (a pound of pasta is 0,8 € in aldi, rewe, lidl, etc). Due to the fact, that most of the time you also get more weight per package it is way more cheaper than the big brands. (and a lot of the store brands come from the same factory as big brands) There a few items that taste better if you don't buy the cheaper store brand, like pizza or some sort of chips (crisps), or soft drinks/ sodas. But even though I buy mostly store brands, I use every app from every store to save a few extra percentage and I look for things on sale I still have to pay 150€ or more per week for groceries for me and my 2 teenage kids.
I was expecting Ashton to mention in her 'disclaimers' there are two Aldi companies - Aldi Nord and Aldi Sud. Do they charge the same prices as each other? I imagine her local store in Freiburg is Aldi Sud. Here in the UK I think we have Aldi Nord. Which one is in the US? One thing Aldi and Lidl do to stand out here in the UK, which I didn't notice in either store shown, was that they make a big play of products being British grown or produced. So you have the amusing sight of German supermarkets patriotically plastering the Union Jack all over their products!
Aldi has abandoned Denmark. Aldi (Nord) opened the first discount store in Denmark in 1977, introducing the discount concept in the country.. In 2022 they pulled out and sold their stores to another chain (REMA 1000, based in Norway) Aldi always struggled to gain a foothold in the Danish market. They had difficulty adapting their model to the habits of Danish consumers. For example, Danes want fresh, refrigerated milk. UHT milk has a long shelf life and doesn't need to be refrigerated, and is therefore cheaper. But even the most price-conscious buyers didn't care for that. Eggs are another example. Eggs in Europe are sold unwashed, which means they have a long shelf life (the washing process removes the protective layer in the eggshell) and they CAN be stored just fine at room temperature. But danish consumers want their eggs from a refrigerator gosh darnit &%&%¤%¤#%&¤! That's how we store the eggs at home.
In Germany, with eggs as unwashed as can be (yep, chicken poop smell and all), it never ever even occurred to me to NOT store eggs in the fridge (although they are stored on unrefrigerated shelfs in the store). I mean, frigdes are even sold with these little egg shelf thingies by default, always have been.
If you keep on shopping at Aldi look out for Trader Joe items, before Aldi build stores they took over Trader Joe, that the reason for not having Aldi in CA.
I prefer thr Aldi in Belgium over Germany, mainly because the cashier do their job at a reasonable pace. I think Belgians were not cool with the super fast German cashier style, so they just slowed it down a bit. At least that's my experience.
[Tongue in cheek] CAUTION: IRONY!!! (in case it wasn't clear from the get go) Price for an Aldi shopping cart in America 25 cent (= 0,22€) Price for an Aldi Einkaufswagen in Germany 1 € (= $1,12) So Aldi America is 4.5x cheaper than Aldi Germany. Case closed within the first two minutes. ;-P [\Tongue in cheek]
Then we just take the shopping cart on vacation in the US 😜 But hardly anyone in Germany spends money on this; most people have plastic chips or a universal opener on their key ring
I always use an US American Quarter in German Aldis. Not sure if they have a different system in the US since I think there can't be that many companies producing "shopping cart money insertion safety locking devices"
Most beautiful English interpretation of German combined nouns I've ever seen. Let me spell that out just for fun and giggles: "Einkaufswagengeldeinschubsicherheitsverschlusssysteme". Hilarious. 😂
Even though you checked the numbers 3 times, the price of chicken breasts at Hen House must be off by 10 times. 16,34 Euros per 100 grams is 163,40 per kilo, that must be wrong.
Aldi also offers imported goods from Europe in the USA. However, this is also associated with costs, and these are likely to be slightly more expensive on sale than here in Germany. Now just my question and the thought I've always had, American foods are very contaminated with chemicals and other harmful ingredients, has Aldi now refused to sell them or what is Aldi doing in the USA. It is well known that goods are produced especially for Aldi in different packaging by well-known manufacturers, they have their own list of ingredients which prohibits these additives.
Aston, an open question about US. In Germay prices of non industrial food as fruits, vegetables and partly meat vary over time. Do you see that in the US also?
Aldi Süd = Aldi in the US. Trader Joe's = Aldi Nord. And, as far as I know, in Germany, Aldi is a really good employer and employees get fairly high wages and all the etcetera. In the US, it appears to be ok., but not as great as in Germany. I'm not sure about teir position regarding trade unions or works councils (which is mandatory in Germany if the market or whatever business had more than a certain number of employees). I am also not sure about the nature of the contracts Aldi has with the producers. I think it has to do with these contracts that Aldi can offer such good quality at affordable prices.
I think if you bought only the discount house brands at the compared store (e.g. the "ja!"-branded products at Rewe or "gut & günstig" at Edeka) you would probably have a very similar total sum and comparable product quality like at Aldi
which is understandable - factory farming is much cheaper to do... we just end up paying that up front reduction in cost in worse health outcomes (antibiotic resistant bacteria) and worsening climate outcomes (factory farming produces significantly more greenhouse gases)... and we probably pay much more in those consequences than the up front savings...
@@SharienGaming completely agree. I should have written simply: Non organic ground beef probably costs only a third of what Ashton paid for her organic package in Germany. And then the US would have been on the more expensive side. And no, cheaply priced and/or produced meat isn’t a good thing.
We don't have an Aldi or Lidl in our area. I would not go to them anyway as we only eat organic-bio produce. Our bread is Desem. We as Dutch are daily shoppers and require fresh daily produce. We have a bio-butcher in our shopping street and we walk everywhere. Something you are unable to do in the States.
As interesting as these price comparison videos are (Even Edinger has done a couple great ones for he US and UK), they are ultimately meaningless because we simply cannot account for all the relevant variables. One thing that is missing (but very difficult to really get) would be an indication of a given person's income in both places because an egg be 4 cents more expensive could either be a small difference or a pretty meaningful difference if they are in a place with relatively higher or lower income (and this the egg being a lower or higher proportion of their earnings). But of course the big one is the on e we all know: you buy groceries where you are, not the other side of a ocean. As someone who has moved overseas, I can say you very quickly get out of the habit of converting the prices of things because does it really matter if that coffee would have been 10 cents cheaper 'back home' when you are not back home? You ultimately have to work in the local currency, especially if you are being paid in that currency and do not have significant assets/liabilities in the other place, and get to the point where you are roughly thinking in terms of is this a lot or a little of my take home pay (which is really how we should always be thinking).
Well the "Hausmarken" house brands of the grocery stores in Germany usually cost the same. So the discounters ALDI and LIDL with their house brands, dropped the pricesin the past, so REWE and EDEKA (some years ago also real,-) made their own house brands, and they usually have the same price, despite a sales offer. But at ALDI you had only a small offer of other brands, what you have a lot a t EDEKA, REWE etc.. What is the comparison between Trader Joe's and ALDI, as Trader Joe's belongs to ALDI North while the ALDI (in the USA) belong to ALDI South.
I would say the main question is what is the minimum wage, unemployment benefits and other social transfers. This in the end determines what is justified and "morally" acceptable
Fresh fruits and veggies are a tough comparison when looking at Germany vs. USA. You're dealing with which items are local to not only each country, but regions. Plus seasonality is also an issue.
Of course Mississippi and Alabama tax groceries at full rate. Because of course they do. Illinois is the bit of the head scratcher there. Needs to come off.
All this videos accept that the exchange rate accuratly reflect the value of the money to a normal shopper, Im not blaming, what are you supposed to do, Im just saying I think they are skewed by things like oil and aircraft sales, big global scale transactions that are basically a different economy to the rest of us.
Nope.It's about 40% more expensive in The US for fruits and vegetables except fir few Things like bananas,Avocados,Nuts but for meat,Poultry,Eggs,Milks there aren’t any significant difference
So I think you made some mistakes when choosing the products (I'm just trow in fancy Dinkel Toast vs. regular US sandwich weat bread) - but that happens. But you obviously made the biggest mistake in the price information with REWE chicken. You're will not seriously saying that chicken breast costs €100 per kilo? But you could really have noticed that yourself. I assume that the price of €9.90 that you noted is not the 100gram price but the price per kilogram. By the way, at REWE 10 own brand eggs cost €1.99 and at ALDI, according to your video, they cost €2.29. It should be said that I have never seen them sold out at REWE. But in the end I think it's good that you put this effort into your video.
Shocking - - so the American Republican's story about prices on everyday food items being more than double the price because of Biden's economy is also true for Germany ?
Oh no, the cashiers aren't forced to smile continuously and distract themselves from the actual task of scanning items by making useless small talk? How terribly rude of them!
@@ivanamihaart when I am for work in Germany, I honestly never checked. But I believe they are very even. At least in NL they are. However that is more impression on my side.
I'm pretty sure that the REWE price of €9.90 for 100g of chicken was not correct - not then nor now. That would be a breath taking €99 for a kilo! Currently the normal price for chicken breast at REWE is around €15/kg, for Bio close to €30. I'm not certain about Aldi-US, but I have seen prices in US grocery stores (Walmart etc) that looked absolutely terrifying to a German - and thats even before the whatever % of sales tax go on top. That being said, if we keep our current government for much longer, I bet the german prices will beat the us price hands down soon.
@@petebeatminister ... and one more 'slogan' instead of a critical thought. The world is multidimensional. Blaming all you don't like on the people you don't agree with is not constructive, it is lazy and makes you easy to manipulate! .
19:00 thats probably because you bought Dinkel bread at the Aldi in Germany. I don't know if it was on purpose or not, but the Whole Wheat option was significantly cheaper
If you compare the price of beef to that of chicken, there is no justification for that astronomical chicken prices. Well if you looked up the prices online, there might have been some calculation errors in Google. Today I see an offer for fresh chicken breasts at 8,80 € per 100 gramms, but if i click it and go to the storepage I can see that this is actually the kilo price.
I dont have time to look it up, but at 19:23 you cant tell me you paid 10€/100g for chicken in ReWe. No way right ? Same with HenHouse ? 18$ per 100g ? Did you make a conversion error ? There is no way you pay 50€ for a 500g package or something like that.
"I´m trying to make a fair comparison" - also mostly buys organic products in germany which come with a significantly higher price tag. Dinkel ist also more pricy than other options... so yeah not a big fan of that (go figure why the "bread" at Rewe was cheaper). The only items I´d consider compaired fairly would be milk, bananas and chicken. Also 17:24 : showing pricetags $ (€) --- € ($) is a really irritating when trying to compare... next one is even worse especially... relative % price comparison needs a base and in your first table you always had positive % increases meaning that you didn´t use one column consistently as base. While in the 2nd table you use + and - % based on the aldi $ price. It might seem nitpicky, but a comparison that displays data in inconsistent ways makes it less clear and concise. Really dissappointing over all
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regarding beef: you bought Bio in Germany. Bio is vastly more expensive. So the higher price not surprising at all.
Also the calculation for the US beef is way off. $7.74 for 1.13 lb (512g) should result in $1.51 per 100g and not $0.73 per 100g as in the video.
There are differences in eggs in Germany.
1) Industrial farming in boxes
2) Barn farming (Bodenhaltung)
3) Free range farming (Freilandhaltung)
4) Organic in combination with 2) or 3) (Bio)
5) Farm eggs, chicken breed that doesn't lay an egg every day, so large eggs (Bauerhof Eier)
The higher the number, the higher the price. The price does not necessarily refer to the quality, but also to the way the animals are kept.
Thank you for the compilation. I would just like to mention that 4. ‘organic’ (Bio) is not comparable with 2. and 3. and there is no combination: ‘Organic’ also always means more free-range area for the chickens. An ‘organic’ label would not even be possible with barn farming (2).
That price for chicken at rewe cannot be for 100g, no one could afford chicken. Must be for 1kg
I don't think so, I bought one chicken breast at the teke. I think it was 1,49 and didn't think much about it. And at checkout I saw it was 5 eur! For 1 chicken breast.
Still have the receipt. 5.05 eur for 0.282 kg. the date 09.09.2024
Yes, I just looked into the video, it was 9,90 per kg.
So with 99 cent per 100g was it neartly the same and it was on sale.
Oh, right I saw it. She put kg price.
I think the price was 1.79 or 17.90 per kilo in rewe. She must have had an Angebot
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She paid 4.84 EUR for 0.489 kg and the price tag on the shelf was yellow, so sale price.
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The real sponsor of this episode is:.... ALDI. A very insightful and perfectly prepared presentation of products from this store. I have not seen better publicity. Thanks to you, I am changing my grocery store to... ALDI.
I think for eggs and meat, one needs to also compare across farming types. Free range and bio is more than battery hens and mass produced beef and pork where the animals have a low quality of life. In Europe I feel the norm leans towards free range and bio.
And there is more range in America
Same for bananas. The Aldi Germany ones were Rain Forrest Alliance ones and the USA ones were Del Monte.
As some people may rant about EU regulations, the best was the general rule that prices to end customers have to be includes all taxes
Is that an EU regulation or was it something that was already common. I was in Serbia and they also included the taxes in the price.
that's not EU regulation. US (guess) is the only country in the world that does it differently.
It is an EU-regulation:
"Throughout the EU, sellers must indicate product prices clearly enough for you to easily compare similar products and make informed choices - no matter how they're packaged or how many units are sold together.
Companies are legally obliged to be completely clear about the price you'll have to pay when they advertise or sell something to you.
Complete price information
The price quoted in an offer must include all taxes and delivery charges. If there might be extra costs that can't be calculated in advance, you must also be told about that upfront."
@@Neuraloverlordsit was common practice and law in all or at least most countries
@@leeman1525 In Germany it was law since VAT has been introduced in 1968.
sorry, but my inner "klugscheißer" kicks in and dinkel is spelt in english a variety of wheat that is more expensive than the regular wheat. so the bread comparison is not that accurate.
The egg comparison does have more layers in behalf of costs actually when you go into the needy greedy detail..
US eggs are produced by battery farming therefore need to be chlorified and then fridged in order to be a save product..while due to battery farming you´ll get a way higher margin of eggs per square meter of the facility = which makes eggs way cheaper due to the way higher number of eggs which are produced in way less space and then brought into the market (= economic outcome of supply + demand) but due to the additional needed process of chlorifying + fridging that then also adds more costs before they can be sold to the customer
European eggs are not battery farmed due to the EU animal protection law = way lower margin of eggs are produced per square meter of the facilty therefore due to supply + demand those are more expensive but there are then no further costs because those don´t need to be chlorified + don´t need to be fridged before they can be sold to the customer
A similar thing is to say about beef...in the US it is allowed to use hormons for growth and even cloning cows but in the EU don´t = So US cows deliver more meat + more milk per cow in comparision to cows in the EU which has of course an impact to the selling price....despite the question of the impact of people´s health which would open an other "can of worms" so to say.
Hi Ashton, that was great, thanks. I am from Munich, but I live on Maui, HI, and I love to visit my homeland, Oberbayern, once a year for a month, usually in July. Anyway, the price you quoted for Aldi USA is around 2.5 times as much here on Maui. No Aldi here, so Costco is my life saver. When I go to Aldi in the small Bavarian town, where I stay with friends, I get 'Kaufrausch'. Meaning, I get euphoric, because I can fill my cart with pretty much everything my heart desires, including booze, tasty tomatoes and walk out happily with a EUR 50 invoice, scratching my head how everything can be so ridiculously cheap. The only times I stray from Aldi, and go to Edeka or Lidl, is when they have Ritter Sport Nougat on sale for 59c, or 79c last July, then I raid the shelves to the horrified look of the cashier, as they don't have limits on sale items in Germany. And that's all I have in my checked luggage, around 30 pounds of chocolate, roughly a year's supply😂 . And I will never ever stop over in Phoenix in 114 F again, because I ended up with a lot of 'mousse au chocolate' last July. 😋
I feel your pain😂
@@Lysandra-8 Already booked my next year's trip via Anchorage, Alaska. But who knows, maybe at the speed momma Earth is heating up, it will be 114 up there by next year. 🥵
The main reason bananas in the US are cheaper than in Germany is because of shipping costs. Shipping from Columbia or Ecuador to the US is way faster and cheaper than to Germany. Hence the price difference.
Those chicken prices.... aren't they per kilogram price? I cannot imagin any place selling chicken for €99 per kilogram!
I must admit, first time shopping groceries in the US I was not impressed with the quality I saw in The stores.
Ashton, just one small detail on your tables and overall price display throughout the video for readability.
Please, use in a column on the left and the right side the same currency as this mixture ($ (€) | € ($)) makes it hard to read. So, something like in a same column (€($) | €($)). Otherwise, use of colors for readability was good.
It is always funny to me that Americans who are angry at angry for asking for a 25¢ deposit don't know about the plastic chips you can use instead. I barely put real money in the shopping cart here in Germany. 😅
Sometimes a dairy product in Germany is actually from the same manufacturer for cheap and brand option. They have this oval label ("Identitätskennzeichen", like: DE BY 12345 EG) that shows the producer, that way you can tell if it's the same. Edit: That could be a reason why there is no difference for Rewe and Aldi for Yoghurt.
It is important to note that the products you bought are produced in a different way in the USA an Europe. That makes it very difficult to make a fair comparison. Have a look a the project "Food for thought" by Kadir van Lohuizen (book, docu series and exposition) to see where your food comes form
Nice comparison. So much work.
But it makes a lot of sense, beef is always way cheaper in the U.S., pork on the other hand is way more expensive than in Germany.
One thing, though. The chicken breast in your comparison with Hen House and Rewe, there is no way, that you pay $81/pound at Hen House or €99/kg at Rewe.
The ground meat was cheaper in Germany, the comparison was miscalculated.
Wenn man bei Rewe die teuerste Milch nimmt, ist der Unterschied natürlich so hoch. Die Hausmarke ist überall ähnlich günstig und weicht, wenn überhaupt, nur um ein paar Cent ab. Daher hinkt der Vergleich.
Das hat sie doch am Anfang und mittendrin immer wieder selbst gesagt?
@@jonasbartels1716 Ja aber wenn man seriös vergleichen will und darüber ein Video macht, muss man auch gleichwertig vergleichen.
@@bn1435 If you want to point out and be a smartass about something, doing it about something that is already pointed out twice in the video doesn't really make you look particularly clever.
Romania, here. My favorite german brand : Kaufland. ❤
I was so scared seeing the you reach into the almost empty box of bananas. I worked at a German supermarket and funnily enough a friend of mine worked on a banana field in Vietnam during his work and travel right after school.
He noticed that there are tons spiders and insects on the bananas (back in 2006) and even the bath wasn't guaranteed to get rid of them. Also some bananas grew directly in plastic bags carrying spiders in them.
I had two encounter in the fruit section stacking up banana boxes seeing a spider.
A customer also once reported a spider but I wasn't the person working in the fruit section anymore so I couldn't verify.
I have the irrational fear of finding a spider amongst those bananas even though they most likely won't bite and I'm not scared of spiders anywhere else.
Amazing video as always Ashton! Been there since the very start of the channel and it is always a pleasure seeing someone with a similar degree not being lazy and doing all the work necessary to find the best common demoninator to compare everything fairly.
The yoghurt prices in Germany are no surprise at all. Those small yoghurt portions have a very specific job in the german grocery shops: to pull in customers. As a result they are sold at absolute cut throat prices. Even upmarket shops like REWE are forced to sell them at 0% profit or even at a loss, to compete with the Aldi-prices. It seems Aldi-Süd tries to get the same system going in the USA. In general the overall profit margin for grocery products in discounters is incredible low in Germany, somewhere between 2-4%. Which is almost impossible to compete with in the american market.
I'm going to freiburg for vacation on Monday. I'm so excited!
20:20 looks you’re comparing a 100g @aldi price to a 1000g (1kg) price.
shop by price pr kilo.
and knowing the normal price, is the way to go, everywhere in the world.
So never shop in just one shop.
go shop in 2-4 different shops, and max once a week.
going for discount is the way to go :)
shopping by just what I want is very pricy.
Never make a dinnerplan by feel. Make weekly dinner plan. by what is on sale.
A lot of chicken meat sold in Denmark is "enhanced". The meat is injected with a salt water and sugar solution.
It's supposed to make the meat juicier, but it also means that the meat can be sold at an apparently lower kilo price, even though you actually get less chicken for your money.
Wait. WAIT. American toast bread is even softer and spongier than European toast bread?! WHAT?! How do you spread butter on it?!
You don't... you use mayonnaise!
😄 Exactly my thought. How is it even possible to be softer than toastbread?????
Probably because they use Peanut Butter. Yikes. 😂
Spongier doesn't means softer but not outright more porous/dry. I remember having no problems spreading jam, peanut butter, etc on "Toast" in the US. Nevertheless it tasted way different and I still remember all the additives on the package.
The establishment of several "banana republics" in central amerca made the big price difference! ;-) Very detailed and professional ! Thank you. Have a nice sunday.
Hi Ashton, my personal recommendation on Aldi products are marinated shrimps, goat cheese with pepper, deep frozen spring rolls.
Ofcourse you can comparee prices on a one-to-one basis. But the next question is how to compare the quality of the products? How does it taste? What aditived do they contain? and so on.
As you mentioned about the bread, in the USA it is spungier than in Germany.. And Chicken in the EU is produced to way higher sanity standards than in the USA.. It can be cheaper, but a salmonella infection isn't any fun either.
The US does not use imperial units but US units. In most cases it makes little difference, but a US gallon equals 3.785411784 litres and an imperial gallon equals 4.54609 litres.
Our Aldi in germany has purple and green colored plastic packets (self standing, like the M&Ms) of ready to heat sauces from their asian store brand. If you see those, try them. They taste amazing.
If I have to buy toast, I prefer "Harry" over "Golden Toast". They don't use preservative agents.
As far as I can remember preservative agents ( other than salt) are illegal in Germany!
@@alexandergutfeldt1144 not all preservatives are illegal
The ‘Landmilch’ that you bought in the German Aldi supermarket is not labelled as organic. It is only the green pack :-), but has no organic label. Organic milk is even more expensive in Aldi. However, it is more expensive than the cheapest Aldi milk - but then you have compared correctly.
On some of those same items, Aldi and Walmart have similar prices. At Sam's Club there are some better prices on the shelf but one has to factor the cost of membership as part of the pricing too.
What About What About fruit and vegetables?You Only counted bananas.
It would have been great to hear you pronounce Aldi as it is pronounced in each country to differentiate between them.
She was speaking English, so the pronunciation is acceptable.
What gets me is when immigrants ( US, GB, AUS ) trying to speak German insist on English pronunciation of German or international brands.
Heck, when I am in the US I use the pronunciation the natives will understand.... ( curtesy aside )
Great comparison with surprising result: US prices not necessarily being more expensive than Germany if you shop in the right places. However, one thing I missed, which I found ridiculously overpriced in the US, is toilet paper. Would have been interesting to see if it is like 500% more expensive even at Aldi...
As always, great video. However, the beef and chicken prices from 9 months ago might differ quite a bit, thus the huge markups.
Should we mention the differences in quality between the US and EU versions? In the 15 European countries we visited, groceries were consistently cheaper than in the US and also much better in quality: more sustainably produced, far more likely to be locally sourced, less packaging, and better tasting. We got used to the smaller portions because the meals were more satisfying.
on that bit at the end: honestly if you can afford it... dont shop at aldi or lidl... they are absolutely horrible employers - those discounts are always paid by someone... you are just making someone else pay it
That depends on the labor laws and worker protection rights of the country, as well as the market situation. Aldi Suisse pays a minimal wage of 4'700 CHF a month, Lidl Schweiz 4'550 CHF, the Swiss discounter Denner 4'400 CHF and the non discounter supermarkets Migros and Coop will pay a minimal wage of 4'200 CHF a month. All gross wages before taxes and social security contributions, and for the year 2024.
Aldi Suisse as well as Lidl Schweiz were severly criticised by the media and the public for their low wages at the time they entered the Swiss market. Both companies learned that a negative image because of low wages lead to lower sale numbers, and since Aldi and Lidl want to expand their operations in the well saturated Swiss market, they had to change something.
Regarding the chicken they inject (literally) it with water (after the chicken is slaughtered luckilly…
It seems surprising that the Rewe alternative in the US is so much more expensive compared to Aldi.
Always prefer an analytic explanation from TA over AI, have a Great Sunday
In Lake Ozark.....I had to laugh. It reminded my of the "Ozark" TV series.
Chicken in Rewe was 9,90 EUR /kg and a sale price.
You can see it in the video.
If you add up this numbers you end up with 7.32 EUR for Rewe and 103.68%
Prices are nearly the same in Germany whne yozu take the store brands.
You can get 99 cent milk in every store for example.
And then you have different items on sale every week, which is for all stores including Aldi.
Egg Prices in The US increased 28% year Over year for a virus I forgot The name.The prices will come Down eventually
there was a comparison here on YT where they checked the prices of diffrent store brands (like ja!, gut&günstig etc) and if you only buy the store brand, the prices will be the same. (a pound of pasta is 0,8 € in aldi, rewe, lidl, etc). Due to the fact, that most of the time you also get more weight per package it is way more cheaper than the big brands. (and a lot of the store brands come from the same factory as big brands) There a few items that taste better if you don't buy the cheaper store brand, like pizza or some sort of chips (crisps), or soft drinks/ sodas. But even though I buy mostly store brands, I use every app from every store to save a few extra percentage and I look for things on sale I still have to pay 150€ or more per week for groceries for me and my 2 teenage kids.
I was expecting Ashton to mention in her 'disclaimers' there are two Aldi companies - Aldi Nord and Aldi Sud. Do they charge the same prices as each other? I imagine her local store in Freiburg is Aldi Sud. Here in the UK I think we have Aldi Nord. Which one is in the US?
One thing Aldi and Lidl do to stand out here in the UK, which I didn't notice in either store shown, was that they make a big play of products being British grown or produced. So you have the amusing sight of German supermarkets patriotically plastering the Union Jack all over their products!
Always entertaining and interesting, your videos Ashton! Have a great Sunday everyone!
Aldi has abandoned Denmark.
Aldi (Nord) opened the first discount store in Denmark in 1977, introducing the discount concept in the country..
In 2022 they pulled out and sold their stores to another chain (REMA 1000, based in Norway)
Aldi always struggled to gain a foothold in the Danish market. They had difficulty adapting their model to the habits of Danish consumers. For example, Danes want fresh, refrigerated milk. UHT milk has a long shelf life and doesn't need to be refrigerated, and is therefore cheaper. But even the most price-conscious buyers didn't care for that.
Eggs are another example. Eggs in Europe are sold unwashed, which means they have a long shelf life (the washing process removes the protective layer in the eggshell) and they CAN be stored just fine at room temperature. But danish consumers want their eggs from a refrigerator gosh darnit &%&%¤%¤#%&¤! That's how we store the eggs at home.
In Germany, with eggs as unwashed as can be (yep, chicken poop smell and all), it never ever even occurred to me to NOT store eggs in the fridge (although they are stored on unrefrigerated shelfs in the store). I mean, frigdes are even sold with these little egg shelf thingies by default, always have been.
If you keep on shopping at Aldi look out for Trader Joe items, before Aldi build stores they took over Trader Joe, that the reason for not having Aldi in CA.
Wrong - ALDI in the US is ALDI Süd, Trader Joe's is owned by the ALDI Nord family branch.
I prefer thr Aldi in Belgium over Germany, mainly because the cashier do their job at a reasonable pace. I think Belgians were not cool with the super fast German cashier style, so they just slowed it down a bit. At least that's my experience.
[Tongue in cheek] CAUTION: IRONY!!! (in case it wasn't clear from the get go)
Price for an Aldi shopping cart in America 25 cent (= 0,22€)
Price for an Aldi Einkaufswagen in Germany 1 € (= $1,12)
So Aldi America is 4.5x cheaper than Aldi Germany. Case closed within the first two minutes. ;-P [\Tongue in cheek]
Then we just take the shopping cart on vacation in the US 😜
But hardly anyone in Germany spends money on this; most people have plastic chips or a universal opener on their key ring
actually 50 cent work on German aldi shopping carts
Rewe likes to pricematch the discounter stores when it comes to their home brand "ja!"
I always use an US American Quarter in German Aldis. Not sure if they have a different system in the US since I think there can't be that many companies producing "shopping cart money insertion safety locking devices"
Most beautiful English interpretation of German combined nouns I've ever seen. Let me spell that out just for fun and giggles: "Einkaufswagengeldeinschubsicherheitsverschlusssysteme". Hilarious. 😂
Even though you checked the numbers 3 times, the price of chicken breasts at Hen House must be off by 10 times. 16,34 Euros per 100 grams is 163,40 per kilo, that must be wrong.
Aldi also offers imported goods from Europe in the USA. However, this is also associated with costs, and these are likely to be slightly more expensive on sale than here in Germany. Now just my question and the thought I've always had, American foods are very contaminated with chemicals and other harmful ingredients, has Aldi now refused to sell them or what is Aldi doing in the USA. It is well known that goods are produced especially for Aldi in different packaging by well-known manufacturers, they have their own list of ingredients which prohibits these additives.
Most Americans buy organic foods
@@Hasanaljadidonly if they can afford it.
Hi Ashton, a great video, with much information! What would be the price difference between Aldi and Lidl (USA vs BRD)
Aston, an open question about US. In Germay prices of non industrial food as fruits, vegetables and partly meat vary over time. Do you see that in the US also?
Buy the cheapest item in each country and you end up with 6.32 euro for US vs 6.31 euro for Germany.
Aldi Süd = Aldi in the US. Trader Joe's = Aldi Nord.
And, as far as I know, in Germany, Aldi is a really good employer and employees get fairly high wages and all the etcetera.
In the US, it appears to be ok., but not as great as in Germany.
I'm not sure about teir position regarding trade unions or works councils (which is mandatory in Germany if the market or whatever business had more than a certain number of employees).
I am also not sure about the nature of the contracts Aldi has with the producers. I think it has to do with these contracts that Aldi can offer such good quality at affordable prices.
I think if you bought only the discount house brands at the compared store (e.g. the "ja!"-branded products at Rewe or "gut & günstig" at Edeka) you would probably have a very similar total sum and comparable product quality like at Aldi
Organic meat is erfahrungsgemäß about thrice as expensive as conventional meat in Germany.
which is understandable - factory farming is much cheaper to do... we just end up paying that up front reduction in cost in worse health outcomes (antibiotic resistant bacteria) and worsening climate outcomes (factory farming produces significantly more greenhouse gases)... and we probably pay much more in those consequences than the up front savings...
@@SharienGaming completely agree.
I should have written simply: Non organic ground beef probably costs only a third of what Ashton paid for her organic package in Germany. And then the US would have been on the more expensive side.
And no, cheaply priced and/or produced meat isn’t a good thing.
@@winterlinde5395She also brought Organic American meat
@@Hasanaljadidreally? The ground beef? I didn’t catch that.
We don't have an Aldi or Lidl in our area. I would not go to them anyway as we only eat organic-bio produce. Our bread is Desem. We as Dutch are daily shoppers and require fresh daily produce. We have a bio-butcher in our shopping street and we walk everywhere. Something you are unable to do in the States.
Aldi-US is Germanys "Thank You!" for the Berlin Luftbrücke. 😄
As interesting as these price comparison videos are (Even Edinger has done a couple great ones for he US and UK), they are ultimately meaningless because we simply cannot account for all the relevant variables. One thing that is missing (but very difficult to really get) would be an indication of a given person's income in both places because an egg be 4 cents more expensive could either be a small difference or a pretty meaningful difference if they are in a place with relatively higher or lower income (and this the egg being a lower or higher proportion of their earnings). But of course the big one is the on e we all know: you buy groceries where you are, not the other side of a ocean. As someone who has moved overseas, I can say you very quickly get out of the habit of converting the prices of things because does it really matter if that coffee would have been 10 cents cheaper 'back home' when you are not back home? You ultimately have to work in the local currency, especially if you are being paid in that currency and do not have significant assets/liabilities in the other place, and get to the point where you are roughly thinking in terms of is this a lot or a little of my take home pay (which is really how we should always be thinking).
So mad at YT this wasn't in my Sub Feed!!! Sunday routine was nearly ruined!
Enjoyed the video, but why compare German toast with American toast cake? Sugar wise. :)
Well the "Hausmarken" house brands of the grocery stores in Germany usually cost the same.
So the discounters ALDI and LIDL with their house brands, dropped the pricesin the past, so REWE and EDEKA (some years ago also real,-) made their own house brands, and they usually have the same price, despite a sales offer.
But at ALDI you had only a small offer of other brands, what you have a lot a t EDEKA, REWE etc..
What is the comparison between Trader Joe's and ALDI, as Trader Joe's belongs to ALDI North while the ALDI (in the USA) belong to ALDI South.
I find it shocking that some U.S. states and Germany impose taxes on groceries. The only morally acceptable tax rate for essential food items is 0
I would say the main question is what is the minimum wage, unemployment benefits and other social transfers. This in the end determines what is justified and "morally" acceptable
Weird comparison. You had pretty much no fresh fruit and veg in you basket, all of which is MUCH cheaper back home (Germany)
Fresh fruits and veggies are a tough comparison when looking at Germany vs. USA. You're dealing with which items are local to not only each country, but regions. Plus seasonality is also an issue.
Don‘t call Toast Bread ! That’s an Insult !!
US large eggs are about the same size as EU medium size.
Alright, I got it! When I watch this video a second time, I'll reduce playback speed. All that number crunching made me dizzy.
Of course Mississippi and Alabama tax groceries at full rate. Because of course they do. Illinois is the bit of the head scratcher there. Needs to come off.
Wasn't there also a slight mistake with prizes of the joghurt?
wasnt there "normal" grounded beef in Germany? as you bought the more expensive organic one :p
Not by the store brand
All this videos accept that the exchange rate accuratly reflect the value of the money to a normal shopper, Im not blaming, what are you supposed to do, Im just saying I think they are skewed by things like oil and aircraft sales, big global scale transactions that are basically a different economy to the rest of us.
Here in the UK most sellers include unit pricing on the shelf ticket, making comparisons easy. Does this happen in the US and Germany?
Most of the time, yes. But not always.
In the EU standard price per weight/volume are required
Very interesting video. I thought the USA was at least twice as expensive as Germany.
Nope.It's about 40% more expensive in The US for fruits and vegetables except fir few Things like bananas,Avocados,Nuts but for meat,Poultry,Eggs,Milks there aren’t any significant difference
Stop calling Toast "Bread" ... this is no Bread, not at all!
So I think you made some mistakes when choosing the products (I'm just trow in fancy Dinkel Toast vs. regular US sandwich weat bread) - but that happens. But you obviously made the biggest mistake in the price information with REWE chicken. You're will not seriously saying that chicken breast costs €100 per kilo? But you could really have noticed that yourself. I assume that the price of €9.90 that you noted is not the 100gram price but the price per kilogram.
By the way, at REWE 10 own brand eggs cost €1.99 and at ALDI, according to your video, they cost €2.29. It should be said that I have never seen them sold out at REWE.
But in the end I think it's good that you put this effort into your video.
She also miscounted The Han house chicken
Quarters for the shopping cart? Guess I don't get out much. I'll have to keep watching to figure out where you are. I don't want to go there.
Aah but did the euro fit in the shopping cart??? 😂😂😂
Thankfully I didn't have to check... but now I'm wishing I did.
@@TypeAshton hahaha this will keep nagging me now (and knowing you it will probably be nagging you until your next visit to the US)....
Ashton, I would take another look at the numbers. I think some mistakes have been made.
Shocking - - so the American Republican's story about prices on everyday food items being more than double the price because of Biden's economy is also true for Germany ?
Dinkel isn't Wheat....^^
Germans mostly Eat pork.Americans mostly eat chicken or Beef.
USA groceries prices are crazy cheap.
Also Aldi quality is pretty terrible everywhere, plus the rudest personnel I have ever encountered in my life.
I've encountered ruderer
Oh no, the cashiers aren't forced to smile continuously and distract themselves from the actual task of scanning items by making useless small talk? How terribly rude of them!
Lidl?
They're only located on the East Coast in the US.
@@TypeAshtona good reason to travel there… (business write off) but Lidle has expanded allot over Europe. So you can maybe try a BigMac comparison.
Isn't Lidl more expensive than Aldi? Here in Germany
@@ivanamihaart when I am for work in Germany, I honestly never checked. But I believe they are very even. At least in NL they are. However that is more impression on my side.
Most US states don’t have sales tax for groceries
What shocked me the most? Your numerouos obvious errors and sloppy research. I'm disappointed. Sorry, no thumb up this time.
I'm pretty sure that the REWE price of €9.90 for 100g of chicken was not correct - not then nor now. That would be a breath taking €99 for a kilo! Currently the normal price for chicken breast at REWE is around €15/kg, for Bio close to €30.
I'm not certain about Aldi-US, but I have seen prices in US grocery stores (Walmart etc) that looked absolutely terrifying to a German - and thats even before the whatever % of sales tax go on top.
That being said, if we keep our current government for much longer, I bet the german prices will beat the us price hands down soon.
Most US states don’t have sales tax
Amazingly the government doesn't run a discount store. So they don't set the prices.
@@alexandergutfeldt1144 With that reply you are qualified for a job in the Grünen fraction in Berlin.
@@petebeatminister ... and one more 'slogan' instead of a critical thought.
The world is multidimensional. Blaming all you don't like on the people you don't agree with is not constructive, it is lazy and makes you easy to manipulate!
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@@alexandergutfeldt1144 Ruhig und tief durchatmen, alles wird gut.
19:00 thats probably because you bought Dinkel bread at the Aldi in Germany. I don't know if it was on purpose or not, but the Whole Wheat option was significantly cheaper
Organic is simply a marketing strategy to charge you more
There is CostCo too?
If you compare the price of beef to that of chicken, there is no justification for that astronomical chicken prices. Well if you looked up the prices online, there might have been some calculation errors in Google. Today I see an offer for fresh chicken breasts at 8,80 € per 100 gramms, but if i click it and go to the storepage I can see that this is actually the kilo price.
1:03 Please avoid those sounds. They hurt.
I dont have time to look it up, but at 19:23 you cant tell me you paid 10€/100g for chicken in ReWe. No way right ? Same with HenHouse ? 18$ per 100g ? Did you make a conversion error ?
There is no way you pay 50€ for a 500g package or something like that.
"I´m trying to make a fair comparison" - also mostly buys organic products in germany which come with a significantly higher price tag. Dinkel ist also more pricy than other options... so yeah not a big fan of that (go figure why the "bread" at Rewe was cheaper). The only items I´d consider compaired fairly would be milk, bananas and chicken. Also 17:24 : showing pricetags $ (€) --- € ($) is a really irritating when trying to compare... next one is even worse especially... relative % price comparison needs a base and in your first table you always had positive % increases meaning that you didn´t use one column consistently as base. While in the 2nd table you use + and - % based on the aldi $ price. It might seem nitpicky, but a comparison that displays data in inconsistent ways makes it less clear and concise. Really dissappointing over all