I've been working it out.
I figure in the time I've been shopping at Aldi I've saved about $50,000 compared to if I continued to shop at Coles.

That has paid for 7 years of the kid's fees and next year he's on a scholarship so the savings will then be mine to blow as i choose.

Thank you Aldi.

Not nonsense at all.

Roughly $100 a week savings for about 10 years.
I suppose your brain has not been addled so far as to prevent you doing the math.

$50,000? That's my whole spend on food for 6 years. How much do you spend a month on food?

Mathematically, if you save $100 per week for a year, it equates to roughly $5,000 per annum.
So 10 years equates to 50,000

But in order to save $100 per week on food, means you need to be saving at least 20% approx. on regular supermarkets apart from Aldi.

So that gives me the impression, you could be spending a lot on food per week if say 20% is equivalent to $100 savings.

That makes it something like $500 food spent a week 

And not forgetting, it's a bit like "I go into Aldi for some bread, and end up coming home with a 2 man tent, a chainsaw and a trumpet" 

I think you may mean you save $20 per week against the regular supermarkets vs Aldi?

That's more like $1000 per annum
Hence, 10 years = $10,000 savings.

And yes, it does all add up, saving money here and there over the long term.

But the way life is designed, we try to save and cut back in ways, that rates, registrations, insurances take away from us more than we try to save. 

Oh, I'm including wine in that, which is so much cheaper than Coles liquor store. But Aldi hasn't sold wine for more than maybe 3 years, so that makes a difference.
Also, when I shopped at Coles, I didn't buy their meat, I bought it at the butcher, so that would make it more expensive.

OK, but the savings have still got to be more than the cost of those fees for 7 years, and I still have Aldi to thank for that.

Sophia wrote on Aug 26^th, 2016 at 3:28pm:


Good analysis. Also depends on downgrading form branded to generic products. Usually savings on meat and fruit are not huge so savings must be on packaged and canned goods and cheap imported wines.

No, that's the only differences.

I just put that out there because I can't comprehend why people would continue to put money in the tills of the big two supermarkets.
Why would you throw money away?

bogarde73 wrote on Aug 26^th, 2016 at 3:36pm:




I like m y brands and I like my service.. I dont want to pack and unpack my own groceries...sorry boges...also almost all fruit and veg is prepacked..so you have to buy a whole heap of carrots...it is ok on somethings but not for someone who lives alone..