Originally Posted by barbeler:
“And yet I go to Aldi because of the much wider range of goods on sale and because of the quality of their own-brand goods. The aisles are probably wide enough to drive a car through, so I can't imagine my anybody would want them wider. It would be silly of a shop to waste floor space in that way.”
The point of having the aisles not quite so narrow is because of trolleys, you need to be able to have somebody with a trolley on both sides and still be able to get yours through.
I prefer the big superstores as there's much more space and people aren't on top of each other all the time. It isn't silly of a shop to 'waste' space as you call it, it's about a more enjoyable shopping experience with more space in store.
There isn't a much wider range of goods at Aldi at all, how would that be possible in a store 1/4 the size, if you take the sachet coffee boxes for example Aldi will have a small selection of own brands, whereas a large Tesco or Sainsbury's will have several different brands, all different flavours, lates, capuchinos, lite late, light cappuccino, mocha, and all sorts there would be a much wider choice.
Aldi (in-store they are unlikely to even have all 16 listed on the comparison website)
https://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/aldi...uccino_10.html
Sainsbury's
http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/...=&beginIndex=0
..and that's just 1 example of 1 product, you could times this by 60 for all the different items you might want to put in a trolley in a shop.
The greater choice, the different brands, the proper known brands, the wider aisles, the self service checkout option vs normal checkouts, many more of them, but I don't mind as the cost isn't the primary deciding factor in where I shop, the shopping experience, choice and quality are all important to me.