ALDI in San Diego

This store is super clean, big and very well organized. You would need a quarter to get a shopping cart, if you lived in UK, this is totally normal but not for others. Shopping carts are huge unlike the other store.Shops hold a very good selection of fresh veggies that are comparively cheaper than many other stores here. Avacado 39c each is a bargain compared to a dollar in many other stores. Good selection of snacks, meat, cheese, canned fruits/veggies, jams/preserves, and lots more. Store wasn't too crowded when I went, I could pretty much manage myself in finding the things around in the store - sign post everywhere. Always bring your bag - they do have brown paper bags for 10c but I don't find them comfortable. At the cashier's be prepared to bag your own things - this was also common in the UK, so wasn't an issue for me.

Visited this Aldi store during my visit and closer to the hotel to get my basic cooking essentials. The store is well stocked, easy to navigate, staff is friendly, and has affordable prices. The interior of the store is kept very clean and well maintained. The produce, dairy, egg and meat, everything is stocked with good quality. They have a shared parking lot with enough parking spaces.

We have been hearing about a new grocery store opening soon in Clairemont Mesa. It will be at the NW corner of Balboa & Genesee. We couldn’t wait and went to Mira Mesa to an Aldi’s today, wanted to see what all the fuss was about. Bottom line if you want to cut your grocery bill in half check one out. We spent 15 minutes in the first isle comparing prices and counting our savings. Like Costco Aldi is probably very picky who they select as vendors. They sell everything a Vons or Ralph’s does at half the price but without the membership games or using an app. same price for everyone. Item prices are clearly marked which I found refreshing. Check it out you will not be disappointed. Below you can see two of the brands they carry.

Was trying to buy some crofton containers, there was a set of 3. 1 large blue container, 1 3/4 pink and 1/4 yellow container, and 2 1/2 green containers. There was only one green container left, looked like someone opened the packaging and took 1 of them. We grabbed it anyway because we wanted the whole set and were hoping maybe we could get it half off since half of it was missing.When we talked to the associate she couldn't understand that someone opened the package and took one out, so she went and got her manager. The manager talked to my wife and I in a condescending tone, and told us no, there wasn't a piece missing, she is the manager and this only comes as one piece. She just bought the whole set herself and the green containers only come with one. You could clearly tell due to the amount of plastic still hanging off of the container that there was meant to be another one there stacked on top. No longer interested in arguing about it, we dropped the convo and just decided not to purchase.Well I found the item online, and yes it is meant to come as two. I don't appreciate when managers straight up lie to us about little things and talk down to us when we are simply just asking questions. It was $5, why treat us rudely and lie to us over that? Weird interaction at this location, my wife and I will take our business elsewhere.

I had an awful experience .The cashier and the staff were beyond rude. The cashier , I believe her name is Dana was literally throwing all of my things in my shopping card . She was very rude to all the customers and I just won't be shopping here again.This is very unfortunate because the products are always in excellent quality and good price.

I had a good experience at this Aldi. I picked up a number of items that I needed. Items were pretty well organized and easy to find and get to. I was very happy that they had the pastured raised and organic chicken eggs in stock at this location. They did need to restock the breads aisle because it got hammered by the earlier crowds.The young lady at the register was very nice. She had a good sense of humor, and she actually helped my bag my items in my own bag that I brought from home.

Checkout: NFC/EMV/Contactless/Mobile payments/credit & debit cards, EBT/Snap/food stamp, 5 self checkouts, 4 normal cashiers (though not all open). Usually pretty empty even on Sunday. Prices cheap or like pre-pandemic artificial price hikes everywhere else. Their store brand items are same or higher quality than most other brands, nice (common white label brands for example exact same fudge stripe cookies as walmart).Think some of their scanners are bugged & multi-scanning items, cashier has to void them, keep an eye out.2 Uni-sex bathrooms, door locks but its like converted men's, a stall & urinal separated & baby changing station but all for one person so low throughput. Has soap, hand air dryer so have to touch the handle to exit.. Sink spray is too strong so splatters a lot. Plenty of baking powder mixes for cookies cakes & brownies, nice variety. Something wrong with the jalapeños, less spicy than black pepper‽‽Quarter/25¢ deposit for shopping carts.Gelato like a slightly thicker cookies & cream, sadly far from how Costco's was.Slated end of 2023 delayed till July 2024 another ALDI's replacing the Rite Aid at Balboa & Genesse.Likely 2025, another ALDI's further east in Mira Mesa replacing Big Lots next to Lucky Seafood.

So. I've been twice now. Didn't review the first time because, well it was only open like 2 weeks at that time.Dozen egg deals brought me back. They we $.79, which was 20 cents more than my first time. Still the absolute best in town.3 stars, not 2, because customer service phone call was the best I've ever had after filling out the survey attached to the receipt...Here's why...Carts are 25 cents. Which you get back after you return it, we didn't use a cart. Cashier had one, so we could move away to bag our purchases... cashier tossed our purchases into the cart, damaging all the produce and cheese... we moved away to bag, being vaguely familiar with that process. Cashier snatched the cart from my 3 year old so she could proceed to throw the next customer's stuff into it, nearly running her over...Aldi needs to redo their thinking. If we're bagging our own, someone from aldi corporate needs to stop in a Food For Less to see their logical and non-damaging way of self bagging.

Basic produce selection, and otherwise mostly packaged processed foods and junk. The kind of place you might be lucky to find in a “food desert”, but not at all a quality place. No cottage cheese, for example. I was at a hotel nearby that had a kitchenette in the room, and I hoped to find something healthy but simple to prepare for my dinner. I found little of interest.

Great no-frill narket for generally low priced groceries and limited housewares. Much like the Aldi's in Germany and other EU countries, there are advertised weekly specials. Often lots of good deals. I especially like having access to German grocery items like Weißwurst and chocolate but there are a lot of American items too. Would be 5 stars if they didn't regularly run out of at least 1 item I wanted.

Love aldi! We eat so much fresh produce because we can afford it here!We eat home cooked meals every night and cut our grocery bill by 50-75%. Same brands as other retailers for produce. Other things are "Aldi brand" but I tend to find they are even better than the national brands most times.My favorite things here are the German chocolate, brats, brioche and the carne ranchera or chimichurri beef.

Awful. First I dont carry quarters in my pocket to buy a shopping cart, so I'm not able to get anything to carry a weeks groceries.. OK, bad on me not knowing the rules of carts here, but first time here, and not starting out good.So decide to just buy a couple of small things I could jeep in ny hands for dinner, 3 potatoes, 1 onion, ground beef and beef stock.. Well guess what you cant but onions or potatoes for a dinner, not sold buy the piece. I don't need 10Lbs bag of onions or potatoes for one night. This place sucks. Really wanted to like this place, its very clean,good prices, and super slow.

I really love this Aldi!It's spacious, open, huge, well lit, clean and they have amazing prices for very good quality products.They carry a good variety of cheeses and in my opinion they're all good. Their house brand especially is really good and my kids love the colby jack cubes while I love their Gouda and cheddar varieties.I also like some of the elevation protein bars they carry. My favorite of those is the wafer version. Their chips and snacks are all very decent in price, the taste is on par if not better than most of the brand names out there like ruffles, and lays. My son won't eat any other brand of sour cream and onion chips except theirs.One of my favorite items here is their Simms turkey snack sticks, which also come in beef, but my favorite is the turkey. Their beef jerky is also pretty awesome, especially the Simms brand again.Their produce section isn't huge but what they do carry is honestly really good price wise. Quality isn't bad either.They also carry a lot of Keto and low carb friendly products which is a bonus if you're trying to eat clean.The employees that work here are also very friendly and few. Most of the time you won't find more than 3 employees at a time. 2 are usually stocking the shelves while a third mans the register.All in all I love shopping here and after my go to store was Walmart, I find myself shopping there less and less and coming here nearly every week. Not only because their prices are much cheaper, but also because a lot of their house brand items are made with better ingredients than say Walmart's house brand "great value."I'm so glad they opened a location here and I'm glad that I don't have to drive all the way to Escondido to get to the nearest location.

Great bargains, but watch expiration dates closely, especially meat and dairy. To get a shopping cart, you need a 25c quarter coin deposit (nickels and dimes not accepted). When you return your cart to the store, do NOT use your chain. Instead, take the chain from the cart in front of you, after you've pushed into it. Don't forget your quarter.

No name brands and the food like pop tarts taste funny. Returns are easy and shopping carts cost .25 cents. The cashier just throws everything in your cart and they dont offer bags according to the cashier. I was told later the bags are under the conveyor belt. Very limited selection and most of the food is pretty unhealthy. Read the lables the one I posted said if you eat it, it will act as a laxative. I guess that's one way to loose weight.

I've shopped at Aldi in various locations for 5 years or more. This store is great, but I've noticed in the past month there is no more Great White bread (my family's favorite, and mine too because it's easily digestible) and no more Alfredo pasta sauce. Did I find everything I was looking for? No... please bring back Great White bread and Alfredo sauce!

I admit, after being at locations overseas this one pales in comparison. The store itself is basic Aldi, nothing over the top. BUT, the employees I encountered and observed really made this place. Super nice and helpful. I'll be going back to do some standard grocery shopping just so I can do it in a place where the people are this nice.

Yes, you have to put in a quarter to get a shopping cart and bag your own groceries with your own bags but I can appreciate cheaper produce in abundance and feel good about feeding my family with fresh foods without spending a small fortune. Aldi has a nice selection of off brand canned goods and cereals. Baking ingredients and good price for frozen veggies. The bottom line is that food prices are increasing every year and Aldi is a basic no frills grocery store but I am okay with that because it saves us money.

Miramesa location : When a specific yoghurt only one left in the fridge, I asked a female employee close to the fridge, if they have them more inside the walk in fridge. Yes reluctantly she went inside and holding that only yoghurt to match it. Then she came out with several yoghurts, handed them to me, then quickly walked away without asking whether they are correct or not. None of them are matching. She and several other employees seemed working under high tension causing bad athmosphere in the store, what did the manager or supervisor do to them? One customer seen purchasing several alcohol glass bottles, surprisingly a male cashier did not ask his ID! Even the buyer looks “old” enough, he must following the procedure by asking his ID!!!And also :During the peak of pandemic, plenty of customer did not wear mask and did not practicing social distancing, even some of employee did not wear masks properly (not overing their noses, ready to smell customer’s gas??)…

My favorite place for shopping since 2004 when I used to shop back in Illinois. Now it is here in California finally and prices for quality produce 2-3 times beating greedy and ripping off stores like vons, albertsons, ralpfs, whole foods and sprouts. They make triple profits of what you buy there comparing what you could have saved with the same quality products in Aldi! Good job Aldi!

checkout cashiers are lazy. wont bag anything for you, even when my bag was directly under his arm in the cart below. when I asked him why, he says "he hates bagging,"...like isn't that your job? unhelpful, and highly unconcerned with your shopping experience. Tried to sell me an aldi bag when I asked for a paper bag. found him to be rude and ruined my experience. will not be visiting as often.

I am a senion recovering from a stroke. I cannot sit at a computer researching the web for information.I buy a lot from Aldi, using instacart. Now I want to ask a question from a live person. But, in the spirit of ACTUAL customer service, there is no way to call anyone in the company.The excuse givin by a recording is to have no telephone numbers saves them money so they can pass the savings to to the customer. Then they refer you to the website for information.As a disabled senior, this is a slap in my face. With all th orders I have made with Aldi, I would EXPECT much better customer service,I came from using Srouts. But I was told by the district manager at Sprouts that when I buy grass fed hamberger, it actually is grass FINISHED , not grass fed through its life. Which is a deal breaker.Since Aldi does not seem to cars about seniors that have a hart time having to read information online,I have been using Aldi for about three months. But if I cannot know if this is grass fed or just grass finished, I will have to go back to Sprouts. For my health.No wonder frass fed beef is so heap, it is a lie that it is grass fed, rather than what it actually grass finished. A trick, since the packaging never says it is only grass finished,Good bye Aldi. You intentionally cheated me by misrepresenting the items. What else do you lie about?

The store is incredible. They have there own brands of items, that mirror the name brands. The prices are the key to the place. On a budget, aren't we all, you can get the best buy in the meat department. Hamburger 80/20 was $3.24/ lbs. They have fresh selection of meats, stocked daily. Roasts to Chicken and are very inexpensive, one of my favorite is the Teriyaki sirloin roast . They have a nice selection of wines as well. At the front of the store are merchandise items. The sell ice coffee machines $14.99. I remember the price because I want one. Remember to bring a QUARTER COIN you'll need it to unlock a shopping cart. All the carts are locked together, to unlock one you'll need a quarter. You push your quarter in the slot on the handle right side, and the locked cart will unlock. So if you want your quarter back you just need to return it to where you got it, and take the chain from the cart in front and put its key into your carts lock and it frees your quarter. Check outs a bit of a pain, you items come off the belt, scanned and dropped back in a cart. No young person there to bag for you. The store is new and cleaner, shelves are organized nicely and it takes a few trips through the Isles to find what you're looking for.

If you live in Sonesta ES Suites San Diego, ALDI will be a very convenient alternative food option. It has a wide variety of salad combinations, both in plastic boxes and bags. If you don’t have any tableware or containers, just buy the boxes. That’s it. If one box is not enough, you can add another bag and you will be full and healthy... There are also a lot of fruits on sale. It is also a very healthy combination to supplement vitamins after meals.

A cheap supermarket chain in Germany. The frozen pizza is really cheap. It tastes just like frozen pizza. Shin Ramyun is also cheap. You can buy cheap soda, which is the first time in your life that you wonder if something like this has ever existed. Haha. Not recommended for beer. The gum you keep in the car is cheap. Quor to put in the cart. Must take it with you.