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Well I did search for any available data for Germany but nothing available easily :|

To be fair, this was more of a tongue in cheek response and not really directed at you or your project directly.

For me Aldi is just such a european thing that I was genuinely surprised by this.

Don't forget there are two Aldi (Aldie?) the yellow South and the Blue North and they both have a different international footprint just to complicate things

there are even memes about this. Like this tactical map: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/zacwvs/supermarket...

Aldi North is called Trader Joe's in the USA.

It's not the same. Aldi Nord just owns Trader Joe's

https://www.aldireviewer.com/aldi-and-trader-joes-are-they-t...

Yep. I shop at a building with an Aldi on the 1st floor and a Trader Joes on the 2nd floor. It's wonderful.

I popped into an Aldi in Portugal ~6 months ago, and I noticed they had some Trader Joe's products on the shelves. Unsurprisingly, Aldi Portugal is owned by Aldi Nord.

In Austria, Aldi (South) is called Hofer.

It is pretty big in US as well :)

Maybe I read too much reddit and I've been primed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priming_(psychology)]

But I read this as another anti-American comment which seems to be very fashionable recently.

As an American, I can understand the European internet user’s chagrin at our seeming total cultural ubiquity. It seems like almost every piece of media is about American concerns unless explicitly stated otherwise.

Just the other day the US news were all ablaze about how the Super Bowl was the biggest viewed program on television since Apollo 11. Except of course, the Eurovision Song Contest is way bigger.

If the location is not explicitly stated the default is the US. That's the Internet.

I don't understand. YC is an American company in English. Why are visitors so surprised when most of the content is US based?

Also Merica' #1 ... jk :)

Content in English means it’s fair for all those who speak English. Unless you want a build a wall across the internet to keep rest of us out.

It is absolutely not true that just because a message is in English it has the intended audience of all English speakers.

How is anyone supposed to divine that a general English statement about a European MNC was restricted to just America?

It’s like me saying “McDonalds has stopped selling hamburgers” and expecting you to magically understand that this statement is about Indian McD’s and not American McDs.

Aldi was pretty ubiquitous in the rural Midwestern United States around where I grew up in the 1990s. We didn't associate it at all with Germany or Europe, and I had no idea about the company's origins until I read about it on Wikipedia many years later.

If you are the creator, the problem is more the title. You could write something like "Aldi Price Map in the US". Your current title is a good example of US defaultism and I happens way often (even in social studies where the scientist should be just embarrassed for that).

At least for Austria theree seems to be this: https://github.com/badlogic/heissepreise

There is a link to raw data (a big json). Aldi is Hofer in Austria. Prices are probably the same in all their stores? Not sure something similar exists for Germany.

Thanks for making this. Is there data provided for iodized table salt?

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