I don't think anybody's saying that Aldi is literally worse. Actually the fact that it's not worse is what makes it odd. If you just go to Shady Dollar Mart and pick up some off-brands, you know you're gambling with dubious quality with your "savings." But with Aldi it's like a pocket universe of major brand equivalent goods that seemingly don't exist anywhere else, and the brands that exist everywhere else don't exist at Aldi. It just gives me a Twilight Zone-ish feel, not saying that you or anyone else ought to feel similarly.
About the sunglasses, I am deeply deeply disappointed. One might even say that's a extra large C C A -sized erilapse in judgment.
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