Aldi is not a "shopping experience", it's a place to get decent stuff cheap. It always amuses me when that somehow offends people's high end consumer (or whatever) sensibilities.

Aldi is not the same everywhere. The company split into two in 1960 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldi), and standards differ between the two.

Aldi Süd has a much more pleasant store environment, in my experience. Aldi Nord is the variant present in the Netherlands.

>Internationally, Aldi Nord operates in Denmark, France, the Benelux countries, Portugal, Spain and Poland, while Aldi Süd operates in Ireland, Great Britain, Hungary, Switzerland, Australia, China, Italy, Austria and Slovenia.