6 Aldi Perks New Jerseyans Often Leave on the Shelf

New Jersey’s newest Aldi opened in Deptford on December 10, one week after Hackettstown got a store of its own 60 miles north.

That’s two more addresses added to a list that already runs past 60.

Every one of those stores hides a handful of perks many people never cash in.

Here are the Aldi perks some New Jerseyans still leave on the shelf.

1. Aldi’s Twice as Nice Guarantee

Aldi backs its own private-label groceries with a promise it calls the Twice as Nice Guarantee.

A jar of sauce or a bag of coffee that tastes off qualifies, as long as it carries Aldi’s own label.

Aldi refunds the price.

Then it hands over a brand-new item to replace the one that disappointed.

Receipt rules shift by region.

Some Aldi stores skip the receipt entirely and hand back cash on the spot. Others require one for a cash refund.

No receipt at those stores means a gift card instead of cash. A team member handles the swap right at the counter.

The guarantee only reaches Aldi’s own brand, though.

National brands, alcohol, and non-food items don’t qualify at all.

2. Aldi’s Curbside Pickup and Delivery

Aldi runs its curbside pickup and delivery through Instacart at its New Jersey stores, not through an app of its own.

Aldi has never released its own branded shopping app.

A shopper who searches an app store for “Aldi” finds a store locator, nothing more.

The actual ordering happens inside Instacart instead, the same app dozens of other grocery chains use.

That mismatch trips up longtime shoppers who assume no app means no service.

It’s there anyway.

Aldi built its entire reputation on a stripped-down, cash-and-carry model.

Pickup and delivery run right alongside that same reputation now.

A shopper builds the cart from a phone and picks a pickup window or a delivery slot.

The groceries show up already bagged, no aisles required.

3. Weekly Aldi Finds Drops

Aldi restocks a whole new batch of limited-run items every week, and the chain calls them Aldi Finds.

Kitchen gadgets, seasonal decor, tools, even furniture rotate through, usually on a Wednesday or a Sunday depending on the store.

Once they’re gone, they’re gone.

Aldi doesn’t issue rain checks on a Find, and it rarely restocks a Find that sold out.

Shoppers who only check the regular aisles miss the whole rotation.

They never even know it happened.

The printed weekly ad near the exit lists what’s landing next, and so does Aldi’s own website.

A handful of fan-run Instagram accounts track the drops too, for shoppers who don’t want to guess.

4. Aldi’s Price Drops Program

Aldi runs an ongoing markdown push it calls Aldi Price Drops, cutting prices even further below its everyday low shelf price.

One round alone cut prices on more than 400 products at once, from grass-fed ground beef to fresh nectarines.

Aldi doesn’t run a weekly circular or plaster shelves with the loud yellow tags other grocery chains use to flag a sale.

A shopper scanning for that familiar sticker walks right past a Price Drop and never clocks it.

The everyday price already looked cheap, so the extra cut just disappears into it.

That’s the whole trick.

Nothing on the shelf tag says this got cheaper this week.

5. Getting Your Quarter Back From Aldi

Aldi’s carts need a quarter before they’ll unlock from the corral.

That quarter isn’t a fee.

It’s a deposit, and Aldi hands it back the moment the cart goes back where it came from.

Leave the cart in a parking spot instead.

The quarter stays behind with it.

Shoppers do this more often than they’d guess.

It’s a quarter they already own, handed straight back to the store.

Aldi has said the deposit saves shoppers money because it cuts the need to pay staff just to round up stray carts.

6. Aldi’s Fan Favorites Program

Aldi asks its own shoppers to help choose its best products, then brands the winners for everyone else.

Once a year, Aldi runs a customer survey rating its private-label items across the store.

Aldi marks the winners with a heart-shaped Fan Favorites logo on the shelf tag and on the item’s page online.

The price never moves.

Shoppers who don’t know to look for the heart shop the same aisles blind to which private-label pick other customers already rated best.

New Jersey stores carry the same Fan Favorites lineup as every other Aldi in the country, chosen nationally rather than store by store.

Aldi’s New Jersey Growth

Aldi counted 67 stores across New Jersey as of late 2025, spread from the shore up toward the New York border.

Hackettstown got a new location at 215 Mountain Avenue that December, with a ribbon-cutting the following morning.

Deptford picked up its own store at 1755 Deptford Center Road one week later, on the other side of the state.

Both openings landed within eight days of each other.

That’s fast growth.

Aldi has said it wants nearly 2,800 U.S. stores nationwide by the end of 2026, after opening 180 new locations across 31 states this year.

Maine got its first-ever Aldi store this year, opening in Portland as part of that same 180-store push.