Yeah, I had a hard time figuring out why people in town kept talking about ALDI. Because I shopped at one in like 2001 and it was just nasty. Good luck finding produce besides hot house tomatoes and iceberg lettuce.
I bought some frozen pizzas and I’m pretty sure the crust was made from 40% post-consumer recycled cardboard.
You need a quarter to unlock a shopping cart, which you get back when you return it. Keeps people from leaving carts all over the parking lot.
If I only need a few items, I get around the quarter issue by bringing my own bag in the store or snagging a box from the front. We try to keep quarters in the car nowadays though, which can also come in handy for a quick meter parking stint.
my town has TWO aldi’s.
We have a Trader Joe’s and a whole foods, and three local chains that are better than the local Albertsons-owned chain.
Is Aldi an East Coast thing? I’d heard of Aldi as kind of the European Trader Joes but I didn’t know they had US stores too.
Oh I see they have West Coast locations, just none in WA.
Sheesh, why don’t all grocery stores do that? They could probably save an entire FTE with that. People are dicks when it comes to carts.
Aldi, bland, but cheap. Just like BMW.
Lawrence, KS has one!
Baller alert.
Aldi is in 35 states + DC. From the sounds of it, I’m not missing out. I’ll stick with TJs, thanks.
Annouced this week, apparently unrelated to the proposed merger, Disco Kroger and Baby Kroger are being permanently closed. Disco Kroger I believe is what started this naming thing about Kroger locations here decades ago.
What made it Disco Kroger? Lighting? Music?
From the thread where this came up before
Neither Kroger nor Albertson ever bothered to expand into Canada unlike Walmart and Costco which are quite large here. However we have many other grocery store options that I prefer.
My grocery shopping is probably
45% Walmart
35% Aldi
10% Target
10% Hy Vee
Aldi has great prices and also some nice seasonal European things you just don’t find elsewhere. On the other hand it can get a bit crowded and some things can get picked over. Walmart is next door to Aldi three miles from my house, so if I can’t get it at Aldi I have a backup plan.
Hmmm, my groceries are probably
60% Costco
15% Trader Joe’s
12% regular grocery store
10% Target
3% specialty store
I’m guessing my grocery purchases are probably:
50% Publix
25% Kroger
15% Sprouts
10% Mix of other (local farmers market type places, Whole Foods, butcher shop,…)
Mine:
60% Wholefoods
35% H Mart
5% Some other Asian local supermarket
I’m nost sure of the percentages, but over the past month we’ve got stuff from:
ShopRite
Foodtown
Target
Walmart
Stop & Shop
Local deli
Butcher shop 1
Butcher shop 2
Seafood store 1
Seafood store 2
Asian market
Polish market
“World Market”
Wine store (for cooking wine)
Italian market
jersey Mike’s Subs (they sell me a sub bread for $1, we use it with pasta dishes)
Pickle store