They pass the savings onto you because they save $.25 on your $100+ purchase!
Aldi's parking lot
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They pass the savings onto you because they save $.25 on your $100+ purchase!
Super_Steve
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Cheap ass stuff in there. No major brand names. No wonder it's cheap, and it's a small place, too.
GWguy
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My friend frequents Aldi, and loves it. But he doesn't go in looking for a grocery store replacement. He has specific things that Aldi provides which is consistently good and cheaper than anywhere else. A good example is avocados. Cheaper and consistently good, and he buys a lot of them, so a side trip to Aldi is still a good deal. Bags of potatoes. Bananas. That's what Aldi is all about.
Everyone has been talking about Aldi like it is something special..or trying to equate it to something higher end like Trader Joes, which is almost owned by the same people. Reality is, Aldi has a reputation of being where poor or cheap people shop. Their price on staples like milk is really low, and their off brands are better than most store brands. That said, they really slot somewhere between dollar general and Food Dog in the grocery market. A place you shop at because you are counting dollars..not because it is nice.
That was definitely the impression I got. I didn't price check anything (because there was nothing I wanted to buy) but the whole store has a Dollar General feel to it. What doesn't make sense is that when I was feeding kids on a super tight budget we didn't have money for snacks items and pre-fab meals, and that's what Aldi's appeared to specialize in. They had a way bigger supply of snack chips than they did produce or meat.
Michele Obama should chime in on this.
Bonehead
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Thanks you saved me a trip.
SamSpade
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They take debit cards - which in reality is what my primary card is anyway, even though I use it mostly as a credit card.
huntr1
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You do realize it's across the street, has nothing to do with WW, right?
cheezgrits
Thought pirate
Laughing at the critics of Aldis. Not all of us have EBT cards and are regular customers at St. Mary's Social Services and can freely shop at wherever we want for whatever we want. Aldi's doesn't sell itself as a high end grocery store, read their ads, watch their commercials. They are what they are. We shop there all the time and get good food, their produce is usually fine and their staples are no name brand, sure. But there are reasonably priced.
You all do know that they are a sister store to Trader Joe's, right? The same European company owns them both now. Trader Joe's has no name products, is usually a small store and prices are pretty cheap. Most people are blinded by the flash of the Hawaiian shirts, I suppose.
But yeah, I guess compared to the wonderful McKays and Food Lions we have down here, y'al are right. Please don't shop there, makes it easier for me to get in and out of that effed up parking lot!
You all do know that they are a sister store to Trader Joe's, right? The same European company owns them both now. Trader Joe's has no name products, is usually a small store and prices are pretty cheap. Most people are blinded by the flash of the Hawaiian shirts, I suppose.
But yeah, I guess compared to the wonderful McKays and Food Lions we have down here, y'al are right. Please don't shop there, makes it easier for me to get in and out of that effed up parking lot!
OldHillcrestGuy
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Thank You Cheezgrits, PeoplesElbow and Gwguy a lot of naysayers down here in good ole St Marys.
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SamSpade
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I plan to go often - they have a few items I'm likely to keep coming back for. As others have observed, it will never be my one stop shop, but no grocery story currently is. At the LEAST I do Giant and BJ's but usually more.
Yes x 100000000000
libertytyranny
Dream Stealer
I know people who won't even buy store brand canned green beans when they are half the price so I realize that's not for everyone. I myself have a pretty strict grocery budget and grabbing some things from Aldi will help me with that. If I need something specialty or fancy there are other places to go. I love wegmans as much as the next girl but I'd go broke with that thing any closer. Aldo serves a purpose and its not to cater to snobs.
I don't have an EBT card. :shrug:
My experience with store brands is such that buying a name brand is worth the extra few cents to me. I also don't have a family to feed, but even when I did it didn't make sense to take chances on iffy goods just because they were cheap. Not saying that Aldi's brands are bad, just that I don't want to waste money testing them.
Same thing with the dollar store. Even if I can get a bag of chips for $1, if the chips are stale and nasty I might as well have thrown that dollar right in the trash. If the gadget breaks the first time I use it, it cost way more than if I'd coughed up the few extra bucks for something more substantial. I grew up poor and can make origami out of a penny, but cost and value are two different things. Less expensive is good; cheap is bad.
I just got a refresher course in that lesson when I purchased a bottle of Dolce and Gabbana Light Blue perfume. One retailer had an unopened "tester" for around $20 less than Sephora has it, so I went with that. What a waste. You could marinate in this stuff and 15 mins later the scent is long gone. One day I'll learn to stop cheaping out and just get the real deal the first time.
*The exception to the store brand rule is Whole Foods and Target. Their store brands are usually very good and sometimes even better than the national brand.
My experience with store brands is such that buying a name brand is worth the extra few cents to me. I also don't have a family to feed, but even when I did it didn't make sense to take chances on iffy goods just because they were cheap. Not saying that Aldi's brands are bad, just that I don't want to waste money testing them.
Same thing with the dollar store. Even if I can get a bag of chips for $1, if the chips are stale and nasty I might as well have thrown that dollar right in the trash. If the gadget breaks the first time I use it, it cost way more than if I'd coughed up the few extra bucks for something more substantial. I grew up poor and can make origami out of a penny, but cost and value are two different things. Less expensive is good; cheap is bad.
I just got a refresher course in that lesson when I purchased a bottle of Dolce and Gabbana Light Blue perfume. One retailer had an unopened "tester" for around $20 less than Sephora has it, so I went with that. What a waste. You could marinate in this stuff and 15 mins later the scent is long gone. One day I'll learn to stop cheaping out and just get the real deal the first time.
*The exception to the store brand rule is Whole Foods and Target. Their store brands are usually very good and sometimes even better than the national brand.
Restitution
New Member
A wise man once said that this applies to just about everything:
There is FAST
There is CHEAP
There is GOOD
You can only have 2...
There is FAST
There is CHEAP
There is GOOD
You can only have 2...
GWguy
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Just got back from there. I cannot believe they made a parking lot like that. A total fuster cluck. and every senior citizen with impaired driving skills were in there. Place was packed.
That aside, there are some really good deals to be had. Milk, butter, eggs, all much cheaper than the other stores. Campari tomatoes, which I use all winter 'cause they taste like vine tomatoes, about a $1 cheaper per carton. Ghiardeli (sp?) brownie mix, far cheaper. The store brand kettle potato chips and imitation seafood, I cannot tell any difference in taste AND cheaper.
This is the place to go if you want to save some money on things you get everyday.
That aside, there are some really good deals to be had. Milk, butter, eggs, all much cheaper than the other stores. Campari tomatoes, which I use all winter 'cause they taste like vine tomatoes, about a $1 cheaper per carton. Ghiardeli (sp?) brownie mix, far cheaper. The store brand kettle potato chips and imitation seafood, I cannot tell any difference in taste AND cheaper.
This is the place to go if you want to save some money on things you get everyday.
PeoplesElbow
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What I dont get is that people that complain chain restaurants are all the same complaining that they cant get the exact same thing that they can at every other grocery store in the county.
If everything was the same, why have more than one?
Guessing with the messed up ABC board here that this one does not sell wine?
If everything was the same, why have more than one?
Guessing with the messed up ABC board here that this one does not sell wine?
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Restitution
New Member
If you haven't noticed yet... there are quite a few food snobs around here.