[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Aldi (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 9/10/2011 9:29:16 AM EDT
| This place isn't communist or a liberal POS owned store is it? Please say no, because the place is awesome. The local one even has a ton of hot wimmenz that shop there. |
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It's owned by a German named Albrecht. Albrecht Discount, Al-Di, get it? They also own Trader Joe's. FWIW, I love Aldi, and it's one of the things I miss the most since I moved to Arizona. In fact, I'd like it if more stores adopted their practices, cart deposit, bring your own bag, packaging acts as display, etc.
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I love their brand of flavored water.
Its not just me, but everyone i know. Other than that, no. For good food and prices i shop around. I might hit 5-6 stores when shopping. Sav- A-Lot food store gets most of my business. Hard to pass up their 50lbs bag of baking potatos for $8 or their 5 cans of basics for $1 etc. etc. |
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Quoted: Think German super-efficiency mixed with shitty American consumerism and it often makes Walmart on a Saturday look classy. At the one where I used to live, I think I saw somebody NOT use an EBT card once or twice. I always felt like a chump using cash or debit instead of "gubment dollas."  |
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That is odd. Every time I have gone it has been 20-30 something women driving nice cars and suvs. A good number of mexican women as well. That role is filled by the Wegmans chain hereabouts. You wont save any money at Wegmans, but thats where the good lookers shop. |
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Its basically for welfare types where I am at. That is odd. Every time I have gone it has been 20-30 something women driving nice cars and suvs. A good number of mexican women as well. I have almost dropped my grocery bill in half by shopping there. Wow it is impossible for me to imagine hot wimminz with nice cars at Aldi.  But, there aren't many hot wimminz with nice cars in my area anyway. In fact, I have yet to see one.
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Quoted: Its basically for welfare types where I am at. When your stores are filled with welfare types, you live in a shitty neighborhood. Our Aldis is full of normal middle Americans...including me. They have some good foods, and we save a lot of coin shopping there. |
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When your stores are filled with welfare types, you live in a shitty neighborhood. Our Aldis is full of normal middle Americans...including me. They have some good foods, and we save a lot of coin shopping there. I don't live anywhere near our Aldis. Our Aldis is about two blocks from one of our larger welfare areas, although they've pushed many of its residents out into the county with recently-built new developments. That aside, the quality of the Aldi product line leaves much to be desired. |
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The stores are small, but they have the basics, and those basics are good and cheap.
Depending on location, however, they're either ghetto or nice. Kind of like every other damn grocery store. Regardless of location, just avoid going around the first of the month. 
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When your stores are filled with welfare types, you live in a shitty neighborhood. Our Aldis is full of normal middle Americans...including me. They have some good foods, and we save a lot of coin shopping there. This.... We save a bundle on our grocery bill since we've switched to Aldi's. If you buy something at Aldi's and don't like it, they'll even take it back. |
The one here is clean, dosen't smell like farts  , and isn't int he bad part of town. I go every week, the money I save goes towards moar ammo and guns. I don't buy everything there but at least 80% of the weekly food, I just wish I'd discovered them years ago I save a ton of money for on par or better quality food then wal-mart, bi-lo, ect..
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On my infrequent Shopping Daze I hit Aldi's, Hy-Vee, and WalMart to get all the specific things I like at the right price. The last shopping day I threw in an extra trip to a Price Chopper for a few odds and ends I forgot at the other stores. I was kind of shocked at a lot of the higher price differences I found at Price Chopper. Many common things I bought at my "Big 3" stores were twice as high and sometimes three times higher. My Aldi's is semi-ghetto, but I'm not going to drive 10 miles to the next one in a better neighborhood. |
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Quoted: They have awesome German & Austrian chocolate. I bought a chocolate bar today to try it, it was decent. I am still always surprised when I check out with a weeks worth of groceries and it is only 70-80 bucks. The place I used to go would have been almost double that.
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