First trip to Aldi's 6473This has made me curious. Do most of the supermarkets in the US have someone other than the cashier packing...
First trip to Aldi's 6475Where I live and shop, (Virginia) and sometimes traveling and shopping at grocery stores up and down a few other east-coast states, there are no groceries stores that you have to bag your...
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I'd say Aldi's already has a pretty good hold in the US with 600 stores.
Frills? Who needs frills? I'm in and out of Aldi's in 10 minutes with the basics I go there for. The same trip to one of the local larger chains costs me 20% more, takes twice as long, and involves pushing a cart up and down a half mile of aisles just to get everything I need.
At the large chains, I walk further between my car and the front door than I walk inside an Aldi's. Then, when I do go to the large chain for meat, deli, and produce, I'm in and out much quicker because I skip the miles of aisles (except for the pickle aisle...gotta get those Gedney pickles - Aldi's pickles just don't rate by comparison)
Choice? Really? Heh heh. "Terribly customized?" Aldi's was born in post WWII Germany with the idea of providing only the basic staples to the war ravaged German population at large. It wasn't about choice then and still isn't.
Aldi's currently stocks roughly 1000 different items, compared to upward of 40,000 at some of the large chains. I walk into an Aldi's and grab chips, dip, all manner of canned goods, cheese, butter, corn oil, shampoo (their Head and Shoulders knock-off is as good as the original - twice as good as the generics in the large markets), etc. and lose nothing in quality. Even their Frito's knock-off is indistinguishable from the name brand.
