Clancy chips are great and cheap, by the way. Their Cheesy Garlic Bread chips are in my top 5 chips of all time probably.
Should I know what GR is? Maybe I missed something upthread? If so I’m sorry.
In our store, at the time we shopped, there was often only one employee in the entire store. He would be stocking shelves, mopping up, and when we went to checkout we’d have to wait for him. But he was keeping an eye on the register and the wait was never more than a few seconds. Really impressive.
GR, initials of the city near me. Furniture City in the 616. TJ initials of a national chain of stores. Apologies for confusing you.
Aldi’s anything like Sav A Lot? I just can’t with that store, depressingly ill lit, dusty shelves, grumpy customers.
See Chronos’s post above. In my experience, Aldi stores are clean and well-managed, though certainly “no-frills” compared to other stores.
Ooooh fun! I love guessing games! And I love having to look stuff up on Google that I shouldn’t have to!
It would have been so boring if you had just written out what you meant. We should move this to Thread Games. Coool!
That said, if you don’t want to say the name of GR, just say “a nearby city.” Stop using acronyms that are obvious to you because you live there but mean nothing to others. (And saying “Furniture City in the 616” is no clearer.)
I appreciate your interest but I can’t help you manage your expectations when reading my posts.
It seems to have a good following as it’s parking lot is always crowded and it’s next to a grocery superstore too.
Exactly. I’m seeing this kind of thing in more and more posts and it’s really getting old. Just stop it, people. Just because YOU know what GR is doesn’t mean that anyone else does.
We are in between two Aldis , one in A big city, next to a HyVee and Target, it’s always crowded. The other in a smaller town is three blocks from a Walmart! It’s crowded too.
Pre-COVID, I would never shop at Aldi. There are certain functions of the shopping experience that I couldn’t deal with. Lack of options was also a factor. Now that 99% of our grocery shopping is InstaCart, I alternate weekly between them and a regular store. I can get a lot of things we need there and have found a few items that we are really enjoying. They have a cauliflower dip with roasted poblano and corn that we were digging with pita chips all Summer. Also they have some calzones that are pretty tasty.
Having them as my only option would be really frustrating, but getting staples there has worked out pretty good. It’s a little hard to believe some of the things they don’t have. Sesame oil - don’t carry any. There are always a few items selected that they don’t have in stock and some sneaky shoppers don’t let you know until the end so you can’t select a substitute. But that’s more of an InstaCart rant than on Aldi.
For produce, I have had better luck with things that are pre-packaged than individual, so I try to stick with them.
Mod Note: No need for an off-topic sarcastic post. But while I’m at it, chela as Dewy_Finn said, no need for the acronyms, just keep it completely generic.
Everyone back on subject please.
Reminder: a Mod Note is not a warning, we don’t record these in the super secret book of the permanent record. This is just a minor instruction.
I read an article lately about Walmart price-matching Aldi because Aldi has the lowest prices on so many things. The Walmart by us does that. They also have eggs at 65 cents a dozen and milk at $1.39 a gallon and we’ve seen it goes up and down with Aldi.
Interesting article I never knew about Aldi’s origins I just assumed it was local family named grocer as there are a few still plugging away around the lakeshore but there are that many more that have folded.
I like their stance on cart returns and byob
I don’t see much difference between Aldi and Lidl. Pile 'em high sell 'em cheap, with narrow aisles to maximise selling space. The thing I liked about them was that, so far as I could tell, they sourced for their European network of shops (which is extensive) and that was the stock they sold everywhere, so you got (a limited range of) cheap but authentic European produce rather than the slightly posher but anglicised produce that other stores offered. That said, whilst shopping for feta, I did come across Aldi “Greek style salad cheese” (I kid you not). Caution advised.
And then there was COVID, and suddenly those narrow crowded aisles seemed less appealing. Haven’t been for a while.
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The ones we go to are on the bigger side and practice social distancing.
their “cheap wines” have won awards for excellence. It’s not like their stocking Thunderbird
It’s Grand Rapids, Michigan.
“In the 616” = area code. What cities in 616 start with “GR”? Grand Rapids. QED. You don’t even have to know that Grand Rapids is home to like 5 of the country’s largest furniture companies.
If I wanted to solve puzzles like that, I’d be listening to Weekend Edition Sunday Morning and playing the puzzle as presented by Will Shortz. I’m not interested in doing a puzzle just to understand a post here.