Sarah Gray wrote:

> Gregory Morrow wrote:
> > Sarah Gray wrote:
> >
> >> Lou Decruss wrote:
> >>> On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:59:11 -0800, Gregory Morrow
> >>> > wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Bobo Bonobo® wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> [SNIPEROONIE "partially hydrogenated" nonsense]
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> ALDI is a store for poor
> >>>>> people.
> >>>> Nonsense, it's a store for smart people who want to save some
money...
> >>> Gotta disagree with you there. Maybe for those of you who think
> >>> you're smart but are lacking in shopping skills. In your case just
> >>> lacking a car and grateful they got rid of that Dominick's. Shit, a
> >>> White Hen would be better than a Dominick's. I went to the Aldi's
> >>> site which you posted a link to, and found nothing special to make me
> >>> go to a place with such a limited selection. I also read the replies
> >>> from another forum that you posted. The first one had someone who
> >>> switched to the Ultra in Forest Park.
> >> Well, they don't have that store everywhere.
> >>
> >>> Doesn't that tell you that Aldi
> >>> isn't all that? Ultra is far from my favorite store but I've shopped
> >>> there many times. Aldi's site says cream cheese has been reduced to
> >>> $.89. Big deal. Same as Ultra. Or you can go to any Centrella store
> >>> and get the name brand (Philadelphia) for $.99. Aldi has reduced
> >>> butter to $1.89. Ultra has it for $1.50. By my limited math skills
> >>> you people that think you're smart, are overpaying. Various pork
> >>> chops range from $2.89 to $3.69 at Aldi. I recently paid $1.29 for
> >>> Aldi's $3.69 version and they weren't cryovaced in crap. We were out
> >>> in the burbs and found a great place with a real meat counter. I
> >>> could go on and on about how silly your comment was but I don't want
> >>> to embarrass you.
> >>>
> >> Most of the meat at Aldi is not priced competitively enough to beat
loss
> >> leader prices. (There is also the quality issue; I assume most people
> >> prefer their beef unadulterated) The low prices on the hundreds of
other
> >> pantry staples they have make up for it, imo. I think it is ridiculous
> >> to make a claim that to save money one should shop at only one store.
My
> >> personal shopping plan type thing is to shop loss leaders at the
chains,
> >> and fill in the gaps with Aldi stuff.
> >
> >
> > I've notice that Aldi's meat is not appreciably cheaper than what I can
get
> > at my two local independent stupormarkets (Treasure Island and the
Market
> > Place in Chicawgo). I'm not going to Aldi to save ten cents on pork
chops
> > or chix breasts that I can get closer to home (I have to take a bus to
Aldi
> > as I don't drive)...I *might* go there to get some of their German -
type
> > stuff, e.g. Black Forest Ham, sausages, etc. or a spiral - sliced ham,
which
> > can be appreciably cheaper at Aldi.
> >
> > Same with their produce items, Aldi will often have pound bags of min -
> > carrots or three pound bags of onions for 79 cents, these things are
> > routinely on sale for 99 cents at my regular stores. And a whiles back
I
> > noticed that per pound cabbage was actually a bit *more* expensive at
Aldi
> > ("large head for 99 cents") than at Market Place which had four lbs for
a
> > buck...and Treasure Island at 19 cents/lb....
> >
> > I pays to do yer homework...
> >
>
> Heh. I have a notebook where I have the best "regular" prices on pretty
> much anything I might care to purchase, grocery-wise. 75% of it is Aldi.
>
> If you know how much the best regular price is, you know when a sale is
> really a deal, and when you can pass it up.


*Exactly*...

One local chain here (Jewel) regulary advertises items at "!0 for 10
dollars". Thing is, you can always beat that price down the street or
wherever where you can get "10 for 40/60/75 cents per item" or whatever...I
guess we suckers are supposed to go "WOW!" to get ten small oranges for ten
dollars (yep, that's a BUCK per orange) when I can go elsewhere and get a
five pound bag of oranges for $1.59 or whatever...

Jewel is also the place where I saw a 12 oz. tray of okra for $4.99, I guess
gumbo would be a luxury food if you bought the makin's there. It's also
where I saw a pound tray of "fresh" black - eyed peas for the same price.
In reading the label I saw that they were re - constituted from dried, and
plus which they had all kinds of additives.

Jewel is also the home of the THREE - pound bag of potatoes for $4.98. When
I first saw this I thought, "Huh, must be some specialty tater...". Nope,
just plain old russet spuds you can get most anywhere else for $1.98 or less
per 10 lb bag...and these looked pretty shriveled too. They once had the
"10 for 10 dollars" dealie for ordinary baking potatoes...

Jewel is the type of place to go for such entertainments, I might keep a
little notebook in which to jot the hilarious prices down on my *very*
infrequent trips there...they have Whole Foods or higher prices for
slumgullion produce.


--
Best
Greg