Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>
> On Tue, 14 May 2013 17:11:07 -0500, Ema Nymton >
> wrote:
>
> >This morning, George and I went to Aldi's for the first time. My first
> >impression was, the store is not very big. They had brands that I am not
> >familiar with, but they had decent prices. They did not have scallions,
> >but they had everything else on my list. I bought 10 lbs of russet
> >potatoes because they were 29 cents per pound, so now I have to cook
> >potatoes, even though they are not George's favorite vegetable. Poor
> >George. We had to insert 25 cents to get a grocery basket, I have never
> >seen that before.
> >
> >So, how do you like Aldi's?
> >
> >Becca
>
> Mediocre. We've only shopped there a few times and what we bought was
> OK, but not great. Butter and eggs were good, but my grandson did not
> like the milk. That could vary with local suppliers though.
>
> Produce selection was very small, some was good, the rest looked like
> it was ready for the pig farm. The meats are injected crap. OK if
> you want to pay $5 a pound for water and salt.
>
> It is near the bottom of our list of stores. If you need an essential
> item and are close by, fine, but now worth driving an extra mile for.
> The cart thing is very European and making a bit of headway around
> here. The good part of it, people take the carts back and don't leave
> them to bang into cars in the parking lot.

The cart thing is asinine. I recall when a grocery store in Avon, CT
tried that (Big Y?) and damned near went out of business as a result and
quickly removed the offending devices.

There is a new Aldi about to open near me, I'll stop in and check it
out, but if it lives up to what I've heard about it I won't bother
visiting it again even though it's right next to Sam's which I do visit
regularly.