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I'm a big fan of Aldi don't know I'd do without it. How do they get that quality at those low prices? Because they don't have 9 different varieties of Parsley sauce. No friend am I to 9 Parsley sauce capitalism

This and they only workers who are prepared to work. You can tell Aldi was founded after a war because of the absence of silliness and decadence. The best thing to come on since 2008 effectively proof that the old days were built for a stupid, spoilt moron.

Aldi or Lidl for me, unless I feel like treating myself, then it's Marks and Spencer, Waitrose or Booths.
I like the bargains on the middle aisles in Lidl and Aldi, for instance, I picked up a good quality gel bicycle seat cover from Lidl, £4.99. At least £12.50 anywhere online. Also I like the comprehensive Italian food section at my local Lidl.

And maybe that's the good thing about war, particularly losing a war. To make an Aldi. The ultimate stress of necessity as the mother of invention and the birth of merit.

I do think that in Aldi you're looking at a reason why the Germans and the Japanese are so much more successful than the decadent crap that was allied posterity.

And in another way it shows how people feel about capitalism. Confused. Some say Aldi is extreme capitalism because it offers better products at lower prices by not having a load of shareholders or 9 varieties of Parsley sauce. But they're absolutely wrong. This is good capitalism when you don't have to pay for a load of hangers on. We don't need an air conditioned football stadium packed with wall to wall trash and a byzantine system of corporate bureaucracy to buy some fruit. At least clear some of the trash out of the stadium and put in a nail salon make some use out of the space. Competition is a wonderful thing.

This is where I do my grocery shopping, King Soopers at 9225 North Union Blvd... It's a nice new store, about a 10 minute drive from my home... I spent over $7000.00 here on groceries last year! and I don't buy meat! ... I tell the grocery clerks I'm going to have to get a reverse mortgage to buy groceries... ... They know me and just laugh... ... ...

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I couldn’t agree more. I’ve been saying this same thing regarding many consumer items—just say NO! I noticed some members discussing their “discount” stores— here we have ‘The Dollar Tree’…nothing over one dollar. Now, in Oregon there’s no “sales tax”, so it really WAS only one dollar per single item. But…Dollar Tree just increased its bottom line pricing to $1.25. That’s a TWENTY FIVE PER CENT raise. (In any economy that’s superfluously high..). They’re still going to keep the name, I’ve heard, but will have to tweak the advertising gimmick. I’ll agree that a buck and a quarter is still low. I just bought Comet, and Palmolive, and two four-packs of toilet paper ( like I freakin’ need more..) these all are name- brand and sell for two to four times as much in other stores, so it’s still a bargain. We also have ROSS here. Recently I redid my bath— covers, rugs, shower curtain and liner, for $31.75. Another store (Penney’s, Sears, etc…) it would have been $140.00 for exactly the same merchandise….shop around. A little unsolicited info, take it or leave it: Expensive supermarkets are Albertsons, Rays, Safeway. Better bargains are Kroger (Freddie’s), WINCO ( used to be CUB), Grocery Outlet, Dollar General, in the south, Circle K, Winn-Dixie, and all over, Walmart. In Oregon we have Bi-Mart, and don’t know if they still exist, but there was a chain called “Bazaar” for a long time. We just got a Harbor Freight at our local mall. Everyone says it’ll be a hit— lots of farming, trucking, logging going on here…peace, darlings…

My momma told me, you better shop around

We don't have an Aldi's but we do have a Trader Joe's which is owned by the family that owns Aldi.

I miss shopping at the H.E.B. It is one and done grocery shopping. An Iowa-based supermarket said it would not expand into Texas because of H.E.B. In their words "They didn't want to poke the bear.

Now, shopping is choosing from the local branch of a national or regional chain which all fail in their own particular way.

Not the case here (Ireland) Small veg shops tend to be a lot more expensive and not better quality, Polish supermarkets have really good quality fruit and veg albeit at a premium price, prefer Aldi for meat & wine, Dunnes Stores for fish and Lidl for everything else.