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I shop mostly in Aldi and Lidl....and when there's a full moon and I feel totally posh and stuck up I go to Dunnes Stores and pack up by bags and walk around in front of said Aldi and Lidl and do my best mwahahahahha I'm better than you laugh.
Then once full moon has left I go back to normal and back to A and L
Then once full moon has left I go back to normal and back to A and L
Deedee123x: I shop mostly in Aldi and Lidl....and when there's a full moon and I feel totally posh and stuck up I go to Dunnes Stores and pack up by bags and walk around in front of said Aldi and Lidl and do my best mwahahahahha I'm better than you laugh.
Then once full moon has left I go back to normal and back to A and L
Trust you Then once full moon has left I go back to normal and back to A and L
Mercedes_00: Trust you
It's the full moon what can I say 
jac_the_gripper: So, it'll be sold for as long as it's an integral part of a functioning economy, or economically viable?
It's great that you aid and abet piggy murder, but I'm not sure that's the same as bacon being sold 'forever', or even for as long as some people are willing to buy it.
The theme running thrugh the comments appears to be a balance between affordablity and quality, but food production as it stands is inefficient and ultimately unsustainable even if it's profitable for a few. We are, to a certain extent, forced to seek the cheapest means of feeding ourselves and in doing so feed the unsustainable system of mass, distance production.
We may at some point be forced to change what we eat and the way we obtain food. That might alter the profitability of some food production, especially the least efficient.
Stop putting words in my mouth. I do not “aid and abet piggy murder”. I just presented facts. That’s not the same thing. ( I do not use pork, btw..) You likely hit on something. Soylent Green could happen. Already food supplies of many sources are dwindling. Clearing out farms and ranches to build more houses and businesses is rather stupid…not much afore-thought going on. Jac, I’m not the only poster who has asked you to not put words in others’ mouths. Not cool. Try being groovy with members, don’t come across as sarcastic or vituperative. Thanx…It's great that you aid and abet piggy murder, but I'm not sure that's the same as bacon being sold 'forever', or even for as long as some people are willing to buy it.
The theme running thrugh the comments appears to be a balance between affordablity and quality, but food production as it stands is inefficient and ultimately unsustainable even if it's profitable for a few. We are, to a certain extent, forced to seek the cheapest means of feeding ourselves and in doing so feed the unsustainable system of mass, distance production.
We may at some point be forced to change what we eat and the way we obtain food. That might alter the profitability of some food production, especially the least efficient.
KarloradoFL: You can still get low cost clothing at WalMart but some grocery prices are going up, meat, frozen goods, anything with olive oil in it. Still can get individual pies for .50 cents and they have a large assortment of them. I like the sweet potato pies made from Patti La Belle's family recipe. You can also get apple, blueberry, lemon, pecan, peach, pumpkin, cherry and individual cakes in pie tins too. I bought several shorts made with threads that came from recycled plastic for $11. each. They are comfortable, don't wrinkle in the washer and dryer and are waterproof so rain and sweat just rolls off them.
Fresh fish is getting high around here, and this the Pacific Ocean, FFS! Salmon was about 5 or 6 dollars for one boneless filet, it’s now about 10. Love Halibut? It’s a rich man’s food now— I saw a chunk, probably 10 ounces, for sale for $23.00. That is way too high. Specialty items like pesto, Bruschetta, Feta in saltwater, all getting very high. I like focaccia, it’s now almost $10.00 a loaf…geeze Louise..I went to Wally World and Publix today....
I get the BOGOs at Publix and the lower priced groceries at Walmart...
I get the BOGOs at Publix and the lower priced groceries at Walmart...
rohaan: Stop putting words in my mouth. I do not “aid and abet piggy murder”. I just presented facts. That’s not the same thing. ( I do not use pork, btw..) You likely hit on something. Soylent Green could happen. Already food supplies of many sources are dwindling. Clearing out farms and ranches to build more houses and businesses is rather stupid…not much afore-thought going on. Jac, I’m not the only poster who has asked you to not put words in others’ mouths. Not cool. Try being groovy with members, don’t come across as sarcastic or vituperative. Thanx…
I was merely reflecting your patronising comment 'it's great that you're vegetarian', not putting words in your mouth any more than you were in mine.I took on board what you said about the current pork market, I just don't think food production as it stands is sustainable, nor remotely sensible.
I was thinking more about locally produced, sustainable food and people growing their own to supplement their diet, rather than digging deeper into mass produced, inefficient, environmentally damaging, remote/transported goods.
As the cost of living increases beyond many people's incomes, even small self-sufficiences could make a difference. We need to learn how to reuse and create instead of being controlled by other people's markets and world events.
I like how Aldi brings in the posh and the poor voice like the grocery equivalent of grammar school. The only thing that distinguishes Aldi shoppers is their intelligence over and above the normal.
For some reason Lidl is the most expensive supermarket here, still sells rubbish though...
We have plenty of little shops selling Turkish, Italian, Russian and Greek products, good quality and good price...
I am not into buying cheap bulk, canned or frozen or proceed food, I'd rather have quality...than quantity...
And after all how much toilet paper one needs?!
We have plenty of little shops selling Turkish, Italian, Russian and Greek products, good quality and good price...
I am not into buying cheap bulk, canned or frozen or proceed food, I'd rather have quality...than quantity...
And after all how much toilet paper one needs?!
Morrisons has the best 'poor peoples fridge.' At the right time of day everything in there is reduced to 15p regardless of original price.
bodleing2: Morrisons has the best 'poor peoples fridge.' At the right time of day everything in there is reduced to 15p regardless of original price.
I call that the nearly dead section. The Co-op's good for that and I get a 20% discount because my daughter works for the company.
Tesco can be good, but there's always stuff that's already dead. I have no idea why they waste resources reducing green leafy stuff turned to slime and blown packets of decaying food. The inefficiency of bureaucracy must add up to a helluva lot of stickers, sticker transport, admin, staff effort, etc. every year.
As Aldi doesn't reduce, I hope staff get to take stuff home, or it goes to some organisation rather than being wasted. I know someone collects about-to-be-wasted items for a food bank two nights a week at my local Co-op.
My daughter abhors putting animal products into waste in particular. If you think of a chicken's squalid life, it's pretty obscene that so many just get ditched. At least the unsold veg gets composted.
jac_the_gripper: I call that the nearly dead section.
The Co-op's good for that and I get a 20% discount because my daughter works for the company.
Tesco can be good, but there's always stuff that's already dead. I have no idea why they waste resources reducing green leafy stuff turned to slime and blown packets of decaying food. The inefficiency of bureaucracy must add up to a helluva lot of stickers, sticker transport, admin, staff effort, etc. every year.
As Aldi doesn't reduce, I hope staff get to take stuff home, or it goes to some organisation rather than being wasted. I know someone collects about-to-be-wasted items for a food bank two nights a week at my local Co-op.
My daughter abhors putting animal products into waste in particular. If you think of a chicken's squalid life, it's pretty obscene that so many just get ditched. At least the unsold veg gets composted.
I rarely but anything from thr reduced section since I changed my diet about six months ago. In fact there are many sections I just walk past these days, especially the chocolate, cakes and buscuits sections.The Co-op's good for that and I get a 20% discount because my daughter works for the company.
Tesco can be good, but there's always stuff that's already dead. I have no idea why they waste resources reducing green leafy stuff turned to slime and blown packets of decaying food. The inefficiency of bureaucracy must add up to a helluva lot of stickers, sticker transport, admin, staff effort, etc. every year.
As Aldi doesn't reduce, I hope staff get to take stuff home, or it goes to some organisation rather than being wasted. I know someone collects about-to-be-wasted items for a food bank two nights a week at my local Co-op.
My daughter abhors putting animal products into waste in particular. If you think of a chicken's squalid life, it's pretty obscene that so many just get ditched. At least the unsold veg gets composted.
That was so difficult at first..
bodleing2: I rarely but anything from thr reduced section since I changed my diet about six months ago. In fact there are many sections I just walk past these days, especially the chocolate, cakes and buscuits sections.
That was so difficult at first..
I don't recognise bready, cakey and biscuity stuff as food, so I don't see them on any shelves. That was so difficult at first..
My local Co-op is best for reduced hippy food, owing to a reduced demand in this area.
Most places have a seperate section for veg. Co-op and Morrisons reduce perfect stuff just because it's on the sell by date. It's never as good as straight out of the ground even when it's full price, so why boost their profits unnecessarily, I say.
jac_the_gripper: I don't recognise bready, cakey and biscuity stuff as food, so I don't see them on any shelves.
My local Co-op is best for reduced hippy food, owing to a reduced demand in this area.
Most places have a seperate section for veg. Co-op and Morrisons reduce perfect stuff just because it's on the sell by date. It's never as good as straight out of the ground even when it's full price, so why boost their profits unnecessarily, I say.
I take it you wont be trying the cow heel pies I mentioned on the pie thread then.My local Co-op is best for reduced hippy food, owing to a reduced demand in this area.
Most places have a seperate section for veg. Co-op and Morrisons reduce perfect stuff just because it's on the sell by date. It's never as good as straight out of the ground even when it's full price, so why boost their profits unnecessarily, I say.
jac_the_gripper: I call that the nearly dead section.
The Co-op's good for that and I get a 20% discount because my daughter works for the company.
Tesco can be good, but there's always stuff that's already dead. I have no idea why they waste resources reducing green leafy stuff turned to slime and blown packets of decaying food. The inefficiency of bureaucracy must add up to a helluva lot of stickers, sticker transport, admin, staff effort, etc. every year.
As Aldi doesn't reduce, I hope staff get to take stuff home, or it goes to some organisation rather than being wasted. I know someone collects about-to-be-wasted items for a food bank two nights a week at my local Co-op.
My daughter abhors putting animal products into waste in particular. If you think of a chicken's squalid life, it's pretty obscene that so many just get ditched. At least the unsold veg gets composted.
Aldi does reduce but it's moderated by having the right amount of stock to begin with. Yellow stickers reduce waste by being incredibly wasteful, that's the catch.The Co-op's good for that and I get a 20% discount because my daughter works for the company.
Tesco can be good, but there's always stuff that's already dead. I have no idea why they waste resources reducing green leafy stuff turned to slime and blown packets of decaying food. The inefficiency of bureaucracy must add up to a helluva lot of stickers, sticker transport, admin, staff effort, etc. every year.
As Aldi doesn't reduce, I hope staff get to take stuff home, or it goes to some organisation rather than being wasted. I know someone collects about-to-be-wasted items for a food bank two nights a week at my local Co-op.
My daughter abhors putting animal products into waste in particular. If you think of a chicken's squalid life, it's pretty obscene that so many just get ditched. At least the unsold veg gets composted.
ChesneyChrist: Aldi does reduce but it's moderated by having the right amount of stock to begin with. Yellow stickers reduce waste by being incredibly wasteful, that's the catch.
It's prevention versus cure. Yellow stickers are a way to say that we cause unnecessary waste but can reduce the waste by 20%. It's a medicine as opposed to just not being sick.ChesneyChrist: It's prevention versus cure. Yellow stickers are a way to say that we cause unnecessary waste but can reduce the waste by 20%. It's a medicine as opposed to just not being sick.
They're a product of lavish decadence and proof that your supermarket could do the same thing with half the mess/money/energy/carbon footprint. If only you could try not selling more than people want to buy. I know the price is lower but the carbon footprint of a discount sandwich is worse than when you buy it fresh. The real answer is to have the correct number of fresh sandwiches.Speaking of which what we really want burying is Buy One Get One Free. It's a big part of that decadent, wasteful oversell that buying from the reduced bin stands on. It should just go to half price.
ChesneyChrist: Speaking of which what we really want burying is Buy One Get One Free. It's a big part of that decadent, wasteful oversell that buying from the reduced bin stands on. It should just go to half price.
Far from being green buying from the reduced bin is rewarding businesses that make careless and partial use of resources.I buy most of my packaged food from a very local very small "supermarkets" not part of a chain. Fresh local produce from local farmers. Unbleached toilet paper and a few vegan things From aldi. Carrefour for vegan cheeses and "desserts". Liddl and/or Carrefour for toiletries made with natural products and minimal added chemicals. Chemist friend for some homemade natural skin and hair care products
It's an important one to correct this. If you're in the reduced bin it's because you're a skinflint who doesn't mind dirty business practices. You're a market that can only exist through that which trickles down from the most wasteful people in the world. You're a pill for an illness that shouldn't exist.
Use the places with minimal yellow stickers because it means they're much more efficient. It means their products go to a good home instead of destruction and decay. Businesses that waste large volumes of what they sell should be forced to the wall.
And that goes for non-perishable goods as well. Who goes to the supermarket to buy a DVD? And who's paying for that to be on the shelf? People from 2005?
ChesneyChrist: It's an important one to correct this. If you're in the reduced bin it's because you're a skinflint who doesn't mind dirty business practices. You're a market that can only exist through that which trickles down from the most wasteful people in the world. You're a pill for an illness that shouldn't exist.
Alternatively, they might have limited income and can feed their family better or at least more if they get food from the reduced shelf.jac_the_gripper: I was merely reflecting your patronising comment 'it's great that you're vegetarian', not putting words in your mouth any more than you were in mine.
I took on board what you said about the current pork market, I just don't think food production as it stands is sustainable, nor remotely sensible.
I was thinking more about locally produced, sustainable food and people growing their own to supplement their diet, rather than digging deeper into mass produced, inefficient, environmentally damaging, remote/transported goods.
As the cost of living increases beyond many people's incomes, even small self-sufficiences could make a difference. We need to learn how to reuse and create instead of being controlled by other people's markets and world events.
I wasn’t patronizing! You assume too much, and frequently the “negative”! Look, other members have pointed this out— you wear people down with this superfluous need to “one-up” everything. Back to the matter: Food production will eventually be unsustainable if the population continues to grow at the current rate. However, there is every chance that it could slow down, even halt (population growth). There is a strong belief that the universe tends to “balance” itself…ie, floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, pandemics, etc…but, otherwise, yeah, we’re in trouble. The masses can’t really micro-farm— the vertical horticulture fad peters out, rooftop farming is whimsical, at best, and the materials and appliances needed far exceed the benefit, a long step backward.I took on board what you said about the current pork market, I just don't think food production as it stands is sustainable, nor remotely sensible.
I was thinking more about locally produced, sustainable food and people growing their own to supplement their diet, rather than digging deeper into mass produced, inefficient, environmentally damaging, remote/transported goods.
As the cost of living increases beyond many people's incomes, even small self-sufficiences could make a difference. We need to learn how to reuse and create instead of being controlled by other people's markets and world events.
I don’t buy meat or fruit from supermarkets.
Apart from that , they all sell basically the same products at the same price , give or take a couple of pence .
Apart from that , they all sell basically the same products at the same price , give or take a couple of pence .
Pyrite: 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.
We don't have a Trader Joe's where I live, but in the next two towns they do, like Redding and Chico, right now gas prices are going up so high we won't be able to travel the 30 miles to Redding without taking out a loan. 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.
When I was little we lived closer to Redding and would go to a store called "Wonder World" it had everything. In Reno, we had Gemco, now we have Walmart Super Store.
crazyblondeone: We don't have a Trader Joe's where I live, but in the next two towns they do, like Redding and Chico, right now gas prices are going up so high we won't be able to travel the 30 miles to Redding without taking out a loan.
When I was little we lived closer to Redding and would go to a store called "Wonder World" it had everything. In Reno, we had Gemco, now we have Walmart Super Store.
We have trouble introducing businesses here, too. The small “mom &pops” can’t seem to stick to the wall ( even though our city management INSISTS they want them…) Trader Joe’s and Costco won’t build, citing demographics and low population (I personally think one of them, TJ or C, would thrive…there are enough people in all the small towns together. Heck, folks would come from not only Coos Bay/North Bend, but from Charleston, Barview, Cooston, Empire, Green Acres, Coquille, Fairview, Myrtle Point, Reedsport, Bandon , Sixes, Port Orford, Bridge, Lakeside, Powers, and a handful of others. Who’s ever seen a Trader Joe,s or Costco NOT be busy?! We have Walmart and Kroger, plus Safeway and a local family chain, but I would really like another option. We lost Macy,s, JC Penney, K-Mart , Bon Marche, and a couple of good men’s clothing and athletic supply outlets.When I was little we lived closer to Redding and would go to a store called "Wonder World" it had everything. In Reno, we had Gemco, now we have Walmart Super Store.
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As far as I'm concerned ALDI is very poor when it comes to eating healthy..Plus it's more like a bloody messy market joint down the middle of the store with clothing heaters and BS
I love their cheese but am very dubious now as a couple of times my shaved Parmesan cheese has been full of mould in the middle of the packet..So now I buy their block of Parmesan cheese..Another time I bought some fancy cheese & as I bit into my slice of cheese I bit into a bloody screw..Took the cheese and the little screw back..They aid they would get back to me & they never did
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