I can’t believe the news! No word yet on WHEN or which side of town it will be on, but it’s coming! I’m so excited! Yay!!!
We are getting an ALDI!
So awesome. I went to mine tonight. Pack of 4 small heads of artisanal lettuce 1.99, cucumber .59, 12 oz. package of shredded colby jack 1.89, cilantro .89, store brand flavored sparkling water (delicious!) about a liter $.59.
I can’t wait to retire and move back to my hometown because they have Aldi. Colorado doesn’t.
There’s just not much in there, not a great organic selection which I typically go for and some of their prices on their off brands scare the crap out of me. Take cream cheese which I use a LOT of, how can something NOT loaded with chemicals from a respectable dairy source cost $0.89? I just can’t! Their produce I have bought from time to time looks great but seems to go quicker. In any discount supermarket stuff like that will be the case but I’ve found minus a small handful of stuff I won’t save much there. We also have Lidl which is their enemy supermarket and although there like Aldi on steroids it still seems like pretty much the same thing. I’ve got pretty much all the big chains in my immediate area so I’d like to think their as competitive as they can be but I still wind of doing the majority of my shopping at Walmart and then my meats and higher end stuff at Wegmans or Whole Paycheck when needed.
@lfod14 The cream cheese price may be just the result of economies of scale or may just be a loss leader. What does the label say are the ingredients?
In another lifetime, I worked for a large regional bakery called Sunbeam. They ran the line 24hrs a day cranking out loaves of bread & junk. You could go to the store and buy a loaf of Sunbeam bread for roughly $1.29. The amazing thing was that you could opt to buy a loaf of store brand bread like Kroger or Piggly Wiggly (or whoever) for about .69c a loaf. It was the Exact Same Bread, same ingredients, same slicers, same everything, the only difference was the bags.
Mine has great organic produce, much better selection than any other supermarket in area. I live in a rural area. Ours also just got refurbished, a little bigger and a lot airyer. Now I do most of my shopping there. My main buys today were squash, avocados, lettuce, raspberries, pork butt and Jumbo shrimp. Oh and cage free eggs. Today they also had grated guryere cheese I’m going to make quiche with along with their nitrate free bacon. And finally their pesto sauce. My quick go to keto meal over leftover chicken or shirataki noodles!
That’s actually a good question, I’ll try to get in there after work and grab one and see, maybe re-access / confirm / deny my insanity.
Ok, hit Aldi on the way home, ingredients look fine… BUT all kidding aside it doesn’t taste good. Tastes like a cheese more than a cream cheese. I just sat here for the last couple minutes eating it, a wegmans store brand, and a wally world one and the other two taste identical, the Aldi one is off without question. No science on that, just my taste buds.
haha thats so funny, because i love the aldi one waaaaay more than any other. Maybe i’m just used to it because i buy from there more than anywhere else??