Aldi Grand Opening
 

It looks like the new Aldi's at Trailwinds Village is scheduled to open on May 10th. It will be a welcome addition to the area. I had very good luck shopping in an Aldi's up north.

Finally Food at reasonable prices, no reward gimmicks , or buy one at 100% mark up get one free

You mean like Winn Dixie.

And no boloney, rewards cards-that you need to get a product at a legitimate price--Winn-Dixie is the pits--only go there for a single item and I'm lucky if they have it-first time I went to the store in Pinellas Plaza--they did not have white clam sauce

Have only been in the store 3 times since they have opened--with their parent company in bankruptcy and with Aldi's opening across the street their days are numbered

I live close to Aldi's. The best deal is the shopping carts. You can buy one for a quarter.

Really? You have to pay a quarter to use a shopping cart?

Does Aldi sell Tilapia? Does anybody have a favorite Tilapia recipe?

The horror.

You don't lose the quarter...it's more to keep them in their place once done with it. Many times though you can give the cart to someone who needs one and they give you "their" quarter----OR----you can bless someone and tell them to pay it foreward.

I guess I better start returning them to the store.

Yes! Grandmas recipe, warm it up till mush, then throw it garbage desposal ....

I considered white clam sauce a staple for any super-market

By the way please check out all the health risks with eating Tilapia, you're probably better off eating bacon

Love Aldi’s! My shopping bags are ready to be filled.

Love the large organic selection.

I find their veggies and fruit goes bad quickly compared to grocery items. Have only shopped there couple of time, not saving money if I throw it away, and waste all that water.

I have read that complaint in general about Aldi stores all over online. I'll buy it anyway because I usually don't stock up. I look for the products that were made in Germany, especially the mustard. I don't care for their poultry but the pork and beef is good.

thats why their produce is cheaper , in a few days the wholesaler would most likely have to trash it if it doesn't sell, the same goes for Winn Dixie, the few times I was in the store, their produce looked very tired

PLEASE! anyone that disses Aldi - stay way from the store. It will allow more room in the parking lot and aisles for shoppers. We are Aldis appreciators.

1. Love the .25 shopping carts. One less expense and overhead costing consumers. Put your quarter in the handle, get the cart, use it, return cart to store front and get your .25 back. YOU do the cart return - not an employee. EZ & effective.

2. Few name brands, but store brands are really good - and different from the yada of the big stores.

3. Prices in general quite a bit lower, esp produce and protein. Lots of frozen foods. Very good selections.

4. The cashiers scanners are superquick and seldom need a pricecheck or bad UPC.

The not so good - Sometimes aisles have boxes or handtrucks as the shelves are continuously stocked thru the day. Some items are not in logical places in shelf areas. No Deli or onsite bakery. Sometimes, esp produce, are sold out during the day - esp sales etc. And - if you don't like to bag your own stuff, stay away from Aldis.

I truly hope this does not entice shoppers to go and clog the aisles - The Publix-lovers and WD-lovers...keep on keepin' on...

I like competition - good for consumers. Another European market is coming to the USA - LIDIS. They are building stores like mad in central east coast states, no doubt will expand to FL soon.

Why would you abuse your garbage disposal ?:pepper2:

do you want your disposals arteries to slam shut

Has anyone else experienced this in Aldi's? more customer patience? if the aisle gets clogged people seem to wait it out without complaining? the same with checkout.
It starts with the 25 cent cart hand-off.

Just a correction on that - I think it must be called LIDL or Lidl (not i) grocery stores. I actually never heard of it until you mentioned it in your post but since you said central east coast I had to check it out. Looks like one in DE and NJ, but none in PA yet. I'll be keeping my eye out. Thanks for the tip!

I only WISH we could buy quahogs here!

I’m not aware—who’s in BK?

The twenty-five cents is also an amazing lizard repellent. It keeps anoles from shoving carts and denting your car.

FOR MY OPINION
Aldis is selling off brand or if you prefer private brand products. That has led other stores to also sell private brand products. IE both Winn Dixie and Publix are doing more of this. It is or shluld be less expensive than branded products. Sometimes it is sometimes it is not good VALUE.

We've bought frozen broccoli from PUBLIX and it was all tough stems. A BRAND such as Birdseye would have sent it back to whoever supplied it-they would inspect it to protect their VALUABLE BRAND. At ALDIs we have purchased some truly good cheese but we also purchased SHARP CHEDDAR that was or should have been PROCESSED AMERICAN CHEESE.

is ALDIs worth a special trip? Probably not for me but, if I'm going by anyway and it is not packed, I will likely stop in. Prices are good on milk, eggs and stuff they are promoting one the way into the store.

Your neighbors will appreciate it.

If we are not confused enough
 

ALDIS and LIDI are both German owned discount grocery chains.
I for one wonder WHY. We are told that food costs in the US are among the lowest in the world. I expect some of this is due to government subsidies, low land costs, scientific farming and large sized farms allowing the costly equipment used instead of labor.
Why this foreign invasion into a local business model? I wonder but, expect it has to do with TAXES and EXCHANGE RATES,

I mean who puts Tilapia next to Alpo. Really.

For those who aren't already aware, Aldi's and Trader Joe's are owned by the same German company. From the little that I know, TJ's got it's business plan from the Aldi model but took a more trendy path to attract a different group of consumers. In other words, I took that to mean Aldi's stuck closer to the German model when implemented here in the US and TJ's put an American twist on theirs.

Recent reports and comparisons to other retail establishments states that they pay their employees quite well. I guess that's why TJ's cashiers seem so happy when I shop there. :)

The stores carry about 2,500 items, less than 10 percent of the 40,000 to 50,000 assortment found at most grocers.

Too many choices slows you down.

Good point. Couldn't agree more, but I guess it depends on how much one likes to shop. Not one of my favorite pastimes much to my husband's pleasure. :)

But did they have your Grey Poupon???

That's what they figured out many years ago. You want a can of chicken soup. There's only 1 to look at and you can feel confident that it's less expensive then at the other stores. For the store it's a lot easier and takes less personnel to look after 10,000 items, in a much smaller building then 4 times as many. Save-a-lot runs that way.

So that answers the question as to why so few people are needed to run the store and also why in return they can pay so well.

The employees do act like a team that hustles.

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I shop occasionally at Aldi's for certain items that we like. I have bought the produce, and I find that it lasts as long Publix's, and probably longer than WD. Good chocolate candies from Germany and Austria, and really good yogurts. Now that they will be closer to us, I will shop there more often, but not exclusively. As far as being one with Trader Joe's, they were once owned by the Albrecht brothers, but they had a dispute, and split many years ago.

Theo Albrecht - Wikipedia

I have found that the produce at Walmart on 466 is the freshest and lasts the longest.

Their German specialties are wonderful. The brand is Deutcsche Kuchen or something like that, directly from Germany. You won’t find better better sauerkraut anywhere. Some house brands are great and some awful. A few things are only available there. It is an occasional shopping place for me, but has good values.

Thanks for the additional info about the brothers and the division. Some interesting details about their lives in the wikipedia reference.

You're a troublemaker...I like it. :1rotfl: