Aldi

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> Smithfield hams, too. Shanks (1.19 a lb) and butts (1.29 a lb). No
> idea
> what the difference is.

Opposite ends of a ham cut in half. The butt tends to be a bit

meatier.

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That's quite an understatement, in my opinion. If cyberthing is looking
for a big bone, the shank is the way to go. I will never buy a shank
half again. The bone tends to burn when roasting, and the meat on the
thin end gets overcooked. Give me a butt any day!

Cannibal.

My "bone" is so big I can't get it through a glory hole...!!!

;-o

--
Best
Greg

Sarah Gray said:

Gregory Morrow said:

Sarah Gray said:

Lou Decruss wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:59:11 -0800, Gregory Morrow
> <[email hidden]> wrote:
>
>> Bobo Bonobo® wrote:
>>
>>
>> [SNIPEROONIE "partially hydrogenated" nonsense]
>>
>>
>>> ALDI is a store for poor
>>> people.
>> Nonsense, it's a store for smart people who want to save some

money...

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> Gotta disagree with you there. Maybe for those of you who think
> you're smart but are lacking in shopping skills. In your case just
> lacking a car and grateful they got rid of that Dominick's. [censored], a
> White Hen would be better than a Dominick's. I went to the Aldi's
> site which you posted a link to, and found nothing special to make me
> go to a place with such a limited selection. I also read the replies
> from another forum that you posted. The first one had someone who
> switched to the Ultra in Forest Park.
Well, they don't have that store everywhere.

> Doesn't that tell you that Aldi
> isn't all that? Ultra is far from my favorite store but I've shopped
> there many times. Aldi's site says cream cheese has been reduced to
> $.89. Big deal. Same as Ultra. Or you can go to any Centrella store
> and get the name brand (Philadelphia) for $.99. Aldi has reduced
> butter to $1.89. Ultra has it for $1.50. By my limited math skills
> you people that think you're smart, are overpaying. Various pork
> chops range from $2.89 to $3.69 at Aldi. I recently paid $1.29 for
> Aldi's $3.69 version and they weren't cryovaced in [censored]. We were out
> in the burbs and found a great place with a real meat counter. I
> could go on and on about how silly your comment was but I don't want
> to embarrass you.
>
Most of the meat at Aldi is not priced competitively enough to beat

loss

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leader prices. (There is also the quality issue; I assume most people
prefer their beef unadulterated) The low prices on the hundreds of

other

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pantry staples they have make up for it, imo. I think it is ridiculous
to make a claim that to save money one should shop at only one store.

My

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personal shopping plan type thing is to shop loss leaders at the

chains,

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and fill in the gaps with Aldi stuff.

I've notice that Aldi's meat is not appreciably cheaper than what I can

get

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at my two local independent stupormarkets (Treasure Island and the

Market

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Place in Chicawgo). I'm not going to Aldi to save ten cents on pork

chops

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or chix breasts that I can get closer to home (I have to take a bus to

Aldi

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as I don't drive)...I *might* go there to get some of their German -

type

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stuff, e.g. Black Forest Ham, sausages, etc. or a spiral - sliced ham,

which

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can be appreciably cheaper at Aldi.

Same with their produce items, Aldi will often have pound bags of min -
carrots or three pound bags of onions for 79 cents, these things are
routinely on sale for 99 cents at my regular stores. And a whiles back

I

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noticed that per pound cabbage was actually a bit *more* expensive at

Aldi

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("large head for 99 cents"😉 than at Market Place which had four lbs for

a

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buck...and Treasure Island at 19 cents/lb....

I pays to do yer homework...

Heh. I have a notebook where I have the best "regular" prices on pretty
much anything I might care to purchase, grocery-wise. 75% of it is Aldi.

If you know how much the best regular price is, you know when a sale is
really a deal, and when you can pass it up.

*Exactly*...

One local chain here (Jewel) regulary advertises items at "!0 for 10
dollars". Thing is, you can always beat that price down the street or
wherever where you can get "10 for 40/60/75 cents per item" or whatever...I
guess we suckers are supposed to go "WOW!" to get ten small oranges for ten
dollars (yep, that's a BUCK per orange) when I can go elsewhere and get a
five pound bag of oranges for $1.59 or whatever...

Jewel is also the place where I saw a 12 oz. tray of okra for $4.99, I guess
gumbo would be a luxury food if you bought the makin's there. It's also
where I saw a pound tray of "fresh" black - eyed peas for the same price.
In reading the label I saw that they were re - constituted from dried, and
plus which they had all kinds of additives.

Jewel is also the home of the THREE - pound bag of potatoes for $4.98. When
I first saw this I thought, "Huh, must be some specialty tater...". Nope,
just plain old russet spuds you can get most anywhere else for $1.98 or less
per 10 lb bag...and these looked pretty shriveled too. They once had the
"10 for 10 dollars" dealie for ordinary baking potatoes...

Jewel is the type of place to go for such entertainments, I might keep a
little notebook in which to jot the hilarious prices down on my *very*
infrequent trips there...they have Whole Foods or higher prices for
slumgullion produce.

--
Best
Greg

Sarah Gray said:

Gregory Morrow said:

Sarah Gray said:

Lou Decruss wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:59:11 -0800, Gregory Morrow
> <[email hidden]> wrote:
>
>> Bobo Bonobo® wrote:
>>
>>
>> [SNIPEROONIE "partially hydrogenated" nonsense]
>>
>>
>>> ALDI is a store for poor
>>> people.
>> Nonsense, it's a store for smart people who want to save some

money...

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> Gotta disagree with you there. Maybe for those of you who think
> you're smart but are lacking in shopping skills. In your case just
> lacking a car and grateful they got rid of that Dominick's. [censored], a
> White Hen would be better than a Dominick's. I went to the Aldi's
> site which you posted a link to, and found nothing special to make me
> go to a place with such a limited selection. I also read the replies
> from another forum that you posted. The first one had someone who
> switched to the Ultra in Forest Park.
Well, they don't have that store everywhere.

> Doesn't that tell you that Aldi
> isn't all that? Ultra is far from my favorite store but I've shopped
> there many times. Aldi's site says cream cheese has been reduced to
> $.89. Big deal. Same as Ultra. Or you can go to any Centrella store
> and get the name brand (Philadelphia) for $.99. Aldi has reduced
> butter to $1.89. Ultra has it for $1.50. By my limited math skills
> you people that think you're smart, are overpaying. Various pork
> chops range from $2.89 to $3.69 at Aldi. I recently paid $1.29 for
> Aldi's $3.69 version and they weren't cryovaced in [censored]. We were out
> in the burbs and found a great place with a real meat counter. I
> could go on and on about how silly your comment was but I don't want
> to embarrass you.
>
Most of the meat at Aldi is not priced competitively enough to beat

loss

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leader prices. (There is also the quality issue; I assume most people
prefer their beef unadulterated) The low prices on the hundreds of

other

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pantry staples they have make up for it, imo. I think it is ridiculous
to make a claim that to save money one should shop at only one store.

My

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personal shopping plan type thing is to shop loss leaders at the

chains,

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and fill in the gaps with Aldi stuff.

I've notice that Aldi's meat is not appreciably cheaper than what I can

get

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at my two local independent stupormarkets (Treasure Island and the

Market

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Place in Chicawgo). I'm not going to Aldi to save ten cents on pork

chops

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or chix breasts that I can get closer to home (I have to take a bus to

Aldi

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as I don't drive)...I *might* go there to get some of their German -

type

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stuff, e.g. Black Forest Ham, sausages, etc. or a spiral - sliced ham,

which

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can be appreciably cheaper at Aldi.

Same with their produce items, Aldi will often have pound bags of min -
carrots or three pound bags of onions for 79 cents, these things are
routinely on sale for 99 cents at my regular stores. And a whiles back

I

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noticed that per pound cabbage was actually a bit *more* expensive at

Aldi

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("large head for 99 cents"😉 than at Market Place which had four lbs for

a

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buck...and Treasure Island at 19 cents/lb....

I pays to do yer homework...

Heh. I have a notebook where I have the best "regular" prices on pretty
much anything I might care to purchase, grocery-wise. 75% of it is Aldi.

If you know how much the best regular price is, you know when a sale is
really a deal, and when you can pass it up.

*Exactly*...

One local chain here (Jewel) regulary advertises items at "!0 for 10
dollars". Thing is, you can always beat that price down the street or
wherever where you can get "10 for 40/60/75 cents per item" or whatever...I
guess we suckers are supposed to go "WOW!" to get ten small oranges for ten
dollars (yep, that's a BUCK per orange) when I can go elsewhere and get a
five pound bag of oranges for $1.59 or whatever...

Jewel is also the place where I saw a 12 oz. tray of okra for $4.99, I guess
gumbo would be a luxury food if you bought the makin's there. It's also
where I saw a pound tray of "fresh" black - eyed peas for the same price.
In reading the label I saw that they were re - constituted from dried, and
plus which they had all kinds of additives.

Jewel is also the home of the THREE - pound bag of potatoes for $4.98. When
I first saw this I thought, "Huh, must be some specialty tater...". Nope,
just plain old russet spuds you can get most anywhere else for $1.98 or less
per 10 lb bag...and these looked pretty shriveled too. They once had the
"10 for 10 dollars" dealie for ordinary baking potatoes...

Jewel is the type of place to go for such entertainments, I might keep a
little notebook in which to jot the hilarious prices down on my *very*
infrequent trips there...they have Whole Foods or higher prices for
slumgullion produce.

--
Best
Greg

On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 20:59:40 GMT, in rec.food.cooking, Janet Baraclough

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Indeed, you do get the quarter back when you return the cart; that is the
point - return the cart yourself, so Aldi doesn't have to pay someone to
round up and return carts.

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Ugh, I've only seen those once, it was at Costco quite a few years
ago. It didn't last.

It's been standard practice at UK supermarkets for years. There are
depots throughout the carparks where you can stash the cart, pushing it
into the train of other carts enables you to eject and reclaim the coin.
Supermarkets still employ people to fetch the trains of carts from the
carpark depots and take them back to the store entrance.

Janet.

And we have an ASDA/Walmart near us where the wheels lock when you take
the cart out of the parking lot.

Doug
--
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A Director and Moderator of The Hall of Ma'at http://www.hallofmaat.com
Doug's Archaeology Site: http://www.ramtops.co.uk
Amun - co-owner/co-moderator http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Amun/

On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 20:59:40 GMT, in rec.food.cooking, Janet Baraclough

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Indeed, you do get the quarter back when you return the cart; that is the
point - return the cart yourself, so Aldi doesn't have to pay someone to
round up and return carts.

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Ugh, I've only seen those once, it was at Costco quite a few years
ago. It didn't last.

It's been standard practice at UK supermarkets for years. There are
depots throughout the carparks where you can stash the cart, pushing it
into the train of other carts enables you to eject and reclaim the coin.
Supermarkets still employ people to fetch the trains of carts from the
carpark depots and take them back to the store entrance.

Janet.

And we have an ASDA/Walmart near us where the wheels lock when you take
the cart out of the parking lot.

Doug
--
Doug Weller --
A Director and Moderator of The Hall of Ma'at http://www.hallofmaat.com
Doug's Archaeology Site: http://www.ramtops.co.uk
Amun - co-owner/co-moderator http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Amun/

On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 21:03:09 GMT, in rec.food.cooking, Janet Baraclough

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I went into our Aldi's once, and that was enough. I didn't recognize
a single brand

If it's anything like Aldi in the UK, that's not surprising. Most of
their packaged food stock comes from East Europe which is why it's very
cheap but not always good quality.

I'm surprised about the smell. Aldi also sells a lot of good German
stuff. You'd recognise the brands if you shopped in Germany! And good
chocolate. Also excellent electronic stuff.
In the UK they carry some Sara Lee stuff as well. And they've got a mango
tikka lamb burger people say is delicious!

Doug
--
Doug Weller --
A Director and Moderator of The Hall of Ma'at http://www.hallofmaat.com
Doug's Archaeology Site: http://www.ramtops.co.uk
Amun - co-owner/co-moderator http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Amun/

On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 21:03:09 GMT, in rec.food.cooking, Janet Baraclough

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I went into our Aldi's once, and that was enough. I didn't recognize
a single brand

If it's anything like Aldi in the UK, that's not surprising. Most of
their packaged food stock comes from East Europe which is why it's very
cheap but not always good quality.

I'm surprised about the smell. Aldi also sells a lot of good German
stuff. You'd recognise the brands if you shopped in Germany! And good
chocolate. Also excellent electronic stuff.
In the UK they carry some Sara Lee stuff as well. And they've got a mango
tikka lamb burger people say is delicious!

Doug
--
Doug Weller --
A Director and Moderator of The Hall of Ma'at http://www.hallofmaat.com
Doug's Archaeology Site: http://www.ramtops.co.uk
Amun - co-owner/co-moderator http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Amun/

On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:47:19 -0800, in rec.food.cooking, Gregory Morrow

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Some locations carry liquor, including cheap German beers...

Ah yes, some very good buys on alcohol at times. I love the Crema di
limoncello I bought there last week.

Asda is going upmarket around here also, very organic too.

But I miss being near a Waitrose.

Doug
--
Doug Weller --
A Director and Moderator of The Hall of Ma'at http://www.hallofmaat.com
Doug's Archaeology Site: http://www.ramtops.co.uk
Amun - co-owner/co-moderator http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Amun/

On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:47:19 -0800, in rec.food.cooking, Gregory Morrow

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Some locations carry liquor, including cheap German beers...

Ah yes, some very good buys on alcohol at times. I love the Crema di
limoncello I bought there last week.

Asda is going upmarket around here also, very organic too.

But I miss being near a Waitrose.

Doug
--
Doug Weller --
A Director and Moderator of The Hall of Ma'at http://www.hallofmaat.com
Doug's Archaeology Site: http://www.ramtops.co.uk
Amun - co-owner/co-moderator http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Amun/

Dan Goodman said:

cybercat said:

"Sarah Gray" <[email hidden]> wrote

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The fresh meat is all injected, though, and so are the frozen
chickens (it's hard to find ones that aren't these days though).

ooo, that's not good. Thanks for letting me know.

They inject with more water and salt than other supermarkets do.

Just out of curiousity, how do you know this?

Doug
--
Doug Weller --
A Director and Moderator of The Hall of Ma'at http://www.hallofmaat.com
Doug's Archaeology Site: http://www.ramtops.co.uk
Amun - co-owner/co-moderator http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Amun/

Dan Goodman said:

cybercat said:

"Sarah Gray" <[email hidden]> wrote

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The fresh meat is all injected, though, and so are the frozen
chickens (it's hard to find ones that aren't these days though).

ooo, that's not good. Thanks for letting me know.

They inject with more water and salt than other supermarkets do.

Just out of curiousity, how do you know this?

Doug
--
Doug Weller --
A Director and Moderator of The Hall of Ma'at http://www.hallofmaat.com
Doug's Archaeology Site: http://www.ramtops.co.uk
Amun - co-owner/co-moderator http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Amun/

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On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 20:59:40 GMT, in rec.food.cooking, Janet Baraclough

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"l, not -l" <[email hidden]> wrote

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> Indeed, you do get the quarter back when you return the cart; that is
> the
> point - return the cart yourself, so Aldi doesn't have to pay someone
> to
> round up and return carts.

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Ugh, I've only seen those once, it was at Costco quite a few years
ago. It didn't last.

It's been standard practice at UK supermarkets for years. There are
depots throughout the carparks where you can stash the cart, pushing it
into the train of other carts enables you to eject and reclaim the coin.
Supermarkets still employ people to fetch the trains of carts from the
carpark depots and take them back to the store entrance.

Janet.

And we have an ASDA/Walmart near us where the wheels lock when you take
the cart out of the parking lot.

Doug

Then there's the shopping cart that has some vertical poles that are too
high to get out the door. You can't take the cart to the car or curbside.
:-(((( That one really astounded me -- wonder how much those poles on every
cart cost.

Lucky I don't have to carry groceries out to the car myself. Grrrr.
Dee Dee

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On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 20:59:40 GMT, in rec.food.cooking, Janet Baraclough

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The message <[email hidden]>
from "Nancy Young" <[email hidden]> contains these words:

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"l, not -l" <[email hidden]> wrote

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> Indeed, you do get the quarter back when you return the cart; that is
> the
> point - return the cart yourself, so Aldi doesn't have to pay someone
> to
> round up and return carts.

Quoted message said:

Ugh, I've only seen those once, it was at Costco quite a few years
ago. It didn't last.

It's been standard practice at UK supermarkets for years. There are
depots throughout the carparks where you can stash the cart, pushing it
into the train of other carts enables you to eject and reclaim the coin.
Supermarkets still employ people to fetch the trains of carts from the
carpark depots and take them back to the store entrance.

Janet.

And we have an ASDA/Walmart near us where the wheels lock when you take
the cart out of the parking lot.

Doug

Then there's the shopping cart that has some vertical poles that are too
high to get out the door. You can't take the cart to the car or curbside.
:-(((( That one really astounded me -- wonder how much those poles on every
cart cost.

Lucky I don't have to carry groceries out to the car myself. Grrrr.
Dee Dee

Nancy Young said:

"l, not -l" <[email hidden]> wrote

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Indeed, you do get the quarter back when you return the cart; that is the
point - return the cart yourself, so Aldi doesn't have to pay someone to
round up and return carts.

Ugh, I've only seen those once, it was at Costco quite a few years
ago. It didn't last. What a hassle getting the carts to separate.
People would chase you down in the parking lot, waving a quarter
begging to 'buy' your cart if you're done with it?

nancy

Pricerite does that as well. I don't find it a hassle, and plenty of
people leave their cart in the middle of the parking lot so I get a
free cart and when I return it, a quarter for the tsedakah box. Also
a little extra exercise, which never hurts!

maxine in ri

Nancy Young said:

"l, not -l" <[email hidden]> wrote

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Indeed, you do get the quarter back when you return the cart; that is the
point - return the cart yourself, so Aldi doesn't have to pay someone to
round up and return carts.

Ugh, I've only seen those once, it was at Costco quite a few years
ago. It didn't last. What a hassle getting the carts to separate.
People would chase you down in the parking lot, waving a quarter
begging to 'buy' your cart if you're done with it?

nancy

Pricerite does that as well. I don't find it a hassle, and plenty of
people leave their cart in the middle of the parking lot so I get a
free cart and when I return it, a quarter for the tsedakah box. Also
a little extra exercise, which never hurts!

maxine in ri

Doug Weller said:

Dan Goodman said:

cybercat said:

"Sarah Gray" <[email hidden]> wrote
> The fresh meat is all injected, though, and so are the frozen
> chickens (it's hard to find ones that aren't these days though).
ooo, that's not good. Thanks for letting me know.

They inject with more water and salt than other supermarkets do.

Just out of curiousity, how do you know this?

Doug

Its says on the packaging how much solution is injected. The chicken at
Aldi (I checked yesterday) is 12%. I'm not sure what's "normal".

--

Sarah Gray

Doug Weller said:

Dan Goodman said:

cybercat said:

"Sarah Gray" <[email hidden]> wrote
> The fresh meat is all injected, though, and so are the frozen
> chickens (it's hard to find ones that aren't these days though).
ooo, that's not good. Thanks for letting me know.

They inject with more water and salt than other supermarkets do.

Just out of curiousity, how do you know this?

Doug

Its says on the packaging how much solution is injected. The chicken at
Aldi (I checked yesterday) is 12%. I'm not sure what's "normal".

--

Sarah Gray

Nancy Young said:

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All for food that costs more than in town. Or the states. It's ludicrous
that I have to pay $3 for a head of iceberg lettuce or $4.50 for a
smallish bunch of grapes. It's grape freaking season here in Italy for
cripes sake.

An expensive commisary, geez. Doesn't seem right.

nancy

I suspect that they ship produce in ( I know they do with meats...they
come from Germany) from other countries rather than using local, better
produce.

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-Gina in Italy

http://www.myspace.com/ravenlynne1975
I'm a blogger: http://ravenwolflodge.blogspot.com

Nancy Young said:

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All for food that costs more than in town. Or the states. It's ludicrous
that I have to pay $3 for a head of iceberg lettuce or $4.50 for a
smallish bunch of grapes. It's grape freaking season here in Italy for
cripes sake.

An expensive commisary, geez. Doesn't seem right.

nancy

I suspect that they ship produce in ( I know they do with meats...they
come from Germany) from other countries rather than using local, better
produce.

--
-Gina in Italy

http://www.myspace.com/ravenlynne1975
I'm a blogger: http://ravenwolflodge.blogspot.com

Sarah Gray said:

Gregory Morrow said:

Sarah Gray wrote:

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Lou Decruss wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:59:11 -0800, Gregory Morrow
> <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>> Bobo Bonobo® wrote:

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>> [SNIPEROONIE "partially hydrogenated" nonsense]

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>>> ALDI is a store for poor
>>> people.
>> Nonsense, it's a store for smart people who want to save some money....
> Gotta disagree with you there. Maybe for those of you who think
> you're smart but are lacking in shopping skills. In your case just
> lacking a car and grateful they got rid of that Dominick's. [censored], a
> White Hen would be better than a Dominick's. I went to the Aldi's
> site which you posted a link to, and found nothing special to make me
> go to a place with such a limited selection. I also read the replies
> from another forum that you posted. The first one had someone who
> switched to the Ultra in Forest Park.
Well, they don't have that store everywhere.

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> Doesn't that tell you that Aldi
> isn't all that? Ultra is far from my favorite store but I've shopped
> there many times. Aldi's site says cream cheese has been reduced to
> $.89. Big deal. Same as Ultra. Or you can go to any Centrella store
> and get the name brand (Philadelphia) for $.99. Aldi has reduced
> butter to $1.89. Ultra has it for $1.50. By my limited math skills
> you people that think you're smart, are overpaying. Various pork
> chops range from $2.89 to $3.69 at Aldi. I recently paid $1.29 for
> Aldi's $3.69 version and they weren't cryovaced in [censored]. We were out
> in the burbs and found a great place with a real meat counter. I
> could go on and on about how silly your comment was but I don't want
> to embarrass you.

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Most of the meat at Aldi is not priced competitively enough to beat loss
leader prices. (There is also the quality issue; I assume most people
prefer their beef unadulterated) The low prices on the hundreds of other
pantry staples they have make up for it, imo. I think it is ridiculous
to make a claim that to save money one should shop at only one store. My
personal shopping plan type thing is to shop loss leaders at the chains,
and fill in the gaps with Aldi stuff.

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I've notice that Aldi's meat is not appreciably cheaper than what I canget
at my two local independent stupormarkets (Treasure Island and the Market
Place in Chicawgo). I'm not going to Aldi to save ten cents on pork chops
or chix breasts that I can get closer to home (I have to take a bus to Aldi
as I don't drive)...I *might* go there to get some of their German - type
stuff, e.g. Black Forest Ham, sausages, etc. or a spiral - sliced ham, which
can be appreciably cheaper at Aldi.

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Same with their produce items, Aldi will often have pound bags of min -
carrots or three pound bags of onions for 79 cents, these things are
routinely on sale for 99 cents at my regular stores. And a whiles backI
noticed that per pound cabbage was actually a bit *more* expensive at Aldi
("large head for 99 cents"😉 than at Market Place which had four lbs fora
buck...and Treasure Island at 19 cents/lb....

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I pays to do yer homework...

Heh. I have a notebook where I have the best "regular" prices on pretty
much anything I might care to purchase, grocery-wise. 75% of it is Aldi.

I keep those figures in my head. It's funny, grocery store prices
have been a hobby for years, especially what I've always considered
staple items, beef, eggs, dairy, and formerly, beer.

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If you know how much the best regular price is, you know when a sale is
really a deal, and when you can pass it up.

--

Sarah Gray

--Bryan, on day 3 of Atkins induction