Thursday, April 22, 2010
So my Aldi Store FINALLY opened today! Halleluiah! My Mom, Emily and I have been planning to check it out for months now, and we were so excited to see what it was like!
Well, Aldi is everything they claim to be – low prices on the things that you buy regularly. The store was clean, organized, and very well run. The store employees were very helpful, friendly and knowledgeable.
We both pay very close attention to what we pay for the items that we purchase regularly, and the quantity that we purchase them in. We found that Aldi had extremely competitive prices on nearly every item we purchased. If we did not find the price to be LOWER than the prices at Wal-Mart or a similar grocery store, we found that the price was the SAME as the prices we pay at similar grocery stores. The produce was fresh, attractive-looking, and huge in quantity.
A couple of items that I found to be insanely great prices:
1. 64 oz. Apple Juice - $1.19
2. Boxed dog biscuits - $.99
3. Cellulose Sponges - 6 pack - $.99
4. Boxes of fresh strawberries - $.99
5. Varied spices - $1.09 each
6. 32 oz. tub of vanilla yogurt - $1.59
7. One dozen eggs - $.89
See?! I told ya!
All in all, every item that we bought was purchased with excitement as we saved significantly.
At the cash register, we were excited to see that as they totaled our purchases, they then offered us a $5 coupon on top of the savings we already received. BONUS!
I am definitely going to add Aldi to my shopping rounds. I can now reduce my grocery budget every month and spend that money elsewhere.
There are a couple of things that you should know before shopping at Aldi:
1. Aldi charges 25 cents to borrow a shopping cart. You get your quarter back when you return the cart.
2. Aldi does not bag your groceries. You must come prepared with shopping bags, or they offer them for purchase ($1.99) at the register.
3. Aldi is a one-directional grocery store. If you realize you forgot to grab something and have to go back, your best bet is to leave your cart behind and sneak back to the forgotten item. People were very understanding as we had this happen numerous times.
Visit Aldi.com to find the store nearest you! Your wallet will be SO grateful!
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This is what they do here in Italy. You can use a cart, but you have to put 1 euro in (their 1 and 2 euro "dollars" are in coins) and when you return the cart, you'll get it back once you lock the cart back up, and surprisingly their parking lots are NOT cluttered/trashed with random carts.
ReplyDeleteAlso, they're HUGE HUGE HUGE on recycling and highly encourage you bring your own cloth shopping bag, or plastic bags from previous shopping trips. If you have to use a bag from their store, it costs .50 cents per bag and even then, they're not that great on durability.
Glad to see more stores in the states are striving to save people money. Hopefully onces the economy bounces back, these same money saver stores don't jack up prices and no longer offer cheap prices on every day items.
I'm intrigued by a one-directional store. That's totally new to me. How does that work? And regarding some of the great values you scored, were any of them brand names? How about the apple juice and yogurt? There are no Aldi's in the Boston area :o(
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