Store Reviews Aldi Food Store

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Store Reviews Aldi Food Store

ALDIS is to the budget shopper, what Sachs Fifth Avenue is to the ritzy who shop with uncirculated silver dollars in hand, circa 1800’s. The shopping experience at ALDIS is absolutely straightforward. A returnable quarter gets you a shopping cart with noisy wheels that flop every-which-way. And, if it happens to be raining outside, your sneakers will chime right in, and, here you come!

At ALDIS you can get an entire cart-full of limited, but assorted foods, for what two full sacks would cost you at a major grocery chain. I know because I did the comparison-shopping with my wife. It took me some time to win her over, but once she realized the savings, it was like taking candy from a baby. Not only that, I once bought three brand new, fully loaded laser guided jigsaws for $6.95 each because they were trying to clear them out. What a steal! I know because I found their equivalents on the Internet from a discount tool house selling for $29.95 each, plus $8.95 shipping and handling. Word up!

And, ALDIS is getting more and more of these types of items all the time. They even have their own section now. You will find it right next to the toy section, which is next to the gardening section, which is located right next to the electronics as housed in a bulletproof glass case.

Speaking of which, as you walk the various aisles, you must be capable enough to maneuver around not only other customers who insist on leaving their carts in the middle of the floor as they chug back to aisle five for one last item, but partially loaded pallets as strewn about by the occasional walk-behind forklift with beeper horn. Then there is that horrendous buzzer over the loud speaker that always goes off in two short bursts when you least expect it. Clean up on aisle two? I don’t think so! This is ALDIS, after all. It’s usually to get another checker up front.

Now, about checking out at ALDIS. At first you think there are a lot of people on this particular asle, so you bypass them. You are checking out, after all, right? Not so fast there, Zippy! That was the line you just jumped. Although the checkers are fast because of the way things are set up, the lines can be, well, challenging.

So you do a gracious u-turn in order to take your rightful place at the back of the line. But as you descend to the rear, you notice four or five other carts loaded to the gills come around the corner at you. You quicken your pace but, ahhh – they see you. As you make eye contact, pleadingly, their feet make floor contact, exceedingly. So, with all the dignity you can muster, you push your cart past them to the refrigerated section for a fifth pack of jumbo hot dogs. Well, at least you’re in line now.

After awhile, you see there are only two carts left to go. That’s when you notice that – all this time – you have been last in line. (Funny how that works.) Even so, you’re getting closer: just one more cart to go now.

That’s when about half a dozen or so people line up behind you, but wait a minuet! Where’s their carts? They have no carts because they are struggling to hold what “few” items they came in for. You sigh because you know what you must do. What is it they say again, about no good deed going unpunished?!

Finally, you begin the procedure of unloading your bounty onto the conveyor belt. Just then, another half dozen or so fully loaded carts line up behind you. That’s when you think to yourself, “Been there and done that!” Welcome to shopper’s revenge, my ALDIS friend. But before you can even begin to savor the moment, that obnoxious buzzer goes off. Twice. That’s when you hear someone on the next register, say, “Ma’am, Sir, I can help you over here.”

Welcome to ALDIS.

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