I own no stock. I have no axe to grind. Peggy and I just came from a visit to one of our favorite grocery stores.
We live within 5 miles of Jewel, Dominick's, Sams Club, Trader Joes, Super Wal-Mart, Super Target and Meijers. All ok stores except for the antichrist factor at Wal-Mart and Sams.
The one I really enjoy simply for the adventure factor is ALDI.
When we lived in Germany we didn't shop much at Aldi. Tengelman, Z Markt, and others. Then there were a few super stores in Heilbronn. I liked the small form market the best. Too many choices drove me nuts. Besides the Hefefleks were the best. An oat cereal kind of like cheerios except better.
When we came back we started shopping Aldi. I won't kid you at the beginning it was for the price. Then I started discovering a little secret you won't learn except by shopping there often. They will go out into the market and buy super premium product and sell it as a loss leader. Anything. Computers, TV's anything.
Here are some of my favorite products: The Coffee. The German Coffee is excellent, Nearly anything with the Grandessa private label is excellent. The frozen individual pizzas are excellent. I particularly like the roasted vegetable. Sugar wafers, excellent stuff. The honey graham crackers are better than anything you can buy at mainstream stores. And, a recent find. Blueberry muffin mix. Kind of semi sweet and very good.
It's not that I need the food but I enjoy Aldi. In season you can buy excellent stolon.
It's just plain a good place that's full of surprises every time. But you have to look and you have to try.
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