Have you ever shop at LIDI?

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Anonymous wrote:Aldi has several amazing items that cannot be found anywhere else in US grocery stores. These items are normally the German or Limited Availability items. Other staples such as produce and organic milk, cheese, a meats are fantastic buys.

I've only been to the Lidl in McLean, so my research is very limited, but I didn't like it. I went twice to make sure that I wasn't to judgy following my first experience.

My bad experience at that store follows close to others on this thread, but also includes my strong dislike of their check out system. OMG. Never again will I go there. NEVER.

Go to Aldis.

Is the issue that the cashier flings your items at you and then immediately starts checking out the next customer while you are still trying to pack your items?

Yeah, not the PP, but I hate that too. It feels like you’re a street urchin scrambling for coins thrown from passing cars.

At both Lidl and Aldi they have a counter area at the front of the store where you’re supposed to move your cart to pack things into your own shopping bags.

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Anonymous wrote:Aldi has several amazing items that cannot be found anywhere else in US grocery stores. These items are normally the German or Limited Availability items. Other staples such as produce and organic milk, cheese, a meats are fantastic buys.

I've only been to the Lidl in McLean, so my research is very limited, but I didn't like it. I went twice to make sure that I wasn't to judgy following my first experience.

My bad experience at that store follows close to others on this thread, but also includes my strong dislike of their check out system. OMG. Never again will I go there. NEVER.

Go to Aldis.

Is the issue that the cashier flings your items at you and then immediately starts checking out the next customer while you are still trying to pack your items?

Yeah, not the PP, but I hate that too. It feels like you’re a street urchin scrambling for coins thrown from passing cars.

At both Lidl and Aldi they have a counter area at the front of the store where you’re supposed to move your cart to pack things into your own shopping bags.

Some people need higher end than that. No Amt of explaining will ever change their minds.

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Anonymous wrote:Aldi has several amazing items that cannot be found anywhere else in US grocery stores. These items are normally the German or Limited Availability items. Other staples such as produce and organic milk, cheese, a meats are fantastic buys.

I've only been to the Lidl in McLean, so my research is very limited, but I didn't like it. I went twice to make sure that I wasn't to judgy following my first experience.

My bad experience at that store follows close to others on this thread, but also includes my strong dislike of their check out system. OMG. Never again will I go there. NEVER.

Go to Aldis.

Is the issue that the cashier flings your items at you and then immediately starts checking out the next customer while you are still trying to pack your items?

Yeah, not the PP, but I hate that too. It feels like you’re a street urchin scrambling for coins thrown from passing cars.

At both Lidl and Aldi they have a counter area at the front of the store where you’re supposed to move your cart to pack things into your own shopping bags.

Some people need higher end than that. No Amt of explaining will ever change their minds.

This isn’t about “higher end”. The people complaining about the cashiers are already shopping at these stores.

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Anonymous wrote:Aldi has several amazing items that cannot be found anywhere else in US grocery stores. These items are normally the German or Limited Availability items. Other staples such as produce and organic milk, cheese, a meats are fantastic buys.

I've only been to the Lidl in McLean, so my research is very limited, but I didn't like it. I went twice to make sure that I wasn't to judgy following my first experience.

My bad experience at that store follows close to others on this thread, but also includes my strong dislike of their check out system. OMG. Never again will I go there. NEVER.

Go to Aldis.

Is the issue that the cashier flings your items at you and then immediately starts checking out the next customer while you are still trying to pack your items?

Yeah, not the PP, but I hate that too. It feels like you’re a street urchin scrambling for coins thrown from passing cars.

At both Lidl and Aldi they have a counter area at the front of the store where you’re supposed to move your cart to pack things into your own shopping bags.

Just to clarify, is the expectation that you unload your cart onto the belt, then reload your cart, then move to the table to pack into bags?

If yes, they would be more efficient by just giving the scanner guns and having people scan and bag as they go like Giant does.

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Anonymous wrote:I went to Aldi once and never again. I don’t need to save money that badly. What a low class store.

I chuckle when people say this. I was at Giant today…literally the same brand of lettuce, strawberries and bananas that I buy at Aldi. I think the strawberries were $4 today. I bought them at Aldi for $1.25 about a week or two ago. It’s ridiculous to make it sounds like it’s a gross place with awful food. It’s from the identical supplier as other stores, inc Whole Foods for some produce.

glad you like it. it's for you, not for me.

And this is why I chuckle.

Why? Because you save $1?

No, because you don’t for a wrongly perceived reason. The people I’ve heard from who don’t shop at these places (other than for location reasons), do so because they think they are above a store like that, but bundled in a pretext (all their produce is rotten, they don’t have anything there, etc.). I have enough money to shop wherever I want, but who wants to pay more for the identical things? Makes no sense to me- and it makes me chuckle to myself.

If you don’t get how saving $1 here and there has a massive cumulative effect, then…

Most people (including myself) who don't shop there have shopped at least once. It's not perceived reason, it's based on experience. But, regardless, why do you have to judge people? If you like it there, by all means, knock yourself out. Nobody said anything negative about people who shop at those places, keep your feelings to yourself. Keep your $1.

You’re last sentence belies the rest of what you said.

?? wut?

You say: “…why do you have to judge people?…Nobody said anything negative about people who shop at those places.”

And then say, “Keep your $1.”

Your last sentence showed YOU are judgmental, which is what you’re criticizing others for.

NP - there were several posts calling it "low class." I'd assume some judgment there.

Well there is such a thing as low class. Also upper class. I think we can all safely call Whole Foods an upper class shopping experience (or used to be, anyway). Why can't someone say they feel that Aldi is low class? So what? Who cares?

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Anonymous wrote:Aldi has several amazing items that cannot be found anywhere else in US grocery stores. These items are normally the German or Limited Availability items. Other staples such as produce and organic milk, cheese, a meats are fantastic buys.

I've only been to the Lidl in McLean, so my research is very limited, but I didn't like it. I went twice to make sure that I wasn't to judgy following my first experience.

My bad experience at that store follows close to others on this thread, but also includes my strong dislike of their check out system. OMG. Never again will I go there. NEVER.

Go to Aldis.

Is the issue that the cashier flings your items at you and then immediately starts checking out the next customer while you are still trying to pack your items?

Yeah, not the PP, but I hate that too. It feels like you’re a street urchin scrambling for coins thrown from passing cars.

I love these two bottom comments. I hope you two know each other in real life but have no idea. Both very witty.

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Anonymous wrote:Aldi has several amazing items that cannot be found anywhere else in US grocery stores. These items are normally the German or Limited Availability items. Other staples such as produce and organic milk, cheese, a meats are fantastic buys.

I've only been to the Lidl in McLean, so my research is very limited, but I didn't like it. I went twice to make sure that I wasn't to judgy following my first experience.

My bad experience at that store follows close to others on this thread, but also includes my strong dislike of their check out system. OMG. Never again will I go there. NEVER.

Go to Aldis.

Is the issue that the cashier flings your items at you and then immediately starts checking out the next customer while you are still trying to pack your items?

Yeah, not the PP, but I hate that too. It feels like you’re a street urchin scrambling for coins thrown from passing cars.

At both Lidl and Aldi they have a counter area at the front of the store where you’re supposed to move your cart to pack things into your own shopping bags.

Just to clarify, is the expectation that you unload your cart onto the belt, then reload your cart, then move to the table to pack into bags?

If yes, they would be more efficient by just giving the scanner guns and having people scan and bag as they go like Giant does.

Yup. That’s how they can give the low prices.

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Anonymous wrote:I went to Aldi once and never again. I don’t need to save money that badly. What a low class store.

I chuckle when people say this. I was at Giant today…literally the same brand of lettuce, strawberries and bananas that I buy at Aldi. I think the strawberries were $4 today. I bought them at Aldi for $1.25 about a week or two ago. It’s ridiculous to make it sounds like it’s a gross place with awful food. It’s from the identical supplier as other stores, inc Whole Foods for some produce.

glad you like it. it's for you, not for me.

And this is why I chuckle.

Why? Because you save $1?

No, because you don’t for a wrongly perceived reason. The people I’ve heard from who don’t shop at these places (other than for location reasons), do so because they think they are above a store like that, but bundled in a pretext (all their produce is rotten, they don’t have anything there, etc.). I have enough money to shop wherever I want, but who wants to pay more for the identical things? Makes no sense to me- and it makes me chuckle to myself.

If you don’t get how saving $1 here and there has a massive cumulative effect, then…

Most people (including myself) who don't shop there have shopped at least once. It's not perceived reason, it's based on experience. But, regardless, why do you have to judge people? If you like it there, by all means, knock yourself out. Nobody said anything negative about people who shop at those places, keep your feelings to yourself. Keep your $1.

You’re last sentence belies the rest of what you said.

?? wut?

You say: “…why do you have to judge people?…Nobody said anything negative about people who shop at those places.”

And then say, “Keep your $1.”

Your last sentence showed YOU are judgmental, which is what you’re criticizing others for.

NP - there were several posts calling it "low class." I'd assume some judgment there.

Well there is such a thing as low class. Also upper class. I think we can all safely call Whole Foods an upper class shopping experience (or used to be, anyway). Why can't someone say they feel that Aldi is low class? So what? Who cares?

NP. Low class isn’t the same as “not expensive”.

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Anonymous wrote:I went to Aldi once and never again. I don’t need to save money that badly. What a low class store.

I chuckle when people say this. I was at Giant today…literally the same brand of lettuce, strawberries and bananas that I buy at Aldi. I think the strawberries were $4 today. I bought them at Aldi for $1.25 about a week or two ago. It’s ridiculous to make it sounds like it’s a gross place with awful food. It’s from the identical supplier as other stores, inc Whole Foods for some produce.

glad you like it. it's for you, not for me.

And this is why I chuckle.

Why? Because you save $1?

No, because you don’t for a wrongly perceived reason. The people I’ve heard from who don’t shop at these places (other than for location reasons), do so because they think they are above a store like that, but bundled in a pretext (all their produce is rotten, they don’t have anything there, etc.). I have enough money to shop wherever I want, but who wants to pay more for the identical things? Makes no sense to me- and it makes me chuckle to myself.

If you don’t get how saving $1 here and there has a massive cumulative effect, then…

Most people (including myself) who don't shop there have shopped at least once. It's not perceived reason, it's based on experience. But, regardless, why do you have to judge people? If you like it there, by all means, knock yourself out. Nobody said anything negative about people who shop at those places, keep your feelings to yourself. Keep your $1.

You’re last sentence belies the rest of what you said.

?? wut?

You say: “…why do you have to judge people?…Nobody said anything negative about people who shop at those places.”

And then say, “Keep your $1.”

Your last sentence showed YOU are judgmental, which is what you’re criticizing others for.

NP - there were several posts calling it "low class." I'd assume some judgment there.

Well there is such a thing as low class. Also upper class. I think we can all safely call Whole Foods an upper class shopping experience (or used to be, anyway). Why can't someone say they feel that Aldi is low class? So what? Who cares?

NP. Low class isn’t the same as “not expensive”.

Also "cheap" (also used in this thread) is not the same as low cost or not expensive.

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Anonymous wrote:I went to Aldi once and never again. I don’t need to save money that badly. What a low class store.

I chuckle when people say this. I was at Giant today…literally the same brand of lettuce, strawberries and bananas that I buy at Aldi. I think the strawberries were $4 today. I bought them at Aldi for $1.25 about a week or two ago. It’s ridiculous to make it sounds like it’s a gross place with awful food. It’s from the identical supplier as other stores, inc Whole Foods for some produce.

glad you like it. it's for you, not for me.

And this is why I chuckle.

Why? Because you save $1?

No, because you don’t for a wrongly perceived reason. The people I’ve heard from who don’t shop at these places (other than for location reasons), do so because they think they are above a store like that, but bundled in a pretext (all their produce is rotten, they don’t have anything there, etc.). I have enough money to shop wherever I want, but who wants to pay more for the identical things? Makes no sense to me- and it makes me chuckle to myself.

If you don’t get how saving $1 here and there has a massive cumulative effect, then…

Most people (including myself) who don't shop there have shopped at least once. It's not perceived reason, it's based on experience. But, regardless, why do you have to judge people? If you like it there, by all means, knock yourself out. Nobody said anything negative about people who shop at those places, keep your feelings to yourself. Keep your $1.

You’re last sentence belies the rest of what you said.

?? wut?

You say: “…why do you have to judge people?…Nobody said anything negative about people who shop at those places.”

And then say, “Keep your $1.”

Your last sentence showed YOU are judgmental, which is what you’re criticizing others for.

NP - there were several posts calling it "low class." I'd assume some judgment there.

Well there is such a thing as low class. Also upper class. I think we can all safely call Whole Foods an upper class shopping experience (or used to be, anyway). Why can't someone say they feel that Aldi is low class? So what? Who cares?

NP. Low class isn’t the same as “not expensive”.

Also "cheap" (also used in this thread) is not the same as low cost or not expensive.

It’s insane to call a grocery store upper class. Are there expensive stores? Sure. But we are talking about groceries. Driscoll strawberries are Driscoll strawberries, regardless what they cost.

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Anonymous wrote:I went to Aldi once and never again. I don’t need to save money that badly. What a low class store.

I chuckle when people say this. I was at Giant today…literally the same brand of lettuce, strawberries and bananas that I buy at Aldi. I think the strawberries were $4 today. I bought them at Aldi for $1.25 about a week or two ago. It’s ridiculous to make it sounds like it’s a gross place with awful food. It’s from the identical supplier as other stores, inc Whole Foods for some produce.

glad you like it. it's for you, not for me.

And this is why I chuckle.

Why? Because you save $1?

No, because you don’t for a wrongly perceived reason. The people I’ve heard from who don’t shop at these places (other than for location reasons), do so because they think they are above a store like that, but bundled in a pretext (all their produce is rotten, they don’t have anything there, etc.). I have enough money to shop wherever I want, but who wants to pay more for the identical things? Makes no sense to me- and it makes me chuckle to myself.

If you don’t get how saving $1 here and there has a massive cumulative effect, then…

Most people (including myself) who don't shop there have shopped at least once. It's not perceived reason, it's based on experience. But, regardless, why do you have to judge people? If you like it there, by all means, knock yourself out. Nobody said anything negative about people who shop at those places, keep your feelings to yourself. Keep your $1.

You’re last sentence belies the rest of what you said.

?? wut?

You say: “…why do you have to judge people?…Nobody said anything negative about people who shop at those places.”

And then say, “Keep your $1.”

Your last sentence showed YOU are judgmental, which is what you’re criticizing others for.

NP - there were several posts calling it "low class." I'd assume some judgment there.

Well there is such a thing as low class. Also upper class. I think we can all safely call Whole Foods an upper class shopping experience (or used to be, anyway). Why can't someone say they feel that Aldi is low class? So what? Who cares?

NP. Low class isn’t the same as “not expensive”.

I realize that. I've been to Aldi and it had a distinctly low class feel to it. I went to one in a low class area, though (Langley Park I think).

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Anonymous wrote:I went to Aldi once and never again. I don’t need to save money that badly. What a low class store.

I chuckle when people say this. I was at Giant today…literally the same brand of lettuce, strawberries and bananas that I buy at Aldi. I think the strawberries were $4 today. I bought them at Aldi for $1.25 about a week or two ago. It’s ridiculous to make it sounds like it’s a gross place with awful food. It’s from the identical supplier as other stores, inc Whole Foods for some produce.

glad you like it. it's for you, not for me.

And this is why I chuckle.

Why? Because you save $1?

No, because you don’t for a wrongly perceived reason. The people I’ve heard from who don’t shop at these places (other than for location reasons), do so because they think they are above a store like that, but bundled in a pretext (all their produce is rotten, they don’t have anything there, etc.). I have enough money to shop wherever I want, but who wants to pay more for the identical things? Makes no sense to me- and it makes me chuckle to myself.

If you don’t get how saving $1 here and there has a massive cumulative effect, then…

Most people (including myself) who don't shop there have shopped at least once. It's not perceived reason, it's based on experience. But, regardless, why do you have to judge people? If you like it there, by all means, knock yourself out. Nobody said anything negative about people who shop at those places, keep your feelings to yourself. Keep your $1.

You’re last sentence belies the rest of what you said.

?? wut?

You say: “…why do you have to judge people?…Nobody said anything negative about people who shop at those places.”

And then say, “Keep your $1.”

Your last sentence showed YOU are judgmental, which is what you’re criticizing others for.

NP - there were several posts calling it "low class." I'd assume some judgment there.

Well there is such a thing as low class. Also upper class. I think we can all safely call Whole Foods an upper class shopping experience (or used to be, anyway). Why can't someone say they feel that Aldi is low class? So what? Who cares?

NP. Low class isn’t the same as “not expensive”.

Also "cheap" (also used in this thread) is not the same as low cost or not expensive.

It’s insane to call a grocery store upper class. Are there expensive stores? Sure. But we are talking about groceries. Driscoll strawberries are Driscoll strawberries, regardless what they cost.

When you walk into an Aldi with your rented cart and have to work your way around camping gear strewn around the floor to try to find the strawberries yourself because no one is available to ask, it has a different feel from walking into a Whole Foods and asking someone where to find them, then following the employee as they lead you across the store to a beautifully displayed pyramid of strawberries surrounded by other gorgeous fruit. Make it seem worth it to pay a higher price. That's what kept Whole Foods afloat all these years. If people didn't care about things like that they would never have paid extra at Whole Paycheck. If you're a food lover, it used to feel like going to a grocery spa. Sure, strawberries are strawberries but presentation is everything. Well, something.

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^^Aldi is so tiny that if you can’t find strawberries there, that’s an issue. Do you really ask Whole Foods where they are?!

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Anonymous wrote:I went to Aldi once and never again. I don’t need to save money that badly. What a low class store.

I chuckle when people say this. I was at Giant today…literally the same brand of lettuce, strawberries and bananas that I buy at Aldi. I think the strawberries were $4 today. I bought them at Aldi for $1.25 about a week or two ago. It’s ridiculous to make it sounds like it’s a gross place with awful food. It’s from the identical supplier as other stores, inc Whole Foods for some produce.

glad you like it. it's for you, not for me.

And this is why I chuckle.

Why? Because you save $1?

No, because you don’t for a wrongly perceived reason. The people I’ve heard from who don’t shop at these places (other than for location reasons), do so because they think they are above a store like that, but bundled in a pretext (all their produce is rotten, they don’t have anything there, etc.). I have enough money to shop wherever I want, but who wants to pay more for the identical things? Makes no sense to me- and it makes me chuckle to myself.

If you don’t get how saving $1 here and there has a massive cumulative effect, then…

Most people (including myself) who don't shop there have shopped at least once. It's not perceived reason, it's based on experience. But, regardless, why do you have to judge people? If you like it there, by all means, knock yourself out. Nobody said anything negative about people who shop at those places, keep your feelings to yourself. Keep your $1.

You’re last sentence belies the rest of what you said.

?? wut?

You say: “…why do you have to judge people?…Nobody said anything negative about people who shop at those places.”

And then say, “Keep your $1.”

Your last sentence showed YOU are judgmental, which is what you’re criticizing others for.

NP - there were several posts calling it "low class." I'd assume some judgment there.

Well there is such a thing as low class. Also upper class. I think we can all safely call Whole Foods an upper class shopping experience (or used to be, anyway). Why can't someone say they feel that Aldi is low class? So what? Who cares?

NP. Low class isn’t the same as “not expensive”.

Also "cheap" (also used in this thread) is not the same as low cost or not expensive.

It’s insane to call a grocery store upper class. Are there expensive stores? Sure. But we are talking about groceries. Driscoll strawberries are Driscoll strawberries, regardless what they cost.

When you walk into an Aldi with your rented cart and have to work your way around camping gear strewn around the floor to try to find the strawberries yourself because no one is available to ask, it has a different feel from walking into a Whole Foods and asking someone where to find them, then following the employee as they lead you across the store to a beautifully displayed pyramid of strawberries surrounded by other gorgeous fruit. Make it seem worth it to pay a higher price. That's what kept Whole Foods afloat all these years. If people didn't care about things like that they would never have paid extra at Whole Paycheck. If you're a food lover, it used to feel like going to a grocery spa. Sure, strawberries are strawberries but presentation is everything. Well, something.

The displays are nice at Whole Foods. Still not worth it to me (and I’m wealthy).

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I wouldn’t do all our grocery shopping there, but am happy to have another grocery store in our area and definitely like the baked goods and some of their staples and frozen items. It seems to me you’d have to be fairly insecure about your economic status to have an issue shopping there merely because the prices are lower and the displays are basic.