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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Aldi is poor people food. What do you think?

Sure, it has some gems, but it is designed for poor people. Poor people always get fed dog food.[/quote]

LOL Whatever you say, crazy![/quote]

Actually, the PP just showed their cards. A lot of people won't shop at Aldi, not because it's "poor people food" (most of it is identical to what you can get at Giant, often Wegmans or Whole Foods). No, they say they're avoiding poor people food, but really, they're avoiding [i]"poor" people[/i].

They don't want to be around poor people in the store. (Or working class people, or too many middle class people who aren't upper middle class.)

Perhaps more so, they don't want people to think they shop at a place poor people shop.

More than that, they don't want to think of themselves as shopping at a place where poor people shop.

But most of all, they are so wedded to status that they convince themselves that places that serve poor people must have inferior products. It's too much cognitive dissonance to accept that no, actually, poor people-- by definition undeserving and morally inferior (or else why would they be poor?)-- can have access to many, or even most, of the same things they, the more deserving, have.

So they see some bruised apples, or hit a crappy Aldi, and convince themselves that it's all terrible. I mean... Honestly, I think most of it is the fact that they see poorer people, POC, etc. and are convinced it's Bad, Somehow. Same reason some guy the other day claimed Wheaton was "a war-torn, third world country." And a major contributing factor to parents avoiding certain perfectly lovely schools.

Yes, yes, not EVERYONE dissing Aldi here falls into that category, but I find most people compelled to badmouth Aldi, Value Village, etc. with insufferable snobbery are well-described above. [/quote]

I’m the PP who called the earlier PP crazy. I get slightly ragey when I’m forced by convenience or other circumstance to pick up items from one of the other larger grocery chains. I always notice the higher prices for the same exact type of thing and it drives me nuts. Frankly, I think the people who routinely shop at those places are suckers  :lol: [/quote]

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