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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Aldi has been a good savings for us. After just 8 weeks,  we're ahead of our grocery budget by $300.

We started comparing prices and what a single grocery order looks like if we shopped at Aldi versus Wegmans (where we have shopped for years). The first receipt was a $37.11 Aldi order that would have cost $61.58 at Wegmans. That totally motivated us.

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I also shop at Aldi's once a month or so for the savings but you just can't compare the selection and the quality to a Wegman's or a Whole Foods. It's not an every week grocery store.[/quote]

The produce is equally good, but if you don’t see it, you don’t see it. 8 days ago they had honey  mangoes on sale for .39 each at Aldi. They were $1.15 each at WF and $1 each at Amazon grocery. I bought about 30 and put them in the fridge when they ripened. I still have about 10 left. They are delicious. I thought of this thread when I bought them (as I did when I got cheap strawberries at Lidl yesterday). [/quote]

The produce is "not equally good." If it's seasonal and you're in the store at the right time, you can get pretty decent fresh tasting items. But it is definitely, unquestionably, not as reliably good as WF's produce. I go to Lidls and even Aldis at time and you can get that one produce that happens to be in stock that is ripe and good enough, but the rest is bland/close to expiration/decaying/going off within days. Which is the issue with shopping at Aldi's or Lidl's. They are not reliable for weekly shops unless you are broke and you cook based on what is available that week. They make their money by getting produce pretty close to their sell-by date and reselling to customers, hopefully quickly before it goes off. [/quote]

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