Quoting Dave Drum to Nancy Backus on 05-08-18 11:35 <=-
NANCY BACKUS wrote to DALE SHIPP <=-

14 Aldi

We have been to one in Columbia, interesting but not on our main
list of places to go.

We've shopped a couple of our local ones, generally buying for
someone else that wanted specific things from there.... it doesn't
seem to be anything that we'd be regularly shopping at...

ALDI is a no-frills, (somewhat) limited stock operation. The only
"name" brand merch you will find there is production over-runs that
were gotten at fire-sale pricing. However, judicious shopppers can do
well on stuff they use and staples.

Those are reasons the Hafflys give for shopping there...

While the name on the ALDI package
may not be the brand-name that you are used to the product inside may
well have come off the same production line as the Mega-Merch stuff.
All of their soups I have checked have the same UDSA Establishment
number as Campbell's. The Millville cereals return Kellogs, Ralston-Ourina, General Mills, etc establishment numbers. Their Rangemaster Chilli is made by Chilli Man, etc.

None of which we would regularly be buying...

Eggs and milk and packaged meats are *always* le$$ than at "real" stupormarkups. They are definitely one of my regular stops for staple items ..... not so much fresh meat and produce.

We use few eggs, and prefer the milk at Wegmans....

And their house brand (Moser-Roth) chocolate is, by itself, worth a
trip.

As demonstrated at the last echo picnic... ;)

66 A&P

Not in this area for years now.

Nor here.... When I was growing up, that was one of the main chains
that my father preferred to shop at... but long gone now from any
place I've been....

At one time A&P (The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co) was the largest chain of grocers in the world.

I know... :) And they had a stellar reputation to go with that, at the
time... ;) Daddy used to refer to them as the Great Apple and Poofle...
but then he also referred to Monkey Wards... ;)

They folded their last tent in my town 40 or more years ago.
According to a history I just looked up they are no longer in
business at all. All stores were closed by November 25, 2015.

But still were in existance when the Consumer List in 2015 was made
up... as it was busy dying, not surprising that it came in so low on the list.... :)

ttyl neb

... I'm happy to feast whenever Hallmark tells me to.

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Quoting Dave Drum to Nancy Backus on 05-11-18 08:47 <=-

Eggs and milk and packaged meats are *always* le$$ than at "real"
stupormarkups. They are definitely one of my regular stops for staple
items ..... not so much fresh meat and produce.

We use few eggs, and prefer the milk at Wegmans....

I don't do a lot of eggs either - except when helping with an Easter
egg hunt. Or when I have a taste for devilled eggs.
And milk is milk AFAICS.

A lot depends on how it is handled... sitting out at warmer temps gives
an off-taste to the milk, as well as letting it spoil more quickly....

One thing I do buy with some regularity at
ALDI is their L'Oven bread (whole wheat or whole grain). I don't eat a
lot of bread at home - and the L'Oven stuff lasts a long while under my benign neglect before becoming bird food.

We don't eat a lot of bread either.... and have had similar long-lasting results with Wegmans' breads... :)

At one time A&P (The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co) was the largest
chain of grocers in the world.

I know... :) And they had a stellar reputation to go with that,
at the time... ;) Daddy used to refer to them as the Great Apple
and Poofle... but then he also referred to Monkey Wards... ;)

That is (was) pretty universal. But M-W is as dead as A&P. I always
had an opinion that Serious & Getback would merge with Monkey Ward and become Sears & Montgomery. But, that was before the days of Amazon and
the on-line retailers killing brick & mortar.

Instead, Sears joined with K-Mart/Kresge's... and is still
struggling... There still are some people, though, that still shop brick
& mortar rather than internet... :)

As there was still a Lum's restaurant (until last year) as well as
a Howard Johnson restaurant in Lake George, NY. I miss both.

Lum's I don't miss as much having not really become accustomed to it...
but HoJo's I also miss... The orange roofs were as much a landmark as
the golden arches of today, and much better food was served within... It
was one of the few real restaurants Daddy would take the family to...
and there was still one in the Rochester area when we first moved
here... long gone, of course, now... I also remember my aunt taking me
to one for pistachio ice cream... her favorite... and now also one of
mine... ;)

ttyl neb

... I'd love to own a candy factory. I'd make a mint!

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