ALDI Food Stores

[snoopdan 5,000+ posts]

c'mon now....

oh come on flip, its monday morning and im bored as fvck already. gimme a break //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

Acutually, they dont even have the opportunity TO care if they're oblivious to the financial irony I suggested.

They are oblivious to everything....this you cannot see?

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

oh come on flip, its monday morning and im bored as fvck already. gimme a break //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

Especially since the jobplace is a ghost town because tomorrow is a holiday.

 

[audioarsonal 10+ year member]

When I go I just look for the boxes with a couple items left in them and just set those aside and take the box/flat to store groceries in.

 

[Pootie 10+ year member]

I don't think they intended for you to take the cart home. Most people leave them there, or return the cart for your deposit back.
This is why I shop at Publix, certain things may cost a bit more, but the opportunity to avoid welfare moms and their screaming kids running around the store is indeed worth the cost.

FTW!

 

[Lugnutz 10+ year member]

Acutually, they dont even have the opportunity TO care if they're oblivious to the financial irony I suggested.

They don't care. They have no control over the policy. You are not the first dick to walk in and suggest this. She did her part by saying what she was told to say. This is like that show on MTV with the two 16 year old princesses who sometime stumble upon real life.

 

[IamDeMan 5,000+ posts]

I like the plastic bags. I use them to bring my lunch to work.

They are bad for the environment. Use the same cloth bags you use for groceries to take your lunch. UHHHH DUUUUR

 

[SRim23 5,000+ posts]

with aldi's it all depends on the area the store is in. we have 3 of them around here. 2 of them are in poorer communities and 1 of them is in a pretty wealthy community. the 2 in the poor are nasty disgusting places i would never shop and never trust that the stuff i bought wasnt expired. the 1 in the rich community is actually a nice grocery store and they even have a butcher like most of your nice grocery stores.

all of which though do have baggers and dont have the .25 cent carts....

 

[snoopdan 5,000+ posts]

They don't care. They have no control over the policy. You are not the first dick to walk in and suggest this. She did her part by saying what she was told to say.

So have you been working in the grocery industry long? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[snoopdan 5,000+ posts]

with aldi's it all depends on the area the store is in. we have 3 of them around here. 2 of them are in poorer communities and 1 of them is in a pretty wealthy community. the 2 in the poor are nasty disgusting places i would never shop and never trust that the stuff i bought wasnt expired. the 1 in the rich community is actually a nice grocery store and they even have a butcher like most of your nice grocery stores.
all of which though do have baggers and dont have the .25 cent carts....

Id call this a clear case of proper distribution of wealth.

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

They are bad for the environment. Use the same cloth bags you use for groceries to take your lunch. UHHHH DUUUUR

They get recycled at work so I don't care.

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

They don't care. They have no control over the policy. You are not the first dick to walk in and suggest this. She did her part by saying what she was told to say. This is like that show on MTV with the two 16 year old princesses who sometime stumble upon real life.

lol

 

[IamDeMan 5,000+ posts]

They get recycled at work so I don't care.

Yes, 100% gets recycled. None ends up as waste. No reason to conciously try too ease these burdens. Carry on.

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

Yes, 100% gets recycled. None ends up as waste. No reason to conciously try too ease these burdens. Carry on.

Sorry if I don't care about the enviornment. If they wanted to pass a law that taxed the bags and used the money for some kind of clean-up, that would be fine. IIRC, there is some place out west that does this. I'd rather pay the externality costs of pollution through fees than change my lifestyle.

 

[TurdFergueson2 5,000+ posts]

Ok, I just moved to my new town here in Tennessee. My girlfriend and I were at a strip mall and we needed to get a few items for dinner so she suggested going to ALDI - ive never heard of the place before. So we walk in and I look about and it seems to be one of those bottom dollar grocery stores where the employees dont even look up at you when you walk by or much less speak english.
Well, we snag some Texas Toast and get a frozen lump of off brand lasagna and some GT Cola then begin to proceed to the checkout counter. Well, plop down our potentially poorly tasting dinner down on the rubber roller mat and the items slide up to the checkout women had clearly had a small gene pool from which she spawned from. She slid the food past the laser scanner and put the food onto a counter to the right of her and then glared at us. I sorta look back at her too and then my GF says "oh look, the sign says we gotta bag it ourselves".

So im like, OK. I can understand that this place can barely keep the freezers running so they're most likely trying to cut costs in general. I get that.

So I this is the further contents of the conversation.

Me : "OK, well can I get a bag to put this in?"

Woman : "uhm....no. You gotta buy a bag to put your stuff in"

Me : (PUZZLED....then looks down at bags under the shelf in front of me, then peers at $1.99 cost) "uhm....a little pricey dont ya think?"

Woman : "well, you can bring in your walmart bags, or hell .... just go in the back and get an empty box"

Me : (WTF look) "uh....I guess i'll just hold my food"

Then the woman actually puts our recipt in the basket in front of her checkout counter, so me thinking that she's going to be cool and put the food in the basket too - I grab the big new shiney chrome basket and I ask her -

Me : "Can I at least take the basket? :wow:"

Woman : "nah, duh basket stays here. But next time you come in, you can put 25 cents in the basket dispenser out front (I look outside and see a coin operated cart despenser similar to the ones found at the airport) and it will give you a basket....then when you're done with it you can return it and get your 25 cents back. Thats so that people will bring da carts back after they use them"

Me : "So let me get this right, you wont give me a bag that costs .01 cents for your company, but you have no problem about me taking your brand new chrome shopping carts for 25 cents."

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Dude, the food is dirt cheap there, just go to Wally World if you want bags. And plastic bags are usually a dime. She was giving you the special price