My first trip to Aldi

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melissa-dallas

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If this place was just a few blocks from home I'd probably run in frequently for a few staples. Butter was $1.69 a pound-haven't tried it yet to gauge the quality. Milk less than $2.00 a gallon. Don't like prepack meat or produce. I did buy a small boneless leg of round roast for $4.99 a pound (frozen). Lamb is difficult to find in this area, or at least not at every grocery. My problem was getting past all the imported chocolate and candies! Terrific chocolate covered butter cookies, chocolate toffee crunch bars and I just had to go and discover Tavener's Licorice Alsorts (Proper Sweets). Love the things. I think I need to be saved from myself. Not sure I'll make a special trip unless I'm in the area as it is several miles away. The Grandessa German coffee is good too and was $3.99 a pound.

 
I'm hoping they make it to Phoenix soon. I haven't googled it, but...

...Aldi's has a connection to Trader Joe's. Something along the lines of having once owned Trader Joe's, or another brother owns Trader Joe's... something like that.

Michael

 
They simultaneously opened a whole bunch of stores in this area.

I got a postcard that had coupons for $5 off $20.00 and $10.00 off $40.00. Big boxes of cornflakes (22 oz.) for $1.19. Other cereals at equivalent prices. Canned tomatoes, including with green chiles for .55. Lots of frozen goods and frozen fish. Fourteen oz. bags of potato or corn chips for .99.

 
You're right, Marianne. The Phoenix market has always been very competitive.

We have 3 major store groups to choose from and a handful of smaller ones have come and gone.

I recently bought an 8 pound cryopak pork picinic roast for a whopping 6 bucks. I left the skin on, cut some cross-hatches in the rind, and seasoned it with salt and pepper. I put it on a rack over a shallow baking pan and baked it at 400 degrees for one hour, then turned the heat down to 270 for 10 hours. I covered it after 5 hours with foil. I turned on the broiler for a few minutes to re-crisp the outside once I took the foil off.

Oh my goodness! Crispy brown outside; falling off the bone tender inside. So good it seemed criminal! A six buck roast will feed the four of us until Easter Sunday kicks in!

Michael

 
I googled. Here's the lowdown: Aldi's is owned by a corp. in Germany...

...started by the Albrecht brothers. Aldi's is short for "ALbrecht's DIScount". There are two separate corporate entities operating as Aldi's, both owned by the Albrecht brothers, who have since retired as Germany's richest men.

One brother, who ran the Aldi's entity that came to the United States, started Trader Joe's as a separate company.

That's the story I got from Wikipedia, in a nutshell.

Michael

 
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